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The community magazine for Chickerell and Fleet. November 2018 – No 500
NOVEMBER DIARY: more inside1st: Chickerell Luncheon Club
2nd: Tea Dance, Willowbed, 2-4pm10th: Coffee morning in St Mary’s Church for Flower Fund, 10am-12 9th & 23rd: Bingo at Charlestown
Victory Hall, eyes down 7pm6th & 27th: Planning Committee
meetings, Chickerell Town Council15th: Chickerell Walkers Club short walk, meet 10am, Willowbed Hall**********************************
November 15th, 5pm: Deadline for all adverts, DEC/JAN double issue
**********************************17th: Village Café & Table Top Sale,
Willowbed Hall, 10-12.30pm. Spirit of Chickerell. In aid of ‘Contact’
19th: Chickerell and Charlestown TG meets, Marshallsay Court, 10.30am. Talk
on Margaret Green animal charity**********************************
November 19th, 5 pm: Deadline for all editorial, DEC/JAN double issue
**********************************24th: Christmas Coffee Morning, 10 –11.30am. Chickerell Methodist’s Hall.24th: Pre-Christmas Bazaar, Willowbed
Hall, 2 – 4.30pm. For St Mary’s26th: Chickerell Walkers Club long walk, meet 2pm, Portesham, on green by church
CENTENARY OF THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WARLest we Forget – Chickerell’s War Memorial
Erected in 1919 to commemorate lives lost during the Great War: Eight of the men named were in the Dorset Regiment. Six battalions of the Dorset Regiment served in the First World War. Frederick G Bedwell, was in the 5th Dorset, which first saw service in Gallipoli, then went on to fight in France including the Somme. Albert E Carter, who helped haul the coal for the boilers on HMS Euston, was lost in 1917. Robert C Rousell was a leading stoker on HMS Queen Mary. He lost his life when the battlecruiser sank in the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Joseph Ireland lost his life on HMS Bulwark which was torn apart by an explosion off Sheerness in Kent. It was thought German spies had destroyed the ship but it was discovered loose ammunition had ignited in one of the ship’s magazines. Charles Walter Still, a leading stoker, died in May 1915 on the Princess Irene, an auxiliary minelayer. Signalman Alfred E Warner was lost on HMY Kethailes in October 1917. This was a yacht hired for wireless communications. C William Mowlam is recorded on the memorial as being from HMS Suncloud, a Grimsby registered trawler in service during the war as a minesweeper. Sidney H Murray is recorded on the memorial as MGC – The Machine Gun Corps. Both Sidney W Andrews and Fred Spiller are recorded as RGA – which is the Royal Garrison Artillery, made up of gunners and bombardiers. There are more names which need more research to find their stories. Many of the names on the Chickerell War Memorial are also on the memorial tablet on the garages in Putton Lane, behind Charlestown Post Office. Please let us know if you know more. We respect all those lost.
HOW TO CONTACT: Editor: John Dean, 4 Rashley Road, Chickerell (01305) 785895.Advertiser, compiler and treasurer: Caroline Tomlinson, 29 Fairfield, Chickerell (01305) 773502.No personal callers without prior arrangement please. Email: [email protected]. If sending an email, please ensure you put ‘Contact Magazine’ the appropriate month in the subject heading or it will be regarded as ‘spam’. A phone number needs to be included in the email for reply. Letters and editorial contributions, which may be edited, are welcome but anonymous letters will not be published. Letters for the editor, articles and adverts, should be sent direct to the compiler. Please be brief. Note: the views and opinions expressed by the contributors in this magazine are not necessarily those of the editor, compiler or publisher. Every effort is made to ensure all information provided is correct at time of going to press.
Closing date for articles: 5pm on the 19th of the preceding month.Closing date for adverts: (including amendments to current adverts) 5pm on the 15th of the preceding month.
Note: Deadlines have to be strict to get Contact completed and to the printers on time. Advertisers note: A contact phone number and/or address must be included if sending via email.
PLEASE SEND ADVERTS AS EITHER A JPEG OR BITMAP, AND SIZED ACCORDINGLY. Thank you.All artwork is accepted on the strict condition that permission has been given for its use in this publication. Adverts
are accepted in good faith in the strict understanding that goods and services described are both fair & accurate. Note: Adverts will not be placed in Contact without prior payment. All cheques for advertisements must be
made payable to Contact Magazine. Receipts will be sent by email. If this is not acceptable, please enclose an SAE with cheque. Please seek advice from the compiler about ad setting. Simple works best and a simple electronic
version works far better than scanned copy. You can pick up Contact at: Chickerell Post Office; Chickerell Library; Chickerell Pharmacy and hairdresser next door; Charlestown Post Office; Wessex Pharmacy; Fire station Radipole Lane; Alf’s Fish & Chips. You can also
view us online in colour at the Chickerell Website every month – if you do not get your copy delivered at any time.
CHICKERELL WEBSITE – By James Bennett: You can log in at www.chickerell.com You need to register, which is a simple case of entering your name and email. You will then receive an email asking you to confirm your details. Once that is done you can post messages on the forum.
USEFUL INFORMATION - HEALTHCHICKERELL SURGERY. Tel: 01305 761915. OPEN: Monday to Thursday 8.30am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 5.30pm; Friday 8.30am to 12.30pm. Calls outside of these times: (between 8am and 6.30pm): Abbotsbury Road surgery. Telephone number: 01305 780806. LANEHOUSE SURGERY has combined with Wyke Regis and is now known as ‘Wyke Regis and Lanehouse Medical Practice’. Tel: 782226. Opening hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 8.30am to 6.30pm. Tuesday 8.30am to 7.30pm.MEDICAL HELP AFTER DOCTORS SURGERY IS CLOSED: Emergency Care Service: Dial 111. This operates Monday to Friday 6.30pm to 8am, weekends and Bank Holidays. If critically ill call 999.DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL AND WEYMOUTH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INFORMATION: Accident and Emergency Department at Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester. All serious injuries should go here. Injuries less serious to WEYMOUTH URGENT TREATMENT CENTRE (UTC), next to Weymouth Community Hospital, Melcombe Avenue, 8am to 8pm seven days a week (x ray available). Can book appointments via 111 service or via GP practices. Remember, minor urgent issues to Weymouth, anything more serious to Dorchester.
Many people from Chickerell were shocked to read in the Dorset Evening Echo that their doctors surgery was closing down. Now people are receiving their letters from the CCG saying there are ‘ongoing plans to retain a surgery in Chickerell, as this is a large area of development’. The letter adds the CCG will be ‘able to offer a clearer picture as plans unfold’. There is also to be a drop in session for patients who are concerned at the Willowbed Hall on November 1st. In last month’s issue we asked for help with the production of Contact. As of today, we have had no replies so we are in danger of closing in the New Year. We really need some support; this is a vital form of communication for everyone in the town and its surrounding area. We have been very grateful for financial support from the town council and the Spirit of Chickerell but we need more volunteers to keep us going and to grow with the town.Meanwhile it’s that time of year again for the shepherds to get out their crooks and angels their wings – for the St Mary’s Nativity. See St Mary’s news for details or contact John or Hilary. Next month will be our bumper edition and we will be having extra pages for December/January Contact, so please send your contributions in early to fit it all in! And thanks to Stan for his contribution once again. John Dean
CHICKERELL SURGERY TO CLOSE: It has been announced that Abbotsbury Road Surgery and its branch in Lower Way, Chickerell will close on March 31st, 2019. On the surgery’s website the official notice says it is due to difficulty in recruiting new GPs to replace retiring doctors. The notice says its 9,000 patients should not re-register with another GP practice for now; patients will be sent letters and other GP practices in Weymouth & Portland were ‘developing plans to ensure continuity of primary care services’. Concerned patients are being invited to a drop in event at the Willowbed Hall from 12.30pm - 4.30pm on Thursday November 1st.*******************************************************************************************CHICKERELL CENTENARY THANK YOU: Two silhouettes sponsored by Chickerell Town Council in support of the Royal British Legion campaign to mark the end of the First World War 100 years ago are now on display in front of the town council offices. The silhouettes are of an RAF airman – Chickerell Airfield was founded in 1918 - and a suffragette. It is the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act – Votes for Women; when for the first time, women of property could vote. All British women finally gained the right to vote in 1928. The Town Council hopes to install commemorative bench seats in public spaces later in the year. For more information about the Royal British Legion see www.britishlegion.org.uk*******************************************************************************************BUS CHANGES: The winter timetable for First Bus came into effect at the end of September, ending buses on Sundays. Buses continue to run roughly every 20 minutes in peak times Mon -Saturday; Half hourly off peak with the last bus from Chickerell East Street before 8pm. See the First Bus website for more details or at bus stops. *******************************************************************************************POLICE MERGER OFF: Plans to merge Dorset Police with the Devon & Cornwall force have been scrapped after the Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime panel voted to reject the proposal. This was following concerns raised by their police and crime commissioner, including fears council tax in Devon & Cornwall may rise.*******************************************************************************************NEWS FROM DORSET TRADING STANDARDS: Nuisance calls: Rogue companies making unsolicited calls related to personal injury claims could now be fined up to £500,000. People can opt-in to receive these calls by consenting to be contacted by claims companies when enquiring about settling a claim, or when seeking claims advice. Trading Standards adds: “These new measures together with the strengthened Data Protection Act will curb the number of nuisance calls received by consumers…The Government has already made it easier for regulators to fine those breaching direct marketing rules, by forcing companies to display their number when calling customers and there are increased fines for wrongdoers.” Anyone who feels they have suffered a scam or would like advice on consumer rights can call the Citizens Advice consumer helpline on 03454 040506.*******************************************************************************************STEPPING INTO NATURE: A new project offering nature based activities to improve health and wellbeing for Dorset’s older people, including those with dementia and their carers, has a lot of activities this November. On the 6th The Greenwood Club meets at Thorncombe Woods, 10.30am. The group learn green woodworking techniques, rural crafts and cooking outdoors in a relaxing woodland environment. Contact Jill on 07813814875 or [email protected] to book. Delivered by Dorset Forest Schools as part of Stepping into Nature. On the 5th and 19th Dorset History Centre in Dorchester is offering a look at pictures, maps and recordings from 10.30am. Contact Maria on 01305 228947 or [email protected] to book. On the 1st and 15th from 11am to noon there is a wellbeing walk at Radipole Lake. A relaxed walk of about a mile round the reserve. Contact RSPB reserve office on 01305 778313. There is a similar event based at the Chesil Beach Centre on the 29th. Call the centre on 01305 206191 for more. On the 12th and 20th, a poetry walk at Thorncombe Woods, specially for those with dementia and their carers, runs from 1.30-2.30pm. Call Claire on 01305 251228 for more information and to book. Finally on the 28th there is a dementia friendly walk in Dorchester looking at the history of the town. To book call Steph on 01305 224788. For more information about all the events see www.stepin2nature.org*******************************************************************************************LETTER TO THE EDITOR: We know it is only November but it is to remind all the kind and generous residents of Chickerell that we can collect food, treats, toys etc., for Christmas for the animals of the Margaret Green Animal Rescue. We are also still collecting bric a brac, clothes etc., through the year. We can always collect – just call 01305 781059 or drop it in to 43 Lower Way, Chickerell. Also to thank the people that have given us items, including towels, throughout the year along with dog and cat food. If any readers could give a packet of biscuits or tinned food for any animal, including for rabbits and hamsters, it would really be appreciated. We will put a reminder in next month’s Contact as we know everyone has a lot on their mind nearer to Christmas.
Thank you all; Rosie, Yvonne and Jess the dog.
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Events, Local Groups, Clubs and SocietiesSPIRIT OF CHICKERELL: The next Village Café is on Saturday 17th November from 10am to 12.30pm at Willowbed Hall. The profits from this café will go to the Contact magazine. Please contact Pat Arthars on 01305 319695 if you would like to book a stall. As usual there will be a raffle, various stalls, delicious homemade cakes, bacon or sausage butties and hot drinks. The Community Christmas Lunch on Sunday December 16th is almost fully booked, just a couple of spaces available at £8.50 each, so please ring Pat Arthars on 01305 319695. Those who have booked; please pay Pat prior to or at the next Village Café on 17th November. Advance notice: Carols for Chickerell, Friday 7th December, Willowbed Hall, 7pm, with Chickerell Primary Academy Singing Stars and Weymouth Concert Brass Band. Seasonal refreshments and a retiring collection.*******************************************************************************************CHICKERELL LUNCHEON CLUB: Meets at the Marquis of Granby on the first Thursday of the month and we always have an excellent meal, for which we thank all the staff. In October we had roast pork followed by fruit salad and a cup of tea or coffee. In November it is roast beef followed by roulade. Our Christmas lunch: December 6th.. Please keep buying raffle tickets for outings next year! Queries/cancellations call Ann 783002 or Janet 750232.*******************************************************************************************CHICKERELL AND CHARLESTOWN TOWNSWOMEN’S GUILD: Meets on November 19th at Marshallsay Court, 10.30am. Talk on the Margaret Green Animal Rescue charity. Those attending are invited to bring a gift for an animal in need. Visitors welcome.*******************************************************************************************NEWS AND EVENTS FROM ST MARY’S: Thank you to everyone who donated items for our Harvest Festival. Both Waves and The Lantern Centre were very pleased to receive so many food and personal care items. We were also able to send £50 to the Sudan Medical Link. Thank you all. Coffee Morning in the North Aisle Café at St Mary’s on Saturday 10th November from 10am – 12 to support the Flower Fund, for the flowers which beautify our church regularly. Pre-Christmas Bazaar at the Willowbed Hall (Free Entry) on Saturday 24th
November from 2 – 4.30pm with Chickerell Primary Academy Singing Stars (who will also be at our Christingle Service on December 11th), refreshments, raffle, tombola, homemade cakes, Teddy Tombola, books, CDs, DVDs, toys and more. Donations very welcome. Please put items in the box in the church porch or ring Hilary on 772817 for collection. Nativity and Carols: Sunday 23rd December at 6.30pm. If you know of any young people who would like to take part, please contact Hilary and John on 772817 or email [email protected] Previous ‘actors’ and readers will be contacted and costumes available. Two rehearsals; details in next month’s Contact.*******************************************************************************************
COFFEE MORNING CLUB Wednesdays 10am – 12noon at Safewise (fire station in Radipole Lane):NEWS: Come along with a smile and a sense of fun and meet new friends; you will be very welcome. We always have tea, coffee and biscuits and occasionally cake and cheese and savoury biscuits. Our last outing for this year was due on October 30th, there should be six outings next year; keep buying raffle tickets and they will be free. Christmas lunch date: 19th December at the Marquis of Granby. Free to members. Queries to Ann on 783002.*******************************************************************************************CHICKERELL WALKERS CLUB: Short Walk – Thursday 15th November. Meet 10am at Willowbed Hall. Circular walk to Radipole via Wessex Stadium, top of Southill, Radipole and back. Long Walk – Monday 26th
November. Meet at 2pm, at Portesham on the green leading to the church. Park on road outside Kings Arms. A circular walk to Abbotsbury and back. Remember to arrive on time as we leave ‘on the dot’. Anyone wanting a lift, please ring Brian on 01305 770678. Thank you.*******************************************************************************************CHARLESTOWN VICTORY HALL, PUTTON LANE: Monday 9.am – 10am: Keep Fit with Helen Stone (07570 139553); 3.30pm - 6.30pm: Weymouth School of Ballet (Lisa 07703463974). Evening, 7.30 – 9pm: Line & Partner Dancing with Dixie Six (772668). Tuesday: 4pm – 6pm: Weymouth School of Ballet (Lisa 07703463974) Wednesday: 2-5pm Whist; 7.30-9.30pm: Line & Partner Dancing with Dixie Six (772668). Thursday: Evenings: Girl Guiding UK (Clare 07961472154). Friday (fortnightly): Bingo – Doors open 6.30pm, eyes down 7pm. Please check for availability. Saturday: Dog Training with The Pet Experience (Sarah 07769705807). Check for availability. NEWS: From Marion: “Bingo dates 9th and 23rd November - doors open 6.30pm, start 7 pm. Whist every Wednesday - start 2pm. All welcome and becoming more popular. Some of you will have seen the silhouette figures celebrating the 100 years since end of the First World War. We will be placing a ‘soldier’ in the grounds of the hall in the very near future and hope it will give people chance to sit and reflect on what was sacrificed on our behalf. Our car park should be having a face lift early next year and other internal re-decorations are due. Any queries about the hall please ring our Chairperson - Joe Castleman on 01305 789125 or me - the Secretary. Marion Hardcastle on 01305 761744.”
TEA DANCE at the Willowbed Hall on the first Friday of each month, 2-4pm. Entrance £4, to include refreshments and raffle. Please JOIN US to KEEP DANCING. *******************************************************************************************CHICKERELL LIBRARY, 51 East Street, Chickerell, Weymouth DT3 4DT. Tel: 760095. Opening hours: Monday - closed; Tuesday - 9.30-12.30; Wednesday - 9.30-12.30; Thursday – 2pm – 4.30pm; Friday - 2pm- 4.30pm; Saturday - 9.30 - 12.30pm. Email - [email protected] NEWS: A note for your diary: We will be welcoming the Chickerell Primary Academy choir and Brass Tacks to the lighting of the Christmas tree lights on Thursday 6th December at 5pm. Refreshments will be available and everyone is welcome. The library is always looking for more volunteers to join its rota. Training is given and tea and biscuits provided. Volunteering in the library is a good way to get to know people and the community. Pop into the library and meet us then contact Nigel on 01305 788939.*******************************************************************************************
CRAFTY SEW & SEWS: Meets in the Chickerell Methodist Church Hall on alternate Fridays from 7-9.30pm; entrance is £1.50 (to include refreshments). November Meetings are 2nd, 16th & 30th. Bring something crafty and turn up on the night or contact: Sue 774895, Shirley 837080 or Mary 07800604145.New members always welcome! *******************************************************************************************
MARSHALLSAY COURT SOCIAL CLUB: Bingo is played every Monday except Bank Holidays at 7pm.*******************************************************************************************COUNTRY DANCING: Beginners Class - Scottish Country Dancing. Southill Community Centre, Radipole Lane, Weymouth. Every Thursday, 7.30 -9.45pm. All welcome. £3 per week. Wear loose casual clothes & soft flat shoes. More details: Judie 01305 833660 or email [email protected]******************************************************************************************
SOUTH DORSET CALEDONIAN SOCIETY holds weekly ceilidh dance practice sat Willowbed Hall on Mondays 7.45 to 9.30pm. New members welcome. The society also holds regular events including, ceilidhs, St Andrew’s Day Celebrations, Burns Dinner Dances, and skittle matches. Website: southdorsetcaledonians.org or email secretary at [email protected]. *******************************************************************************************RADIPOLE & SOUTHILL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: Meets at Southill Community Centre on Monday 12th November at 8pm (following the society’s AGM at 7pm). Speaker from the Dorset Wildlife Trust about the trust’s nature reserves at Chesil Beach, Lorton Meadows and Portland. Non members welcome. Refreshments available. Further information from Nigel or Heather Smith on 01305 788939.*******************************************************************************************WYKE REGIS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY NEWS: The recent spell of wet weather has been most welcome and we can now get digging and preparing for winter. Composts and mulches, compost accelerators, woven ground cover, fleece & netting - available at the Trading Post. Have you tried growing winter vegetables? Young plants of cabbages and kale, broad beans and radicchio are ready, too. We have flower & veg seeds and bulbs, including Elephant garlic. Please remember to check your bonfire heaps for hedgehogs before lighting. You must be a member to buy things, but if you join before 15th December, subscription is £2.50, valid until 31st March 2019. The last day of trading will be 15th December, re-opening on 12th January 2019. Donations for the Christmas Draw would be much appreciated. For more information, please visit www.wrhs.org.uk or call in to the Trading Post, Rylands Lane on Wednesdays 2-4pm or Saturdays 9.30am - 12.30pm.*******************************************************************************************PORTLAND ISLAND COMPUTER KLUB: Improve your computer skills every Monday from 7.30pm in the Jubilee Hall, Easton Square, Portland. Admission £3 including 50p raffle. Details: Barry on 01305 839604. *******************************************************************************************EVENT FOR ALL SAINTS CHURCH: Quiz and Puddings Evening at The Memorial Hall, Chamberlain Rd, Wyke Regis, in aid of All Saints Church, Wyke Regis on Saturday November 10th. Doors open at 6.30pm for 7pm start. £5 per person or £15 per family. Bring your own drinks. Details: Cheryl Wise 01305 759484 or email [email protected] or Gill McIntosh 01305 783950 or email [email protected]*******************************************************************************************BENEFIT ADVICE SESSIONS: On the second Thursday monthly (8th November and 13th December) between 9.30am and 11.30am at Weymouth Community Safety Centre (Fire Station, Radipole Lane). By appointment only. Call Age UK Dorchester on 01305 269444. Sessions also at Portland and Dorchester.
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MORE GROUPS NEWS AND EVENTSREMEMBRANCE IN CHICKERELL: Poppies, lapel badges, and bracelets are all available from businesses in Chickerell as listed in October Contact. Thank you to everyone who donated items for the tombola and for donations to the Lamp Post Poppies. A big thank you to Chickerell Town Council and Chickerell Library for sponsoring the wonderful silhouettes, a striking reminder in this special Centenary Year 1918-2018. All the support is much appreciated. Pat Arthars, local Poppy Appeal Organiser.*******************************************************************************************WDHS RETIREMENT FELLOWSHIP: The next meeting of the West Dorset Health Service Retirement Fellowship will be on Thursday 1st November at 2pm in the Boys Brigade Hall, Sawmills Lane, Dorchester DT1 2RZ when John (Sooty) Stockley will give a talk entitled We Were Here.*******************************************************************************************CHESIL BEACH CENTRE: Portland Beach Road, near Ferrybridge. Tel: 01305 206191. Website: www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/chesil-beach-centre Opening hours: 10am to 4pm from November 1st.EVENTS: November 3rd- 25th: Wild Dorset Exhibition. Celebrating the wild nature of Dorset through arts and crafts. November 25th: Opticron Optics Day: Try out a range of binoculars and telescopes.*******************************************************************************************
FAMILY HISTORY: Somerset & Dorset Society, Weymouth, meets third Friday each month at St. Aldhelm’s Church Centre, Spa Road, 2- 4pm. Cost £2 per meeting. Contact Pam 776008 for details.*******************************************************************************************TWINNING SOCIETY: Weymouth and Portland Holzwickede Twinning Society: The year is quickly flying by and our last event this year is a fun evening with a Beetle Drive, tea, coffee and cake. Come and join us at St Andrews Church Hall Preston, on the evening of Friday 16th November at 7pm. Entrance £3.50 All are welcome. Contact Chris on 832694 for further information.*******************************************************************************************HOME LIBRARY SERVICE: Available across Dorset, Poole and Bournemouth, free of charge to anybody who cannot easily get to their local library. Books and talking books are chosen and delivered by Royal Voluntary Service volunteers every three weeks, providing reading materials and a welcome visit. To find out more please contact Maria Jacobson on the number above, or e-mail [email protected].*******************************************************************************************
PLAYGROUPSDUCKLINGS PRE-SCHOOL: Methodist Church Hall, North Square, Chickerell, DT3 4DX. Tel: 766920. Our email is [email protected] or visit our Facebook page. Morning sessions – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: 9am – Noon or 1pm. Full days available on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday - 9am to 3pm. Call for availability and for the 28 hours of childcare per week with the Government’s 30 hours scheme. Two year sessions – are available on a Wednesday and Friday morning 9am – noon or a Friday afternoon from 1 - 3pm. Also able to accept two year funding (golden tickets) the term after a child’s second birthday. Alternatively hourly rate payable. Call for availability.DUCKLINGS NEWS: The children celebrated Harvest Festival with our families and parishioners of the Methodist church. The generous donations of food we received form our families here at Ducklings was donated to the Bus Shelter at Lodmoor, they were thrilled to receive it! We have enjoyed the warm autumnal weather with lots of outside play, collecting conkers and leaves and had one of our regular trips to the library. For further information about registering your child or if you would like to view our setting please call Sue or Sharon.****************************************************************************************CHICKADEES NEWS: Due to our interest in early writing we have enjoyed a wide variety of ‘Fingergym’ and ‘Dough Disco’ activities, to support our learning. We have moulded leaves for our autumnal tree display, learnt new rhymes and made snails with conkers. We have celebrated that ‘dark is exciting’ making space resources and sky splatter paintings. We have used seasonal vegetables to make our own winter soup which we tasted in our snack café with warm bread made by Caroline and butter churned by the Chickadees.For any further information please contact Clare Ash- 01305773103 or [email protected]
*******************************************************************************************NEWS FROM CHICKERELL PRIMARY ACADEMY PTA: Chickerell Primary Academy PTA is holding a couple of events which are open to the community. The first is the annual Christmas Shopping Trip with a coach to Winchester Christmas Market. The coach will leave school at 8.30am and return approx. 6.30pm. Tickets are priced at £15 each and available by contacting the school office on 01305 783876. Spaces are limited; all welcome. The second is a Christmas Shopping Evening in the school hall on Wednesday 12th December between 6.30pm – 8.30pm. There will be lots of stalls to purchase Christmas gifts plus refreshments, a raffle and entertainment from the school choir. All welcome. Entry £1 for adults; children admitted for free.
A DAY TRIP TO DEVON – by Stan GrovesA recent visit to Dartmoor, at my favourite time of the year, filled me with the same joy as it has always done. I first visited this glorious place in 1959 and I have not missed many years since.Coming in from the south, we arrive at Two Bridges where we park and walk up to Wistman’s Wood – a lovely large stunted growth oak forest. I remember coming here in 1990 with 12 friends in three cars from Charlestown Victory Hall. We were all members of the youth club in the hall just after the Second World War. Leaving here and driving north we observe to the east the vast Bellever Forest and remember how we used to stand on a big rock in the middle of the wood and shout, discovering an amazing echo, louder and longer than our own Echoing Valley at Whitmoor/Langton Manor.After a meal in the Warren House Inn with its log fire, we drive through Postbridge and head for Grimspound where we walk up to the remains of a Bronze Age village. It’s a fascinating place but the hill seems steeper than it used to be. Driving through Widecombe we go up to Bonehill Rocks and Honeybag Tor. While looking down from this great height we see the ‘Cathedral of the Moor’ which is Widecombe Church. We leave here and head for Hound Tor and on that short journey we pass ‘Kitty Jay’s Grave’ at the crossroads. She was buried here many years ago after being in-child out of Wedlock..
The strong oak braves the rudest wind,While, to the breeze as well, The sickly, aged willow falls,
And so the mother fell,Beside the pool the willow bends,
The dew-bent daisy weeps,And where the turfy hillock swells,
The luckless ‘young lady’ sleeps. - John Clare.Late afternoon we turn back and head towards Ashburton, then make a stop at Newbridge and its lovely River Dart. We walk through the woodland and along the river bank towards Holne Chase for half a mile seeing several Dippers but no Kingfishers today. Journeying home late evening I think about my home and John Clare’s lines:
‘Oh native endearments I will not forsake thee,I will not forsake the for sweetest of scenes,
For sweetest of gardens that nature can make me,I will not forsake thee dear valleys and greens,
Though nature never dropped thee a cloud resting mountainThough waterfalls tumble their music so free,Had nature denied me a bush tree or fountain,
Though still would be loved as an Eden by me.***************************************************************************************************
CHICKERELL TOWN COUNCILThe Town Council’s website for all the latest news is: www.chickerelltowncouncil.co.ukThe office opening times are Monday to Friday, 9.30am to noon. Telephone: 01305 767458 Email: [email protected] MEETINGS: The Chickerell Town Council planning committee meeting is scheduled for 6th and 27th November. Next full council meeting: December 11th, 7pm. Members of the public are welcome to attend. Planning meetings may alter if no plans to discuss on due date.CCTV: Just to remind residents that the cameras around the Willowbed Hall and field do work and are constantly monitored. DOG FOULING: The dog warden is appealing for any information on this. If anyone sees fouling, they are urged to report it immediately to 01305 252244 quoting reference 5038.
IMPORTANT AND USEFUL COUNCIL TELEPHONE NUMBERSAnti-social behaviour: Please report all incidents no matter how small immediately to the police on 101. HIGHWAY ISSUES: Roads, verges and hedges, public footpaths, streetlights, road signage, winter maintenance and bus timetables – if you have any queries regarding any of these (potholes, a crack in the road/footpath, overhanging branches etc) please phone Dorset County Council on 01305 221020.STREETLIGHTS: If there is a streetlight out, please phone 0800 0684145. FLOODING: For flooding problems please call 01305 221020 and for sandbags please call 01305 251010 and ask for emergency planning who will advise where sandbags can be purchased.REFUSE/RECYCYLING, RUBBISH BIN PROBLEMS: Call Dorset Waste Partnership on 01305 221040. PLANNING APPLICATIONS AND ENFORCEMENT: Call West Dorset District Council on 01305 251010. COUNTY WEBSITE: www.dorsetforyou.com – website with wealth of information about all things to do with Dorset. You can also report highways issues via the dorsetforyou website.
OTHER USEFUL NUMBERSWater problems: Report to Wessex Water – 0845 600 4 600 Gas or electricity problems: Call supplier direct. WILLOWBED HALL AND THE SPORTS PAVILION: Both available for hire. Bookings must be made through the town council offices on 767458. Sports Pavilion – The club room and kitchen are furnished and would make an ideal venue for meetings. Willowbed Hall – the hall has a large equipped kitchen, entrance area and cloakrooms. We can also offer an indoor marquee lining.
PLANNING APPLICATIONS from last four weeks as at 19.10.18:WD/D/18/002309: 2 Pugmill Lane: Erection of side extension (Full)WD/D/18/002311: 6 Spiller Road: Demolition of conservatory & erection of replacement single storey side extension (Full)WD/D/18/002146: Lane East of Mandeville Road: Outline application for a residential development of up to 91 dwellings (Outline)WD/D/18/001376: 14 Cambridge Road, Granby Industrial Estate: Installation of dropped kerb (Full)WD/D/18/002201: Land off Putton Lane: Amendment to planning approval WD/D/16/001682. Minor design alterations (non-material amendment)WD/D18/002200: 496A & B Chickerell Road: Discharge of planning obligations on Section 106 Agreement dated 16.12.15 (Outline application for the erection of 2no. bungalows & garages – WD/D/15/002319) (Modification and Discharge of Planning O)WD/D/18/002051: Unit C5 & C6, Link Park, Chickerell Link Road: Construction of an industrial building, capable of sub-division into small letting units, multiple use classes B1, B2, B8. New hard and soft landscape, car parking, cycle parking & associated external works. (Removal of condition 3 of planning approval 1/D/13/001245: The building hereby approved shall only be used between the hours of 7.30 and 20.00hrs Monday to Sunday and at no time on Christmas Day or Bank Holidays) (Variation of Condition)WD/D/18/001915: 17 Lower Way: Erect First Floor extension (Full)WD/D/18/002140: Anvil Motorcycles, Chickerell Road: Request for confirmation of compliance with condition 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of planning approval WD/D/18/000752 (Compliance with Conditions).
**NEWS FROM CHICKERELL TOWN COUNCIL: The Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has received formal notice from the GP partners at Abbotsbury Road Surgery in Weymouth and Chickerell branch of their decision to terminate their contract (see news page): “GP practices in the Weymouth and Portland area are developing plans to ensure the continuity of primary care services. Chickerell’s Neighbourhood Plan Team had previously identified a need for improved services and a health centre in the area. West Dorset District Council & Chickerell Town Council are in discussions with the CCG about the provision of a new larger health facility. A suitable site close to Willowbed Hall has been identified.”
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ST MARY’S CHURCH, CHICKERELL: Tuesday 6th: Wholeness Eucharist, 7pm.Tuesday 13th, 20th & 27th: Eucharist, 7pm.Thursdays : Eucharist, 10am.Sunday 4th BCP Holy Communion, 8am, All Age Worship 10am; All Souls Service for those who have died, 3pmSunday 11th November REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY: Parish Eucharist at Fleet, 9am. Service of Remembrance starting at 10.30am at Methodist Church. 10.58am: Act of Remembrance in North Square. 11.05am approx., service continues at St Mary’s.Sunday 18th : Second Sunday before Advent: BCP Communion, 8am, Parish Eucharist 9am. Sunday 25th: Christ the King: Parish Eucharist, 10am. Regular meetings: Photography Club – monthly on the last Wednesday at Marshallsay Court Lounge at 7.30pm. Friends Together - at Marshallsay Court lounge. See church noticeboard for information.Social Events - All happen on a regular basis across the town. Please see in church on front pew for more information – or look on the church website www.stmaryschickerell.co.uk Baptism, Weddings and other enquiries: Contact Fr Jeremy Brading. T: 01305 319369 [email protected] notice: Christingle Service with Chickerell Academy Singing Stars on Tuesday December 11th, 7pm.*******************************************************************************************PRAYERHOUSE CHICKERELL: Contact David and Caroline White at [email protected] or 01305 759968 www.prayerhousechickerell. Worship service each Sunday at 10.30am.Busy Bees is our toddler group; Fridays at 10am during term time. Craft activities, singing time and snacks.*******************************************************************************************CHICKERELL GOSPEL HALL: Sundays: 11am Breaking of Bread 3.30pm: Gospel MeetingWednesdays: 7.15pm Prayer, Bible Reading or AddressO taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man that trusteth in him. Psalm 34 v 8*******************************************************************************************CHICKERELL METHODIST CHURCH Services at 10.30am Sundays. Minister: Rev J Quick (783049)4th Mrs Sue Nicklin (Reader’s Service)11th Mr Tim Wells – Remembrance Sunday United Service with St Mary’s18th Mr Mark Barnsley25th Mrs Pam Woodland (United Service of Holy Communion at Lanehouse)NEWS: Craft and Chat Group: Wednesdays 7th and 21st November from 2 – 4pm in the Chapel. Crafty Sew and Sews on Fridays 2nd, 16th and 30th November from 7pm – 9.30pm in the hall. Lunch in Fellowship Together: A shared lunch at 1pm on 14th November in the Chapel. Bring and buy table for Christians Against Poverty. Christmas Lunch on 12th December at the Victoria Inn. Christmas Coffee Morning: Saturday 24th November 10 – 11.30am in the hall. Cakes & bric-a-brac, plus extra tables with jewellery, wooden items, cards, etc. There will also be a special Christmas Raffle and competitions. Coffee and tea. Please come and support us as this will be our last coffee morning in 2018!*******************************************************************************************ST EDMUNDS CHURCH, LANEHOUSE ROCKS ROADSunday services: 11am Holy Communion 4th Sunday of the month 11am family service.*******************************************************************************************LANEHOUSE ROCKS METHODIST CHURCH Lynch Lane, Weymouth4th November C Warren 18th November A Boyden11th November R Scott 25th November P Woodland: Holy Communion and United Service with ChickerellAll services commence at 10.30am. All are welcome.*******************************************************************************************CATHOLIC PARISH OF OUR LADY, STAR OF THE SEAPARISH CHURCH, 1 STAVORDALE ROAD, WEYMOUTH. Tel: 786033Mass: 6pm Saturday, 8am Sunday, 10am Sunday.*******************************************************************************************CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH ‘THE LIGHT’, St John Ambulance Hall, Westwey Road, Weymouth DT4 8SU. Welcomes you to our Sunday Services 6pm for 6.15pm start. Spiritual Healing every Friday 2-3.30pm. Parking available. Website: www.spiritualistchurchweymouth.com*******************************************************************************************THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS: Worship service, Sacrament meeting, every Sunday at 10am. All welcome. Tel: 01305 787240. 396 Chickerell Rd, DT4 9TP.
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A LOOK BACK TO CONTACT MAGAZINE PUBLISHED IN NOVEMBER 1986• The parish council reported that work has been started on the widening of School Hill and the ‘easing’ of bends
in Putton Lane – as part of BPs drilling operations at South Buckland.• Chickerell Methodist Church was seeking singers for its choir as it had been ‘some years since we had a choir
or group of singers in the village’.• Two parishioners from St Mary’s were set to go to Salisbury in November 1986 to present more than £350
donated for the Salisbury Cathedral spire repair appeal. HRH the Prince of Wales was to be in attendance. • The youth club management committee reported that foundations and drains for the new youth centre were in
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NATURE NOTES What has been seen around Chickerell: It has been good to see the Canada Geese flying overhead again – a real wintery sound to hear their call in the mornings and evenings – and to see the Lapwing back in the fields near Portesham by the coast road. Flocks of Lapwing, or ‘Peewit’ as they can be known because of their call, used to be a common sight but it is becoming more difficult to see them now.**************************
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Friday 9th: Cherry Pickers
Saturday 10th: The Leggomen
Friday 16th: Karina & Arron
Friday 23rd: Monkey Jump
Friday 30th: Mamma Feelgood
QUIZ NIGHT: Monday 5th November
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