2 To advertise, call 01202 693747 or e‐mail [email protected] Please mention The Canford Heath and Creekmoor Link when responding to adverts 3 Inside this Issue Page News from ARCH 6 Dear Readers Canford Heath Arts Society 6 Welcome to the September edion of the Local Police 8 Canford Heath Link. News From Trading Standards 10 Hope you were all able to make the most of the Waggy Tails 10 lovely weather in the summer months whether Going for Gold 12 you managed to go abroad, had a ‘staycaon’ Pet advice from Naerjacks 14 or enjoyed the lovely area we live in. Are you happy? 14 Following on from the very successful Poppy Garden View 16 event held at the library last year, this year ARCH are will be extending this to the lamp Recipe 18 posts around Canford Heath, a great idea, if you Cuddles Nursery 20 would like to remember someone please see Law Spot from H G Walker 23 their arcle on page 6. Dexter’s Football 24 Great to see that Everyone Acve, Ashdown Book Review 25 have now been able to re open, Iain the centre Puzzle Page 26 manager and the rest of the team are working hard to welcome you back. Klass Care 28 Poole Athlec 30 Good to see some old adversers returning and some new ones joining us, please try and Film Review 31 support our loyal customers. Kids Page 32 If you have any community news that you Second Hand not Second Best 33 would like to share please let me know by 12th Useful Tel No’s 34 of September, for inclusion in the October edion. Puzzle Soluons 34 News from Westminster 35 Take care everyone, unl next me. Local Councillors 36 Church Message 37 Jane Editor Canford Heath Library 37 Index 38 Adversing in the Canford Heath Link We provide local targeted adversing at a great Crazy Golf Reader Offer 39 price, discounts available for package bookings and for adversing in our other publicaon, The Creekmoor Link. Visit our website for further details www.canfordheathlink.co.uk or give us a call on 01202 693747 Contact Details Deliveries Editor: Jane Millward The Canford Heath Link is delivered to half the For Adversing and Enquiries area one month and the other half the next if you Tel: 01202 693747 don’t receive a copy through your door, magazines E:Mail [email protected] are available for collecon from Canford Heath Facebook Canford Heath and Creekmoor Link Library. Or give us a call on 01202 693747 and we Web Site www.canfordheathlink.co.uk will post one to you. Please mention The Canford Heath and Creekmoor Link when responding to adverts 5 Canford Heath Remembers 2020 Sponsor a Poppy on a Lamp Post Following the great success of our Craed Poppy Display “Canford Heath Remembers” Craed Unfortunately we are not yet able to confirm if we will Poppy display last year in the Library be able to hold another Craed Poppy display in the which raised £175 for the Royal Brish Library this year due to COVID‐19. Please join the ARCH Legion, this year ARCH (Associaon of Facebook page or our e‐bullen mailing list by emailing Residents of Canford Heath) are planning to place 40 [email protected] for regular updates about Poppies on lamp posts along Adastral Road for the 2 this and everything on Canford Heath. weeks leading up to Remembrance Weekend in November. We would like to put names of people to be Charity Bag Collecon 18.9.20 remembered for their part in the 2nd World War or any To help raise funds for Christmas Lights on Canford Heath, we are holding a Charity Bag collecon on Friday conflict since (Falklands, Afghanistan etc). We are asking th our residents for nominaons to have a loved one 18 September 2020. Your donaons of unwanted remembered on a Poppy for a £5 donaon. Clothes, Shoes, Belts & Bags will be sold to a company Alternavely, if you would just like to sponsor a Poppy called Bag2School who will give us a donaon based on with a message (ie The Smith Family remembers our the weight of the items donated. We are currently heroes) we would love to hear from you too. We also finalising a collecon point on Canford Heath, so please welcome messages from businesses who would like to look on our Facebook Page @ARcanfordheath or on e‐bullen for further updates. We may be able to take part. th collect a few donaons on Thursday 17 September for There are 40 lamp posts along Adastral Road, and if we those that cannot bring them to the collecon point. receive more messages we will connue to add lamp Please get in touch if you require a collecon. posts around Canford Heath. ARCH Communicaon If anyone has a loved one they would like remembered To find out everything going on with ARCH and the wid‐ in this way, or would like a message displayed on a er Canford Heath community, join our growing Facebook Poppy, please get in touch with us on page @ARcanfordheath ‐ we already have over 1000 [email protected]. We are asking for a £5 followers and welcome more residents to join us. donaon for each name requested to help with the cost Alternavely, if you prefer, we have a weekly e‐bullen of the Poppies. Let’s make this a wonderful sight to see sent by email – so please join the mailing list by emailing along Adastral Road and Canford Heath! your details to [email protected] Latest news for Canford Heath Art Society, (CHAS) CHAS members have been keeping in contact with having our meengs again. We have a large collage to each other in these difficult mes by email, phone finish, this is to celebrate Canford Heath’s nature and leer and our Facebook page. CHAS usually meet two the Fighter pilots who some of our roads on Canford Thursdays evenings, 1st and 4th a month 7pm‐9pm at Heath are named aer, inially this was going on Canford Heath Library, taking part in various projects, display in the library’s front entrance for VE 75 day exhibions and going on oungs and so on, instead but now hopefully it will be on display throughout we have doing projects at home and emailing/ posng November for Remembrance Day. our painng and sketches to encourage and movate Although the library is open which is great, they are each other. Some have also challenged themselves by not allowed to have group meengs yet. But hopefully doing things like sketching animals and trees in alpha‐ we can start up again soon, perhaps end September becal order, or painng greeng cards or finishing or October? painngs they’ve promised to family and friends. We’ve started meeng in the Poole Park along with a few leisure painters, it was lovely meeng up with our arst friends, having a walk, catching up with Email: [email protected] each other’s news and doing some sketching. Phone: 01202 382643, leer (if we have your address) CHAS members are very much looking forward to Facebook: Canford Heath Art Society (CHAS) 6 To advertise, call 01202 693747 or e‐mail [email protected] Now open again and following government COVID19 guidance Monday to Friday 7.30am - 3.00pm Saturday 8.00am - 2.00pm (Fully supervised/supported at all times) (Lift available to all floors) Please mention The Canford Heath and Creekmoor Link when responding to adverts 7 Canford Heath There has been an increase in catalyc to make the the more difficult converter thes in the Poole area, with vehicles Avoid parking your vehicle half on the pave‐ being targeted in residenal streets and in public ment and half on the road, as this may make it carparks. easier for thieves to access the catalyc converter Catalyc Converter The Prevenon Advice If parking in a public car park, consider parking alongside other cars and facing you bonnet towards the wall if possible. With the catalyc converter posioned at the front of your vehi‐ cle, this will make it harder for thieves to get close enough to steal it If there is a fleet of vehicles, park the low clear‐ ance vehicles to block the high clearance vehicles. This will obstruct access underneath If your catalyc converter is bolted on, you can ask for your local garage to weld the bolts to make it more difficult to remove. Alternavely, you can also etch a serial number on the converter You can even purchase a ‘cage clamp’ which is Did you know a thief can take the catalyc a cage device that locks in around the converter from your car in a maer of minutes converter to make it more difficult to remove and leave you to foot the bill? Speak to your dealership about the possibility Cars which are oen targeted are those with of adding a lt sensor that will acvate the higher chassis, such as a 4x4 or an SUV, however, alarm should any thief try to jack the vehicle up Hybrid vehicles, such as the Toyota Prius, to steal the converter account for a large proporon of the catalyc If you see someone acng suspiciously under a converters being stolen. vehicle, report it to the Police. Obtain as much Thieves target these vehicles as the catalyc informaon as possible, including any vehicle converters are said to be less corroded. The registraons. hybrid drivetrain results in lower overall exhaust emissions, leaving the precious metals in beer Poole Neighbourhood Policing Team.