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TRINITY-ISSUE 17 Q4-2019.qxp_Layout 1 08/11/2019 14:59 Page 2 d’vis du nord-êt ISSUE 17 Flying high 34681_Parish_Mag_V2_297x210.indd 2 22/10/2019 15:08 TRINITY-ISSUE 17 Q4-2019.qxp_Layout 1 08/11/2019 15:00 Page 3 Home Insurance Travel you need Motor Marine for the things Business that matter www.islands.je 835 200 [email protected] Home / Travel / Motor / Marine / Business M J Touzel (Insurance Brokers) Ltd is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) under the Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998 for General Insurance Mediation Business (ref: GIMB 0046) TRINITY-ISSUE 17 Q4-2019.qxp_Layout 1 08/11/2019 15:00 Page 4 WELCOME Home IN THIS Insurance Travel edition Welcome 4 From the Connétable and Deputy Motor to Issue17 8 Trinity School you need As this edition of the Tattler drops Marine through your letter box, we hope it will brighten up your November and for the things Business provide an enlightening read during the darker evenings. As well as all the usual articles and features, we bring you another 12 update from Jersey Zoo as their 60th anniversary Battle of that matter year comes to a close. Dr Lesley Dickie has written Flowers an inspiring and insightful article on their conservation work and nature connection. I say insightful because I personally learnt so much about their amazing mission and work and I’m sure you will too. 21 La veue d'ahaut Whilst on the Zoo, Jill Keogh has been in touch. Jill is a volunteer at Jersey Zoo, meeting and greeting the visitors in the Gerald Durrell 22 Here Story exhibition. Other volunteers support the keepers with jobs such as cleaning the enclosures or cutting the fruit and vegetables. Comes the Volunteers come and go for many reasons, so if there are any Galloping parishioners out there who are prepared to spend half a day, a whole Major day or even just a couple of hours supporting our zoo, please email [email protected]. Perhaps reading Lesley’s article might inspire you to make it one of your new year’s resolutions! 26 Meet Le Trinn'tais I hope you’re intrigued by our front cover photo and please go to Derek Le Cocq page 21 to read about one of our parishioners’ unusual hobby. In this edition, you will also read about another parish family’s adventures and our thanks to the Militis family for telling the story of their 31 Our Road 3-month tour of Europe. If you have something you would like to Trip share, we’d love to hear from you on email [email protected]. Militis The hard work put in by the Tattler team is highlighted in Meet family the Team on page 38 and thanks as always to Norman, Clive, Jane, Elena, Angela and our Connetable Philip. Unfortunately, Clive was out of the Island for our team photo, which incidentally was taken by 8 Front cover photo: Nigel O'Brien year old Amélie, Elena’s daughter. We like to start them young! Finally, my warmest wishes to all our readers as Christmas fast approaches. Have a wonderful time and we’ll be back in 2020! Where Rosemary Parker it? Answeris on page 42 www.islands.je 835 200 [email protected] Home / Travel / Motor / Marine / Business M J Touzel (Insurance Brokers) Ltd is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) under the Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998 for General Insurance Mediation Business (ref: GIMB 0046) TRINITYTattler I Issue 17 p3 TRINITY-ISSUE 17 Q4-2019.qxp_Layout 1 08/11/2019 15:00 Page 5 TRINITY From our From our Deputy Connétable Dear All I’m writing this a few short weeks before Brexit – but uncertainty continues apace. We, in Jersey, are not immune and the government is preparing for all eventualities. Our European neighbours may never have seemed so important, so it was delightful that the Trinity Twinning Association hosted a walk and afternoon tea recently. Parish events take a lot of organising and to the volunteers who give their time freely, we give many thanks. Across the island, the third sector is vital in supporting charities, the arts and sports. We shouldn’t take this for granted. Our parish is often at the centre of events with the Royal Jersey Showground here. Everything from festivals to the start of the car rally have taken place over the past few months. I know our roads get busier at these times and I also know from experience how hard the Honorary Police and others work to keep everything running smoothly. Thank you. It may seem that there’s no concrete decisions being made about Dear Parishioners anything in the current climate. There’s the decision to be made as to the It’s difficult to imagine that by the time you read this size and location of the new hospital; what to do with Fort Regent. Being last Trinity Tattler of 2019 we will be well into involved with both projects, I can assure you that a lot of work is going on behind the scenes. It is vital that the right decisions are made now to November - where has the year gone? get the right outcome for the island for years to come. As I look back, I believe it’s been another successful year for our small parish. Our As the nights draw in and the days become shorter, I can assure you Battle of Flowers Association, both seniors and juniors, did really well again winning that they don’t become less busy. The Government Plan continues to several prizes. In the Jersey in Bloom competition, we gained a silver gilt award for take shape, and all islanders are invited and urged to get involved and our entries in the Parish Hall and Small Coastal sections. In October our Trinity give their views. Petanque team recorded their first ever victory in the inter-parish league beating the The monthly Deputy Clinics have been an opportunity for me to meet Parish of Grouville. you and hopefully helped with any queries you may have had. The next Looking forward and as I’ve mentioned previously, 2020 will be a significant year clinic is on Wednesday 11th December from 6 – 8.30pm. They will in our history when we will mark the 75th anniversary of our Liberation. At the time continue throughout next year, so of writing, there is little information coming out on the plans for the Island wide please come in and have a ‘chat’ about celebrations, which are scheduled to happen on Saturday, 9th May. However, I am anything that is determined that we will still have our annual liberation supper at the parish hall on concerning you with that day. regard to parish or The current thinking on the plans for our parish celebrations is that we will host an island matters. afternoon tea for our senior citizens on Friday, 8th May and have a family fun day on As always, should you Sunday, 10th May. I would be pleased to hear from any parishioner willing to help have a burning issue you organise these events, or maybe there may be some alternative ideas, which will be wish to discuss I can be equally well received. contacted on my mobile We would also like to host an exhibition of liberation memorabilia at the parish 07797 730226 or hall, in the week leading up to Liberation Day. The exhibition would be laid out in the email ground floor committee room, which will be secure, and available for viewing by [email protected]. arrangement, so anyone who lends us anything can be confident they will get it back! Hugh Raymond If you have any items which would be of interest, I would be pleased to hear from you. Deputy As this is the last issue of 2019, and although slightly prematurely, may I wish all parishioners and their families a very merry Christmas and a healthy, prosperous New Year. Philip Le Sueur Connétable p4 TRINITYTattler I Issue 17 TRINITY-ISSUE 17 Q4-2019.qxp_Layout 1 08/11/2019 15:00 Page 6 TRINITY CHURCH Ebenezer From the Rectory Inspiring new These days, if a royal birth was imminent (maybe it is!), you’d expect the family to have the best of everything. The leading doctors and midwives. Comfortable and safe surroundings. Specialist care and support close at hand. It growth was rather different for Mary and Joseph. A long, exhausting journey – and nowhere to stay. A dirty stable, with farm Our harvest celebrations this animals for company. And a bunch of stunned shepherds as year focused on the cycle of a welcome party. Later, there were Magi bearing gifts, mind. the seasons, with an area for And a heavenly chorus of angels. But who was this heavenly summer, autumn, winter and baby who would be proclaimed the Prince of Peace, and the spring suitably decorated, along with all the other harvest gifts King of Kings? Why not come and find out more at one of so generously donated. As we transition from the autumn the Christmas services at the Parish Church here in Trinity? harvest, following the natural cycle and rhythm to bring us And we’re not just open for shepherds and wise men – through the winter months and into spring, we realise that everyone is welcome. Come early for a seat and there is nothing stands still or in its current state for very long. As always extra parking at the Parish Hall.