New Waltham Village News Helping our community grow Edition This newsletter is published and distributed to every house and business August No.New 45Waltham Parish Council,within working New Waltham together by toNew improve Waltham our Parish community Council 2016 Parish Councillors for New Waltham Chairman Cllr. G. Williams 22 Albery Way, New Waltham Tel. 824050 Vice Chair Cllr. Ruth Barber 14 Savoy Court, New Waltham Other Members Cllr. George Baker 405 Louth Road, New Waltham Cllr. Roger Breed 9 Janton Court, New Waltham Cllr Julie Dolphin 8 Chandlers Close, New Waltham Cllr. Cyril Mumby 35 Dunbar Avenue, New Waltham Cllr. David Raper 17 Rutland Drive, New Waltham Cllr. Patricia Simpson 41 Peaks Lane, New Waltham Cllr. Rosemary Thompson 2 Martin Way, New Waltham Cllr. Joanne Welham 6 Greenlands Avenue, New Waltham Ward Councillors Cllr. John Fenty Tel. 07712 398656 Cllr. Steve Harness Tel. 07925 050706 Cllr. Stan Shreeve Tel. 07702 343340 MP Martin Vickers Tel. 01472 602325 for an appointment Martin holds a surgery at Waltham Library the second Saturday of each month 11:30 - 13:30 Parish Clerk Mrs Kathy Peers Tel. 01472 280290 Email: [email protected] Closing Dates for inclusion of items in Newsletter The newsletter is published quarterly in February, May, August and November. The closing date for the receipt of articles and advertisements is the 15th of the month preceding the publication. The closing date for our November newsletter is 15th October 2016 Please send articles, news and advertisements to the Parish Clerk at [email protected] New Waltham Parish Council, working together to improve our community 2 New Waltham Parish Council What has been happening and what is going to happen? We have had so much going on it is hard to At the end of 2015 following many requests know where to begin but I suppose I have from residents for decorative village signs got to begin somewhere so here goes. we ran a competition to design a new sign which was supported by residents and the Our new CCTV system which was funded by children at New Waltham Academy and the Police and Crime Commissioner is now Enfi eld Academy. Our judging took place live with cameras at Greenlands shops and earlier in the spring and the judges had a New Waltham Community Pavilion, access diffi cult task due to the high standard of to the recordings is strictly controlled entry but in these things we can only have under the Data Protection Act and is only one winner and they chose 9 year old Benje available to Humberside Police, North East Smith from Enfi eld Academy. We are now Lincolnshire Council and New Waltham in the process of selecting a contractor and Parish Council all of whom can also access obtaining planning permission and then we via a static IP address and view each camera will all be able to witness Benje’s work for in real time. We have already had a request many years to come. for an additional camera in a village hotspot and this is being considered by the parish This summer the National Citizen Service council. We do hope this initiative will go will again be working with the parish council some way towards deterring anti-social and the plan is for them to redecorate the behaviour and crime. pavilion in an attempt to brighten up a dull building. PCSO Steve Sutton & PC Helen Dunks held their fi rst surgery at New Waltham On Sunday 7th August we will again have our Community Pavilion with a view to engaging Picnic at the Pavilion with the Cleethorpes with our community, unfortunately only fi ve Kingsway Printers Band, this will again be a people attended but never mind they will free event as it has kindly been sponsored do it again and from tiny acorns …….. by BJB Lift Trucks. Priors Green is looking remarkably well and Sunday 4th September is an open day at our contractor Ben from Creative Nature New Waltham Community Pavilion when we has done some fantastic hedge laying, will be have a fun sort of day for residents to created a bark chipping footpath and come a view the pavilion and to tell us what planted hundreds of saplings. Unfortunately you would like to see do with it in the future, we have suffered some uprooting of the it is after all your pavilion and we want you saplings, however the culprits have been to use it and make it a nice place. identifi ed and will be working with Creative Nature to do the replanting. Please do take Finally, we currently have a number of some time to visit Priors Green it really is vacancies for Parish Councillors and if you a pleasant area. We are also looking for would like to be involved in seeing how volunteers to join the Friends of Priors New Waltham develops and can spare a Green, if you are interested please e mail few hours each week please e mail our clerk [email protected] [email protected] New Waltham Parish Council, working together to improve our community 3 Councillor Introduction Remembrance Day My name is Jo. I am a single mother of 2. My Remembrance Day was known as Armistice children are aged 8 and 23. I have worked Day, which marks the day World War One for an International Logistics and Transport ended, at 11.00 am o the 11th day of the Company for the last 15 years. 11th month, back in 1918. It was named Remembrance Day after World War Two. I moved to New Waltham from Holton A two minute silence in held at 11.00 am le Clay 5 years ago. Prior to moving to to remember the people who have died in the village I used to attend the Teddies wars. The anniversary is used to remember Playgroup and found it very welcoming and all the people who have died in wars, not friendly. I made friends and we socialised just World War One, but also World War outside of the group. I ended up helping Two, the Falklands War and the confl icts in out at Teddies and have helped at all the Afghanistan and Iraq. Village Days and some other local events. The fi rst two minute silence in Britain was Growing up my opinion was that Councillors held on 11th November 1919, when King were “unapproachable” and not people George V asked the public to observe “like me”; after all I do have a tattoo (joke, a silence at 11.00 am. This was one year but I do). after the end of World War One. There is now a Remembrance Sunday every year I enjoy community spirit and am willing to which always falls on the second Sunday in fi ght for things that are important. I am also November and there are usually ceremonies on my daughters school’s PTA as I try to at war memorials, cenotaphs and churches give back and help out wherever possible. throughout the country. I decided to put myself forward to not only A poem called ‘For the Fallen’ is often read challenge my own preconceived ideas aloud during the ceremonies, the most about Councillors but to hopefully represent famous stanza of which reads: others that are like me too. It’s good to have diversity. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old, I don’t fi nd it easy talking about myself so Age shall not weary the, nor the years I won’t say anymore other than I consider condemn, myself approachable with integrity and I will At the going down of the sun and in give it my best shot. the morning, We will remember them. Fourth stanza of ‘For the fallen’ by Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) Remembrance Day is also known as Poppy Day because it is traditional to wear an artifi cial poppy. New Waltham Parish Council, working together to improve our community 4 Nuisance Calls These have become an unwelcome part BEWARE numbers starting with 09, 0871, of modern life and most people are sick of 0873 and most 118 numbers are all premium them. rate numbers and cost much more to call than regular ones. Mobile text short codes Research has shown that out of 7 million calls (5 or 6 digits long) beginning, with 5, 6, 7 in a 3 year period the average number of or 8 will cost even more. These numbers are unwanted calls per month was 26 in England often used to enter competitions. and 37 in Scotland which means that 4 out of 10 calls came from Telemarketers. Of these 7 million calls 29% were geographical, 68% business, 71% number withheld, 92% number unavailable and 87% international calls. A fair number of calls refer to PPI you may have paid, or to take part in a telephone Waltham Bowls Club survey which can be very long. Should you respond to these callers it is a guarantee that Waltham Bowls Club have relocated to the your details will be sold on to other fi rms New Waltham Community Pavilion Bowling resulting in even more calls. The elderly Green which is now their home base. are also often targeted into signing up to services and products that they do not need, Previously they were based at the Sussex very often these older people are contacted Recreation Ground in Cleethorpes and a number of times to try and bully them into played in the Grimsby , Cleethorpes and purchasing products and they can get up to District bowls league, as they do now.