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NORTH BADDESLEY COUNCIL
MEETINGS RÉSUMÉS
May
Before the start of the Parish Council's Annual Assembly,
Councillor Knight presented Una Lonergan with a silver photograph frame
containing a photo of the Parishioner of the Year trophy as a permanent
memento of her time as Parishioner of the Year 2009. Una also accepted an
identical photograph frame on behalf of Beryl Green who could not be
present.
The Chairman then announced that the Award for Parishioner of the Year 2010
would be presented to Muriel Webster and he gave a short resume of her
background. Mrs Webster, who will be 90 years old this year, has lived in
North Baddesley for 41 years and for many of those she ran the Woolshop in
Rownhams Road, thereby becoming a very well-known person in the village. She
continues to let the window of the shop to the Red Cross and also helps at
the mother and toddler group at the Baptist Church, providing them with
home-made biscuits.
Wendy Knight stepped forward to present Mrs Webster with a thank you
certificate for keeping the Red Cross notice in the window of her shop and
with a thank you letter written personally by the new Red Cross Area
Director.
Mrs Webster thanked everyone for nominating her and said that she was
shocked o receive the award.
The Chairman read out his report and the Borough Councillor's report was
read out by the Clerk on behalf of Councillor Alan Dowden who was not
present due to illness.
At the AGM Councillor Knight was re-elected as Chairman for the forthcoming
year and Councillor E Cosier was re-elected as Vice-Chairman. All the
representatives on the various committees remained the same.
Due to a lack of volunteers, there will not be any stalls, only football
matches, at the Fun Day on 12th June. The main match will be between the
Baddesley Vets and the Bedes Lea football clubs and it is proposed to open
up the pavilion kitchen and hold a barbeque.
There have been two sessions of the youth club so far. Twelve children
attended the first and six the second.
Councillor Knight confirmed that delays to the installation of the new car
park around the pavilion have been caused by complications in the grant
application to Viridor. The grant has been successful but the Parish Council
has to find 10% which they are not allowed to donate themselves. A grant
from a third party has to be found and the Parish Council will be
approaching TVBC and HCC for the extra funding.
June
PCSO Nathan Green attended the Parish Council’s June meeting to introduce
himself and give an overview from a police perspective of events over the
last few months. A Beat Report was distributed and Nathan explained the "cop
swap card" project which is designed to make the police more approachable by
children. Each officer carries several of his own individual cards which
young people can collect and swap. There are 250 different ones available
and the scheme, which started in Portsmouth, has been very successful.
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