TheNo.18 Spring 2012 aven RThe quarterly magazine for the whole of Rainow G Village News G Social Events G Parish Council News G Clubs & Societies G School & Church YOUR VILLAGE NEEDS CanYOU you Help? Community Speed Watch Community Pride Competition Are you concerned about speeding? The Parish Council has applied for the Community Volunteers are needed to help set up a Pride Competition this year (Best Kept Village). Community Speed Watch scheme in our area. But we need lots of HELP! With preliminary judging taking place from Mid-April, volunteers are urgently needed. Can you HELP with: Co-ordinating, keeping public areas tidy, weeding, planting and litter picking etc? TIME Limited? Don’t worry, we will work around whatever you can offer. Please contact the Clerk on Tel: 01625 850532 or email: [email protected] The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee The Speed Watch initiative involves volunteers giving Have you any ideas for up some of their spare time each week at a time that celebrating the Queen’s is convenient to them. Volunteers, who must be over Diamond Jubilee? 18, are trained to use a speed gun to monitor the Are you already involved speed of traffic. in planning a celebration? Motorists who are driving at an excessive speed are The council has applied sent a warning letter and told that if they are clocked for funding to support speeding again they could be fined £60 and face some community activity. three points on their licence. The SID (Speed This, if granted, will not Indicating Device) has been deployed in several be a large amount but locations along the B5470 recently and feedback from may help. There is a the police shows that many drivers are significantly proposal, (only a proposal exceeding the ACPO limit (35 mph in the 30 mph at this stage) coming from the community, that we zone), we are awaiting the police response to this. have an event on Sunday 3rd June, previous to the If you would like to volunteer for community Speed Tuesday Jubilee Day, at the school. A bring your own Watch please contact the Clerk on 01625 850532 or lunch gathering for the community at the school email [email protected] preceded by a short service at the church. Parish Map Replacement Treasurer Needed for the Institute Rainow Parish path maps are still available costing This is an urgent appeal for a Treasurer to join the only £1. They are a great guide to footpaths and other Institute Management Committee. This Committee, public rights of way with six circular walks for you to made up of volunteers from the village, is responsible enjoy. Please contact Cllr. Richard Balment if you for the financing, running and upkeep of the Village would like a copy. Institute which is a vital part of our village. The Institute We have now used up most of the stock of maps and cannot continue to run without an elected Treasurer, in any case they are becoming and this post is now vacant. No accountancy or book- a little out of date; a new version keeping experience is necessary, and the outgoing will not be cheap but we are Treasurer has kept the accounts in excellent order and keen to have a replacement in can help the new person make a smooth and easy time for sale in 2013. We are transition into the role, which normally requires a few trying to find the best way to hours work per month. If you, or a member of your replace the existing map with family are part of one of the village groups that uses something more modern and the Institute please consider volunteering for this role. the Parish Plan Implementation The Committee really does need some help to keep Group has been asked to find arish Council News the Institute running! To find out more, please contact the most practical way of Katherine Beswick, Committee Chairperson on meeting this need. 01625 573809 or [email protected] P 2 Cover Photo: David Catlow Meet the Councillors Welcome to Name: CAROLE HARVEY Time on Council: First year Born: Prestbury, December 1945 Home: Millers Meadow for 37 years Family: Husband John, The son David, daughter in law Laylah. Grandchildren: Isla aven 5, Otis 3, Jasper 1, living R in Cambridge. Daughter Do you run a business from Rainow? Sarah, who has lived in he Raven has been proud to carry advertisements Dubai for the past 6 years. for many local businesses over the past four years. Occupation: Previously The next issue of the Raven (due out at the end of worked as an Air Hostess, T June) will have a major feature on businesses which then sales representative. Now work from home during have their base in Rainow. If you run anything from the week on my telemarketing business, and at the home or a site here we’d like to hear from you. We want weekend I thoroughly enjoy working at Lakeland in to describe our local enterprises and the people who run Handforth – selling and demonstrating their fantastic them and we aim to spread the word about the services products. Secretary of Rainow PTA for 3 years. or products those enterprises provide. Just speak to any Member of Rainow WI, recently retiring from the committee. of the editors or email us at: [email protected] to let us know what you do. Hobbies and interests: cooking, travelling, gardening, reading, modelling for Rainow NSPCC, and eating out. A Raven Community Walk he Raven has become noted for its rural walks. From the second issue we have featured walks on Your Parish Councillors Tour many local paths and now have a team of enthusiastic walkers to pioneer new routes and ring the changes on old favourites. At the last editorial team Ken Butler (Chairman) 433168 meeting the idea of a Raven Community Walk surfaced. [email protected] What we have in mind is a totally new walk, perhaps on Alan Taylor (Vice Chairman) 575544 land not normally open to the public, which we could [email protected] publicise in the magazine and invite readers to join us on a set date. Richard Balment 573625 [email protected] If you think this is a good idea and have any thoughts on Alan Brett 576108 where, when and how such a walk could be organised [email protected] we’d like to hear from you in person or through our email John Cantrell 422107 - [email protected] [email protected] Editorial Team for this issue: Geoff Cooper 574878 [email protected] Ian Brammer Sheila Brammer Bob Langstaff Louise Leigh Sue Frith 573802 Jane Mellings Raph Murray [email protected] Andrew Renshaw Carole Harvey 573576 Design by Mel Wilcox (01625 576182) [email protected] Vivienne Law 575201 [email protected] Future Meetings and Mary Marsh 573508 Dates for your diary [email protected] 17th April 2012 – Parish Council Meeting 8.00 pm Pat Mellish 574523 [email protected] 15th May 2012 – Annual General Meeting 8.00 pm Andrew Renshaw 574977 19th June 2012 – Parish Council Meeting 8.00 pm [email protected] Civic Service – Sunday 30th September 2012 Clerk: Sarah Giller 850532 [email protected] All members of the public are welcome 3 Broadband update – to BT or not BT by Raph Murray for the Rainow Broadband Action Group ibre optic-based broadband with a possible 40 Mbps download speed is due to be available in the core part of the village by 31st March. As BT’s Baked Fpreviously published dates for availability of fibre optic-based broadband were changed just before the due date it’s not certain whether it will be available on schedule, however they appear to be more confident this time. As other internet service providers such as TalkTalk will also be providing Chicken Breasts fibre optic broadband it will be important to check out which provider will best ecipe of the Month with meet your needs. Unfortunately, it appears that some of the more outlying R Chutney & Mustard parts of the village are not currently scheduled for an upgrade to fibre optic- based broadband, ie it appears that the premises in the postcode Serves 6 areas listed in the following table will continue to be either a ‘not spot’ - an This is one of those extremely easy dishes area where you can't get broadband services (at all, or at a reasonable cost) which taste very good! or a ‘slow spot’- an area where you can only get a broadband service with a Ingredients download speed of less than 2 Mbps. 6 chicken breasts SK11 0AT SK10 5RU SK10 5TY SK10 5UU SK10 5TQ 6 tbsp mango chutney SK10 5BZ SK10 5RR SK11 0AN SK11 0AW SK10 5XL 3 tbsp grainy mustard (Moutarde de SK11 0AP SK11 0AD SK11 0AA SK10 5TE SK10 5TL Meaux) SK10 5DA SK10 5TN SK10 5TF SK10 5TA SK10 5UR SK10 5XP SK10 5AX SK10 5US SK10 5TJ SK10 5TX 6 tbsp olive oil SK10 5TH SK10 5TD Method You can check whether you can get superfast fibre optic based broadband 1. Mix the chutney, mustard and oil by visiting the following website: www.productsandservices.bt.com/. This website will also enable you to register your interest in receiving together and smear this mixture over the superfast broadband when it becomes available. chicken breasts in an ovenproof dish. In response to the problem of lack of access to Superfast Broadband, East Do this several hours in advance and keep Cheshire Council are working to find out from BT Openreach and other the dish, covered, in the fridge.