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StMartin-MOORINGS_Layout 1 01/11/2012 14:05 Page 1 ISSUE 3 Autumn 2012 Autumn Christmas Set Lunch highlights at The Moorings Hotel n Our homemadeFrom soup of the day theSmoked Tuesdeay haddock fishcake with 4thwhite wine December mand Homemade Christmas Grilled goats cheese with herb veloute pudding with brandy sauce cranberry and walnut salad Escalope of turkey breast with smoked bacon, Vanilla crème brulee Potted crab and prawns served chestnut and sage jus Brown sugar mernigue with granary toast Braised steak in red wine sauce with with whipped cream and Terrine of local game with horseradish mash spiced fruits mulled wine pear chutney Crispy confit of duck with roast root Chocolate and baileys mousse Rillette of salmon wrapped in vegetables and thyme jus with cappuccino cream oak smoked Scottish salmon Roast vegetable and chestnut tart glazed Port creamed stilton with with brie walnut bread Coffee and homemade petit fours 1.75 In this issue: St Martin’s P3 From the Connétable £ are available 2 course 12.50 or 3 course 14.75 Gift Vouchers P4 Steve Luce: never say never for overnight offers and Battle Float Available to Monday to Saturday booking See P5 Parish News: from the Connétable £ £ restaurant reservations, ideal page 11 is advisable Tel: 853633 Christmas presents.... P9 Club News: Jumelage and Battle of Flowers success P22 Farming News: Christmas trees grown in St Martin P24 Sports News: St Martin’s FC looks to the future P29 Church News: over 100 years of service The Moorings Hotel & Restaurant P32 Parish Office www.themooringshotel.com P34 Dates for your Diary The Moorings Hotel and Restaurant Gorey Pier St Martin Jersey JE3 6EW Feature Articles listed on page 3 The answer’s easy... just ask! That really is all you have to do to arrange one of our FREE investment and protection healthchecks with one of our qualified International Wealth Managers to help guide you through the financial maze. It could be the best thing you’ve ever done! Call into any branch and speak to a member of staff to arrange an appointment. The Royal Bank of Scotland International Limited trading as NatWest (NatWest). Registered Office: P.O. Box 64, Royal Bank House, 71 Bath Street, St. Helier, Jersey JE4 8PJ. Regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission. Business address: PO Box 11, 16 Library Place, St Helier, Jersey, JE4 8NH. Past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance. The value of investments, and any income from them, can fall as well as rise and an investor might not receive back the amount invested. Calls may be recorded. Autumn2012 Les Nouvelles 3 From the Editor From the Connétable Welcome to Issue 3 of Les Christmas will be on us before long and the excitement is already mounting at home. In our case we now have a fourth grandchild Nouvelles de St Martin. to take to the carol services, to play with and watch during her The Parish magazine is intended to be first Christmas. What a lovely family period to look forward to in more than simply a record of useful the coming weeks. I hope to meet many of you over the Christmas information, important though that is; its period whether at the services taking place at the different purpose is to reflect the life of the Parish churches in the Parish, at events at the Public Hall, or just out and to help bring it together as a and about taking a brisk Sunday walk with the family. community. Your appreciative comments The autumn months have been suggest that we are achieving that. very busy and I was delighted that parishioners decided to So, if you have a family history to tell, an interesting retain and renovate the Parish piece of Parish history to record, an individual or Rectory following the extremely group achievement to celebrate, a garden to display, generous donation from an a collection to share or indeed anything that you feel anonymous benefactor to part might be of interest to your fellow parishioners, fund that refurbishment. Work is please contact me at [email protected]. due to start in January and we Our next issue will be published in February 2013, hope it will be completed by late and the deadline for copy to me is 7th January. summer 2013. I’m sure we shall be delighted with the Have a very happy Christmas. refurbished building, which in time will hopefully be the scene of many Parish Rectory functions as well as a delightful home Feature Articles in this Issue: for a Rector and his or her family. The location and views don’t come much better! At the time of preparing this magazine a decision is still awaited from the Planning Minister P15 as to whether a new primary school is to be built as initially expected or whether he will have Meet the Maretts at La Forge decided to ask for alternative plans to be drawn up. The delay has been very unfortunate and The answer’s easy... probably delayed the teachers and children moving into suitable accommodation many months P16 later than originally anticipated. Hopefully the contractors will be able to pull out all the stops Leslie Allo visits St Catherine’s Sailing Club once the decision is reached and the children have an exciting new school complex to look P19 forward to. So what is a Procureur du Bien Public? Of particular satisfaction to me has been the setting up of a Parish Support Team, a goal I was keen to achieve during my first year in office. A more detailed account can be found in the P 20 Parish News section. Know your Parish Part 2: Martin Walton Steady progress has also been made regarding the unresolved issue of the Maufant Village just ask! answers a question and poses a new one Roads with productive meetings held with representatives of all interested parties including the Connétable of St Saviour and members of her municipality, representatives for the home owners That really is all you have to do to arrange one of our FREE P 21 and with the States Property Holdings Department. I apologise for the delay, but as the matter Meet Hilly, a Guide Dog in training has remained unresolved since 1979, I want to ensure all the information is available to investment and protection healthchecks with one of our qualified parishioners. States work remains very demanding but enjoyable. I believe the amount of work International Wealth Managers to help guide you through the undertaken by States Members is underestimated by the majority of people and I have the utmost respect for those members who work tirelessly behind the scenes, for long hours, seven financial maze. It could be the best thing you’ve ever done! days a week. The newspaper comments of States Members having a summer recess for six weeks is simply misleading. I managed six days in Winchester and then wished I hadn’t when I returned to the office and saw my desk. I call it a challenge! Call into any branch and speak to a member of Well a year of my term already completed and I think it has been the busiest time of my life. I believe some of my initial targets have been achieved and I am looking forward to tackling staff to arrange an appointment. some of the other outstanding issues as soon as possible. Michel Le Troquer Barbara and I would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas with your families and a peaceful New Year and to thank you for your support during the year. Cover photograph by Claire Jehan The Royal Bank of Scotland International Limited trading as NatWest (NatWest). Registered Office: P.O. Box 64, Royal Bank House, 71 Bath Street, St. Helier, Jersey JE4 8PJ. Regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission. Business address: PO Box 11, 16 Library Place, St Helier, Jersey, JE4 8NH. Past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance. The value of investments, and any income from them, can fall as well as rise and an investor might not receive back the amount invested. Calls may be recorded. 4 Les Nouvelles Autumn2012 Steve Luce: Never say never I’m sure that we all learn So, apart from something new every week. the routine work, what’s been Well, something I’ve learnt since happening the last edition of Les Nouvelles recently in the was published is: never claim “Big House”. something is going to happen Well, I am very involved at the until it has actually taken place! moment in a You may remember that I was so project to find the pleased about the decision to best way to deal build the new school when I with all the ash that comes out of our incinerator at La Collette. It’s a real challenge, but one wrote in the last magazine, that I am really enjoying; other recent work for me has involved the funding of and here I am three months new development in the tourism industry, and looking at registering planes later, wondering if we are here in Jersey. Very soon I will be doing in reviews into Asbestos, and also ever going to get official Radon levels in our homes, and I’ve also been given permission to see if I can help find a better solution to the “stinky seaweed” problem in St Aubin’s Bay permission. I’m so (thank goodness we don’t have that issue here in St Martin). Tomorrow I have disappointed for the staff a meeting to discuss the “Treason” law here in Jersey (!); there’s never a dull and children that a decision moment for us States Members, but I’m so glad that I get such a wide range hasn’t yet been reached, but of issues to deal with.