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to the Connétable: Simon Crowcroft Tel: 811821 Fax: 619146 Email: [email protected] Summer issue of the Town Crier. The coming months Town Hall: PO Box 50, St Helier, Jersey, JE4 8PA are going to be very busy for the Parish of St Helier Town Hall Opening Hours: 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday with a large number of events and festivals taking Parish Meetings: Notices of Parish meeting are published on our website: www.sthelier.je, in The St Helier Town Crier and the Jersey Evening Post. place; we also will be presenting our accounts for the last financial year and next year’s budget to ratepayers in the Town Hall on Wednesday 12th July. Procureur du Bien Public: Peter Pearce Tel: 639533 Email: [email protected] Please put this date in your diaries and try to attend Procureur du Bien Public: Geraint Jennings what is the most important Parish Assembly of the year. Tel: 280778 Email: [email protected] St Helier Day, 16th July, falls on a Sunday this year Director, Human Resources: Martin Roberts Tel: 811824 Email: [email protected] and we are hoping for a good turnout for the annual Director, Parks, Gardens & Open Spaces: Anthony Andrews pilgrimage from the Town Church to the Hermitage at Tel: 811700 Email: [email protected] Director, Municipal Services: Debra D'Orleans Elizabeth Castle: if you have never taken part why not Tel: 811703 Email: [email protected] put Sunday 16th July in your diaries too? Director, Technical & Environment Services: St Helier’s staff and volunteers will be working Silvio Alves Tel: 811849 Email: [email protected] Director, Finance: Neil Macdonald throughout the summer to keep our Parish safe, Tel: 811829 Email: [email protected] clean, attractive and well organised, for the benefit of Director and Manager of HR: Alison Sweeney Tel: 811880 Email: [email protected] everyone who lives, works, shops or spends leisure Director and Town Centre Manager: Daphne East time here. On the political level, your elected Tel: 811813 Email:[email protected] representatives will continue to press the States for a fair deal in several key areas, including the Bellozanne Covenant, the long overdue payment of rates on Deputy Judy Martin Tel: 780641 Email: [email protected] States’ properties and voter equity. Deputy Russell Labey Tel: 481083 Email:[email protected] Deputy Scott Wickenden Tel: 07797 717766 Email: [email protected] The Town Crier contains information about many of the activities taking place in the Island’s capital, as Deputy Rod Bryans Tel: 737236 Email: [email protected] well as featuring some of the key issues affecting us. Deputy Geoff Southern Tel: 728231 Email: [email protected] Deputy Sam Mézec Tel: 07797 811130 Email: [email protected] You can also find out what’s going on from our website, Facebook and Twitter accounts, while your feedback Deputy Jackie Hilton Tel: 07797 713293 Email: [email protected] on how the Parish is doing is always welcome, by post, Deputy Mike Higgins Tel: 873956 Email: [email protected] Deputy Richard Rondel Tel: 07797 711537 Email: [email protected] telephone or email. Have a great summer in St Helier! Deputy Andrew Lewis Tel: 862663 Email: [email protected] The first Town Crier appeared 15 years ago this month Constable’s PA: Annie Bienvenu Tel: 811821 Email: [email protected] Customer Services Manager: Daryn Cleworth Tel: 811870 Email: [email protected] Community Support Helpline: Tel: 811866 RPZ Helpline Tel: 811811 Email: [email protected] Parish Depot: Tel: 811708 Email: [email protected] Duty Centenier: Tel: 07797 722227 Registrar: Tel: 811088 Avranches and Westmount Nurseries Nurseries Co-ordinator: Linda Le Marquand Tel: 811719 Email: [email protected] Manager at Avranches: Carole Luce Tel: 811719 Manager at Westmount: Jane Snodgrass Tel: 811718 St Helier House Residential Home: Jacqueline Jolley Tel: 811715 Email: [email protected] St Ewold’s Residential Home: Ann McLean Tel: 811716 Email: [email protected] Nigel Blake Tel: 875339 Email: [email protected] Bob Le Brocq Tel: 743606 Email: [email protected] Peter Wade Tel: 875663 Email: [email protected] Bernie Manning Tel: 07700 356438 Email: [email protected] Barry Le Feuvre Tel: 874391 Email: [email protected] 3 THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR JERSEY SUNSET CONCERTS FRIDAY 23rd JUNE THE WORD ON THE STREET THE KINGS OF SWING SATURDAY 24th JUNE GRANTEZ ST OUEN BRING A PICNIC! SITE OPEN FROM 5:30PM MUSIC STARTS AT 7.15PM AND PLAYS UNTIL THE SUN SETS. Parking on site £5 per car In association with MORE INFO: 483193 www.nationaltrust.je Like us: search for Sunset Concerts Proudly supporting the Coastline Campaign for 9 years Allotment news The Parish allotments at Surville have seen increased activity since Spring. Joao Gomes de Sousa (pictured) is a parishioner who gets great pleasure out of his patch. There is only a short waiting list for new allotments so anyone interested in growing their own vegetables and flowers is requested to contact Tony Andrews by email [email protected] or by telephone 811700. Swearing in of new officers Friday 28th April saw Vingteniers Ben Wheaton and Merces Pereira sworn in at Royal Court for the Parish, together with Constable’s Officer Helder Fernandes. St Helier’s Community Service Team Like several other parishes in Jersey, StHelier has a group of community visitors who offer their services on a voluntary basis. These volunteers regularly assist parishioners with a wide variety of day to day tasks, such as shopping, accompanying them to appointments and referring them to other organisations for further help. Requests for support in the community are often Westmount Gardens’ extension received from the Health & Social Services The recently opened area of land located Department, GPs, the police and relatives. west of Westmount Gardens has proven Fortunately, when the administration extremely popular with parishioners of what was called Parish Welfare was who enjoy a woodland walk. The area transferred to the States of Jersey, the is a valuable link with the Gardens and Parish of St Helier took the decision to wooded areas of People’s Park, retain some of its professional team of Westmount, and the valley below staff, as it was felt that volunteer help in Overdale. Access can be gained from the community might not be sufficient to either Westmount Gardens or via the numerous squirrels who regularly feed meet the needs of clients in the Island’s track to the town side of King George V on the oaks and pines there. The new most populous parish. Since 2008 the Cottage Homes. The area has undergone area of woodland was gifted to the Parish Parish of St Helier has employed one full the first phase of scrub clearance to as part of the settlement for Parish land time and one part time Community Visitor encourage an improved environment for being used for the construction of an who direct the group of volunteers in flora and fauna. Look out for the electricity substation. carrying out their valuable work in the community. The Parish’s team of professionals and volunteers works very closely with other agencies within St Helier and is grateful to the other organisations and charities that assist Parishioners. For more information about becoming a member of St Helier’s Community Service Team please contact Julie Garrod by email, [email protected] or by telephone on 811856. 5 PARISH MATTERS CONTINUED St Patrick's Day celebrations The Parish hosted the annual gathering for the 2,000 Irish nationals living in Jersey on 17 th March at a lunchtime event organised by the Jersey Irish Society. There was also a mass held at St Mary's and St Peter's Church Farewell to the Dean and a 'flash mob' at Liberation Square Junior Miss St Helier, Maisie Robertson, presented the Parish's by the Canon O'Rafferty School of Irish Dancing. farewell gifts to the Rector of St Helier, Bob Key, and Daphne Key, at a reception held in the Town Hall's Assembly Room. St Helier’s Battle float If you’d like to get involved and volunteer with the St Helier Battle of Flowers Association Group, helping to make the thousands of paper flowers for our float, creating items out of papier-mâché or designing costumes, please come along to the Battle Shed at the Parish’s Mont à l’Abbé Depot at the top of Queen’s Road. The Group meets on a Tuesday from 6–8pm and on a Sunday afternoon from 2–5pm, and all ages are welcome. Contact Dee Cousins for more information on 07700 700169. 2017 Rate Demands Following the Rates Assembly to be held at the Town Hall on Wednesday 12th July, St Helier ratepayers will shortly thereafter receive 2017 rate demands. If you haven’t received one and were expecting to, please contact the Customer Services Team by emailing them at [email protected] or telephoning 811811. In accordance with the Rates (Jersey) Law 2005, rate demands are payable on demand and all balances outstanding after 31st October 2017 will be subject to a ten percent surcharge. There are a variety of methods by which you can pay your bill, including online by visiting https://services.parish.gov.je/ and entering the unique code that appears on your rates notice. Another convenient method of payment that has proved very popular and undoubtedly eases the burden of paying the demand in one lump sum is direct debit.