Acting Clerk:
Mrs S Hampson Cert H. Ed, Dip RSA
Sandley Cottage
6 Alsop Moor Cottages
Alsop-en-le-Dale
Ashbourne DE6 1QS
Tel: 01335 310409
_______________________________________________________________________________ A meeting of Parwich Parish Council will be held on
Tuesday, 13th September 2011 at 7.30 pm in Parwich Village Hall
AGENDA
1. Apologies/Councillors’ attendance register
2. Declaration of personal/prejudicial interest of councillors
3. Minutes of previous meeting
4. Public speaking (10 minutes)
5. Bank mandate
6. Financial regulations
7. Audit
8. Standing orders
9. Insurance
10. Risk assessments
11. Asset register
12. Village committees
13. Snow warden and grit provision
14. Items of account, HMRC, VAT, consideration of budget items for future …..precept setting
15. Member councillor co-option
16. Parish council contracts and rental agreements
17. Highway matters, County Council and District Council issues
18. Planning applications
19. Correspondence and correspondence log to members
20. Queen’s Jubilee 2012 (consideration of outline plan only)
21. Internet access and ICT provision
22. The clerk
23. Items for next agenda
24. Date of next meeting
Will councillors please advise the clerk in advance of parish council meetings if they are unable to attend the meeting to ensure a quorum can be met.
S Hampson
Acting Clerk and Responsible Finance Officer
Parwich Parish council
4th September 2011
Mrs L Bramwell has resigned as Parish Clerk. Mrs S Hampson has been instructed to take upon the role of Acting Clerk to the Parish Council. Please direct any business for the attention of the parish council to Mrs Hampson at the above contact telephone number/address until further notice, including problems with street lighting.
Many thanks to Tim Yeomans for videoing last Saturday’s outstanding Strongman Competition. Tim has edited the whole three hour event down to a marvellous 10 minute film which captures the spirit of this event; the strength and determination of the competitors, the music of The A52s and the enjoyment of the crowds. Let’s hope that this event becomes a regular part of the village calendar.
Amanda B and Rick G have sent us the following message:
Hi to anyone who appreciates a nice ale at a good price and maybe a nice spot of lunch too. Recently visited The Druid Inn in Birchover; it’s been a bit erratic for ages having been under changing management. However a new couple have just taken it over (in the past 6 weeks) and are really keen to make a go of it. Beers (numerous) are VERY well priced, as is a very decent glass of wine. Their new bar/lunch menu is just good old pub food without fancy frills although the downstair restauraunt promises more flair. The bar snacks make it worth a visit for a lunchtime pint though as does the selection of beers on offer. Their new opening times are basically every day lunchtimes and evenings (bar sunday eve) but they accept reservations for weekends when they are busy. After our flying trip there on Sun we’ll definitely be back.
Thank you all of you who helped look for Lucky and spread the word about the fact that she was missing. Jack and I went on a two hour drive yesterday putting up posters and delivering leaflets in the surrounding area resulting in a call from Sitterlow Farm to say that she had been seen there. So we collected her last night and she is back home safe and sound.
The PARWICH.ORG photo gallery has always been our most popular page on the blog. Since it was set up, the main PHOTOS page has received over 16,000 page views – and following the most recent set of updates, we have now have over 5000 photos archived, dating back to December 2007.
To mark this milestone, let’s look back at the most frequently clicked-upon photos of all time!
Alsop resident Natasha Astara is a qualified acupuncturist, with over six years of experience and practice, including traditional Chinese medicine and Five Element.
You can contact Natasha on 01335 390705 / 07816 601782 or via tashspirit@hotmail.com. Her website is here.
Reminder: If you are a resident of our area, we can add details of your own independent local business or service to our directory – and if you have a website, we can also link to it from the LOCAL BUSINESSES section on the right hand column of the blog. These services are provided to you free of charge.
(To read all of Esther Tyson’s “Swimming Underwater” posts on one page, please click here.)
The Grand Finale.
Open Water 3 and Open Water 4, Swanage, Tanville Ledges! It’s 28ºC. I’m in a wet suit, hood, gloves and boots. I have 10kg of weights around my waist and 2kg of ankle weights. We are diving in salt water from a boat in a controlled environment. I have 230psi in my tank and we are about to do our giant stride!
Skills: Equipment preparation, donning and adjustment. Pre-dive safety check. Entry and weight check. 5 point descent. Buoyancy control/Oral inflation fin pivot. Full mask flood and clear. Controlled Emergency Swimming Ascent. Cramp removal. Free descent. Underwater exploration. 5 Point Ascent with a 3 minute safety stop (hovering the correct way up for a change!) and a tired diver tow (I was the tired diver by the end of that!).
16º at the surface, 16º bottom temperature and 7.7 depth. Done, and it all went well.
Winter may seem a little way off but it is only 11 weeks to the same time that we were hit by the freezing weather and deep snow in 2010. Derbyshire County Council has opened a consultation document asking for our views about improving the gritting of the roads. Plans for our community appear to be no different from in previous years, but please do go online and submit your views by Wednesday 12th October. These forms can also be picked up from the library.
The primary roads planned to be gritted are A515 and the B5056. Continue Reading »
Derbyshire County Council have sent out 6,000 copies of a survey to gather residents’ opinions on the services that are provided and to find out how satisfied residents are with the area in which they live. This survey is also available online.
The questionnaire asks you to think about ‘your local area’, which is classed as within 15-20 minutes walking distance from your home.
If you like classical music but don’t want to travel to one of our cities, you can enjoy it locally, at Matlock. The new season forMatlock Music starts on Friday 7th October, 7.30pm at Highfields School, with a concert by the outstanding clarinet player Emma Johnson accompanied by Anthony Hewitt. Tickets for this concert are £14, with reductions if you take out membership. Tickets can normally be purchased on the night or in advance at various venues and online.
The programme for the evening includes:
Debussy – Premiere rapsodie, for clarinet and piano (1911)
Schumann – Romanzen for clarinet and piano, op. 94
Weber – Grand Duo Concertant in E flat, Op. 48, for clarinet and piano
Poulenc – Sonata for clarinet and piano
Tom Johnson – Bedtime Stories, for clarinet/narrator
Elgar – Canto Popolare (1904)
Chopin (arr. Johnson/West) – Fantasy Impromptu for clarinet and piano
Goodman (arr. Johnson/Lenehan) – Gershwin Medley
Other concerts for the season include:
11 November 2011 – Musica Donum Dei (early music)
2 December 2011 – Benjamin Frith (piano)
27 January 2012 – The Rose Trio (wind)
24 February 2012 – Zelkova Quartet
23 March 2012 – Concerto Grosso
27 April 2012 – Gagliano Ensemble
Visitors to this year’s 60th Horticultural Show were treated to another fine display of locally grown flowers, fruits and vegetables. Other categories included eggs, cakes, scones, biscuits, pies, quiches, bread, jams, chutneys, canapes and photographs.
The prize-giving ceremony, which was presided over by Nia Linnell, saw Tony Marshall taking home no fewer than five trophies: a remarkable achievement. This was followed by the ever-popular auction of entries, with Robert Bunting doing the duties as auctioneer.
Congratulations are due to all those who won prizes, and thanks are due to all the entrants, to the Horticultural Society for organising the event, and to the judges who kindly lent their expertise.
Please click “Continue Reading” for a full gallery of this year’s exhibits, along with a complete list of prize winners.
As a number of people have already said, what a great day! Many thanks to Rob, Shaun, Tracy and the many others who organised the event. Although the change of date and venue forced by problems with insurance resulted in fewer competitors than last year, those who stepped up produced a close fought competition.
With old favourites and some new rounds there were ten challengers competing in six events:
Click on table to access as a pdf
Overall Andy Fletcher came first for the second year running, but only just, with Tom Slater just being beaten into second place by 2 points. Steve Lynam and Paul Richmond were joint third, but after a draw on the tiebreak arm wrestling, Steve was given 3rd place on the toss of a coin.
Congratulations to Andy Fletcher, the winner of this afternoon’s Parwich Strongman Competition. Andy, who hails from Belper, held off a determined challenge from Parwich’s Tom Slater, who was only one point behind him as the competition reached its final round. The two contenders eventually went head-to-head, in a nail-biting race to place an increasingly heavy series of tyres on top of oil drums. Although Tom came within a whisker of victory, Andy was just quick enough to see off his rival, claiming the title for the second consecutive year.
Ten contestants took part in this year’s event, which was the first to be held on the Nethergreen football pitch. The size of the field was perfectly suited to the event, giving spectators ample room to view the action, and allowing the organisers to construct an impressive looking arena. All in all, it was great to see this underused space being pressed into service.
As well as the contest itself, spectators were able to enjoy live music from The A52s, a bar and a barbecue, as well a delicious cake stall, an ice cream van, and Lucy Burlinson’s face painting for the children.
Many thanks to Shaun and Tracy Marshall, Rob Keeling and everyone else who helped to organise the event, and also to all those who generously contributed towards the prizes.
Full scores will follow, along with many more photos – but for starters, here’s a small gallery of images from the day. Please click on each image to enlarge it.
Don’t forget it is the 60th Horticultural Show tomorrow. Come along and support the event, either by entering a class, by enjoying the exhibition or by buying produce at the auction.
Remember that entries are open at 8am and close at 11am on the morning of the show.
The show opens to the public at approximately 2:00pm
with trophies and prizes to be presented at 3:00pm.
Auction of exhibits will take place after the presentations.
The new issue of the parish magazine for the Peak Five parishes is now available from each of the churches, via the Peak Five website or by clicking on the image below:
This is quite a large file so may take a couple of minutes to download. For Parwich look out for the Harvest Festival Service on Sunday 18th September and the ever popular Harvest Supper on Monday 19th.
2.30pm – Registration, Bar opens and The A52s are going to play for a half hour or so.
3/3.30pm – BBQ should be ready
3-3.15pm – Event starts. We will run through three events and then have a break for about 45 minutes
Interval – The A52s will play some more.
Then we shall re-commence with last three events.
After the events have finished and winner is announced we will draw the raffle.
The A52s will then play another slot. We have the bar until 8pm.
Event for all to try.
We have a tyre flinging event for the non competing adults and a mini tyre flinging event for the kids.
£1.00 adults and 50p for the under 14’s, each winner will win a prize
Two losses this week, however, if a team can have a ‘good’ loss then we had one this week!
Tuesday League – 30 August – Away – Hathersage
As said on previous occasions this is a cracking venue. It’s a pity that they have such a good bowls team! They are second in the league and although we gave a good account of ourselves we were beaten by the better side 77 to 64. Even after this loss because other results favoured us we have managed to stay in fifth place in the league. Only one more match to play this season let us hope that we have a good game. We may even sneak into fourth.
Again a nice green, shame about the quarry silos! Although we only won one of the three doubles games we only were behind by 8 points. In the singles we won 4 out of the six singles and won this encounter by seven points. The overall result was therefore 128 to Lafarge and 127 to us. A good loss!
Due to concerns raised about potential noise levels in the village, we conducted a further more extensive assessment which is quite technical but does conclude that noise may only be faintly audible under rare conditions, i.e. downwind at high wind speeds.
We hope to submit a planning application within the next 10 days.
Unfortunately due to a lack of a teacher the pilates classes on Wednesday night due to start Sept 7th will be cancelled at least for the forthcoming term. Hopefully a teacher will be found and the classes can continue in the winter.
The Over 60’s afternoon class will continue as normal, but the first class date is still to be confirmed
It is one month to the evening since I began training to scuba dive! I’m back at the pool side with Eileen, and we are about to finish off confined water 4 and 5. I feel calm and collected…?! On the cards tonight is the hover; I imagine Tom Cruise at the end of his line, but it doesn’t quite work out like that…
Heather is also going for her open water 3 and 4 on Sunday, and we are to do most of the skills together this evening.
We enter the pool with a giant stride. My mask is less tight, because I’ve been wearing a hood. (I leave it as is, in the hope that I have less of a mark on my face when we finish.) Making sure I hold the mask firmly as I hit the water, it remains in place and no water is leaking in… cool. We buddy up for a 5 point descent and all is well. I have to remember: part of ‘sorted’ is to elevate and equalise.
I’ve struggled a little with buoyancy this evening. Even with my BCD empty of air, my body wants to float and it’s difficult keeping both knees on the tiles. We watch Eileen do the hover, and then it’s my turn. In my attempt I turn turtle and hover upside down. Feet in the air and totally un-Cruise like; what is going on?! I can just see myself – what a picture! Hover complete and finally into an upright position (with help), I kneel on the bottom.
Tea & Cakes are being served in the churchyard at Alsop between 11am – 4pm tomorrow (Monday). It is the final one in 2011 so come along and support this event, in aid of Alsop Church. Stunning views, delicious cakes, not to be missed.
Our small coffee coloured cat has gone missing. She has no collar although she is chipped. If you have seen her anywhere, please let Lynne from White Meadow House (the Red House) know on 474. Thank you.
We have been having a fair amount of success of late. This week we had mixed fortunes: winning one match, but losing the other.
Tuesday league.
23 August – Away – Bakewell.
Bakewell were ahead of us in the league and we always do not play well on their green. The green is long and thin, not the usual square. Anyway, we managed to win three out of the four games and came out winners at 71 to 46. Because of this handsome win, we have overtaken them in the league and have moved up to fifth place. Next week, the penultimate match of the season: we are away to the top of the league!
Next match: 30 August – Away – Hathersage.
Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Again, Whitworth Park are a strong team – and so it proved in the match. We only managed to win one of the three doubles, and we shared the six singles three each. The result was therefore 125 to Whitworth and 115 to us. Not a bad score, considering we lost.
This exciting film tells the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
Over the next 127 hours, Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is finally rescued. A visceral, thrilling story, that will take an audience on a never before experienced journey and prove what we can do when we choose life.
Directed by Danny Boyle (of Slumdog Millionaire fame), starring James Franco, nominated for several Oscars.
In the warm and comfortable Parwich Memorial Hall Friday 16th September 7.45PM
Free Entrance. Refreshments. Raffle.
Silent projection. Hi Fi Sound.
Special hi-fi headphones for those with hearing difficulties, please ask.
If you have any events in September or October that you would like including in September’s Diary page in the Parish Magazine, please let me know by Sunday. Either email me directly or at parwich@hotmail.co.uk. Thanks Jane
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