Island Magazines Freshwater, Totland & Yarmouth Februayr 2019 Edition

February 2019 Freshwater, Totland & Yarmouth Area

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Thank you for picking up a copy of ‘Your Local Community Magazine’ and welcome to the February issue.

Without wishing my life away, I am always pleased to see the back of January - it’s always a bit of a dreary month and seems to go on forever!!!

At the time of writing this there is a warning that a cold spell is heading our way so remember to keep warm and take care of yourself when you are out and about. If you have older relatives or neighbours please always take the time to pop in and check they are ok and to see if they need anything.

This issue is packed with news and information and if you are looking to keep your brain active and alert I can recommend trying the puzzles on page 10.

Our ‘Dates for your Diary’ on pages 14 and 15 will keep you informed of events happening locally and across the Island throughout February.

I hope you enjoy this issue and I look forward to catching up with you again next month.

Debbie

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As the saying goes ‘your home is your castle’ and therefore it should be treated with the respect it deserves, especially if it is in need of some maintenance work. Steve Hadley, owner of Property Maintenance has 30 years experience in this area and has been trusted by many others to undertake work PLUMBING & ELECTRICAL within their own castles!

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Freshwater Parish Council

Working For The Community. Cllr Gill Kennett

Happy New Year to all Freshwater residents and we would like to thank all the shops through the Village for their Xmas decorations, which helped make the centre of our Village look so festive.

residents who have seen the positive outcomes for local people from this service and we are negotiating with the IWC regarding some financial support to provide a similar service

2019/20 Parish Precept

• FYT Bus – The PC wish to support the FYT bus financially by £5,000 because we are very aware that this is a real life line to many people • West Wight Sports and Community Centre – The PC are considering increasing the grant to the WWS&CC from £30,000 to £40,000 • Freshwater Bay Railings – Those of you who visit the Bay regularly will be aware of the poor condition of the railings there. We have been in contact with IWC about repairing and repainting them and hope to work jointly with them on this project.

• Avenue Road Car Park – We continue our negotiations with IWC to take over management of this car park for the benefit of the community.

The Parish Council is now in the process of setting the budget for the 2019/2020 financial year. We held a consultation day on the 9th January 2019 and would like to thank all of our residents who came to the Memorial Hall and gave us their comments on the projects that the Parish Council are considering taking forward in this financial year. We also put a survey on the Parish website for residents who were unable to attend the consultation on that date.

This year the projects and work that we feel we need to tackle are: • Refurbishment of Gate Lane toilets – we have consulted with a firm who recently upgraded the toilets in Shanklin and, dependent on the outcome of the consultation, we hope to get started on this work during the Spring. FPC took over the management of the toilets in both Moa Place and Gate Lane from the Isle of Wight Council (IWC) to ensure that they remained open, Moa Place toilets are in reasonable repair, however, the Gate Lane toilets seriously need refurbishment.

• Local Area Co-ordination – You may remember from the last newsletter that the IWC were reviewing this service and have now made the decision to stop the service from the 31st March 2019. We have had a lot of representation on this from local 6

Island Planning Strategy – The IWC is currently consulting on the Island Planning Strategy, which sets the approach to planning for the Island up to 2035. There was a great deal of comment on this at our consultation day. The IWC consultation runs until the 25th February 2019. More information can be found at www.iow.gov.uk/ IslandPlanningStrategyEvidence Cllr Gill Kennett Freshwater Parish Council

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A plea for our older cats

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CAR MOT FROM £30 Car Servicing including parts, labour & VAT from £79 Short • £139 Annual £210 Premium Golden Hill Park, Freshwater, PO40 9UJ millroadgarage@outlook.com

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Totland Parish Council News Memorial Hall: Last February we notified you that Totland Parish Council commissioned a company to carry out a report on the condition of the Memorial Hall with a 5 year working plan to keep the building safe and usable. The main entrance was kept with the wooden doors and we arranged for them to be refurbished with the hinges and locks being replaced. Scaffolding was erected at the front of the building with repairs being carried out to the brickwork and the parapet walls.

The fibre insulation was also removed from around the building and repointing carried out.

There were also problems to the back of the building and the retainment of soil from the development behind. A builder cleared this area and constructed a retaining wall which will now stop future problems.

Colwell Common: The Parish Council would like to continue using the Common for Car Boots and are considering holding one

every Saturday between April and September not October as previous advertised. This would need a commitment to 6 in total once a month. We are now looking for one more group and if you are interested please contact the Parish Office.

Meet & Eat - This will continue on the first Friday of each month. They meet at St Saviours Holy Family Centre which is on the FYTBus route B round. All welcome.

CONTACT DETAILS: Parish Clerk – Mrs Helen Gibbs - Telephone 756028 The parish office is open Monday & Tuesday 9am – 12noon and Wednesday & Thursday 9.30am–12.30pm. Email: totlandparishco@ googlemail.com or follow the Clerk on Twitter @TotlandClerk. The parish council also have a Facebook page.

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Erection and finishing coats also available.

Call Steve & Julie on 01983 752454 or 07975 941324

Free, no obligation home quotation and advice from ourselves. Bespoke orders available.

The next ‘Mind The Gap’ 12 module course, especially for women only, begins on Tuesday 5th February 2019 from 10am until 12pm and is being held at the Riverside Centre, The Quay, Newport, Isle of Wight PO30 2QR and runs until April.

YOGA a potential journey of discovery This course is for you if you: for everyone Are a survivor of domestic abuse.

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General classes, back care, support for anyone affected by cancer, relaxation and breathing for stress and anxiety,working with the energy centres.

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Understanding the leap you have made PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS How you reached safety Call to explore how an individual Who you really are programme could help you meet your Understanding habitual thinking health and life aims for 2019. Special Affirmation writing offers available throughout January on Staying safe in your new environment one2one sessions Changing your thoughts YOGA RETREATS 2019 Assertiveness Planning your time Out with the Old - In with the New - 29th Replacing negative thoughts with new to 31st March - Nettlecombe Farm, IOW, core values and beliefs weekend of yoga and meditation removing • Writing personal affirmations stale winter energy and discovering • Setting personal boundaries refreshing practices for the spring, prices • Stepping out of your comfort zone from £200 pp • Creating your vision of your future A Real Treat - 22nd to 28th June - Roaches Hall, Peak District 6 days of yoga. Stunning If you would like to take part in this FREE venue and access to fantastic walks, prices 12 week interactive and phenomenally from £700pp successful course, please get in touch.

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Unscramble the letters to see what the words are, ‘WINTER WEATHER’

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It appears that something has caught the eye of this magnificent kestrel on the front cover and luckily it caught the eye of local photographer Neal Staley who was able to capture this amazing shot.

This remarkable bird of prey was spotted from the bird and squirrel hide at Alverstone Mead Nature Reserve and is just one of the many species of nature that Neal comes across when he volunteers at the hide a couple of mornings each week.

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Neal has taken to photography as a means of therapy following a serious car crash in 2012, which then resulted in him being medically retired in 2015 from the RAF after 24 years of service. His life changed dramatically on many levels and he has now found comfort in the nature and wildlife that surrounds us.

Neal is in the process of going live with his website but you can also see his work via Instagram and Flickr under the names Neal Staley Photography.

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News report from Cllr Steve Hastings - Central Wight Mobile: 07870127024 E-mail: steve.hastings@iow.gov.uk Twitter - @cllr_hastings As previously mentioned in my report last month, on Friday 7th December Cllr’s Hastings and Hobart travelled to Dorset to meet with Dr. Phillip Sterling and Giles Nicholson, the Green Team Manager.

Dr. Sterling is now working with Butterfly Conservation but was previously the officer in charge of the Green Team that maintains the grass verges in the County of Dorset.

Giles Nicholson heads up a team of some 60 members responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of grass verges and rights of way, some of which are apprentices.

We also met with Ken Bucklin who is now the officer responsible for the Coast and Country Parks.

Dorset have been very successful at both reducing their numbers of cuts per year to 2 from 7 and creating a better biodiversity with a wide variety of wild flowers that stay green and colourful even in very dry summers as witnessed last year. This means they remain green and full of flowers instead of dying off and going brown and boring as happened previously. This has also won over the public, as vast areas of verges are more colourful and visited by many more wildlife species some of which are recognised as Dorset specialties.

How they have achieved this is by two main principles; 1.

Reducing the fertility of the soil 2.

Cut and collect mowing method.

How the grass verge ecosystem works:The need to cut verges is linked to the underlying fertility of the soils in which the

grass grows. With the squeeze on public finance we have much less money available to satisfy this demand, and with milder autumns and springs leading to extended growing seasons, there is greater public pressure on us to cut more rather than less often.

In Dorset they are taking a different approach to these problems, and they start from the principle that if they can reduce the amount that grass grows in the first place, they will have less to cut, and this should cost them less. They look on a grass verge as an ecosystem to understand what makes grass grow and how we might put measures in place to limit that growth, while improving its environmental quality.

Of the 4 main components of the ecosystem that make grass grow – light, water, temperature and soil nutrients – it is only the fourth, soil nutrients, over which we have some control.

The new approach to verge maintenance provides the means to reduce the nutrients available to make the grass grow less, so they can change from a system where they ‘cut when they need to’ to one where they ‘reduce the amount they ever have to cut in the first place’. Soil nutrients largely come from the intrinsic ‘goodness’ in the soil (based on its geology), natural breakdown of grass they cut and leave behind (nutrients get recycled when the cut grass rots down), and dissolved nutrients in rainfall.

There are two main ways we can reduce soil fertility: • On existing road verges, where possible, you can collect the grass cuttings

News report from Cllr Steve Hastings continued and remove them, gradually reducing the amount of nutrient which fuels grass growth.

You can also add plant species such as Yellow Rattle, which naturally parasitises grasses by sucking the life out of grass roots, reducing the amount the grass grows.

• When designing a new road scheme, or as part of works to existing roads, make sure the finishing layer of soil is as low nutrient as possible - or leave it as bare mineral - and add some wildflower seed. The ecosystem established will never require high levels of maintenance.

Cost savings

contract spend, their targeted efforts to reduce soil fertility, and working with communities to create wildflower verges, they have saved c. £100k in 2015/16 and 2016/17, and are confident about achieving a further saving of c. £50k in 2017-18. There are also hidden dividends from this approach as they are able to redeploy their in-house teams to other highway tasks such as maintaining Rights of Way. With best wishes to you all.

Steve

Is the new approach saving any money? Yes it is. Through a combination of reviewing

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Every Thursday: Over 50s table tenTuesday 5th February nis takes place at West Wight Sports Carisbrooke Castle “Museum and Community Centre, 1.30 - 2.30 Insights” 2pm – 4pm. From p.m. £2.00 Regency to Rationing: Highlights

of the Costume Collection at Every Friday – Freshwater Market, Carisbrooke Castle Museum.

Memorial Hall, Avenue Road form 8.30am til Curatorial Assistant Kate Tiley will give an 12 noon. Great range of stall with something overview of the 1500 items in the museums for everyone. costume collection, including dresses, uniforms, shoes, hats, nightwear and Friday 1st February - The Music Playhouse accessories; from Georgian silk dresses to at Freshwater Methodist, Brookside Road. wartime python skin shoes! There will be an 2:30pm to 4pm. Live vocals, pianist, saxophon- opportunity to see some of the costume items ist and a guitar player for you to sing along or up close. Tickets £8 including tea, coffee and listen to. Song sheets provided to numbers biscuits. To book your place please ring 523112 from film show musical, rhyming folk and or e-mail info@carisbrookecastlemuseum.org. ballads. Tea and coffee interlude, for a bit of a uk. Booking is essential as places are limited. natter. Turn up and join in for free. Donations welcomed. Organised by Dale Sloan Wednesday 13th February - Simply Sociable Photography at West Wight Sports & Saturday 2nd February - Coffee morning/open Community Centre. 10:30am to 12pm. day at Vectis Radio from 10am -12pm. Come The group is at an infancy stage, growing along to Vectis Radio studio at the Riverside with member numbers. We are proactive Centre and see how it all works. Tea/cofat attending location shoots and have an fee and biscuits supplied for a minimum £1 outgoing approach. Individual’s use their digital donation to keep the community radio station device, whether a camera, phone or tablet. running.

Pitch up with £2 at the meeting.

Saturday 2nd February – Cancer Wellbeing Fair from 10am – 2pm at Riverside Centre, Newport. Free event open to all for patients, carers, family, friends and colleagues. Come along and discover how you can be supported to live well with or after cancer or how you can help others. For more information call 07742 236970.

Monday 4th February - Isle of Wight Family History Society open meeting, everyone welcome. Historic Island railways on film a talk by Mel Dennett at the Hunnyhill Room, Riverside Centre, The Quay, Newport PO30 2QR. Doors open 7 pm talk starts 7.30 lasts about 45 minutes. Admission members of the Isle of Wight FHS - £1; non-members - £2 14

Thursday 14th February – Sunflower Cafe Quiz Valentine Special at 7pm at the John Cheverton Centre, Mountbatten Hospice, Halberry Lane, Newport. 4 to a team - £12 a team. Please book a table. Contact Carl or the Sunflower Cafe for entry forms 07925 033212 or 01983 611656 or email panyo@gmx.com.

Tuesday 19th February – Compton Family Outing organised by the National Trust. Join our ranger and stride out along the beach before heading up towards the downs. Along the way we’ll help you discover dinosaur foot casts and other fossils, discover our farm animals. Booking essential on 01983 741020.

Meet at Compton Bay car park nr Hanover Point (PO30 4HB) Dogs on lead welcome. From 2pm – 4pm – Free but donations welcome.

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Wednesday 27th February. Blokes, Bacon Butties & Banter at Freshwater Methodist, Brookside Road. 10:30am to 12:30pm. An opportunity for senior men from all walks of life to get together and have their monthly chit chat. Turn up and join in for free.

Donations welcomed. Organised by Dale Sloan (Community Navigator).

FRESHWATER LIBRARY REGULAR EVENTS Knit and Natter/Crochet and Chatter Group Work on your latest project. Meet up with others regularly with whatever craft appeals to you, and receive help and advice if you need it. We are meeting on every other Tuesday morning at 10 am. Please ask at the library for further details of future dates.

Silver Surfers If you are over 50 and want to learn how to use the Internet and e-mail, register for a free 2 hour Silver Surfer Session at Freshwater Library.

Please ask in the library for further details.

Rhymetime A free weekly half hour session of rhymes, actions and songs that helps your baby or toddler with their language development, and allows you and your baby to make new friends. No need to book - come along with your baby and have fun!

Every Friday at 10.30am. all event information was correct at time of print.

The Garland B&B Situated right on the beach at Bembridge.

Stunning views & an open deck. A magical spot for breakfast and an evening drink.

For more information call 01983 872241 or email dkbateman@btinternet.com

Jill’s Kitchen

Rustic Pizzas available

Friday & Saturday until 9pm

(9 and 12 inch with choice of toppings)

Eat in, take-away & delivery BYO beer and wine Selection of the daytime menu also available during the extended evening open hours Avenue Road, Freshwater 07854 397241

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Your Local Independent Minibus Service

FEBRUARY 2019

You don’t have to work on the bus to volunteer. for FYTbus - Contact our office if you would like to work in our charity shop, or help out at the garage or at the office, or assist with fundraising, advertising, etc.

FYTBUS NEEDS MORE VOLUNTEERS TO ACT AS DRIVERS OR PASSENGER ASSISTANTS - Are you interested in joining us

to help your community’s access to local amenities and events ? We can train you to the required standard for a community minibus scheme. You can obtain an application form from our office or download it from our website (see addresses below)

FYTbus timetables for our scheduled routes are available on our buses and on our website (see below), or you can pick one up from our Totland office, Brookside Health and Leisure centres, libraries, pharmacies and shops in Freshwater, Totland and Yarmouth, and The Village Shop, Brighstone, The Crown Inn, Shorwell and The Sun Inn, Hulverstone.

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Sainsbury’s/Morrisons/M&S/Lidl Sainsbury’s/Morrisons/M&S/Lidl Newport (£6) & Waitrose, E.Cowes Sainsbury’s/Morrisons/M&S/Lidl

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£6.00 £6.00 £7.00 £6.00

Our excursions and shopping trips are always on a door to door basis, with the minibus picking you up from and delivering you back to your home. If you would like more information, give us a call, between 09.45 and 12.30 any weekday, or leave a message on our answering machine and we’ll call you back. Remember to book early if you would like to travel on one or more of our trips, by phoning our office on 01983 752917. If a minimum number of bookings is not achieved for an excursion, we might have to cancel it (as you will appreciate, we have to cover our costs), but we will always let you know. Excursions will be confirmed (or cancelled) by phone, one day before departure. Please note that bus passes are not accepted on our excursions.

Why not catch the FYTbus to visit our Charity shop on Totland Broadway ?

We have a wide range of books, bags, bric-a-brac, CDs, DVDs, clothing, etc., on sale at affordable prices - Something for everyone’s taste!

Call in and have a browse – you might find the perfect gift for a friend.

Wight Community Access – FYTbus, Winchester House, The Broadway, Totland Bay. PO39 0AX Tel: 01983 752917

Web: www.fytbus.org.uk

Email: info@fytbus.org.uk