The Villager September–November 2017 Some of our great 2017 Parish in Bloom entries! Dobwalls and Trewidland Parish Council Dobwalls and Trewidland Parish Council September 2017 Elected Contact details and responsibilities For the Dobwalls Ward John Dunn [email protected] Chair of Parish Council 01579 320733 Chair of Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group Davina Finch [email protected] Police Liaison 01579 326661 Peter Scott [email protected] 01579 320128 Tracey Kitto [email protected] Liskeard and Looe 07854 278789 Community Network Liaison Helen Blee [email protected] John Collis [email protected] 07852 335750 Marie Morford [email protected] 01579 320349 Ailsa Tween [email protected] 01579 321170 For the Trewidland ward including Doublebois Hugh Francis [email protected] Villager magazine editorial 01503 240204 group Mhairi Mackie [email protected] Co-ordinator NP Steering 01503 240565 group. Villager editorial group Vacant position Cornwall Councillors contact details : Liskeard West and Dobwalls ward: Jane Pascoe – 07484 315327 [email protected] Trewidland - Menheniot ward : Phil Seeva - 07746 815302 [email protected] Disclaimer: The Villager magazine is published by Dobwalls and Trewidland Parish Council to provide information for parishioners. Views and opinions presented in the magazine are solely those of the Author/s and do not necessarily represent those of the Parish Council. 2 Parish Council Meetings, All meetings start at 7.00pm and will be held on: September 27th at Dobwalls Church Hall October 18th at Trewidland Village Hall th November 15 at Dobwalls Church Hall Attending and participating in Parish Council Meetings Members of the public are welcome to attend any council meeting and can raise an issue or speak to the council about an agenda item under public participation which is usually towards the beginning of the meeting. The Agenda for each PC meeting will be posted on the Parish Council website and on notice boards in both Dobwalls and Trewidland, in advance of the meeting. Reporting problems and raising issues If you have an issue that you feel the Parish Council should know about, please let us know. General problems may be reported to Dobwalls and Trewidland Parish Clerk, Linda Coles by email to: [email protected] or by post to: Mrs. Linda Coles, The Firs, Lower Metherell, Callington, Cornwall PL17 8BJ or by telephone: 01579 350962 Please let us know if your organisation has special events coming up in the Winter months (December2017, January or February 2018) or if your regular dates or contact details have changed! – contact Linda Feek or Mhairi Mackie before the next publication deadline of 1st November 2017 3 4 5 Jason Shaw DECORATING and ROOFLINE Decorating Painting / Decorating / Tiling Internal / External Roofline PVCu Fascias / Soffits / Guttering Cast Iron / Lindab / Concrete Gutters Indemnified / Qualified 10 yr Insurance backed warranties 01579 321095 6 Report on Annual Parish Meeting The Annual Parish Meeting of Dobwalls and Trewidland Parish was held in the Sunday Schoolroom, Methodist Chapel, Dobwalls on Wednesday 17th May 2017, commencing at 6.30pm. Apologies: Apologies were received and accepted from Pat Earl Trewidland Village Hall Committee. Pat Earl had sent a report which was read out by Cllr Mackie. Welcome by the Chair. Cllr Scott welcomed everyone to the Annual Parish Meeting for Dobwalls and Trewidland Parish. Trewidland School – a representative said that Trewidland School has become a part of SMART (SE Cornwall Multi Academy Trust) and sits in the group as the smallest school. This is part of safe guarding education for the children of the area for the future. The number of pupils continues to increase and there is an active pre-school and toddler group which feeds into the main school. The aim is to achieve ten new pupils per year. Trewidland Community Group – The primary driver is working with the Village Hall to obtain the funding to build a new hall and the group has started working with designers for this. The Parish Council was thanked for giving the funding which was used to achieve the planning permission for the new hall and this has been granted. The group is encouraging more social activity in the village. Trewidland Village Hall – report from the Village Hall committee on current activities was read out by Councillor Mackie Tim Gray, Head Teacher at Dobwalls Primary School said that the big news in terms of moving the school forward is SMART. The community aspect of the school is being developed. The key focus is building learning power, which is about learning to learn, and installing strategies for this, around which a key area is the community aspect and developing reciprocity links in the community. The school is inviting people to come and have lunch with the children which will also help the children to recognise who their community is and this is a crucial part of the development of the school in the coming year. 7 Cllr Francis said that both schools have parking problems and there was discussion around this. Public Open Forum - A member of the public said that there are problems where Highways has put up barriers at the Treburgie Water end of the old road, people are driving over the grass. It could do with posts at the top to prevent vehicular access. Another member of the public said that dog walkers are allowing their dogs to foul on the grass verge outside his property on the corner of Havett Close. Cllr Scott advised him to contact the Cornwall Council Dog Warden if the perpetrators can be identified. The Parish Council will try and get more signs put up in the village warning dog owners of the fines that can be incurred. Linda Coles Dobwalls annual Charity Beer Festival – storming along! Despite the appalling weather over the weekend the Beer Festival was surprisingly well attended. Luckily the beverages on offer didn’t get watered down by the torrential downpours and a good time was had by all. One ale (Alfies Revenge – Driftwood Spars Brewery) was finished completely and three others were running close to empty by close of play. There was a similar situation with the four ciders on offer. The barbeque was up to its normal high standard but it wasn’t exactly BBQ weather and the uptake was affected accordingly. Jay Carter raised everyone’s spirits in the marquee on Friday night with Sam Chapman keeping the atmosphere hot in the pub afterwards. On Saturday the Ukeabillies followed by Mark Tween had the marquee rocking into the early evening until Sgt Flint took over in the pub with their usual excellent performance. Although attendance was down on previous years it is expected that in excess of £1,500 will have been raised in total over the festival to be shared between this year’s charities, the Cornwall Air Ambulance and Cornwall Hospice Care. Thanks go to everyone involved for their efforts and especially to the Highwayman, without whose facilities the occasion would not be possible. Hopefully the weather will be kinder next year when it is planned to combine the weekend’s beer festival with a family fun day at the pub on the Saturday. Watch out for advance information! Peter Scott 8 9 15-17th Sept - BLENHEIM HORSE TRIALS 21-25th Sept - DERBYSHIRE PEAKS & DALES 22nd Oct - HALLOWEEN AT MORWELHAM 4th Nov - BRIDGWATER CARNIVAL 25th Nov - CLARKS SHOPPING VILLAGE 9th Dec - BATH CHRISTMAS MARKET 17th Dec - OLYMPIA SHOW JUMPING 17th Dec - MOUSEHOLE & ANGARRACK LIGHTS 10 Harvest Celebrations in and around the Parish Festival display in Dobwalls Church Dobwalls Harvest Festival will be donating produce displayed to the Liskeard foodbank. Dave, the organiser writes: “'The Liskeard and Looe Foodbank was started by local churches almost 8 years ago as a direct response to the poverty witnessed in our towns and villages to bring emergency food aid to those in crisis. Since then the Foodbank has distributed over 100 tonnes of food to more than 8,500 local people. All the food has been donated by the community. The donated food is made up in to food parcels containing at least 3 days of nutritionally balanced food which is distributed to those people who are referred to the foodbank by frontline services by way of a food voucher. Ideally food needs to be non-perishable (tinned, dried or long-life) and the varieties of food we are most in need of at present are: vegetables (peas, carrots, potatoes, sweet corn), meat (ham, corned-beef etc), fruit, tomatoes, rice pudding, fruit juice and UHT/dried milk. All food needs to be 'in date' and in good condition. We also ask for toiletries, nappies and pet food. We are very grateful for the help and support of the local churches with food, finance, prayer and volunteers.' Dave 07512 011452 Liskeard Food Bank Lanreath & District Ploughing Match is being held on Saturday 30th September at Tregays Farm, St Winnow, Lostwithiel PL22 0LG by Kind permission of Mr James Stephens. Phone number for enquiries- Diana Stephens 01503 230223 11 12 Trewidland Community Group News In Trewidland on 16th June we were very pleased to join in with The Great Get Together, a national event to celebrate the life and work of Jo Cox MP, on the anniversary of her murder. We did indeed have a great get together on a lovely sunny afternoon as you can see. The Village Hall was packed, the children from the school spoke, and sang, parents supplied delicious food, and lots of people from across the age spectrum joined us. As a bonus we also raised £30 for the Jo Cox Foundation. from https://www.facebook.com/trewidlandcommunitygroup/ June was busy because on 24th we had lots of fun at our midsummer event which included a treasure hunt, a shared supper, skittles, table tennis, and a licensed bar.