THE NEEDHAM MARKET NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED by NEEDHAM MARKET TOWN COUNCIL April 2019 - No 510 and Distributed Throughout Needham Market Free of Charge
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THE NEEDHAM MARKET NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED BY NEEDHAM MARKET TOWN COUNCIL April 2019 - No 510 and Distributed Throughout Needham Market Free of Charge 45th East Anglian OV 700ER PA INTIN GS! Community Centre School Street Needham Market IP6 8BB Friday 19th April to Monday 22nd April 2019, 10.00am – 5.00pm e work of the region’s nest artists under one roof Admission £2.00 (children free). WINE & CHEESE BUFFET PREVIEW EVENING Preview tickets available from Needham Hardware and DIY, or call 01449 720845 Admission includes two glasses of wine. Doors Open 8.00pm. Admission £8.00. Enquiries to: [email protected] www.needhammarkettc.co.uk Needham Market Town Council Newsletter Copy: All copy for the Newsletter must TOWN CLERK: DEPUTY TOWN CLERK: TOWN COUNCIL be emailed FAO: Kelaine to: [email protected] Kevin Hunter Kelaine Spurdens OFFICE preferably in word format. Town Council Office, LIST OF TOWN COUNCILLORS: TELEPHONE: Copy deadline is always the 8th School Street of the month prior to publication BE Annis (01449) 720531 Needham Market and deadline for the May 2019 Issue Suffolk, IP6 8BB is 8th April 2019 please. N Andrews (01449) 721302 C Campbell (01449) 720952 The office is open to the public All Advertising queries should be Mondays and Thursdays: referred to Kelaine at the Town D Campbell (01449) 720952 Council Office on: 10 am to 12 noon. RP Darnell 07790 583162 (01449) 722246 or email as above. JE Lea MA (01449) 721544 Telephone: (01449) 722246 NEEDHAM I Mason (01449) 721162 An answerphone is in operation MARKET LIBRARY when the office Is unmanned. MG Norris (01449) 720871 School Street, P Potter (01449) 723948 E.mail: Needham Market S Phillips (01449) 721710 [email protected] IP6 8BB Tel: (01449) 720780 (Deputy Town Mayor / Deputy Chair of Council) Website: Opening Hours D Spurling (01449) 401443 www.needhammarkettc.co.uk Monday Closed (Town Mayor / Chair of Council) Town Council Meetings: Tuesday 10am – 1pm & M Spurling (01449) 401443 These are held on the first and 2pm – 5pm X Stansfield 07538 058304 third Wednesdays of each month at 7:25 p.m. in the Green Room Wednesday 2pm – 7pm AL Ward (01449) 720422 at Needham Market Community Thursday 10am – 1pm & Centre. COUNTY COUNCILLOR: 2pm – 5pm K Oakes 07724 700695 You are all welcome to attend and Friday 2pm – 5pm DISTRICT COUNCILLORS: will have the opportunity to air Saturday 10am – 1pm & your views. W Marchant (01449) 720965 2pm – 5pm MG Norris (01449) 720871 Useful Telephone Numbers: P. 27 Sunday 11am – 4pm Kett’s Oak Kett’s Oak Kett’sTherapies Oak Kett’sTherapies Oak Mid Suffolk Citizens Advice Bureau Peter Sewell Therapies DRIVING SCHOOL Therapies Quality Advice – Locally Mon: 9.30am - 3.30pm • Tues: 9.30am - 3.30pm • Weds: CLOSED • Thurs: 9.30am - 6.30pm • Fri: 9.30am - 12.30pm FREE ADVICE on DEBT, BENEFITS, RELATIONSHIP & FAMILY, HOUSING, Reiki, Reflexology, EMPLOYMENT, GOODS & SERVICES, LEGAL and much more Telephone Reiki, Reflexology, Reiki,Aromatherapy Reflexology, 01449 721802 Reiki,Aromatherapy Reflexology, Tel: 01449 676060 or 676280 Mobile and Aromatherapyother treatments and Aromatherapyother treatments or call in at 5 Milton Road South, Stowmarket 07931 841184 and otheravailable treatments and otheravailable treatments available available Julie Kett Nathalie Noyau Julie Kett ComplementaryJulie Kett Dip Hyp HE To advertise in the ComplementaryJulie Kett ComplementaryTherapist Newsletter ComplementaryTherapist Hypnotherapist & Coach Therapist Therapist Anxious? Stressed? Unhappy? please contact the 07553 673763 07553 673763 I can help. Town Council Office 07553 673763 07553 673763 Float away on a cloud on 01449 722246 Float away on a cloud Floatof away relaxation on a cloud Call me on: 07729 620101 Floatof away relaxation on a cloud of relaxation 2 of relaxation Needham Market Newsletter April 19 Introduction WELCOME TO THE APRIL NEWSLETTER AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Here we are, halfway through March as I write this and ABOUT THE NEWSLETTER I haven’t yet weeded the alleyway between The Swan We are currently working on a full re-design of the car park, but by the time you are reading this, I will newsletter, set to launch later this year. As part of this have done! process, we have both a new editor and a new email I was speaking to a friend last week who is sadly address for all copy submissions. moving out of the area. She had spent two years living Please send all future articles and announcements to: in Stowmarket before coming to Needham Market and she told me that more people spoke to her in her first 2 [email protected] weeks in Needham Market than in the 2 years she lived in Stowmarket. I like that about Needham Market, some We are always interested to hear about clubs, events of my family who live in Cities in the UK have visited me and news from the community, and will endeavour to and they always remark on how friendly the people of include everything that is submitted. No submission is Needham Market are and how their own towns/cities too small, but please try to limit articles to under 500 have lost this sense of community. words. All articles will be subjected to editorial review This will be one of our challenges going forward, as and proofreading, so please send them in Microsoft housing development goes on around us, it is essential Word format. that, as well as planning cycle paths, bridleways and Following the relaunch of the newsletter, we may be talk of integrating new developments with the existing able to accommodate longer articles (potentially of town, we must also think about ‘community’. What up to two full A4 pages in length), but this must be makes a ‘community’ as opposed to just a town? agreed in advance with the editor. Please email the Whatever it is, I hope we retain our sense of community. above address if you have any questions about copy submission. I am coming to the end of my year as Mayor. I have enjoyed most of it and it has been an honour to Thank you to all our regular contributors, and represent Needham Market. to everyone else involved in the production and distribution of the newsletter. Look out for the relaunch Cllr Dawn Spurling in the coming months! 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REPAIRS REPAIRS REPAIRS AND AND AND INSTALLS INSTALLS INSTALLS OFOF OF ALL ALL ALL MAKES MAKES MAKES Contact Pauline Baldry mobile 07979 391458 REPAIRS AND AND MODELS ANDMODELS INSTALLS OFOF DOMESTIC DOMESTIC OF APPLIANCES APPLIANCES ALL MAKES AND AND ANDMODELS MODELS MODELS OF OF OF DOMESTIC DOMESTIC APPLIANCES APPLIANCES APPLIANCES AND MODELS OF DOMESTIC APPLIANCES Needham Market Newsletter April 19 3 Clubs & Community NEEDHAM MARKET W.I. GIPPING WOMEN’S CLUB At our February meeting we heard about the Remarkable We have enjoyed some interesting speakers over the last few Women of Ipswich - a fascinating talk about the lives of some weeks. By the time you read this, the committee will have drawn women who had made a real difference and achieved so much. up a programme for the summer term, which will start in early May. Given the choice of an Easter Party or meal at a local Several of our members joined a Federation coach trip to restaurant, members opted for the latter, which is great news Norwich to see Calendar Girls at the Theatre Royal. They all for the committee as it means we don’t have to organise the agreed it was a very entertaining day out! entertainment! Our 96th birthday party went well. We had an old fashioned Our Spring programme of events continues as follows : party with sandwiches, trifle, jelly and cake. We also played some party games including pass the parcel, which went well, but the March 26th Annual General Meeting poor old donkey had his tail put in some very strange places! April 2nd Around the World in 102 Days with Robert Leader Our talk this month is ‘Seasonal Tips for Late Spring in the April 9th Easter meal out at The Highwayman Garden’ and then we shall be preparing for the Art Show For more information, please call Stephanie Wiggins on over the Easter weekend. I hope you will come and enjoy the (01449) 723440 fantastic paintings, and then call to see us for a cup of tea and a piece of W. I. cake! We meet on Tuesday evenings at 7.45pm during school term time at the Needham Market Bowls Club, Crowley Park, Barretts Lane, As ever, we meet at the community centre on the second Needham Market IP6 8BX.