Monday July 13, 2009 by Jane B
Update from your local officer
At the moment our area continues to have a low number of crimes and incidents being reported to Police. We have had our most recent Community Forum, and have a new concern raised by the public to concentrate on. Some work has been done in relation to road safety issues, again some items as a result of concerns raised by yourselves.
One offence that isn’t that common – bedsheets were stolen from a washing line at Sandybrook between 6pm and 7pm, on Thursday 25th June 2009. More common was an offence of Criminal Damage committed between 8.00pm on Saturday 27th June 2009 and 00.50am the following morning. A vehicle parked in Parwich village had some windows and wing mirrors smashed.
Concern was raised about the number of people jumping off Mappleton Bridge and swimming in the river on 2nd July 2009. Officers did attend and speak to people there. The Parish Council have also raised this issue. We are looking at ways of making sure people are aware of the dangers, along with problems with litter and their behaviour to road users.
Another unusual incident occurred at Alsop en le Dale on Friday 3rd July 2009. Entry was gained to a barn and hay was set alight between 4am and 4.30am. Both Fire and Police Services attended. Continue Reading »
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Monday July 13, 2009 by Jane B
Tonight’s Memorial Hall Committee Meeting has been postponed until later in the week. Amanda will email members with the new date.
Thanks
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Sunday July 12, 2009 by Jane B
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What’s on Where this Week
|
| Date |
Time |
Event |
Location |
| Monday |
7.30pm |
PCC Meeting |
Parwich Church |
| Monday |
8pm |
Memorial Hall Committee Meeting
Postponed |
Memorial Hall |
| Tuesday |
11am |
Over 60’s Trip to Trentham Gardens |
depart The Green |
| Tueday |
7.30pm |
Council Meeting |
Memorial Hall |
| Wednesday |
6pm & 7.15pm |
Pilates |
Memorial Hall |
| Thursday |
7.30pm |
Moving to Derbyshire – a life saving experience – a WI event |
Memorial Hall |
| Friday |
6pm |
Parwich v Whitworth Park |
Away Bowling Match |
| Sunday |
10.45am |
Family Service with Baptism |
Parwich Church |
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Sunday July 12, 2009 by Blog Team
Get your Summer holidays off to a flying start by entering the ‘Lights of Parwich‘ competition.
Print off the pictures so you can locate ‘the Lights‘ and email your answers to parwich@hotmail.co.uk.
Click here for details of the competition.
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Sunday July 12, 2009 by Peter T
A black 3ft screw-in car aerial was found this morning (Sunday 12th July) on the road outside St Peter’s Church, Parwich.
If you were parked on the Green over the last few days, perhaps you were at the concert last night, check yours isn’t missing. If it might be yours, please add a comment below or email parwich@hotmail.co.uk.
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Sunday July 12, 2009 by Peter T
A ring was found in St. Peter’s Church after the concert last night. If you think it might be yours phone Martin on 390 – 529.
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Sunday July 12, 2009 by Blog Team
Today (Sunday July 12th) sees the second of this year’s two Pikehall Harness Racing fixtures. The first race starts at 2pm, and admission is £8 (plus free admission for children under 14). If you’ve never attended one of these events before, then it’s an experience which is well worth sampling.
Click here for the official website, and click here for our photo gallery from 2008.
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Sunday July 12, 2009 by Peter T
Last weeks readings are:
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|
Rainfall
in mm
|
Pressure
in Mb am
|
Pressure
in Mb pm
|
Temperature in ºC
|
|
Max
|
Min
|
|
Sun 5th
|
0
|
1008.9
|
1008.5
|
23.9
|
13.6
|
|
Mon 6th
|
9
|
1005.3
|
1002.1
|
18.7
|
12.9
|
|
Tue 7th
|
20
|
1002.3
|
1006.8
|
17.9
|
9.1
|
|
Wed 8th
|
7
|
1007.9
|
1013.9
|
17.4
|
11.5
|
|
Thu 9th
|
0
|
1012.9
|
1014.1
|
18.0
|
10.4
|
|
Fri 10th
|
0
|
1014.6
|
1014.7
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20.5
|
9.5
|
|
Sat 11th
|
7
|
1012.4
|
1008.4
|
20.4
|
11.7
|
|
Total
|
43
|
|
Average
|
19.5
|
11.2
|
Fortunately the rain stayed away for J & L’s daughter’s wedding yesterday. Best wishes to the bride and groom. We were also lucky for last night’s concert, the rain continuing to hold off while we had refreshments in the churchyard, only starting towards the end of the second half.
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Saturday July 11, 2009 by Peter T
A young swallow about to receive its lunch
John F-S
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Saturday July 11, 2009 by Peter T
Parwich Church is looking very fine with GS and AK’s flower arrangements ready for tonight’s concert. Tickets have sold well and if you want to sit in the nave phone tel. 01335 390 529 to reserve your seat, with only a few left. Otherwise if you just turn up tonight, there should be seats in the side aisles which may have a restricted view. For more details and more photos: Continue Reading »
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Saturday July 11, 2009 by Blog Team
To win a £10 cash prize – kindly donated by our photographer JFS – all you need to do is correctly identify the “Lights of Parwich” shown below.
Why not get out and explore Parwich? Alternatively, why not get some peace and quiet by sending out the children to identify the pictures?
Email your answers to parwich@hotmail.co.uk by 7pm Sunday 26th July. The entry with the most correct answers wins.
Click on each picture to enlarge it, or click here to get them all in an easy to print two-page pdf.
Continue Reading »
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Saturday July 11, 2009 by Peter T
click on poster to enlarge
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Friday July 10, 2009 by Blog Team
After many years’ service to Parwich Primary School, Mrs Black and Mrs Williamson are leaving. Staff, pupils and members of the village both past and present are invited to an afternoon of song and music in celebration of their time here. RSVP Parwich Primary School on 01335 390245 or at headteacher@parwich.derbyshire.sch.uk. Please pass on information about this open invitation to anyone who might not be a regular blog reader. We hope to see as many people there as possible.
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Friday July 10, 2009 by Blog Team
Look out for a competition ‘The Lights of Parwich‘ (£10 cash first prize) coming soon at parwich.org.
The competition involves identifying pictures of lights in Parwich, so keep your eyes open.
You will be able to print out on two sheets all the photographs in the competition and then set off around the village, or better still send out your loved ones and have a spell of peace and quiet.
Youngsters looking for some extra pocket money for the summer holidays, this is a great opportunity.
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Friday July 10, 2009 by Peter T
Congratulations to Janet and Steve on coming fourth in the DDEP (Derby & Derbyshire Enterprise Partnership) Rural Retailer of the Year 2009. The results were announced at a presentation in Buxton this morning. Two other Peak District village shops (Litton and Winster) were in the top three. The prize is money to spend on the Shop.
Click here for more information on the competition.
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Friday July 10, 2009 by Lynne
This little blue tit and his mate spend a couple of hours every morning tapping on our window panes. Does anyone know what that’s all about?
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Thursday July 9, 2009 by Lynne
For anyone concerned about “suspected swine flu” in school, we have been asked to clarify the following: 1. the medical advice given to the person in question is that it is probably not swine flu; 2. treatment was given as a precaution because they suffer from asthma; and 3. the person in question seems now to be recovering fast and so has only been unwell for a day or two.
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Thursday July 9, 2009 by Jane B
As part of National Parks week – a series of events have been organised in the Peak District. Several of them have a theme – Peak into the Past – 3 of the events are almost on our doorstep, one down Dovedale, another from Hartington to Pilsbury Castle & the third from Minninglow Car Park. Others are just a drive away. The events look varied, interesting and can involve all the family. Please note that some events must be pre-booked and others you can just turn up on the day.
Monday 27 July
Dovedale at Dusk
2 mile easy going walk, ‘watching and listening’ as the sun goes down. Meet Milldale car-park (GR: SK137547) at 7.30 p.m. finish 9.30 p.m. Torch useful. (suitable for familes)
Tuesday 28 July
Hartington to Pilsbury – 1066 and All That
Family Activity – A dramatised 3½-mile walk for families and history lovers, from Hartington to Pilsbury, helping celebrate the Festival of British Archaeology. Meet characters from the past, hear about archaeological finds. Children can wear medieval costume, sample medieval food, make banners. Booking essential on 01298 84992, £2 charge. Meet 10am, Hartington village bus stop. Finish 4pm. Bring picnic lunch, sturdy shoes, waterproofs. Continue Reading »
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Thursday July 9, 2009 by Peter T
Arley Hall gardens
Parwich & District Horticultural Society has only a few places left on its trip to Arley Hall on Wednesday 22nd July. The coach leaves the Green at 9-30am and includes a guided tour of the gardens with the head gardener paid for by the Society (there are fewer places on the tour than on the coach, so if the coach is full Society Members will be given priority on the guided tour). Costs are £10 for members and £15 for non-members.
If you want to reserve a place contact Liz tel. 302 as soon as possible.
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Thursday July 9, 2009 by Lynne
Parwich Primary School is today sending home to the parents in the school a letter informing them that a child or member of staff in school may have swine flu and is receiving the appropriate treatment. Click on the picture of the letter in this post to get more information.
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Thursday July 9, 2009 by Peter T
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Thursday July 9, 2009 by Peter T
click on poster to enlarge
Click here to download an entry form as a pdf.
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Wednesday July 8, 2009 by Peter T
A JFS photo, click to enlarge
What has it spotted?
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Wednesday July 8, 2009 by Peter T
This week’s Ashbourne News Telegraph is available in the Sycamore Shop or on-line. Local interest articles include:
- p. 4 £90,000 grants could make village hall dream a reality is an article on the recent grants towards the Memorial Hall redevelopment project, including the Peak Park Sustainable Development Grant, that mean we are now well within £100,000 of reaching our £868,000 target. One of the photos taken in the pub is in the paper and another can be seen on the paper’s website.
- p. 11 An Alsop barn burst into flames on Crosslow Lane last Friday as the high temperatures caused the hay stored there to ignite. Firefighters from Ashbourne and Buxton attended.
- p.20 & 21 A Barrowload of Fun at Village Wakes is a two page spread on Parwich Wakes 2009. With photos from the Saturday, the Hill Race and a special focus on the Wheelbarrow Race, it is well worth looking at (click on the image below and go p.20 to see the photos published in the paper). The paper’s website also has a short slide show of the Wheelbarrow Race. Don’t forget there are lots more Wakes photos here at parwich.org.
Continue Reading »
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Tuesday July 7, 2009 by Jane B
** Please note that issues concerning Parwich were covered at this meeting and can be seen in bold below, including – Speed of Vehicles entering Parwich, buses coming through Alsop, our concerns about the grass verges and praise for Parwich.org.***
Minutes of the Tissington Safer Neighbourhood Community Forum held on Thursday 25th June, 7.30pm at Thorpe Village Hall.
PC Cooper chaired the meeting and welcomed all attending.
2. Minutes of previous meeting on 12th March 2008, at Kniveton Village Hall. Distributed & agreed.
Meeting updated on actions taken by PC 1525 COOPER, following previous meeting.
Re Footpath at roadside Fenny Bentley – still not been tidied up. – Dick HARDY, DCC spoken to. Have had a restructure of Staff and clearing of overgrowth on rural roadside footpaths is now low priority. New team has been set up to deal with Emergencies. They will do this sort of work in their downtime.
Passed to them to look at in the future. Continue Reading »
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Tuesday July 7, 2009 by Peter T
Tickets are proving very popular so do reserve and buy your tickets now – Ring Martin on 390 529.
Continue Reading »
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Tuesday July 7, 2009 by Peter T
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Tuesday July 7, 2009 by Peter T
Will you be in tomorrow’s paper? This week’s Ashbourne News Telegraph should be a bumper Parwich issue with a great Wakes spread and more.
As ever, we will provide links to any local interest articles; you can buy the real thing at the Sycamore Shop; or you can see it on-line at their website.
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Tuesday July 7, 2009 by Peter T
Hi everyone,
Just to let you know we have a number of volunteering opportunities available for the Y-NOT festival (31st July – 2nd August), which, as many of you know, is located practically on our door step here in Parwich!
If you are 16 or older, and would like to volunteer, please contact me by email at: debbie@vcdd.org.uk. I will take your details, pass them on to the appropriate people, who will get in touch with you. If you are aged 16-25, it is a perfect opportunity to either start on your V-50 certificate, or contribute to the volunteering hours you have already accrued.
These opportunities will be going up on the do-it website: www.do-it.org.uk shortly. (You can apply for volunteering opportunities via the do-it website – have a look, it is pretty cool!). The minimum shift for things such as litter picking (the ‘green police’) or stewarding is 4 hours, before or after which you can enjoy the music free of charge, which is a bonus!
Best wishes and happy volunteering!
Debbie
Volunteer Centre Derbyshire Dales (South)
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Tuesday July 7, 2009 by Peter T
Rural Health Link is a new project aimed to help people in this area attend health related appointments. There is a 50% subsidy on transport costs to all health related appointments, including trips to GPs (both Hartington and Ashbourne Surgeries), hospitals, chiropodists, dentists and physiotherapy.
This is particularly relevant to those of us who live in Parwich, Alsop, Pikehall and Ballidon, as there is no public transport at all for patients going to the Hartington Surgery.
Those in our area wanting to use the Rural Health Link please call Ashbourne Community Transport on 01335 300 670, and ask for the Rural Health Link Co-ordinator.
Rural Health Link is a working partnership between Ashboune Community Transport, Buxton & District Volunteer Centre, Bakewell Community Transport and Derbyshire Dales Volunteer Centre, and is supported by Derbyshire County Council (Cllr Simon Spencer’s community grants).
This is in addition to the existing provision by these groups. The Rural Health Link Co-ordinator will as appropriate organise your transport with these groups.
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Tuesday July 7, 2009 by Peter T
Trying to find out if Monday’s power cut had been reported and how long the power would be off for, with a number of electricity suppliers, was not straightforward.
So for those who want to make a note of the number for our area (Parwich, Eaton & Alsop , etc) in relation to power cuts, it is Central Networks tel. 0800 056 8090.
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Monday July 6, 2009 by Jane B
Please note that the correct date for the next Parwich Parish Council meeting is Tuesday 14th July at 7-30pm. The meeting is a little later in July than normal, so it doesn’t conflict with Wakes, and as there is not a meeting in August.
Click here to access the Agenda for 14th July 2009 as a pdf.
The next meeting after that is Tuesday 8 Sept 2009. The Parish Council will be having meetings in the Pavilion whilst the Memorial Hall is out of use.
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Monday July 6, 2009 by Jane B
The Ashbourne News photographer will be in the pub at 7pm tonight (Monday) for photo shoot for an article about the Memorial Hall. If you can spare 10 minutes please come along. Sorry it is so last minute.
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Monday July 6, 2009 by Jane B
The New Memorial Fund was boosted by another anonymous donation of £500 over the weekend. The committee would like to thank everyone for his or her continuing hard work in raising the money.
Just a word about ‘anonymous’ donations. Sometimes they are from individuals or families that wish to remain quietly private or sometimes they are from a company who like lottery winners, don’t want to be inundated with other requests. Whoever they are we respect their privacy but say a very sincere thank you.
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Monday July 6, 2009 by Peter T
Add your captions:
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Sunday July 5, 2009 by Mike A
Thanks to Tracey F for sending in this photo:
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Sunday July 5, 2009 by Jane B
Thank you to Martin W for emailing these photos into parwich@hotmail.com
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Sunday July 5, 2009 by Blog Team
What a fantastic Wakes week this year! Really good turn outs and great participation, and marvellous weather. The only event cut short was the Children’s Sports, and even then we had the compensation of some dramatic cloudscapes.
A massive thank you to the Carnival & Recreation Committee and the other organisers for their generous commitment of time and energy.
Here is a look back over the seven days as seen through the eyes of extremely popular parwich.org. Just over 8,000 page views this week alone! Photos and links to the week’s events…. Continue Reading »
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Sunday July 5, 2009 by Jane B
|
What’s on Where this Week
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| Date |
Time |
Event |
Location |
| Sunday |
2pm |
Senior Cup Competition |
Bowling Club |
| Sunday |
6.30pm |
Evensong |
Parwich Church |
| Friday |
8pm |
Darts and Dominoes Knockout
Stepping Stones Pre-School Event |
The Sycamore |
| Saturday |
8.40-9.15am |
Saturday Morning Rubbish Collection |
Alsop |
| Saturday |
7.30pm |
Summer Concert
Flute, Guitar & Violin
with the de Parys Trio
Donations to Church Fabric Appeal ring 529 to book tickets |
Parwich Church |
| Sunday |
2pm |
Pikehall Harness Racing |
Pikehall |
| Sunday |
2.30pm |
Methodist Service |
Parwich Church |
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Sunday July 5, 2009 by Peter T
Wakes week was hot and sultry, and the thunder storms more or less behaved themselves by staying away, despite Monday’s close approach, until the heavens opened on Friday morning. Last weeks readings are:
|
|
Rainfall
in mm
|
Pressure
in Mb am
|
Pressure
in Mb pm
|
Temperature in ºC
|
|
Max
|
Min
|
|
Sun 28th
|
0
|
1013.6
|
1015.0
|
25.0
|
15.2
|
|
Mon 29th
|
0
|
1017.0
|
1019.4
|
25.9
|
14.7
|
|
Tue 30th
|
0
|
1019.5
|
1019.8
|
24.8
|
14.4
|
|
Wed 1st
|
0
|
1020.6
|
1022.8
|
29.5
|
17.2
|
|
Thu 2nd
|
0
|
1021.0
|
1017.9
|
28.6
|
17.2
|
|
Fri 3rd
|
25
|
1013.5
|
1011.7
|
20.6
|
16.3
|
|
Sat 4th
|
1
|
1012.6
|
1011.3
|
23.3
|
9.7
|
|
Total
|
26
|
|
Average
|
25.4
|
15.0
|
18mm of Friday’s 25mm rainfall occurred in around 1 hour from about 9. 00 am. A lot of people were keeping an eye out on water levels. However we were luckier than Ashbourne, where in Parkside School flooding sent the children home by 10am.
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