Other News
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REMEMBRANCE DAY PARADE
Saturday 11th November 2006 at 11am
Sedgefield Veterans will lay a wreath
on the war memorial at St Lukes Church, Winterton
FIREWALK
Monday 13th November 2006
A firewalk is being organise by BLAZE
at Ceddesfeld Hall
to raise funds for Butterwick Hospice, Bishop Auckland
If you are interested, phone 01388 603003
ORGANISATION FAIR & ART EXHIBITION
25th November - Parish Hall 10am - 2pm
Wondering what to do over those long winter days and nights
Why not come along to see what's going on in and around the area
Something to suit all ages
See the activities available in Sedgefield and view work by local artists
Stallholders and Exhibitors welcome - contact Angela Simpson on 01740 621774
If you can't attend, visit our
Local Groups page
Which lists well over 150 groups and organisations
in Sedgefield and the surrounding area.
Christmas Shopping Trip to York
Wednesday 6th December 2006 (bus leaves at 9.00 am)
Tickets £7 from the Council Office
JOHN PARKINSON 1934 - 2006
It is with great sadness that we report the loss, on 28th September, of a much valued member of the local community.
Friends and colleagues of John knew him as a generous, cheerful, thoughtful, enthusiastic, talented and, above all, kind man.
He will be a great loss to all who knew him, particularly in the communities of Mordon and Sedgefield.
NEW YEAR'S EVE DANCE
Tickets - £16
available from the Town Council Offices
from Monday 4th September 2006
SCHOOL CROSSING PATROL WANTED
LOLLIPOP PROVIDED
The search is on to find a lollipop man or woman to help children safely cross a County Durham road.
Durham County Council wants to appoint a permanent School Crossing Patrol to work at Rectory Row, in Sedgefield, near to Sedgefield Primary School. The post has been vacant for more than a year.
Applicants should have good hearing and sight, be punctual and be willing to work in all weathers.
The successful applicant will receive a weekly wage of £34.63 and full training and uniform will be provided. The hours are 8.25am to 9.05am and 3.10pm to 4pm.
Hugh Stephenson, from the County Council’s Children and Young People’s Services, said: 'Lollipop men and women play a big part in local communities by helping ensure that children arrive safely at school.'
'This is an important role and we would invite as many interested people as possible to apply.'
'If there are no applicants then ultimately it’s the responsibility of each parent to make sure their child gets to school safely.'
Those interested in the vacancy should contact 0191 383 3925 for further details or an application form.
A word of thanks
The doctors and staff of Dr Jones and Partners would like to pass on their thanks to Mr and Mrs J Amlin who, following their recent 60th wedding anniversary, purchased and kindly donated a nebuliser to Sedgefield Surgery.
Donations such as this are always gratefully received and are used to directly benefit the patients within the local community.
Congratulations to you both and many thanks once again for your generosity.
Doctors & Staff, Sedgefield Surgery
Top Design Honour for Hartlepool Design Student
Katie Slater, a third year design student at Cleveland College of Art and Design, Hartlepool campus, has won a prestigious national award for exceptional fabric design. Katie has won The Eddie Squires Bursary for outstanding contemporary printed furnishing fabric design from the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts).
Katie’s award will give her the opportunity to travel to the USA and broaden her knowledge of design. Katie is also using some of her prize money to help her fund her textile design business. Her work will go on display, along with other winners, in an RSA Design Directions Awards Online Exhibition from mid May 2006 at www.rsa-design.net. You can also see Katie’s final design work and that of her fellows students art the Art Gallery, Church Square, Hartlepool. Open to the public from the 8th of June for one week. The CCAD degree show titled ‘Surface’ will then move to ‘New Designers’ in London at the end of June/beginning of July 2006.
RSA Design Directions encourages emerging young designers to engage with the broader social and environmental context in which they will work. Themes covered this year include Design for Debate, Natural Disaster Relief, Re-designing States of Mind, Horizon Scanning, Design for Patient Safety, 24 Hour Living, Postage Stamps, Designing out Waste, Sustainable Packaging, Designing for Emergencies, Ceramic Futures, Campaigning by Design, Inclusive Worlds, Fashion, and Fashion Interiors.
Prizes this year total in the region of £100,000 comprising travel and cash awards and work place internships, and sponsors include NESTA, National Patient Safety Agency, GlaxoSmithKline, Ceramic Industry Forum and Ideal Standard. Over 1,600 students entered this year’s competition and previous winners include Johnathan Ive, designer of the Ipod and fashion designers Betty Jackson and Marcus Lupfer.
Fantastic Win for Tim
Tim Jasper, aged 12 from Sedgefield and a Y7 pupil at Carmel RC Technology College, last night won the Darlington title (9 - 12) of the Ottakar's & Faber National Poetry Day Competition for the third time but, more significantly, Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion judged all 140 winners from the Ottakar's stores dotted around the country and declared Tim's poem, (about having a brace fitted to his teeth), to be the National Winner.
As well as a selection of poetry books as his Darlington prize, he has also won a national prize of a £100 cheque for himself and £100 in book tokens for Carmel College.
The joint winners of the 5-8 class, Toby Gay and Alice Adair (front), Darlington and National 9-12 winner, Tim Jasper and 13-16 winner, Jane Williamson.
He dedicated his victory to his paternal Grandma, who sadly passed away in the early hours on Monday. You can view Tim's poem and the other national winners by logging on to the link below. To complete a family double, his father, Dave, was runner-up in the adult class for the Darlington competition.
Ottakar's website details the results and winning poems.
90th Birthday Celebration
The Hardwick Hall Hotel on the 29th. March, was the venue for the birthday celebrations of Mrs. Edith Young of Harpington View in Mordon.
Edith was born on Sunderland, where her sister Nora still lives. During the war, in 1941, Edith decided to enlist in the womens land army, and after a month's training in Newton Rigg, was posted to Little Tew in Oxfordshire, where she stayed for just over a year. Her next position was at Howe Hills, where she worked until the end of the war. This posting proved to be a life changing experience, when one day Harry Young arrived at the farm with the families steam traction engine and threshing machine. The Young family were well known throughout the area at that time, and continued threshing until the advent of the combine harvester.
After their marriage in 1944, Edith and Harry took up residence in a small cottage in Mordon before moving to their current home.
After giving up work at Collingwood the Jewellers in Stockton after 9 years employment she took over the accounting and administration side of Harry's fencing business, which he went into when threshing finished, which continued until 1998.
Edith was treasurer of Mordon and Bradbury Village Hall Association for many years and her delicious cakes were some of the first items to be snapped up at the Bring and Buy Sales to raise funds for the village hall. First to build the original hall and maintain I, and then to build the new hall in 1996.
Edith has never retired!
About 50, friends and relations joined them for a memorable meal made even more enjoyable by the tinkling piano of the hotel's resident pianist.
Thanks must go to Lynda Charlton for organising a truly memorable occasion.
John Parkinson
WHAT IS A BELISHA BEACON?
If you can answer this question you may know the answer to another, posed by the Residents' Forum.
Where was the original Belisha crossing in Sedgefield? It was in place until the mid-nineteen fifties.
If you know the answer, please Contact Us.
(If you don't know what a Belisha beacon is, follow this Link.)
TIM BRINGS SILVERWARE TO SEDGEFIELD
At The Darlington Festival For Performing Arts (Speech & Drama) held at the weekend, Tim Jasper from Sedgefield, aged 12 and a pupil of Carmel RC Technology College, was presented with The Edith Kershaw Trophy, after it was announced that he was the winner of the Prose Speaking Class (Under-13).
There were 19 entrants in the competition. He had to speak, from memory, a passage from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
He won the award by just 1 point from fellow Y7 Carmel student, Philippa Peall, with a mark of 87, which also earned him a Certificate of Distinction. The Adjudicator was Norma Redfearn of Northampton, formerly Head of Drama at Yorkshire College of Music & Drama and an actress, who has appeared in professional theatre nationwide.
Tim will hold the magnificent trophy for 1 year and hopes to defend his prestigious title at next year's Festival.
SEDGEFIELD BOROUGH
OPEN SPACE, SPORT AND RECREATION STUDY
We have been commissioned by Sedgefield Borough Council to undertake an open space, sport and recreation study, which will collect information about how much and what type of open space and recreational facilities are required to meet the needs of people in the Sedgefield Borough area.
We are consulting widely with the local community through, for example, a Citizen’s Panel questionnaire, surveys amongst young people and questionnaires and focus groups with organisations, clubs and groups with an interest in, or involvement with, open space, sport and recreation.
In addition to establishing need, the aim is to offer your group the opportunity to influence the decisions that affect you and the way local public services are managed within the Sedgefield Borough area. Your responses will also help to show how provision can be improved.
As such a group, we do hope your club or organisation will feel able to spend 10 to 15 minutes completing the questionnaire (in Word and pdf formats - see below).
All the information received from this questionnaire will be treated in confidence and is protected under the Data Protection Act (1998). You can e-mail your completed questionaire or alternatively print it out and post to:
FREEPOST RLZH-KLRC-ZLYK
Inspace Planning Ltd
Canberra, Rundle Rd
Newton Abbot
TQ12 2PY
(no stamp required)
If you have any queries or would like further information, please contact either Paul Greatorex paul@LandE.co.uk (tel: 01387 820497) or Chris Myers of Sedgefield Borough Council (tel: 01388 816166).
Thank you very much for your help and for completing the questionnaire. We look forward to hearing from you.
Paul Greatorex
Questionnaire in Microsoft Word and Adobe pdf formats.
You will need Microsoft Word installed on your computer to use the first version.
You will need Adobe Acrobat (pdf) reader installed to use the second version.
(Find out more about using pdf files here.)
WATERWORK AT BRADBURY
As part of Northumbrian Water's on-going commitment to protect and improve the environment and meet government legislation, improvement work is being carried out at Bradbury sewage treatment works (situated at the back of the petrol station).
The £290,000 scheme, which began in October and will be complete by the end of January, will significantly improve the standard of treatment of wastewater. In turn, this will improve the water quality of the River Skerne.
While this work is carried out customers should be aware that bogus callers, people who claim to be from the 'water board' but who are only interested in stealing from vulnerable customers' properties, operate in Northumbrian Water's supply area.
It is very unlikely that anyone from the water company will need to gain access into customers' homes while this work is being carried out. If customers are in any doubt of a caller claiming to be from the water company, they should not let them into their home. They should ring the company's customer centre on 0845 717 1100 to confirm the caller's identity.
There should be no inconvenience or disruption to you while the remainder of this work is carried out. If you have any queries please ring the Northumbrian Water customer centre.
Joseph Spence Garden Plan
See the article by John Fitzpatrick in Sedgefield News, October 2005.
Copyright © 2001 by the Yale University Library.
Joseph Spence Papers. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
