About Town is published by Huntingdon Town Council. Produced by LGS, 01487 831459 Editorial: Chairman – Cllr J Sarabia, Cllrs S Akthar; A J Mackender-Lawrence; S M Mulcahy; C J Osborn; with K Cameron. Layout and design: Austin Bambrook. AboutAbout Advertising Sales: 01480 388688 Huntingdon Town Council, 1, Trinity Place, Hartford Road, HUNTINGDON, PE29 3QA Tel: 01480 388688 Fax: 01480 388686 e-mail: [email protected] www.huntingdontown.gov.uk THuntingdonO TownTownWNW Council News Issue N43. MarchMarch 2009 Beacon Close Play Area Coneygear Park Hinchingbrooke Country Park Trim Trail at Stukeley Meadows Brought to you in your home by your Town Council In this issue... Page 8 Page 9 Page 20 Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire Huntingdon Citizens Advice Community Group in Bloom Bureaux celebrates is 2 years old Competition 40 years Who’s who at the Council 2 Schools and young people 6-7 Acorn Surgery 12 Forthcoming events 2 Christians against Poverty 8 Huntingdon Town Partnership 13 Town Clerk's Chat 3 Moor in Bloom 9 Performing Arts 14-15 Commemoration Hall to get facelift 4 Hinchingbrooke Country Park 10 Sports News 16-19 Huntingdon Library 5 Neighbourhood Management 11 Community Shield nomination 20 TownTown Council Council News News Who’s Who at the Council Huntingdon Town Council – List of Councillors Forthcoming Events Friday 6th March Sound Check 3. Commemoration Hall. 7.00 pm. Following the successful shows with local bands from Cambridgeshire, Sound Check will return with more bands....it could be A.R.T. or Isaac Aircraft, 9Foldpunch or even A Girl Called Kate. Information and tickets at £5 – Box Office 01480 455167 or The Card Gallery. Doug Adams Saeed Akthar (Mayor) Gina M Cruickshank Chris Doyle West. 01767604706 East. 07765880806 East. 435587 West. 391148 Saturday 7th March Madama Butterfly by Puccini. 6.00 pm. Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York at Cineworld Huntingdon. To book or for more information call 0871 200 2000 or www.cineworld.co.uk/metopera Sunday 8th March Blues Harmonica Workshop. Commemoration Hall. 10.00 am to 2.00 pm. Ever wanted to learn to play the Situation Vacant Paul D Harris Laine Kadic Brian J Luckham Harmonica or need professional advice to improve? East. 388688 East. 388688 East. 414744 No matter what your level of playing, this session will be both informative and fun! Steve Lockwood (who plays with Hot Lips & Chilli Fingers) has gigged around the world for 20 years and performed as his own inimitable self. Tickets £20 (con £15 (age 14 to 80). Box Office 01480 455167 or The Card Gallery. Thursday 12th March Roll Out the Barrel. Commemoration Hall. 2.30 pm. Alan J Mackender Helen S Mallett John T Morgan Susan M Mulcahy Note the time on this promising afternoon of warmth Lawrence, North. 394630 East. 52067 North. 454486 East. 451604 and happiness. Enjoy lots of sing-songs, taking you down memory lane with Terry Bradford and Sussie Arvesen including “cockney sing-a-longs” and “songs that won the war”. Tickets £5. Box office 01480 455167 or The Card Gallery. Thursday 26th March “Separate Tables” by Terence Rattigan. Commemoration Hall. 7.30 pm. Huntingdon Drama Christopher J Osborn Tom Sanderson Jennifer Sarabia Maggie Wheeler Club present this intimate portrait of lonely people North. 52009 West. 436822 West. 380760 North. 395487 who reside at an English seaside hotel and how their lives are criss-crossed by destructive cruelty when they Huntingdon Town Council pretend to be what they are not! Intriguing....... this is one performance which is not to be missed! Tickets and information from 01480 454486. Forthcoming Friday 27th March The Arcadians. Hinchingbrooke Spring Music at the Performing Arts Centre. 7.30 pm. This quartet of Meetings musicians play and sing music from the 1920s and Please note, all meetings commence at 7.00 pm and take place in 30s, mostly American but also from other parts of the the Commemoration Hall, High Street, Huntingdon, unless otherwise world. Ticket information 01480 388248. stated. For further information, please contact the Town Council on Saturday 28th March 01480 388688, or e-mail [email protected] Mayor of Huntingdon’s Annual Charity Ball – Wood Green. Further details from Jenni Jones, Meetings are open to the public and agendas allow time for Mayor’s Secretary on 01480 388687. representation and questions from the public. Sunday 29th March Date: Meeting: The New Rope String Band. Commemoration April 2nd Leisure & Community Services Committee Hall. 7.30 pm. Returning to Huntingdon, these four Planning Applications Panel talented musicians sing, dance and play their socks Grants Sub Committee off on fiddles, guitar, piano accordion, mandolin and April 16th Finance Committee anything that comes to hand! Lots of fun and talent Planning Applications Panel and not to be missed! Tickets £8.50/conc £7.50. Box April 30th Town Council office 01480 455167. Planning Applications Panel Easter Monday – 13th April May 6th ANNUAL TOWN MEETING Easter Egg Hunt at Coneygear Park. 11.00 am - 1.00 pm. Family event but children under 8 must be May 7th Planning Applications Panel accompanied by an adult. Solve the clues to lead to the May 14th ANNUAL COUNCIL (MAYOR MAKING) Easter treats! More information from 01480 451568. May 21st Finance Committee Friday 17th April Leisure & Community Services Committee Mayor of Huntingdon’s Charity Golf Day – Lakeside Planning Committee Lodge, Pidley. Further details from Jenni Jones, Mayor’s Planning Applications Panel Secretary on 01480 388687 2 About Town No 43. March 2009 Town Council News Forthcoming Events Town Clerk’s Chat Friday 17th April ell, the Christmas Decorations are long since Flanders & Swann-Drop Another Hat. Wback in the loft, but a Happy New Year to all our Commemoration Hall. 7.30 pm. Favourite Flanders & readers from everyone at Huntingdon Town Council. Swann songs recreated by Michael Bernstein and Colin This Spring issue is packed as ever with community Stevens who transport audiences back to the era of the news and information about what‘s happening in intimate revue. Tickets £11.50/conc £10.50. Box office 01480 455167 or The Card Gallery. your town. As we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Hinchingbrooke Country Park this year, let’s hope Saturday/Sunday 18th and 19th April this brings inspiration to our green environment and Hinchingbrooke Country Park 20th Anniversary Party at Hinchingbrooke Park. see page XX golden success in the Anglia in Bloom Competition in 2009. If you‘re an older member of the community, you Town Clerk, Friday 24th April Karen Cameron may like to fill out an application form for our annual The Calvert-Turner Duo. Hinchingbrooke Spring Music at the Performing Arts Centre. 7.30 pm. Eleanor pensioners’ lunch, to be found on the back cover together with nomination Turner (harp) and Rowena Calvert (cello). Ticket forms for this year’s Mayor’s Community Shield winner. Tell us about information 01480 388248. someone you think has made a difference locally and fill out your entry for Saturday 25th April the In Bloom Front Gardens competition there, too. The Royal Society of St George is hosting a dinner So what has your local Council been doing for you since the beginning at the Commemoration Hall. For further details 01480 of December? Your representatives on the Council’s Planning Committee 383166 made comments on proposals to improve the Riverside Park and on the draft Friday 15th May Masterplan for development at Thongsley and the Whaddons. Committee Art Exhibition – Hartford Church. Cheese and Wine also agreed to budget just under £12,500 from 1st April 2009 for partnership preview 7.30-10.00 pm with entertainment from local schemes to improve lighting & footpaths at St John’s Passageway, Literary band “Slightly Chilled”. Come early before the crowds Walk & Coneygear Road and to fund alterations to the entrance of the to make sure you get your favourite picture! Saturday recreation area at Sallowbush Green in connection with relocation of the Bus 16th and Sunday 17th May open for viewing and light Stop on Sallowbush Road. refreshments from 1.30-5.00 pm. Paintings are by local Meeting as a Committee for Leisure & Community Services, the Council artists and are affordable. Further information from formally resolved to support the local Fair Trade Steering Group’s initiative 01480 350671. Disabled toilets and access. Guide dogs welcome! to seek Huntingdon’s accreditation as a Fair Trade Town, which we hope will result in economic benefit for both our community as well as communities Friday 15th May in financially poorer countries. A £325,000 budget of expenditure for services Pamela Thorby & Fiori Musicali. Hinchingbrooke Spring Music at the Performing Arts Centre. 7.30 which are the responsibility of this Committee was agreed for 2009-10, with pm. Pamela Thorby joins the Fiori Musicali Chamber which we hope to continue to maintain & improve our high quality service Ensemble for a dazzling display of baroque music. delivery in Community Halls; Sports Facilities; Parks, Play Parks, Gardens Ticket information 01480 388248. & Open Spaces; Allotments; Cemeteries and Community Development. Saturday 16th May The Sallowbush Road recreation area is the latest Council amenity to be Ruby and her Horses. Commemoration Hall. 7.30 considered for potential improvement, with the aim of providing additional pm. This is a true story of Ruby Alleston’s life as told by leisure facilities such as football. her son in Ruby’s words. Born in 1905 in Suffolk, the The main focus of Finance Committee members has been to agree the story tells of Ruby’s love and continuous involvement entire Council budget for next year and Members agreed a precept of with horses through the hard times of the agricultural £656,613 in January, representing a 9.9% increase on last year’s application.