APRIL 2022
GLENFIELD
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Easter Open Morning At Glenfield Millennium Green 10.30am- 12pm ON SATURDAY 16th APRIL ON APRIL 16TH we would like to invite everyone to come along to the Glenfield Millennium Green and share your views and ideas on how you would like to see the Green used along with any suggestions you may have for improvements.
We will be holding a Easter Word Hunt for children. Entry will be £1.00 and all entrants will receive a small chocolate egg as well as being entered into a raffle for a Easter Hamper. There will also be a Easter Bonnet Parade at 11.30am so we’d love to see as many of you as possible supporting a fabulous Easter Hat! As well as the above we have lots of information to share, a quiz for you to enter and much more. If it’s a sunny day, why not bring a picnic? We look forward to seeing you there.
APOLOGY TO THE U3A Last month, the Gazette used a photo from the Glenfield U3A website to accompany an article promoting the health benefits of joining your local walking group. It has been pointed out to us that we should have obtained approval to use the photograph in the village magazine before doing so, and we hereby apologise unreservedly for any problems caused to members of the U3A by this error.
Glenfield Community Hub Glenfield Community Hub will be operating every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month starting May 2022 from 9am – 12 noon
Whither Shall We Wander BY ROY DENNEY WITH SUMMER round the corner it is time to get those walking boots on. Walking is incredibly good for us on many levels especially with the stresses and strains of life today. Stress is a killer and probably accounts for more premature deaths than anything else. Problems at home and in the workplace are frequently causes of stress, but it is not easy to change jobs. Fortunately there are remedies. Pills from the doctor are short term and masking the problem but some lifestyle changes should sort it out. Gentle exercise is known to work and walking is easy and cheap. Going outside into green spaces also helps. You can see a wide sky which uplifts the spirit and it is now known that plants give off chemicals which are positively helpful in calming us. It is not just stress where walking helps. There is increasingly strong evidence of the health-benefits e.g. the fact that brisk walking
improves circulation and the performance of the heart and lungs. Walking can lower bloodpressure and can reduce risk of stroke and of heart disease. It can improve control of blood sugar in type-two diabetes and it has an important role in cardiac rehabilitation. Walking also promotes mental health and general well-being, and has the potential to be as effective as anti-depressants or psychotherapy in treating depression. Widespread takeup of walking generally could massively lighten the economic burden on the NHS caused by physical inactivity and provide a
boost for rural economies. One thing that COVID did show us was that people have an appetite for walking but that to those who did not do much in the past there seemed a number of obstacles. Not least not knowing where to go or how to get back..Leicestershire is well served by yellow marker posts and footpath signs but even here those signs don’t say where the paths go or what the degree of difficulty is. There are numerous websites which suggest walks and the sites vary greatly as to how helpful they are so you would be well advised at least
to begin with to walk with a recognised group. The eight Ramblers Association groups in Leicestershire between them organise about 1000 walks each year for all levels of fitness. I am Chairman of the Leicestershire Footpaths Association founded in 1887 and they also organise several hundreds. Both organisations are Charities and also campaign to protect the footpath network. Walking with groups has a social benefit as well in that you meet like minded people and can make new friends. TURN TO PAGE 3 ...>
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