Money Bee www.solwaybuzz.co.uk by Brooke SteelSolwaySolway from Holm Cultram Abbey School BuzzBuzz April 2014 local news - for you - by you - about you - free to you - local news FREEFREE PAPERPAPER Issue 123 Page 4 Masons donate locally Page 5 Tom calls it a day Spring Crocus Page 6 C&W Donate £3,000 at St Paul’s Page 7 Noah sends Teddies Two New 2014 Events Ventures for 21st April Silloth Page 9 Dinosaurs come to town Family Laser Clay Pigeon Shoot 25th May Silloth Green Day 21st & 22nd June Silloth Vintage Rally Page 14 Earlybird tickets on sale 19th & 20th July Silloth Kite Festival 26th July Wash Your Wheels now have a unit on Station Road Abbeytown Carnival Industrial Estate where you can have your vehicle valeted. See page 3 for the story. Page 15 15th August County Champions Theatre on the Green 17th August Beach Half Marathon 4th to 7th September Page 16 Silloth Music & Beer Festival Tennis Prize Giving 7th September Silloth Craft Show 24th October Solway Private Hire now have two Jaguar Wedding Cars available for that special occasion. Bonfire Night on Silloth Airfield See page 14 for the story. The Solway Buzz is a FREE community paper with a circulation of 5,500 copies for the area around Abbeytown, Skinburness, Silloth-on-Solway and Mawbray Page 2 Issue 123 local news - for you - by you - about you - free to you - local news Coastal Erosion at Beckfoot Patchwork Friends of Heaven Silloth Patchwork Silloth Green Heaven, a thriving group Over the past 12 months, The Friends group are with an enthusiastic a small group of volunteers currently organising the membership, meets every and local children have been second Silloth Green Day Tuesday in the Pennine working on the design of on 25th May 2014 between View Community Centre on a new community garden. 11am and 4:30pm. The Pennine View, Silloth at 1:30 Part of the continued Friends hope it to be as big to 3:30pm. regeneration of the Green, a success as last year, and Come along and see the garden will be located are looking for more local the amazing things that on the corner of Criffel businesses and organisations can be created using this Street and Lawn Terrace. to get involved. If you would most enjoyable form of The design has integrated like to participate in this needlework. With help ideas given by members of year’s event please don’t and encouragement from the local community who hesitate to get in touch. Brenda Dowdell, the group`s attended a design workshop. We are also looking for founder and a well known Some of these include: a dry volunteers, who can give up figure in the world of river bed, wild flower bed, as much or as little time as patchwork, who will be glad sensory equipment, benches they can spare, to help with to welcome you to the very and a story telling chair. The the planting and on-going friendly group. benches and chair are being upkeep of the community Come and have a look, hand carved currently by garden and also to assist This photograph by Geoff Bland clearly shows the vast amount of damage the tide has a cuppa and good craic. the Solway wood carvers. with the increasing number caused to the new retaining wall at Beckfoot. An extension of the wall and infilling to For more information call The garden will be officially of events throughout the protect the coast road is expected to cost £100,000. Brenda on 01697332076. opened on the morning year. If you are interested in of 25th May 2014 (Silloth helping, please email fog@ Green Day). sillothgreen.co.uk More Places to Pay Silloth & District Easter Celebrations the Council Pensioners Easter and all the events Schoolroom near Spar from More choice of places to open outside typical working Report by: Pat Bell 2) Doreen Matthews leading up to it will be quite 12.00. You are invited to just pay Council bills hours making it much more 3) Molly Mitchell late this year. Good Friday have a simple lunch – soup, Residents and business convenient for residents who The pensioners held their 4) Mary Eccles is April 18th, Easter Day roll, cup of tea – and donate owners in Allerdale will soon work full time. monthly Coffee Morning 5) Maureen Gray April 20th and Bank Holiday what you would normally be able to pay their Council Councillor Philip Tibble, in the Recreation Hall on 6) Joyce Bragg Monday April 21st. have spent to the charity related bills at more than Executive Member for Saturday 1st March. 7) Margaret Crawford The churches begin their Christian Aid. 27,000 places across the Customer and Regulatory A lovely morning Our next Coffee Lent activities with a united See the parish magazine UK and around 60 places Services, said: “Straight away heralded our Coffee Morning will be held on service in Christ Church at and church notice boards in the borough when a new this new service offers much Morning despite an odd Saturday 5th April at 10am 10am on Ash Wednesday for details of services during payment system takes effect more choice and flexibility to shower. Our numbers were in the Recreation Hall, Eden March 5th. (If you plan the Easter period but on this spring. residents who will now have slightly down but we were St Playing Fields, Silloth to give something up for Good Friday there will be a From 1st April 2014, the option to pay their bills delighted by the turn out and when we hope you will come Lent that’s the day to start). united service at Greenrow cash payments including in places like garages, which we raised £170 for our funds. and enjoy coffee, scones and Churches Together in Silloth Pentecostal Church at 10am Council Tax and Allerdale have extended opening hours Raffle Prize Winners biscuits, not forgetting the will provide their traditional followed by a walk of witness invoices can be made at and not be restricted to the were:- chat, all for £1.50. Lent Lunches and Bible Study to place a cross by The Green. any shop, business or post 9-5 working day. They will 1) Jean Smith All are welcome. sessions throughout the All are then invited to the office accepting Paypoint also have less distance to following weeks and everyone Roman Catholic Church to payments, giving people travel to reach a payment is invited to come along. observe the Stations of the more than 10 times more facility making the whole Bible study takes place Cross. places to pay than at present. process quicker, easier and in the United Reformed Through the time of At the same time, the much more convenient. Church opposite the Co-op Lent when we think about Council’s five existing Although the majority of Tom Bee from 10:30am. It’s relaxed everything Jesus did for offices will stop taking cash people currently make their by - no one has to speak or people, and perhaps make payments. People currently council tax payments by Michael Irving contribute unless they want small personal sacrifices to using the offices for these direct debit, we appreciate from to and you don’t even have show our own sympathy for services are being advised that some people do still Silloth to know much about the the sick, the suffering, the to sign up to direct debit to value face-to-face contact Primary bible ! - and lasts about an poor; to Good Friday when make payments and arrange and we want to make sure School hour. Each session will be led we remember his torture and to receive any payments that everyone can access by a member of a different death; and to the celebrations from the Council directly our services, whether they church. of Easter day and holiday into their bank or building choose to do so online, over Lent lunches will be Monday, we wish everyone a society current accounts. the phone, or face-to-face.” served in Trinity Methodist blessed time. A previous survey A full list of all payment carried out among visitors to points will be available Council offices revealed that in the coming weeks and across the borough to raise that can be accessed online Silloth on Solway Community Shop as many as 80 per cent of more information is on the awareness among residents. visit www.allerdale.gov.uk or people said it would be useful website at www.allerdale. For more information about for further advice call 01900 * Local people working for local causes * to have more places to pay. gov.uk/waystopay. A poster the type of Council services 702702 * All proceeds go back into the community * These new places not only campaign will be running * Please continue donating * increase choice, but some are in Council offices and * Collection can be arranged * Pet Supplies S.O.S.C.S. Open every day S.O.S.C.S. CARRS Home Delivery 10am to 3:30pm 12 Criffel Street COACHES Tired of carrying heavy bags? Tel: 32452 Silloth Why not let us bring it direct to your door for FREE* All pets and wild birds catered for at competitive prices, call David or Claire for a quote THE CHARITY SHOP (* minimum order £5, deliveries in and around Silloth) (Good Causes, Silloth) 1 Queen’s Court Coach & We also stock a good range of Tackle and Bait for Open Surgeries Sea Fishing and general Hardware Supplies Criffel Street Minibus Hire, Silloth 1:30pm–2:30pm Eden Valley Hospice Silloth Aspatria 6pm–7pm Tours & Excursions C & D SUPPLIES, 17 Eden St, Silloth Cumbria Air Ambulance Tel: 016973 31696 07919 924154 or 016973 32590 answerphone Appointments at other Tyres, Marie Curie Cancer Care times by arrangement Servicing & Repairs Macmillan Cancer Support Closed Mondays 016973 20242 Tel: 016973 31276 North LakelandSillothYour Nursing Hospice support Home at Homeis greatly appreciated local news - for you - by you - about you - free to you - local news Issue 123 Page 3 Mothers Union Car Valeter Expands Report by: Gladys Temple was to Barbados then August DVD made to show to the another meeting at Mary Clergy how important it is to At the February meeting Sumner House.