Issue 4 September 2020 Delivered from 10/09/20 CELEBRATINGCELEBRATING 114040 YYEARSEARS ININ NEWMARKETNEWMARKET Shop Local, Save Our High Street AAdvertisingdvertising SSales:ales: 0012841284 559292 449191 wwww.flww.fl yyeronline.co.ukeronline.co.uk The Flyer NOW OFFICIALLY RE-OPEN SO MUCH MORE THAN A MUSEUM...! We want the museum’s fabulous open spaces to be a key venue in COME & EXPLORE Newmarket for eating and drinking, for art, for music and for shows OUR NEWLY OPENED and events, as well as for reflection and for relaxation. SPACES, FAMILY-FRIENDLY PICNIC AREAS, BAKERY, The Good Companions: Our new exhibition is a compelling and engaging NEW RESTAURANT, PLUS exploration of our relationship with dogs down the centuries. Featuring beautiful THE DOGS IN ART paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, books and objects, even taxidermy EXHIBITION of four-legged friends. 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Over the perhaps the because of the importance of the and look to last fi ve years we have invested over strangest subject matter, we have decided to the critical £1 million back into our town centre of all years. hold this one meeting in person. The Christmas and have equally bold and ambitious None of us meeting will look at the health and period it is plans for the next fi ve years should our would have believed that we would all well-being of all the people who live time to refl ect members vote to renew us. Over the be wearing facemasks when we went and work in Newmarket. The focus out shopping. We all long to return to Paul Brown on where we next couple of months, we will release will be particularly on mental health. currently are our new business plan where we will normal. Suffolk County Council has carried out and where we are going. share our vision for the future and also I laid a wreath at the VJ Day a survey and the Town Council will be While the town could be busier, we remind the town of the all the great ceremony at the War Memorial on presented with their report. We will have gradually seen more people work we have undertaken since 2016. the 15th August. Although the event try to develop strategies to improve returning to our high street which is It is amazing to think that I have been was attended by some relatives of the health and well-being of all our a positive during these momentous the manager for almost a year now those who had died in the Far East residents. I believe it is important times. The eat out to help out scheme and my fi rst impressions of the town campaign during the Second World for both our physical and mental certainly proved popular and it have remained the same. Newmarket War, unfortunately because of the health that we should all be able to was great to see so many of our has so much untapped potential and Coronavirus we had to restrict the participate in physical activity. Even in restaurants, pubs and coffee shops everyone wants the town to fl ourish. number of people who wanted to lockdown, exercise was an important bustling with people. However, with Rome was not built in a day and if attend. Nevertheless it was a very part of each day. eat out to help out now fi nished and we make the right decisions with moving occasion, particularly when the the furlough scheme coming to an end, thoughtful investment, we can not bugler played the last post. Michael Jefferys we are reaching a critical moment and only weather the storm but build a We still have to hold virtual council we need to do everything we can to better high street and town. meetings. We are managing to carry on Town Mayor keep going and survive. 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I also commitment every week.” want to say a massive thank you to to the Trust Val Dutton, voluntary services manager every single person who gives their whilst on their at WSFT said: “We were delighted to time to volunteer at our trust. Our 6-month student present Chloe with this award for her volunteers are the icing on the cake placement. reliability and support she gave to at our hospital, and truly make such a difference to improve the experience of Chloe, 18, is from staff and patients during her extended our patients and staff.” Framlingham volunteering placement and we and says her wish her well in her aspired career in The WSFT student volunteer desire to begin Medicine.” programme offers 6th form and college volunteering at As well as her volunteering role at students the valuable opportunity WSFT stemmed West Suffolk hospital, Chloe has to work alongside clinical staff in a from looking been working at the East of England hospital environment.