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At last, the Red Lion refurbishment is about to take place, see photo of A-board in the Wendover News would like to thank our Car Park. wonderful deliverers. Many years ago, loyal readers spontaneously asked to deliver The refurbishment will start in March but Wendover News in their streets to ensure as yet we have no that everyone had a chance to "read all proposed end date. about it" every month. Last December, Many people have they became aware of a greater need for made suggestions Foodbanks in the area so they made a to the owners of the generous Christmas donation of nearly £500. Red Lion of how it The major collection point in Wendover can be improved so is Budgens. Sweeney's Budgens owner we all hope to see a immediately offerred to extend the gift by revitalised gathering supplying essential provisions at cost. space in the heart At the beginning of February, the first of Wendover once donation was collected, see photo above. such activities are again permitted. We're all Wendover has been part of Chiltern looking forward to that!
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All at St Mary’s Church commencing at 7.30pm (restrictions permitting) 13 March (AGM) - Leo Popplewell (Cello) - POSTPONED 17 April - Steven Osborne (Piano) 8 May - Timothy Ridout (Viola) & Tom Poster (Piano) 5 June - London Handel Players (mixed ensemble) 10 July - Samuele Telari (accordion) and Ema Nikolovska (mezzo-soprano)
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The Society's AGM is Tuesday 2 March at 7.15pm and will be held online. The monthly meeting, BBOWT Talk featuring speaker Timothy Walker discussing How Tue 16, 7.45pm, online to be a 21st Century Gardener, will follow at 8pm. Chiltern Butterflies. A link costs £4 and is easy to book by 15 March at www.bbowt.org/events. All Details from www.e-voice.org.uk/kehs/. local reserves are open currently except College Lake - please check on the BBOWT website for World Book Day more news of when facilities there will be back Thu 4 World Book Day makes sure every child in the UK on stream and when volunteering is restarting. & Ireland has a book of their very own and will continue to work with schools and nurseries to Coming Soon - Save the Date! distribute the £1 book tokens. The token will also • Pace Big Walk - Sat 24 April be on McDonald’s Happy Meal boxes through • Tour de Rennie Grove - Sat 12 June • Thames Path Mighty Hike for Macmillan Cancer March, and in some children’s magazines. - Sat 17 July Cholesbury-cum-St-Leonards History Group • Rennie Grove Chilterns 3 Peaks Challenge - Sun 12 Sep • Friends of Wendover Library Golf Day - Thu 7 Oct Fri 5, 8pm, online British Second World War Artists. Ann Danks • Virtual Herts 10K and Half Marathon - Sun 10 Oct is an art historian and archivist at the Stanley Spencer Gallery. Meetings by video conference, Easter details from Richard Leat 01494 758784. Visitors Sun 4 April At the time of publication it is very difficult to welcome. predict whether church services will take place at St Mary’s Church during Holy Week and Easter. Wendover WI Please look at the St Mary's website for details Wed 10, 6.30pm, online A cookery demonstration of a dinner party dish of all the services online and in person. www. by Peter Lien. If you would like to participate and stmaryswendover.org
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Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity launched a crisis appeal last month to help bridge a £1m shortfall in income due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Charity needs to raise £2,740 each day to run services at the Hospice, but at the moment is raising less than a third of that, due to the enforced closure of its shops and cancellation of fundraising events. The Charity has also been excluded from the Government’s coronavirus relief funding for hospices, due to its partnership with the NHS. Whilst care and support at the Hospice is continuing, this huge drop in income is putting the future of hospice services in our local area at risk, the Charity’s Chief Executive, Jo Turner, explains: “The Hospice was funded and built over thirty years ago thanks to a huge local fundraising campaign and it is thanks to the continued generosity of our supporters that we have been able to extend our services and increase the number of patients we can support over the years. We have been overwhelmed by the support and words of kindness we have received over the past few weeks – our local community have really got behind us again to help ensure that patients in the future can be offered the same high-quality end of life and palliative care as patients today.” You can donate or get involved with the Crisis Appeal at www. fnhospice.org.uk/crisisappeal or call 01296 429975 to donate.
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they have served in the Armed Forces, and, All Households across Buckinghamshire are for those 16 and over, there will be voluntary questions on sexual orientation and gender being asked to take part in Census 2021. identity.” Census day is on March 21, but households The census is a once-in-a-decade survey that will now be receiving letters with online gives us the most accurate estimate of all codes explaining how they can complete the people and households in England and their surveys. If you haven't had yours by Wales. It has been carried out every decade mid-March, please get in touch with the since 1801, where the population of England census contact centre. You can also request and Wales was around 9 million, by 1851 it a paper questionnaire if you’d prefer to had doubled to 18 million. complete your census that way. Remember to complete your census on or Local census support centres will be open by March 21. For more information, and to while the census is happening. Staff will find out how to get help, visit census.gov.uk, offer help for people not confident online, or call the contact centre on 0800 141 2021. who don’t have a computer, or need help completing on paper. Ross Tackley, Census Engagement Manager from the ONS, said: “This census will be the most progessive ever. As well as being a “digital-first” census, there will be 3 new questions. The first will ask people whether
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HS2 update MARCH UPDATE. We’ve been busy over the last month as the campaign continues, HS2 works start to make themselves felt in our community and questions and complaints mount up. MP. We’ve had a meeting with Rob Butler MP. Rob will continue to ask questions of the minister for us. The Minister, Andrew Stephenson, has, in a written response to Rob, indicated that communities are to be consulted on HS2 S17 planning issues. Buckinghamshire Council (BC), the Local Planning Authority (LPA) have instructed Parish Councils that they will not be considered as Statutory Consultees in the S17 process. Rob will investigate this divergence between the LPA and The Minister on S17 planning consultation. Rob has also indicated that he will work with us and with BC, to develop a culture within the HS2 contractors group to ensure that mitigation comes first. This results from the
appalling delay in arranging satisfactory safety vehicle numbers on roads will be much and mitigation measures at Bowood Lane. higher than in the Environmental Statement (ES). Increased vehicle movements and LORDS. We’ve also met with both Lord insufficient mitigation must mean that Berkeley and Lord Randell. Tony Berkeley locations flagged as “significant adverse continues to question government on effect” in the ES will experience worse traffic our behalf. John Randell has long been a conditions than indicated previously. BC are supporter of our campaign for a tunnel and currently evaluating this TMP. he shares our concerns about the potential MEETINGS. A number of meetings have damage to chalk streams and the aquifer. been held with neighbouring parishes to share information on issues that overlap our INFORMATION. We have received official boundaries; issues like road congestion, road HS2 reports on the geology of the line past safety and flooding. These have resulted Wendover confirming that tunnelling is in the sharing of information and I don’t pretty straightforward past Wendover and doubt they will continue to gain value as that our tunnel design suits the conditions. construction commences. You may ask why the Minister still maintains the opinion that it’s all too difficult. AONB. The Chilterns Conservation Board have written a report on HS2 in the Chilterns. A draft Transport Management Plan (TMP) The report shows HS2 to be far from the for HS2 construction is going the rounds. It “Good Neighbours” that they claim to be. You absolutely fails to adopt any of the mitigation can read it here... www.wendover-pc.gov.uk/ that we asked for at the petitioning stage. It post/area-of-neighbourly-behaviour-hs2 appears to show that construction generated Tom Walsh
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were also supplied by Paula and her team. In addition to practical solutions, the Buckinghamshire Freemasons also provided some pamper packs for the staff including hand cream, face cream and body mist. Haddenham Lodge also provided lip balms.
Such is the success of these projects that Buckinghamshire Freemasons has a dedicated contact for NHS personnel in need of some help. If you are a member of NHS staff and would like some Home schooling iPad We have all become aware that interactive devices are essential assistance then please email helptheNHS@buckspgl.org. for home schooling which has become essential during current pandemic lockdowns. Many families have not been able to provide Freemasons throughout the UK are also assisting with the Covid the number needed for educational purposes. A local Rotarian was vaccine drive by serving as volunteers in many capacities. In able to donate an iPad to a family which needed one for home addition, the Freemasons have offered their lodges to administer the vital jabs and many buildings are now being used as Covid-19 schooling. vaccination centres.
Ailsa
In early January, Wendover News received a query from Richard Pownall about a house called 'Ailsa' which used to be in Wendover: "At the time of the First World War, my great-grandparents lived in 'Ailsa' in Wendover. Does anyone know where that was - or is? Would appreciate any local knowledge. Many thanks."
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Dominic Williams (left) and Raphael Labonne (right) proudly show off a display of their completed English IGCSE course work. Both pupils wrote a persuasive piece challenging the legal issues facing a town that has been hit by increases in criminality. Both boys touch on the topics of justice and liberty, questioning who has the right to make decisions on the behalf of others
A local genealogist was able to find out approximately where it used to be from the 1911 census, when the forms were completed by the resident and collected. They were recorded in order of collection by an official. The record for Ailsa mentions it being "next to" 'The Red House' which still stands in Aylesbury Road in Wendover. Hence it is likely but not certain that 'Ailsa' is on or near that part of Aylesbury Road. If you know anything about the house, please email editor@ Weekend Market at Chiltern View Nursery From Friday 5 March Chiltern View Nursery on Aylesbury Road wendovernews.co.uk. will hold a weekend market every Friday & Saturday through the summer. More information next month!
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Such are the pressures of working within the NHS at the moment, that staff are often unable to stop for meals and are using ice cubes as a way of staying hydrated during their busy shifts. Buckinghamshire Freemasons saw a post on Facebook asking for assistance to buy two freezers so that staff on COVID wards at Stoke Mandeville Hospital could take in food and provide easy access to this important, hydrating ice. One freezer had already been funded. Bucks Freemasons immediately paid for the second freezer after making contact with Paula Tompkins from Haddenham, who was leading the fundraising. A week later, Buckinghamshire Freemasons again partnered with Paula Tompkins and her team to bring a little joy to the staff of Ward 9 by providing a fridge and microwave so staff can store and heat their meals when there isn’t enough time to leave. A coffee machine and microwave
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Lynda Winter - Mask-maker for charity
Lynda Winter has been making face masks and has raised £1,375 for Wendover Dementia Support. Lynda lives with Alzheimers and was previously an arts teacher at the John Colet School, always involved with sewing and textiles. Unable to attend many of her usual activities during lockdown, her daughter Joh encouraged her to go back to her sewing room unused
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Local News for some time. She started to design and make face masks from beautiful textiles. They were sold for a suggested donation and the large amount of money raised was donated to Wendover Dementia Support. Lynda and her family have been regular attenders of their Monday Club Café and have loved the phone calls, friendship and support they have continued to receive from WDS volunteers during the pandemic. Joh says, “Seeing Mum’s confidence in her own ability reminded us that although she has Alzheimers she is not defined by it.”
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Wendover Swimming Pool can run public sessions in Tiers 1, 2 & 3. Please book online before you come to the Pool, as numbers are limited. Please check our Facebook page for information and updates before you come. The Wendover Swimming Pool is easy to get to - it’s in the middle of the schools campus on Wharf Road. Our social media team posts variations to normal opening hours on our Facebook page. Want to volunteer? Email trustees@wendoverswimming.org.
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HS2 and Me On a typical British November day in 1976, just one week after our son’s first birthday, we arrived in Ellesborough Road, Wendover. Forty years on to the month, not sure about the day, we left. We didn’t want to leave, but we had no choice. Our home for all those years was in the way of “progress” ie HS2.
be financially viable? Would it be distressing? Though it seemed a never ending process, HS2 were ultimately fair. But by then, the community we knew was no more. Our neighbours had scattered and the new short term occupants had no interest in investing in their homes or neighbours.
Now 4 years on, perhaps sufficient time has passed for me to reflect on how HS2 has changed our lives, especially now that work appears to have begun in Ellesborough Road. In fact it was was already blighted in the 1970s by plans for a new much needed By-Pass. Luckily in the end, no houses were demolished for the new road and a new bridge re-connected Wendover to the historic Ridgeway Path to Bacombe Hill and beyond to Coombe Hill.
As Heraclitus commented, “The only constant in life is change,” and HS2 has Alison's former home in Ellesborough Road can certainly brought about change. Wendover be seen in this photo taken by Graham Evans has already changed and is no longer the over the middle weekend of January 2021 when place we left. Things have moved on and the bridge was blocked off. perhaps one shouldn’t scrutinise from a a very hard act to follow. Why, unless forced, distance. would anyone want to leave Wendover? We And HS2 goes on regardless, demolishing certainly didn’t. homes and destroying local ancient Yet things had begun to change from the woodland. I hear they have invested in moment they announced the route of HS2. community amenities like the cafe in We hadn’t wanted to move but their plans Wendover Woods. I do hope they were better in consulting with the community made it inevitable as our home was to go. on which projects to support. In the end, I For almost 2 years we searched for know I am lucky to have lived so long in such Alison Black somewhere to settle. We looked as far afield a remarkable place. as Canterbury, Chichester and Stratfordupon-Avon. Key factors were dependent Sugarcraft Specialist on HS2. Would the protestors win out and Cake decorating supplies the project be cancelled? What was the real timescale? Having lived in the same house Cake decorating courses for 4 decades what price would HS2 pay and 01296 696860 therefore what would we able to afford? 1 Town Court High St Wendover HP22 6EA Could we stay in the same area? Would that www.cornellisugarcraft.co.uk
Wendover is a beautiful town and just popping to shops in the High Street could turn into a prolonged outing, especially on Market Days. There was always a friend or neighbour happy to chat. Our neighbours in Ellesborough Road were a quiet and gentle group. People gave willingly of their time for the well-being of the Wendover community. There are plenty of activities, a volunteer-staffed Community Library, loads of local clubs and special events. All things I greatly miss. Wendover is • • • • •
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HS2 plans are going to create traffic at solutions to reduce the misery, flooding & incessant noise! impact of circa 800 twoHelp us to do what’s right for Wendover Bucks Council (BC) have the critical role of reviewing HS2 planning submissions and demanding adequate mitigation from their designs. This is the only opportunity available to us as a community to prevent traffic misery for everyone in the local area, save the reservoir & canal, ensure households in Stoke Mandeville & Aylesbury are safe from flooding, protect the beauty of our AONB and prevent households suffering from ongoing noise disturbance. Hillingdon Council’s successful challenge of HS2 plans provided a clear precedent, so we are raising the alarm and supporting Bucks Council with the technical facts and questions they need in order to challenge HS2 contractor EKFB’s design on all our behalf. We have very little time left before planning submissions are in, and you can help in two ways: by clicking on our website www.whs2. org to complete our survey and writing to our Councillors www.buckinghamshire.gov. uk, to ask them to support our mitigation solutions. Here’s a round-up of all the latest news…
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WHS2 is monitoring the significant increase in HGV movements, comparing what has been declared by HS2 contractor EKFB vs predictions in the HS2 Act. Working with Highways and Bucks Council we are looking
the total water involved. BC and the Environment Agency (EA) agree more work is required despite tests planned last year being further delayed!
way HGV trips a day on the A413 – that’s 5x more than previously declared that we should expect! We are also collaborating with seven Parish Councils from Little Missenden up to Aylesbury to combine our mitigation efforts, and in particular traffic mitigation. This “stronger together” joined-up approach will tackle issues affecting not just Wendover, but all surrounding villages up and down the line to bring about meaningful change to HS2 plans.
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Our expert reports indicate that up to 30 million litres of water per day – that is the equivalent of 12 Olympic sized swimming pools – will be diverted from the Wendover Arm Canal and the Weston Turville Reservoir, flooding Stoke Mandeville & Aylesbury. This month HS2 and EKFB have confirmed for the first time that the Green Tunnel and North Cutting will indeed intercept the aquifer, but they insist the quantities of water involved are too low to consider. This is their justification for not incorporating any of the basic mitigations we would expect - such as lining the cutting to prevent water flooding the track. After 6 years of campaigning, they have allowed us to review their ground water model which we have found only accounts for 25% of
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Half of Wendover will suffer from excess noise, with trains every two minutes during the day and causing sleep disturbance at night. Planning submissions are looming and a key factor in the Bucks Council review of the contractor’s plans is ‘stakeholder engagement’, including community opinion and this is where we need your help to complete our noise survey. We will consolidate the results of the survey and present them to Bucks Council, HS2 and EKFB as the community view. They are obliged to give the same level of importance to this as to other criteria such as cost. Please go to www.whs2.org and click on the ‘How to help’ button to complete our survey and ask your friends, family, and anyone else to click too, because the numbers really do count and every voice matters.
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Award for Merit - Given for outstanding service. It implies keen, conscientious, imaginative and dedicated service over a sustained period, of at least twelve years duration Peter Brickell -Saturn Cub Leader Tina Bright - Apollo Troop Leader Sharon Hutchings - Apollo Troop Leader Ian Watson - Hermes Explorer Leader Roy Coates - Group Leader and Exec Member Tracey Lipscombe - Saturn Cub Leader
I did manage to catch some of the action from the World Indoor Championships on television. That is played on full size rinks unlike our own 12.5 metre rink. It is amazing to see the skill they have, to put a bowl within a couple of inches of the jack from around 30 metres away and judge the swing of several metres due to the bias on the bowl. Although we are closer in our short match game, we have to bowl round a block of wood half way down the track. The technical term for the block is the block, which shows what incredible imaginations bowlers have. Mind you, it is frequently given much more colourful names as the slightest touch voids the shot.
Chief Scout’s Commendation for Good Service - Awarded in respect of not less than five years good service, which stands out. It should be regarded as the Chief Scout's recognition of the very real contribution made to the Scouts by the individual concerned. Stuart Atkinson -Apollo Troop Leader Caroline Griffiths -Saturn Cub Leader
Fingers crossed that time and the vaccine will slowly get on top of the virus and we will be able to enjoy the game and the company of our friends that we love. Meanwhile keep safe and look to the future. Don Knight
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Despite grumbling about having nothing to do in lockdown time seems to fly by. No sooner do I send in one report than it is time for the next. Sadly our indoor season didn't happen this year, like so many other things, but the committee have been contacting other clubs to sound out if there is a possibility of some sort of outdoor activity in April when the outdoor season starts, Virus permitting!!
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Can I say a massive thank you to all the leaders and well done on much deserved recognition of your outstanding service to 1st Wendover Scout Group and the wider Scouting community. Andrew Inkley gsl@1stwendoverscouts.co.uk
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Planning for the season continues in the hope that it will be able to start on time, but is obviously dependent on Government announcements. There will be the usual full range of activities including junior and senior cricket and the Village Cup. Additionally, the club has signed up to the ECB Dynamos programme and is using it for a girls only section in the 8 to 11 years old age group, with sessions planned for Sunday mornings. The ECB launch through which one registers has been delayed for the Government’s Covid update in March.
We have an amazing leader team at 1st Wendover and as Scouts we want to thank them all as volunteers for their contribution. One of the ways we thank them is by recognising their achievements and Good Service Awards are one way of doing this. This year the group have had a number of Leaders awarded for outstanding HS2 continues to frustrate and no meaningful start has yet been possible on planning for the new service given to the group. ground. February’s top winner of the 200 Club Bar to the Award for Merit - Given after at least was Jonathan Seabrook. More info and contacts five years of further outstanding service after for enquiries can be found on the website www. pitchero.com/clubs/wendovercricketclub, which receiving the Award for Merit will be kept updated on news of the season. JS Ray Martin - Saturn Cub Leader
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Tribute: Marlene Firmin Lost to Covid, 27 January 2021
Marlene Ann Lucas was born on 7 December courted for two years and on 5 May 1956, 1936 in Tonbridge in Kent. She had an older the Cup Final Day, the couple were married brother and 3 younger sisters. at Tunbridge Register Office. Marlene left the Army and the new Mr and Mrs Firmin initially Things changed dramatically for the family in lived with family, until they were allocated a 1939, when WWII broke out, living so close Council House in Tring Road, Wendover, where to London. During the Blitz, Marlene was they lived until 2004. evacuated to Surrey for safety. Over the following years, Marlene and John As a child, Marlene always had a keen interest became parents to Michael, Bridgett, Peter, in cooking, and it was no surprise that she Andrew, Jane and Amanda. To coincide with joined the Women’s Royal Army Corps as a the school hours, Marlene began working in cook at the Army Officer’s Training School at the local school kitchens and, as the children Hindhead in Surrey. grew, went on to work as a tea lady on the wards at RAF Halton Hospital. Marlene met her husband John in 1954. He was fulfilling his National Service obligation in In 1975, Marlene started to help at the 2nd the Army, driving Fire Engines in Surrey. They Halton (RAF) Brownie pack and after a short time became Brown Owl. Marlene’s service to 2nd Friendly and professional gardening by Victoria RHS and RBGE qualified Halton Brownies spanned from 1975 to 2001. seasonal pruning, planting and weeding Advice on: vegetable growing pests and diseases Right plant, right place Please call: 07554 544013 victoria@thepruninglady.co.uk www.thepruninglady.co.uk
game, joining the team of ‘tea ladies’ supplying the players with refreshments and dinner. In 2004, Marlene & John decided to retire to Rushden in Northamptonshire, where Marlene joined Higham Trefoil Guild. Marlene had a great love of crafting; she would try her hand at anything. Mostly she made cards which on occasion she would sell to raise funds for cancer charities. Almost everyone she knew would have received one of her cards at some point. Even after losing her left eye to cancer, and with little sight in the right one, she continued with her crafts. She had a ‘shed’ down the garden which had everything crafty you could imagine.
Marlene and John, over the years, became very proud and loving grandparents and great grandparents. In 2016, they received a Marlene was a member of the Royal British card from the Queen, celebrating 60 years of Legion in Wendover and was always a familiar marriage together. This year would have seen face at the jumble sales and cake stalls, etc. 65 years in May. She was also a member of the Bowls club and, although she only played in the very early days, Marlene was much loved by family and many she supported her husband, John, at nearly every friends. She will be greatly missed.
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Youth Wendover Foodbank Donation Week
Monday 22 March - Sunday 28 March 2021 Last year, Wendover Youth Centre, Churches Together in Wendover, and Wendover Parish Council came together with the Wendover Foodbank to organise two food bank donation weeks during Covid-19 Pandemic lockdown. The whole community donated an amazing 1000kg towards the foodbank which was able to feed over 100 people for 3 days! Due to the continued effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the demand for the foodbank in the Wendover and Chiltern area has remained high, so we have decided to run another foodbank donation week from Monday 22 March - Sunday 28 March 2021. Wendover is part of the Chiltern Foodbank network, supported by the Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK. No one in our community should have to face going hungry. If you know anyone in need of support, please contact John Shaw, our local coordinator, on 07899 964037. The Wendover Foodbank serves Wendover and
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This pandemic is hard for everyone. Whilst opportunities to socialise, learn and having some may not outwardly show it, not being access to their wider support network, around friends, missing school and spending young people are feeling lonelier. Autonomy a lot of time within the same four walls is and freedom has suddenly diminished and always hard to cope with. It is important more time at home can lead to overthinking to acknowledge these emotions and and use of negative coping strategies. understand that they are normal reactions to • Compromised online safety. Being online A recent national survey by YoungMinds present circumstances, but please talk about is something most young people are doing found that just under 85% of young people them openly and transparently. Nobody right now, and it is helpful for many to stay self-report deteriorating mental health wins from staying silent. connected. However, some young people during this pandemic, including increased have negative experiences online and it anxiety, problems with sleep, panic attacks I have been working with young people is estimated 90 cybercrimes are recorded or more frequent urges to self-harm, whilst throughout the pandemic to support them every day against children, ranging from the NHS have also found that one in three with their emotional wellbeing, relationship cyberbullying and viewing inappropriate issues, confidence and self-esteem. In doing young people experience bullying. content, to grooming and sexual exploitation. so I have observed the following issues: Concerningly, the majority of mental health • Anxiety is on the rise. The impact from social support for young people is provided by distancing combined with worries about education settings. With most young people the future, education, health, not being now learning from home, they are trying to able to take part in day-to-day activities cope alone. Yet, without guided support and and lack of control is increasing stress mentoring, it can be hard for young people to and anxiety. Coping mechanisms, support process what they are experiencing, so I would systems and routines are being disrupted like to start a conversation with you about your by the measures to control the pandemic. young person and their mental health. • Increasing sense of loneliness. Without
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Wendover’s Carbon Footprint A recent survey of Wendover residents, conducted by Climate Action Wendover, estimated that our average individual residential carbon footprint is 8.1 tonnes CO2 per year per person. Scientists agree that we need to reach a carbon footprint of ‘net zero’ by 2030 to avoid the worst effects of global warming. That means we need to reduce our individual carbon footprint to a level that allows nature to deal with the remainder, often called the natural sequestration of CO2. What is Climate Action Wendover doing? Wendover’s total annual carbon footprint is approximately 65,000 tonnes CO2. Three projects currently underway to understand what impact they will have on reducing Wendover’s total carbon footprint include: • Evaluating solar panels on public buildings • Commencing several tree planting projects • Developing proposals for a 20mph zone
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Would it help if the bins provided included recycling possibilities eg for glass, cardboard, plastic etc in one bin and general waste in another? This is the norm in many countries and some places in the UK. Does anyone have a bright idea to combat litter?
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Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize 2021 The Ridgeway – the oldest road in Britain – was a trackway providing a reliable trading route from the Dorset coast along the chalk Downs to the Wash in Norfolk. Today it is not only the oldest road but is also a wonderful resource for all the communities that live along its route, where all can enjoy walking, riding or just being there. The Friends of The Ridgeway have established an annual arts competition and prize – the Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize. In 2020 this had to be cancelled. For 2021, it will be held in April; if practical and possible, there will be an exhibition in Thomas Hughes Memorial Hall, Uffington on Saturday and Sunday 24 25 April 2021; if not possible there will be an online exhibition and prize giving. The aim of the competition is to bring The Ridgeway to life not only as a long distance trail but also as an artistic inspiration, and to show The Ridgeway, its history and environs, in all their aspects throughout all seasons. The theme of the competition is ‘Spirit of the Ridgeway’.
The main points of the prize competition are: • There will be separate classes for painting, sculpture (including ceramics and textiles), photography and writing (poetry or prose) • Competition is open to artists, amateur and professional, of any age • Art work submitted must be produced in the 24 months prior to closing date • The results of the competition will be announced and prizes awarded at the Ridgeway Friends Day planned for 25 April 2021 or online at that time • The closing date for entries shall be one month prior to the Ridgeway Friends Day (i.e. 25 March 2021); • The full rules of the competition are given in a separate document. All entrants will receive one year’s membership of The Friends of The Ridgeway. Each category winner will receive a keeper prize plus £100. The overall winner will receive a keeper prize plus £250 and a trophy.
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Tribute: Colin Plant
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Colin came to live in Manor Road in 1962 with his beloved wife Margaret. Their three children, David, Sarah and Jude, all grew up here, about as far away from the sea as possible. Colin had been born in Plymouth in 1930 and lived there with his mother Lena as his father Earn was away in the Navy much of the time. They endured heavy war time bombing and Colin came away with the chant "Owing to the wind and rain, poor old Argyles lost again". He never swerved in loyalty to his home football team.
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Colin was a thoroughly reliable leader. This wasn't evident from his school reports but maybe National Service as a radio engineer on DC3 Dakotas with the RAF played a part in his development. The day he really shone was as a clerk with the National Provincial Bank in Devonport, back in 1957, two years after he had married Margaret. He thwarted a would-be bank robber, despite having pepper thrown at him, wrestling him to the ground and wrapping his head in a heavy curtain. The capture and subsequent prosecution were reported in the Western News of 6 September 1957. Management must have noticed his courage and he swiftly rose to become a bank manager in the days when that was a highly respected position and he kept that rank until he retired. Then he and Margaret could develop their love of cruises.
As he approached retirement, Colin joined Chiltern Forest Golf Club in the early nineteen eighties, playing regularly, enjoying the course and making many new friends. He was foremost in setting up the 200 Club in the late eighties to boost club funds and this is still going strong today. By 1998 he was Club Captain. His year was very successful moving the Club forward. He enjoyed the social side He then turned his mind to the Friends of and attended most of the functions with Wendover Health Centre, setting up the 200 Margaret. He will always be remembered for Club in the late eighties to buy equipment his humour and his laugh. He will be missed and provide travelling expenses for drivers. by the Club and all the Past Captains. He became a mainstay of Wendover Twinning Association which was a heavy responsibility including regular school exchanges with Liffré and intermittent exchanges of other mirror organisations including the football clubs, police and choirs. He chaired this important local organisation for over 13 years.
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Local Face: Graham Evans Graham was born in Stalybridge, Manchester. and spent the 1960s as a professional drummer with his band ‘The Big Sound’ in the UK, Germany, Denmark and Israel. The well-known bands & artists he toured with included Jimi Hendrix, The Small Faces, The Graham 1960s Yardbirds & Georgie Fame, playing at some of the worlds most iconic venues including the Cavern Club and the Star Club. At the end of the band’s last European tour Graham returned to the northern cabaret circuit, playing in the house band for entertainers such as Cannon & Ball, Little & Large and Bernard Manning.
is very much a local girl with her family history in Wendover dating back over 4 generations. Lisa & Graham have two children Joe & Carmel, now 5th generation. Joe, Carmel and Carmel’s husband Harry still Graham more recently live in Wendover.
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Graham arrived here on on his 22nd birthday, Sunday 10 August 1969. He decided to have a career change. It could not have been more different from his days with the band. Staying with his brother and sister-in-law in Icknield Close, Wendover, he got a job as a van salesman at Brazils of Amersham, became Bowyers. He very quickly learnt his way around the Chilterns on his van route. He was promoted to supervisor and later to area manager. In 1976 he joined Stevens of Prestwood (became Farmer Giles Foods) as Sales Manager. Graham then rose to Sales Director for Sonny’s American Cheesecakes & S Baron Ltd one of the oldest Smoked Salmon companies in the country, based in the East End of London. In 1991 he started up his own company Chiltern Salads Ltd. Employing over 20 full time staff, the business ran successfully for 21 years.
Graham founded the popular ‘Red Lion Sporting Association’ and hosted guest speakers such as Sir Stanley Matthews, Alan Lamb, Emlyn Hughes, Tommy Docherty and many more raising well needed money for local & national charities. In 2004 whilst having a drink in the Shoulder of Mutton he came up with the idea along with the then manager Keith for the ‘Party in the Garden’. Graham had always wanted to organise an outside event and here was the perfect venue in the heart of the village. He arranged all the music and staging for the next four years when his long-time friend and fellow musician Barry Evans carried on the tradition very successfully. All profits have gone to local charities including ‘Friends of Wendover Health Centre’ & ‘Ian Rennie Hospice at Home’ (now Rennie Grove).
In 1987 the death of his father from a heart related illness prompted Graham to pick up his drumsticks again and do a charity gig at the Wendover Memorial Hall for the British Heart Foundation celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of the Beatles single ‘Love Me Do’. The Wendover Beatles were born with his long-time friend John Hinton on bass and support from old friends Christopher Pallet and Andrew Gardner who advertised in their shop windows, even putting a jukebox in Andrew Gardner’s window. In 2012 The Wendover Beatles returned to the Memorial Hall to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ‘Love Me Do’. Graham has organised many other shows to help raise money for various local charities with his bands The Graham Evans All Stars, China Rose & The Duvets.
After running a successful business for 21 years Graham decided it was time to retire and get back to his beloved music. With the revival of vinyl, he is doing his music in a different way, Graham now deals in records, buying and selling online, and is a regular contributor to online music blogs, whilst Lisa runs her own garden design business ‘The Beehive Garden Design’.
He married his long-term partner Lisa in 1990 at Stocks Country Club in Aldbury. Lisa was born in Sidney Terrace, Wendover and
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Spring approaches so there have been a few changes to report in the Parish Council and Clock Tower. Chairman Tom Walsh has stepped down from that role although he is continuing as a Councillor with HS2 as his focus. Our thanks go to him for his sterling service over the past 3 years. We are also saying goodbye to our Clerk of over 2 years, Keith Shelley. The council thank him for his dedication, commitment and achievements as Clerk and wish him every success in his future post.
a member and more recently Chair of the • Your collection dates are also available by Planning Committee. logging into your Buckinghamshire Council MyAccount, selecting My Services and The Council’s priorities include a second clicking on ‘Find your bin day’. informal parking review of various streets • Call 01494 586550. (leaflets will be posted), please respond, and looking at the open spaces for trees and Wendover Produce Market possibly a skate park. Saturday 20 March, 9am to 1pm
Manor Waste I hope that the future will be better for all as we come out of the cloud of Covid-19 and Councillor Elections I look forward to serving the community to This year Council elections will be held the best of my ability. on 6 May 2021. Wendover Parish Council Sheila Bulpett recognises the elections as a great opportunity to recruit residents who have a Parish Council Meeting passion for Wendover. We’re looking for a For meeting updates please visit www.wendover-pc.gov.uk/meetings cross section of individuals, with varying skills, who are willing to dedicate a few hours per Bin Collections month towards developing ideas, supporting We have received quite a few enquiries projects and championing issues to ensure about bin collections, particularly on the bad Wendover remains a great place to work weather days. Please note Buckinghamshire and live. Further details will be published on Council is responsible for bin collections. our website as they become available. www. wendover-pc.gov.uk/council-elections
I had the honour of being elected as Chairman at the February Parish Council Meeting. A bit of background from me: I have lived in Wendover for 36 years. Our four children have all attended the local schools and we have been involved in the wider life of the community and local activities for most of that time. I have been a school governor, a lifeguard at the swimming pool and a regular Reporting Potholes allotment holder to name but a few. After 20 Wendover Parish Council years of teaching Chemistry at a variety of understand the frustration A few ways you can check your bin day: schools, I retired in 2012. • Visit www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk/find- potholes can cause. Roads and Highways are the With a bit more time on my hands and your-bin-day responsibility of Buckinghamshire Council, • U se a smartphone? You can also download wanting to help keep Wendover the this includes potholes. Potholes can be the refreshed Buckinghamshire Council wonderful place to live that it is, I became reported by following the link: buckscc.gov. Recycling and Waste app Please go to a Parish Councillor in May 2015. Since then, uk/services/transport-and-roads/report-ayour Google Play Store or Apple App Store I have been instrumental in producing the highways-problem/ and search ‘Aylesbury Vale Bins’. Wendover Neighbourhood Plan, Chair of the Finance Committee for four years, and Wendover Parish Council, The Clock Tower, High Street, Wendover HP22 6DU www.facebook.com/wendoverparish/
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