Photo courtesy of the Jersey Evening Post SEPTEMBER 2016 Parish matters 4 Spotlight on Denny Brown 18 Patricia Gibaut – obituary 8 News from the Parish Homes and Nurseries 20 What next for St Helier’s street market? 11 Your handy guide to Parish recycling 22 The affair of the vanishing Vingtenier 12 Made in Normandy 24 Designed and produced each month A day in the life of Deputy Russell Labey 14 Parish Notice Board 26 by MailMate Publishing Jersey in Dates for your diary 29 partnership with the Parish of St Helier Town Centre News 16 to spend in store! Win £2000 THE InspirationaHOME SHOW l Friday 9th & Saturday 10th September Discover more inspiration for your home on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th September Come and join us for more ideas, more design, More on at the show... more products and more style than ever before 4 Exclusive discounts and offers to inspire your home and lifestyle. 4 Complimentary bubbly, cupcakes and chocolate With new ranges in many of our departments over the weekend 4 Cooking demonstrations and food sampling and exclusive discounts throughout the store, 4 Meet our suppliers there’s never been a better time to enhance 4 Face painting, pantomime show and balloons for the kids your home! 4 Tile painting with Original Style for the whole family See what we have in store or visit www.romerils.com St Helier | T: 738806 [email protected] www.romerils.com Monday - Saturday 8.00am - 5.30pm Connétable: Simon Crowcroft Tel: 811821 Fax: 619146 Email: [email protected] to the September edition of the Town Town Hall: PO Box 50, St Helier, Jersey, JE4 8PA Town Hall Opening Hours: 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday Crier, the Parish of St Helier’s monthly Parish Meetings: Notices of Parish meeting are published on our website: magazine for parishioners, ratepayers and visitors to St Helier. www.sthelier.je, in The St Helier Town Crier and the Jersey Evening Post. Last month we enjoyed taking part in the biggest festival of the year, the Battle of Flowers, in which the Parish entered Procureur du Bien Public: Peter Pearce its Alice in Wonderland float, featured on our cover. Prior to Tel: 639533 Email: [email protected] Procureur du Bien Public: Geraint Jennings the carnival, members of the Battle of Flowers Association Tel: 280778 Email: [email protected] enjoyed meeting some of the residents from St Ewold’s Director, Human Resources: Martin Roberts Tel: 811824 Email: [email protected] Residential Home who had been making some of the Director, Parks, Gardens & Open Spaces: Anthony Andrews thousands of paper flowers adorning the St Helier float; the Tel: 811700 Email: [email protected] visitors enjoyed tea and cakes outside the Battle shed and Director, Municipal Services: Debra D'Orleans Tel: 811703 Email: [email protected] were able to put some flowers on the float, too, with Chair Director, Technical & Environment Services: of the Association, Dee Cousins, giving a helping hand. John Stievenard Tel: 811845 Email: [email protected] Director, Finance: Neil Macdonald This month will still be a busy one for the Parish with Tel: 811829 Email: [email protected] the Senatorial By Election taking place on Wednesday 7th, Director and Manager of HR: Alison Sweeney Tel: 811880 Email: [email protected] and when the successful candidate joins the States Director and Town Centre Manager: Daphne East Assembly it will be debating the Medium Term Financial Tel: 811813 Email:[email protected] Plan Addition for 2017–2019 (P.68/2016): one of the proposals is that the States should start paying rates on its properties, and the outcome of this particular debate on Deputy Judy Martin Tel: 780641 Email: [email protected] th Deputy Russell Labey Tel: 481083 Email:[email protected] Tuesday 27 will be keenly anticipated. The Visite du Deputy Scott Wickenden Tel: 07797 717766 Email: [email protected] Branchage et des Chemins – the second Branchage visit of the year – takes place on Friday 16th by which time property Deputy Rod Bryans Tel: 737236 Email: [email protected] owners should have finished the clipping of shrubs and Deputy Geoff Southern Tel: 728231 Email: [email protected] Deputy Sam Mézec Tel: 07797 811130 Email: [email protected] trees overhanging the carriageways and pavements of the Parish. For a great number of parishioners, however, the Deputy Jackie Hilton Tel: 07797 713293 Email: [email protected] theme for the month is ‘Back to School’ as hundreds of Deputy Mike Higgins Tel: 873956 Email: [email protected] Deputy Richard Rondel Tel: 07797 711537 Email: [email protected] young people take part in ‘La Rentrée’ as they call it across Deputy Andrew Lewis Tel: 862663 Email: [email protected] the water. With the new term starting on Monday 5th September, this is going to be particularly challenging for Constable’s PA: Annie Bienvenu the families who have spent the weekend at Jersey Live! Tel: 811821 Email: [email protected] We hope you enjoy receiving our monthly Parish Customer Services Manager: Daryn Cleworth Tel: 811870 Email: [email protected] magazine. Available by post and email (on request), from a Community Support Helpline: Tel: 811866 dozen distribution points in St Helier, and online, the Town RPZ Helpline Tel: 811811 Email: [email protected] Crier combines useful information with news about events Parish Depot: Tel: 811708 Email: [email protected] Duty Centenier: Tel: 07797 722227 that take place in our busy Parish. We are grateful to our Registrar: Tel: 811088 advertisers whose support enables us to produce the magazine at no cost to ratepayers. Please let us know if you Avranches and Westmount Nurseries would like to be included in the mailing list, or if you would Nurseries Co-ordinator: Linda Le Marquand Tel: 811719 like to contribute any articles or events in future magazines. Email: [email protected] Manager at Avranches: Carole Luce Tel: 811719 Manager at Westmount: Jane Snodgrass Tel: 811718 St Helier House Residential Home: Jacqueline Jolley Tel: 811715 Email: [email protected] St Ewold’s Residential Home: Ann McLean Tel: 811716 Email: [email protected] Nigel Blake Tel: 875339 Email: [email protected] The Very Rev. Bob Key Tel: 720001 Email: [email protected] Bob Le Brocq Tel: 743606 Email: [email protected] Peter Wade Tel: 875663 Email: [email protected] Bernie Manning Tel: 07700 356438 Email: [email protected] Barry Le Feuvre Tel: 874391 Email: [email protected] 3 Normandy Veterans annual visit Jack Manning made his first return to Gold Beach since June 1940 Jersey’s veterans were greeted with smiles, thank you’s and questions Once again the Parish of St Helier organised a weekend visit to Normandy for the local branch of the Normandy Veterans Association. There were 25 people on the trip, including three veterans of the campaign, and they visited a variety of sites including memorials, cemeteries, landing beaches and museums. The group, which was based in Bayeux, was led by local historian Ian Ronayne, who gave Passing French visitors presented our the coach party a fascinating account of veterans with fresh flowers to lay at the the events which related to each of the memorial sites. For Jack Manning, 92 years old, it was the first revisiting of Gold Beach weekend in order to secure early ferry where he came ashore the day after bookings and to keep the cost per person D-Day, 7th June 1940. as low as possible. If you would like to be The NVA is keen for the Parish to run advised of next year’s trip details, please another trip next year and preparations advise us by telephoning 811823 or by are already in hand to select a suitable emailing [email protected]. Ian Ronayne explains what happened at Pegasus Bridge on the night before D-Day Centre: Normandy veterans Jack Manning, Billy Reynolds and Harry Fenn at the Hill 112 memorial near Caen Above: Mark Newton, son of the late Fred Newton, contemplates the graves in the Bayeux war cemetery 4 All-New Renault MEGANE Feel the drive From £14,946–£22,720* The official fuel consumption figures in mpg (l/100km) for the All-New Renault Mégane range are: urban 36.2 (7.84)–68.9 (4.1); extra-urban 57.7 (4.9)–80.7 (3.5); combined 47.1 (6.0)–76.4 (3.7). The official 2CO emissions are 134–96g/km. EU Directive and Regulation 692/2008 test environment figures. Fuel consumption and CO2 may vary according to driving styles, road conditions and other factors. *Car shown is an All-New Renault Mégane GT Line Nav TCe 130 at £17,571.00 OTR with optional metallic paint at an extra £459.37 inc GST. Prices shown include delivery to dealer, number plates, 5% GST, VED, full valet, full tank of fuel and £27.00 first registration fee. Bagot Road, St. Saviour Tel 01534 815120 www.bagot.je Book a test-drive 419555 Bagot Road Megane Cash Price A4 297x210.indd 1 19/07/2016 10:55 PARISH MATTERS CONTINUED Open air chess at West’s Centre: Paul Wojciechowski reports on a successful new event This summer the Jersey Chess Club hosted a day of chess in the open air at West’s Centre. Ten tables were kindly supplied by Haute Vallée School and the chess sets, boards, and clocks provided by the Club. The main tournaments were for seniors and the The giant chess set in West’s Centre is strongest juniors, which was won on tie popular with locals and tourists alike break by Graham Mooney, and the junior tournament which involved 13 players in junior and senior players to games and what is called a blitz event.