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The weather over the last month has been a good mixture of wind and rain. Our lovely Island took a battering from storm Imogen recently but we survived and surprisingly there was very little damage. In this months issue you will find the ‘Dates for your Diary’ on page 5 and we have teamed up with Lost Pets IOW in an attempt to reunite missing pets with their owners and you will find more information on this on page 8. The pets missing are from different areas on the Island so please spread the word to family and friends. We have some great advertisers and please keep using their services and remember to tell them you saw them advertised here. I hope you all have a lovely Easter and remember to eat plenty of chocolate!!!! Until next month...
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Town Mayor Report for East Cowes From Margaret Webster (Tel No: 01983 299082 and leave a message for the Mayor) This month has really moved forward very going forward to the IOW quickly. It has been a busy month for the Town Planning committee in April, Councillors because we have had to consider we believe. The date will be and decide what facilities that we could published by the IOW council in due course. consider taking responsibility for and to get a cost for doing the same. Cllr M Lloyd our representative on the ‘Amey’ refuse panel, gave the Town Council an update We have decided that the public toilets in from his meeting with them. He confirmed Osborne Road (next to the Town Hall) we will that he had been told that new black bins take responsibility for but require them on would be delivered to houses able to take a freehold lease. This decision we felt was them, and all other homes will be provided paramount as they are the only public toilets with ‘Gull Proof Bags’. These in the Town, where visitors and local people hopefully will be delivered to households may use when required. These we expect to in time for the new refuse collection which take responsibility for as from April. should start in April. Sadly in the meantime the company do not have any more clear bags The grass cutting on the Seafront, Victoria left so it has been confirmed I believe recreation ground as well as Jubilee recreation that you are permitted to leave that rubbish ground will also become our responsibility , in your own clear or white bags and it will be again we expect as from April this year. These collected as normal. extra responsibilities along with the facilities that we already manage as a Town Council The Town Hall fields a large number of will of course create an extra expense to our activities during the week for all ages, please community charges, we have however worked come along to find out more information, I am hard to keep it within a reasonable figure for sure our staff will be pleased to inform you. the East Cowes precept amount. This figure will be published soon. Just in case we do get the promised bad weather, snow and ice, please take care whilst The renewal of the Town Hall Roof is nearly walking to and from the Town. complete, although there are still a couple of Spring will soon be here! minor repairs still needed to complete the job. It has taken longer than we expected but a Kind Regards great deal of this was caused by the increment weather and of course the Margaret Christmas holiday period. INFORMATION. Red Funnel have now presented a further Please Note:- East Cowes Town Council planning application for the regeneration of Meetings now start at 6.30p.m on the their site and East Cowes Town area. The Town 3rd Thursday of each month. Council will be re-looking at the application Next Town Council Meeting will be on and making their comments to the application Thursday 18th February 2016. @ 6.30p.m. in readiness for the complete application 4
Dates for your Diary Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd March - Ventnor Film Society are showing the film Taxi Tehran (12A) at Ventnor Arts Club, 13 High St, Ventnor, 7.30pm. £6 on the door. Bookings advisable by email at ventnorfilmsociety@ hotmail.com. When Iranian director Jafar Panahi was banned from making films for 20 years, his response was to drive around Tehran in a shared taxi rigged with hidden cameras. His passengers talk about their life in the city and share what is on their minds. Subtitled. www. ventnorfilmsociety.wix.com Friday 4th March The Isle Of Wight Venue Campaign, presents, Acoustic Isle Festival, a small hall, tour of local community music venues, in aid of Care in the Garden at Wight Rock Bar, Ryde 7pm The Worry Dolls, Tickets £6 Saturday 5th March, 10.00-13.00 FREE Community Bicycle Check Up Event at Shalfleet Village Stores, Warlands Lane, Shalfleet. Island Bikeworks (Mobile Cycle Mechanic) would like to keep you and your family cycling safely, so take your bike along for a FREE safety check and maintenance advice. Tel. 07926 523453 for more information. Sunday 6th March - Mothers Day Spring Market at the Isle of Wight Donkey Sanctuary. Free admission and free parking Saturday 12th March, 10.00-13.00 FREE Community Bicycle Check Up Event at Norris Family Grocers car park, Rectory Road, Niton. Island Bikeworks (Mobile Cycle Mechanic) would like to keep you and your family cycling safely, so take your bike along for a FREE safety check and maintenance advice. Tel. 07926 523453 for more information. Saturday 12th March – Spring Fair in the Parish Room at St. Mary’s Church, Cowes 10am – 2pm. Stalls, refreshments, light lunches, art and craft
Sunday 13th March – Paddy & Murphy’s St Patrick Party at the Isle of Wight Donkey Sanctuary. Irish music and dancing to celebrate our famous Irish duo – led by our donkey Seamus. Free admission and free parking Wednesday 16th March - Rock’n’Roll Record Hop at Camp Hill Community Club, Newport. FREE ENTRY. DJ London Rock – 8 – 11pm Contact Shavka - 07530 417179 Saturday 19th March – Torches & Tassels Walk the Night with Pink On Wight. 8pm. Fundraising For Breast Cancer Now, Decorate your Bras, Pull on your Boots, pick up your Torches and hit the Track!!! Join us on a moonlight walk from Sandown to Newport, £10 donation per participant, sponsorship optional. Meeting point will be Sandown Bay Academy, End point Matalan Car Park, where hot refreshments will be on offer. Saturday 26th March – Easter Duck Races in Yarmouth. 1000 little yellow plastic ducks all numbered are released onto the River Yar. The first four to reach the bridge, on the tide, are the winners. The numbers coincide with tickets sold prior to the race, in and around the town and on the day. The winning numbers all receive a prize. Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th : Ventnor Film Society are showing the film Samba (15) at Ventnor Arts Club, 13 High St, Ventnor, 7.30pm. £6 on the door. Samba is a Senegalese immigrant working in Paris as an illegal kitchen. Samba finds himself ordered to leave France and seeks the help of Alice, a volunteer immigration advocate who makes up for her lack of experience with a generous heart. www.ventnorfilmsociety.wix.com 5
Movement Growing Against Oil and Gas Extraction on the Island Licenses awarded for oil and gas drilling on the Island In December 2015 a license was awarded to UK Oil and Gas Investments (UKOG) and Solo Oil to explore for oil in a 200 sq km area on the Isle of Wight. This decision came just days after the close of COP21, the historic United Nations Climate Change Conference that resulted in a historic agreement by 195 countries to tackle climate change. To keep to this commitment and safeguard our future we must keep fossil fuels underground, meaning no new oil and gas wells, not here, not anywhere.
significant potential is the M-prospect, an offshore site near Compton Bay. A place dear to the hearts of many islanders, more than 130 people came together on January 31st, 2016 at Hanover Point to demonstrate our opposition to this project and others around the world. The gathering was the lead story that night on BBC South Today! Next public meeting - We are holding a public informational meeting at Yarmouth Community Hall on March 3rd, 7-9pm. If you would like a meeting in your community or have any other questions, please do get in touch. Email info@ frackfreeisleofwight.org, or follow ‘Frack Free Isle of Wight’ on Facebook or @frackfreeiow on Twitter.
To frack or not to frack? This is not the question In late January UKOG announced their intentions to move forward with applying for permission to drill for oil in Arreton. Despite SIMON MAC the beautiful rural character of the village the Traditional Painting & Decorating company has described this as a “brownfield” Private & Commercial project. Due to this well having first been drilled “for a professional, reliable & high in 1974 the company is able to move straight through the exploration phase to the appraisal quality tradesman” phase. This could be just one step from Complete Kitchen Makeovers commercial exploitation of the site. UKOG has and Kitchen Door Specialist said that they plan to drill without “massive” Tel: 294020 or 07769 967 140 hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as Email si.mcm@hotmail.co.uk fracking), but indicated they would use Fully Insured - References - Free Estimates limestone stimulation techniques (commonly known as acid fracking). For all possible extraction techniques there is growing evidence of serious and sometimes irreversible impacts to landscape, groundwater, For a caring and compassionate service air quality, roads, 40 Place Road, Cowes. Tel: 292932 environment and human www.geoffleather.co.uk health.
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This is Obi now aged 9 months missing from Bellevue Rd. Cowes since November. Extremely friendly boy with a very long tail. His owners are distraught.
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This is Flufflepuff who answers to Fluff. He is a Black unneutered male. Missing from Rookley Main Road since Christmas Day. Very vocal and a bit of a scavenger.
I am writing this the day after the ECBA Pancake Race, and have to say despite all of the red tape and hoops that we had to jump through (including writing a risk assessment detailing how we would clean a pancake off the floor!) I have to say how pleased we were that this event was so well supported, not only by our two local schools, Holy Cross and Queensgate, but that so many parents, grandparents and friends took the time to watch and cheer. There are too many people to thank individually, but a big thank you should go to the children who waited patiently for their turn, and those who cheered on their classmates (and teaching staff!) speaking as a parent, I was really proud and can’t wait for next year. Thanks to all of our members, who ultimately made this event possible through paying their membership fees. The result was incredibly close, but Holy Cross won the shield by just two medals! Will they be able to defend the shield next year?
up to national companies, and this is our key strength, but we need more local business people from all business background. The benefits of being a member include an unlimited 15% discount off Red Funnel vehicle fares all year (no more waiting for coupons to arrive) as well as other discounts and offers throughout the year. We have a monthly e-newsletter and we encourage our members to let us have any news stories or upcoming promotions so we can advertise it to everyone. We use both Twitter and Facebook to promote local businesses, events and news; our website details, our members and we attend town council meetings every month to represent our business community, as well as working with many other local groups. Membership Another date for your diary is St George’s Day, is just £25 a year and you get to know that you’re ‘doing your bit’ for the local business 23rd April, which just happens to fall on a Saturday this year. We are planning another community. community event with loads going on, we’ll let you know more about it in the next magazine, In other news, Gail Ebbatson has recently retired from Kathy’s Gift & Card Shop on Lower but it will be lots of fun – save the date! York Avenue. We are really keen to promote the best of East Cowes and Whippingham, so if you have Gail says ‘I would like to extend a big thank you a business with a ‘PO32’ postcode, please get to you all for your custom and support over in touch and join us. You won’t have to attend the last 35 years and ask that you continue to meetings and we promise not to pressure you support Debbie, the new ‘Kathy’ who you will into doing anything. The committee (around all know has been working in the shop with me 12 individuals) meet once a month and raise for the last 5 years. I wish Debbie every success member’s concerns, highlighting areas of in her new venture and hopes she enjoys community development that we could get it as much as I have.’ Gail has been a huge support to the ECBA and although we wish her involved in and plan events (such as the a relaxing retirement, we are not letting her pancake race). business experience leave and are pleased that By the time you read this, we may have already she has agreed to stay on the committee! have had our AGM (Wednesday 2nd March Twitter: @eastcowesbiz at 6:30 in the library) but if not please come along for an informal chat (there’s cheese and Facebook: East Cowes Business Association wine!) We represent everyone from the sole E Mail: eastcowesbusinesses@gmail.com 9
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Parkside Pavillion You may remember the article in the December issue about Community Action Isle of Wight taking over the former Pavilion site at Victoria recreation to turn it into a central community hub and drop-in café. I was very lucky to receive an invite from Jane Goddard to visit the pavilion to see how far they have come in just a couple of months. Upon arrival at what is now known at Parkside Pavilion I remembered what it was like before, albeit the outside is still the same as work has yet to begin on this but I was totally amazed at the transformation that has happened within the four walls. Completely gutted and rebuilt the Parkside Pavilion is now a warm and inviting modern place. With newly plastered and painted walls, all new woodwork, windows and flooring which includes a main hall, side rooms, office, kitchen and toilet facilities. It is classy but comfortable with bright new modern tables and comfortable chairs and the walls are soon to be adorned with artwork from local artists. Community Spirited have already moved in awaiting the official opening sometime in March. The idea of a community café is already in place and this will be open on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday for hot and cold drinks and light snacks such as jacket potatoes, soup, sandwiches and these will all be reasonably priced.
transformed and there are plans for this to be incorporated in events being led by youth organisations. Jane has stressed how important it is for this place to be user led so will therefore need input from users and people in the community as to what you would like and how you would like the facilities to be used to bring the community together. The main room, kitchen and side rooms are also available for hire and will make the ideal place for birthday and celebration parties, business meetings or for local groups. Whether it’s a knit and natter group, low impact exercise class, craft classes or somewhere just to hold a meeting then Jane and the team will be able to assist. There are plans in the pipeline to offer dementia related sessions which will give support to sufferers and their carers. They are also looking for volunteers to help run the café and if you are interested contact Jane on 280621 or 07747046202 for more information. As mentioned before the outside needs some TLC just like the inside has already received and they are putting out a special plea to the community for anyone to contact them if they are able to help in any way at all.
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Councillor Luisa Hillard – County Councillor for East Cowes. Phone/ text: 07964 869341 or email luisa.hillard@iow.gov.uk Welcome to Spring! At the time of writing this we are STILL waiting for the remaining heritage signage and the arch to be installed. However, this time I feel that it really will be installed any minute now.
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The consultation period for the Red Funnel planning application is now finished and a report will be written for consideration by the Planning Committee in By the time you read this our MP will have the next month or so. I would welcome your voted on the proposed cuts to Council funding thoughts to make sure that I am aware of all and the Isle of Wight Council’s Budget for views, both for and against. 2016/17 will have been set with an expected £17.4 million of savings necessary. Even the Meetings have been had with those proposed 2.99% council tax rise won’t cover businesses in East Cowes who may have the increased expenses in Adult Social Care to vacate their current premises at Trinity with the introduction of the Living Wage – a Wharf/Columbine/Venture Quays to try and new minimum wage of £7.20 per hour. This is find solutions to keeping them not only on the good news for those families on a low income Island but in East Cowes. Deep water access is but puts further strain on the council budget. required by some and this has been one of the main objections to the proposed marshalling The Leader of the Council and Andrew Turner yard replacing occupied industrial buildings. MP have been working together to get acceptance that the Island is ‘unique’. The Good news is that I am told that the new current funding formula does not take into Floating Bridge may soon start construction account the fact that we are an Island, or that and from the designs I have seen so far it may we have a high proportion of older people be very modern, with a lot of glass to improve – both things causing costs to be higher than views. I suggested (for what it’s worth) that expected for a population of our size. I wait to it would be good to have design references see if this delivers any extra money. to the marine and aviation industries that innovated new craft here. Since I wrote my last article I have felt it necessary to resign from my position as Please can I ask that Island Roads issues, such Executive member for Sustainability and as dog fouling and pot holes are reported as Organisational Change. This means that I will soon as spotted because such things have now have more time and effort to focus on a time limit in which to be dealt with. I am projects here in town. chasing Island Roads for improvements to Old Road. One of these projects has been to try and get excess gravel from the Outer Breakwater My next drop-in sessions will be Thursday 3rd deposited on a section of our beach where March and 7th April, 9.15am – 10.15 am at there is currently a large dip which collects the Seabreeze Café. Please come along if you rotting seaweed. This was the idea of Lin would like to discuss anything in person. from community group FAECES – you may remember that we worked together on trying to get East Cowes designated for bathing 14
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News Update from Cllr Julia Baker-Smith of Whippingham and Osborne Ward Email: julia.baker-smith@iow.gov.uk Tel 07960146913 After a long wait it is wonderful to finally see the former Pavilion on Vectis Road spring back into life as the Parkside Pavilion. I’d like to thank everyone at Community Spirited for their hard work and perseverance bringing this project forward. The building has been given a new lease of life thanks to Community Action Isle of Wight and funding from the Isle of Wight Council. I look forward to seeing this facility evolve as community groups come forward to make full use of the building. We really want the Parkside Pavilion to be a community led hub and can’t wait to hear your ideas for how it will be used. Keep an eye on the windows for posters advertising new activities for all ages Work is ongoing on proposals to build a new multi-use games area near the skate park and an outdoor gym. I hope to begin a public consultation in the spring to get your input on the positioning and layout. In February I became the Executive Member for Planning and Housing. Having Chaired the Isle of Wight Council’s Planning Committee for the last 18 months through a period of intensive change for the department this is a natural next step. I’m pleased to be able to influence policy to better help you, particularly with the housing issues that many residents in the Whippingham and Osborne Ward face. I have now set my new Surgery dates for the next few months. If you would like to come and see me for a chat about council services or any other issues you think I may be able to help you with please come and see me at the Parkside Pavilion on Vectis Road from 10am-11.30am on Monday March 14th, April 4th and April 25th. You can give me a call any time on 07960146913 or email Julia.baker-smith@iow. gov.uk 18
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