Issue No 876 At the heart of our wonderful community Friday 20th April 2018

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RESIDENTS IN Ferryhill are joining forces with council workers to tackle green issues.

Durham County Coun-cil’s Community Action Team (CAT) has just begun an 11 week pro-ject in Dean Bank, which will see it addressing concerns raised by local people and dealing with

issues linked to hous-ing, the environment and health.

The Community Action Scheme involves the council’s staff and mem-bers, and its partners, dealing with empty prop-erties to try and bring them back into use, clear-ing rubbish dumped in gardens and on village

streets and helping with improvements to build-ings and abandoned land.

Partners include Dur-ham Constabulary, County Durham and Dar-lington Fire and Rescue Service, environmental charity Groundwork, busi-nesses and housing asso-ciations.

Members of the com-

munity are being encour-aged to get involved and let the team know which issues they would like to see the focus on.

Council staff were at Dean Bank Literary Insti-tute on Tuesday 17th April to get feedback from res-idents on issues of con-

TACKLING GREEN ISSUES IN DEAN BANKPupils from Wheatley Hill Primary School taking part in a litter pick organised through the Community Action Scheme last year.

“Not everyone likes using the internet or the telephone to bank...

A PETITION opposing the closure of Ferryhill’s last remaining bank has garnered over 1,000 sig-natures.

Sedgefield MP Phil Wil-son has also shown his support for the campaign against NatWest’s deci-sion to close its doors in the town.

Resident Hannah Smal-ley, who has been encour-aging people to sign, commented, I believe the closure takes away choice from local residents in the way they want to bank.

“Not everyone likes using the internet or telephone banking. You can’t beat walking into a bank branch and talking to someone across the counter. That personal contact is important.”

Phil Wilson has pledged to present the petition to the House of Commons stating, “Over 1,000 peo-ple have signed the peti-tion which shows the strength of feeling in the town.”

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Kenny Richardson

20th April 2010Those we love don’t go

away,They walk beside us every

day,Unseen, unheard, but

always near,Still loved, still missed,

and very dear

Doris Hornsby

Deeply loved and missed, By Steve & family

Birthday Memories

14th April 1964Thinking of you today, as

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Acknowledgements

HopperThanks to everyone who

attended my surprise 60th Birthday party on Saturday

night at Ferryhill WMC. Also for the many cards

and gifts received. Thank you all for a good night.

Regards,Gus Hopper & family

21st April

Passed Away

Dorothy (nee Stobart)Peacefully on April 8th,

aged 83 years.Treasured wife of the late

Colin, beloved Mam of Ariane and Yvette, dear Mother-in-Law of Steve,

dear Gran of Kayley, Dean, Carli and Joe and a Great-

Grandma.

Lonsdale

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for dog fouling, bin mark-ing, fire safety visits, and recycling bin advice.

There will also be the chance for people to speak to the team at weekly surgeries. These will take place every Tues-day from 24th April to 5th June, from 10-11am at the 4 Together Partnership office, 3-5 Haig Terrace, DL17 8NR. There will also be an early evening sur-gery on Wednesday 23rd May, from 5-6pm at the same venue.

Joanne Waller, the coun-cil’s head of environment, health and consumer protection, said: “Our community action team has been operating since 2012 and has already

delivered schemes in 25 locations across the county.

“We have achieved some real success in pre-vious schemes and are looking forward to work-ing with residents and partners in Dean Bank to identify and then tackle the environmental and housing issues that mat-ter to local people.

“I’d encourage as many residents as possible to get involved and help us make a difference.”

The scheme will run until late June. To find out more, visit www.durham.gov.uk/cat, email commu-nityactionteam@durham.gov.uk or phone 03000 261 016.

cern and explain more about the work the team carries out.

The council and its partners will also stage a walkabout on Thurs-day 19th April to identify areas for action and think about how issues can be tackled. Residents are welcome to join in and should meet at 9.45am outside the Institute.

After the engagement session partners will meet and put together an action plan based on the priorities put forward by residents. In previous locations actions have included a community lit-ter pick, additional patrols

TACKLING GREEN ISSUES IN DEAN BANKCara Tanser and Summer Fearon picking up litter from the streets of Wheatley Hill.

This week in History

World War II: The Doolit-tle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.

18 April 1942Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.

19 April 1770France declares war against the “King of Hungary and Bohemia”, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.

20 April 1792

Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.

21 April 1966

At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.

22 April 1889

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Running alongside the Festival of Food will be a Ferryhill and Chilton 1914 -1918 Exhibition, which will include displays and information by the schools and local groups.

Glenys from Approach Too said, “If anyone is part of a group, business or even if you want to do something as a family, we are looking for displays.

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The event, at Ferryhill Village Methodist Chapel, will be opened at 11am by Bugle Major Gary Sug-gett.

LOCAL PRIMARY schools are working with Ferry-hill Ribbon of Poppies group, Ferryhill Methodist Chapel and Approach Too to host a special World War I Festival of Food, on Saturday 23rd June.

The event is to com-memorate the 100th anni-versary of the end of the First World War.

Pupils from Chilton, Cleve’s Cross, Dean Bank and Ferryhill Station pri-maries will be research-ing popular recipes of the time and preparing dishes such as Saturday

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poetry cornerPinafores

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Sunday Dinner over, washing up complete

My Mam put on a clean apron

Without it she was ‘incomplete’

The first pinafore I can recollect

Was an all over garment with tapes at the back

Worn by my Grandmother, and it often was black.

The wrap around pinafore came on the scene

A gift from Heaven, or so it seemed

It fit every shape, no matter what size

You could alter your shape when you tied the ties.

And then came the apron, pretty and frilly

Not very functional, sometimes quite silly

As a nurse, aprons were part of my day

Changed every day, come what may.

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Times have changed, they don’t look as nice

A plastic apron seems to suffice.

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Following the previous family film nights at St Luke’s Centre, there will also be a showing of Star Wars The Last Jedi on Fri-day 4th May.

Doors will open at 6pm and the film will start at 6.30pm when the bar will be open and there will be free snacks and hot dogs for 50p.

Booking for the film

is essential. Contact Vicar Gary on 01740 655232 email or garynor-man266@btinternet.com. Tickets cost just 50p each.

A spokesperson for the church said, “If you would like to come in fancy dress that would be great! And remem-ber... May the 4th be with you!”

ON SUNDAY 29th April, St Luke’s Church in Ferry-hill is hosting another of its popular Family Teas, with a short service, songs, puzzles, stories and film clips.

An organiser of the event, which starts at 4.30pm said, “Come along, make friends and meet the Guardians of the Galaxy!”

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Clips from hit sci-fi movie Guardians of the Galaxy will be shown during the Family Tea at St Luke’s on 29th April.

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AS PART of the Fuel for School project and their campaign to stop food from being wasted, Dean Bank Primary School and St Luke’s Church will be hosting another Pop Up Cafe.

The event will take place

from 11.30am on Friday 20th April at the church, when guests are invited to ‘pay as they feel’ and enjoy soup and a bun, made entirely from fresh, top-quality produce that would otherwise have been wasted.

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THE NEXT Chilton Resi-dents’ Association meet-ing will be held on Tuesday 24th April at The Pavilion, Miners’ Welfare Recrea-tion Ground, Chilton, at

7pm. All are welcome.On Tuesday 29th May

the Association will be holding its AGM at the above mentioned venue and at the same time.

RESIDENTS’ MEETING

CHILTON GALA Commit-tee have announced that this year’s event is set to take place on Saturday 28th July on the Char-lie Wayman playing field

(opposite West Chilton Terrace).

“Many thanks to Chil-ton Town Council,” said a spokesperson for the committee.”

CHILTON GALA TO TAKE PLACE IN JULY

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Veteran’s Show rebrandedI am writing to kindly ask you to publish that the Ferryhill Veteran’s Charity Show due to take place on Sunday 3rd June 2018 at Mainsforth Cricket Complex has been cancelled due to problems with local council placing too many restrictions.

However this event has been rebranded to;

North East Veteran’s Charity Show

The event will now take place on Sunday 21st July 2019 at Misty Blue Farm, Rock Road, Kirk Merrington, DL16 7HJ.

This will remain a free event (with collection buckets).

The event is in aid of Help for Heroes and Misty Blue Farm.

I would like to thank Nikki Christie-Skinner and her team at Misty Blue Farm for agreeing to hold this event and taking an active part that will ensure it will be bigger and better.

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Tickets for the event are £5 and include a buffet and live auction. They can be purchased from the Stray Aid Res-cue Centre, Cornforth Lane, Coxhoe; calling 0300 999 4247, or by direct messaging Stray Aid via Facebook.

A spokesperson for the event said, “Please do come along and support the Stray Aid hounds, enjoy a buffet whilst bidding for a super vari-ety of of lots, including doggy hampers, unique cushion, a signed book, dog bandannas and tas-sels, a signed Super Vet photo and much more.”

A CHARITY auction night in aid of Stray Aid is set to take place at The Fox Cub in Thin-ford on Sunday 29th April, between 7pm and 10pm.

The charity’s mission is to rescue, re-unite or re-home the lost, abused, abandoned or unwanted dogs found

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MOTORISTS ARE being advised to allow extra time for their journeys as road resurfacing work takes place in County Durham.

Durham County Coun-cil is carrying out resur-facing on the westbound carriageway of the A689 Sedgefield bypass, between its Sands Hall and Beacon Lane rounda-bouts, until Saturday 20th April. A contraflow sys-tem is in place along with some turning restrictions

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cil’s strategic highways manager, said: “This work is part of our ongo-ing roads maintenance programme and motor-ists who travel this route should allow extra time for their journeys while it’s taking place.

“There may be some slight delays and we’d like to thank motorists in advance for their patience and understanding.”

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IT PROVED to be a good weekend for the Ferryhill Town Youth Under 10s as they attempted to catch up on a backlog of fix-tures playing at home on both Saturday and Sun-day morning.

On Saturday they hosted Billingham Juniors and won convincingly 6-1.

A hat-trick from Marc was added to with goals from William, Reuban and Aaron.

The second game of the morning saw the home side winning again with the highlight being a thunderbolt of a strike by Kareem for his first goal for the club!

On Sunday it was the turn of 21st Allstar Jets to visit the Rec. and once again Ferryhill took all three points winning by a convincing 11-0 margin.

Hat-tricks from Marc (again), William and Zach were were supplemented by a goal each for Aaron and Reuban.

The second game was a similar scoreline, just with a couple more goals added and another clean sheet too.

Reuban was given the man of the match award over the two games.

Coach, Paul McKeown said: “It was nice to win both games but the foot-ball was also very good.

“Plenty of players were involved and enjoy-ing football across the whole of the weekend’s matches.

“Well done to Aidan, Carlton, William, George, Zach, Aaron, Marc, Jamie, Addison, Reuban, Saman-tha, Layton, Kareem and John-Robert.”

A GOOD WEEK FOR TOWN YOUTH UNDER 10S

FERRYHILL CELTIC trav-elled to Division Two side East Rainton on Sun-day 15th April as strong favourites to progress to the final of the Durham Sport League Cup.

But their hosts had other ideas and pulled off a shock win to dump the Premier Division side out of the cup at the semi finals stage.

Celtic began the match on the front foot and cre-ated several goalscoring chances throughout the first half, but it was the hosts who soaked up the pressure and broke the deadlock on the half hour.

With a cup final at stake, Celtic returned purpose-fully to the field for the second period but the outcome was identical to the first half.

For all their endeavour, Celtic could not find the net and East Rainton dou-bled their lead on the hour mark.

Try as they might, Celtic could not find a way to unlock the second divi-sion side’s defense and it was the underdogs who progressed to the cup final, engineering a clas-sic cup upset in the pro-cess.

Celtic will have another chance at reaching a final this season when they face Witton Park Rose & Crown in the semi-final of the Bishop Auckland Heart Foundation Cup on Sunday 22nd April.

Their opponents cur-rently lead the Wear Valley Sunday League Division One.

Witton Park beat Coun-don Miners Arms 4-1 to reach the semi finals with Celtic progressing by the same scoreline against Durham County.

Kick off at the Witton Park Memorial Field is at 10.30am.

Meanwhile, Celtic’s neighbours and Pre-mier Division rivals, Fer-ryhill Dynamoes, gave themselves a chance at remaining in the top divi-sion with a 3-2 home win over Brandon Sports Club to put themselves within reach of safety.

A double from Vincent Gash and another from Christopher Devine sealed the win with Andrew Mor-ris and Michael Fort reply-ing for Brandon.

The proverbial six-pointer puts Dynamoes within three points of Brandon, who are fourth

bottom, but Dynamoes have a game in hand.

Victory in that game would lift Dynamoes from second bottom out of the relegation places by virtue of a better goal difference than Brandon, who would drop into the bottom three.

With four games left for Dynamoes, they have a crucial period coming up, playing three of their final four games in the next ten days.

As the Chapter goes to press, they take on bot-tom club, Washington Cross Keys on Tuesday (17th April) in the knowl-edge that victory will lift them out of the relegation places.

They will also have an eye on other results the same evening as their relegation threatened rivals, Sacriston Colliery and Brandon also have games, against third placed Newton Aycliffe Huntsman and mid-table Chilton respectively.

Then, on Sunday 22nd, they must face the league leaders, Sherburn Village before, on Thursday 26th, potentially sealing their destiny at home in the derby against Celtic.

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