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NEWSLETTER Brief The TJanouawry 20n 12 Crier NOW DELIVERED TO 19,000 ST HELIER Your parish online www.sthelier.je RESIDENTS EVERY MONTH Seeing out the old year in style in this issue St Helier's Battle of Flowers Association 4 Parish Matters 5 Dean’s New Year message braved the elements in December with an 8 Dates for your diary illuminated float and costumed 9 Parish in pictures 11 2012 recycling schedule participants: the entry captured the 12 Looking back on 2011 essence of the community spirit that is 15 Fashion fix flourishing in the Parish and the enjoyment 22 Parish notice board 26 St Helier Gazette that comes from getting involved. P a g e 3 Welcome to the Homes Roundup News around our residential NTeow Ywear'ns g reCetinrgis efrorm your Town Crier. Welcome to 2012 in St Helier! The year begins with what has become a regular homes and nurseries commemoration of the Battle of Jersey which took place on Children from Avranches Day Nursery recently enjoyed a trip to 6th January 1781. This year the historic walk led by Frank the new Millennium Park and were able to try out all the new Falle will retrace the footsteps of the St Martin's regiment of swings and play equipment. the Jersey Militia when they responded to the call to arms St Ewolds ’ Christmas fête was a fantastic success last month, raising a 231 years ago to defend the Island against the French whopping £956.50. The residents and staff would like to take this invaders led by Baron de Rullecourt. Last year's 'tableau' of opportunity to wish the famous painting 'The Death of Major Peirson' by John everyone a Happy Singleton Copley was so successful that we are going to Christmas and very best repeat it as part of this year's event, along with the drill and wishes for the New Year. musket firing by the 1781 Jersey Militia. In the spring the St Helier House Jersey Heritage Trust will be mounting a major exhibition of enjoyed their Christmas the painting which is being loaned by the Tate Gallery and lunch at the Hotel Ambassadeur last there are sure to be a variety of other events this year to month, visited by the raise awareness of this significant event in the history of the Samares School Choir town and the Island. and Sandy Warren, staff This first Town Crier of 2012 allows us to take a look back at the member at Maison de major events of last year, as well as looking forward to what is Ville, who organised bound to be a challenging year for all islanders as we feel the and joined in with the Above: Sampling the new swings at the Millennium Park Christmas carols. This Below: St Helier House enjoyed their Christmas lunch at impact of the continuing economic downturn. However, it's the Ambassadeur reassuring to see that there is still sufficient confidence in Jersey's year residents made economy for new investment to be made by the private sector their own Christmas and the public sector alike. New housing and commercial cakes which went down developments will be appearing throughout 2012, especially in a treat and, during the our Parish, in keeping with the new Island Plan, and the skilled Christmas period, workforces of both Parish and States will be maintaining and groups from Helvetia improving our parks, precincts, footways and roads. The newly House, Mont-à-l’Abbé elected States' members and the Council of Ministers will and Rouge Bouillon hopefully be working in a new spirit of inclusiveness to tackle the Schools attended to various challenges facing the Island, especially unemployment sing carols to the and inflation levels, and the Parish's elected representatives will residents, together with the Caesarean Bell Ringers. As usual, the be putting the case, once again, for a fairer deal for St Helier. residents, helped by Social Activities Organiser Marion Coupland, made the wonderful table decorations in evidence at the three Senior To contact the editorial team, please call 811821 or Citizens’ Christmas Parties at the Town Hall. email [email protected] Maison de Ville saw the usual hectic December with all manner of school children attending to sing carols, bringing a lump to the Recycling update throats of even the grumpiest! The Jersey College girls brought a Kerbside glass recycling scheme – this scheme starts on veritable baker’s shop of cakes with them which were enjoyed by all, Thursday 26th January 2012. We have been fortunate to and the Christmas party for residents’ families and friends was held on 22nd December. Resident Mrs Vardon knitted the most wonderful secure sponsorship from Moore Stephens. 500 houses have candy cane decorations which were used on the dining room’s tree, been invited to join the scheme in January and a further 500 and resident Mrs Gilley’s great-grandson houses will be invited to join in February. The pilot scheme Adam (aged 3½) helped dress the tree by will provide valuable data regarding the feasibility of the La Pouquelaye entrance. f providing glass collections across the Parish. All recycled glass in Jersey is currently delivered to the reclamation site at La Collette where it is used in place of aggregate. For those households with a shared communal bin bay, the Parish will provide a wheeled bin specifically for glass rather than individual boxes. How do I get more information? For more information please contact Debra D’Orleans, Director of Municipal Services on The Town Crier is printed 811703 or email [email protected]. f on FSC Certified Paper Page 4 The Jan 2012 Town Crier Parish matters A round-up of the latest news and events from the Town Hall, Parish departments and our associated clubs and organisations. General Parish news - The Parish has a full inclement weather programme in place to deal with any snow accumulations or prolonged cold snaps. The plan also covers high tides and sand bag deployment to locations where residents can collect sand bags should they be needed. A stock of salt is stored at the Queens Road Depot and teams from each section will be available to apply salt on specific routes should it be required. The photo shows the team dealing with stream blockage in Vallée des Vaux, which entailed digging out the stream culvert in order to free a blockage which was causing a risk of flooding. The recent high winds during December brought down numerous trees in lanes throughout the Parish – this required several road closures to allow property owners wedding date has been set for summer 2012 and we offer them our to make them safe. A tree also fell across a parked car in Rue de congratulations and wish them every success for the future. Trachy – the Parks Team attended to this as the tree was uprooted from within the Park and caused damage to the Park wall and the The Friends of Millennium Town Park Group – a meeting will take vehicle. place at 2.30pm in the Old Magistrate’s Court at the Town Hall on Saturday People’s Park has made a wonderful recovery following the many 21st January. All welcome. There is also an Archive Workshop taking place on events over the summer and prolonged dry spell. Improved Saturday 28th January in the Old Magistrate’s Court from 10am to 3pm. If you monitoring of events will take place in the future, which will include have any memorabilia regarding the Town Park that you may have collected regular checks during set up over the years, please feel free to come along. and dismantling, together with inspections by the community Jingle Boules in the Town Park – Sunday 4th support officers to ensure oil December saw the Town Park’s inaugural petanque drip trays are in place and clean matches take place where, despite the bad weather, St up during and after events is Helier beat the team from St Clement, who put up a correctly carried out. Deposits good show and played in a truly sporting friendly will be required for all events manner. and only returned if the Parks are left in good condition. Delivery of the Town Crier – please note that The major works in Byron Road, delivery of the Crier takes place over seven days from which include the relaying of when you first see the current issue on display at the kerb lines and new tarmac Town Hall. Our team of volunteers are very good and surfacing of pavements and all have set routes, and we’d be grateful if you didn’t roads, is on schedule, and we report non-deliveries until after the 12th of each would like to thank the residents month, to give our team a chance to get the in the area for their patience magazines delivered Parish-wide. If you do wish to during these much-needed report a non-delivery, please telephone Annie Le improvements. Noury on 811821. Maintenance of all cemeteries is on target despite the prolonged Fisherman’s Cottage Work is progressing well on leaf fall during the autumn this project to refurbish the cottage and to address the which led to leaf collection over problem with the South gable wall. The old internal a much longer period than normal and which also impacted on the plaster has been removed to expose the old stonework, with close grass cutting. The removal of ivy and undergrowth from grave tops supervision by the archaeologist in the event anything interesting is found. It and monuments has been carried out in Almorah and is progressing is believed that the cottage was built around 1740-1760 and it would have at Mont-à-l’Abbé.
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