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Friday 4 May 10 –1 Saturday 5 May 10 – 1 Come and try. All welcome Mondays 13.30 Wendover Baby/Toddler Group 0-5yrs term time. Wendover Memorial Hall, details 709791
Mondays The Rotary Club of Wendover & District, see www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/homepage.asp?ClubID=2041 Mondays 19.30 -21.30 Bucks French Club, Holiday Inn, Weston Turville, except Bank holidays, details 07738 512664 Mondays New Kung Fu classes for kids and adults Call Mark on 07809 403208 St Anne’s Hall. See advert on page3 Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs & Fridays JAZZERCISE classes to suit you : www.jazzercise-uk.com 07900 987230 Artists' and Makers' Fair Tue & Wed19.30 Wendover Bridge Club, Cricket Pavilion, Witchell : details 624089 in the Glass House at Tue & Thu Morning and Evening Adult, Teen & Children's Yoga Classes. 01296 623543, sarahyoga@sky.com Waddesdon Plant Centre Tuesdays 8.30am onwards Not Just Coffee mornings, Wendover Christian Centre, all welcome Queen Street, HP18 0JW Tuesdays 10.00 Simply Walk, meet at Wendover Clock Tower for easy walk approx 1 hour, details 01494 475367 5TH & 6TH MAY - 10.30 to 4.30 Tuesdays 13.30-15.30 artsmart Drawing for Absolute Beginners, Wendy Lewis Studio, Wendover 01494 670372 Tuesdays 20.00 Wheelers & Dealers, Square Dance Club, Wendover Memorial Hall : 07731 776654 Great variety of work on show and Tuesdays 20.00 IMAGEZ Camera Club: Weston Turville Village Hall, www.imagez.org.uk or call 01296 612632 to buy from local artists Wed’days 19.45 - 20.45 Salsa Dance Classes at Wendover Royal British Legion, Bookings: 07767 234532 demonstrations by ceramicists, Thursdays 19.00 Ballroom & Latin Dance Class / 20.00 : Dance, Wendover Memorial Hall, details 01442 865734 glassmakers, silversmiths, Thursdays 19.45 Wendover Choral Society, St. Mary’s Church Wendover. New Term 8 Sept Details 01296 620450 printmakers, painters and more! Fridays 10.00 Churches Together in Wendover : Noah’s Ark Parent & Toddler Group, Wendover Christian Centre Behind Tennis Club, Dobbins Lane Please wear flat shoes
£3 entry to Iain Rennie Grove House Hospice, Helen and Douglas House and Bucks Young Carers
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Sat 5 May 10am -1pm Memorial Centre Great Missenden 01865 775476 RSPCA Blackberry Farm Mutt Strut around Wendover Woods Sunday 13th May 2 & 5 mile options To register contact bbfmuttstrut@hotmail.co.uk 07796 905766
Legacy Fairs Antique & Collectors Market
Thursday 17 May 9am-3pm (Trade 8am) Entrance by donation to Charity Wendover Memorial Hall
MAY Tue 01 12.00 Christian Aid Ploughman’s Lunch Wendover Christian Centre: Tickets in advance: See editorial pg 3. Tue 01 20.00 Kimble Horticultural Society Meeting Stewart Hall, Lt. Kimble Wed02 10.00 Wendover U3A, Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Sylvia Pinches, St Mary’s Church, Wendover Wed02 19.30 “Summery Fun” Wine Tasting Fundraiser for Florence Nightingale Hospice at No2. See info on pg 14 Thu 03 19.00 Wendover Library Reading Group : For details call 07979 855047 Fri 04 19.30 St Leonards History Group, AGM, Talk on Boarstall Tower, Cholesbury Village Hall: 01494 762954 Sat 05 10-17.00 St Mary’s Festival of Flowers, Music & Art: books/plants/lunches/tea/cake/Pimms; page3 & 5 Sat 05 10.00-17.00 Wendover Bowls Club Open Day (Behind Tennis Club in Dobbins Lane) All welcome Sat 05 10-17.00 Courtyard Charity Craft Fair, craft & food stalls, face painting behind Antiques@Wendover Sat 05 14.00-17.00 St Mary the Virgin MAY FAYRE - Plants, cakes/books/tombolas/refreshments see ad p3 Sat 05 10-13.00 BBOWT Plant and Produce Market at Great Miss Memorial Centre : plants books, free entry Sat 05 19.30 Concert at St Mary’s : AMC Big Band - Come and enjoy an evening of youth jazz music Sat 05 18.30 Songs of Praise Concert special service of celebration at St Mary’s Church Sat/Sun 05/06 10.30-16.30 Artists & Makers Fair at the Glass House, Waddesdon Plant Centre, HP18 0JW Sun 06 10.00-13.00 Open Day at Wendover Bowls Club - Come and give it a try & wear flat shoes, see ad Sun 06 12.00-17.00 St Mary’s BBQ & Family Day : all welcome: see editorial on page 3 and page 5 advert Mon 07 10-17.00St Mary’s Festival of Flowers, Music& Art/books/plants/lunches/tea/cake & Pimms see pg 3 Tue 08 19.30 Wendover Parish Council Meeting, Wendover Library Room. All welcome; details 01296 623056 Thu 10 20.00 W. Turville Horti Soc. A Passion for Antique Garden Tools” Louise Allan & Piers Newitt.. Village Hall Thu 10 13.00-15.00 Carers Bucks Back to Basics – Fun with Clay!(Postponed from last month), W. Library Room Thu 10 19.45 Wendover Evening WI, St Anne’s Hall, No Speaker—Resolutions, details 01296 582318 Thu 10 20.00 Chiltern Writers: Guy Clapperton freelance journalist/author/editor/speaker/broadcaster : Library Rm Fri 11 19.30 Bega kwa Bega Supper, Wendover Christian Centre, 3 Course meal with drinks, £16, 01296 622678 Sat 12 10 00 Kimble & Ellesborough Horticultural Soc. PLANT SALE : Ellesborough Village Hall, Butlers Cross. Sat 12 19.30 Wendover Music: Alan Barnes Octet, Jazz ensemble, at St Mary’s Church, see advert on left Sun 13 Mutt Strut for RSPCA Blackberry Farm around Wendover Woods: 2 & 5 mile options: see advert left Sun 13 18.15 for 18.30: Contemplative Fire at St Mary’s Church, Wendover. All welcome COPY DATE FOR next edition of WENDOVER
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Mon14 Wendover History Walk. Tickets £7 including tea and cakes in advance only from the Clock Tower Thu 17 14.30 Wendover Horticultural Society: Cacti & Succulents: Mr. Sims, Wendover Library Room Thu 17 09.00-15.00 Legacy Antique & Collectors Market, Wendover Memorial Hall Thu 17 20.00 Aylesbury Centre for National Trust, Managing a National Trust Property, Broughton Jnr. School Sat 19 09.00-13.00 Local Produce Market : Manor Waste, Wendover Sat 19 09.30-11.30 PLANT SALE: Wendover Christian Centre, all proceeds to Free Church Uganda Project Sat 19 11.00-15.00 Wendover Library SALE of all withdrawn stock in good condition :Books, CD’s & DVDs Sun 20 10.00 Chiltern Hills Vehicle Rally, Weston Road, Aston Clinton B4544, HP22 5RN see editorial pg 4 Thu 24 20.00 Wendover Twinning Soc. The History of Magic: Keith Churcher, Wendover Library Room Fri 25 20:00 Weston Turville Historical Society: The Romans in Bucks : Jill Eyers. Weston Turville Village Hall. Sat 26 19.30Wendover Choral Music for a Queen & a Saint, St Mary’s Church. Advert & editorial pg 3 & 6 Sun 27 18.30 Churches Together Pentecost Service at St. Anne’s, Aylesbury Road, Wendover. All welcome
WENDOVER MUSIC Saturday 12 May 7.30pm St Mary’s Church, Wendover Alan Barnes Octet Leading Jazz ensemble Duke Ellington Classics Wendover Suite Tickets £10 from Wendover, Princes. Risborough & Aylesbury Tourist Information Offices credit card hotline 01296 330559, booking fee will apply
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Events
Courtyard Charity Craft Fair Saturday 5 May 10-5pm
Community Ploughman’s Lunch
St Mary’s Celebrates
Behind Antiques at Wendover Craft & Food stalls, Face Painting Tue 1 May, 12-1.45pm, W Christian Centre Saturday 5 to Monday 7 May Come and bring your friends to enjoy this Come rain or shine, this promises to be Children's Drawing Competition
annual lunch in the Christian Centre to raise funds for Christian Aid’s partner projects. Cake & produce stall. Tickets for the Lunch, £3.50 from @stmarys, 11 High Street or Wendover Clock Tower.
bursting with family fun and entertainment. Fun For All The Family! Groups throughout the village are entering floral exhibits. For the musically minded, Julie Lue there will be performances from local Creative Workshop schools, professional musicians and St St. Anne’s Hall, Wendover Mary’s music group. Sunday 6 May will Saturday 19 May 10am – 4pm focus on family activities with a BBQ, bouncy Places limited Courtyard Charity Craft Fair slide and children’s activities. Tea, cakes and email julie@thelues.co.uk Sat 5 May, Courtyard, 10am-5pm coffee will be served on all three days and a 01296 696212 07710 196334 Come and join us behind Antiques at Wendover on the High Street, with a great ploughman’s lunch on both Saturday and mix of craft and food stalls, children's drawing Monday and a plant & book sale, raffle & Chiltern Hills Vintage Vehicle Rally tombola. Pimms & local ale will all be on sale. competitions and face painting, etc. The AMC Big Band performs on Saturday from 7.30pm with an evening of superb music Saturday 5 May, 10-1, Gt Miss Mem Hall Come and visit our Plant and Produce from one of the country’s most successful Market. Stock up on a wide range of youth jazz bands. Tickets from St Mary’s church on Sunday mornings or @stmarys on reasonably priced plants, cakes, the High Street. The Songs of Praise concert preserves, second hand books, preat St Mary’s from 6.30pm on Sunday 6 May loved garden tools and Wildlife Trust will be a special service of celebration.. gifts Free entry. Refreshments available.
BBOWT Calling all Gardeners
Cyclists and volunteers needed On May 5, 6 and 7 the Chilterns MS Centre is holding the annual Land's End to John O'Groats static cycle ride at World's End Garden Centre. We are now recruiting cyclists for short sessions and volunteers to help each day so please contact Sue Barber by email: suebarber130@btinternet.com
Sunday 20 May: 10.00 Weston Road, Aston Clinton Cars, buses, lorries, military, tractors, etc. Editorial pg 4 WENDOVER CHORAL SOCIETY
May 26th at 7.30 St Mary's Church, Wendover MUSIC FOR A QUEEN AND A SAINT
All proceeds are for St Mary’s refurbishment Mozart- Coronation Mass in C Purcell - Ode to St Cecilia and fund. Offers of support are gratefully received Music for the funeral of Queen Mary by Carol Crockett on carol@aimzine.co.uk. Oxford Sinfonia We are in need of cakes, books, plants, raffle Conductor Peter Bassano and tombola prizes. If you can volunteer during the weekend, serving teas and Tickets £12 & £10 concessions coffees, or helping with children’s activities, from Wendover Clock Tower, please do let us know. Call in @stmarys shop Tel. 01296 696759 or www.stmaryswendover.org.uk info@wendoverchoralsociety.co.uk
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Late Spring Clean Come and have a look at all our greatly reduced antiques and collectibles in the right hand window of the shop. Something for everyone! Open Monday - Saturday 10 - 5 Closed Wed and Sundays Large customer car park at rear of shop through archway
A FREE POT OF TEA (for one) in return for your favourite cake recipe!! All you need to do is bring it along with any other interesting history. If we like it, it could be our “Cake of the Month” with your accompanying name Lady Grey—a traditional Tearoom, in the courtyard behind the antique centre tel 07534 165525 Looking forward to seeing you soon
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Back to Basics – Fun with Clay! (Postponed from last month) Thu 10 May 1.00–3.00pm Wen Library Rm, Make your own creation with an experienced potter with refreshments and ask any questions about your caring role. If you are a carer you will be sure of a friendly welcome. There is no charge. For enquiries: Carers Bucks, Ardenham Court, Oxford Road, Aylesbury, HP19 8HT Tel. 0300 777 2722.
Wendover Music 12 May 7.30pm St Mary’s Wendover Alan Barnes is a figurehead of jazz and he has assembled an octet of British jazz stars to play arrangements of Duke Ellington classics and the specially composed threepiece Wendover Suite, depicting life in a Chilterns village. SPECIAL TICKET PRICE OF £10 FOR THIS CONCERT. Advert pg 2.
May Ball Friday 18 May, Butlers Cross Tickets are on sale for this ball to be held in a beautiful marquee to raise money for Iain Rennie Grove House Hospice Care. Contact 07908 221240 or lpetrons@irhh.org
underprivileged people do not want handouts, but to be given the dignity of being able to earn a living. Christian Aid works with local partners to provide people in developing countries with the tools they need to work for themselves and their families. During Christian Aid Week (13th -19th May) a red envelope may drop through your door. Please give generously and return the envelope to the Christian Aid collector who will call later in the week. Thank you.
Plant Sale Sat 19 May 9.30–11.30am, W Christian Ctre Stock up on bedding plants, shrubs, cuttings, tomato plants and other vegetables You’ll find lots of interesting and unusual plants at reasonable prices. Cakes and produce will be on sale and refreshments will be served. All money raised is for Wendover Free Church’s ‘Uganda’ project.
Chilterns Hills Vehicle Vintage Rally
20 May from 10.00 am Weston Road, Aston Clinton : HP22 5RN Vintage cars, buses, lorries, military, tractors, traction engines, stationary engines. Trade stands, autojumble, refreshments, licensed bar, kids’ attractions. Contact: The Chiltern Christian Aid Week Hills Rally, 137 Bedgrove, Aylesbury, Bucks, 13 – 19 May The theme for this year’s Christian Aid Week HP21 7TR 01296 631666 (enquiries), and is ‘Let’s give the tools to help people in 01296 330901 (entry forms) poverty out of poverty’. Most of the world’s Email: penderjune@aol.com
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Celebrates 2012 To the praise and glory of God
Festival of Flowers, Music and Art
Free entry Donations welcome
Saturday 5 May 10 am to 5 pm AMC Big Band Concert: 7.30 pm Sunday 6 May 12 noon to 5 pm BBQ and Family Day Songs of Praise: 6.30 pm Monday 7 May 10 am to 5 pm
Flowers Music Art display and sale Books Plants Lunches, Tea and cake and Pimms Further information: @st marys shop, 11 High St, Wendover. Or call: 01296 623123
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Wendover Choral Society May 26, 7.30 St Mary's Church, Wendover Music for a Queen and a Saint with Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C; Purcell ’s Ode to St Cecilia and Music for the funeral of Queen Mary. Peter Bassano will conduct the choir and the Oxford Sinfonia. Tickets of £12 and £10 for concessions are available from the Clock Tower, Wendover. Tel. 01296 696759. info@wendoverchoralsociety.co.uk
Pentecost Sunday: St Anne’s Sun 27 May, 6.30pm Churches Together in Wendover celebrate Pentecost, effectively the birthday of the Christian Church with music and praise in St Anne’s , Aylesbury Road, on Sunday 27 May. All are welcome to join this joyful service!
Wendover Celebrates Monday 4 June Wendover Celebrates will see the biggest event Wendover has witnessed since the millennium. On 4 June 2012, Wendover will celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the London Games with the return of the Carnival – a parade, fun and games, plus live music and pyrotechnics!
retailers decorating the High Street to celebrate the Jubilee and the London Games. At 12 noon, a Carnival Parade will start at Ashbrook Park on the Aylesbury Road, proceed along the High Street and on to the Wendover Campus (formerly Wendover House School), where an afternoon and evening of Carnival entertainment will await you. The Parade includes entries from many local groups including the local schools, churches, scouts, guides, the RAF mascot, plus jugglers, stilt walkers, and a rock and roll Piper to lead the way! The Carnival afternoon starts at 1pm with the arrival of The Parade at the Wendover Campus. Entertainment then includes the much anticipated It's a Knockout competition (advanced bookings via the website), the one and only Colonel Custard on stage, the Mix 96 Bouncy Castle, plus a demonstration from the GB Paralympic Basketball team. Our stage will also see music, dance and demonstrations from local groups and organisations throughout the afternoon. Local charities, organisation and businesses will also be supporting the event with market stalls, plus their own fun, games and entertainment.
The celebrations will begin at 11am with In the evening, Wendover will rock to live entertainment on the Manor Waste, with local music from Deadcells (Battle of the Bands
News from Wendover Health Centre 01296 623452 worse in the evening and when outside. n a s a l s pr a y s uc h as BECLOMETASONE or FLUTICASONE If you suffer from hay fever reduce your (Flixonase) may ease a blocked or exposure to pollen as much as possible runny nose. This should be started by: before the hay fever season and • staying indoors as much as possible, continued throughout. It is important to and keeping windows and doors shut use nasal sprays correctly – follow the Booking appointments • washing your face or showering after instructions that come in the box. If your problem is not urgent please call being outdoors, especially after visits SODIUM CROMOGLICATE eye drops us on 01296-623452 to book an may relieve itchy, watery eyes. to the countryside, and appointment on a suitable date up to 4 • keeping car windows closed, and weeks in advance. For urgent matters consider buying a pollen filter for the Generic products are generally cheaper and anyone seeking an appointment on than branded ones, and prices are very air vents in your car. the same day, your call will be directed reasonable, for example 30 X loratadine to the duty doctor. He or she will In keeping with local health 10mg tablets are available for less than telephone you to discuss the problem p r i o r i t i e s , p r e s c r i p t i o n s f o r £1 at leading supermarkets and on-line and if necessary arrange for you to see antihistamines for hay fever are not pharmacies. available from the health centre and a doctor or nurse on the same day. patients are requested to buy their own If you get chest symptoms such as medication. All of the commonly used wheezing or coughing a lot when you Hay Fever Hay fever is an allergic reaction to hay fever remedies are available over get hay fever please make an pollen that affects up to 1 in 5 people the counter, i.e. without a prescription. appointment to see a doctor. between March and July. Typical Antihistamines are generally very symptoms include sneezing, an itchy, e f f e c t i v e – w e r e c o m m e n d For further details and a wealth of other runny or blocked nose, and itchy or LORATADINE or CERTIRIZINE which health information please see our watery eyes. Symptoms are typically rarely cause drowsiness. A steroid website www.westongrove.com Changes to our opening hours The surgery will be closed Saturday 5 and Monday 7 May for the Mayday holiday weekend, and on Wednesday 16 May from 1pm for staff training. Otherwise normal opening hours apply.
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Events winner), 48 Krash, The Pepper Show and Wendover's favourite band - The Duvets. The evening will also see fire performers, a fantastic fireworks display and the lighting of Wendover's Jubilee Beacon.
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All routes are fully signed with safety marshals and mechanics in case of Food and drink will be available on site emergency. There are friendly water stops throughout the day with hog roasts, plus refreshments, BBQ and changing barbecues, and a well stocked beer and facilities at the start and finish. drinks tent. Why not get together with friends, colleagues Entry into the afternoon event is free and enter a team? We will have prizes for (donations welcome). The evening event the best fancy dress and highest fundraisers. starts at 6pm and entry is by ticket only, with By taking part in this ride, you will be helping special online early bird introductory prices local charity WheelPower transform the lives of many disabled people through sport. now available via the website. Places are still available in The Parade and pitches for stalls are still available for local charities, traders and businesses. The organisers are also looking for volunteers to help on the day. Use the 'volunteer' link on the website if you can spare some time.
Entry Fee: Adults £10 Under 16 FREE (must be accompanied by an adult) Entry Fee on the day £20. For further details please call WheelPower on 01296 395995.
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Six minutes to save the Chilterns!
Wendover HS2 is delighted to announce that we have now reached the initial fundraising target in our legal fighting fund. This forms our contribution towards the legal costs of taking the Government to court by Judicial Review over High Speed 2. Our sincere thanks go out to all those who have contributed. The fighting fund will stay open for the time being.
Government documents show that an HS2 route alongside the M1 would only take London-Birmingham trains six minutes longer than the chosen route through the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Beauty. Yet because of the way small time-savings are valued in the HS2 business case (and totalled over a 60year period) and because it would be slightly more expensive, the Government says the route alongside the motorway is unacceptable. We must keep stressing the unique quality of the Chilterns AONB and argue that if the Government wishes to build the line, it should follow a route alongside existing motorways and not run through protected countryside.
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One way you could help is by writing to Prince Charles, at Clarence House, London, SW1A 1BA, telling him of your concern that the current HS2 plan with its viaduct across Wendover Dean will cause a terrible eyesore in the protected Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. You could mention that the Government has rejected less damaging routes alongside existing motorways because the route through the Chilterns would be just 6 minutes quicker. The Government’s appraisal of the project’s environmental sustainability also reveals that the M1 route is less damaging environmentally.
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HS2 The Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust on Monday 26 March took the unprecedented action of writing to the European Commission claiming that the UK Government chose the High Speed Rail (HS2) route between London and Birmingham without taking proper account of its environmental impacts. The Government did not carry out a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) which would have required a thorough investigation of the environmental impacts of the HS2 route and viable alternatives.
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The Russell Arms When the Russell Arms went up for sale last December, the Butlers Cross community wasn’t prepared to lose its only pub. Juggling full time jobs and family commitments, five local businessmen mobilised villagers and organised meetings. As a result, over 70 supporters pledged their financial backing, contracts have now been exchanged and the search is on for a new tenant. Although structurally the building is sound, refurbishment work is needed and the plan is for the pub to open in time for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Villagers are keen to create a warm, welcoming environment serving excellent pub food and using locally sourced products and drinks. This venture is a great example of what can be achieved when people work together and it has further cemented what was already a strong community bond. Financial contributions are still being accepted and anyone who would be able to assist with renovations or interested in the tenancy should contact friendsoftherussell@gmail.com. Sandra Smith www.TheCurrentMrsSmith.co.uk
sellers in April, just days after launching it in a free promotion. Having spent three years writing the novel he decided to ‘self publish’ it as a gift to friends and family, but was then persuaded to place it on Amazon as a Kindle ebook. Within three days it had shot to number one in both the general fiction and crime categories with nearly twelve thousand downloads in its first five days. Peter James, says he is astonished by the demand. ‘The arrival of the Kindle has evidently revolutionised the book publishing industry making it possible for anyone who has a novel in them to reach a wide international audience!’
Written under the pen name of James Parr (to avoid confusion with his more famous crime writer namesake) Deferral of Guilt is set in and around Sarratt. As Watford Wendover resident writes surprise detectives Pat O’Donnell and Alex Paterson piece together a story of murder, blackmail, best seller rape and revenge each man is pursued by Wendover resident Peter James was his own private demons, for both have guilty surprised to find his novel Deferral of Guilt at secrets that threaten to overwhelm them number one in Amazon’s top hundred best even before their investigation is completed.
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Forum Local Representative Nominated in Community Oil Buying Scheme National Children’s Awards Scheme The nominees for the prestigious What's On 4 2012 Junior Awards in association with Konfidence have just been announced - and Caroline Woolnough of Hartbeeps Wendover is among them! She is a nominee in the Most Outstanding Activity Leader for the Under 5s (South) category which means they have received at least 5 nominations and will go through to the national voting stage!
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Wendover Local Aston Clinton, Buckland, Drayton Domestic violence Beauchamp, Stoke Mandeville Sue Burke, BCC, explained about the Weston Turville, Wendover, Halton different types of domestic violence, which
A number of important local issues were includes control over a person or physical covered at the Wendover Local Area Forum violence against a partner (male or female) or perhaps an older child against an elderly (LAF) meeting in Weston Turville on 4 April. parent. Domestic violence does not Brian Thompson, Halton Parish Council, discriminate against age, gender or class. spoke of the links made with Michael Foote There are many agencies who can help from Weston Turville Parish Council, where including the National Domestic Violence both parishes realised they could develop a Helpline who can provide confidential information and advice on 0808 2000 247. project to better meet local transport needs. Brian explained that Halton had undertaken an extensive survey of residents. This information, combined with that from Weston Turville parish, was incorporated into a proposal taken forward at a recent meeting with r epr esentatives from Arriva, Buckinghamshire County Council (BCC), Halton and Weston Turville parish councils. Arriva assess the viability of the proposal to divert the existing route through Weston Turville and Halton village centres. An update will be given at the next LAF meeting in July.
LAF funding: Wendover Decides The Wendover LAF will be running Wendover Decides again in 2012 but with a different format. Projects meeting local priorities will be invited shortly to come forward with proposals for a share of £10,000.
The top three projects will receive full funding (up to £3,000 per project) and the next two projects will receive part-funding. The LAF also agreed £5,000 funding for a range of activities in the parishes of Aston Clinton, Weston Turville and Wendover for young people, funding for support workers for Foster carers needed! Joan Smith, BCC, explained that there are Wendover and Weston Turville youth clubs currently 377 children and young people and the development of a youth council/ being looked after in care homes, foster forum for the Wendover local area. homes and independent carers. If you are interested in fostering, call the team on For information on Wendover Decides young 01296 382555 or fostering@buckscc.gov.uk people’s funding, jwesley@buckscc.gov.uk.
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reduction of front counter hours at Wendover Update from RAF Halton Wing Commander Stephen Borthwick noted to three days a week between 10-2pm. that around 13,000 service personnel will be involved with the Olympics with around 7500 Crime figures were down until a recent spate involved in venue security and some will be of shed burglaries and also an incident of involved in ceremonial events. Aylesbury someone driving along spray-painting parked Vale RAF staff will be trained at RAF Halton cars. A person is in custody about the latter and will be providing ushers for the Stoke incident. Mandeville torch relay and the Paralympics Work is actively taking place to reduce flame festival. speeding through villages and enforcement There will be a restricted zone for flying, will take place in specific areas including which extends up to the Halton runway (but Brook End, Weston Turville. Bryn also noted aircraft can still use the runway), so there that the Police have been following up may be a slight reduction in aircraft traffic reports of speeding HGVs along the Aylesbury Road although subsequent checks towards the Wendover direction. have not so far proven this to be an issue. As well as training 1200 recruits during the year, RAF Halton will be training more Community messaging, where Police advise reservists. This has the consequence of more local residents about specific incidents in weekend operations, with reservists taking a their area or other communications of two-week course running over the middle interest, has been rebranded as weekend. There may be more use of the rifle neighbourhood alerts. People interested in range on Saturdays, but Halton will work to joining this service should go online to www.thamesvalleyalert.co.uk. keep disruption to a minimum.
Neighbourhood Police Update Sergeant Bryn Scott, Thames Valley Police, noted that the restructure of the local areas has been completed and Wendover Neighbourhood will keep its three PCSOs and three PCs. However, the consultation on front counter services has resulted in a
The next Wendover Local Area Forum will be held on 4 July from 7pm-9pm at Buckland Village Hall. For more information please email jwesley@buckscc.gov.uk or telephone 01296 383839 / 383409. http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/ our_communities/wendover.page
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Over the year No2 has encouraged its patrons to donate the value of a cup of coffee or tea (in lieu of payment for their hot beverages) on a Monday, to raise funds for a local cause. For the last 8 weeks these donations have been collected in support of Florence Nightingale Hospice and the total raised was £550. The customers at No2 often generously gave more than the value of their drinks, which is very much appreciated. Whilst the nominated coffee cause has now changed, No2 continue to support Florence Nightingale. On Wednesday 2 May there is a “Summery Fun” wine tasting taking place at No2 in support of Florence Nightingale Hospice. Tickets are available for £20 per person including a £5 donation to FNH, also any purchases on the night will generate a further 10% of sales value as a donation to FNH, the more you spend the more No2 donates on your behalf. The nominated fundraising cause is currently Wendover Celebrates ~ an event on 4 June for the whole community in honour of the Queen’s Jubilee.
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Here is a quick guide to the most popular types of yoga, the benefits, and where to find Iyengar focuses on alignment, and usually classes in the community to help you choose emphasizes holding poses over long periods what is right for you. versus moving quickly from one pose to the next (flow). Iyengar practice encourages the I am often asked by clients or in various use of props such as yoga blankets, blocks classes to recommend tai chi / yoga / pilates and straps, in order to bring the body into classes to people who have been told to alignment. stretch, strengthen, relax, or improve core strength for instance. Bikram; this style is more generally referred to as Hot Yoga. It is practised in a 95 to 100 Although I do my own research, there is a degree room, which allows for a loosening of quick and easy link on-line that lists local tight muscles and profuse sweating, which is yoga classes. From Yoga for Teenagers, to thought to be cleansing. Laughter Yoga see the wide choice we have Cat Booker provided this article, and has a in our area. www.localyogaclasses.co.uk new fitness yoga class launching in Hatha, which is a general style, usually slow- Wendover, at Wendover Memorial Hall at paced and gentle and provides a good 1pm on Wednesdays. Contact Cat to book, or email any questions on fitness and Cat will introduction to the basic yoga poses. be happy to help. Cat Booker Pilates & Yoga. Vinyasa, which means breath-synchronized Equilibrium for your body with you in mind. movement, tends to be more active poses where movement is matched with breath Twitter: catbookerfit including a series of poses called Sun Facebook: Cat Booker Fitness Email: mail@catbooker.me Salutations. www.catbooker.co.uk Ashtanga, is a fast-paced, intense style of
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beds, plastic bottle greenhouse Since being awarded Eco-School and bug hotels. They also took Ambassador status last summer, Wendover them around the 18 month old woodland and large CE Junior School is wildflower meadow, which being seen as a the school shares with The beacon school for John Hampden School, and shared sustainability. information about our recycling and energy saving activities. In March we were visited by two Natalia and Damasia have since written Argentinians, Natalia to us saying: “We really enjoyed visiting Benzaquen and your school and being guided by the Damasia Ezcurra. They children, all of them so involved in the are the directors of an project. We really congratulate you for environmental all your work in the school, we know organisation in Buenos what it is to work in a school, and finding time Aires called Eco Educarte. This organisation for these kind of activities is not so easy, you implements a green schools programme in are really an example and thank you so much kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools throughout Argentina. The British for receiving us at your school.” Council had paid for both these women to come and visit Britain to learn how English Mimi’s Mission schools implement sustainability in their In addition to the above curriculum. We were the only primary school fund raising events a Mufti chosen for this purpose. Day in aid of Mimi’s Mission raised over £315! Sian Chattle, Eco School coordinator, was helped by the school’s Eco Committee and Mimi is now safely home from St Louis, Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSOs) to show Missouri, having undergone surgery. If you Natalia and Damasia around the school and f o l l o w her blog at http:// answer any questions. The children proudly mimismission.wordpress.com you will see showed the visitors their wildlife garden, that Mimi has not let a day go by without which includes a pond, orchard, vegetable working hard to strengthen her muscles.
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Observations C.C.T.V. for Wendover? During public participation, Councillors were given a presentation on the benefits and effectiveness of C.C.T.V. in the fight against crime and the fear of crime, by one of W end o v e r ’s n e i g h b ou r h o o d wa t c h coordinators together with a fellow scheme member - himself a professional security manager. The Council was told the number of neighbourhood watch warning letters being issued was on the increase and a private residential C.C.T.V. system had proved very successful in providing important evidence relating to anti-social behaviour and suspicious callers. It was put to the meeting that the installation of three strategically positioned cameras in the central area of Wendover under a Council sponsored scheme, would play a key role in the fight and it was hoped the Council would support the idea. Should Councillors wish to consider the matter further, it will need to be discussed as a formal agenda item at a later meeting.
Vale of Aylesbury Plan – Stakeholder Forum Receiving feedback from the forum, Councillors heard that the response to A.V.D.C.’s consultation had been “poor” and unsurprisingly, the results were mostly for the lower housing range options. The meeting was also told it was likely to be at least two years before the Vale of Aylesbury Plan made it to the statute book resulting in a
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A bright future? Wendover could soon begin to see a different type of glow from the Parish Council’s 350 lighting columns under a proposal to replace the existing sodium lights with light emitting diodes (L.E.D’s). Although still at the planning stage, the aim would be to update a significant number of lights each year and Councillors heard that the new ones would have a much longer life, save on energy and maintenance costs and cause less light pollution.
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Thursday 10 May at 8pm Village Hall. “Garden & Wood – a Passion for Antique Garden Tools” by Louise Allan & Piers Newitt. Who knows – you may discover you have something interesting lurking at the back of your shed somewhere! New members and non members are always welcome. For more information please contact Pat Rutherford on 613965.
Mid Bucks Beekeepers Association May is a busy time in beekeeping with the colonies building up for the main forage season and beekeepers trying to keep up with the growth. We are moving towards the swarming season which Beekeepers try to manage to their benefit. If you wish to report a swarm full details can be found on our website www.mbbka.org.uk. This year members of the Association are also putting a lot of effort into preparing for Wendover Celebrates on 4 June. We have a team working on a float for the parade and a second team focusing on the stand at the Wendover Campus. If the weather is kind to us we hope to be able to put on a flying bees demonstration giving carnival goers the opportunity to experience close up the life of a bee colony.
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Corner Wendover Cricket Club Cricket has already started outside despite the weather. The Village Cup began on 21 April and senior fixtures on 28 April. The first league games are on Saturday 4 May with the 1st XI away at Ballinger and the 2nds at home to Frieth. Junior practices are under way and their games start in May. New players, young or old and of any ability are always welcome. Contact Jonathan Seabrook on 01296-623286 or Nick Morley (juniors) on 01296-623289. The Village Cup was scheduled to start on 21 April. Fixtures for May are:
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opposing the appeal on a variety of grounds including the likelihood of traffic problems We would like to thank from the twice daily deliveries envisaged, everyone who bought raffle potential noise and disturbance to neighbours tickets on our stall at the from use of the garden and the effects on Charity Market in March. one of the finest parts of the Conservation Congratulations to the winners – we hope you enjoyed the contents Area if pavement seating evolved. Mike Beard of your hampers. The profit raised will be put Chair, The Wendover Society to very good use, helping to fund entertainments for the party of 33 visitors from Liffré who will be with us for the annual Span Training & Development Town Exchange during the last weekend of On Sunday 1 April the annual April. We would also like to thank those Span hair competition was readers of Wendover News who contacted held in Cowley, Oxford with us with offers of hosting, and we hope that the theme being The Oscars. Scruples had they will enjoy meeting our visitors and taking four trainees and a stylist entered across the part in the activities. In next month’s three entree categories. The standard of Wendover News you’ll be able to read all work the competitors produced was extremely high and despite this stiff about the weekend. Barbara Jefford competition Ami Jo Porter was awarded a Chair, Wendover Twinning Association Second place in the open category. Congratulations to Ami Jo and well done to the girls who entered. Yvonne Bone Costa Coffee The Costa Coffee franchisee has appealed against the refusal of Thank you planning permission to operate in A big thank you to everyone who the former Barclays Bank Building. The supported the MS Centre Art exhibition on 10 Wendover Society surveyed the members of & 11 March. It was successful in all ways, a its email consultation panel on this issue. delight to view, an opportunity to meet friends There was a 76% vote from the 150 and raised over £14,000. We are all looking members of the panel. 108 members were forward to the exhibition in our new building opposed to the appeal, 4 were in favour and next year. 2 were neutral. As a result the Society is Dagny Lund
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Our sympathies go to the family of Mark Alan Camber, who worked at Kings Farm Shop since 1985. Shortly before midnight on Monday 16 April, Mark was involved in a collision with a car in Nash Lee Road while cycling home and died at the scene. Mark was a very conscientious employee who always kept to himself and had worked here for so long that he was part of Kings Farm. His quiet way and dry sense of humour will be sadly missed by staff and customers. The funeral will be at Amersham Crematorium on 3 May at 3.15pm. Gary King
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The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime event with up to 30,000 visitors a day coming to Eton Dorney and hopefully visiting attractions in Bucks. Buckinghamshire residents will be able to come along to see the Olympic torch relay procession as it goes through north Bucks and down to Stoke Mandeville/Aylesbury on 9 July (it also goes through south Bucks on another date). Live Events on the big Screen All are welcome to see action from the Olympics on a huge public screen – in Amersham on 11 August and in Aylesbury Vale Park on 1 September where a number of exciting events will also be held in Market Square and Kingsbury Square. The Paralympics Flame Festival is being held in Stoke Mandeville but, due to space restrictions, another event will be held in Aylesbury town centre, with a live link through to Stoke Mandeville. Vanessa King
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The Big Lunch The fourth annual Big Lunch will fall on Sunday 3 June, the same weekend as the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The beauty of The Big Lunch is that people themselves decide everything about their own event. The venue can be wherever you want or have space, the theme whatever you fancy - food and people are the key ingredients. Request a free pack to get started. Full details on http:// www.thebiglunch.com/join-in/jubilee2012.php If you have any questions or queries please get in touch via info@thebiglunch.com or call 0845 850 8181 to speak to one of the team.
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Local Face: Danielle Miles Danielle Miles was born in the Royal how could a ‘good’ university not have a Bucks Hospital, Aylesbury on 15 core department? October 1985. She attended John Danielle helped to Hampden First, Wendover C of E organise a 2000Middle (as they were then) and strong protest John Colet Upper Schools. against the c los ur es, and As a school child Danielle was gave evidence to always busy with extra curricular the Commons activities such as playing the viola Science and or in school and county netball Technology teams. She also studied tap and Committee’s modern dance at the Rozelle School inquiry, ‘Strategic of Dance and Drama taking weekly Science Provision classes and performing in their annual show, often at the Civic Centre in English Universities’ but the department closed so she decided to in Aylesbury. transfer to Leeds where she began in When very young, Danielle was always her second year on an integrated 4 year interested in jobs that ended in ist: masters course with a year in industry, geologist, zoologist, and so on. She which was carried out at AstraZeneca in chose to study chemistry because it is Charnwood, Loughborough. After often seen as the middle science, getting a first for her MChem she touching maths, physics, biology, decided to stay on for a PhD. pharmacology and much more. It would let her keep most options open. She Danielle’s PhD has been designing a started a chemistry BSc course at protein like gel to treat back pain. The Exeter in September 2004. She was main aim of her project was to develop getting a first for all her coursework and a peptide (small protein) gel that can be This work having the best year of her life. Then in injected into the disc. November 2004 they were told that provides the necessary understanding Exeter University was intending to shut of the gels to enable them to be down the ex pens ive Chem istr y optimised for the treatment of disc department. Danielle was incredulous: degeneration. The findings also open up
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a number of other applications for these exciting new materials. During her PhD she was invited to give numerous academic talks and public lectures and in 2010 won the University of Leeds Postgraduate researcher of the year award and in 2011 was awarded the Faculty for Maths and Physical Sciences researcher of the year as well as winning the Kate Furneaux prize for the most meritorious non-academic contribution to postgraduate life in the School of Chemistry 2011. Danielle still manages to keep very busy in her spare time. She has always enjoyed dance and currently teaches swing dancing as well as participating in advanced classes and going to social dances and camps all around the country. She still rides her horse competitively at dressage, show jumping, cross country and for fun around the Yorkshire countryside as well as socialising with friends. On top of this Danielle comes back to Wendover every now and then to help out at the Aces High exhibitions in Back Street which is where she used to work, as well as to catch up with friends and family.
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S106 Money: the story so far
I would never have anticipated that the Parish Council could have existed without a Clerk, but survive the year it did, with a deputy Clerk who has worked extremely hard and for long hours to keep the ship afloat. Jill Bottomley has done a really sterling job and I cannot praise her too highly. We have appointed a temporary Consultant, Glyn Thomas, who will be helping us out over the next few months. Not knowing how long the status quo would last has been (and is) most frustrating but thank you Jill on behalf of the people of Wendover.
In March, WPC invited community Manor Waste 9.00am to 1.00pm projects to apply for funding from the Saturday 19 May 2012 S106 funds held by AVDC. This funding source arises as a result of the new homes built at St. Mary's Gate. There is Councillor Bob Lewis, Chair of WPC’s still time to apply. finance committee, reported that the The criteria relating to the fund’s balance sheet is strong but there are a distribution are quite strict and as a number of exceptional items, such as result, of the three projects put forward, the necessary repairs to the Clock o n l y o n e w a s s u c c e s s f u l . Tower, that will need careful financial Congratulations to the St Mary's Church managem ent and a determ ined group whose plan will benefit both approach to finding grant funding. Wendover youth’s and the broader WPC had invited Isabel Edgar Briançon community’s access to well equipped from AVDC to talk to the meeting about m e e t i n g r o o m s . U n f o r t u n a t e l y changes to the waste collection service Wendover Cricket Club and the Youth that start on Tuesday 4 September for Centre proposals didn't meet the S106 Wendover residents. Isabel is happy to criteria on this occasion. WPC are hear from anyone with any questions or happy to advise. WPC is about to make queries - AVDC 01296 585858. an application to help fund much needed improvements to the very The Chairman then acknowledged popular London Road Skate Park and to WPC’s Deputy Clerk and her amazing the basketball court at Ashbrook commitment to keeping the Council working effectively during the long recreation ground. absence through sickness of the Clerk.
We have established a Speedwatch panel, with the support and training from the local constabulary, which means that every now and then, we report speeding to the local police who will then visit the offenders and have a chat. Our locations vary: the next will be based in South Street. Any suggestions for siting our equipment are always welcome. Our objective is simple – to make Wendover a safer place to live for ourselves, our families and our children. Last month’s Parish Council meeting went well and a large number of items were discussed in front of local County and District Councillors as well as quite a number of members of the public. It’s always good to see different people attend at different times. We will always welcome you to join us. Thank you for your support over the last ‘Parish’ year – I look forward to more of the same. Robert Duggan, Chairman
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Annual Parish Meeting (18 Apr) There were displays from various The well attended and convivial meeting heard Chairman Robert Duggan explain how the challenges of the previous year had been met and the council’s vision for a very busy 2012/13. Councillor Oliver Statham explained that WPC is considering the production of a Neighbourhood Plan in response to the government’s Localism Bill giving Wendover a clearly defined legal status in AVDC’s new Vale of Aylesbury Plan.
groups WPC has been involved with this year including Bucks Carers, HS2, St Mary’s Church, W Celebrates, W Twinning Association, W Youth Centre, W News and W Community Car. There was also information about various activities undertaken during the year with Councillors present to answer questions. Many thanks to all who contributed, including refreshments from Ami and Steve of The Coffee Stop.
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