The Town Crier October 2011 NOW DELIVERED TO 19,000 ST HELIER Your parish online www.sthelier.je RESIDENTS EVERY MONTH Election Special in this issue 4 Parish matters St Helier electors go to the polls this 6 Recycling update month to choose ten Deputies from a 8 Historic St Helier 12 Town matters field of 23 candidates, and four 15 Election special Senators from a field of 13. With 3,000 22 Fashion fix extra people on the electoral register 24 Home improvements 26 Parish noticeboard since 2008, a good turnout is 30 St Helier Gazette expected on 19th October. P a g e 3 Welcome News around our to the Town Crier residential homes and nurseries Welcome to the Town Crier's 'Election St Ewolds’ Knitting Club has been busy this month Special'. As well as including some paid knitting some very smart dolls clothes for the advertisements from some of the candidates, children at Avranches Day Nursery. As mentioned this month's edition features a supplement previously, St Ewolds was chosen as one of giving details of the candidates for Deputy. A Waitrose’s community matters scheme charities for new column, 'Meet the team', which will the month of August and a total of £269 was introduce parishioners to some of the 350 raised for the Home by all of you kind shoppers out staff and more than 100 volunteers who there! And resident Mr Louis L’Amy was very proud work for the Parish, begins this month with to see his son Malcolm sworn in as Centenier on Daryn Cleworth, St Helier's Electoral Officer, 29th July. while the Gazette section includes important The Forget-Me-Not children at Avranches Day information about Town Hall opening hours. Nursery recently enjoyed a visit by Chris The Parish Constable was re-elected and his Python and Mexican King unopposed last month to serve a fifth term snakes – some were even brave enough of office: Simon Crowcroft reflects on the to touch them! challenges ahead in his regular column, and St Helier House saw disappointed other regular features include news of a pilot residents when this year’s Air Display glass collection scheme from the Director of was cancelled due to the weather but Municipal Services. the usual afternoon tea was held and a good time had by all. On 6th September To contact the editorial team, please eight residents and staff call 811821 or email [email protected] f attended the Arts Centre for an evening of 40’s style music enjoyed by all. After some glitches with the Elections 2011 installation of the Dementia Life software, it has now been installed with a new Important Postal and Pre-Poll touch screen computer and Voting Information will be available to all residents to use on a one- If you are away from the Island during the to-one basis or for games elections, you can still vote. Application forms and music sessions etc. Residents have also started up a Top: Simon Crowcroft, Malcolm are available from the Town Hall and can also Knitting Club and will be knitting blankets for this year’s Shoe Lamy and Louis L’Amy be downloaded from the St Helier website, Middle: St Ewolds Knitting Group Box Appeal. www.sthelier.je and the election website, Above: Children at Avranches with snake www.vote.je . For more information please Sylvia Corvan, staff at Maison de Ville, undertook a parachute contact the Postal and Pre-Poll Voting jump for charity on 28th August in aid of Hope for John, a Manager, Nicola Southouse, at the Judicial charity which supports sufferers of Lafora Body Disease, an Greffe on telephone number 441314 or by extremely rare condition of which there are only 200 known email at [email protected]. cases in the world. One local sufferer is 19 year old John Your Parish needs you! We are still looking for Sharp. Sylvia’s jump raised £750 for the charity. f volunteers to help on Election Day during the polls or the count and, if you’re interested, Stop Press: we’d love to hear from you. Please contact the Electoral Officer, Daryn Cleworth, at the Stop press: Senatorial hustings Town Hall on 811833 or email him at move to Radisson [email protected]. Please note that the Senatorial Hustings are not being Cover photo: Shows crowds awaiting held at the Town Hall on Monday 17th October, but at the election news outside the JEP office in St Rocco Tower Room at the Radisson at 7.30pm. The Town Crier is printed Helier. (Copyright Jersey Evening Post) f on FSC Certified Paper Page 4 The Oct 2011 Town Crier Parish matters A round-up of the latest news and events from the Town Hall, Parish departments and our associated clubs and organisations. The Parks team has been busy keeping the Residents’ Parking Scheme's the grass cut in parks and cemeteries, as commitment to assess the availability of well as attending to the Branchage on all spaces and the usage of permits within Parish property. Several trees that have the zones. This enables the Parish to died during the summer are in the process identify permit holders who have moved of being removed – these are located at and not claimed their refund but, more Green Street Cemetery, St Ewolds, the importantly, revoke their permit and Parade and First Tower Park. Propagation issue it to the next person on our of plant material is now commencing for waiting list. We hope to have collated all next year’s floral displays and preparations the information and be able to start re- are in hand for the planning and planting issuing by end of October. of the bedding for next spring’s bedding displays. St Helier Gardeners’ prize- winning display recreated in The Roads team has been the churchyard - Staff of the Parish’s Parks and completing the drainage system Gardens department have gone out of their way to for the Surville cemetery give parishioners a flavour of the bedding display extension and is also progressing they created at this year’s RHS Tatton Park show which well with the new kerb lines and earned them a gold award. base material for the roads. The four staff who travelled to the U.K. with their External painting has been plants had a total of 86 years’ horticultural experience completed at the Honorary Police between them, and they included Neil Fauvel, who offices in Nelson Street and joined the Parish as an apprentice gardener 35 years various rooms at Parish homes to the day before the team received their award on are being redecorated. The 19th July. Members of the Parish’s ‘Community in programme of decorating park Bloom’ group helped put the display together. benches continues. Meanwhile, Says Dale Hector, who has been with the Parish for 32 the Small Works team has been years, ‘We grow all our own plants. We travel by air, reinstating loose kerb lines and sea and motorway and compete against some of the preparing the polling stations for best in the U.K. This year we just missed out on Election Day coming up on 19th getting ‘Best in Show’ on only our second entry in the October; they will also be competition. I think the best is yet to come!’ preparing the Christmas lights in the coming weeks. Repair work to start on Fishermans After recent events over the Cottage – At the Parish Rates Assembly held on 6th summer, remedial works will be July, parishioners voted in favour of carrying out the undertaken soon involving re- extensive essential repairs in order to save this historic seeding at People’s Park. A house, which dates back to the late 17th century, and general feed will be applied and to also develop the cottage into a holiday let similar we are confident that the areas to those offered by Jersey Heritage. Work started on will come back strongly over the 19th September, with an anticipated completion date coming weeks. Various of 9th July 2012. We would like to take this representations have been received opportunity to apologise for any inconvenience that from Parishioners regarding the this refurbishment may cause residents and visitors frequency of large events and the time to the area, and to confirm that disruption will be that parks are unavailable for kept to a minimum. parishioners to enjoy during and following events, and the Parks Department will be making several recommendations to the Roads Committee which is reviewing the events programme for 2012. RPZ The Community Support Team will be conducting a survey as part of Top down: Branchage gets underway Tree removal at St Ewolds Prize-winning exhibit recreated in churchyard Far left: Fisherman’s cottage at La Collette f Page 5 Parish organisations , N E committees and associations W The Parish supports a number of closely affiliated organisations and associations. For anyone interested in becoming involved in these groups, a brief overview and contact details are shown below. St Helier in Bloom St Helier in Bloom is a year round environmental improvement campaign, part of which is organised by the St Helier Community in Bloom Group. This is a group of enthusiastic volunteers, who support the Parish by instigating and in stores encouraging community initiatives. ow Meets on the last Thursday each month at 6pm at the Town Hall. n Contact Tony Andrews on 811700 or email [email protected]. + St Helier’s Honorary Police W The Honorary Police form an integral part of the Parish of St Helier.