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Issue 412 Sept 2019 Now reaching 3500 people every month It’s a Picnic ! HERITAGE PROJECT P10 COME AND SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE P12 STILTON PARISH COUNCIL WELCOMES ITS NEW CLERK/RFO FUN AND FITNESS P29 FOR ALL AGES DELICIOUS WAYS TO ENJOY THE P33 BLACKBERRY HARVEST P19 Don’t miss our sponsored family trail and picnic event on the 28th! It’ll be great fun for the whole family and - with your help - will raise valuable funds to buy new play equipment for our village youngsters. Details on p19. INCORPORATING FOLKLORE, FOR READERS IN FOLKSWORTH AND THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES SCAN 412 Sept 2019 SCAN is published by The Stilton Community Association. All articles, original artwork and the SCAN name and logo are copyright. All trade marks recognised. Views of contributors are not necessarily endorsed by The Stilton Community Association. Reprints available from the Editor on request. Editor: Advertising: Production: Distribution: Olive Main 241206 Christine Kime 243336 Kelvin Davis 244140 Pat Anslow Advertising Rates: Monthly Annual Full page: £45 £495 19 x 12.7 cm Half page: £30 £330 9 x 12.7 cm landscape - 19 x 6 cm portrait 1/3 page: £20 £220 6 x 12.7 cm landscape - 12.5 x 6 cm portrait 1/6 page: £10 £110 6 x 6 cm All advertising copy or instructions to the Advertising Manager by 10th of month prior to publication. Payment in advance to Stilton Community Association - NO PAY, NO DISPLAY! Advertisement orders MUST be accompanied by the advertiser’s name, address and telephone number. We recommend you use the order form on www.stilton.org/village-life/scan/advertising-in-scan/ All other copy to the Editor, 8 Caldecote Road, Stilton by 14th of month prior to publication. Digital material in a neutral PC format please. email: [email protected] Printed by clanpress www.clanpress.co.uk Index to Advertisers Grey Bin Days: Category Service Page Mon 9th, 23rd Sept; Retail Food & Drink 7, 35 7th Oct Furnishings 37 Pharmacy 4 Health & Exercise 34, 40 Garden Bin Days: Fitness Foot care 42, 43 Fri 6th, 20th Sept; Financial Accountancy / Payroll 34, 43 4th Oct Animals Vet, pet care 36 Personal Hair & Beauty 37, 43 Counselling 38 Recycling Bins: Trades Building services 41, 42, 43 Mon 2nd, 16th, 30th Sept; Conservatories 40 14th Oct Heating / Plumbing 34, 35, 42 Electrical / TV 36 Computer services 25 Please put your bins out Garden services 41 after 6pm on the Removals 38 day before collection Recycling 36 Vehicle services 44 Travel Community bus 39 www.huntingdonshire.gov.uk/bins Professional Architect / Civils 39 Funeral services 41 For children Pre-school 36, 39 2 Be sure to tell our advertisers you found them in SCAN! SCAN 412 Sept 2019 The Parish Pump Local News Thanks for Volunteering HELPING TO GET TO YOUR DOOR EVERY MONTH SCAN's Distribution Manager is now Pat Anslow. She has taken over from Hazel Upcoming Events James who has given great service for over six years. Hazel has kindly agreed to be a If you have a one-off event fixed in the next 'deputy' to Pat if she is away or unavailable. few months please contact the Editor - Everyone on SCAN thanks her; we know 241206 or [email protected] what a great job she has done. SEPTEMBER Thank you to those people who volunteered 1st Stilton in Tune concert to take on the High Street deliveries. We 14th Tabletop Sale in Pavilion are pleased that we once again have a full 15th Family Trail & Picnic event complement of people who faithfully deliver 20-22nd Twinning Trip to Ghent (FULL!) your SCAN each month. 27th Macmillan Coffee Morning 28th Church Heritage Project Meeting If there is a problem with SCAN then please OCTOBER contact Olive Main (241206) for Stilton and Joy Blythe (241938) for Folksworth. 5th Twinning Quiz Night 6th Harvest Festival Correction Stilton in Tune concert COMMUNITY CAR SCHEME 25th-30th St Christol football visit DECEMBER It seems we were misinformed last month, so here’s the facts: 7th Stilton Christmas Fair The North Hunts Community Car Scheme is a volunteer-run service. Registration is Contributors ! free; journeys are charged at 30p/mile (minimum charge £3) The service operates We want your material! between 9am-5pm and two days’ notice is required when requesting a journey. For SCAN, email Olive Main at [email protected] For all enquiries, to book a journey or to or call her on 241206 volunteer, call 07795 542084 Mon-Fri, For Folklore, email to Sarah Abbott 9am-12noon. at [email protected] Be sure to tell our advertisers you found them in SCAN! 3 SCAN 412 Sept 2019 The Burning Issue HOW TO KEEP YOUR SOLID FUEL FIRES TROUBLE-FREE As the winter nights draw in, we begin using our fires, burners and chimneys once again. WOOD/MULTI-FUEL BURNERS Cambs Fire & Rescue are called to around 80 chimney fires a year, so their ‘top tips’ A qualified and competent engineer should are well worth taking seriously: install all wood/multi-fuel burners and CHIMNEYS AND FIRES boilers – regular maintenance should be undertaken to prolong the working life of Whatever fire you have, or fuel you burn, the appliance. Specialist servicing and to avoid a build-up of ash and soot it is maintenance will usually be provided by the essential to have your chimney swept once supplier but www.solidfuel.co.uk is a good a year, or more frequently if you burn wood. source for advice and information. Only burn fuels suitable for your burner. Ensure correct ventilation is in place when (eg. wood-burners should only use the right the appliance is in use. quality wood recommended by the supplier.) Follow each slow burning period with a Wood should be well-seasoned (kept dry quick burn to dry out unwanted tar/creosote and stored for around two years). Avoid deposits and to warm up the chimney again. burning resinous, wet or newly felled wood, or plywood/chipboard, as these will deposit At the end of each burning season and at tars/creosote in the appliance and chimney. least once during the season the entire system should be cooled and thoroughly Do not overload the grate/appliance by cleaned to maintain top performance. banking the fire too high. Let it burn out well before you go to bed. Fit a smoke alarm that carries the kite mark or British Standard Number 5446. Test your Check the hearth, floor and furnishings near alarm weekly by pressing the test button. the fire for hot sparks/embers. Use a fire/spark guard that has the kite mark or Always also install a CO alarm in the room conforms to British/European standards. where the burner is installed. Chimney fires continue to be a common occurrence in Do not place objects on or over the home fires in the winter months. mantelpiece which cause you to stand too close to the fire in order to reach them. For more information log on to www.cambsfire.gov.uk, follow them on Regularly inspect the chimney and flues, social media, or call 01480 444500. particularly in the loft. Check your chimney breast is sound and sparks/fumes cannot escape through cracks or broken bricks. 4 Be sure to tell our advertisers you found them in SCAN! SCAN 412 Sept 2019 Hall Aboard MOVING OUR VILLAGE PHARMACY Many readers will have spotted that Halls This is an important development for the The Chemist have now relocated to the old pharmacy, as it will provide the community Memorial Hall premises on North Street. of Stilton, Folksworth and the surrounding But moving home is always traumatic, with villages with a greatly enlarged facility unexpected snags and delays to upset even having sufficient space to fulfil the NHS the most thorough of plans. vision for community pharmacy. The aim is to be one of the first ports of call for Proprietor Shabbir Damani would like to patients having queries about medicines and thank everyone for their support and their health. With this in mind, the new patience as the business transitions into its premises will feature two good-sized new home at 39a North Street. consultation rooms, providing suitable space for services such as flu vaccinations and Unfortunately, while the building works private discussions with patients. were being undertaken it was discovered that the water supply to the building and the No doubt the grand official opening will be water meter were located too close to the coming soon so we look forward to reporting surface. This would pose a risk of freezing on this. - and hence burst pipes - and correcting this has delayed the building of the steps into The pharmacy’s new address is: the building. Halls have been in constant communication with Anglian Water to Halls The Chemist resolve this and hopefully by the time you Stilton Memorial Hall are reading this article the issue will have 39a North Street been resolved. Stilton Peterborough PE7 3RP Tel (01733) 229090 8 Sept Hallaton 22 Sept Wansford 6 Oct TBC 20 Oct Nevil Holt Our regular walks are between 6 - 8 miles and meet at 10:00am at The Pump For more information about Stumbling, just Google ‘Stilton Stumblers’ or call Shirley on (01733) 246209 - or just turn up on the day with your boots on! Be sure to tell our advertisers you found them in SCAN! 5 SCAN 412 Sept 2019 Stilton Remembers - 20th September 2019 Twinning Jumelage The village weekend away this year is to Ypres and Ghent. On 20th September we will be visiting Tyne Cot (Passchendaele) and will take part in the daily Commemoration Ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres.