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.
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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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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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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Click here to download an entry form as a pdf.
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A JFS photo, click to enlarge
What has it spotted?
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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.
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** 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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Tickets are proving very popular so do reserve and buy your tickets now – Ring Martin on 390 529.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thanks to Tracey F for sending in this photo:
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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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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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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:
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Rainfall in mm |
Pressure in Mb am |
Pressure in Mb pm |
Temperature in ºC |
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Max |
Min |
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Sun 28th |
0 |
1013.6 |
1015.0 |
25.0 |
15.2 |
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Mon 29th |
0 |
1017.0 |
1019.4 |
25.9 |
14.7 |
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Tue 30th |
0 |
1019.5 |
1019.8 |
24.8 |
14.4 |
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Wed 1st |
0 |
1020.6 |
1022.8 |
29.5 |
17.2 |
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Thu 2nd |
0 |
1021.0 |
1017.9 |
28.6 |
17.2 |
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Fri 3rd |
25 |
1013.5 |
1011.7 |
20.6 |
16.3 |
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Sat 4th |
1 |
1012.6 |
1011.3 |
23.3 |
9.7 |
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Total |
26 |
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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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This post and the photos don’t do justice to what was a really good, well attended and excellently organised series of events, nonetheless…
Wakes Friday hosted a “Race Night Triathlon” involving balls, ferrets and “horses”.
The evening’s activities began at Pump Hill with the Ball Race at 7.00 pm sharp. This was followed by the Race Night at the Legion (including the Thoroughbred Ferret Furlong & the Legion Grand National).
Click on continue reading for the winning balls and more photos of the events.
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Happy July 4th to our adopted Americans, including parwich.org’s own recent roving reporter (though the more distant roving of her family restricted her role):
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Instructions about how to win – Denis on his bike will ensure fair play!
Ready, Steady, Go….. past the school and up the hill.
Hang on Ref, we thought that the idea was to push the barrow up the hill, not run!! Denis missed that one!
Continue Reading »
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Here are this year’s time sheets as pdfs. Click on the relevant item to access the full results for that race:
- Local Mothers Race Time Sheet (first home in 8min 18sec)
- Junior Hill Race Time Sheets (first home in 12min 35sec)
- Senior (Open) Hill Race Time Sheets (first home in 18min 7sec)
All the races were faster than last year: by 21sec in for the seniors, by 24sec for the juniors and by 26sec for the local mothers. (Click here if you want to see the 2008 Time Sheets for comparison. If you don’t already have Adobe Reader needed to access these files, click here to download the free software.)
Here is a list of our other posts on the 2009 Hill Race, including lots of photographs:
- Hill Race 2009 (report)
- Hill Race Trophy Winners (list + some photos)
- Hill Race 2009 – photos down below (photos)
- Parwich Hill Race – The story from up top (photos)
- More Hill Race Photos (photos)
- (Yet More) The Hill Race from Top to Bottom (photos)
A lot of photos, but they are going down well, being amongst our most popular recent posts.
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The PDNPA Planning Officers, using their delegated powers, have conditionally granted planning permission for change of use of the former Spar Shop in Parwich to domestic residential.
After over one hundred years of trading, the Shop had closed in February 2008. The current planning consent (application number NP/DDD/0509/0370) means the whole building can now be used as a single dwelling. The conditions imposed are:
- No alterations to the external appearance of the dwelling (other than included in the current application) shall be carried out and no extensions, porches or ancillary buildings whatsoever shall be erected on the site without the Authority’s prior written permission
- The double garage on the eastern side of the building shall be retained for the parking of private domestic vehicles in association with the application site in perpetuity
- The proposed window on the north west elevation shall be obscure glazed and shall remain so in perpetuity
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On Saturday morning it is the bulk rubbish collection; the dustcart picks up at various points in the village. Don’t lose it, use it – even if you only have a small amount to get rid of.
Sycamore Cottages 0900 – 0920
Village Green 0925 – 0945
By old shop, village top 0950 – 1010
Croft Avenue 1015 – 1045
*** We have been asked to point out a problem that is regularly occurring on The Green on these days. If you leave rubbish to be removed, you must be in attendance when the wagon comes to help load it. There is only one council refuse collector, and it is your responsibility to get the refuse on to the wagon yourself. At the moment some people are leaving their rubbish there on Friday and not returning on Saturday morning, leaving it to a few on Saturday morning to load all their rubbish onto the wagon.***
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Thank you to Amy H-G and Peter T for these photos:
For lots more pictures of each event click on Continue Reading »
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Friday 3rd July: Race Night
7-00pm Ball race on Pump Hill
7-30pm Race Night at the Legion (including the Thoroughbred Ferret Furlong & The Legion Grand National)
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A while ago a couple of people raised the idea of allotments in Parwich. A Peak Park press release today indicates what has happened in Grindleford with a bit of financial support. Continue Reading »
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We knew that Wakes Week was going to be a busy time for PARWICH.ORG, but we didn’t quite expect such record-breaking traffic. Yesterday, there were a whopping 1790 page views on this site: a new record. And at some point during the course of today, we will reach 200,000 page views since the site began. Keep an eye on the “BLOG STATS” section on the right hand column, and maybe you’ll be our 200,000th viewer?
Update: We passed the 200,000 mark somewhere around 15:10 this afternoon.
As many of you will already have noticed, there’s also a feature on this blog on page 8 of the new (July 2009) edition of the PDNPA’s Park Life magazine, which the is distributed free of charge to every household in the Peak District National Park.
Click here for an electronic version, in PDF format.
If you’ve reached us as a result of the article, then welcome – and we hope that having taken a look at what we do, you might feel inspired to launch a similar venture in your own community.
For more information on how to set up a village blog, then the PDNPA have provided a useful set of instructions and guidelines, which can be accessed via this link.
And finally… PARWICH.ORG’s spies in London tell us that we were mentioned at yesterday’s “Activate 09” conference, in front of a whole host of “new media” luminaries, as a shining example of how small communities can make successful use of blogging tools. Click here for the visual evidence. OK, that’s quite enough trumpet-blowing!
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Strength & Endurance
It was a hot evening and the crowds gathered in anticipation of this year’s strongest man competition….
Twelve fearless competitors of all shapes and sizes gathered to face five gruelling tests of strength and stamina. The twelve included two of the entrants from last year’s competition, a couple of new competitors, and a number of familiar faces from the area and previous Strong Man events. This year’s competitors (in no particular order) were:
The competitors and organisers
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Click on the image below to access July & August’s edition of the Church Group Magazine. Paper copies can also be bought in the churches or can be order for home delivery. Also look out for details of Parwich & District Local History Society’s up coming visit to Fenny Bentley Church.
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As well as being Wakes this week, the school has had their sports week. I popped in on a couple of their sports sessions yesterday. The first was a game of rounders played with footballs – i.e. the bowler bowls a football to the kicker who kicks then ball then runs. The second was Nia preparing our netball team for an upcoming tournament. There are a couple of pictures from each below:
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