A18985 Cover-01_A17013-032633 27/10/2014 12:09 Page 1 Photograph courtesy of Nelio from Camera Moment Rediscovering Fort Regent: Grand designs for Snow Hill • Youth Arts Jersey Christmas comes to St Helier 2014 • Jersey Post’s Call & Check community service Care Homes in the Parish • Dates for your diary • St Helier Gazette Delivered by Jersey Post to 19,000 homes and businesses every month. Designed and produced by MailMate Publishing Jersey in partnership with the Parish of St Helier. A18985 Cover-01_A17013-032633 27/10/2014 12:09 Page 2 Elegant pocket watches for a stylish gentleman this Christmas. Watch Alberts and display stands also available. A18985 text 12_A18315 27/10/2014 11:57 Page 3 elcome to the November edition of the Town WCrier. The month begins with the swearing in by Contents the Royal Court of the new States' Parish matters 4 Assembly following last month's elections, with the election of the Constable’s Comment 5 Chief Minister, Council of Ministers Care Homes in the Parish 6 and Scrutiny Panels taking place soon after. St Helier's St Helier schools 8 new Deputies, Russell Labey, Andrew Lewis and Scott Wickenden, will join re-elected Deputies Richard Rondel, Youth Arts Jersey 10 Jackie Hilton, Geoff Southern, Sam Mézec, Judy Martin The French Connection 12 and the Parish Constable in representing the interests of parishioners in Jersey's government. One of the main Mansell Mitsubishi and Mansell Collection 13 priorities of the new States Assembly will be to decide Christmas comes to St Helier 2014 14 about the future of Fort Regent, which is the subject of this Rediscovering Fort Regent 16 month’s cover as well as an indepth article on the centre pages. November is the month in which the Island pays Town Centre news 18 particular attention to the sacrifice of so many Islanders New Arrivals 18 who have served in the armed forces in global conflict, 19 especially the two World Wars, with the annual Bad Wurzach Partnerschaft news Remembrance Service taking place at the Cenotaph on Jersey Post’s Call & Check community service 20 Sunday 9th. Pupils from St Helier Primary Schools will View on St Helier 22 also be planting 'Liberation tulips', featured on last month's cover of the Town Crier, on Armistice Day itself at the Mont Operation Hamper 2014 24 à l'Abbé Depot, while the customary flag raising ceremony From the Polish Community 24 will take place, again at the Cenotaph. By the end of the Parish Groups 25 month, if not before, the fact that Christmas is just around the corner will be very evident in town. This year there is Parish Notice Board 26 to be a new Christmas Shop Window competition which the Dates for your diary 27 Parish is organising in association with BBC Radio Jersey, while the switch on of the Christmas Lights on Thursday Organisations in St Helier 28 27th promises to be very exciting indeed. Then on the last Your handy guide to recycling 29 Sunday of the month the Parish's Social Committee hosts The St Helier Gazette 30 the first of three Sunday lunches for Senior Citizens living in St Helier, which means that the countdown to Christmas has well and truly begun. The St Helier Town Crier is published by the Parish of St Helier in association with MailMate. Parish of St Helier: Town Hall, PO Box 50, York Street, St Helier, Jersey, JE4 8PA www.sthelier.je Editorial contact: Annie Le Noury T: (01534) 811821 E: [email protected] MailMate: Le Quai Bisson, Le Boulevard, St Aubin, Jersey, JE3 8JT. 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BAREFOOT WALK FOR JERSEY HOSPICE Back on 27th July Robert Kilpatrick, a member of our Street Cleansing team, successfully walked barefoot from Corbière Lighthouse to Gorey Castle in aid of Jersey Hospice Care. SUPPORTING BREAST CANCER CHARITY Saturday 27th September saw our pink dust cart up at the Rugby Club, as the After Breast Cancer charity sponsored the match between Jersey and the Rotherham Titans. Jersey players wore pink shirts and a request was made for supporters to wear pink so the Parish offered the services of the Pink Lady (one of our Dennis Eagle RCVs) to add impact to the charity’s message, which was parked up near the main entrance and festooned with balloons. ANOTHER AWARD! MOUNT BINGHAM ROCK STABILISATION WORK Seldom does the Parish work on a project which is so high profile that it attracts interest from THE HARES AND THE TORTOISES RUN A the media, the Island-wide public and political leaders. The MARATHON Parish of St Helier staff made up two relay rock face stabilisation work at Mount Bingham, exactly one year teams in last month's Mourant Ozanne Jersey Marathon which ago, is one such scheme where considerable pressure was took place in splendid late summer weather and just hours placed on the client and contractor to do the almost impossible before the Island was lashed by driving rain. Regular Town Crier and open the road past the working area to through traffic early contributor and Roads Committee member, Geraint Jennings, in the contract. The collaboration of seven public and private designed the logos for the stakeholder groups did just that and delivered a completed t-shirts worn by the two teams. project within an extraordinarily tight time frame. No doubt this Running in the Posh remarkable achievement was a factor in the contract winning the Tortoises were Sian McEllin Construction of the Year Award for projects under £1 million at (Customer Services), Kevin the recent Jersey Construction Council awards ceremony. McCarthy (Town Hall), Phil Thanks go to the many different agencies who helped achieve Pinglaux (Handyman), Alison this, with special acknowledgement to Geomarine Limited for Reddyhoff (Charges Office) their skill and efficiency in managing the contract. and the Constable; the Posh Hares consisted of Joanne and Justin Spanswick, Sylvana Rice (St Ewold’s), Piers Thane (Workshop Manager) and Eric Blakely (Electoral Officer). 288 teams finished the marathon. The winning team in 2 hours 32 minutes. The Posh Hares took 3 hours 42 minutes and finished in 111th place. So better than half way up the field, while the Tortoises lived up to their name by taking 4 hours 30 minutes, finishing in 283rd place – so not quite last. That Sylvana Rice completing the went to an team in a time of 3rd leg of the relay race 4 hours 47 mins. Everyone involved in taking part enjoyed the experience and the Parish are likely to enter the relay race in next year's Jersey Marathon which has already been diarised for Sunday 4th October 2015! 4 A18985 text 12_A18315 27/10/2014 11:57 Page 5 Constable’s Comment MET OPERA: CARMEN SCREENING 2 NOV | £17.50 RE-ELECTION REVIEW ’m grateful to the electors of St Helier for their confidence in me Ias expressed at the Nomination got approved had it not been for the Meeting last month, when Clive Barton, efforts of St Helier’s elected members MBE, proposed me for a 6th term of as well as spirited campaigners like PRIVATE PEACEFUL office as Constable. The fact that the Bernie Manning, there remains a IN THE STUDIO election was uncontested means desperate need for St Helier’s 21 & 22 NOV | £10-£14 different things to different people and Deputies and Constable to ‘fight the there’s certainly no space in this Parish corner’ in the States Assembly, column to go into that, though if anyone opposing inappropriate development would like to email or telephone me and continuing to press the Council of about it I am more than happy to give Ministers for the payment of rates on my take on it.