4 Wheeler Bee www.solwaybuzz.co.uk by Kristan Scott from Silloth Primary SchoolSolwaySolway BuzzBuzz October/November 2017 local news - for you - by you - about you - free to you - local news FREEFREE PAPERPAPER Issue 159 Page 2 RNLI Evening raises £430 All the Produce Page 3 Happy 95th Catherine & Craft Show Page 4 Andrew Norman visits Results Page 6 St Andrews Church activities Page 7 Silloth Music & Beer Festival Pages 8 & 9 Silloth Carnival The Winners of the Silloth Community Craft Show, see page 5 for Blencogo Show as well as the Rafa Leek Show results New Opening Times from 9:50am to 11am New Police Inspector outside Silloth Community Inspector Rachel Gale, Hall. based at Cockermouth Police Page 16 Report by: Bev Turner The bank van then calls Station, is now responsible Nathaniel Mossop flying high The times for the visits of at Queen Street Car Park, for neighbourhood policing the NatWest Bank van have Aspatria from 11:30am to in our area. changed. 12pm and then on to Water Inspector Gale is There is only one visit per Street Car Park, Wigton intending to create closer week now, this is on Fridays from 1pm to 2:15pm links with communities and to use new methods of allowing peolple to have a say on their concerns. 2017 Events Inspector Gale said “I Page 16 want every community to get Adam Bowls for England the same level of service. The 30th September problems in rural villages @ 1pm are very different from Silloth Santa Dash those faced by towns. This is why we have to maximise 21st October engagement with the communities and appreciate Silloth Bonfire & Fireworks their issues”. The Solway Buzz is a FREE community paper with a circulation of up to 5,500 copies for the area around Abbeytown, Skinburness, Silloth-on-Solway and Mawbray Page 2 Issue 159 Solway Buzz - local news - for you - by you - about you - free to you Kirkbride Not Dalek! Funding for Events in Allerdale Souvenir China Dialect Competition Funding of up to £2,000 · Keswick Film Festival October 14th at 2pm in the is available for community · Lake District by Night Golf Hotel. festivals or events in the local Exhibition Come and hear Silloth’s area from Allerdale Borough · Salterbeck Fun Day own champions and visitors Council’s Festival and Events · Vintage in the Town from as far afield as Shap Fund, and applications can Councillor Mark Fryer, and Furness telling tales and now be made online. Allerdale Borough Council’s reciting the poems they’ve The grants support new Executive Member with composed in our local or developing events taking responsibility for Economic “ t w a n g ”. place in Growth, Entry is free. Tea and Allerdale said, “The coffee will be provided. that improve Council is If you’d like to compete, the cultural committed bring along something or leisure to you’ve written yourself in offer for supporting We’re told someone Cumbrian dialect. surrounding a wide range – perhaps a southerner – Or Just sit back and enjoy communities of local Margaret Copley like to thank the lady who found the misheard the announcement, the afternoon! and impacts festivals and antique cup saucer and bowls from Kirkbride Church, and so let us confirm: Silloth For more information the local community- brought them into the S.O.S. Charity Shop. Rotary Club present their contact 016973 31246. economy, as based events, They have now been collected by the vicar of St. Brides annual Cumbrian Dialect well as bigger which and will be put on display in the church. Competition on Saturday events that fill a gap in the enhances the arts and leisure and culture calendar cultural offer in the area across the area, which attract and contributes towards the audiences and participants Council’s priorities. We have RNLI Fundraising Evening Simples both locally and from seen a number of smaller Marra further afield. scale events that have really Events that have recently benefited from the grants been supported by grants and can be enjoyed by from the fund include: everyone, so we welcome · Aspatria Music Festival applications to further · Braithwaite Big Lunch increase the variety of events · Northbound Street Party available.” · Cockermouth Live For more information or · Townfest to apply for a grant through · Workington Kite Festival the online application Banksy Bee · Castlerock form, please visit www. by · Heart for Art Hayton allerdale.gov.uk/festivals and Lucy Baty follow the links to ‘funding from your festival or event’, or Silloth Primary School download the ‘myAllerdale’ app from your Apple, Google Play or Microsoft app store. Please contact 0303 123 1702 if you’d like support in completing an application. Report by: Margaret English evening was had by all, with go to Harrisons butchers, Arthritis On Saturday 9th very interesting ingredients Toadhall, Lightfoots fruit September the Silloth and keeping to the shipping shop, Baskets and Bunches, District RNLI fundraisers forecast theme! Croft House cards and Support held a fundraising evening Our thanks go to Paul Paisley butchers for donating Report by: Gladys Temple when our local chef John Radcliff for all his help on raffle prizes for the event. Eleanor Hodgson Crouch prepared a suitable the day and beforehand; St The evening was a great welcomed nineteen members feast with food inspired by Cuthbert’s Church in Wigton success and raised £430 for of the Arthritis Support the shipping forecast. who very kindly offered their the RNLI funds. Thank you Group to the September John entertained as he hall for the event and ran the to everyone who came along meeting where David always does and a wonderful bar as well. Further thanks to join in the fun. Hopkinson gave a very interesting talk on Legal Affairs. He began with talking about inheritance tax and then went on to tell everyone how important it is to make a will. Heather thanked him. Jean Frizzel won the drawing. FREE LEGAL ADVICE Held on the last Friday of every month 10am to 1pm in St. Andrews Hall, Solway Street, Silloth. Then at: Aspatria Community Centre, King Street from 1pm to 4pm. See us for all manner of issues such as Wills, Probate, Power of Attorney, Care Costs, Family Law, Child Contact, Personal Injury. Tel: 01228 593939 butterworths-solicitors.co.uk Authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. No. 76501 Solway Buzz - local news - for you - by you - about you - free to you Issue 159 Page 3 Ploughing Beware of Happy Fields Raises Cheap Tarmac! Birthday Cumbria Trading callers often use persuasive Standards are warning both or aggressive tactics to get over £2,000 the farming community and people to agree to have work Catherine local residents to look out for carried out and then charge doorstep callers. far more than was quoted for Individuals are visiting poor quality work or goods. farms and offering tarmac They often fail to for sale stating that they have provide a legally required “left overs” after working cancellation notice which on the local highway. enables the householder Trading Standards advice to cancel the work within is to always say ‘NO’ to any a statutory fourteen day cold callers and we ask that cooling off period. you look out for elderly or If you have been called in vulnerable family, friends this way and require further and neighbours. advice, or want to report the Consumers should be matter, Trading Standards extremely cautious when can be contacted via the approached by any doorstep Citizens Advice Consumer callers offering to sell goods Helpline on 03454 040506 A Charity Ploughing match was held near Allonby or conduct work on their or by visiting with permission of the Miller family of Arkleby Hall on property. These types of www.adviceguide.org.uk. Sunday 19th August. The weather was good and conditions favourable for ploughing. Mr Ian Tordiff, one of the organisers, said the sum of over £2,000 will be handed to two local families who have small children needing ongoing medical attention. Catherine Cornish of Wampool Street celebrated her 95th Birthday at home on August 23rd with members of family and friends. Catherine wishes everyone many thanks for all her lovely cards and presents. Dancer Bee by Leah Hewitson from Pensioners Coffee Silloth Primary School Morning Report by: Pat Bell everyone to make a note in Back again after the their Diaries that our ever- “Summer” Break our popular Christmas Party will supporters enjoyed the be on: - Coffee and Crack at our Saturday 2nd December Silloth Group Medical Practice September Coffee Morning. 2017; Tea will be at 4pm; OPENING TIMES: 8am – 6:30pm Comic Bee It was good to see so many entertainment will be Tel No: 016973 31309 Fax No: 016973 32834 by people there. provided once again by Stevie Maureen and the Las Vegas. SURGERY CLOSED ON: Ismail Brook DON’T BE LEFT OUT OF THE from committee hoped that Please note that the surgery will close Holme St everyone had enjoyed the 2017 FLU CAMPAIGN!! from 1pm on the following dates for If you are over 65 years of age or suffer from one of the staff educational training. Cuthbert School summer break. She told following: Wednesday 11th October Chronic respiratory disease, including asthma (requiring Thursday 16th November continuous or repeated use of inhaled or systemic CHOC will take all Emergency The Good Companions steroids) calls: 03000 247 247 ie prescription of certain steroids within 6 months. 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