Local News
Issue 1073
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8th August 2019
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COUNCILLOR CALLS FOR BOXING GYM SUPPORT AN ECCLESFIELD Parish Councillor has called for his elected colleagues to put their support into a pop up community boxing gym. Every Thursday from 4pm to 6pm, St Vincent’s Boxing Club, one of the oldest in Yorkshire, hosts a pop-up session at Thorncliffe Community Sports Bar in High Green. It has proved popular and Cllr David Ogle, who has been vocal in his support for boxing gyms as a way to help lower crime, wants more support for the sessions. Cllr Ogle said: “Thursday at the community pop -up boxing gym, it’s early evening, still warm but not as bad as it’s been. Ten kids training, usually more, but kids are away on holidays. “The enthusiasm in the room is joyous to see, these kids are focused but having fun.
The pop-up gym is in its third year and is thriving with preteen girls and boys. “Parents talk of improved behaviour at school and home. Of amazement at kids insisting on eating healthy food. Greens! And wanting water not a fizzy drink – “Because the boxing trainers Paul, John Booker, Jonny Peat said so”, the mums are telling me. “The pop-up gym is held at Thorncliffe Community Sports Bar in High Green, in the function room. The owners give the room time for free and have done so for almost three years. “Equipment is sparse, as space is limited, but the quality of instruction from the team of three coaches is top quality. “It’s clear to me and should be just as clear to any other local elected councillor, that this pop-up gym needs, and far
more importantly deserves, our full support. “One direct benefit to the community is that boxing gyms reduce crime and
60 years of outreach on the Whitwell Estate ON Sunday July 14, Stocksbridge Christian Centre hosted a special Songs of Praise to celebrate the beginnings of outreach work on the new Whitwell Estate in Stocksbridge. On 11 October, 1959, the Spink Hall Methodist Sunday School met for the first time in the Stocksbridge Secondary Modern School and became the foundation for the modern church located in the centre of the estate between shops, the pub and four schools. The Songs of Praise service consisted of a series of hu-
morous sketches on how the work with young people began and developed. Set as a church council meeting there was considerable adlibbing at the ‘top table’ and many asides made to the audience. The service began with a parade of the Boys’ and Girls’ Brigades with their banners. The sketches were interspersed with prayers, and readings. Following the Songs of Praise, the Brigades led the congregation out to the lawn at the back of the church where the
antisocial behaviour in the communities they serve, this is a clearly established fact.
“We are not going to get a copper on every street corner, we can create projects with a proven ability to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour and boxing is one such project.”
SHEFFIELD’S ELITE CONSERVATORY, WINDOW AND COMPOSITE DOOR SPECIALISTS MA D E I N
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Garden of Meditation was dedicated. This is a permanent memorial of the day for the use of the whole community. The picture shows Patricia Hansell, the creator of the Garden, her husband David, and the minister James Grayson. Including 12 children, 95 people attended the event including the Mayor of Stocksbridge. There is an exhibition of photographs and historic items which will be on display until mid-August.
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