The Sentinel magazine

Sentinel

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Newington

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August 2021

This magazine is compiled and edited by David Cowell who is totally responsible for content.

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F O L C A Folca is the old name for Folkestone We celebrate all activities in the Folkestone and Hythe district also known as Shepway See our comprehensive Directory and Blog pages

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Folkestone and Hythe Cats Protection shop in Hythe is now open: Monday to Saturday 9am - 5pm.

New measures in place to protect customers and volunteers. Stringent cleaning regime and quarantining system to further protect customers and volunteers and only 2 customers in the shop at any one time. Many bargains from £1.

Contact shop on 01303 264285 and general enquiries on 0345 260 1253 5

Report from your County Councillor for Newington There are two KCC consultations under way right now. The first is the annual consultation on the budget. The effects of Covid have reduced council tax revenue whilst costs of supporting residents, especially the most vulnerable, increased significantly.

The Government provided generous funding during the pandemic but we cannot rely on emergency funding as a longterm plan. We want to set a 5-year plan for the council’s finances and are asking for Kent’s residents to give us their views on spending priorities. To take part, visit www.kent.gov.uk/budget by 19 September.

The other consultation is whether to keep the booking system for the Household Waste Recycling Centres. You’ll find this at www.kent.gov.uk/wasteconsultation till 30 September.

KCC introduced a booking system for our Household Waste Recycling Centres in May 2020 so that the numbers visiting at any one time could be limited to ensure social distancing. Over the last year the system has been enhanced and our surveys have found support for keeping the booking system permanently.

Bookings for all 18 of KCC’s HWRCs can be made online (24/7) or by phone at 03000 41 73 73 (in normal office hours). Slots are available every half hour which ensures queues are minimal.

Bookings can be made for the next day and up to a month in advance (we’re working towards same day bookings) and can be cancelled or amended. There are no limits on the number of bookings that can be made.

The current problems with kerbside waste collections and the suspension of the garden waste service by Folkestone & Hythe District Council have increased demand at the HWRCs but the booking system has ensured there is never a long queue and you can be sure of getting access within your chosen half hour slot.

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Report from your County Councillor for Newington The UK is hosting the UN Climate Change Conference between 31 October and 12 November so there’s more in the news than ever on the environment. KCC has been involved in projects to reduce our carbon emissions for many years such as switching all 124,000 of our streetlights to LED (Light Emitting Diodes).

Since 2010 cut our carbon emissions by 57% and reduced our energy costs. Projects that are currently under way will reduce our energy use by another 40% by March 2022 so we’re making rapid progress towards our target of Net Zero by 2030.

Our projects include more solar panels on roofs, better insulation, replacing boilers with air source or ground source heat pumps and more LED lights (lit bollards and illuminated signs on our roads). They’re the sort of thing that other organisations, businesses and individuals can do. Our ‘Kent Green Action’ campaign has advice on sustainable living and grants. See www.kent.gov.uk I plan to be with Newington Parish Council for their meeting on 06 September – meetings are now held in person and are open to the public. You can find more information about the parish council meetings here http://www.newingtonandpeene-pc.gov.uk/ Susan Carey Member for Elham Valley

Report from your District Councillor for Newington

Cllr David Godfrey is taking a well deserved break but will be back with more District Council news next month.

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All now available in paperback and on Kindle Set in Folkestone in the heady days of the late 60s.

They say if you can remember it, you weren't there!

Two plays. One an imaginary meeting between Dylan Thomas and Brendan Behan in a Fitzrovia pub. The other is Caitlin Thomas reminiscing after the untimely death of her husband.

This is the tale of Hana, a young girl who moves from where she was born in London, to the Kent coast. They discover a wonderful area called Prince's Parade which is full of amazing animals, has a beautiful canal and is right next to the sea too! By buying this book you will be helping to protect it. All profits from it will be donated to the Save Prince's Parade campaign which aims to halt plans to develop the area into a housing estate.

Very funny, and surreal story about a man and a woman on their first date: Bolton Brady and Veda, set in London, November 2001. Bolton is forty, not into assets, has never lived with a woman and looked into the future and seen loneliness. So he decides to do something about it. He advertises in a lonely-hearts column, and receives six replies, but after experiencing one disaster after another only Veda remains between him and his sanity. As the day unfolds the line between reality and fantasy becomes blurred, building to a surreal, yet poignant, conclusion.

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This walk through the history of Sandgate to the present day was first performed at the Chichester Hall a decade ago on Wednesday, 9th June. It is now available on Kindle or in paperback.

Now available on Amazon. Great evocative yarns of worldly travels.

A Loose Cannon tales of a lapsed activist

Ted Parker

The title of the book hints at how, as a ‘loose cannon’, Folkestone born Ted’s risk-taking got him into trouble on a number of occasions whilst being a considerable advantage in his working life.

As a young journalist, Reg Turnill met most of the prewar political personalities and later became the BBC's space correspondent being the only one in the press room when the historic Houston we have a problem message came from Apollo 11.

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To advertise in all three of The Sentinels with circa 3000 targetted readers and growing please email me at: david@thesentinel.org.uk for a rate card.

Thank you.

We are a small family run business, trading for over 30 years in the heart of Hythe High Street at number 51 (CT21 5AD) and we pride ourselves on customer service and of a range of products with high quality produce. We cater for all needs, whether it's a small treat for your pet, tapioca to make your favourite nostalgic pudding, or some of our delicious, local, free range eggs, perfect for cooking, baking and breakfasting!

At U-Weigh we have more than 400 items in store, ranging from cupboard essentials to sweet treats and snacks. We have a large selection of herbs, spices and seasonings to take your meal plans to every corner of the world, and to cater for the home bakers and amateur chefs, some cupboard staples; flours, sugars, cake mixes, pastas and rices. As dried food specialists, we all have a wide knowledge and will not hesitate to help with any queries or questions you may have.

Take a look at our many products, write your list and pop into the shop. We're also doing our bit for the planet by introducing paper bags, and don't forget, if you are trying to be more green, you can bring your own tubs, jars and containers to fill up. www.u-weigh.co.uk

www.facebook.com/uweigh/ From the cutting-edge London design agency Here Design - writer and poet Philip Cowell, and award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand, author of The Herbarium, this playful, original, beautifully designed book brings to life the punctuation marks we use every day, including: The dashing dash So-called "quotation marks" The colon: and on and on.

The shouty exclamation!

Kindle edition The three dots of... £9.99 (Not forgetting the brackets) Hardback And even more 13

£14.99 Great gift

Friends of St Nicholas Church Newington Restoring and maintaining this historic building and its grounds

Charity number: 1122652

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The editor of The Sentinel is also responsible for sending Hythe, Newington and Sandgate related event information to the Folkestone Herald. If you have an event you wish to publicise it is needed by Tuesday at 17:00. The information should appear in the edition two weeks later although it is not guaranteed.

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Support

Light lunches available local in church after lunchtime concerts

Great gift only £11.00 including P&P (UK mainland) www.the-find-online.com 16

If you have any photographs of the area either current or past do send them to me by email and I will feature them in future editions.

If you just have prints do drop them into Clyme House and I will scan.

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Light lunches available local in church after lunchtime concerts

WOW Design-led gifts and interiors 76 High Street Hythe Kent CT21 5AL

01303 265340 www.facebook.com/wowhythe

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In the Church this August 2021 August 8 Holy Communion August 22. morning prayer No service on the other Sundays.

Do look at the church notice board for further announcements.

For any further Church information please call 01303 270604

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My contact details are: Address: Clyme House, Hillside Street, Hythe, Kent CT21 5DJ Mobile: 07771 796 446 email: david@thesentinel.org.uk