The new way Opening January to do business. 2021 Somethings do change for the better The new Santander Work Café reflects our commitment to innovation and investment and offers ATM banking facilities with free co-working spaces and meeting rooms for local businesses and entrepreneurs. We have created a vibrant hub for nurturing new business ideas and fostering collaboration, along with serving exceptional coffee in a relaxed and creative atmosphere. A Bank With Free & Exceptional Workspace Coffee 13-15 Charing Cross, St.Helier. | Workcafe.je Santander International is the trading name of Santander Financial Services plc, Jersey Branch. Santander Financial Services plc is incorporated in England and Wales with number 2338548 and its registered office is 2 Triton Square, Regent’s Place, London NW1 3AN, United Kingdom. Santander Financial Services plc is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Santander Financial Services plc’s Financial Services Register number is 146003. Santander Financial Services plc, Jersey Branch has its principal place of business at 19 - 21 Commercial Street, St Helier, Jersey JE2 3RU, Channel Islands and is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission. www.santanderinternational.co.uk Santander and the flame logo are registered trademarks. p3 Winter2020 Season’s greetings to you all! We are nearly at the end of 2020, what an unexpected year it has been. With a set of numbers like 2020 in the title, it was a year that promised so much! Community get-togethers! Celebrations! and Remembrance! All these things did happen but just not as we had expected! Our social world has taken a knock with this Covid-19 virus, but many of the Parish organisations have carried on as best they can. The WI took the ‘Virtual’ path, community get-togethers via ‘Zoom’. The Twinning Association had a good turnout for their October lunch, and the members of the Friendship Club are now social distancing down at John and Dawn’s. Fundraising continued with the St Lawrence Ladies Action Group for the Poppy Appeal, with an open-air pop-up stall in the Moignard Liberation Garden. St Lawrence Battle of Flowers have appointed a new committee and offer us an opportunity to enter a prize draw. Another change has been at the St Lawrence Youth Project where Emily Caton has replaced Anna as the Youth Leader, you can meet Emily within the pages of this edition. Celebrating milestone birthdays continues at Stuart Court as well as Halloween. Opening January Unfortunately, with the social distancing required The new way at the moment, it has not been possible to hold the St Lawrence Community Market, something that many of us have greatly missed. Anne Bougourd 2021 writes; “I am sorry to report that, as with so many to do business. other events, it is still not possible to hold our Once they saw a star monthly markets. A big thank you to those of you who have kindly enquired about us and the situation. That pointed to a promised land, Somethings do change for the better Please be assured that as soon as it is possible to To a land of peace. open up again, we will let everyone know. In the meantime, we wish our stallholders, suppliers and Peacemakers set out to follow that star. The new Santander Work Café reflects our commitment to innovation and investment and offers ATM customers well and hope to see you all again before banking facilities with free co-working spaces and meeting rooms for local businesses and entrepreneurs. too long.” May I send you all Christmas greeting and wish We have created a vibrant hub for nurturing new business ideas and fostering collaboration, along with Contact Tracing was not just who we came into you all a New Year full of Peace and Happiness. serving exceptional coffee in a relaxed and creative atmosphere. contact within our daily lives in 2020, but also all those whom we could remember and trace from our family members past lives. The Liberation 75 Photographic Karen Exhibition, ‘A Parish Story’, continues to be on show in the Moignard Liberation Garden and soldiers born in St Lawrence who died as a result of conflict in war, are remembered at the Parish war memorial. Please visit if you can! A Bank With Free & Exceptional Workspace Coffee 13-15 Charing Cross, St.Helier. | Workcafe.je Another form of Contact and Tracing is highlighted by our Chef de Police in his excellent article on road speeds in the parish. Well, my time as the editor of Les Laurentins has come to an end and I leave you in the capable hands of Marion Hibbeard. Thank you for Santander International is the trading name of Santander Financial Services plc, Jersey Branch. Santander Financial Services plc is incorporated in England and Wales with number 2338548 and its registered office is 2 Triton Square, Regent’s Place, London NW1 3AN, United Kingdom. Santander Financial Services plc is authorised all the work involved in contributing to the magazine, I have really by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Santander Financial Services plc’s enjoyed my time at the helm! Financial Services Register number is 146003. Santander Financial Services plc, Jersey Branch has its principal place of business at 19 - 21 Commercial Street, St Helier, Jersey JE2 3RU, Channel Islands and is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission. www.santanderinternational.co.uk Santander and the flame logo are Karen Blampied registered trademarks. p4 Winter2020 HONORARY POLICE do abuse what they think are quiet, unoccupied country lanes. Speeding is a recurring concern in our parish, Unfortunately, we don’t have resources to mount more than the one that comes up time and again in phone occasional speed check along these lanes. So, is there anything calls to the Duty Centenier as well as in letters that can be done? Well, anyone can report a vehicle which you believe to be driving recklessly at speed. You will need to provide and emails to the Constable. Generally, these us with the registration number and ideally colour and make of relate to specific road sections such as Route de the car, as well as time and location. We can follow this up and give a warning to the driver. Unfortunately, we can’t do more than that la Haule, St Aubin’s Inner Road, La Grande Route on anecdotal evidence but if we had a pattern of driving at speed de St Laurent, Waterworks Valley and of course from a particular driver, we would pursue this more vigorously. along several of the green lanes. Following public consultation earlier in the year, the speed limits With our small team of Honorary Officers, we do what we can on a number of the parish roads are due to be reduced, some to respond to these concerns by undertaking speed checks at from 40 – 30mph, some from 30 -20mph and a few more green strategic points. Hopefully, these do serve as a reminder to drivers lanes added. Hopefully, this measure will help. We will undertake to observe their speed. We do regularly stop speeding drivers and random checks when we can, particularly where local residents prosecute them. But to be honest, we find that most drivers along alert us to problem speeds. our main roads are driving at reasonable speeds, at or about the speed limit for that section of the road. For example, we recently Finally, the area we monitor most regularly is the 20mph zone undertook a speed check near Carrefour Selous in response to through the village. Many cars do slow down when they see the concerns from local residents. The section of road is designated at Smiley Face, but we know of course that some do not take any 40mph – only one vehicle in half an hour in the evening actually notice. The Honorary Police believe that the most effective way to reached that speed, none exceeded the speed limit. reduce speeds here would be to have some form of traffic calming ‘furniture’ in the road – whether by means of a chicane or a raised When people see us undertaking speed checks we are repeatedly section of the roadway – as seen in other parishes, such as St told: ‘You need to be here at 1am or 2am, that’s when you’ll catch Martin or St Mary. speeders!’ Well, if anyone would like to join us to help out with late night checks, I’ll be delighted to hear from you. What is your view on any of these issues? We’d love to hear from you. From my own experience of living along Mont Felard and walking many of the roads and lanes around the parish, I know that Mike Haden - Chef de Police many vehicles appear to be travelling at high speeds and it is not very pleasant to be a pedestrian particularly where there are no pavements. However, impressions can be deceiving and in fact the drivers are not breaking the limits. I appreciate in particular the concerns of people walking in the green lanes, especially walking with dogs or riding horses. Here, drivers do find difficulty in observing the 15mph limit and some p5 Winter2020 Parish Retirement PARISH MATTERS Many of you will have been helped by Joy Le Cornu when you who have had cause to visit the Parish Hall over the years, but sadly, we said goodbye to her at the end of August when she from the Connétable retired after 20 years of working in the Parish Office.