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Town Crier the Official Parish of St Helier Magazine TOWN CRIER THE OFFICIAL PARISH OF ST HELIER MAGAZINE October 2020 In partnership with the PEOPLE’S PARK SAVED AGAIN! The Constable of St Helier, development of the new hospital TOWN CRIERSimon Crowcroft, says that at Overdale. The Constable he is delighted and relieved has pledged to help the Jersey that the Council of Ministers Bowling Club find new premises, THE OFFICIAL PARISH OF ST HELIERhas recognised MA theGAZINE value of green as their facilities on Westmount space in the Parish by deciding Road will be impacted by the not to build the new hospital on road improvements that will People’s Park. In addition, the be necessary, and to support wooded areas of Westmount residents whose homes will be Park will be untouched by affected. Full story inside. WELCOME Welcome to the October issue of the collections, we have included inside a St Helier Town Crier, the fifth to be feature on the splendid floral displays produced in partnership with the Jersey which have been produced by St Helier Evening Post. We are pleased to be residents this summer. Even though back to producing a monthly newsletter there was no national competition this after a few years when the Town Crier year run by the RHS Britain in Bloom, only appeared quarterly; if possible we our Parish Community in Bloom group will increase the frequency even more. went out with their cameras and judging In response to your feedback, we have sheets so that the some of the best increasedTO the size of the type to WNmake it gardens were able to be presented CRIER easier to read. Please remember that if with our own homegrown awards. The you haveTHE a smartphone OFFICIAL or a computer attractive PARISH community planting OF around ST HELIER MAGAZINE with access to the internet you can also First Tower organised by Ted Vibert read the Town Crier on our website was once again appreciated, while the (www.sthelier.je). Parish’s Parks & Gardens Department As well as the usual news and also continued to create floral displays information parishioners need, such of horticultural excellence for us all to as details of our fortnightly recycling enjoy during the summer. ST HELIER SINGING TOWN CRIER FESTIVAL LAUNCHED THE OFFICIAL PARISH OF ST HELIER MAGAZINE The Town Hall is to host a new festival of classical singing this autumn. All safety precautions necessary are being observed, and the live performances are being streamed online - more details inside. Our Assembly Room is used throughout the year to host a variety of concerts, festivals, presentations, dinners and events, such as the spectacular ‘Paper Cuts’ exhibition in 2016 (pictured). TOWN HALL: PO Box 50, St Helier, Jersey, JE4 8PA Opening Hours: 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday Phone: 01534 811811 Email: [email protected] www.sthelier.je 02 | | OCTOBER 2020 ST HELIER BLOOM 2020 : AWARDS OF RECOGNITION The Parish of St Helier’s Bloom Group importance of connections with nature and was unable to host its St Helier in Bloom taking the time to enjoy it. Competition and various others this year, With over 70+ entrants, the Group has been including the popular schools’ projects which kept busy handing out the Awards personally always look amazing. (whilst adhering to social distancing However, members noticed how much has guidelines), and hopefully next year you’ll all been achieved this year by both businesses be invited to the Town Hall to celebrate with and residents of St Helier, making our Parish the Constable and the Bloom Group as usual. vibrant and colourful for residents and visitors during such a challenging year. This led the We’d like to thank as many people as Group to find a way to show its appreciation, possible for their hard work and displays this and so ‘Awards of Recognition’ were born - a year, so the Awards of Recognition period thank you from the Group and the Parish is being extended until the end of the year. to residents and businesses of St Helier for We would love to see your pictures and their gardens, al fresco areas, balconies and hear your stories – please send them to baskets. An extra category has been added [email protected]. this year - ‘Colour in the Community’, which Special thanks go to the Constable and the covers silk flowers and murals. Parish’s Parks & Gardens Team, who have This year people have also been asked kept St Helier’s parks looking amazing as to send in photos and stories about their usual despite the lockdown and restrictions. gardens - so many people have been This has been more important than ever with spending a bit of extra time in them due to so many residents living in apartments, and this year’s restrictions, as a way of helping office workers needing fresh air and a calm with well-being, and this highlights the green space to relax in. CONSTABLE’S COMMENT PROTECTING OUR PARKS Parishioners will have been relieved to but where would our children play in the learn earlier this month that the Council several years such development takes? of Ministers has decided to recommend And would a park in Gloucester Street offer to the States that the new hospital is anything like the same facilities as People’s built at Overdale and not on their other Park, where the first pop festival of next shortlisted site, People’s Park. So subject year, recently announced, will take place to the debate on the matter scheduled subject to Covid-19 restrictions being lifted. for next month the sword of Damocles It’s hard to imagine the Portuguese Food hanging over our precious greenspace Festival being acceptable there either, will have been removed. But for how surrounded by tall housing instead of by long? The Parish needs to explore ways grass and trees. Meanwhile, it is also good of giving its open spaces extra protection news that the Parish’s wooded area to the from the threat of development in future, west of People’s Park, including Val André, especially as the requirement for more highlighted in last month’s Town Crier, will homes in the Island’s capital increases. also be spared when the new hospital is Some critics of the Parish’s opposition to constructed. I will continue to do all that I the States building on our parks (in the can to protect St Helier’s greenspace and main, correspondents in the JEP letters to increase its quantity as well as its quality, page from the far-flung and more peaceful as parks are a necessity not a luxury; we reaches of our Island) have suggested need them to ensure that as town dwellers that alternative parkland could be created we enjoy the same quality of life as once old buildings have been demolished, Islanders who live in the countryside. OCTOBER 2020 | | 03 PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS As Hallowe’en approaches, shops Sadly, neither the wonderful Christmas are preparing for Christmas which is lights switch-on ceremony of past a crucial trading period for the retail years, nor the Simply Christmas Market sector at the best of times - and we run by Genuine Jersey can take place are not in the best of times! Town this year, but we are working with our Centre Manager, Vicky Trehorel, has partner organisations to ensure that been working with the Jersey Retail we do all we can to imbue St Helier Association and Jersey Business, with the spirit of Christmas during Genuine Jersey, and the relevant November and December. People civil servants in the Economic with access to the internet will be Development Department, as well able to enjoy some of the events and as with the traders themselves, to happenings by following them online; see what steps the Parish can take to find out more please keep checking to encourage shopping trips to town the Parish’s website, www.sthelier.je, and to help boost retail sales. Not and also be sure to get next only do the shops have the difficulties month’s issue of the Town Crier, created by the Covid-19 pandemic to published on Saturday 15th November, deal with, but there is also the ongoing which will have our detailed competition from online shopping. Christmas programme. MORE POP-UPS We welcome the appearance of new Infiniti, a jewellery store with a twist. pop-ups around town. In addition to On one side you will find jewellery, Street Food Thursdays, we will now and on the other art pieces created see ‘Genuine Fridays’ included on by world-renowned artists. Please the pop-up calendar, so although the pop in to have a look. usual Christmas market can’t take place this year, you will still be able to It is testament to the resilience of find your Genuine Jersey wares. our town centre that we are seeing important retail sites re-occupied as Another new pop-up will be soon as they become vacant; the appearing at St Paul’s Gate, thanks former Thomas Cook building at to a partnership with de Gruchy’s Charing Cross is another premises Department Store. Once you’ve which we are delighted to see in the browsed around inside de Gruchy’s, last stages of refurbishment prior to you can cross the road to have a look opening as a branch of Santander at St Paul’s Gate or pick up a quick Bank, while St Helier must be one of BUSKING AND STREET snack there. the very few town centres where the ENTERTAINMENT You may have noticed a sparkly new Bella Italia chain of restaurants has shop opening up on King Street in managed to re-open in spite of its The run-up to Christmas always means of live music, but we are working the old Jack Wills location – this is nationwide closure.
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