Photograph courtesy of Nelio from Camera Moment A Ceremony of Light • Fête de St Helier 2014 • 20,000 flowers beside the sea Crossing Pegasus Bridge • Jersey Infertility Support • Havre des Pas Seaside Festival View on St Helier – André Ferrari • 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. Clear investment. Pure energy. DIRECT DEBIT THE SMARTER WAY TO PAY YOUR BILL You are billed as normal for the electrcity you have used. Your bank transfers the full payment 18 days after you have recieved and checked your statement. No fuss. No missed payment dates. CHEQU A E E K B I U L T - B T V I E T A B T E R E D I R A B T L C E E D I R The cost of your annual consumption Paid direct by your bank No fuss. No missed divided into 12 equal monthly payments. on a date to suit you. payment dates. FIXED DIRECT DEBIT - SPREADS THE COST FOR PEACE OF MIND Save £12 a year off your bill when you + pay by Direct Debit and switch to ebills Tel 505460 The symbol that offers our customers every protection. www.jec.co.uk/directdebit elcome to the September edition of the Town Crier. WSummer in St Helier is festival season and we have lots Contents to report on with some stunning photographs of the range of events Parish matters – A Ceremony of Light 4 that have taken place in our Parish. Constable’s Comment 6 First and foremost there was the Battle of Flowers, and St Helier made a The French Connection 8 triumphant return to the Island's carnival with its seaside St Helier schools 10 holiday themed float. The Fête de St Hélier took place in the previous month and proved to be as successful as the first Town Centre news 10 year with the town centre transformed by colourful stalls, The Beauty Wand 11 fairground rides and local musicians, while the Havre des Pas Seaside Festival was also a great success. A more News from the Parish Nurseries 12 sombre note was struck at the commemoration of the Town Church and Rectory costs 12 outbreak of the first World War held in the Royal Square 13 on 4th August, and we have had a lot of positive feedback Painless weight loss at Slimming Together following the in depth four page feature on the subject of Fête de St Helier 2014 14 the Great War in last month's Town Crier. 16 Not content with winning 'Best Parish' in the Britain 20,000 flowers beside the sea in Bloom competition, St Helier's Parks and Gardens Battle of Flowers 18 Department, assisted by the Community in Bloom Group, Crossing Pegasus Bridge 19 has won 'Best Display' in the national flowerbed category at RHS Tatton Park flower show, competing against large Jersey Fertility Support 20 councils like Preston, Manchester and Birmingham. Back at Your vote, your say 21 home, the Parish held its own horticultural competition for schools, businesses, private homes and al fresco areas, and Havre des Pas Seaside Festival 22 the Assembly Room was packed for the awards evening, View on St Helier 24 showing how much pride St Helier residents and businesses 26 take in keeping our environment attractive and welcoming. Parish Notice Board Our parishioners continue to show their appreciation of the Jèrriais by Geraint Jennings 28 work of the Municipal Services Department, including its Organisations in St Helier 28 refuse and recycling collections, street cleaning, roads maintenance and public toilet provision, in the feedback Dates for your diary 29 they send in by letter, telephone and email. The St Helier Gazette 30 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. E: [email protected] If you like the look of our magazine and think it would be the right place for your company to advertise please contact Phil Osborne on 01534 493300 or email [email protected]. Copyright notice: 2014©Parish of St Helier. The entire content of this magazine is protected by copyright. All rights are reserved. No part of this magazine may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise with prior written consent of the copyright owner. Reprint details: Reprints of articles can be obtained by contacting the publishers. Disclaimer: While the Parish of St Helier and their contributors to The St Helier Town Crier have provided the information contained in this magazine in good faith, they accept no responsibility, financial or otherwise, for any action taken by any other party as a result of the information provided. Independent and appropriate advice should always be sought on such matters. Above: Mr, Miss and Junior Miss St Helier look on as The views expressed written in this magazine are school pupils collect their awards with delight those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Parish of St Helier or Right: The awards evening included a presentation of MailMate. Whilst every effort is taken to ensure prizes for the Parish's Primary School Art Competition. accuracy, the Parish of St Helier and MailMate accept no responsibility for errors or omissions that One of the judges, Geraint Jennings, explains their may occur. decisions to a Helvetia House pupil and her parents 3 A round-up of the latest news and events from the Town Hall, Parish departments and our associated clubs and organisations. A Ceremony of Light AS JERSEY MARKS THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR 1 t Helier's Royal Square was packed for a ceremony at the beginning of last month to mark the start of the First SWorld War. A combination of traditional and modern elements, the service included the recital of letters from a soldier who died in the conflict by members of the Jersey Youtheatre, alongside singing of a specially commissioned piece in Jèrriais by Musical Originals singers. The service had a major role for the parishes, with the twelve constables being The parish wreaths accompanied by lantern holders and standard bearers for the in remembrance of wreath-laying which formed the climax of the commemoration. the fallen The Parish standard was carried by Procureur du Bien Public, Peter Pearce, with the following lantern carriers: Miss and Mr St Helier, Nigel and Gwen Blake, Jane and Katie Pearce, Steve Healy, Ned de Carteret, Maureen Bougourd and Richard Mallet. The Parish of St Helier is proposing to mark the centenary in additional ways, including the creation of a monument recording the casualties of the war, as St Helier is the only parish not to have a memorial listing the names of the fallen, which it is hoped will be sited near the Cenotaph. The Roads Committee is considering other opportunities to mark this important date. Left: The Royal Square was packed for the 'Ceremony of Light' Photo: David Santini Alain Meunier + Anne Le Bozec Tuesday 7 October 8pm Alain Meunier began playing cello at the age of 13 and went on to study with Maurice Maréchal. He has been a professor of the Paris Conservatory since 1989, and he is now director of the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition. Pianist Anne Le Bozec has performed on some of the most prestigious stages, with various partners. A number of her CDs have attracted an enthusiastic critical response. Programme includes: Beethoven: Sonata No.4, Op. 102.1; Faure: Sonata No.1, Op. 109. Tickets: £19 (£12 students) Members: £16.15 (£10.20 students) Box Office: 700444 www.artscentre.je 5 Constable’s RSC: THE TWO Comment GENTLEMEN OF VERONA LIVE SCREENING 3 SEPT | £12.50 WHAT I REALLY THINK ABOUT THE EVENING ECONOMY had some adverse publicity last to shout to make yourself heard over month for suggesting that until the the dance music. But we need to IStates ‘gets its act together’ improve what is on offer from the concerning the long-awaited review of evening economy as a matter of NT LIVE: MEDEA our licensing laws it would be urgency: late-night premises, for LIVE SCREENING inappropriate for the Royal Court to example, could serve food to their 4 SEPT | £12.50 hand out another 7th category, or customers during the evening so that entertainment licence, to premises in they do not need to queue for fast food the area of the Weighbridge. until 3am; licensed premises need to Representatives of the States of Jersey accept that selling as much alcohol as Police present in Court agreed with me possible between when the pubs close that the town centre has reached and their customers leave is not in the ‘breaking point’ in the early hours of best interests of the town, or indeed, of Fridays and Saturdays, and that adding their customers; soft drinks should CHRIS DEAN’S SYD another 400 revellers to the situation cost less and you should be able to was not going to help. The managing enjoy a coffee in a club if you feel you LAWRENCE ORCHESTRA director of one of the town’s main have had enough to drink. These are 11 & 12 SEPT | £19-£26 hotels also pleaded with the Licensing just my ideas, and some may not Bench to spare a thought for the tourists agree.