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Kelvedon Parish Council Magazine Kelvedon News Issue 3 • Quarterly News and events from your Parish Council Homes from £165,000 Your edition of Kelvedon Parish Council Magazine Welcome... our Parish Council is pleased to present YIssue Three of the Parish magazine to Contents you and your family. Letter from the Chairman 6 This is not an ad-mag and contains a Kelvedon Parish Council Allotments 8 mixture of articles about our community Council Contacts 12 and the things and organisations that work Please Vote for Democracy 13 within the community, to make Kelvedon Your Local Councillor 16 such a brilliant place to live, work and play. Youth Forum 18 Firstly, on behalf of the Parish Council and Be Prepared for Winter 20 its staff I would like to wish you and your Worship 24 family and friends a happy and peaceful Christmas Services 25 Christmas. It has been a hectic, and I KCA – Garden Club 26 hope productive, year in the village as the Chocolate Log Recipe 30 Parish Council has completed some major projects – such as the footpath and the mini The photo on the front cover shows the Parish Clerk, Peter Studd, accepting the Essex Association of Local Councils and the Acumen Wages Services award for Community Work. The photo was taken by David Jackman of Everything Local News – www.everythinglocalnews.co.uk – and we thank This magazine has been produced at him for his permission to use this image. no cost to the Parish Council. PLEASE SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESSES A big thank you goes out to all the local businesses that have advertised and supported the Kelvedon Parish Council Magazine. Please support local businesses and mention the To advertise please call Mary on Kelvedon Parish Magazine when responding to advertisers tel: 01843 295371 Homes from £165,000 Published by Community Ad Web Ltd 01843 834160 email [email protected] web www.communityad.co.uk The views expressed in any published content are solely those of the contributors. The Publishers and Kelvedon Parish Council accept no responsibility for the accuracy of any information contained in the publication. The contents of this magazine including images may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, downloaded or displayed in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of Kelvedon Parish Council and/or Community Ad Web Ltd. Unless otherwise specified, the authors of the literary and artistic works in the pages in this magazine have asserted their moral right pursuant to Section 77 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of those works. The Publishers reserve the right not to publish a submission or part of a submission that they consider defamatory or otherwise inappropriate for publication. Kelvedon Parish Council Magazine 3 skate-park on the Recreation Ground, whilst know his replacement Terri Johnson (badge at the same time providing supportive and number 8143) who took over with effect responsive services to residents as they have from 25/10/14. Thank you for your past asked questions of us. service Will and good luck in your new area! We have had, and continue to have, on going The work of the Parish Council continues as issues with Essex County Council Highways we now seek to set a budget for the next Department and their Public Rights of Way financial year whilst at the same time trying section, as we battle to get defects that to clear the village up for the forthcoming have arisen in the village repaired or sorted winter. We will be cutting back further out. In reality our village handyman has had brush on the Meadows this winter and we to undertake many County tasks to keep have recently established, that this winter you safe- by maintaining our footpaths the Environment Agency (EA) will not be and ensuring clear pavements, particually clearing the weed from our stretch of the on London Road. The Parish Council has river. This operation normally creates a recently billed the County Council in an wide path on the riverbank caused by the attempt to recoup these extra costs that machinery used – so for next year we will we have incurred, and we hope to reach a only have the current two metre wide path settlement shortly. on the riverbank. Policing remains an on-going issue in the Lewis Hunt, our village handyman, is out village and the Parish Council continues there everyday working to keep the village to struggle to obtain accurate data as to neat and tidy but the grass is still growing what is actually going on in our area. We madly, as is the brushwood, whilst the leaves have now found that a Government website have still to drop. Thus he is very busy at called Police UK provides the most accurate the moment – until such time as the cold monthly picture of the actual crime pattern. weather slows nature down. This data can be accessed at http://www. Latest good news is that the Local Highways police.uk/essex/7/crime/+ndLJKs/. Panel have just given us a £17,000 grant to The village has just lost their PCSO Will replace the two outdated bus shelters on Gladwell who has looked after us for the London Road, these date from the 1950s last six years, as he has been transferred to and are in urgent need of replacement. another beat. We look forward to getting to Peter Studd, Parish Clerk and Editor Sowing for generations For all the jobs around your Over the years, our catalogue has become known for home, garden & business brimming with everything you need for a successful year of growing. 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Autumn is disappearing and winter and bounds from the situation that Peter approaches, with dark nights (and dark inherited from our previous Clerk. mornings too for those who have to get In the previous edition, I noted that Rob up to go to work, take children to school Lancashire had been co-opted onto the or whatever) so I hope that residents will council.