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Dear Resident

We are introducing a new e-forum (email forum) to the Police Community Messaging Service, which will give you the chance to contribute to the setting of priorities in your neighbourhood.

As you may be aware, each of our Safer Neighbourhood policing teams hold a meeting every three months to set priorities, offering residents the chance to select what their local police officers and other agencies target.

The aim of our e-forum is to make it easier for you to have a say on priorities, so email and tell us what you would like your team to target.

Your concerns will be sent to the Tissington area Safer Neighbourhood Team and they will discuss all responses at their next forum meeting which will be held on:

Monday 13th December 2010 at 7.30pm
at Parwich Village Hall

Each team works in partnership with local agencies, which include parish, town, district and county councils, housing associations, Derbyshire Youth Service, Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service, Neighbourhood Watch among others, to help keep your area a safe, clean and pleasant place to live.

Priorities can include a wide variety of issues, including anti-social or nuisance behaviour, graffiti or vandalism, speeding, parking or anything which you feel impacts on the quality of life for you and your neighbours.

You are still more than welcome to attend the meeting if you would prefer to speak to officers in person or you can also call our non emergency telephone number, 0345 123 33 33. The old 0845 number will be deactivated from 31st December, so please always use the number highlighted.

Yours faithfully,

Chief Superintendent Peter Lewis
High Peak and Derbyshire Dales (B Division)

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Circuit Training – Thursday

Second session of circuit training starts at 6pm, this Thursday in the Memorial Hall.  For those of you that didn’t manage to make it last week, it is run by Mark “ReMARKable U All Body Circuit Training”.   The session lasts about an hour is is only £4 per person. All you need is suitable exercise trainers/clothing and a bottle of water. Anyone over the age of 14 is welcome no matter what your level of fitness is. Under 14’s should be accompanied by an adult.

Everyone, all 17 of us, seemed to have a great time last week, you work at your own level, there is no pressure, so why not come along and get fit during the dark nights of winter?  For more information contact Mark on tel. 07968 189486 or email alleypara1@hotmail.com

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Circuit Training starts tomorrow

Starting on Thursday 4th November at 6pm in The Memorial Hall, there will be a new one hour circuit training session by “ReMARKable U All Body Circuit Training”.

Entry is £4 per person per session. All you need is suitable exercise trainers/clothing and a bottle of water. There will be a medical form to fill out at the first session on arrival and anyone over the age of 14 is welcome no matter what your level of fitness is. Under 14’s should be accompanied by an adult.

Why not come along and get fit during the dark nights of winter?

For more information contact Mark on tel. 07968 189486 or email alleypara1@hotmail.com

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Pilates

Formation of a Pilates Committee – Tomorrow night at 7.30pm. 
Please come along and support this venture, which hopefully may lead to subsided classes for teenagers and the over 60’s.

We are hoping to apply for a grant to subsidise Pilates for 11-18 year olds and the over 60s. We already have a lively group of teenagers who have a class from 7.30 -8.30pm on a Wednesday, but we would like to reduce the amount they pay to encourage more to take part. We would also like to apply for funding to hold some taster classes for the over 60s, with gentle stretching exercises that could be done in a chair for those with reduced mobility. Due to the availability of the hall they would probably take place in the afternoon, maybe followed by refreshments.

In order to apply for a grant we have to be a group with a bank account. We are intending to keep this as simple as possible with minimal committee members and meetings, however we will need to have an inaugural meeting to agree a constitution and appoint committee members and this will take place at 7.30pm on 3rd November, immediately after the Pilates session, at the Memorial Hall.

Please come and support this, whether you currently do Pilates or not. Anyone with ideas for the over 60s sessions would be particularly welcome.     Rebecca 390318

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Starting on Thursday 4th November at 6pm in The Memorial Hall, there will be a new one hour circuit training session by “ReMARKable U All Body Circuit Training”.

Entry is £4 per person per session. All you need is suitable exercise trainers/clothing and a bottle of water. There will be a medical form to fill out at the first session on arrival and anyone over the age of 14 is welcome no matter what your level of fitness is. Under 14’s should be accompanied by an adult.

Why not come along and get fit during the dark nights of winter?

For more information contact Mark on tel. 07968 189486 or email alleypara1@hotmail.com

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Memorial Hall use

Many people in the village will have received a flier advertising an event in the small meeting room at the Memorial Hall on Monday afternoon.  This has prompted the following email from Keith Parsons.  This email does not reflect the views of the Blog Team, who request potential commentors to confine their remarks to the issues.

BAN AND BOYCOTT THIS COMMERCIAL EVENT !

On 22nd June I wrote to Mike Gerrard-Pearse to complain about his statement at the Hall AGM that non-local and business rates had now bee set for use of the new Hall.

Specifically he said, “Booking rates have increased as reported last year – local rates have increased by £1 or £2, non-local have increased by £5 & a new commercial rate has been introduced.”  (more…)

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Many thanks to Martin C who has compiled the following video showing the official opening of the Memorial Hall:

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Please click on ‘Continue Reading’ to view a slideshow of the opening ceremony that took place on 25th September. There are quite a few pictures, so it may take a while to load.

Many thanks to John F-S for the expert photography!

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The September weather was perfect for the landmark official opening of the new Memorial Hall. The sun shone down, setting the facility off perfectly as people began to arrive for the opening ceremony.

Click on ‘Continue Reading’ for an account of the event.

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The real thing

Despite rumours that their tribute band the B52s were stepping in, everyone was ecstatic when the real A52s took the stage last night.

As our roving photographer commented:

What a professional looking lot.  And you’re never too young to start!”

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Today – Everyone is invited

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Harvest Supper Snaps

Thank you to JF-S for sending in these photos, which show the Harvest Supper and Auction on Monday night. The event raised £350 which will go to The Padley Centre in Derby.  Click on any photo to enlarge.



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Harvest Supper Tomorrow

Tickets are still available for the harvest supper, but please do ring Martin C (529) as soon as possible.

If you are able to help set up the hall, please come along about 2ish.

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Film Night Tomorrow

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Memorial Hall – Everyone Welcome

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A terracotta pot, approximately 6 inches tall with black writing on the front was left behind in the Memorial Hall at the end of yesterday’s Flower and Vegetable Show.  It had been holding a mixed bunch of herbs and if anyone knows where it was put could you please let me know.

With thanks, Rita

Updated 8/9/10: Rita would like to thank the Horticultural Society for keeping her pot safe and returning it to her.

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After taking a year’s break in 2009, Parwich’s annual horticultural show returned in fine style on Sunday, with another stunning display of local vegetables, fruits, flowers, pot plants, cakes, loafs, flans, biscuits, jams, chutneys, eggs and other assorted goodies.

Three excellent new categories were introduced this year, two of them (the trifles and the sculptures made from bar snacks) being specifically designed to showcase the skills of Parwich’s menfolk. There were also plenty of entries in the horticultural photography competition, which saw the memorial hall’s brand new display boards being put to use for the first time. Thanks are due to the organisers of the Parwich Panoramic Five, for raising most of the funding for these new boards.

Prize giving took place at 3pm, with Jo Larkin presenting the winners with their trophies. Full results will follow shortly. The day then concluded with the traditional auction of produce, as officiated by Robert Bunting.

Many thanks to the Horticultural Society, for organising such a well-run and popular event.



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Today the planting was completed (well almost) at the Memorial Hall.  There are 8 plants outstanding, which will be planted when the grass seeding is done in September.  All bar one of the beds has been muched and this final one will be covered over the weekend, once we have planted the hundreds of snowdrops that were donated by different people in the village.

It is super to see the final phase completed ready for the Official Opening on the 25th September, to which everyone is invited.  Again a huge thank you has to go to the Horticultural Society for their massive financial contribution towards the planting and to those individuals and groups that donated the 5 trees.

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Bits & Pieces regarding the Hall

Now the hall is finished, any bits and pieces that were being rehoused during the build can be returned, if you have things like tables, chairs, crockery etc please either drop them into Janet at the Pub or give her a ring on 212.

The landscaping of the hall will be done tomorrow.  The landscaping company, Pople will be out about 8.30am and planting will take much of the day.  It would be greatly appreciated if people could avoid using the car park.

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Memorial Hall official opening

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The increased entry this year (107 runners in the senior event and the junior events more than doubled) has had a positive effect on the money raised from the race evening from £ 313.00 in 2009 to £ 448.55 this year, which will go toward the Memorial Hall as it did last year.  It is envisaged that this will go towards display boards, for use by Stepping Stones and other groups.

There are so many people to thank that it would be a difficult task to list them all, but special thanks go to all the marshals, the first aiders, the ladies on registration who kept working on the timesheets long after the race was over, all our roving photographers and Sandra who organized a raffle which raised £65.00.

We received a lot of positive feedback from the runners who commented on the quality of course marking, marshaling and slick registration. Thanks to all – we are already looking forward to next year.

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Parwich Memorial Hall Management Committee Meeting
7.30pm – 9.00pm Thursday 29th July 2010
The Memorial Hall

Agenda

1.    Apologies
2.    Minutes of previous meeting
3.    Matters arising
4.    Update of User Groups and Representatives
5.    Signing of Minute Book
6.    Day to day running of Hall

        To include (if any)
                Finance update
                Bookings update
                Health and Safety issues
                Entertainment Licence
                Projection screen for meeting room
                Hall cleaning/janitorial issues and ideas
               
7.    Building the Future
        To include:
               Update from the Design and Planning Group
               Update from the funding Group 
               Feedback through dialogue/questionnaire/survey for the BLF Monitoring

8.     AOB
         Date of next meeting

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It was clear that on the day of planting there were problems with the standard of the plants and soil. The committee immediately expressed their dissatisfaction, and from that moment have been liaising with the Landscaping Company and Wildgoose, but unfortunately things always take longer when you have to pursue things in a professional manner.

Today, 20 tons of topsoil were delivered.  Some of the beds have been excavated to remove the soil, whilst others have had smaller amounts of soil removed before being topped up and the beds at the rear are having their soil levels generally raised. The beds excavated by the community notice board were done so in an attempt to remove as much of the existing bindweed as possible and minimise this problem. The landscaping company has removed the majority of the shrubs; new ones will be sourced, inspected, planted and bark mulch will be added to all beds. It will be several weeks before the planting is redone.

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There were some wonderful entries in the Parwich Horticultural Society Childrens’ Show this year. It was clear that a lot of hard work and imagination had gone into the entries. Many thanks to the children (and parents!) who worked so hard to create such a fine set of exhibits. Well done especially to all those who won prizes!

Below is a gallery of the entries. Click on each picture to enlarge it.

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The new Memorial Hall was put to good use during Parwich Open Gardens this Sunday. It was great to see so many people buying plants, playing tombola, enjoying tea and scones in the main hall and drinking up the sunshine on the new terrace. Hard-working volunteers in the kitchen enjoyed the extra space and found the continuous hot water and ‘4 minute’ dishwasher to be of enormous use given the demand.

Below are a few pictures showing the new facility in action. Note the Children’s Show will be covered in another post.

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The Memorial Hall has now been handed over to the committee, and as with any new development there are of course a number of  issues that still have to be sorted.  This period of time is called snagging in the trade and has been going on throughout this week.  

To update you on the hole in the car park, the leak in the heating system is sorted, and the complete commission of this will take place on Monday.  There will be a complete new car park relaid shortly.

The landscaping that was featured in an earlier photo diary was halted, as the committee are not happy with the quality of the soil, plants and planting by the contractors.  This issue is being pursued by the committee in conjunction with Peak Park.

The photo below shows the rear with the newly seeded grass crete, by the Legion.  This section will be taped off for the next few weeks to allow the grass seed to grow.

The photos below show where we were at the beginning of October, through the exceptionally snowy winter to today. 
 

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1) Committee and Sub-groups – your volunteer teams have yet again shown fantastic commitment through their time given to fund raising and ensuring good detail design and quality in the build.

2)  Day-to-day running of Hall

  • Cinema – continued success using the Church, with thanks to them for allowing this to continue.
  • Insurances for new Hall now in place so Hall and Committee members are suitably protected
  • Bookings’ Secretary is again taking bookings and reports that there has been a good level of interest for when the Hall is finished.
  • Stepping Stones will finish their term at Bradbourne, to give them time to move all their equipment back in the summer holiday for a September start in Parwich.
  • Booking rates have increased as reported last year – local rates have increased by £1 or £2, non-local have increased by £5 & a new commercial rate has been introduced. (more…)

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The next meeting takes place in the Memorial Hall from 7.30pm to 9pm on Thursday June 17th. Here is the agenda.

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Missing Crockery

We seem to be missing some cups and saucers and pudding dishes from the village hall. If anyone has them or knows their whereabouts could you please let me know

Thanks Val K Tel:458

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Hole in the new car park.

In case anyone is wondering why there is suddenly a hole in the new Memorial Hall car park, it appears that pressure to the heating system had dropped, and engineers from Eco vision have traced it to a possible leak to one of the bore holes.

More tests are to be carried out, but meanwhile the system will still work on three bore holes.

– Patti B.

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Thank you to Patti B for this report on how the first meeting in the new Memorial went:

Well, the AGM last night gave many of us the first opportunity to see the new hall. The overwhelming feeling and comments from those attending were ones of sheer pleasure with the hall and all its details.

‘Amazing’, ’beautiful’,’ I never expected it to have all this’,’ we must have the best village hall in England’ were just a few of the comments.

People wandered around examining everything from the ‘state of the art’ kitchen to the toilets – six in total complete with a baby changing station.. There were many comments about the feeling of space in the lobby, ‘dramatic’ was a word heard more than once. The lobby, with its natural limestone floor, forms a natural centre with the hall, toilets, meeting room and kitchen leading from it.

The hall has a beautiful oak floor and is light, airy and luxurious. The high ceiling is lined with acoustic panelling and lit with bright, practical pendant lights. People commented on the quality and attention to detail.

‘I never expected such a high quality interior’ was one remark.

There are also wall lights for background lighting for entertainments. We were able to try the new chairs, which were very comfortable –no need to bring a cushion now and they can all be stacked on a trolley and wheeled away to a storage room when not needed. The new tables, which can also be locked together to form a stage, were also in use for the first time

The electric blackout blinds and high window openers in the meeting room were definitely a bit ‘toys for the boys’ with several men needing to satisfy their button pressing manias.

The totally stainless steel kitchen is large, impressive and professional with an extensive range of appliances such as a fridge, freezer, range cooker, dishwasher and warming ovens. One village resident was totally overwhelmed and said she wished it were hers.

The meeting room, which interconnects to the main hall, has folding glazed oak doors leading to the outside terrace. It is a more intimate room with a carpeted floor, which will have many future uses.

We were not able to go outside because work is still in progress but we could see the outside paving and landscaping and there was already talk of getting a barbecue to go out on the terrace.

It was evident from all the very positive responses that Parwich and its surrounding villages now have a new village hall to be proud of.

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Tonight’s AGM will be the first meeting in the new Hall, so it is an opportunity to see inside.  The lobby, the hall itself and the toilets are all that can be seen this evening.

The building will be officially handed over to us on Friday this week, though the grounds will not be handed over until next Friday (18th June), just in time for Open Gardens and the Children’s Show on Sunday 20th June.

The Hall Memorial can be booked through Janet at the Sycamore Inn (tel. 390 212), though there may be changes on the Committee following this evening’s meeting.

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Memorial Hall AGM

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This week has seen a lot of finishing work inside and outside the Hall as well as the planting in the grounds (see last week’s post for the list of trees planted).

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The dry stone walls have been going up around the site over the past few weeks, with the hard landscaping nearing completion.

Also the soft landscaping should start after the Bank Holiday.  Five trees, two Sorbus Sheerwater Seedling (mountain ash) and three Betula utilis jacquemontii (white barked Silver Birch) will be planted. All the trees have been kindly donated. The rest of the planting scheme was planned with the landscape architect from Peak Park and will be carried out by a  landscaping company.  

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