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Contact Us Message from Parish Councillors Beware - Scams Fill In the Chairman Chairman Residents are asked to be on Cllr John Dalton and Parish the lookout for scams in the Tel: 01772 622597 area. Vice Chairman Council We’ve had reports of phone calls Cllr Pamela Sloan Dear Residents offering to help residents with Tel: 01257 451091 incorrect council tax banding, in Cllr Graham Bird The Members of the Council are return for a fee - what the callers Tel: 01772 601505 here to serve the community of are doing is not illegal, however Ulnes Walton so, if you have any residents can get the same Cllr Eileen Doran problems or issues you would information for free by contacting Tel: 01257 452516 like to raise, please contact the Chorley Council. Cllr Dorothy Todd Clerk and we will try our best to Another scam includes calls from Tel: 01772 601264 help you. a company purporting to Cllr Nicola Watkinson A great amount of activity is represent the Telephone Tel: 01772 601959 taking place within the village Preference Service (TPS) with clubs, groups and offering to screen or block sales Clerk to the Council calls for a monthly fee. The information courses all catering All correspondence to: Telephone Preference Service is for local residents. We do hope the only official opt out register to Alan Platt that you will join in the many stop receipt of live unsolicited 9 Ambleside Avenue community groups and gain sales calls and is a free service. Euxton benefit from them. Call 0845 070 0707 or visit Chorley A copy of the Annual Report for www.tpsonline.org.uk for details PR7 6NX or to register. the year ended 31 March 2014, Tel: 01257 234003 which provides a financial Trading Standards has received em: [email protected] summary together with a review reports of door to door fish sellers of Council activities during the using aggressive selling practices Council Meetings year is included in this and targeting vulnerable residents. Parish Council Meetings are newsletter. In one incident an elderly lady paid held on the second Monday of over £326 for a box of fish! each month, starting at 7.30 I would be delighted to welcome pm at The Old School, Ulnes you to our parish council Several complainants said they Walton Lane. Forthcoming meetings which are held on the have had to throw the fish away as second Monday of each month it tasted odd. dates for 2014 include: and commence at 7.30pm. We Trading Standards advice is never ▪ 12 May meet at the Old School on Ulnes buy this type of product from door- ▪ 9 June Walton Lane. Agendas for to-door sellers who are not regular ▪ 14 July meetings are posted on the rounds men. You may not get the notice boards at the junction of Time is set aside at each weight, quality or hygiene Leyland Lane/Holker Lane, Moss meeting for local residents to standards you are expecting. speak to the Council and you Lane/Willow Road, Wymott and are welcome to come along to the layby on Ulnes Walton Lane There have also been reports of share your ideas, express your before the boundary with South mattresses being sold door to door views or even raise concerns Ribble. in the Chorley area. Consumers are often approached in the street. you have about a particular Cllr John Dalton issue. We are here to listen It is also not clear whether these Chairman mattresses meet the flammability and can help in providing guidance and direction. Ulnes Walton Parish Council requirements of the regulations. Since we last appeared in the Parish Newsletter the Community Group has had a very busy program including December’s Christmas Beetle and Bingo, our very successful Christmas lunch at the Grapes Protect your gadgets and in Croston, the over 60’s Hotpot Lunch in February and, finally the other electrical items Easter Beetle and Bingo on the 4th April. Why not register them for free on the national property register via Christmas 2013 www.immobilise.com at The Grapes, Registration only takes a couple minutes, should you Croston lose or have property stolen and it is recovered, it allows all police forces to identify an item and return it to the rightful owner. Looking forward we have the Anything from your TV to Soup and Sandwich Lunch your Toaster can be th on the 15 May, which, as registered on Immobilise for usual, is open to all ages. more information visit Please just drop in for a www.immobilise.com or sandwich and a chat and get www.lancashire.police.uk/ to know your neighbours. help-and-advice/advice/ Looking just a bit further ahead there is the Over 60’s Summer Buffet immobilise-property-database th on the 17 July. We are trying very hard to arrange some If you need to report an entertainment for you after the meal, remember the Dollymops! emergency dial 999. For non emergencies dial 101 and for Later in the year other events including a Bonfire Night firework display and barbecue will be confirmed. Coppull Police Office dial 01257 246103 (answer One recent disappointment was the low turnout for the Easter Bingo machine facility). Night. It was a shame considering all the effort that went into PCSO 7932 Maria Featherstone presenting it. Still, some people went home laden with chocolate and bursting with tea and home made cake. Now some of you may have forgotten that we have been to great Ulnes Walton expense in organising free over 60’s exercise classes at the Old Women’s School on a Friday morning at 9.30am. These are low key exercises Institute with a professional tutor specifically designed to keep you moving. They are chair based so there is no excuse not to give it a go - no We hold monthly meetings on leotards or tights, just as you are. the third Wednesday of the month (except December) at Recently all houses in the village recently received a copy of our End 7.30pm. and have a good of Life Care booklet which we compiled in response to a project programme of speakers and request from Skills for Care Ltd. I realise that the concept may be a activities, but above all tea, little off - putting for some but it has been well received in some cake and friendship. quarters and the information it contains may help or give food for We are active in local events thought. At this stage we have no plans to update it so I apologise if with time and financial help. If some information you personally may expect to see has been omitted you are interested in attending but a voluntary group, such as ours, cannot think of everything, our meetings we would be however committed. delighted to welcome new members. Finally, if anyone has comments on the work of The Community Group or suggestions for future events please get in touch with any If you require further information group member or email to [email protected] please telephone Dorothy on Brendon Pickthall 01772 601264. FREE LOCAL HOME DELIVERY Volunteers Needed OF QUALITY PET FOODS Could you spare a few hours to help us transform a roadside Premium ranges of locally verge into a haven for wildflowers and bees? produced dog and cat food at affordable prices. Action for Ulnes Walton has been granted permission to manage the verge along Southport Road near its junction with Lydiate Lane FOOD FOR ALL YOUR PETS: for the benefit of local wild life .We hope to maintain the beautiful Small Animals, Pond Fish, wildflowers already present as well as to introduce new flowers Poultry and birds. native to our local area such as primroses, bluebells, oxeye daisies Peanuts and wild bird food. etc. This, we hope, will encourage small mammals, birds and insects, especially bees, to make use of the verge. Phone Kevin on We have already started work by cutting back the turf which was Tel: 01772 457956 encroaching on the path and planting five hundred snowdrops .We Mob: 0758 595 1425 now need help to remove the more thuggish weed such as brambles and docks, plant wildflower plugs and clear patches to www.maplewoodonline.co.uk sow with native seeds. You can appreciate this is a huge job and we really would welcome your input. Please phone Pam Sloan on 01257 451091 or if you see a small group of us at work just introduce yourself and get stuck in. You’ll be sure of a warm welcome! Ulnes Walton Village is on Facebook. For our local news and events page click on Could you share your home with an @UlnesWaltonnews adult who needs Want to join in local events? support? Would like to know more about com- munity groups? Do you have a spare bedroom in your home? Want to meet new people? You will be provided with a generous financial allowance and a Find out the latest local news dedicated support team. What is Shared Lives? Wymott Art Group Shared Lives involves caring for an adult in your family home, The Old School because they cannot live with their own family or live on their own. Ulnes Walton Lane It is a family-based care provided by individuals or families, enabling Every Wednesday adults to share in family and community life, as well as supporting 10.00am to 12 Noon them to develop their strengths, abilities and independence. £2.00 per session (including tea/coffee/biscuits) People who require Shared Lives support come from a variety of We are a small social Art Group backgrounds and may be an adult with a learning disability or an and would invite any adult and older adult.