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February 2022

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WOW Design-led gifts and interiors 76 High Street Hythe Kent CT21 5AL 01303 265340 www.facebook.com/wowhythe

Folkestone and Hythe Cats Protection shop in Hythe is now open: Monday to Saturday 9am - 5pm.

New measures in place to protect customers and volunteers. Stringent cleaning regime and quarantining system to further protect customers and volunteers and only 2 customers in the shop at any one time. Many bargains from £1.

Contact shop on 01303 264285 and general enquiries on 0345 260 1253 2

Newington & District Gardeners Association February sees our first meeting of 2022 and we start the year with our Annual General Meeting.

Held on our regular 3rd Monday of each month, at Newington Village Hall, the meeting will be on Monday 21st February at 7.30pm.

This meeting will be the 57th AGM, which shows how important to keep this Association strong with some important officer elections.

Before the elections we will hear for our chairman, show secretary and our Treasure who as in previous years will give a full detail of our accounts down to the penny.

Tea, Coffee and biscuits will of course be served during the evening so please come along and support us.

March will see our first speaker of 2022, Sue Buckingham, who will be talking to us about Wild Flower of Kent.

In April we will hold our first Show of the year on Sunday 3rd April. Make a note in your diaries, you will find Newington Village Hall full of Daffodils and other exhibits.

We look forward to seeing all members and invite any new members to come and find us. newingtondga@btinternet.com Vic Coleman

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Report from your County Councillor for Newington

Just before Christmas, local government was asked by the Government to reinstate some of the measures we took during earlier waves of Covid. As I write it looks like vaccinations and new treatments have thankfully limited the impact of this latest wave of Covid and the omicron peak has passed. However here are some of the measures we put in place here in Kent.

- Our Public Health Team is working with the NHS to encourage everyone who’s eligible to get vaccinated/boosted.

- We have reinstated our Temporary Place of Rest so that there is capacity for bodies should the hospital mortuaries be unable to cope (always a sobering step to take) - We are once again promoting ‘Kent Together’ our online and telephone advice service where people can ask for help for themselves or someone else. Kent Together has helped vulnerable people get food and/or medicines and provided a friendly voice at the end of a phone.

Kent Together can also signpost those in financial difficulty to the help available. Go to www.kent.gov.uk/kenttogether or call 03000 41 92 92 People are sometimes surprised to find that it’s their council tax that pays for the coroners’ service and it’s a good example of one of the many necessary services that KCC provides and which I hope you and your family will never need to use. KCC is responsible for over 300 services with around half the spending taken by social care for adults. KCC has its budget meeting on 10 February and you can find the 2022/23 draft budget, the 2022 – 2025 Medium Term Financial Plan and the 2022 – 2032 draft capital plan here; https://www.kent.gov.uk/ about-the-council/finance-and-budget/our-budget The results of the consultation on whether to keep booking 4

system for KCC’s 18 Household Waste Recycling Centres are now public. We had 10,705 responses which is by far the largest response to a consultation any of us at KCC can remember. Of those who expressed a view, 52% were in favour of keeping the system whilst 48% were not. A consultation is not a referendum – it’s about asking for comments and making sure we don’t miss any relevant issues.

One key finding was that 39% of those who objected did so mainly because the booking system did not allow same day bookings. Overall 61% of consultees said they’d like to see the option of ‘on the day’ bookings. So we’ve been trialling ‘on the day’ bookings at three HWRCs (Folkestone, New Romney and Maidstone) and I’m pleased to report that the trials have gone very well with 19% of bookings being made ‘on the day’. After a debate at the Environment & Cabinet Committee which voted 11 to 4 in favour of keeping the booking system, it was my decision as KCC’s Cabinet Member for Environment, to keep the booking system and to commit to extending ‘on the day’ bookings to all HWRCs. You can see the consultations KCC is currently holding at https://letstalk.kent.gov.uk/ They include strategies for Adult Carers, Post 16 Transport and the Minerals & Waste Local Plan. You are welcome to respond to as many of these as are of interest to you. You can also sign up for the residents’ enewsletter at https://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council/howthe-council-works/residents-e-newsletter I am also happy to hear from residents with any questions or comments you have on KCC matters at susan.carey@kent.gov.uk Susan Carey Member for Elham Valley Kent County Council 5

All now available in paperback and on Kindle Set in Folkestone in the heady days of the late 60s.

They say if you can remember it, you weren't there!

Two plays. One an imaginary meeting between Dylan Thomas and Brendan Behan in a Fitzrovia pub. The other is Caitlin Thomas reminiscing after the untimely death of her husband.

This is the tale of Hana, a young girl who moves from where she was born in London, to the Kent coast. They discover a wonderful area called Prince's Parade which is full of amazing animals, has a beautiful canal and is right next to the sea too! By buying this book you will be helping to protect it. All profits from it will be donated to the Save Prince's Parade campaign which aims to halt plans to develop the area into a housing estate.

Very funny, and surreal story about a man and a woman on their first date: Bolton Brady and Veda, set in London, November 2001. Bolton is forty, not into assets, has never lived with a woman and looked into the future and seen loneliness. So he decides to do something about it. He advertises in a lonely-hearts column, and receives six replies, but after experiencing one disaster after another only Veda remains between him and his sanity. As the day unfolds the line between reality and fantasy becomes blurred, building to a surreal, yet poignant, conclusion.

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This walk through the history of Sandgate to the present day was first performed at the Chichester Hall a decade ago on Wednesday, 9th June. It is now available on Kindle or in paperback.

Now available on Amazon. Great evocative yarns of worldly travels.

A Loose Cannon tales of a lapsed activist

Ted Parker

The title of the book hints at how, as a ‘loose cannon’, Folkestone born Ted’s risk-taking got him into trouble on a number of occasions whilst being a considerable advantage in his working life.

As a young journalist, Reg Turnill met most of the prewar political personalities and later became the BBC's space correspondent being the only one in the press room when the historic Houston we have a problem message came from Apollo 13.

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F O L C A Folca is the old name for Folkestone We celebrate all activities in the Folkestone and Hythe district also known as Shepway See our comprehensive Directory and Blog pages

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To advertise in all three of The Sentinels with circa 3000 targetted readers and growing please email me at: david@thesentinel.org.uk for a rate card.

Thank you.

We are a small family run business, trading for over 30 years in the heart of Hythe High Street at number 51 (CT21 5AD) and we pride ourselves on customer service and of a range of products with high quality produce. We cater for all needs, whether it's a small treat for your pet, tapioca to make your favourite nostalgic pudding, or some of our delicious, local, free range eggs, perfect for cooking, baking and breakfasting!

At U-Weigh we have more than 400 items in store, ranging from cupboard essentials to sweet treats and snacks. We have a large selection of herbs, spices and seasonings to take your meal plans to every corner of the world, and to cater for the home bakers and amateur chefs, some cupboard staples; flours, sugars, cake mixes, pastas and rices. As dried food specialists, we all have a wide knowledge and will not hesitate to help with any queries or questions you may have.

Take a look at our many products, write your list and pop into the shop. We're also doing our bit for the planet by introducing paper bags, and don't forget, if you are trying to be more green, you can bring your own tubs, jars and containers to fill up. www.u-weigh.co.uk

www.facebook.com/uweigh/ From the cutting-edge London design agency Here Design - writer and poet Philip Cowell, and award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand, author of The Herbarium, this playful, original, beautifully designed book brings to life the punctuation marks we use every day, including: The dashing dash So-called "quotation marks" The colon: and on and on.

The shouty exclamation!

Kindle edition The three dots of... £9.99 (Not forgetting the brackets) Hardback And even more 10

£14.99 Great gift

Friends of St Nicholas Church Newington Restoring and maintaining this historic building and its grounds

Charity number: 1122652

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The editor of The Sentinel is also responsible for sending Hythe, Newington and Sandgate related event information to the Folkestone Herald. If you have an event you wish to publicise it is needed by Tuesday at 17:00. The information should appear in the edition two weeks later although it is not guaranteed.

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Light lunches available local in church after lunchtime concerts

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If you have any photographs of the area either current or past do send them to me by email and I will feature them in future editions.

If you just have prints do drop them into Clyme House and I will scan.

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In the Church this February 2022 February 13. 9.30 am Eucharist February 27. 9.30 am. Eucharist Do look at the church notice board for further announcements.

For any further Church information please call 01303 270604 Support local

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Report from your District Councillor for Newington

Welcome to 2022 I hope like me you have had the opportunity to enjoy some of the beautiful sunny days we have had recently.

Just a very brief report this month on a very important subject affecting us all..

Councils are entering the busy period of budget setting and I would encourage you to respond to the Folkestone And Hythe District Consultation process which can be found at : https://www.folkestone-hythe.gov.uk/consultations/ budgetconsultation We have also produced a short Video explaining that we are the collection Agency for council Tax which shows how much the District Councils share is and what services we provide.

This can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUT-OQfJ40Q Cllr David Godfrey Cabinet Member for Housing and Special Projects

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