All future Drop-In meetings will be back in the Village Hall. The next two sessions will be held on:
18th March and the 1st April, 10.30 until 12.00 noon
Yvonne Collins 01235 850989
The Next Oil Order
OIL SYNDICATE
The next order is scheduled to be placed on Monday 15th March. To be included, I need to have your orders by Saturday 13th March at the latest.
My contact details are (preferably by e-mail) colin.batchelor@eggconnect.net or by telephone 01491 671253 (after 7.00pm).
Colin Batchelor
Daylight Burglaries in the Area
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH REPORT
I have been informed of 2 burglaries that occurred in West Hagbourne last week in broad daylight.
This is very close to home and I would urge people NOT to open their doors to unfamiliar callers particularly if they are in the house alone. These are just the people that distraction burglars are targeting.
If in any doubt simply do not answer the door.
Anyone calling from Water Board, Council, Southern Electricity etc etc should be wearing an obvious identity tag. If not, simply do not let them in!
Celia Davies 850684
Can you Help with the Grass Cutting
The Parish Council is looking for volunteers to join the grass cutting team. You will be required to use our mowers to cut the Recreation Ground and the Children’s Play Area three, or possibly four times during the next 8 months. The job takes about 3 hours working in pairs. A schedule will be produced giving you the approximate date that it will be your turn but the actual time and day can be anytime agreed with your working partner
Safety training and any other help you may need will be provided. If you can help us out please give me a call.
Mike Brown 850135
The Annual Litter Pick
This years Litter Pick is being arranged for Saturday 20th March. If you can spare us an hour or two, please come along to the Village Hall at about 9.30 where there will be a cup of tea and biscuits awaiting you before setting out to help clean up our parish.
Mike Brown 850135
Enjoy a Concert and Help to Wipe Out Polio
Since 1985, Rotary Clubs all over the world have been funding an immunization campaign against polio, in conjunction with the World Health Organisation and UNICEF. Rotary internationally has raised over £500,000,000 for this purpose. In 1985, over 350,000 cases of polio were reported throughout the world; by 2008 this number had been reduced to only 2,000. The intention now is to wipe out polio totally and to save all children from being condemned to a lifetime of paralysis from this terrible disease.
The Rotary Club of Oxford Isis is organising two musical events to help fund the campaign:-
A Gala Concert at 7.00pm on Saturday 20th February at the Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Oxford. The Concert features the Young Lions Jazz Group, Marion Flanagan’s School of Irish Dancing (including Riverdance) along with other young musicians and dancers. Tickets cost £15-00 and include light refreshments.
Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen in Concert at 7.00 p.m.on Saturday 27th March at Radley College Theatre near Abingdon. There will be a bar and tickets at £20-00 include a light supper.
Tickets are available for both events from Robert Fitchett at Upton Fruit Farm (01235 850808) or e-mail fitchettupton@ukonline.co.uk
Village Hall progress
The project is still well ahead of schedule but it will not be complete until near to the end of February as time will be needed to dry out the building before some of the finishing work can be completed.
Meanwhile here are a couple of photos so that you can see the progress to date.
Improve your French
Didcot Twinning Association brings you JOURNÉE FRANÇAISE (FRENCH DAY)
When: Saturday March 27th 2010
Time: 10.30 am until 3pm
Where: Ladygrove Park Primary School, Avon Way, Didcot, OX11 7GB
Cost: £15 per person. Reductions for more than one person from the same address.
Come and learn/improve your French language skills.
All ages and levels catered for.
Cook and learn, sing and learn. GCSE oral coaching
More details: www.didcottwinning.org.uk
Or call Sue Totterdell 01235 850080
Sheralyn Hares 01491 837718
Refuse Collection Latest News 8/01/2010
The Vale of White Horse District Council today announced that waste and recycling collections in District will return to normal non-holiday collection days from Monday (11 January), subject to the weather not getting worse.
Residents are therefore asked to put waste and recycling out for collection on the days they would normally have scheduled collections on in non-holiday periods.
The decision to return to standard collection dates was taken after prolonged adverse weather caused a significant backlog, meaning that it was no longer possible to run waste and recycling collections to the planned holiday schedule.
It is hoped that collections run as smoothly as possible next week, however in view of the weather forecast for next week problems may still occur with collections in particular areas where access is difficult because of road surface conditions, either because of the risk of damage to property by sliding vehicles or where the health and safety of residents and collection staff may be compromised.
Vale waste contractors Veolia will be sending large waste collection vehicles to clear main roads backed up by smaller street cleaning trucks which should be able to address the less accessible areas.
Householders who live in side roads and less accessible areas are asked to try to get their waste to the nearest clear road on their collection day.
Volumes of waste will be high and resources will be stretched. Priority will be given to waste collections, however green box recycling and brown bin crews will attempt to complete their rounds as best they can. Similarly, the clinical waste collection crew will do their utmost to get round all on their list on the appointed day.
Matt Prosser, Strategic Director for the Vale of White Horse District Council, said: “As a result of the adverse weather the last few weeks have obviously been quite a difficult period in terms of waste collections, not just in the Vale but throughout the country and we would like to express our thanks to our residents for their patience throughout this time.
“Hopefully the conditions will get better over the next few days so that we can begin to collect waste and recycling as normal. By going back to non-holiday collection days, rather than trying to catch up on the original schedule, we should be able to carry out as many collections as possible rather than having to make detours to areas that have had missed collections.”
Residents who are unsure of their standard collection days should see the Vale’s website www.whitehorsedc.gov. or look under Calendar in this website.
Upton in the snow
Upton woke on January 6th to about 15cm of snow, with roads out of the village virtually impassable. The following night saw temperatures drop in nearby Benson to -17.7C, the lowest in the UK.
The following photographs were taken by Ian Robertson, Mike Brown and Esther Sassoon Blandford.
