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NEWSLETTER Brief The Town Crier January2011 NOW DELIVERED TO ST HELIER Your parish online www.sthelier.je RESIDENTS EVERY MONTH In the bleak midwinter Nature’s beauty can still take our breath away inthisissue It’s sometimes easy to overlook that St Helier is a 5 Recycling update 8 Dates for your diary parish as well as a town with boundaries that 12 Looking forward to 2011 stretch beyond the hustle and bustle of urban life. 13 Dean’s New Year message 18 Historic St Helier 21 Constable’s comment This beautiful winter scene at Fern Valley captured 24 My day in St Helier by Annie Queree reminds us that it is a rural 28 Holiday planning 30 St Helier Gazette parish, too. 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Welcome to Town Park 2011 in St Helier! With the last of the tinsel settling on the excitement of No one passing the site of the Millennium Town Christmas, and winter consolidating its icy grip on the Island, January can Park in Bath Street last month could have missed often seem a gloomy time of year. So we thought it as important as ever the flurry of activity as hoardings went up to mark for this first Town Crier of 2011 to include as much winter cheer as the start of its construction. possible. As our front cover shows, winter is no excuse for events and activities to It’s the first stage in a development expected to come to a halt in go on throughout 2011. When the hoardings our Parish. January finally come back down towards the end of this 2011 marks the year, St Helier will have its important new green 230th anniversary space. We expect to keep you informed of progress of one of the most on this important development during the next important events in 12 months – so watch this space. f our history. On 6th January 1781, a small force under Baron de Rullecourt landed at La Rocque and marched on St Helier in an audacious attempt to seize the Island for France. The Money Matters outcome was in the With half the financial year balance until the gone, Finance Director Andy Island’s defenders Pemberton was able to report rallied and, led by the gallant Major Peirson, defeated the invaders in the recently on the six month’s Royal Square. That battle and victory is recalled each year by a re- enactment performed by members of the 1781 Militia and a celebratory actual expenditure against the lunch at the Town Hall – the first Parish event of a busy annual calendar. Parish’s planned budget for the For those interested in finding out more on this, our centre pages feature year ending 30th April 2011. the Battle of Jersey and the 1781 Jersey Militia. More information on St While money matters are Helier events and activities in January can be found in the ‘Dates for Your generally performing as expected, Andy has warned that Diary’ on page 8, and, looking further forward, the Parish’s plans for 2011 this will be a challenging year for the Parish, with a are set out on page 12. For those thinking about enjoying themselves deficit slightly higher than originally forecast. On a beyond our shores, we have a special 2011 holiday feature on page 28. positive note, however, the Parish’s cash reserves remain All this, and the usual mix of news, updates and features that we hope strong while its property portfolio continues to provide a includes something of interest for all of St Helier’s residents. significant asset. As always, let us know what you think about the Town Crier, and what Profit and loss aside, one of Andy’s forthcoming you would like to see more or less of. So if you have a story to tell, or challenges is to introduce GAAP (Generally Accepted something to say, get in touch – we look forward to hearing from you. Accounting Principles) for the Parish’s financial To contact the editorial team, please call 811811 or email f management systems. This important development is [email protected] seen as being consistent with transparency and best f practice. Above: St Helier Finance Director Andy Pemberton Constable re-elected In December, Simon Crowcroft was re-elected unopposed as Constable of St Helier. His new term will run for ten months until a general election day in September 2011. The Constable, who has been in office since 2001, subsequently produced a manifesto that was presented at a number of public hustings during which residents of St Helier The Town Crier is printed were able to comment. f on FSC Certified Paper Page4 The Town Crier New bins coming to a street near you Keeping Town clean and tidy always takes an important priority in St Helier. One of the key tools in this seemingly never- ending battle is the provision of adequate numbers of litter bins. Following a review, these will be on the increase in an effort to ensure there really is no excuse for not binning our waste. And expect to see some new concepts in ‘street furniture’ as the humble litter bin turns green (figuratively speaking) to help with recycling. Parishioners can expect to see a number of new types of litter bin around St Helier in the months ahead. Firstly, in support of Above: New large volume recycling the planned introduction of kerbside recycling, there are a number of bins are planned for a number of additional public recycling points planned. These will contain the large locations in the Parish volume recycling bins seen elsewhere in the Island which allow people Left: The ‘Glutton’ cleaning hoover to separate and deposit paper, cans, plastic bottles, etc. – coming to a street near you The same theme is true of some new litter bins soon to be sited in the Town centre. In a variation on the traditional theme, they will contain replaced by a new design hopefully more resilient than those already in separate sections for general waste, paper, cans and plastic bottles. It is place. hoped that people will respond by taking the time to deposit their Also arriving to help combat the incessant dropping of cigarette butts is waste in the appropriate one. They will be helped in making a choice a new industrial hoover called the ‘Glutton’. As its name suggest, the by labels written in Jèrriais together with an image for those who Glutton’s job will be to suck up all the mess left behind on our streets. struggle with the translation. All of these initiatives depend on the support of the population of In addition to the new recycling bins, some the existing bins are being course. So please think before you drop! f New gritting machine proves its worth Following last January’s heavy snow, the Parish took the decision to buy an additional gritting machine. Given B December’s snow and ice, it turned out to be a providential 767281 investment. www.jimsbarbers.co.uk As we all know, Jersey is does not often get extremes of weather meaning heavy falls of snow are few and far between. So any decision to buy equipment specifically to deal with snow can be a difficult one – there is every chance it may sit unused for years on end. Nevertheless, following the snow in January 2010, the Parish took the decision to buy an additional gritting machine in preparation for a potential repeat of that weather. Last month, with falls of snow threatening all movement in St Helier, it certainly proved its worth! Of course, machinery is only as good as the people who operate it. Fortunately, there were certainly some good people around to not only make sure surfaces were gritted, but also to help struggling cars and clear fallen trees and branches from our roads. So our special thanks to all the Parish teams for such a sterling effort in the snow. f Right: New Parish gritting machine Now in our new Gents’ salon at Bagatelle Parade, Five Oaks Opening Hours Mon, Wed : 9:30am – 6pm Thu, Fri : 9am – 6pm Sat : 8am – 4pm special rates for Over 65s weekdays only We look forward to seeing our existing clients in our new location at Five Oaks and hope to meet lots of new faces too January2010 Page5 Recycling Update: Green progress Introducing kerbside refuse recycling is one of the Parish’s key policies for 2011. With this in mind, we caught up with Municipal Services Director, Debra D’Orleans, to get an update on progress. If 2010 saw some major steps forward in the introduction of kerbside recycling in St Helier, this year is going to be even bigger still.
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