MAY 2009 NEWSLETTER

Produced by Parbold Community Association,

Registered Charity No. 507386

Any opinions expressed in this Newsletter are not necessarily those of the PCA

 

This month’s Newsletter is sponsored by  AIRSTEAM TRAVEL  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Old Windmill, Mill Lane, Parbold, Wigan, WN8 7NW • enquiries@airstreamtravel.co.uk. • www.airstreamtravel.co.uk Opening hours:    Mon – Fri: 9.30 to 5.30,   Sat: 9.30 to 4.30,   Sun: 12.00 to 4.00   If you are ever visiting Chorley Market, call in and see us at K & J Travel, Market Street Chorley or phone us on 01257 267019       Opening hours:    Mon – Fri: 9.30 to 5.30,   Sat: 9.30 to 4.30,   Sun: 12.00 to 4.00   If you are ever visiting Chorley Market, call in and see us at K & J Travel, Market Street 257 267019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parbold Community Association Chairman’s report.     Following many months of applying for grants the P.C.A. have now secured funds of £68,000 towards the final stage improvements to the small hall and toilets.  This project will consist of complete refurbishment to the toilets, energy saving lighting and extra insulation which will help to keep down costs and make the hall more energy efficient.

Unfortunately the funds must be spent before July or the funders may recall the grants and therefore we find ourselves in the unfortunate position of having to close the hall from the 8th June for approximately one week.   We have considered this very carefully and feel we have made the right decision.  I hope all users of the hall and its facilities will understand and “bear with us” as the finished project will enhance the hall for all groups. Thank you for your patience and understanding.    Sue Halton

 

 

Parbold Community Association

Saturday 23rd May at 7.30 pm at the Village Hall

“Striding Edge” will perform at the Village Hall on 23rd May.  The first half will be a concert and the second half a ceilidh with lots of opportunity

to have some fun. Come along and bring the family.

Tickets £6 adult,  £3 child , from Anne 462176 or Sue 463703.

 

“One of the hottest professional roots bands of the region”

visit their website www.striding-edge.org

 

 

PARBOLD HALL – GARDEN OPEN DAY – SUNDAY 17TH MAY   &

between 12 noon and 5 pm.

(Proceeds will be donated to the Appley Bridge Girls and Boys Brigades from the Vale Methodist Church.  Last year the day raised nearly £6,000.) All the usual stalls and attractions and of course the beautiful garden and views.  Admission is £2 and accompanied children are free. Any local Group or person interested in having a stall to raise funds for the organization – please ring 464830 – all we ask is for a donation of at least 10% of takings. 

For more information about the Brigades in Appley Bridge, please contact Sandra Morris on 01257 255675

 
 

 

Text Box: HILLDALE COFFEE & CAKE MORNING Hilldale Village Hall Sat May 30th 10.30 to 12  Home made cakes, and Tear Fund Stall  u ALSO PARBOLD FRUIT & VEG with pre-packed selection bags.  Do come and join us   Red Lion Railway Circle  v Tuesday 12th May at 7.30 pm  The Red Lion, Newburgh. Tel 462641   Parbold & district flower club Wednesday 13th May in the WI Hall At 1.45 pm ‘Step into Summer’ – Rosalyn Harrison Tel: 01704 893124  r  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Text Box: Parbold, newburgh & district garden society  j Wednesday 13th May at  8 pm in the WI Hall ‘Tubs & Baskets’ by Dianne Harrison Everyone welcome – Admission £3 (members £1) PLANT SALE Saturday 16th May Hanging Baskets, Plants for Tubs & Baskets etc Also BRING and BUY PLANTS – plants grown by members 9.30 am to 12.30 pm at PWI Hall For more information tel: Tom 462647 or John 462514  

 

Text Box: The next PACT meetings will be held at Dalton  St Michaels School on Tue 12th May from 7 – 8 pm and at Parbold Douglas School on Tue 9th June from 7 – 8 pm .  All members of the Public are welcome to attend.         For more information, please contact Steve Hackney on 01257 462239    

 

Big band night at the Stanley Club, Burscough  ���

 

Fundraising event for West Lancs Carers Centre

 

Friday 5th June – Bar 7 – 11 pm

 

Chilli/Hotpot Supper  included

 

Tickets £8.50 from 01695 711243.

 
Text Box: Parbold  Festival  2009 “Journey into Space” Now is the time to get your free Festival Brochure from the DIY store or the Library and to decide which classes you will enter.  There are plenty to choose from and lots for children too, so let’s make this a bumper year.  Please also think about a deserving recipient for the Joan Draper Cup.  This is awarded to someone who works voluntarily to improve the community in which we all live.  Please state the reasons for your nomination and send them with the nomination to Anne Pryer at 45 Brandreth Drive.  If you are spring cleaning, some of your items may be suitable for the tombola – telephone Anne 462176, Mavis 462050, Ann 462824 or Jenni 462855.  This year’s village-based Festival is on 18th July      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Text Box: Parbold Hut-on-the-Hill – can you help us with the final lap?  We are so close now to being able to start the building works on our new Hut.  If you have been thinking about helping us - now is the time to do it.  Our Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Explorers, Rainbows, Brownies and Guides, their families, Leaders and Helpers have all worked so hard at so many different things to raise money.  Please give them your support.  Anything you can do would be so greatly appreciated by all the young people and their Leaders.  Every penny counts; please help in whatever way you can.  Contact Graham Downhill on 01257 464809 or Sandy Smith 01257 463407.   We are planning various fund raising stalls for the Hut-on-the-Hill – if you have any jewellery, pretty scarves, attractive belts, handbags or other accessories you can donate, please ring Nadine Downhill on 01257 464809 or Sandy Smith 01257 463407.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Live Music at the Weekend

                                                     DOUGLAS music PARBOLD Lancs    Reg. Charity No:506675       

Announcing 2009-2010 Season of Live Music at the Weekend

John Lill OBE, piano; James Willshire, piano; Victoria Sayles, violin; The Halle Brass;

The New Orleans Wriggle [Trad. Jazz.]; Wingates Band with an evening of film music;

Warrington Orchestra & Choir, with Merchant Taylor’s school choir;

BBC Philharmonic orchestral ensembles in Christmas Music and ‘Café Vienna - Revisited’.

 

Following the success of last season, Douglas Music is keeping ticket prices at 2008/9 levels

[£10, £12, £15 & £5. Subscriptions £75.00]

 

For full details join our mailing list by telephoning the Box Office: 01257 421526.

Information is also posted on www.parbold.org

 
Text Box: HELP DIRECT is a new service open to all adults in Lancashire, commissioned by Lancashire County Council. Its purpose is to help people get that bit of extra support they need to stay independent, to keep healthy, to stay in touch with and see friends, to keep their home and garden in good order, to take part in leisure activities or have opportunities to get involved in their local community. The main aim of Help Direct is to help people get the right practical support, some individual guidance or simply the right information and advice they need before a problem becomes a crisis. We support them to reconnect with community and mainstream services, and also act as a way of promoting these services. We maintain an online Wellbeing Directory (that will shortly be publicly accessible) of all such services within West Lancashire, and operate an advice line, 0303 333 1000, which is open Monday-Friday 9-5 and Saturday 9-1. People can speak to an experienced Advisor at these times who will deal with each call on an individual basis and take appropriate action to resolve the issues, whilst out of hours they can email askus@loc.helpdirectlancs.org.uk and we will respond the next working day. We will also be providing Outreach workers supported by volunteers who will be available in local centres, and are interested to hear from anyone in the Parbold area who might be able to provide such a venue.  Mandy Naylor - Help Direct Coordinator West Lancashire Tel: 01695 586504 Mob: 07812 029685    (      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Text Box: Parbold  Chamber Choir and Le Point D’Orgue de La Possonnière Present L’Entente Musicale An Anglo-French Musical Celebration Our Lady and Al l Saint’s Church, Parbold 7.30p.m. Saturday 23rd May 2009 Tickets £9 (Concessions £8) Includes programme and interval light refreshments Available from Choir members or Tel 01257 462801 Go to www.parboldchamberchoir.btik.com for further details The concert is supported by a grant from WLDC Community Chest fund  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PARBOLD WI

 The next meeting will be held on

Tuesday 5th May at 7.30 pm  when Margaret Powell will talk about

 ‘JOYCE GRENFELL’

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 JUNIOR DISCO

Friday 8th May from 7.30 to 9.30 pm

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Text Box: Parbold Library Is Coming Of Age! On 21st June 1989 Parbold library was officially opened. In 2010 we will be 21 years old. To celebrate we would like to collect any photographs you may have of the site before the library was built, the mobile library that served the area or old pictures of the library itself.  We would also like any reminiscences you may have of using Parbold library or the mobile library in the past.  Please write down your reminiscences and hand them in, send them in an email to parbold.library@lcl.lancscc.gov.uk or tell them to the staff.  Photographs can be scanned in the library by staff members then returned immediately.   Maggie, Marjorie & Linda  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Text Box: PARISH COUNCIL NOTES - Clerk:  Mrs Elizabeth-Anne Broad, 1 Pinewood, Skelmersdale WN8 6UZ. Tel  01695 557678  Mob:  07973 340254  e-mail:  parboldpc.clerk@yahoo.com Parbold Parish Council meets on the first Friday of each month except August at 7.30pm at Parbold Village Hall. Parbold Parish Council AGM: Will be held on Friday 1st May 2009 at 7.30 pm in Parbold Village Hall.  Annual Parish Meeting: Will be held on Wednesday 6th May at 7.30 pm in Parbold Village Hall.  This is your opportunity to discuss parish matters so come along and support it if you can. Alder Lane: A public meeting is planned for Wednesday 10th June 2009 to discuss proposals for Alder Lane Playing Fields.  Please keep an eye on the parish council notice board for details. Details of Councillors can be found on the Parish Notice Board outside the shops on The Common

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Text Box: Travel Update - AS USUAL at Holiday Weekends avoid travelling South if possible although on Saturday May 2nd there will be services to St Pancras in under 4 hours changing at Wigan, Nuneaton and Leicester and on Monday 4th to Euston in 3 1/2 hours via Manchester. While details are not yet available there should also be reasonable services to London on Saturday morning and Monday afternoon, 23rd and 2th May.  ALSO on May 2nd to 4th going North the line from Preston to Lancaster is due to be closed - and beyond there North of Carlisle!  David Gelder 462716  

 

 

 

WALKING AND OTHER LOCAL EVENTS: Parbold Ramblers: First Sunday in the month. Tel: 463057, 01942 200967

West Lancs Footpath Group –tel: 01704 880782. Life Long Learning – Group Walk Fridays with Pub lunch tel: 01695 579095. West Lancs Ramblers Assoc Tel 01772 812034

West Lancs Countryside Events for MAY.   9th & 10th Balsam Bashing 10.30 am meet lay by at Fairy Glen.

Sat 16th 10.30 am ‘Stroll with an Expert – Useful and Edible plants’. Sun 24th 10 am, Lathom circular Walk 6 miles. Meet at Vicarage Lane entrance to Ruff Wood. tel: 01695 622794. email: beacon.park@westlancsdc.gov.uk

Rufford Old Hall –  MAY -Thurs 14th Evening Tour of the Garden 7 – 8 pm .  Sat 23rd Wildlife Week.

26 & 27th  - Children’s Trail 11 – 4.  Sat 30th  Birds of Prey. For more information tel:  01704 821254.

FLEAMARKET Parbold Village Hall – last Sunday in the month.  FARMERS MARKET Cedar Farm First Sat. in month.  

 

NEW BUSINESS IN PARBOLD

Simon J Ackers, Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser. Offering tax and accounting services to individuals, partnerships and limited companies. Evening and weekend appointments.

 Free initial consultation. Special rates for charities. Tel: 01257 259446 mob: 07967 892894

email: simon.ackers@btinternet.com

 

A copy of ‘What’s On?’ giving times and venues of activities in the village is displayed on the Parish Council Noticeboard outside McColls and at the Village Hall