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April 2016 Your Local Community Magazine
Dear Readers Welcome to the April issue of Island Magazines. At the time of writing this the sun is shining and I’m hoping and praying that finally we are turning the corner and can wave goodbye to the cold spells, rain and wind and look forward to some spring days.
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This months issue as usual is packed with news, information, advertisers and much more. There are events happening across the Island and you will find details of these on the located in Amery House Dental Practice Appointments 10am - 7pm Mon - Sat ‘Dates for your Diary’ section which are on Treatments for: Muscular Pain • Headaches pages 10 and 11.
Cowes Thai Therapy
Stress • Sports Recovery • Insomnia • Relaxation
This month we met some new four legged friends in the shape of goats and their kids and this resulted in this month front cover picture and you can read all about our morning with them on page 3.
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too can come and see the goats with the kids.
We have a special front cover this month and the star of it is Rookley and his mum Toggie. This little dancing, prancing kid is part of the 50 strong herd of Isle of Wight Dairy Goats, who reside at and belong to The Green Barn. The herd isn’t complete yet as at the time of writing this there are still a couple of mums waiting to deliver. They are the only commercial dairy goat farm on the Island and these little beauties are responsible for producing the freshest and tastiest goats cheese, milk and fudge on the Island. The Green Barn Isle of Wight Dairy Goats is open to the public and you
The day we went to visit we were lucky enough to have cuddles with some newborns and they are just the cutest. Obviously Rookley wanted to show us how entertaining he could be and was doing some leaps, jumps and generally playing around in his paddock much to amusement of us all. You can easily while away an hour or more just watching these fascinating animals. Whilst visiting the goats you can also visit their onsite farm shop for some wonderful hand crafted gifts as well as the delectable delights of fudge, cheese and milk. They are situated on the Main Road, Bouldnor, PO41 0XN and are open every day.
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Isle of Wight Tae Kwon-Do Club Tae Kwon-Do is a Korean martial art that was inaugurated in 1955 so it is a very modern art which is now practised worldwide. By learning and developing techniques such as blocking, punching, striking and kicking, students learn the invaluable things they need to protect themselves and others in a violent situation. The club also teaches pressure points, locks and throws to give an excellent all round system. The club has been established since 1998 and in that time has produced regional, national and even world champions. It has also seen over 50 students promoted to Black Belt and beyond. Classes now run 7 days a week across the whole island and beginners are always made to feel welcome. Students can start from as young as 5 years old. All of our instructors are experienced and fully qualified as well as having passed First Aid, Health & Safety and Child Protection courses. Also all of our instructors and assistants have had the enhanced DBS checks done.
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Town Mayor Report for East Cowes From Margaret Webster (Tel No: 01983 299082 and leave a message for the Mayor) We now move into the spring period and recently we have had a few sunny days, let us hope that it remains this way and we can all enjoy the sunshine.
It was resolved that subject to robust fiscal regulations and safeguards are in place, a contribution of £1500 is agreed in principle.
The time moves very quickly in the role of the Town Council, this month has been no exception as we move forward with more responsibilities.
It was also reported that leaflets detailing a collection calendar regarding the new changes to the Waste Collection will be delivered shortly to all households detailing new arrangements.
At the February meeting of the Town Council, an update on the Town Councils takeover of the Osborne Road Toilets. The clerk reported that the IWC had suggested a’ tenancy of will’ should be applied to enable the toilets to remain open for use from April 1st 2016, whilst the details of a contract transferring the freehold of the toilets is drafted. After a freedom of information request of the IOW council from the Town Council to have a copy of incomes of the Floating Bridge, a response detailing income only has been received. It was agreed that a further request should be made requesting the expenditure of the same period be made. Both sets of figures will enable the Town Council to assess the situation. An update of a recent meeting of ‘Destination Cowes’ meeting was provided to the Council members with a request for a financial contribution for £1500. This was discussed amongst the Councillors, the Clerk advised that in accordance with financial regulations and audit, this council could not make any contribution until a full constitution and all appropriate financial safeguards were adopted by the group and agreed by the Town Council. 8
Each household should receive these by end of March/beginning of April. It was comforting to be informed that in fact the IWC will be undertaking the repairs to the damaged Library roof. It was reported that PCSO Steve Hull is hoping to hold a Skate Park Fun Day on Saturday 23rd July but this will be confirmed at a later date. DATES TO REMEMBER. SATURDAY 2nd APRIL 10am-12pm, Spring Charity Table Top, sponsored by ECTC, please contact me for further information SUNDAY 17th April 2016 midday-2pm, Beach Clean, meet on the Esplanade INFORMATION. Please Note: - East Cowes Town Council Meetings now start at 6.30p.m on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Next Town Council Meeting will be on Thursday 21st April 2016 @ 6.30p.m.
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Dates for your Diary First Wednesday of every month – Public Auction at Newport Football Club, St Georges Park, St Georges Way, Newport. Furniture and collectables auction. Sellers drop off 10-4pm Public viewing 4-6pm. Auction 6-10pm SATURDAY 2nd APRIL 10am-pm, Spring Charity Table Top Sale at East Cowes Town Hall., sponsored by ECTC, please contact Margaret Webster for further information Saturday 2nd April – SKA FEVER –Grass skirts & Boxing Boots. 80’s scooterist Music Night at Cowes Community Centre, Park Road, Cowes. 8pm until midnight. A chance to celebrate and enjoy those great memories again. Sunday 3rd April – Memorial Ploughing Match 2016. 9.30am – 4.30pm New Wolverton Farm, Shorwell, Newport. Watch heavy horses ploughing alongside vintage and conventional tractors. Entry is FREE and any money collected on the day will be given to charities on the Isle of Wight with the main beneficiary being the Earl Mountbatten Hospice.Refreshments available. Tuesday 12th April - A talk and presentation about local postcards will be given by Terry Nigh at the annual meeting of Cowes Heritage, to be held at Birmingham Road Methodist Church at 7 pm. Admission is free and all are welcome. Saturday 16th April - Cowes Lions Club are holding a Spring Fair at the Isle of Wight Community Club, Park Road, Cowes from 10.00am until 3.00pm. There will be something for everyone so please come along and support.
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Saturday 16th April - The Great British Sewing Bee at Ryde Library (With Age UK - Island based) 10am -4pm sees the return of the Sewing Bee. If you love sewing hand or machine then this event is for you. We have a huge pile of clothes just perfect for upcycling all the thread, ribbons and buttons you will ever need and we have sewing machines! All of this will cost £5 all of which goes to Age UK just turn up! Sunday 17th April - East Cowes Community Beach Clean. Meet at 2pm in the Esplanade Car Park. Supervised children and dogs very welcome. Bring Wellington boots ,working gloves and black sacks if you can. Saturday 19th April - Wootton Bridge Art and Craft Market 2016 10am – 5pm . This is a new event for Wootton Bridge, held at Methodist Hall in Station Road. There will be a mixture of stands with quality products and in order to raise money for The Earl Mountbatten Hospice there will be a raffle with items donated from the crafters and artisans participating. Refreshments, free parking and free entry. Full disabled access. Wednesday 20th April - Elvis Nite Record Hop with DJ London Rock. Come and dance or listen to your favourite Elvis tunes & more. 8pm – 11pm at Camp Hill Community Club, Newport, PO30 5ZA. Free entry. Contact Shavka - 07530 417179 for more information Wednesday 20th April - The IOW Osteoporosis support group warmly invite you to a free information event at the Riverside Centre from 6.30-8.30pm. Professional medical speakers will be present
Dates for your Diary and additional advice, information, leaflets and refreshments will be provided. For further information call 07926053263 Saturday 23rd April – On The Water Open Day & Spring Fair 2016 at Brading Haven Yacht Club. Free entry, free on the water activities and plenty of parking. 11am – 4pm enjoy a great day out on and off the water offering a wide range of ‘no cost’ activities through-out the day, for visitors and existing members. These activities will include a free introduction to sailing under the watchful eye of a fully qualified RYA Instructor, tours aboard the RNLI Bembridge Lifeboat, RIB rides and boat trips around Bembridge Harbour and plenty of other activities on shore. For further information contact secretary@bhyc.org.uk Saturday 23rd April - Have your blood pressure checked FREE as once again Ryde Rotary Club are holding their annual Stroke Awareness Day in St. Thomas Square, Ryde (outside NatWest Bank) between 10am and 1.00pm. In the UK strokes occur every 3 ½ minutes with one in five women and one in six men having a stroke by age 75
Friday 29th April - Quiz Night at The Hare and Hounds, for the RSPCA IOW Branch, now with an added cash prize, all proceeds go to Island animals. £2 per person, max of 6 per team. 8pm start. Call 01983 523446 to book your team a table.
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Everyone welcome. The club is open 7 days a week Tel 01983 293534 11, Clarence Road, East Cowes e-mail: eastcowesconclub@gmail.com www.facebook.com/eastcowesconclub
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Spring is definitely on the way and by the time this is in print, there should be an abundance of spring flowers, lambs skipping happily in the fields, birds in the trees and signs that summer is on its way. The downside to all of this is that crème eggs will be once more disappearing from the shelves, but that’s a small price to pay to be able to leave the house without wearing enough clothes that rival the rails of Valu-4-U in case of a shower, snow, sleet or sunny skies!
St George’s Day, which thankfully falls on a Saturday this year (23rd April) and we’re hoping that you and your family will come into the town join in on the fun and games. Like the pancake races in February, we are hoping that it will be a fun family event (and importantly, it will be free!). You can expect lots of fun including This year looks set to be busy in the town and a fancy dress competition (more details we hope that you will continue to support below) as well as swing boats, coconut shy, our local businesses not only by shopping face painting, ‘splat the rat’, shop window locally for consumables, but also by using competition and lots of other traditional local tradespeople, such as Dan from DMH activities. Decorators if your house needs a bit of TLC, or Iggy from Iggy Electrical if you find yourself The event will take place in Kings Square in darkness every time you turn on the light. starting at 11am and run until 3pm. We’re East Cowes has an enormous range of skilled, sponsoring the whole event, so everything knowledgeable and qualified people, and the from the boat swings to the fancy dress competition, including the coconut shy and chances are that because they won’t need splat the rat, will be free of charge, enabling to make a journey of half an hour each way you to bring the kids and not worry about the to their customer (you!) their quote will be cost to your pocket. Most of the events are cheaper for you too! By spending money simply turn up and take part, but please look in your town, you are helping your town to out for posters over the coming few weeks for flourish. timings of the competition activities. Annual General Meeting The fancy dress competition is being judged at We held our AGM at the start of March and 12 noon, with prizes for the best dressed girl and boy aged 4 and under, 8 and under and by the end of the meeting, we were two committee members up as well as had ideas 9 and over. As it is St George’s Day, knights, of future projects and events in the town; we dragons and princesses are encouraged, so supported a recent ‘Clean for the Queen’ litter get imaginative and creative (but please, no pick (which enabled insurance to be provided) real fire breathing dragons, as our insurance doesn’t cover that!) and we are happy to be supporting the Victorian Strollers on the 8th and 9th August for example. Thanks to everyone who came There is also a knights shield competition which will be judged at 1pm, the rules are along. simple … make the best shield! It can be made of anything you like, decorated however St George’s Day – a celebration of all things you want and be any size you want! There are English two groups, 8 and under, and 9 and over! We were hoping to have a timetable ready, Our next public event is a celebration of
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but there is so much to cram in, we’re struggling! Please look out for timetables in shop windows. Partnership working with Cowes
I still don’t really understand what happened – but the upshot of it is that we are hoping to give it a bit of a facelift and have it back online very soon. Our huge thanks to Stephen for helping us.
The rivalry between West and East Cowes has been ongoing for centuries (having grandparents who lived ‘on the West side’ but worked ‘on the East side’ – and a brother who still does) I suspect that the argument Once again, I would like to thank our about which side is best will continue for members for their continued support. We many years yet (but we know that ours is are actively trying to promote East Cowes as best really). However, over the last few well as individual businesses and do this via months, the neighbouring towns have started this magazine, our website (www.ecba.biz) working together to deliver a project called as well as Twitter (@EastCowesBiz) Facebook ‘Destination Cowes’ that includes both and a monthly e-newsletter. If your business East and West Cowes, with the intention of is currently a member, or if you would like working together to promote the area further to join, you can use any of these methods to afield, rather than individual towns. We promote your business. Please get in touch. cannot take credit for it, as it was organised before our involvement, but the world famous Can I please remind businesses that Solitaire du Figaro boat race (which is due to membership is now due. It is £25 for the year arrive in Cowes around the 22nd June and and is open to every business with a postcode depart 26th June) is a result of the hard work of PO32 (either an office or a premises and efforts of the group and we are delighted address). that we, along with the Town Council, English Heritage, Red Funnel and many other groups E Mail: eastcowesbusinesses@gmail.com from both sides of the river, are now part of it. Twitter:@EastCowesBiz Facebook: East Cowes Business Association Other news Bizarrely, our website (www.ecba.biz) was hacked in February and a ransom was demanded for its safe release. Although no one on the committee knew how to get around it, we were lucky enough that Cllr Stephen Hendry stepped in to help and did what needed to be done – I will be honest,
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The Importance of Colour as We Grow Older With older age comes a greater likelihood of eyesight conditions, as well as being on medication, having a form of dementia, and perhaps all of these things combined. What the eye sees, the brain must interpret, and this can vary given different circumstances, type and progression of dementia, and abilities. Understanding that an older person with or without dementia will probably perceive their surroundings differently, is a good starting point for the design of living environments. Good design can help enormously in making it easier to interpret and navigate a building in safety, and the use of colour and contrast can be used in different ways to assist in this.
Contrast is the key to vision.
Blue – restful and has a calming effect, a popular choice for sitting areas and bedrooms
High contrast - When we want to draw attention to something important, greater contrast helps to highlight it. For example, a coloured and contrasting toilet seat helps with positioning; stairs can be made safer with a contrasting strip along the front edge; grab rails can be located; the outlines of furniture can be seen more clearly
Green – the most restful colour, also a popular choice for sitting areas and bedrooms, plus waiting rooms and clinical areas to help reduce stress Red – increases brain wave activity, can stimulate the appetite and produce adrenalin. It is frequently specified in dining areas but dementia patients can have problems seeing the red end of the colour spectrum Orange – this warm colour has a similar effect to red
If there is no contrast, objects cannot easily be seen and differentiated. Contrast is vital in being able to comprehend the environment and understand the features and elements that we need to use in our ordinary daily lives. As we age we lose the ability to differentiate colours clearly, our perception of depth diminishes, there is a loss of visual acuity, we have less spatial awareness and our sensitivity to contrast lowers. Without good contrasts, the world becomes more hazy, we struggle more and more to make sense of it and we function in life with less confidence.
Low contrast - The opposite effect can be achieved by lowering the contrast. e.g. a white door on a white wall. This is also a useful way of making floorings safer, by keeping to a single colour over different floor finishes, or making changes in the floor colour gradually rather than suddenly. It is the sudden contrast which can make the floor levels look uneven, like a step, and this can cause hesitation and unsteadiness which can lead to falls.
Violet – this combination of colours from opposite ends of the light spectrum does not appear to have a consistent effect on mood A large or busy pattern can confuse the eye, and again cause hesitation if it looks like an obstacle or a hole. Shiny finishes can look Yellow – a stimulating colour, ideal for activity areas, can make small rooms appear unsafe, so a matte flooring is preferable and people can walk more safely. larger. 18
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