Talk of the Town November 2016

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NOVEMBER 2016

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SALTBURN’S TOWN TALK Letter from the Editor

With so many contributions to the magazine, it’s easy to advert which would have been paid for. I can’t afford to do forget something. I often do! I try to avoid forgetting by that but I can only apologise. This month I thought I had methodically going through all the month’s emails, back to included everything until suddenly I remembered an email that when the previous magazine went to the printers, to make my methodical search had missed. Disaster averted! Love, Ian. sure that everything gets included, but even then I can still Send letters, adverts and contributions for the next issue (by forget. All it takes is a distraction or a confusion and then it’s Friday, 18th November 2016) to: The Editor, Talk of the too late. In September’s magazine I missed out an entire Town c/o Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, The Guisborough and District Branch of the Saltburn, Cleveland, TS12 1AQ. Telephone: 01287 623903 Embroiderers’ Guild are holding their monthly meeting on (or email: talkofthetownsaltburn@gmail.com). Talk of the Saturday, 5th November, 2016 in Sunnyfield House, Town has a website: www.tottsaltburn.co.uk and the Westgate, Guisborough, TS14 6BA at 2pm. Our guest Friends of Talk of the Town can be found on Facebook. speaker will be Anne Brooke and her subject is My journey Saltburn Friends of the Valley are holding their Annual from A to Z. Visitors are welcome whether non-stitchers, General Meeting (AGM) on November 4th 2016 at 12.30pm to beginners or more experienced stitchers. For more 1.15pm approx at Saltburn Woodland Centre. All are welcome information please contact 01642 314860. The car park to attend. behind Belmont House (council offices) is free on Saturday.

Christmas Vintage Fair at Saltburn Community Hall on 6th Christmas Festival: Tuesday, 6th December from 5pm in November. It runs 10am - 4pm, is free entry, has a tea room Guisborough Methodist Church hall; Refreshments including with festive fare including mulled wine and cakes suitable for mince pies will be served and there will be book and craft vegans. There are lots of great vintage stalls and a couple of stalls, home-made cakes, charity stalls, bric-a-brac and a bran vintage inspired craft stalls that are perfect for Christmas tub. All are welcome. presents, and we are supporting Home Start Teesside charity.

Redcar Lecture Society: On Tuesday, 8th November in the Redcar East Community Centre on Durham Road at 2.15pm Craft Club Busy Fingers: 2nd and 4th Thursday of each Bryan Clare will be Visually Presenting ‘The Story of a month, 1.30 till 3.30pm in the Coffee Room, Saltburn River’. The River in question will be the Esk. A fortnight Community Centre. later on the 22nd of November at the same venue and time, Open Studios at Saltburn Studios and Gallery: On Saturday, Sal Mancina will be giving his Presentation on ‘Bees and Bee 19th November we are holding our next Open Studios with our -keeping’. Admission at the door is £2.50 and new and new Christmas Exhibition, showcasing the work of our studio artists. We were sorry to see our Norwegian glassmaker return returning members and visitors will be most welcome.

Saltburn Beer Festival: 11th and 12th November at the to Norway, and wish her well, but her space has been filled by Community and Arts Centre. Any local businesses or another artist who will be exhibiting with us. Come and enjoy individuals who would like to support the festival by the exhibition, meet the artists and search for those original sponsoring a cask of beer please contact Jill (at gifts for family and friends. Open from 12 noon till 4pm on Saturday, 19th November at the gallery on Marske Road. There jilljakday@gmail.com). More details on page 17.

Saltburn Farmers’ Market: The popular monthly market will be drinks and nibbles. adds to the Saturday morning buzz around the town on WI Report: This month the ladies of Saltburn WI held an open Saturday, 12th November. More than 35 stalls packed with evening, to which we invited ladies from other local groups and good local food, and there’ll be three market hampers raffled other WIs in the area. Consequently the hall was full but we hope all our guests enjoyed the evening. Our speaker this on the day, with all raffle proceeds going directly to the month was Mike Bert who gave us an interesting insight into Redcar Area Foodbank. See our report on page 43 (or visit his years travelling the world as a delegate with the Football www.saltburnfarmersmarket.com).

Association, for 9 years accompanying various women’s teams Emmanuel Church Hall Table Top and Collectors’ Sale: when they were on international duty. He travelled as far away The next sales are on Saturdays, 5th and 19th November and as Chile, all over Europe and to many places in England. It then December 3rd and 17th. We are also doing our usual certainly sounded a good experience. After the speaker, we all lunches and all day breakfast, fresh home baked cake, pies enjoyed a pooled supper. Our activities for the rest of the month and scones. Home made refreshments and light lunches are on include flower arranging, a masterclass class cookery session sale all day. FREE ENTRANCE and a warm welcome to and a visit to York including a tour to the Cold War bunker. everyone. With over 26 stall holders, selling lots of bric-aIf you would like to join us, our next meeting is on brac, books, toys, baby goods, and all sorts of collectables, Thursday, 10th November at 7.30pm in the upstairs room of the there is something for everyone. We have now got a lot of Methodist Hall in Milton Street, where you can be assured of a new stall holders selling lots of different and interesting warm and friendly welcome. Full details of all our activities can things. If anyone would like to book a table please contact be found on our website (www.saltburnwi.org.uk).

Denise Marshall on 07929 589538.

Diane Falla Cover Illustration: The newly refurbished Saltburn War Memorial by Tony Lynn Disclaimer: Talk of the Town tries to make sure the articles and announcements made on its pages are accurate, but views expressed in letters and articles printed in Talk of the Town are not necessarily those of the editor. Any offers in adverts included in Talk of the Town are made by the advertisers; details should be confirmed with them. Always confirm event details with the organisers, in case of alteration or error. Talk of the Town is printed by DC (Yorkshire) Print, Unit 34a, Lidgate Crescent, Langthwaite Business Park, South Kirkby, West Yorkshire, WF9 3NR. Website: www.dcprintyorkshire.co.uk Tel: 01977 642331. Proprietor/Editor of Talk of the Town: Ian Tyas c/o Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, Saltburn, TS12 1AQ. (Ian Tyas tel: 01287 623903.)

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National Service Part 8 – Courts Martial and Recreation

Derna RASC depot

During my National Service I attended two Courts Martial, one as a witness and the other as the scribe. A Court Martial consisted of the three senior officers sitting at a trestle table covered with a grey army blanket. Two second lieutenants acting, one for the defence and the other for the prosecution, were in attendance, but neither had any legal training. The accused was marched in under escort and had to stand facing the panel. Witnesses were called as required and when all the evidence had been heard the three senior officers conferred and then pronounced the verdict.

The case I was involved in as a witness involved the Officer commanding our unit and his batman. When I was posted abroad my mother gave me an old electric iron.

Fortunately the electric supply in Derna was compatible, enabling us to keep our clothes reasonably tidy. However, one day when I went to use it, it was missing. I reported the loss to the OC the following morning and he said he had just bought an electric iron from his batman. He asked if I could identify my iron, and my answer was yes, because the last three numbers of my service number were scratched under the handle. The OC quickly established it was my property and had the batman, who was a regular soldier from Glasgow, arrested and proceeded to set the wheels in motion for a Court Martial.

The trial was quickly convened, the batman, found guilty and sentenced to 6 months in a Military prison in Malta. After 6 months the offender returned to the unit, bearing no grudge. Shortly after his return he was on perimeter guard duty and shot dead an Arab who was breaking through the fence. Because our unit worked very closely with the local population he was quickly posted away. We who worked in the office never knew where he sent.

The second court martial involved a regular soldier in our unit and I was designated to record all the details of the trial.

The charge was of a very sordid nature and I had my rather naive views thoroughly shattered writing and typing up all View into Wadi the evidence. The man was found guilty and sentenced to a term in a military prison and to be dishonourably discharged at the end of his 4

Derna Harbour Turkish sponge fishing boats

sentence.

Leisure was essential to our welfare. Weekends were free from work, and many of the lads spent a lot of time in bed or in the NAFFI canteen playing snooker. A very small group of us, on most weekends went exploring the dry Wadies and the coastal cliffs or swimming in the sea. There was still a lot of war time debris, burnt out tanks, bren gun carriers, crashed aircraft and live ammunition around which meant we had to exercise a great deal of caution in our adventures.

The mobile cinema was visited on a regular basis.

They set up in the compound of the RASC depot with a large screen and a 16mm projector, and the audience sat on forms to watch the film. Unfortunately there were many extras in the audience: moths who swarmed around the light emitting from the projector causing huge moving shadows over the projected images. The other alternative was the local cinema operated for the benefit of the locals.

The language spoken on the films was English with Arabic sub titles. As many of the population could not read there was a constant babble as their compatriots read aloud the information displayed. We also enjoyed meeting the locals in the outdoor coffee shop which even resulted in an invitation to a local wedding.

The harbour was also a place of interest with a small fleet of boats used by Turkish sponge fishermen, who were often boiling squid in large cauldrons stirred by the remnants of an oar. They invited us to take part in the meal but we declined as hygiene seemed to be the last thought in their minds.

Bedouin home in Wadi

Cath and Tony Lynn

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Once Upon a Time in the Wapentake A few months ago, I had what I can only describe as a surreal encounter in our shop.

It was just before the Food Festival, and there was a large poster advertising the event on the wall. Sitting at a table below it was a man I did not recognise as local. “So where’s this Food Festival?” he asked. “In Saltburn,” I replied. “I know, I can read,” he said, rather rudely, I thought, “but where’s Saltburn?”

I took a deep breath before telling him Saltburn was where he was, he was in Saltburn, and I went away feeling a great wonderment at the stupidity of some members of the human race. It was only later that I realised that I was being very unfair. We are locals. Because we are we know where Saltburn is, where it begins and where it ends. There are signs to tell you that you are entering Saltburn, and, more importantly, there are at least a couple of fields between us and Marske, us and Skelton, Brotton and us, signs that even an outsider can read. But if you visit a big city, you probably won’t have those clues.

I remember, as a child there was one big store in Manchester, Kendal Milne I think it was, where you went in the front door, in Manchester, and came out the back door into the City of Salford. (Locals knew which was which, because the buses were a different colour.) And if you wander the streets of London, how do you know whether you’re in Islington or Euston or Camden Town or Kilburn? An Estate Agent will know, of course, because the right address can mean the difference of several hundred thousand to the asking price… as it does, to a much lesser extent, round here, but here we don’t need an expert to tell us where we are, we have those precious green fields to serve as dividers. In big cities they have open spaces, Royal Parks in London, Municipal ones elsewhere, but they are islands of green surrounded by concrete and brick, while we are used to being an island of brick surrounded by trees and green fields.

How long can we stay that way? Skelton is spreading rapidly this way, and Marske seems to be already joined up to Redcar, which is why so many of us were concerned about planning permission being granted for land between here and Marske that a builder had bought. It may not be as bad as we feared, as nothing seems to be happening yet. There is something like half a million acres of land held by builders in the UK on which nothing has yet been built; they are land banks, an investment to be cashed in when the time is right. And that time is when the demand is great enough.

Redcar and Cleveland is one of the few local authorities predicted to lose population in the next few years, so it’s hard to see where the demand will come from. Of course we need affordable housing, but need is different from demand. (Crudely put, demand is need plus cash.) Affordable housing will have to be subsidised by local or national governments, and will need to be built as close to town centres as possible for the benefit of those without cars.

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important part of knowing who we are. Consider our surnames. Along with those that tell us what our ancestor did for a living, Butcher, Baker, Miller or Brewer, are those, such as Skelton, that tell us an ancestor came from there, and was known as Jack from Skelton, or Mary of Skelton, by those they went to live amongst. (I chose Skelton because it’s a surname that crops up surprisingly often. It’s a lot commoner than London; for example, presumably because that city was a place you went to not a place you came from.)

We assume that, at the time when surnames were being handed out, people were, for the most part, settled in the same place, generation after generation, and knew exactly who and what and where they were. This is probably true, though there is evidence emerging of people being more mobile than we used to think. If your lord was one of the great landowners who held manors in a number of different places, they might send you wherever your skills were needed, much as a modern multinational corporation will do. (Some of the greatest landowners were multinational corporations: the religious orders.) This is why, incidentally, I think families called Skelton originated in our Skelton; the Castle was the chief seat of the De Brus family, who held land throughout England and Wales. And there would always be those who found the village life hard and dull and would run away to sea or to the place where the streets were paved with gold.

Feeling secure in knowing who you are has its downside. Unfortunately there is a human tendency to define ourselves not by what we are but by what we are not; we are not from Skinningrove, or Brotton, or Upleatham, we are from here. We are not from the place over the river where people talk differently (my father reckoned that, when he was young, you could tell exactly which village in Cheshire people came from the moment they opened their mouths). We are not from that other place where they eat different foods, or the place where they worshipped their own local goddess who once lived in a well in the forest, and who now pray for help to their own local saint who lived by the very same well. We are not incomers like Jack and Mary from Skelton, and we are not, thank God, like those amongst us, who might have been born here, but act and talk and even think differently to us. Those we are glad to see the back of when they run away to join the Raggle Taggle gypsies or Maid Marian’s Merry Men. I realise that I’m running out of space, and there is a lot more I want to say on the topic, such as what happens when the old certainties start to fall apart. I won’t, of course, return to it next month, it being Christmas, and not a time for being serious, but perhaps in January?

In the meantime, what inspired me is still running through my head: the crystal clear voice of Mary Black singing ‘No Frontiers’. If you can find it, give it a listen, I beg you.

Tim Beswick

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Councillors’ Column Fallen leaves upon the ground and branches bare above are both reminders that there is work to be done and beauty to marvelled at. The last green bin collection is on Thursday 24th and before then a veritable list is in the diary.

On the 4th all residents are invited to attend the Community Theatre when an Autumn Seminar will enlighten on the proposals for future safeguarding of all three valleys in the town. This will not be achieved without volunteers, so the hours between 6 and 8pm should be busy with discussion and decision making.

On the 8th, across the pond, the 45th President will be elected. A momentous decision which will affect the lives of one and all, stateside and even here at home.

On Sunday, 13th the annual Remembrance Service will take place, paying due respect and recognition to the fallen who gave their lives for others. This will be the first service since the rededication of the memorial so brilliantly refurbished following the community restoration project. They have not been forgotten.

The changing faces of shop fronts are reminders that nothing stands still but also that the initiative and resilience of local traders keeps the town in the vanguard of customer service denying the gloom of other high streets. Shopping and dining locally will encourage and support such entrepreneurial spirit.

Last month the bells of the Parish Church rang out across the land after a long period of silence preceding the tower repairs. A marriage ceremony was graced with these magnificent peals and the air was filled with glorious sound.

One has to note that decibel levels were queried by some.

The campanologists were borrowed from Skelton for the occasion but rumours that volunteers from York were queuing up outside have been discounted.

Three multi-coloured chalets have appeared on the foreshore. These are prototypes for others which may inhabit an area stretching along to Hazelgrove. Public consultation on design, appropriateness, size and other matters will encourage and welcome comment at an exhibition in the Library when a formal planning application is made.

The one remaining traditional foreshore shelter destroyed by neglect and storm will be reinstated soon. The December 2013 storm also ravaged the previous below pier lighting system but its replacement is being pursued with renewed vigour. The reinstallation is being progressed and appropriate funding sought.

Record numbers of passengers are travelling on the Cliff Lift. Whilst this is good news several interruptions have occurred for extra maintenance in order to keep this ancient feature running safely. Much discussion also continues on highway safety matters particularly on Windsor Road and on the roadway in the vicinity of Tingdene. Hopefully resolutions will be reached.

Councillors have surgeries in the Library. Here the staff can be observed tending to the needs of the many customers. Described as a one stop shop by some, every day is an open day and every day is different. More different now, as two well known faces are no longer visible.

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Saltburn Beachwatch Nurdles At the last Saltburn Beachwatch litterpick and survey on the 17th September we were joined by Laura Foster, head of pollution at the Marine Conservation Society. After the main event Laura and I went on a nurdle hunt.

Unfortunately, we found over a hundred in a 10 minute period.

Nurdles are pre-production plastic pellets used in the manufacture of most of the plastic products we use today. They are about the size of a lentil and can be clear or coloured. Because they are so small they often go unnoticed. Scientists are becoming concerned about the effects that nurdles and other micro plastics are having on marine ecosystems.

So how do nurdles get into the ocean? Spills take place when nurdles are transported and handled. This can happen at any time from the nurdle manufacturers and distributors to the plastic goods producers. To meet demand Britain imports millions of tons of raw plastics every year by sea and nurdles can enter the ocean directly or by spillage in ports. Spillage can occur in factories during filling and off-loading bulk tankers or from split and damaged packaging. Once in the environment nurdles can be blown into drains and because most of them float they are not trapped by sumps in drainage systems and float directly into the sea. When nurdles enter the ocean they are often mistaken for food and studies have shown that nurdles are unintentionally competing with legitimate food sources. Tan coloured ones are especially dangerous as they are the same colour as a lot of plankton. This “nurdle plankton� has been found in the tissues of animals that consume them.

Higher up the food chain many species of animals including mammals, birds, fish and crustaceans have also been found to have eaten plastic.

Having entered the marine environment nurdles and other plastics attract toxins called Persistent Bioaccumulating Toxins (PBTs) to their surfaces, acting like a sponge and concentrating them to levels millions of times higher than the surrounding sea water. It has been shown that these levels of toxins are having an effect on the hormone systems of many creatures which is leading to behavioural changes, weight loss and species reduction.

There is practically no way currently of removing nurdles from the sea but we should make sure that we do not add to the problem by insisting that the plastics industries tackle the amount of spillage taking place.

Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is a best practice manual introduced by the British Plastics Federation whose aim is to provide solutions to prevent loss for those who make, ship and use nurdles and that good handling practice can easily reduce pellet loss. So far only a small percentage of the plastics industry have signed up to this initiative. If we are to avoid more damage being done to the marine environment we need every company making, using or transporting nurdles to sign the OCS pledge to help end nurdle pollution in our seas.

Roy Smith 8

Help! Your local Playgroup needs you!

Little Nippers is in desperate need of willing volunteers to help out on Monday and Wednesday mornings, either in the kitchen or in the group. We need people to help set up and put away. If you can help, even if it is only for a few hours each month, we would love to hear from you. So, if you love spending time with young children, painting, glueing, singing, making music or reading stories, or even simply making drinks, then please contact Little Nippers Playgroup on

01287 624575

We have spaces in November for babies and newcomers to the town

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Brotton Library Knit and Natter Group We are a small group making items for charity whilst sharing skills and friendship. It is free to come to the group. We have a few regular members and would welcome more. Thursday afternoon 2pm till 4pm in Brotton library (attached to Freebrough Academy).

Deborah

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Saltburn 500 Club Saltburn Christmas Band Concerts

Saturday 3rd December 2016 12.30 – 14.30 Silverwood Band 15.00 – 16.30 Marske Junior Band 17.00 – 18.30 Marske Brass Band Saturday 17th December 2016 10.00 – 11.30 Marske Junior Band 11.30 – 13.00 Silverwood Band Saturday 24th December 2016 Marske Brass Band 12.00 – 13.30

4 People Not Profit present

Surviving Progress 4 People Not Profit’s film night ‘Open your mind’ returns for a final time with the insightful and inspirational look at the future of humanity in Surviving Progress. This will be the last regular 4 People Not Profit film night after over 4 years of these fantastic nights, so would it be great to see you all one last time.

The film will be screened as usual upstairs in The Marine, Saltburn and will be on Thursday, 17th November. Doors at 7pm and the film starts at 7.30pm.

With time for discussion after the film, and as ever the event is free entry.

Humanity’s ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiralling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, A Short History Of Progress inspired the film, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by ‘progress traps’, alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransoming the future. As pressure on the world’s resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations, can our globally-entwined civilization escape a final, catastrophic progress trap? With potent images and illuminating insights from thinkers who have probed our genes, our brains, and our social behaviour, this requiem to progress-as-usual also poses a challenge: to prove that making apes smarter isn’t an evolutionary dead-end.

“Both brainy and light on its feet, and with a wide variety of involving visuals, this mind-expanding, subversive ecological documentary bristles with provocative insights and probing questions about humanity and the state of the world.” - LA Times “Critic’s Pick! Powerful. One percenters won’t like what ‘Surviving Progress’ has to say. It’s jam packed with questions. Confronting those questions can feel like an all-out assault on our entrenched world views, but it also feels critical to our very existence.”

- Washington Post 10

Congratulations go to D Johnson for winning the £100 First Prize in the October 500 Club Draw.

A small team of my volunteers have just replaced 600 halogen bulbs with LED bulbs. It took us all of a morning in October and you will be able to see the fruits of our work on 3rd December when they are lit up. I estimate that we require another 650 bulbs to complete all of the Saltburn lights. As you look around the lights, you will be able to see the difference between those illuminated with halogen and those with LED. I’m sure that you’ll agree that the LED lights are a better illumination.

However, to finish the job, it will cost us approximately £2500.

On top of this, the strings of lights are fast approaching their sellby date, having gone past their 25th birthday. I haven’t even looked at the cost of replacing!

Those that attended the Jitterbug, in September, thought it was a most enjoyable night. The poor ticket sales, however, meant that we lost in excess of £100 and it had been suggested that poor advertising may have been to blame. I had posters up around the town, it was included in my Talk of the Town articles, it was advertised on the Friends of Saltburn Facebook page, it was advertised on Zetland FM radio and it was included on Rods40sweekends website. On top of this, I was interviewed by BBC Radio Tees and they broadcast it twice. I am at a loss as to what other advertising I could have done!

The fund-raising events through this year have brought in approximately £1500, which will go towards the cost of erecting and dismantling the 2016 display. We have been supported by the Parish Council and Ward Councillors with the cost of the lightingup parade and some of the LED replacement programme. I can only repeat the comment from my October article and inform you that the economics of the exercise will mean that future years’ illuminations will have to be cut back, unless our fellow volunteers in the Saltburn in Bloom team can find us a money tree.

The Christmas lights will be getting brought out on 7th & 8th of November and we are trying to have the Christmas trees put up on 25th November. I have arranged for bands to be playing on December Saturdays, with the exception of the Farmers’ Weekend due to lack of space on that weekend. I asked Ian if he can find space to publish the schedule (see above left) and copies are available in the library. I will also attempt to gain access to our noticeboard at the station portico and place a schedule in there.

The noticeboard, attached to the portico wall, belongs to Saltburn 500 Club but somebody replaced the lock and made it difficult to access. Hopefully, it will be up and running again soon.

The Summer Bands season went well this year and had a fair amount of people supporting the performances. I would like to express my sincere thanks to Philip Thomson, his band of volunteers and the bands for supplying the town with sterling entertainment. I will soon be starting to organise the schedule for the 2017 season and we have decided that the Saturday performances will be restricted to July and August as the Saturdays have not been as well supported. You would be warmly greeted if you would like to join the team of volunteers who open and close the Bandstand and take collections at the performances.

I would also be extremely grateful if somebody came forward to take over the organising of the schedule. If you are interested in getting involved, please let Councillor Philip Thomson or myself know.

Trevor Welburn Secretary, Saltburn 500 Club/Friends of Saltburn trevor.welburn@btinternet.com

Saltburn, Marske and New Marske Parish Council At the end of September the Parish Council organised a consultation session in Marske Library for residents to speak to Councillor Lambert (the Chairman of the Parish Council and the Planning Committee) about the plans for the proposed development of 821 houses on land south of Marske, which was subject to appeal. The session was well attended and concerns raised included the potential flooding in this area, the lack of school places and inadequate infrastructure. The public inquiry commenced on 11th October and 182 local residents attended on the first day to protest about the development, including Councillor Lambert who will be attending each day to represent the Parish Council - the outcome will be reported in due course.

On Sunday, 2nd October the Chairman and members of the Parish Council attended the rededication of Saltburn War Memorial, organised by Tees Heritage Trust and the Friends of Saltburn War Memorial. A short service was led by Saltburn Churches Together and the Mayor of Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council unveiled a plaque to mark the occasion. Community stalwart Jackie Taylor MBE laid a wreath.

At the recent Donations and General Purposes Committee meeting grants were awarded to Saltburn Athletic Football Club towards equipment, Saltburn Miniature Railway Association towards cast iron station names and a sign for the engine shed and Saltburn Friends of the Valley towards a willow dome and benches. The next meeting of this Committee will take place in January 2017 and any community group who would like to apply for a grant can get further information from our website.

At the October Council meeting it was noted that several Saltburn groups had collected awards at the Coastal View Community awards evening including Saltburn In Bloom, the Food Festival and Saltburn Beachwatch.

Councillor V Rider had also received an award for the Gleneagles Centre in New Marske.

FUTURE DATES FOR THE DIARY – Saltburn Christmas event will take place on Saturday, 3rd December.

There will be children’s activities and entertainment during the afternoon at the Library. The Christmas tree lights will be switched on at 5pm and then the local Fire Brigade will lead the parade bringing Father Christmas into the Town.

Anyone who would like to volunteer to assist on the day should contact the Clerk to the Council. The theme this year is Disney and fancy dress is encouraged! A colouring competition has been launched - the winners will get to switch on the Christmas Tree lights. For further details please see our website. A Parish Council Carol Service will be held in Emmanuel Church, Saltburn on Wednesday, 21st December in association with the Middleton Choir followed by light refreshments in the Church Hall. As well as invited guests, members of the local community are invited to come along and the event is free.

Tracy Meadows (Clerk and RFO to Saltburn, Marske & New Marske Parish Council) The Conference Centre, Saltburn Learning Campus Marske Mill Lane, Saltburn, TS12 1HJ Tel: 01287 623477 email: office@smnmpc.co.uk www.smnmpc.co.uk

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What’s Happening at

Marske Hall

Charity Magic and Mayhem Christmas Party with Silly Steve – November 23rd, 5-7pm, Marske Hall.

Tickets £5 per child (includes one free adult) and a small gift for each child. Extra adult tickets £2. To book tickets contact Ruth 01642 482672.

Christmas Fair – Marske Hall, Saturday, 26th November, 10am – 2pm. Join in the festive fun at the annual Christmas Fair with refreshments, cakes, chocolate stall, vintage, crafts, face painting and much more. We are even having a visit from Father Christmas himself! Have a go on the fabulous Winbola – a prize every time! The Raffle looks set to be the best one yet, with the first prize being kindly donated by the staff and patrons of the Middle House Pub in Marske. They have donated a brand new 49” Smart TV. There are also many more fabulous prizes being donated. Tickets are only 50p each and on sale at the event and also from the Co-op between 10am – 2pm on Friday, 18th and Saturday, 19th and Thursday, 24th and Friday, 25th November. Admission free, donations welcome. All monies raised at the event will go directly to improving the life opportunities and experiences of the disabled adults who live at the home. It really does make a huge difference.

Look Ahead Coffee Morning at Marske Leisure Centre - Saturday, 3rd December 10am – 12 in aid of Marske Hall. Raffle, stalls and crafts as well as refreshments.

Appeal The fundraising team is always looking for tombola and raffle prizes to use at events throughout the year. Any larger prizes are most welcome for our Christmas and Summer main raffles.

Simply call into Marske Hall from 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday (or visit www.facebook/ marskehall.com).

Thank you for your continued support.

Funds raised at these events will enhance the lives of people living at Marske Hall. Registered Charity No: 218186. For details of these and other events call 01642 482672 (or visit: www.facebook/marskehall.com).

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Saltburn problems aired Problems about the new Spar shop, Wilton Bank and Hazelgrove parkhome estate were aired at the October SNAP meeting of public and council reps held at the library.

Councillor Philip Thomson, chairman of Saltburn Action Neighbourhood Action Partnership said he was seeing the Spar shop owners about several planning conditions which were not being adhered to. These included putting up a safety barrier near the cashpoint and delivery problems. In addition he is looking into the possibility of a pedestrian crossing being put in place.

Overhanging hedges and dog mess at Wilton Bank were both spotlighted by two residents who have been attending SNAP meetings for the past two years. They are neighbours Eric Rowe and Eric Collier. Mr Collier said a 90 -year-old woman had to walk in the middle of the road to avoid one overhanging hedge. Mr Rowe told how he had spoken to several dog-owners whom he had spotted allowing their pets to make a mess without them clearing it up.

Councillor Thomson admitted there had ‘not been a meeting of minds’ about both Redcar and Cleveland Council and the police getting together to jointly tackle the hedges problem. He said local neighbourhood officer Tracee Hall-Young had spent a whole day trying to make progress.

At Hazelgrove, he had established that the council owned the part of Milton Street opposite the parkhome estate and caravan park. Plans are afoot to extend the road to the parkhome site. This has already resulted in trees being felled and there was nothing the council could do about it, said the councillor.

He admitted there were problems trying to get figures from a recording machine which the cyclists’ group Sustrans had borrowed from the council. A figure of 30,000 cyclists using the road to get to Marske and Redcar every year was mentioned. The amount of traffic was growing.

Giving a police report PCSO Georgia Borrow said 25 incidents and 28 anti-social behaviour reports were received for Saltburn in September, a small decrease on August.

A question was raised about Wilton Bank and a police officer present said police had attended the estate about a cat incident. The RSPCA were involved. He said Saltburn had a low crime rate compared with other parts of East Cleveland and so there was less policing needed.

Police look on as Barry Coppinger reports to a dozen members of the public on his work. His priorities this year include hatecrime, helping offenders not to return to crime and linking with other police forces to provide some services. At left are Tracee Hall-Young and Councillor Philip Thomson.

Bob Moodie, of New Marske, said he had driven 1,000 miles in Scotland recently and only saw one police car.

Jim Wingham complained about ‘wrinklies’ criticising youngsters for ‘larking about,’ but said ‘we all did this.’

PCSO Borrow said only three of the anti social behaviour incidents concerned youths.

Barry Coppinger, Cleveland’s police and crime commissioner, who attended part of the meeting, said the police had sold the Ladgate Lane HQ for housing and were moving to a new smaller HQ at Hemlington. He would not reveal the value of the Ladgate Lane land, but would before the year-end.

Tracee Hall-Young said ‘Love It’ postcards on which community activists could write about how they were helping the environment were available from the council.

Councillor Thomson invited the dozen residents present to a public meeting to be held on Friday, 4th November about Saltburn’s woods and valley.

SNAP’s next meeting will take place at the library on 11th January, 2017. All who live or Mike Morrissey

Saltburn and District Group for Visually Impaired People We had a change to the publicised speaker this month. RNIV Campaigns Officer will now be joining us next month.

In their place, up stepped one of our members, Roger Elgood. Roger lost his sight over 30 years ago, and many of you will know him as a Saltburn resident, seen regularly out with his guide dog, Rexal.

Roger spoke of his personal journey and how things have changed towards disabilities. He gave his impression on subjects such as legislation, education, employment, technology and society.

As before, Roger was well received by the group

for an informative, interesting and articulate talk. Many thanks for stepping in and presenting at short notice, Roger.

It was good to see new people attending, as well as regulars and those who have not been for a while. All are welcome to join our friendly group. We meet the second Wednesday of the month in the Coffee Lounge, Community Centre, Albion Terrace, Saltburn, from 2pm. Our next meeting is on Wednesday, 9th November.

Please contact Chris Ferguson on 01287 204 170 for further information.

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7th Heaven Concert

On Saturday, 8th October 2016, Stephen J Dowd organized a fund-raising concert, 7th Heaven, to mark seven years of the Whale Hill One Voice children’s choir. It took place in Saltburn Theatre on Albion Terrace and was attended by family and friends of the choir as well as friends and associates of Stephen along with the Mayor and Mayoress of Redcar and Cleveland Borough council, Barry Hunt and Olwyn Peters respectively.

Stephen first learned of the children’s choir through his music teacher, Alison Trelfa who is the musical director of One Voice and co-owner alongside Olwyn Peters.

The choir was set up in September 2009 to run as a twelve week project culminating in a performance for local dignitaries in November of that year, but the children were loving the singing so much that they asked for the choir to carry on past the performance.

Four years later, Alison was asked to set up an adult choir which was named Second Voice by some of the adults who volunteered in One Voice and often these choirs work together now taking the total age range from six to eighty years old!

The concert was well attended and well received by all who came to watch the performance from both choirs whose repertoire varied from Rock ‘n’ Roll to religious and across six decades. At the end of the night Stephen J Dowd took to the stage as Stevie D and gave an energetic performance of some of popular music’s finest artistes including Buddy Holly, the Searchers and the Beatles. He asked One Voice children to accompany him on stage with toy guitars as he performed Yellow Submarine. The children soon picked up the chorus and sang with gusto while the audience laughed, clapped and sang along too.

Stephen’s efforts raised a total of £844 for One Voice, and even with the theatre costs deducted this money will help significantly as Christmas draws the choir to perform across Redcar and Cleveland. Both Stephen J Dowd and One Voice are so very grateful to all of the shop and stall owners and other organizations who gave so generously with sums of money and raffle prizes to support the choir.

One Voice is always in need of funding in order to keep up with ongoing costs such as room hire for rehearsal, uniforms for each member, transporting the children to performance venues, gifts for the children in recognition of hard work and dedication and other associated costs. Many of the children who attend One Voice come from families who are facing financial hardship and this choir offers a low cost solution to enable these children to sing in a safe and fun environment in the hands of a fully qualified music teacher.

In organizing this concert, Stephen’s aim was to raise the profile of the choir in the area, not only to attract more people to join, but also to help to raise vital funds in order that the choir can continue to thrive and work across the borough and beyond for years to come.

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Saltburn Valleys Community Interest Organisation A public meeting will be held at the Community Theatre on Friday, 4th November to provide residents with an opportunity to discuss the proposed Saltburn Valleys CIO. Following on from the 2015 Saltburn Symposium and the 2016 Spring Seminar the future management of Saltburn valleys has been the subject of much discussion. The formation of a CIO has been seen as the preferred way forward to ensure that a well managed future is aspired to and planned for.

The core Board will be comprised of elected Trustees and Ex-Officio Trustees from related organisations which could include local authorities, Wild Life Trusts and Historic England. Suggestions for suitable trustees will be invited at the public meeting which runs from 6pm to 8pm.

Residents wishing to register an interest in attending can do so at the Library where a copy of the draft constitution will be available.

SALTBURN PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Wednesday, 2nd November Royal Photographic Society International Portfolio. Wednesday, 9th Sylvia Slavin and John Horner presents “A Family Affair” a different approach to travel photography. Wednesday, 16th second monthly competition results Ships and/or Boats. Wednesday, 23rd Guy Davies and Paula Davies a print based talk “Double Take”. Wednesday, 30th Dave Coates gives “Two Cameras Out and About”. Monday, 21st November 7.00pm Practical night with Trevor Shelley “Adobe Lightroom” Meetings are held in the upstairs hall, Saltburn Milton Street Methodist Church TS12 1EB at 7.30pm. Visitors are welcome to any of our meetings, there will be a small charge.

For more information, visit our web site www.saltburnphotographicsociety.co.uk or contact Tony Lynn 01287 622519.

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SALTBURN STATION GALLERY UPDATE! Regarding the autumn competition, it was unfortunately cancelled due to insufficient entries. However, those that have entered have been part of an autumn exhibition displaying beautiful photography and artworks, alongside lots of individual/unique artworks and bespoke items ideal for gifts or Xmas presents for your loved ones. Works are made with love, care and attention and are not mass produced.

The gallery is also stocking Saltburn-by-the-Sea calendars for Friends of Talk of the Town (photos by local photographers). Proceeds of the sales go to Friends of Talk of the Town to help support the magazine and keep it going, which also helps keep it supporting the community.

Sean and Sue

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Megan’s Mind I have just celebrated a birthday, a big birthday, and I was very spoilt. I got money, perfume, clothes, coconut oil, a new piercing and a hair clip! All of which I asked for. I was very spoilt and I could not be more grateful. Apparently I have a present coming late from my mum and I’m very excited as I have no idea what it could be!

I’m also still expecting a card from my Granddad Frank in Liverpool and he says that that will come on Tuesday.

My new piercing is called a Daith piercing.

I used to be very into piercings but now I am not so much any more. But apparently this piercing is at an acupuncture point in your ear that can help with headaches and migraines. I am a very, very headache-prone person and just before my birthday I was poorly with one of the worst headaches in my life. I even fell asleep at 9pm the night before, and that is early for me! I’m normally awake until around eleven or even twelve some nights. When I woke up on my birthday my headache had eased but it was still there and it was still very painful. So I thought I could give the piercing a go! I think I have a high pain threshold but I do not like the thought of pain so I was nervous. I don’t know why I was nervous as I have had many, many piercings in my life but I think I’m just a wimp now! The woman said that it would feel more like pressure than a sting and I didn’t believe her because all the other piercings I have had have felt really sore and stingy. But when she did it she was right! It was just like a pressure. Well, of course she was right: she’s a professional, but I wasn’t expecting it. I now have a lovely green heart in my ear and I love it. It’s very cute! I knocked it earlier and it felt quite tender but now I can’t feel it at all! And do you know, about half an hour after I had the piercing done, my very bad headache went away!

Amazing.

The day after my birthday, my mum and I went shopping to Middlesbrough. I fancied changing around my skincare routine because I’ve been reading a lot about what sort of products you are supposed to be using, and how to get dewy and glowing skin. I really don’t like the look of matte skin, to me it looks very flat but that’s just me. I like radiance and dewy. I’m quite fussy with skincare because I had bad skin when I was younger so now I try my best to keep my skin looking as good as it possibly can. So when we went I bought loads of new products. We found a face mask that is made with red wine! Very me. I haven’t tried it yet but I’m really excited to. I did myself a little facial tonight with my new things.

My face feels a little warm now because I used products with acids in it to exfoliate, but feels very smooth and looks very luminous and glowing!

Love it all already.

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Science News Japanese Professor Kenji Suetsugu from Kobe University discovered recently a new species of plant on one of the sub tropical Japanese islands, Kuroshima, located off the southern coast of Kyushu. He has named it Gastrodia kuroshimensis. His research was published on October the 14th in Phytotaxa, a journal of botanical taxonomy. (Taxonomy is the study of classification.)

Non-photosynthetic mycorrhizal plants, or mycoheterotrophic plants, have attracted the curiosity of botanists (the scientific study of plants) and mycologists (the scientific study of Fungi) for a long time. However, a common feature of most mycoheterotrophic plants is their extreme rarity and tiny size. Also, most species are found in the dark leaf litter and soil of forests, making them found only when they flower and fruit as above-ground organs appear through the leaf litter. Professor Suetsugu studies the distribution, and proposes classification, of mycoheterotrophic plants in Japan. In April 2016, during his research trip in the lowland forests in Kuroshima, he discovered about one hundred individuals of an unknown mycoheterotrophic species. He collected a specimen and performed a detailed examination of the plant’s morphological characteristics and confirmed that it was a new species. For a new flowering plant species in Japan to be described is itself a very uncommon event as this region’s flora has already been thoroughly investigated.

However, Gastrodia kuroshimensis was an unusual discovery because it is both completely mycoheterophic, meaning that it gets its nutrition not from photosynthesis but from host fungi, and completely cleistogamous, which means that it produces flowers that never bloom.

Cleistogamy, literally meaning ‘a closed marriage,’ is a term that applies to plants that produce flowers in which self-fertilisation happens within its closed buds. This method of reproduction has interested botanists ever since Darwin’s time, and it is recognised as an important means of self-pollination found in a diverse range of plant species. However, some cleistogamous species can also produce chasmogamous (cross-pollinating) flowers. Cleistogamous flowers are considered a safe reproductive strategy, requiring less resources than chasmogamous flowers, and providing reproductive assurance by creating seeds despite the absence of pollinators and even when environmental conditions are disadvantageous.

More than 150 countries reached a deal in October described as ‘monumental’ to phase out gases that are making global warming worse. Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are used in fridges, air conditioning and aerosol sprays. They replaced the banned CFCs which had been damaging the ozone layer in the nineties. The conference in Rwanda accepted a complex amendment to the Montreal Protocol that will see rich countries cut back HFC use from 2019. Some people say the compromise could have less impact than expected. The new agreement sees three separate routes for different countries. Richer economies such as the European Union, the US and others will start to limit their use of HFCs within a few years and make a cut of at least 10% from 2019. Some developing countries like China, nations in Latin America and island states will freeze their use of HFCs from 2024. Other developing countries, specifically India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and the Gulf states will not freeze their use until 2028. China, the world’s largest producer of HFCs, will not actually start to cut their production or use until 2029. India will not start until even later and will make its first 10% cut in 2032.

If the agreement is adhered to it will eventually make a big difference to global warming. Experts estimate it will remove the equivalent of about 70 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2050.

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Justice First

The people of Saltburn did it again: in the current climate of austerity, they turned out in huge numbers to raise money for Justice First, a charity which works within the refugee community across the Tees Valley and raised just over £500!

Musician Robert Museko brought the rhythms of the Congo to the Out of Africa gig at Saltburn’s Marine Hotel backed by Phil Muriel and support band Carl James Dunning.

The night was organised by 4 People Not Profit to promote and support social justice and human rights, and thanks must go to Justin York and Laura Eyeington for all their hard work in making the event such a success and to the amazing performers who gave their talents for free.

A special mention for Ann at the Marine who continues to provide a venue to support the least advantaged in our communities. Pete Widlinski from Justice First spoke about their work supporting people fleeing conflict and persecution whose asylum claims had been rejected and explained the problems that destitution and fear can bring.

Justice First clients have sadly experienced an increase in verbal abuse and physical attacks post-Brexit, since the referendum debate lent legitimacy to racist views. Once again the people of Saltburn showed empathy with the refugee community and had a great night in the process! A big thank you to everyone who took part.

Saltburn Beer Festival Friday 11th and Saturday 12th November 2016 Community and Arts Centre

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FEATURING ACOUSTIC FAT MEDICINE ON SATURDAY NIGHT Music lovers will be pleased to hear that Acoustic Fat Medicine have agreed to play at the beer festival on Saturday night, bringing their unique brand of Celtic music designed to add to your enjoyment of the 36 real ales, ciders, perries and fruit wines on offer. For sustenance Richard and Sue will be providing a choice of hot and cold food, as well as snacks and soft drinks.

The above logo of the miniature steam train Blakelock R, designed by David Jowsey (www.davesdoodles.co.uk), will feature on the festival glasses (£3 each) and polo shirts, which will be available to order in assorted sizes and colours at the festival.

The Saltburn Town Crier will open the festival at 11:05am on 11th November. Entrance is pay on the door for the afternoon sessions (11am-5pm) and evening tickets (6:30 11pm) are on sale at Whistle Stop Wines in Saltburn Square or SAE with payment to Mr G Hooker, Cleveland CAMRA, The Close, Darlington Lane, Stockton-on-Tees, TS19 8BB. CAMRA members will receive a £1 refund on the door on production of a valid membership card. More information available from jilljakday@gmail.com and www.clevelandcamra.org.uk.

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SALTBURN CRICKET CLUB Marske Mill Lane, Tel 01287-622761

SLIMMING WORLD – EVERY Tuesday morning @ 9.00 – 10.30am U3A QUIZ – Weds 2nd & 30th starting 7.30pm prompt FIREWORKS – Sat 5th @ 7.30PM – gates open 6.00pm, bar available BINGO – Weds 9th & 23rd – eyes down 8.00pm TENNIS AGM Thurs 10th BAND NIGHT – in aid of CRICKET SECTION – Sat 19th featuring “SHIVER” BAND NIGHT – in aid of JUNIOR FOOTBALLERS – Fri 25th SALTBURN BLUES CLUB – Sat 26th DANA DIXON BAND support GARY GRAINGER All ticket night - £10 with 10% discount for Club members *Free WiFi in Club* * BIG screen TV showing SKY sports etc * ***FEATURED IN CAMRA GOOD BEER GUIDE 2016!!*** GREAT VENUE for YOUR family events, weddings, parties, funerals & meetings - free use for charity/community groups during normal opening hours.

Convenient venue, free parking, reasonable bar prices.

Contact us to book your event.

Members and non-members welcome.

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Saltburn Charity Crafters Saltburn Charity Crafters will be meeting in the coffee room in Saltburn Community Hall from 2pm to 4pm on Wednesday, 2nd November. Do come and join us for a cuppa if you would like make items for local charities. For further information contact Angie on 01287 205153.

SALTBURN BLUES CLUB There’s always been a vibrant, well-respected, wellsupported music scene in our area. Whether free gigs, open mic sessions, organised acts brought in for a fee; whether the venue is the Theatre, the Community Centre, the Earthbeat Centre, a pub or Saltburn Cricket Club, the expectation is that there is something on somewhere most weeks. The last weekend of the month is the usual slot for our Blues Club bookings. Just occasionally there is a clash of dates as was the case in September. It meant a smaller than usual audience for our gig but did that affect the atmosphere, the quality of the performances or the audience’s enjoyment? Not a bit. Support duo, Auld Man’s Baccie and main act, The Della Grants, were superb and all credit to everyone for making it another great evening for the Club.

The DANA DIXON BAND is the Edinburgh-based line-up performing for us on Saturday, November 26th.

The Blues seems to be dominating the Scottish music scene at present. Not surprising really as the phenomenal, aweinspiring, multi-award-winning Nimmo Brothers must be a huge influence on the Blues fraternity north of the border.

On lead vocals and a powerful harmonica player, Dana Dixon brings a distinctive edge to her band. They play a mix of raw, authentic Texas and Chicago blues, soulful ballads and 50s rhythm and blues. With impressive guitar work from Dave Dixon, this popular act achieved sell out shows five years running at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Another impressively talented band is coming to Saltburn.

The support act will be Gary Grainger. Better known as presenter of his Sunday Night blues show on Bishop FM, Gary will be playing acoustic guitar – mainly blues but don’t be surprised if some country and roots find their way into his set.

Doors: 7.30pm Support: 8.00pm Venue: Saltburn Cricket Club Tickets: £10 available from: Whistlestop Wines, Saltburn, 07960 935263 (and www.yorkshireticketshop.co.uk). Find all our details at www.saltburnbluesclub.co.uk and our Facebook page.

Don’t forget that my show, STILL GOT THE BLUES, goes out on ZETLAND FM on 105FM and online for listeners outside the area every Monday night, 7-10pm.

3 hours of the best of blues music, old and new. Listen in; add your comments; put in a request. It’s also available to listen to later on Mixcloud. Just follow the link at the bottom of Zetland FM’s web page.

Harry

**CHRISTMAS IS COMING...** There will be a Christmas Gift Fair on Saturday, 10th December in Saltburn Community Hall from 10am to 4pm.

This event is being organised by Saltburn Charity Crafters and will feature stalls selling a variety of gifts for everyone.

Local charities involved include RNLI, Teesside Hospice and Saltburn WI. Admission is free. However, there will be a festive bucket at the door for donations to Saltburn Community and Arts Association towards the upkeep of our vital community building.

A wide variety of refreshments will also be available throughout the day from the amazing Mrs White’s Kitchen.

For further information please contact Kath on 01287 205242 or Angie on 01287 205153.

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Judith and Brian Patrick Leave Saltburn “Saltburn is a special place - it’s small enough to feel you know everyone, but big enough to have lots going on,” says Judith Patrick, who with her husband, Brian, is leaving after forty-one years in Hilda Place, Hob Hill Close, West Avenue and Emerald Street.

They are moving to York to be closer to their daughter, Rose and grandson, Samson. They will also be nearer to their other children, Michael in London, Stephen in Budapest and Andrew in Harrogate.

“We will greatly miss our close-knit, busy and friendly community,” continues Judith, “but we will be popping back to see friends, for Brian to play golf and for me to finish my stained glass project with Chloe Buck.”

As well as working in Research and Development in the local steel industry for thirty-three years, Brian has been active in the community. For several years, he led the pop-in group, Manna, at Saltburn Methodist Church, providing bread, soup and a chat for local residents. Judith became a Sunday School teacher and a Steward too. For the last twenty years, they have both worshipped at Emmanuel Parish Church and served on the Parochial Church Council. For six to seven years, Brian took on the demanding task of Churchwarden.

“Leaving the Church community will be like leaving a family,” they say.

Since they joined Emmanuel Church, Judith has been a committed volunteer at the Church Shop in Milton Street, serving and pricing goods behind the scenes. She has also been a Trustee for the Churches Together Project, Doorways, since its inception.

The couple were active members of Saltburn Tennis Club and played for the Ladies’ and Men’s teams. Brian was Captain of the 1st Men’s Team. “I also played squash and hockey in Saltburn, Brotton, Redcar and further afield,” says Brian. “I held a season ticket for the Boro and have played many a round at Saltburn Golf Club, during my twenty-five year membership.”

Theatre goers may recall Judith acting in ’53 Drama

Group productions, playing roles such as Miss Marple, Madame Arcati and an Ugly Sister and a Witch in pantomimes. She was also the Secretary of Saltburn Community and Arts Association for a couple of years.

Before retiring, Judith retrained and qualified as a Legal Executive at Askews and Brown Beer Solicitors. After this, she was a teacher with the Education Other Than At School service and ran a Theatre in Education company.

Brian and Judith have found Saltburn a real community and a lovely environment, a wonderful place to live and bring up their family. They have all enjoyed the beach and the woods, where they’ve exercised their Westies, Posie and Dougal and latterly, their black Labrador, Ralph.

Their house move has gone through very quickly and Brian is in the middle of a series of operations in London to repair damage to his eye, so they haven’t been able to say goodbye to everyone they’ve met and worked with during their time in Saltburn. “We thank you all for your friendship,” they say, “and look forward to catching up with you on our visits to Saltburn in the future.”

Rosemary Nicholls

Tantra: Awakening to Love 26th November 1-3, Earthbeat, Saltburn An introduction to the ancient philosophy of Tantra. Awaken a deeper connection with yourself through meditation, dance, breath work, discussions and more. Dissolve barriers to your sexuality and harmonise your relationships.

Singles and couples welcome.

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£10, concessions available Advance booking preferred

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Cleveland Diving Club Cleveland Divers is your local SCUBA diving club and one of the main benefits of belonging to a club like ours is that you can share both new and old experiences with both long standing members and new recruits. Recently, there has been much sharing about the club’s members’ diving experiences during a holiday in September, to Lagos in Portugal. In addition to the outward journey being hassle free, wall-to-wall sunshine, a luxurious and peaceful hotel within easy walking distance of the pretty town of Lagos: the ‘apre’ dive, known as the ‘Sundowners,’ was exceptionally good-natured, enthusiastic and ebullient.

However, to avoid sounding like a travel brochure the main focus of the holiday, the diving, was considered very much a success, despite the underwater visibility being no more than 5m-7m on some of the dives.

The owner of the ‘Blue Ocean,’ dive centre delivered a variety of diving experiences that included two notable dives. The first being a shallow dive the ‘Salema Ocean Wreck,’ known locally as the ‘museum’ where informational plaques of the ship’s wreckage have been positioned nearby for divers to read information, given in both Portuguese and English, about the specific artefacts of the wreck.

The second dive afforded a new and unforgettable diving experience. The majestic rugged coastline of the Portuguese Algarve allows for a more challenging encounter: that of underwater cave diving. Of course our intrepid group of divers, with cameras at the ready, were keen to embark on this excursion into the dark depths of the caves. When dived at the right time it is possible to ascend within the ‘Cathedral Cave,’ and admire the stalagmites and stalactites (photo 1). Considering the natural darkness within the caves it would be credible to think that marine fauna and creatures could not live within the bleakness of these mysterious caves. However, this is not the case as in addition to the occasional brittle starfish and other small creatures a number of octopus were spotted along with nudibranchs, commonly known as sea slugs (photo 2 shows Peltodoris atromaculata feeding on sea sponges).

Although diving was central to the holiday, holidays are also about the people and the memories that you take away with you, and this holiday was no exception. The final ‘Sundowners,’ was held at the ‘Blue Ocean,’ dive centre with the owner Elmar and his staff (photo 3). This was an opportunity to share and strengthen friendships formed during the week, with many of our divers determined to return and enjoy all that Lagos has to offer.

Hopefully these warm memories will serve to keep the passion for diving alive as we head towards the much cooler winter months. Nevertheless, Cleveland Divers have never been one to shy away from the cold and the openwater winter training programme commenced in October.

This time of year is an excellent time to take up scuba diving training, as most people will be trained for the beginning of the 2017 diving season. So if the thought of taking part in new and exciting experiences is with you then contact us on 07960 608529 or pop along to Saltburn Leisure Pool on a Monday evening about 8pm. Here you can have a chat and learn about our ‘Introduction to Scuba Diving Course’ which runs for 6 weeks (for a one off 422

payment of £25). Anyone over the age of 14 years is welcome. You can also find us on facebook ‘The Diving Club – Cleveland.’

June Coomber

Emmanuel Church Hall, Macnay Street, Saltburn Tuesdays at 3.30pm, 5.30pm and 7.30pm.

New morning group: on Tuesdays at 9.00am at the Cricket Club, Marske Mill Lane, Saltburn.

Telephone Stevie on

01642 474920

We sell a good selection of Stationery i.e. Envelopes, Labels, Tapes, Mailing Bags, and Greetings Cards plus a wide range of Personalised Cards.

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Saltburn in Bloom Autumn is here and the Saltburn in Bloom volunteers continue their work around the town. On Saturday, 19th November we are holding a Table Top Sale in the Community Centre, with a tombola and homemade refreshments served all through the day. Why not pop in to see us and enjoy a bacon sandwich, a scone or a lovely piece of cake? Or perhaps you might be able to make some goodies to sell or to help on the day by serving refreshments or on our stall. Our committee really needs some new members and this is a chance to give something back to the community. It is an opportunity to meet new people, especially if you are new to the area or with time to spare. You may have computer or bookkeeping skills that you could use to assist us. We would really welcome your help. Why not get in touch?

Our Gardening group continues to meet every Wednesday morning, 9.30 – 11-30 in different locations around the town and of course weather permitting. Not everyone is an expert gardener, but that doesn’t matter as there are many different jobs to do, including litter picking and sweeping. Everyone benefits from the fresh air, the company, the knowledge that we are helping the environment here in Saltburn and thoroughly enjoys the break for coffee and of course biscuits. Our weekly arrangement, with volunteers turning up when they are able or want to, means there is flexibility for all

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concerned with the freedom to go on holiday or still enjoy their hobbies.

Give me a ring on 01287 209518 if you would like to be involved with our award winning group in any way, be it gardening, baking or committee work.

We recently were honoured to receive an award from the East Cleveland free paper, Coastal View and Moors News, for our volunteering efforts around the town.

Saltburn Beachwatch, which Roy Smith co-ordinates, also received an award. So congratulations to all who volunteer to make a difference.

Lynda Parkes

Christmas Events at Book Corner Book Corner will be hosting four events in November and December, including book signings and a Civilised Saturday featuring live poetry.

Firstly, you can join local author Sara Thomson for a book signing on Saturday, 19th November from 11am – 2pm.

Sara will be here with her debut novel, Anna’s Home Front, which is set in 1940 and 1908 and follows journalist Anna Forrester as she uncovers a secret that will change her war.

Get your copy signed and chat about inspiration while you browse.

On 26th November it’s Civilised Saturday. Local poet Janet Philo will be in the bookshop at 12 noon, reading from her debut collection Under-hedge Dapple, accompanied by Phil Philo on the guitar. The day will also feature the official launch of our Christmas books range, and complimentary refreshments will be available. We will be open from 10am5pm. Come along and get in the Christmas mood!

Children’s author William Coniston will be here on Saturday, 3rd December to sign copies of his middle-grade children’s novel, M.I.C.E. and the Stone. Keep an eye on Book Corner’s window and our website for more details.

On Saturday, 10th December we will be hosting a joint book signing. Chris Scott Wilson, Dennis Weller and Graham Lowe return to Book Corner to sign copies of Backstage PASS: Redcar Jazz Club, so if you haven’t yet got your copy, please come along. Chris Scott Wilson will also be signing copies of Sunset Be Glory, his historical adventure novel about Saltburn’s king of the smugglers. The authors will be here from 11am – 2pm.

I hope you can join us for some bookish fun and shopping this Christmas.

Jenna www.bookcornershop.co.uk

BOOK CORNER Come and see our great range of Christmas books

Join us for ‘Civilised Saturday’ on 26th November (See article)

Fiction Non-fiction Cut-price Books Children’s Books Ordering Service Gifts for Book-lovers Open Monday to Saturday, 10am – 5pm (Closed Wednesday) 1 Regency Buildings, Station Square, Saltburn

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Saltburn, Redcar & Cleveland Philatelic Society November Meetings Our Wednesday meetings (at the Community Centre, Durham Road, Redcar commencing at 7:00 for 7:15 pm) are: 2nd November Auction (Stamps, postal history and postcards). Note: Viewing from 6:30 pm. Our auctions always see attendance increased by enthusiasts from adjoining societies. 16th November Spirit of Teesside Trophy. We select our finalists’ entries. All have to be of high standard, so as to match the experienced philatelists opposing us, all of whom have won good medals regionally or nationally (Stampex, London).

Our 2016-7 season’s first major display on 19th October ‘70 years of Stamp Collecting’ began with grubby schoolboy pages from our speaker’s ‘all world’ stamp album (begun in 1944 when 5 years old), followed by specialisms spanning 1584-2016: British Commonwealth (AdenZanzibar); Great Britain (pre-stamp era, 1d blacks/2d blues from 1840, and finished with modern postcards). Finally, GB maritime postal history during her 18th-19th C’s expansion of Empire and wars, Napoleonic, Crimean, Indian, South African and WWI and II. The 1840-price of a 1d black equates to £1.25-1.50

today. The pictorial cover (advocating a world-wide overseas ocean penny postal rate) to Norway bore 1s 1d postage: some £15-20 today! Thus few of the Victorian underclass (if able to read/write) seldom corresponded.

Geoff Reynolds (Secretary) 01642 478229 David D. Turner 01287 624736

Saltburn Athletic FC The season is now well underway with all eight teams having played league and cup games.

The under 9 Dolphins having lost their first league and cup game have bounced back with a draw and a rather excellent and deserved win against club rivals the Sharks.

The U9 Sharks had started so well winning their opening two league fixtures comfortably and then putting in a tremendous performance against a Durham Division one side in the challenge cup losing out on penalties after extra time. However, the derby game versus the Dolphins was a disappointment as they failed to reach the heights of the previous games.

The under 12 Seagulls continued to battle in their league game drawing at home to Leven 3-3, a second successive draw but fared much better in the cup by winning 7-0 against a Cleveland juniors team who are in a higher division.

The U12 Dolphins lost their cup match to Norton and

Stockton Ancients by 2-1. This was a very good performance by the Dolphins who were playing a team higher in the divisional system. The good news in the league for them is that they are top of the league with three wins from three matches by 4-3, 2-0 and 9-1.

The under 12 Falcons having lost their three opening games 3-2, 5-2 and 1-0 got their first point when they drew with Whitby Fisherman. I am sure they will get a victory soon.

The under 13 team having lost their opening game have bounced back by easily winning the next two games 112 and 9-0 against Northallerton and Darlington 21st Allstars.

The under 14 team has yet to record a victory or gain any points but their coach states there has been a vast improvement from the team since the start of the season and a win may not be far away.

I have no report on the under 10 team at this time.

Andy Croll

Seaview and Greta Cottage caring together 5 star care homes awarded by Redcar and Cleveland for their quality of care and personalised service.

Home from home with daily activities and weekly trips out in our own minibus.

Please feel free to visit us at anytime.

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Can you tell us where the wild things are?

The Tees Valley Wildlife Trust wants families, groups and individuals to help create a map of where different mammals are living in East Cleveland. Have you a hedgehog in your garden, a wood mouse in your compost bin or moles in your lawn? Do you see deer on the way to work, dead animals on the road, rabbits when walking the dog or furry gifts your pet brings in?

One of the problems we have is that people tell us when they see unusual animals but they don’t tell us when they see animals that seem more ordinary. This is a problem because it means that we don’t know how many of the “ordinary animals” there are! We are really interested to know about mammals such as mice, voles, shrews, hedgehogs, moles, badgers, squirrels, deers, weasels, stoats, otters and foxes, especially in the East Cleveland area. Even the humble rat is worthy of a record said Kate Bartram of the Trust.

It’s important for us to gauge how many of these mammals there are now and where they are, so that we can tell if the numbers go down or even up. Some of these animals such as the hedgehog and harvest mouse could be in serious decline. If you are not sure what you have got send a photo and we will identify it for you if we can. All records you create will be sent on for real scientists to use.

Here is a link to our project website, funded by National Lottery and Northumbrian Water, where you can upload your sightings http://wildthings.teeswildlife.org/ .

Click on the wild things today button and create a record.

Simply use the satellite map to show where you saw the animal by placing the red flag on the location. You can zoom into your own back garden! Please add information in the comments box such as the number of animals and whether they were dead or alive e.g. road kill. Any problems give us a call 01287 636382, (or email your sightings to info@teeswildlife.org).

A little help from a lot of people will make a real contribution to wildlife conservation. How many records can you create?

Baroness Grey-Thompson helps Pupils put their Best Foot Forward Saltburn Primary School welcomed a very special visitor to commemorate their efforts to help their health and wellbeing.

Tanni, Baroness Grey-Thompson, visited pupils and staff at the school on Friday, 21st October and took part in something which is now firmly established within each pupil’s timetable and regular routine. Introduced by Year 6 teacher, Rachel Wills - who learnt of its beginnings by a school in Scotland - The Daily Mile is now a firm favourite amongst both pupils and staff at Saltburn Primary, who take part every afternoon. The short session, which has pupils running around the school field eight times to equate to one mile, aims to improve the physical, emotional and social health and wellbeing of all children, despite any differences they may have; whether they run, jog or walk!

Mrs Wills said, “We’re delighted that Tanni is visiting. We can’t wait to show her how much we’re benefiting from this relatively new initiative, and we’re

hoping that she will take part alongside us.”

Daily Mile founder, Elaine Wyllie, who in 2012 introduced the initiative at St Ninian’s primary in Stirling said, “The Daily Mile gives children the freedom to have fun with their friends outside in the fresh air - it's all about nourishing a joy of active living. I'm thrilled that Baroness Tanni GreyThompson will be joining us at Saltburn Primary School, as a shining inspiration to young people and schools across the UK.” Now retired, Elaine dedicates her time to encouraging schools across the UK and beyond to adopt The Daily Mile; helping more young people benefit from something which consumes just 15 minutes of their school day, but provides such positive outcomes.

Tanni says, “This is just an amazing way to encourage young people to think about what they do every single day. It helps them realise that doing a little exercise daily can make a massive difference to their lives. The fact they have fun while they are doing it keeps encouraging them.”

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Christmas Party? Office Party? Friends & family get together?

Try something a little different this year!

Christmas Special deal Mediterranean Tapas night A fantastic array of French, Spanish, Italian, Moroccan, Greek & Portuguese dishes.

Served in a Meze style feast. Two or three dishes served at a time throughout the evening.

Enjoy trying traditional village recipes from around the Med. Fish, shellfish, meat and vegetarian dishes.

Our Chefs will provide you with a balanced mix of dips, breads, meat, fish & vegetarian dishes to cater for all tastes. Eat what you like and leave what you don’t. Relax with friends and enjoy an evening with a difference. Superb value for money. Bookings only.

Tapas Meze prices:

4 to 10 people £18.00 pp

11 to 30 £16.00 pp

30 to 50 £15.00 pp

What’s happening at The Vista Mar this Christmas & New Year Christmas Eve – Chill out night for two. Any 5 Tapas dishes, bread basket and 2 x Bucks fizz £30 !!!

Mulled wine. Roast Chestnuts. Christmas carols Christmas Day – Dinner served from 12 to 3 pm Three course Christmas Dinner £49.95 Smorgasbord Scandinavian Feast starter 5 roast carvery main course This is now nearly fully booked. Remaining places on a first come basis.

Boxing Day – Saltburn Sea Dippers. Breakfast rolls. Coffee / tea / Hot Chocolate served from 9 am Comfort food carvery served all day – Stew & dumplings, Homemade curry, Liver & onions, Roast vegetable Lasagne, etc.

New Year’s Eve – Music through the ages. Our resident Café Del Mar DJ playing music from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and today’s favourites. Champagne & Prosecco special offers.

Our 2016 New Year’s Eve cocktail special. Late bar. Free admission.

New Year’s Day – Food served all day.

Canine Rehabilitation and Fitness

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Frank Sutton remembers Frank Sutton, of Marske, who laid a wreath at the ceremony to rededicate the war memorial, remembered both his grandfather and father whose names are inscribed on it.

“It was a good occasion, well-organised. The work on the face of the memorial was fantastic. My daughter Andrea and youngest granddaughter Gabriella, both from York, joined me for the service,” he told Talk of the Town.

“I was a little bit sad. My grandfather John Sutton, of 38 Diamond Street, Saltburn, died in 1918 when his Merchant Navy ship hit a mine outside Port Said, Egypt.

My father Francis Sutton died in 1944 and is buried outside Caen, France.

“He lived at the same address as his father and worked as a compositor at Jordison’s, printers, in Middlesbrough. I was 18 months old when dad died. His father died before he was born.”

For pictures of the occasion and more information about the restoration of the war memorial, see page 43.

Saltburn Mortuary broken into

It is sad time when someone breaks into a mortuary.

Saltburn mortuary is part of the history of Saltburn and has been used for so many sad events like when people have drowned or have fallen off the cliff. I remember standing over the road when I was a child and 3 young lads had fallen off the cliffs trying to collect seagull eggs.

There’s nothing inside to take. There is only the stuff that was used to transport injured or sadly deceased people like the stretchers, so why would you break in and cause so much damage? I hope that they read this and are ashamed of themselves.

Paul Waugh, Water Safety Advisor

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FRIENDS OF SALTBURN LIBRARY

Kendal Aitken

Friends of Saltburn Library are delighted to invite Kendal Aitken, once more, to give us one of his interesting and informative talks. Kendal, always “Young at heart” reverts back to his youth for this month’s lecture. His talk will be entitled ‘Travelling on a budget’ which he describes as ‘A how to guide’ filled with adventure stories, love stories and slides. In his own words: ‘At seventeen I set off on a one way ticket to South America and 14 months later I returned to England having made it overland to the edge of Canada. I fell in love with the freedom and the lifestyle, with just a backpack for company and a very low budget. Before long I set off again and for the next five years travelled the world as much as possible.’

This talk is about how you can make it happen for you and sharing stories we all have. Join us, any age welcome, get inspired and encourage others. We all feel, Kendall included, that this would be a talk of great interest for all age groups, particularly young people. Please join us on Tuesday, 15th November at 2.00pm. Refreshments will be served as usual.

Barbara Chaffer

Thank you, Gosnay’s Thank you to Gosnay’s Butchers for their kind donation to our coffee morning held at Sunnyfield House, Guisborough on 1st October. The coffee morning was in aid of Cancer research UK and we raised £140-50 from sales and the tombola. Many thanks to all who attended, helped on the day and once again, Mike Gosnay.

Sue and Pat

Riders urged to have their say!

HORSE riders across Redcar and Cleveland are being urged to take part in a survey to help improve off road riding in the area.

Saltburn and District Bridleways Group is asking riders to complete 10 quick questions to be in with the chance of winning a year’s free membership to the group.

To complete the survey online and to find out more visit www.saltburndistrictbridleways.co.uk/survey/

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Friday Friends Dance your way to fitness!!

Get a slice of the ‘Strictly’ magic with this fun and dynamic class!

Enjoy learning the SAMBA, the JIVE, the RUMBA… all the while GETTING FIT and TONING UP! This class is aimed at all abilities and is PARTNER FREE. Mondays 7pm at Emmanuel Church Hall - £4 pp (DISCOUNT!! ONLY £6 if you stay for both Zumba Gold & Ballroom Blitz on Mondays)

Friday Friends in November Friday Friends is an inclusive friendship group. We welcome people of all abilities, over 18.

On October 7th we hosted a Macmillan Coffee Morning and we were amazed at the amount of people who supported us. Thank you to everybody who baked, ate and drank! At the time of writing we made a brilliant £293.08 for Macmillan. I am so proud of our little group and thank you to everybody who helped especially Norma! Thanks again must go to the following Saltburn shops who advertised the event namely - the Co-op, Jackie’s Saverstore, Sainsbury’s, Upleatham Street Store, library, Heritage, Ruby Street DIY, Destinations, Emmanuel Church Hall, Whistlestop Wines and the old Spar run by Gosnays. We had a great morning! The above photograph shows some of us who attended.

November Programme 4th November - 10.15am - Seated Keep-Fit to music with Taylor followed by Bingo. Afternoon arts and craft is making a wax resist picture.

11th - A games and quiz morning. Drawing/Sewing/ Making Poppies for Remembrance Day 17th - Word search/Colouring in, 11 - 12 Colin and his fun filled drumming session! Sewing a soft cat.

25th - Bowling and Lunch at Saltburn Bowls Club with the lovely Bob. Folding origami cards.

Advance notice - we are very excited to say the fantastic band Soul Survivors are playing a Benefit Gig for us at Saltburn House on December 3rd - this should be an amazing night!

We meet at Emmanuel Church Hall each Friday, Activities 10-12.30 arts and craft 1-4. First session is free, carers always free, then there is a small charge of £2.50/£4 all day to help cover rent. We are run by volunteers and are non-profit making.

For more info Thefridayfriends@outlook.com or 07833 895 501 Anjee Charman-Clark, chairperson

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EASY TO FOLLOW, TONING and a FUN OVERALL WORKOUT: This dance fitness class will shake up your routine & get you groovin’… at your own pace!

Mondays 6pm at Emmanuel Church Hall - £4pp (DISCOUNT!! ONLY £6 if you stay for both Zumba Gold & Ballroom Blitz on Mondays)

Thursdays 10am at Saltburn Community Hall - £4pp

Spirals A PILATES, YOGA & BALLET inspired fitness class: builds on CORE STRENGTH and BALANCE, TONES and improves natural FLEXIBILITY. Wednesdays 7pm at The EarthBeat Centre, Saltburn - (Booking essential)

For more information call ESTELLE on 07887 525234 or visit...

Saltburn Animal Rescue Association A small charity seeking to rescue and re-home cats and dogs, Tel: 01642 488108 (weekdays only, 10am to 2pm).

SARA has many dogs and cats that need new homes. All are clean, healthy, neutered, vaccinated and microchipped.

Hello, we are Chester the dog and Annie and Ayla the cats.

Chester is a lovely 6 year old Border Terrier cross breed who came to us after he was found running around the streets all on his lonesome. He is such a lovely, friendly dog, who is full of energy. He thoroughly enjoys long walks and playing fetch on the beach, as well as taking refreshing paddles in our paddling pool on those long gone hot days that we had in summer. Remember those?

Chester is looking for a loving and active new family with someone who will take him out for long walks and maybe even take up flyball, agility or even obedience training with him as he is a very clever boy.

Chester would probably be fine living with a female dog and older children aged about 10 plus.

Poor Annie and Ayla came to us through no fault of their own. They were brought in with Annie’s young daughters, Anna and Amy. Annie is a beautiful and elegant tortoiseshell Oriental looking cat and is around 14 months old. Ayla is a gorgeous ginger tabby with golden eyes and she is about 2 years old.

They have been with us since early June this year and they have both settled in really well. Annie is very inquisitive and really enjoys playing around in boxes and with her toys, while Ayla is more laid back and really enjoys lying in the sunshine! When she can, that is.

Annie and Ayla would like a nice home together where they have plenty of room to run around and of course somewhere to sunbathe.

Love from Chester, Annie and Ayla.

SARA fundraising events during November The next monthly meeting of SARA will be held on Wednesday, 2nd November, at 7.30pm in the TocH premises, Albion Terrace, Saltburn. New members are very welcome.

Saturday, 26th November – Members of SARA will be holding a street collection in Middlesbrough. If you can help please ring the centre on 01642 488108.

Members of SARA would like to thank everyone who attended their recent Autumn Sale at Foxrush Farm, Redcar. The day was a fantastic success with fine weather.

A recent volunteer recruitment meeting was well attended and 6 people signed up on the day with others taking away forms to fill in later. If you would like to volunteer please ring 01642 488108.

The great amount of support we receive at our events makes it possible for us to help the ever increasing numbers of animals that so desperately need our help. For this we are most grateful.

John Fuller, Press Officer Helpline: 01642 488108 19 37

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IT’S MY LIFE?

BY REV ADAM REED Bon Jovi, Dr Alban and Talk Talk all wrote songs entitled ‘It’s My Life’. “It's my life, It's now or never, I ain't gonna live forever, I just want to live while I'm alive,” sang Bon Jovi. “It's my life do you understand, I live the way I want to live,” sang Dr Alban. “It's my life, Don't you forget, It's my life, It never ends,” sang Talk Talk. These lyrics resonate with our contemporary cultural landscape.

In tech terms they find a parallel in the aptly named Apple products: iPod, iPhone, iPad. In so many ways we live in an iWorld, because for many people ‘It’s my life’ (or should that be miLife).

Whilst there is much we can affirm within contemporary culture regarding human life, we shouldn't be blind to where it falls short. So, I give you the following five observations of Robert Thune from his recent book review of ‘Divine Sex’ by Jonathan Grant. Have a read and a ponder. Are there any observations you can agree or disagree with? How do they relate not only to your experiences but those of your children or grand children?

Individualism: We live in a “culture of authenticity” which encourages us to create our own beliefs and express our own unique identity. Because we are shaped by individualism, we find ourselves caught between intimacy and autonomy, unable to sustain deep commitments for fear that they will keep us from being “true to ourselves.”

Freedom: We have been taught to understand freedom as unrestricted, unrestrained personal choice. Because of this (mistaken) thinking, we are caught in the “freedom trap,” desiring total autonomy and self-determination, but cut off from the mentorship and deep friendship that can actually help us grow into full maturity.

Consumerism: Modern capitalism trains us to acquire, consume, and move on, with novelty as our guiding impulse. Under the influence of consumerism, people and relationships become commodities. “What we do with things, we will inevitably do with people.”

Hypersexuality: Our culture has reduced sexuality to sex. This causes us to use sex as a “happiness technology,” emptying sex of its deeper meaning and losing our ability for relational intimacy. In a porn-ified world, “We become performers and consumers rather than genuine participants.”

Loss of Transcendence: The naturalistic, scientific view of the world as a closed system has undercut our sense of meaning or purpose in the universe. We live with a “low horizon.” Because of this loss of transcendence, we lack a coherent vision for life and for sexuality, and we are left with the narrow utilitarian goal of pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain. We see relationships as transactional.

“Our bodies become pleasure machines.” http://www.bobthune.com/2016/06/review-divine-sex-by-jonathan-grant/

SALTBURN REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 13th Nov 2016 EMMANUEL CHURCH - 9.30am WAR MEMORIAL - 10.50am

CHRISTINGLE SERVICE SUNDAY 11th Dec 2016

EMMANUEL CHURCH - 3pm

Services Times Sundays 9.00am traditional communion 10.45am contemporary worship

Tuesdays 9.30am said communion

Morning Prayer 9.00am Mon-Fri in ECHO

Contact Details tel 01287 622251

email emmanuelsaltburn@hotmail.co.uk

web www.emmanuelsaltburn.co.uk

Visitor and Exhibition opening times in November Saturdays 5th & 19th 10am - 4pm

Sundays 13th & 27th 1 - 4pm

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A dance journey from the British Raj to the current British Bollywood scene This is another opportunity to participate in one of the Zoobin Surty Company (ZSC), Indian Bollywood Production, ‘BRITISH BOLLYWOOD’. A journey from the cultural dances that the British witnessed during their Raj in India to the dance collaborations today in the UK and India, and how British events and Western influences have been injected into Indian dance culture, creating the contemporary dance forms in the Bollywood film industry today.

ZSC is inviting you and all friends and families who would like to be a part of this production with a bit of love, support and dedication. We are looking for people who can move and wish to glam up to be a part of this show to make it a memory. If people wish to come and try the first day and see how they feel then they are welcome to do so.

Dance Captain is our friend, Estelle Reed, so please contact her and give your names to her, on 07887 525234. I suggest you please give your names as soon as possible so we know where we stand with everything.

The rehearsals are on Sundays, November 13th, 20th and 27th (1.30pm to 3.30pm) and on Friday, 2nd December 2016 (6.30pm to 8.30pm) and Saturday, 3rd December 11am to 12pm stage rehearsal. The show is on Saturday, 3rd December 2016 at 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Tickets on sale at Book Corner. Reporting time at the theatre is 10.30 am for stage spacing etc. Each rehearsal will cost £7 to cover studio / travel expenses.

Thanks to Annabeth Robinson for the picture and poster design by Francis Fitzgerald.

Talk of the Town: The Band We’re a new three piece local band. We play music from the 1960s to the present day. We are Dave Brown on guitar, Alan Boon on drums and Dave Rich on guitar. After we got together we struggled to choose a name that we all liked, at first we thought of using our forename initials, but that seemed a bit dated; then when we saw a copy of Talk of the Town, we thought ‘That’s it!’ Hence Talk of the Town, the band, was born!

Prior to our new band we’ve all had a long history of being in different bands. Dave Brown started playing guitar at the tender age of 11 and has been in bands including Purple Phoenix, Whistler, and the Delmonts. Alan Boon started drumming at the age of 12 and joined his first band Phlingle Bunt aged 15, with fellow apprentices at Aston Martin, they played the club circuit and a summer season at Butlins. Alan was in his next band High and Wide for 35 years. After moving to this area Alan was in several other groups before this one.

Dave Rich’s earliest ambition was to be a boxer like his father, but after a few bouts he decided that music was less painful!

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then Dave has been in various other band over the years including Rich, Rea and Parker with Aid Rea and Si Parker, until Si’s death. Dave Brown has known Dave Rich for many years and they share a love of the music of Bob Dylan, and after years apart were recently reunited. Alan Boon was a family friend with a love of music, after our first jam session together we found that we hit it off straight away as we shared the same taste in music. We hope to keep playing forever.

Talk of the Town’s monthly

Pride of Saltburn Award There is no Pride of Saltburn Award this month. Although some nominations were received, nobody was available at the necessary time to receive the bouquet and it was too late to organise any alternative. We would like to keep this fun feature going but need people to nominate their loved ones, people they admire or want to say thank you to, or anyone that would enjoy receiving a bouquet of flowers.

Recipients do not have to be ‘high achievers’ for everyone deserves a bunch of flowers now and again and it’s not necessary to take it too seriously. It’s just a bit of fun.

Please send your written nominations to Talk of the Town c/o Jackie’s Saverstore and do say why you are nominating them, in order to make this feature into more than just a picture with a few words. Please check it out with them first though because some feel a little embarrassed!

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An Ideal Christmas Present Beautiful photographs of Saltburn The calendar is available, priced only £4.99, in Jackie’s Saverstore, Real Meals, the Pie and Mash Shop, Destinations, Book Corner, The Marine, Brambles and Saltburn Station Gallery. All funds raised go to help supporting the magazine so that it can go on supporting the community of Saltburn.

Grasers certainly have some very different this month. These edible flowers are grown in the Vale of Evesham, Worcester,

by Westlands and are classed in their ‘Inspired’ range. They are chosen for their unique visual and flavour impact. Seen here are their ‘edible mixed’ flowers sold in 20g boxes for £3.99. Also available at Grasers are Viola flowers, in 8g boxes, and Tagete, Borage (white and blue) and Broad Bean flowers in 10g boxes. They all carry a ‘LEAF’ logo, which stands for Linking Environment And Farming. LEAF is the leading organisation which promotes sustainable agriculture with high environmental standards and has recently celebrated 25 years of helping farmers grow healthy food ‘fit for the future’. Westlands have been growing quality and innovative produce for over 60 years.

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Saltburn War Memorial On Sunday, 2nd October 2016 Saltburn War Memorial was re-dedicated at a special service marking the completion of its conservation and improvement.

The service was led by Saltburn’s Churches Together, with the Rev. Adam Reed leading the service and re-dedicated the war memorial, while Fr. Ricardo Morgan gave a reading from the Bible and prayers were led by the Rev. Julie Smith and the Rev. Helena Harbottle.

After a plaque recording the project was unveiled by Mayor of Redcar Councillor Barry Hunt, a wreath was laid

by Frank Sutton, whose father, Francis Horton Sutton and grandfather, John Horton Sutton, are remembered on the memorial.

“Funds and offers of help came in steadily. Consulting Engineers and Surveyors, Billinghurst George & Partners magnanimously stepped forward to undertake structural survey work and Carillion Plc. – at that time the Council’s highways contractor – re-laid the stone paving around the memorial – all completely free of charge. Last year, the Council committed part of its Public Realm funding to install two new bench seats, a new wreath rail and a flagpole.

“Collectively, these works significantly reduced the community’s fund raising target from the original £70,000 down to £30,000 for the conservation of the memorial itself.

“Then, just as we were about to approach the War Memorials Fund for a grant, two local charities – the Lt. Col. N.L. Cohen Charitable Trust and the Les Bell Family Fund – stepped forward with two gifts of £3,000. This meant we could proceed with the conservation of the memorial itself and conservation specialists Eura Conservation Ltd were appointed to sensitively repair and stabilise the granite cross and the weathered and decayed sculpture, restoring it as close as possible to its original appearance.

“And so here we are – mission accomplished! A brilliant example of the community working in partnership with businesses, local charities and the local authority. Thank you to everyone who has participated and supported the project.”

Frank Sutton laying a wreath during the re-dedication service (© Cath and Tony Lynn)

In an address given on behalf of Tees Heritage Trust Ltd & Friends of Saltburn War Memorial, Stewart Ramsdale described that, “the project has been a real community venture with everyone pulling together to restore this remarkable War Memorial to a condition befitting the tribute it pays to the men who gave their lives in two World Wars. Mr Atkinson of the Saltburn Branch of the Royal British Legion, first drew my attention to the memorial’s dilapidated condition as long ago as 2001. After a thorough inspection revealed its parlous state it was added to Historic England’s Register of Historic Buildings at Risk and proposals were drawn up by the Council in consultation with English Heritage. The costs came out at £70,000 – but no Council funds were available to proceed with the work at that time. When, in 2013, I retired from the Council Jackie Taylor asked if I could persuade Tees Heritage Trust to join forces with the Friends of Saltburn to raise funds towards the cost of restoring the memorial. Jackie’s extensive contacts in the community quickly came together to organise a whole series of fund-raising events – not least the Saltburn Victorian Footballers’ re-enactment of the World War I Christmas Day truce.

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Jackie Taylor with some of the Friends of Saltburn and Mayor of Redcar Councillor Barry Hunt. (© Cath and Tony Lynn) Stewart Ramsdale Tees Heritage Trust Ltd & Friends of Saltburn War Memorial

16th October 2016 Saltburn War Memorial – the sculpture after conservation work and cleaning

Food in the Bank!

Saltburn Farmers’ Market teams up to help Redcar Area Foodbank Saltburn Farmers’ Market has teamed up with the Redcar Area Foodbank to help make sure that no local people have to face going hungry this autumn.

Seaside shoppers at the Market on Saturday, 8th October helped raise £232 for the Foodbank, with three Farmers’ Market Hampers up for grabs in a prize raffle on the day.

And similar hampers will again be raffled at the popular monthly Market on Saturday, 12th November and Saturday, 10th December, with all the raffle proceeds going directly to the Foodbank to help meet a growing demand for help.

Generous Teessiders have helped feed over 15,600 local people and families throughout Redcar and East Cleveland, with the Foodbank offering a mix of emergency food supplies and practical and emotional support since opening its doors in 2013.

But the demand shows no sign of letting up, with over 5,000 people being referred to the Foodbank in the twelve months up to July this year.

And now the Foodbank is appealing for other local businesses and individuals to add their support before winter starts to bite – either by donating food, money or volunteering their time to help local people through a time of crisis.

Helen Hedges, Project Manager with the Redcar Area Foodbank, said: “We’re always humbled and inspired by the generosity of spirit of everyone here on Teesside and throughout East Cleveland.

“We simply couldn’t help as many people as we do without so many people making donations – and we’d love to hear from anyone else who can help us make sure that no-one has to go hungry this winter.

“It was fantastic to get a call from Lorna and the team at Saltburn Farmers’ Market to ask if they could help, and we really appreciate their support.”

Organised by the same team behind Saltburn Food Festival, the popular monthly Market sees a tasty mix of over 35 stalls brimming with good local food from some of the best independent food producers from within 50 miles of the town.

Market Manager Lorna Jackson said: “We don’t think anyone should have to face going hungry, so we’re happy to help in any way we can.

“The Foodbank does an incredible job helping so many local people, really making a vital difference to people’s lives.

“So we’d like to thank everyone who bought a raffle ticket at our Market in October, all our stallholders who helped us put three great hampers together, and let’s look forward to boosting the Foodbank again over the next couple of months.

“And if anyone can’t make it along to Saltburn, people can still help the Foodbank by making donations or offering to help in their local areas throughout the rest

Helen Hedges (left) of Redcar Area Foodbank meets Lorna Jackson (right) of Saltburn Farmers Market over a cuppa in Real Meals

of Redcar and East Cleveland too.”

Saltburn Farmers’ Market: Saturday, 12th November & Saturday, 10th December. Based near Saltburn Railway Station. 9am-2pm. For further info, visit www.saltburnfarmersmarket.com.

Redcar Area Foodbank is part of the Redcar based charity Footprints in the Community, supported by The Trussell Trust. For further info, visit www.redcararea.foodbank.org.uk where we learn that one in five of the population of this country lives below the poverty line.

You can write to them c/o East Cleveland Baptist Church, Park Avenue, Redcar TS10 3LJ or telephone 07927 365559.

A food parcel typically contains three days’ worth of nutritional, non-perishable food and parcels can be adapted to suit special dietary needs and for babies too.

The website also informs how to get help and makes it clear that anyone can reach a crisis point. They understand and are here to help.

Food donation points can be found at: Tesco’s at Redcar (West Dyke Road) and Eston (Trunk Road).

Morrison’s, Redcar.

Circles of Life Charity Shop, 21 Queen Street, Redcar.

Halifax, Redcar High Street.

Iceland, Redcar High Street.

The Co-op, Marske High Street.

Sainsbury’s Local, Dormanstown & Redcar.

Sainsbury’s, Saltburn.

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Make a difference for the elderly in Saltburn I am an Activity Co-ordinator in the Hazelgrove Court care home in Saltburn and I love the work I do because everyday when I go to work I feel that I can make a difference to someone else’s life and that makes me happy.

Most of the time I work on the dementia floor and every day offers a new challenge because dementia is something in which moods can change from one second to another. Often dementia is classified as an illness in which you slowly lose your memory as well as your mobility depending on which part of the brain is affected. Till now there is no cure for this illness but also we still haven’t come to an understanding of what dementia truly is. It could affect everyone any time not only older people.

It’s not easy to deal with dementia and its expression but especially in our modern society in which we are so shaped by the reality the media presents us we tend to avoid anything that reminds us of our imperfections or mortality.

We don’t want to be confronted with things and situations we don’t understand and can’t deal with. We don’t want to feel and see that we get older and will also need to learn to rely on others again; this thought triggers something deep within us even though getting older is something that is so part of the natural cycle of life like the sunrise or the moon.

Many people are scared of ending up in a care home one day. For many it looks like the last stop they will pass till the soul finally takes on its journey to return home.

Care homes often have a bad image and are often associated with a lot of horror scenarios. But that is not true at all.

I really do like the care home I work in and it’s everything else other than just a place in which you vegetate till the final day has come. My care home is full of lovely people who work very hard every day to make a real difference in people’s lives. Every day I see these wonderful women with a smile on their face when they dress up the elderly for breakfast. I see strong women who truly care about how to treat others and be a friend more than just a carer. The care home for me is not only a job I go to but also a big learning field. A place in which I learn true compassion and what it means to hold someone in my arms who forgot their own name or where they live. It is a place in which someone takes my hand to walk down the corridor just to be close to me. A place in which I can feel that I make a difference with every day I spend there being of service to others.

Yes it is also a place in which I see relatives cry and grieve, trying to accept what seems unacceptable – that life moves on and we need to learn to let go. I see tears of joy and tears of sorrow. I see my manager Tina Temple being on duty nearly day and night just to make sure that every resident is truly okay. Daily she tries to provide the best service to our residents and at the same time to have an open ear for the concerns the staff comes along with. For Tina this is not only a job but a calling, she knows what this position is all about as she has been a carer herself for many years.

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team of carers, cleaners, kitchen staff and a very talented handyman. Because I can truly see how committed the team works, no matter what is going on in their personal lives.

Through them I learnt not to put myself first but to listen to what others have to say. How to deal with my own helplessness when I realize that my activity plans for the week fail – because dementia patients are always different. There are the good, the bad and the days in between. There are days when relatives don’t understand their loved ones, moments in which words no longer can reach out and seem to be useless.

Dementia and the Soul And within all this what I found is that dementia does affect the brain and might also affect the body but not the soul. People maybe forget what day it is, lose their ability to eat independently but they still feel what love is. They smile when you smile at them and they can feel music because suddenly their ears and eyes are sparkling. I truly believe that there must be something in our souls and our hearts that can bridge when words no longer have a meaning. Something that fills that empty space, that gap when we are not sure any more about things. I love the moments when we have singers and musicians in the care home and the elderly suddenly come out of their own little worlds. No matter what stadium the dementia has reached – music seems to reach out and awaken something within the residents.

I wish I could do so much more, but our funds for activities for the elderly are limited and there is nothing I can do about that. The head office sets our budget and not even our manager can change that, unfortunately.

For this reason my friend Michelle Hopkins who is also an Activity Co-ordinator and carer had the idea we should do something ourselves so we can raise funds for our elderly for being able to provide more activities that suit them.

We decided to run a public bingo evening with raffle tickets as well as tea, coffee and cake. Everyone is welcome to this evening and all the money that is raised will go to the Hazelgrove Court Care home and being used to provide more activities to the residents.

Please come along and make a difference to our elderly on the 1st of December from 7pm till 9.30pm in Emmanuel Church Hall and support us.

We would like to thank Jackie’s Saverstore, The Sitting Rooms, Chocolinis and the local Pharmacy for their lovely donations for the raffle prizes. Also a big thank you to Emmanuel Church for their support in providing the venue.

If you are a musician or a singer who plays an instrument and you think you would like to make a difference why not let us know and give the home a call on 01287 625800 and ask for Michelle Hopkins or Julie Jurgan (Activity Co-ordinators).

“One Moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world.”Gautama Buddha.

The Countryside Ranger and Volunteers, November 2016 Walking around the site you may have noticed a few subtle changes are beginning to happen: the group have now moved away from the far reaches of the site at Mill Field Meadow and the Community Orchard and have been working throughout Rifts Wood and the Camp Bank area of the Valley.

Work still carries on with the restoration project of the small woodland area which was initially planted by members of Saltburn Women’s Institute. Over the winter we aim to identify and account for all of the trees planted at the beginning, and to track their progress to their current state.

There are a lot of self-seeded trees now, some of which will need to be removed, and some will be helped along the way to becoming nice mature trees.

The group have been busy making improvements to the ‘bottom path’ through Rifts Wood. Some of the steps along the way have reached their natural lasting point so these have been replaced and re-surfaced. The plan is to also improve the drainage along the paths.

tempted by fruit left on the ground.

One of the cheapest and most effective bird foods is lard! The birds love it, smeared onto a tree with a palette knife or your hand (with rubber gloves on). Put out a good dollop, sometimes adding in some seed for variety and I guarantee you will see some bird activity. The great spotted woodpecker and the nuthatch in particular seem to enjoy it. Just make sure you put it out of dog reach, as they love it too!

Sparrow hawks soon detect concentrations of small birds at winter feeders. They are magnificent birds similar in size to a kestrel but with distinctive short, broad, rounded wings and yellow eyes. Unlike the hovering then diving kestrel, they will have a gliding swoop at great speed to catch the smaller birds by surprise, leaving just as quickly in a swirl of feathers and loud squawking from the ones that got away. Some people tolerate or even welcome the occasional site of a small bird being snatched, but if you want to minimise attacks, site your feeders a little more in the open where an approaching predator can be seen at a distance.

You can always encourage goldfinches and linnets into your garden if you leave a small area to grow wild with plenty of native seed-bearing plants, such as thistles and teasels. Sunflowers are very tasty for finches if you leave the heads on the plant after flowering and let them go to seed.

Once you have started to encourage birds into your garden you must keep up the supply as they will learn to rely on that little bit extra, and it is definitely worth the effort.

Volunteers working on the path steps

By early November, most birds have changed either their homes or habits, or both, in preparation for the winter to come. This is your chance to see a last flush of berries and fungi before severe frosts become a regular event.

With the fall of autumn leaves, the woodland floor is flooded with light, making the search for wildlife easier.

Providing an extra source of food in your garden will encourage birds to visit and one of the easiest ways is to put out a variety of seeds and nuts to ensure a greater variety of visitors. Greenfinches and siskins are fond of bags or feeders with peanuts, especially during a harsh winter.

The best place to hang your feeders is next to some sort of vegetation, be it a tree or thick bushes, so that the birds feel more secure and they are more comfortable darting to and fro. Hang them high enough for cats to be unable to reach them, but near to a window so that you can watch the birds and enjoy their antics. For some strange reason red peanut bags are more attractive to siskins than other colours, but eventually they will become used to whatever you put out and become regular visitors. You just have to be patient!

Chaffinches spend a lot of their time on the ground and prefer to search for food that has fallen from a bird table or bird feeder. They will appreciate food scattered on the ground, as long as there are no cats nearby. Bullfinches and bramlings eat a range of seeds and berries, and may be

The Countryside Ranger and Volunteer Deborah receiving the trophy for Best Conservation Project at the Northumbria in Bloom Awards Ceremony

The Volunteers will continue to meet throughout the year on Fridays at 10am near the Woodland Centre (their work can be seen on the website: www.saltburncountrysidevolunteers.btck.co.uk).

If you would like any information regarding volunteering opportunities either within Saltburn Valley, or the wider Saltburn area please feel free to contact; Karen.preston@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk, Sophie.Lyth@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk (or myself paul.murphy@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk).

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The Rotary Club of Saltburn-by-the-Sea

90th Anniversary!

The Rotary Club of Saltburn has been serving the town and surrounding areas, and even the world, for 90 years since its charter on the 7th October 1926 after Rotary was founded in 1905 in the USA by Paul Harris and a few business associates.

A souvenir programme of the Charter Presentation Ceremony held at the Milton House Cafe in Saltburn was sent to at least one club in every Rotary country in the world, and the first Saltburn President, the Reverend H. Kettlewell received the charter and his jewel of office with an initial membership of 15.

This jewel design was based on the Zetland Coat of Arms, and the Marquis of Zetland became the first Honorary member in 1932.

Matthew Johnstone, whose idea it was to start the club was the Secretary and Foreign Correspondent from 1926 to 1939 and Saltburn became known throughout the Rotary world.

After only three years the club hosted the District Conference with Rotarians from Vienna, Brussels, Berlin and Zurich and the son of the President of Czechoslovakia, and Mr Frank Hodges, Civil Lord of the Admiralty and Sir Alfred Pease who later became Saltburn’s second honorary member.

In 1927 Saltburn sponsored Rotary clubs for South Bank and Eston and Ripon and in September 1928 the club hosted the Bi-Centenary celebrations of Captain Cook with a lunch at the Zetland Hotel and in 1930 a Boy`s Camp on Windy Hill, and in 1946 Saltburn were responsible for setting up Redcar Rotary Club and in 1965 Guisborough and Great Ayton having been sponsored itself by the Sheffield, Newcastle and Middlesbrough clubs.

In 1944 the club gave support to a Dr. Barnardo`s Home for girls in the Ridge and in 1965 to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the club a fund was created to provide the Town Clock which still stands within the roundabout in Station Square.

Visits to Austria, in 1961, Holland in 1965, a second tour of Norway in 1969 and to Switzerland in 1973 were well attended by many members and their wives and a Youth Exchange Programme meant 5 young Norwegians visited the area whilst 5 of our local young people went to Norway and this has continued since with Group Study Exchange students staying in Saltburn from India, Romania, Australia, Africa and 3 different parts of the USA in recent years.

Two International Rallies were held in Saltburn in 1951 and 1959 and back in 1947 the Inner Wheel Club of Saltburn received their charter from the District Chairman.

Saltburn Rotary organised the renewal of all the seating in the Community Centre in 1976 as part of their Golden Jubilee Year Community Project at no cost to the community and also formed Saltburn Retired Men’s Forum.

The club now has 14 members including two Associate Members with Anne Sadler and Elspeth Chappell who have just established Rotakids Club at Saltburn Primary School with 25 children aged eight 8 to 12.

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Saltburn Rotary is a part of the biggest charity group in the world, has held many, many fundraising events for Local, National and International good causes including the first ever Town barbecue on Hob Hill back in 1998 with local bands in the marquee and 300 people there raising £2000 for the benefit of local children.

A Charity Auction in 1999 for The Jamie Hood Trust Fund included signed boxing gloves from world champions Lennox Lewis and Prince Naseem Hamed and an autographed T-shirt from Kylie Minogue and over 130 other amazing items that raised thousands of pounds for a local cricketer from Marske, Jamie Hood, who had suffered serious injuries in a car accident in South Africa the previous year.

The club members and local teachers suffered a 24 hour sponsored spell in the cells at Loftus Police Station, completed a 24 hour darts marathon at the Cricket Club, walked and cycled miles and miles, organised the Trolley Dash each year, held Race Nights and Casino Nights, run Tombolas and Raffles.

Past President and current member Allan Whiley in 2014 organised the 100 year Commemoration of the Christmas Day Truce football match played between the British and German armies in 1914 by re-enacting the event on Saltburn beach and the planting of thousands of Poppy Crosses which raised £7,630 with matched funding by his employers Barclays Bank and this was donated to the recent repairs of the Town`s War Memorial. There were 30,000 people in Saltburn that day but sadly just after that remembrance our much loved Rotarian the Rev Jim Platten who gave the closing prayers, passed away.

Club members have assisted annually with the Games for the Disabled, helped by other local Rotary Clubs raise funds for a dingy for the group ‘Sailing for the Disabled’ and assisted the sailors at Scaling Dam with entering and exiting their boats, Saltburn Junior Footballers, staged the annual Grand Ol’ Oprey music festival raising many thousands for the Cleveland Heart Scanner Appeal, Macmillan Nurses, MIND and several other needy causes locally.

The club funds Shelterboxes for disaster areas, gave cash to the Cumbria Flood Relief and assists the fight to eliminate Polio, and our Past District Governor and Past Saltburn President Dave Sadler and wife Anne travelled to India to help medical teams providing immunisation programmes.

Saltburn Rotary stages the annual Carol Service at the town Christmas tree on the last Sunday before Christmas with Marske Silver Band, and welcomes men and women new members. Ask any of our members listed below or our Community Officers, Allan Whiley on mobile 07775 553049 or Peter Holbert on 01287 622373.

Current members of Saltburn Rotary Club are President Les Manship, Don Hibbert, Dave Sadler, Peter Johnson, Allan Whiley, Paul Chappell, Tony Chapman, Peter Holbert, George Clayson, John Wilby, Harry Simpson and Graham Cottam. The 90th Charter black-tie Dinner is at Saltburn Golf Club on Friday, 18th November; tickets £20.

Peter Holbert and Allan Whiley

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Speed Awareness: A Matter of Life and Death Twenty-four sheepish drivers gathered in the waiting area at the Southlands Centre on Ormesby Road, Middlesbrough recently for their Speed Awareness Course. They had all been caught exceeding the speed limit on the roads and had chosen the option of paying £85 for the course and no penalty points on their licences over a £100 fine.

Mick, the genial trainer, explained that he was not a member of Cleveland Police, but was employed by the National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS) to take drivers through the structured four hour course. This would include individual and group activities and people were seated informally round tables. Straightforward workbooks were issued but most of the programme was delivered through Powerpoint and video clips.

In 2015, 1,207,570 drivers attended the course, which is geared to changing drivers’ behaviour. The NDORS website says: ‘The whole point of people attending NDORS courses is to make a difference. We want to encourage people to drive responsibly, to drive or ride within the speed limits and be considerate to other road users, which should lead to safer roads and less death and injury.’

The statistics are sobering. In 2015, 1,732 people were killed on UK roads. Of these, 755 were in cars and 100 were on bikes. 162,340 casualties were reported and of these 22,137 had serious injuries. In Cleveland in 2014, 159 people were killed or seriously injured on the roads.

Worldwide, road crashes are the number one killer of young people. But due to a range of initiatives, the death toll in the UK has decreased over the last fifty years.

In 1966, there were 7,985 road deaths in the UK, but in 2014, there were 1,775. In 1966, travellers didn’t wear seat belts, there was no drink-drive legislation and there were no safety features on cars. The Speed Awareness courses aim to reduce the casualty rate even further.

Working in groups, participants were asked to estimate the percentages of casualties on motorways, rural roads and urban roads. Some people were surprised by the answers given by Mick - motorways: 5%, rural roads: 23%, urban roads: 72%. Most motorway crashes take place a mile either side of an interchange, but they are extremely safe roads.

About half the drivers present raised their hands to show that they had been caught exceeding a 30 mph limit.

Mick advised them to drive in third gear in 30 mph areas, as changing into fourth often leads to too high a speed. He said keeping in third gear was more fuel efficient than constant swapping between third and fourth in built up areas.

“Human behaviour is responsible for 95% of casualties,” he explained, “and we can do something about this.”

There was a table of speed limits in the workbook for participants to fill in, with a bit of group discussion.

Everyone knew that the limit was 30 mph in built up areas and 70 mph on dual carriageways, but what about single carriageways? It is 60 mph. Some people were knowledgeable about the limits for cars towing caravans or trailers, buses, coaches and minibuses and goods vehicles, but others said they were guessing.

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road signs, but some were surprised that the existence of three or more regularly spaced street lights not more than 200 yards apart also meant they must keep under 30 mph. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA) advises: ‘When driving on built-up roads, assume the limit is 30 mph until you see a sign saying otherwise. But, remember the limit could be lower – 20 mph.

‘The law does not allow highway authorities to put repeater speed limit signs on 30 mph roads that have street lights. This is because putting repeater signs on all such roads would require hundreds of thousands of extra signs.

‘Instead the Highway Code advises that street lights usually mean the limit is 30 mph unless there are signs showing otherwise.’

The course included watching three video clips of urban roads seen from a driver’s viewpoint and course members were asked to mark in their workbooks whenever they saw a hazard. There were vast differences in the numbers of hazards identified, but by the third video clip, more were being noticed. This led on to a consideration of breaking distances at various speeds.

The risk of a pedestrian being killed by a car is 7% at 30 mph, 18% at 35 mph and 31% at 40 mph. So driving at 10% over the speed limit makes a real difference to the chance of survival of a casualty.

There was information about cyclists on the roads. In 2014, motor cyclists constituted 1% of traffic, but 19% of all road deaths. Pedal cyclists are now encouraged to ride two abreast to force vehicle drivers to take notice of them.

Mick asked participants for estimates of the average cost of one fatality, including all the emergency services involved, and surprised many by saying that it is £1.6 million.

So speed cameras are just a money-spinner, say some.

Very definitely not, the Speed Awareness course showed.

Rosemary Nicholls

John Vayro

John Vayro, who was noted for his good humour and courtesy in Saltburn, has died aged 83.

A staunch Methodist, he was known for his entertaining habit of bowing low to female acquaintances whom he came across in the street, pretending to doff his headgear and greeting them with a smile - like explorer Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth 1. John was also remembered for giving talks to local groups based on the contents of a carrier bag he carried. These would contain items like washing powder, toys and sweets all of which he used as props to give amusing but meaningful speeches.

Born at New Skelton, he went to Coatham Grammar School and joined Saltburn, Marske and New Marske Urban District Council at the Albion Terrace offices in the treasurer’s department. After taking early retirement he opened a popular centre for unemployed people at South Bank known as The Settlement. This was a thriving base for a host of activities, including cooking, woodwork and handicrafts. It helped many a young man and woman to escape the dole queue into work.

John was an active Methodist specialising in work with children especially the toddlers’ group and Sunday school. He also performed a host of duties including welcoming visitors at the door and handing out hymn books.

He was an active member of Churches Together in Saltburn, representing the Milton Street church.

John, who spent the last few years of his life at the Hazelgrove Court care home, Saltburn, was married to Brenda and they had three children Yvonne, Sue and Mike.

A funeral service was held at Milton Street on 18th October led by the Rev Betty Bell, of Skelton, a family friend, helped by new Methodist minister the Rev Helena Harbottle.

Sea View Care Home

At Sea View we have had another successful time with our fund raising for the Alzheimers Society. We have raised £1340 with our memory walk that was held in September.

Plus the cup cake day and coffee afternoon we will be at our target of £1500. We would like to thank everyone who helped us to raise the funds, those who donated prizes for our raffle, the people who came out in the wet to walk with us, the staff from Boots in Stockton who gave up their time to join us on our walk, Heather and Emilio who gave us a cheer as we passed Brockley Hall and the warm welcome the Marine Hotel gave us on our return.

We have also inspired the son of one our residents to do something for the Alzheimers Society. Iain is a landscape photographer and he has created a calendar entitled ‘Dare to Bare’ and dedicated it to his mum and Sea View Care Home.

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A November to Remember in the Cons Club Welcome to the newsletter for November from the Cons Club. We are living in a time of change for the town which has seen the number of visitors increasing throughout the summer months which has reflected in increased turnover for many of the businesses. Apart from highlighting the problems we have regarding parking and the real need for a ‘Park & Ride’ system it has also meant that the empty shops we have in town have been taken over by businesses opening more restaurants, cafés and real ale/wine bars.

Milton Street is now becoming a magnet for social entertainment and will provide the residents and visitors with a much greater choice which can only be a good thing.

At the Cons Club we have also experienced an improved turnover this year with a big increase in membership, which challenges us to provide a more varied range of social activities and entertainment. From the comments we receive we seem to be doing this very well which gives myself and the committee the stimulus to strive even further to provide a club with satisfied members, which leads to the fantastic atmosphere that’s always evident. We are all friends and work together to achieve our aims. We will go into next year on a high knowing that everything we do will, as always, be fully supported.

In October we held a Quiz, Bingo & Buffet Supper which provided us with another full house and the evening was a big success. My thanks go to Michelle, our Stewardess, who organised the event, to Julie Towel on the microphone and to Chris Bell & Andrew Dales who helped sell the tickets. I am writing this article three days before the Club outing to Richmond (using 2 coaches to accommodate the numbers) where members and guests will be checking out the local hostelries and eating houses before returning to the Club for a buffet meal which will be followed by a ‘Disco/Music Night’. All tickets for this event have been sold out for a number of weeks in advance, although you can still attend the Music Night, and I know the whole day will be brilliant.

Moving into November we begin with a late Halloween Party which will be held on Bonfire Night (5th Nov) at 7-30pm until late. The theme for this party will be ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ and attendees are encouraged to come dressed accordingly, although this is not a necessity. Once again committeeman Shaun Cook will be working the ‘Decks’ on the night providing appropriate music to make the whole experience an event not to be missed. The Real Ale, Lager, Prosecco etc. will all be in fine fettle to help make the event a very lively affair. All are welcome and entry is free.

On Friday, 25th November ‘Teesside Steve’ and Liz Bishop will once again be hosting the monthly ‘Open Mic Night’. As mentioned before, this event is proving to be

more popular than ever and a good attendance is guaranteed.

This creates a great atmosphere in which to listen or join in live music at its best. If you want to perform on the night names are taken from 7-30pm and the music starts at 8pm.

All are welcome to join us and the entry is free.

Once again last month we accepted another 10 new members to the Club, making a total of 38 in the last four months. This is very encouraging for all concerned in the running of the Cons and shows that word of mouth, with members bringing friends for a night out, often results in them having such a good experience that they want to join.

We are still open to new applicants and forms are available behind the bar or from myself (contact details below).

The garden has been emptied of its summer hanging baskets and planters which have been replaced with winter plants and spring bulbs in larger numbers than previous years, meaning we should have a wonderful show of colour in the spring. The two garden heaters are being serviced and made ready for use on evenings through the autumn and winter when the weather allows and Michelle has supplied some blankets.

Looking further ahead to December in the Club and I have to report that we have a varied non-stop line up of entertainment for everybody. I will go through these in detail in the next issue of Talk of the Town but I must mention two of the events now. Firstly, the board is now up in the bar for the Christmas Draw. Place your name next to a number at 25p per entry to have a chance of winning 10 Gallons of Beer (10x1Gallon), Pheasants, Spirits, Wines, Christmas Cakes etc. This draw will take place on Saturday, 17th December. If any member would like to donate a prize for this draw it would be greatly appreciated. Secondly, once again we are giving Christmas presents to the children & grandchildren of members. Father Christmas will be in attendance in his ‘Grotto’ and this will be held on the afternoon of Saturday, 17th December (exact times in next issue). The presents extend to children aged 12 and under and their names and ages must be entered on the form provided in the snug and posted in ‘Santa’s Post Box’. This event proved hugely popular last year and it’s a pleasure to continue a theme where we can give something back to our loyal members.

Shaun Cook will also be providing a children’s Christmas Disco throughout the duration of Santa’s visit.

I hope you are all keeping safe and well. We will have lots to report in the next issue. Till then, look after yourselves.

David Rigg, Club President Email: davidrigg21@yahoo.co.uk Article financially supported by Saltburn Conservative & Unionist Club

Saltburn Cons Club Future Events to entertain in November Every Tuesday: Club Draw Nights for Meat Voucher, Wines & Chocolate… 10pm.

Every Sunday: Beer Draw & Cash Rollover. Increases by £25 each week if not won (currently standing at £575)... 6pm.

Saturday Afternoons: A get-together by ‘The Conmen’. Americano Musicians’ Jam Sessions from 3pm.

Saturday 5th: Halloween Party (Rocky Horror Picture Show theme)… 7-30pm.

Tuesday 15th: Scouts meeting.

Friday 25th: ‘Open Mic Night’ with Teesside Steve & Liz Bishop.

Note that for all events held in the Club entry is always free.

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Positive things about others Sometimes it strikes me as almost funny how much we do with a life, how many chapters there are, how many places we go to and partners we set up a life with and the vision we create for the rest of our future, only to find that somehow one day we find ourselves sitting alone looking out of a window wondering ‘wow, that was an amazing time, and now it’s gone.’

Just as in the story of the farmer and the wise man that I’ve told on these pages more than once, we can never really know if anything happening is really to our benefit or not. Certainly looking in the short term can be very misleading.

As an example I remember once when I lived in London I was sitting on my sofa in Stepney Green in the flat that I rented with two others. Everything was quiet and I was feeling shell-shocked. I had just been made redundant from a job I was loving at a residential drug rehabilitation centre where I was the main group leader and key worker to several important and vulnerable clients. I felt close to them, invested in their wellbeing, I really cared about all the people I worked with (which is an interesting balancing act when you work with people you can suddenly ‘loose’ after months or years of making progress with them).

Anyway, I was sitting on my sofa shell-shocked and feeling very sorry for myself, not only had a change in management at work meant that I was not only unemployed but unemployed on the same day I had walked into work! (Just as a bit of background to that, a new manager had been employed to run the whole centre and in his ‘wisdom’ he had decided to have a clear out of staff and to start again with new staff that he knew. Which to me was a pretty insane thing to do when you already have staff who have built strong relationships with the very vulnerable clients. But that was what he wanted, and somehow he was allowed to do it. To me it wasn’t a big surprise that about three months later the company, Phoenix Futures had to close the entire project as chaos ensued and all of those people had to go through even more turbulence in their already turbulent lives.)

So there I was devastated that I had to leave people that I genuinely cared about and was in the middle of working with and to top it off my girlfriend who I had been with for three years and who I considered I might one day marry suddenly gave me signs that she wanted to draw our relationship to a close. Both of them felt out of the blue and on their own each would have felt devastating but both together was...!

Sitting on that sofa in the silence, staring out of the window wondering what had just happened I suddenly had a personal revelation. I suddenly realised that both of these things seemed so devastating to me because I had set myself an expectation that was now not matched by what had played out and it was that gap between what I had hoped for and expected and what life had served up that I was finding so painful. I realised that all my hurt and anxiety and all the stress that I caused myself thinking

about it came from really one time space only, and that was the future. I realised that I had been projecting forward and at that moment I realised that no one can see the future and though hopes and aspirations were important it was me who had given myself those expectations. And so I could also redefine them and recreate them and as it were, let the old one fall from my shoulders. And so in that instance of realisation, I did just that, and miraculously I felt easier, lighter and I began to create new hopes and expectations for my now new future.

Maybe it was around this time that I started to implement what I now call the happiness philosophy. I started to look at parts of my life where I had become cynical or critical and how I could see them in a different light. It coincided with being sent some interesting books written by Neil Donald Wash and Abraham Hicks and I started to read a host of independent positive thinkers to see how they had constructed their own view on life.

Just recently I was re-reading Susan Jeffers who you may know by her book Feel the fear and do it anyway, (a small clue to its content is in the title). She pointed out that people criticised her (and I would imagine it may not be the only thing they criticised in their lives), they criticised her for always giving things in life a positive spin. She countered this by saying that if 90% of what we worry about never happens (as studies have shown) then how is negativity more realistic than positivity? The critics would come back and say but what about the big things like getting cancer? They would say it’s realistic, and understandable, to feel terrible about the big hits we take in life. Yet she countered by saying that staying positive had made all the difference to her in her own cancer experience. She says in general we love to criticise things in society and in our life and be drama queens and play ‘poor me’, but Jeffers looked to how that weakens us.

What she points out is why I feel so strongly about the importance of coaching people and that is that the key to positive thinking she says, and the most overlooked part is that you must practise it regularly. She points out that even herself, a famous writer and motivational speaker, cannot afford to go a single day without positive mental refuelling.

We know it’s not healthy to go without a good night’s sleep or to miss breakfast or not to drink water regularly or do exercise but we haven’t woken up yet to how equally important it is to be aware of the negative language we use to talk about ourselves every day, the beauty of our body shape or our face or our skills, and the beauty of others or the state of our society or the world we live in and other people and the positive things about them.

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The Saltburn Profile by Rosemary Nicholls Hamida White “The community of Saltburn is absolutely fantastic,” says Afghan-born Hamida White. “When we came in 1998, we were made very welcome and people went out of their way to help us settle.”

Hamida’s schooling took place in Kunduz, Northern Afghanistan and then her further education in Kabul. A year before war began in 1979, she came to the UK with one of her sisters to improve her English. Her extended family already owned a hotel in Margate. But when it was time to return home, Hamida’s mother sent her a coded message to stay where she was, because of the fighting. Slowly, all her family has left Afghanistan and they are scattered all over the world.

The hotel was sold and Hamida moved to London, where she met her husband, Robert. Six months later, they were married. In due course, Joanna and Josef were born in London. When the children finished primary school, there was a lot of competition for good secondary schools and Hamida found herself angry at all the entrance tests Joanna was expected to take.

“Robert and I decided to invest in a property outside London and we grew interested in Saltburn when we stayed with a friend in the town for a few days,” explains Hamida.

“The children were enjoying themselves and I learnt that the local school, Huntcliff, was good.”

They bought a B and B in Pearl Street and rented a bungalow at Four Lane Ends for themselves. They then got a house in Eden Street and Hamida began volunteering for the North of England Refugee Service. Afghan boys staying locally in Pearl Street were excited to talk to someone who spoke their own language.

“I took interpreting courses and registered with a local translating and interpreting company helping asylum seekers,” she says. “Then a housing provider asked me to be a full-time Housing Support Officer, working with asylum seekers throughout Teesside.”

Work followed with the organisation Justice First and following that, with the British Red Cross. Hamida was Service Co-ordinator involved with international family tracing and messaging and refugee support. Now she divides her time between the two charities and is kept very busy providing all sorts of services.

Hamida does a lot of outreach work in Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, the Grangetown-Eston area where a new Drop In Centre is about to open, although the Red Cross office is at Thornaby. She was brought up to understand Pushto as well as her own language, Dari. The latter is similar to Farsi, so she can help Iranian people and also Kurdish people.

“I do a lot of work with women and children,” she adds. “There is a hostel in Stockton with fifty-six rooms for mothers and babies. The mothers recount stories of rape and trafficking, but they nevertheless love their children very much and are inspiring in their positive attitudes.”

In her own time, Hamida likes to watch political, historical and comic movies. She rates highly ‘Twelve Years a Slave’, ‘The Life of Brian’ and ‘Monty Python’. She is a member of Saltburn Film Society. Entertaining friends is a pleasure for her, having grown up in a family where guests were always coming to the dinner table. She cooks Afghan food, which is mild and not spicy. Dishes are influenced by

Turkish, Iranian and some Indian styles. Rice and herbs are used a lot. “Food is a very important part of Afghan family life,” Hamida confirms.

The family likes to keep in touch through travel.

They place a high priority in getting together for weddings.

Most of her extended family have been to Saltburn. Her mother came twice and loved it here. This year, Hamida has visited her sister in Germany and her niece in Vienna. She does miss Afghanistan and remembers it when it was peaceful and beautiful. She was reminded of the home countryside by her visit to Northern Spain’s Picos mountains.

Hamida reads in English and Dari. She is currently engrossed in a book called ‘The New Odyssey’ by Patrick Kingsley, about the history of Europe’s refugee crisis and she enjoys the political poems written by her brother in Toronto in his own language. She appreciates classical European, Indian and Afghan music. When she was young, she played the armounia (a keyboard instrument), the mandolin and the accordion and sang. Afghan musicians play by ear. Joanna is a violinist, as well as being an immigration lawyer. Josef doesn’t play an instrument now, but he works in London financial administration.

Hamida was brought up on a farm with animals: horses to pull carriages, cows for milk and dairy, dogs to guard and cats to catch rats and mice. Animals always had a purpose and she wouldn’t want one in the house as a pet. At her current house, she doesn’t have a garden, but grows her herbs in pots for cooking.

She likes to swim and enjoys the spa at Loftus Leisure Centre. A back injury sadly put paid to her exercise at the gym, but she watches Wimbledon and the World Cup Final. She finds both her home and work life very fulfilling and aims to continue working with refugees and asylum seekers for as long as possible.

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1st Saltburn Scout Group October is rapidly passing as the year progresses; affecting all the Sections with meetings finishing in darkness. The Scouts although seemingly unaffected by darkness are aware that it does curtail their desire to be ‘out’; and now ruefully accept that entire evenings cannot be spent outdoors.

Beavers (all twenty of them), having also welcomed George, have been out and rolled cheeses as part of an international theme and ‘cooked’ marsh mallows over a wood fire. Just like Scouts they seemed to enjoy the opportunity to smell smoky. They are now preparing for a District Halloween event and an opportunity to meet up with friend made from other Colonies in the District.

Cubs welcomed Beavers ‘moving up’ and now Angus, Daniel Ewan and Matthew have all been enrolled into the Cub Pack. All in uniform and looking very smart, they are enjoying their new friends and fresh challenges. Six Cubs are representing the Pack at our regular District Bowling event before the half term break and all are being offered the opportunity to go skiing at Silksworth as part of the Cubs 100 events.

The Troop now has 22 members, with Harry, Caleb and Sam having been enrolled after ‘moving up’ from the Cub Pack. Owing to the increase in Scout numbers we now have four Patrols; with names of Bulldog, Cobra, Eagle and Panther. As a result we could send eight Scouts away last month to the ‘Patrol Leader’s training weekend’, now renamed as the District Scout camp. Aidan, Connor, Kane, Leon, Paul, Peter, Sam and Tom were a credit to the Troop, the Group and to Saltburn, undertaking activities which

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tested their abilities to work as a team, including planning, preparing (and eating) a main meal prepared over two ring gas burners. Not an easy task when one was a vegetarian (they produced a truly delicious ‘spag bog’ with Quorn mince. The meal had to be prepared after undertaking a planned walk from Kettleness (via Runswick Bay beach) and along the Cleveland Way to Staithes. They improved their map work and orienteering skills, as well as enjoying archery and an opportunity to work with knives in producing their own tent pegs (always useful when camping!). Well done lads, 1st Saltburn Group is proud of you!

Our works on the building can now progress thanks to various grants, particularly through our Ward Councillor Stuart Smith and Garfield Weston Foundation. This will include new windows (that will open and so improve ventilation); new frontage on the end of the building; renewal of guttering; sanding and wax-oiling the now revealed wood floor in the main hall; insulating and re-boarding walls and roof space in main hall initially; then the remainder of the building over the rest of the winter. The spring will see an ‘all singing and dancing building’! We will then have an open evening for all to view the results of our labours.

Scout Post will definitely run in 2016 and dates are now confirmed: boxes will be in situ, in all the normal locations from Saturday, 26th November till Saturday, 17th December. Details repeated next month. Merry Christmas!

Many parents continue to offer assistance in a variety of ways and I must thank them for their support. We continue with our recruitment strategy to attract Leaders for the Group and are pleased that parents are becoming involved in ensuring our Sections are exciting and interesting for our young people. If you can offer assistance or are interested please get in contact: 07811 801627 (or johnghannah@yahoo.co.uk).

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A New Shed by Alan Butler Anyone who reads Talk of the Town regularly will be quite aware of my personal love of outbuildings. In particular to me there is something almost heavenly about the smell of timber as one opens the door of the average garden shed and walks into an Aladdin’s cave of what any of Kate’s grandchildren would call ‘stuff’.

Garden sheds tend to fall into two categories. First of all there is the ‘fill and forget’ variety, into which almost anything that is no longer required tends to be placed, often to the extent that it takes half the household to shut the shed door when a final deck chair or old ironing board is squeezed inside. To me this is a sad shed because for year upon year it remains generally unvisited, except perhaps by spiders and the odd mouse looking for a winter home.

A far happier shed is one that is visited on an almost daily basis, which is replete with shelves and hooks for generally useful bits and pieces: a place from which all items that are never going to be used again have been eradicated and taken to the nearest council tip.

A sound shed and especially one with a south facing window can become surprisingly warm, even in the depths of winter but of course the ultimate luxury is to have a power supply that allows for a small heater. It this is the case any winter visitor can feel truly welcome and at home. The perfect shed smells of new string, wood shavings and creosote – even though creosote is not allowed these days because of environmental considerations. (Note to self: explore the possibility of creating a creosote scented candle.) If there is room for even a small workbench, so much the better and there must be at least one stool or small chair on which the shedder can sit and dream of past garden masterpieces and those that are still in the distant planning stage.

Here in Redcar we already had a permanent, brick built shed. As grateful as I was that this indispensible outbuilding was present and as useful as it certainly is, no brick shed can ever match the smell and creak of a timber example of the breed and so we decided (or rather I persuaded Kate) that a new timber shed would make our garden complete.

I think there must be something significant in the fact that sheds never seem to be measured in metric units but are always advertised proudly as being 8 feet by 6 feet, or 6 feet by 4 feet. They carry wonderful names, such as ‘the Suffolk’, ‘the Chatsworth’ or ‘the Chiltern’ and it seems to me that every wooden shed speaks of a Great Britain that may or may not have ever existed – a place safe and secure at the centre of its vast empire but in which every individual had acquired enough personal wealth to possess even a few things that were worth ‘putting away’.

Nor need a shed be simply a place to put the garden furniture or a resort for the ‘handy person’. Sheds can be sewing or craft rooms, potting sheds or even a resort for aspiring writers. The children’s author Roald Dahl for example penned all his classics in a small wooden shed and I like to think that even the Immortal Bard himself

might have had a handy 8 by 6 alongside the Globe Theatre and overlooking the grey waters of the mighty Thames.

The day our new shed arrived dawned bright and sunny, though fearfully windy. It took a while to get the various components into their correct order and of course the instructions were utterly incomprehensible. As usual there were not enough nails or screws to do the job properly, the window could not be made to fit the hole that was supposed to have been designed to accommodate it and the boast that ‘anyone could put it together with just a screwdriver and a hammer’ was an absolute and downright lie. None of this mattered in the slightest because what is the point of acquiring such a glorious thing as a new wooden shed if the construction is completed in five minutes flat? In the end it took two days on and off to get everything looking just right. In the meantime we struggled against a northern gale that threatened to transport both us and the shed to Iceland, wrestled with roofing felt which wanted to do anything except be nailed to its boards and completely redesigned and fitted a new window with a suitable wooden frame because as Kate agreed, it just isn’t right to have plastic strips on a ‘real’ wooden shed.

Together Kate and I pushed and pulled, struggled and manoeuvred throughout Monday and Tuesday, fortified by cups of coffee and toasted teacakes. As I had hoped, during this time Kate caught an incurable case of ‘shed fever’ and was in the end as proud of the finished building as I was. There is nothing half so satisfying as opening the door into a building that one has been instrumental in creating – even if the parts did come as a kit. If we had made it with tree branches and daub and wattle we could not have been more pleased with the finished result.

Staring around the virgin interior of this masterpiece it seemed to be a crime to actually put anything in the shed, though that feeling did not last long.

This particular shed was earmarked as a workplace and with Kate’s blessing I proclaimed ownership by constructing a workbench that was specifically designed to fit the dimensions of our new outbuilding. Many of my tools are now waiting impatiently in our brick shed for the day when they can be brought across the garden and proudly hung on the hooks that will await them. My old bench drill now has a permanent home for the first time in years and I fitted one of those old fashioned, black iron ‘outdoor privy’ catches to the door, just to announce to anyone accessing the shed that ‘this is a place of importance’.

Winter is starting to announce its presence but with laid on electricity and a small fan heater I will be snug and warm during the dark afternoons. I have no doubt that often I will be working on my next creation but just as frequently I will be simply sitting and marvelling at the sheer wonder that is a new wooden shed.

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Saltburn Allotments Association When you read this we will have had our Pumpkin Party in the wildlife garden and, if it’s like past years, it should have been a great success and good fun. We had a “wake up” call from the parish council in September to tidy the garden or loose it, which, if it happened, would prevent us having the party in future. We are therefore going to set up a fortnightly working group to keep on top of the garden and, if anyone is able to help, that would be great. I’ll put the day and time in next month’s article when I know.

As is true of every month, there are lots of jobs that can be done in November. You can sow broad beans and some varieties of peas, plant out garlic and over wintering onions, have a good clear up and dig over beds and add compost and/or manure for the frost to break down and worms to drag into the soil over winter. You might still be harvesting courgettes, kale and chard (leaf beat). If I still have courgettes I shall be making ratatouille by chopping them and frying them with onions, tomatoes and, possibly aubergines with plenty of tomato puree and flavourings. I freeze this in margarine cartons for winter use.

I still have climbing beans on the go although, with help, (well, I watched) an allotment neighbour anchored them down to stop the wind blowing them down. I leave them for the bean pods to dry out and then I collect the seeds for soups and stews and, if there are any left, I keep them to sow next year.

I’m also trying to get my pruning done. I aim to summer prune as that’s supposed to promote fruit growth next year but I didn’t quite manage that this year. However, I’m hoping to get finished this autumn before the leaves fall off the trees so I can see more clearly where I’m pruning to. With apples and pears the idea is to identify a cluster of leaves on each branch you want to prune and then go up the branch a few nodes to a node which is pointing in the direction you want the branch to grow in, then make a slanted cut, just above that node. Cut out all the branches crossing over each other in the middle of the tree to let air through. The idea is to have the trees, and fruit bushes, looking goblet shaped.

If you are lucky and have asparagus, the ferns should be going yellow and dying back now. Cut them back but leave some stubble so you can see where they are.

Also, if you have rhubarb, tidy away the dying leaves so they don’t lie on the earth and possibly infect the crown. Also, doing this might help frost get into the crown, which benefits the rhubarb.

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Skinningrove 2016 Bonfire and linked events This year’s Skinningrove Bonfire on Saturday, 5th November will feature the ever-popular fireworks at 7pm, followed by lighting of the bonfire. The theme this year is The Alum Industry with the bonfire structure and other features representing an industry that dominated the local district for about 200 years until its demise in the 1870s. The structure of the bonfire will be a Whitby Collier sailing ship of the type used to transport materials to the Alum works. Adrian Hill, Chair of the Bonfire Committee says, “We’re expecting a big crowd on the evening so please get to the seafront in good time to see the attractions. I wish to thank everyone who is contributing to this year’s event through their volunteering and generous donations.”

There will be road closures into Skinningrove from 5.30pm on 5th November. There are facilities for disabled parking and viewing on the seafront but spaces are limited so Blue Badge holders wanting access should get there early to avoid disappointment. The event is free to attend but does rely on public donations to keep going. Collectors will be on hand during the evening, so please dig deep. Alcohol is discouraged in public areas and may be confiscated by the Police; food and refreshments will be available at outlets in the village. The bonfire can also be viewed from the cliff top at Carlin How where there is limited parking; it may be muddy there so care should be taken.

To enable you to appreciate fully the theme of the bonfire, you’re welcome to a series of free activities and events before and after 5th November. These include: A guided walk led by Simon Chapman to the former Lofthouse (Loftus) Alum Quarries on Saturday, 29th October, starting at 10.30am from the seafront car park in Skinningrove. You’ll need a good level of fitness for this walk; please wear suitable clothing and footwear and bring refreshments. There will be a display at Loftus Library (01287 640582) until Friday, 4th November. A talk by author Stephen Chance at Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, Skinningrove (01287 642877) takes place on Saturday, 12th November, starting at 2.00pm. Stephen will talk about the research that inspired him to write his novel The Alum Maker’s Secret which is based on the industry along the Yorkshire coast.

Skinningrove has hosted an annual bonfire since 1982 with just two cancellations - in 2000 and 2013 - when flooding prevented it from going ahead. The bonfire encapsulates a strong community spirit and recovery from setbacks that the village has experienced over the years. The Skinningrove Bonfire relies on the efforts of a team of dedicated volunteers: if you’d like to be involved - or to find out more - please visit the Skinningrove Bonfire Facebook page. Last year’s bonfire is pictured below.

John Roberts

The Muses of Jim After my ordeal of two 35 hours periods of a starvation diet, followed by two nights alcohol free, I have been informed that I have to repeat the process once more, later this year. So that is something to really look forward to. At least by the remarks made at the Parish Council about me drying out means that people are really reading me. Thanks John.

Then my life suffered even more. On my way to Darlington to attend a meeting, another vehicle hit my darling three wheeler. I had stopped at a roundabout and as the traffic lights changed to green, the car behind me ran in to me. The damage appeared to be slight. The other driver admitted liability and we exchanged details then went our separate ways. I continued to the meeting and the Rialto appeared to be okay. On returning to Saltburn whilst on another roundabout I came in contact with yet another car. Fortunately no one was hurt and the damage was slight. Again, details were exchanged. Both accidents were reported to my insurance company and my vehicle was taken to a garage for estimates for repairs and also its MOT. Next day I was informed the car was not repairable. More later I hope.

Apart from photo opportunities my other contact with James Cook was more positive. My poorly heart is in the same state as five years ago, the only change being that my meds have been tweaked so I should be around for some years to come. Sorry about that folks.

Spud is becoming more mellow. He still likes to spend nights out but he is showing more affection within the house perhaps because he needs me to feed him. He seems happy enough but I am not sure what he would do if he found a mouse in the house. Flee probably.

The last few weeks have not been all bad. The Hill Climb, one of the highlights of the year, was superb. It certainly brought back memories to many of the men viewing cars and bikes. It was great to see families sharing the event. Well done to all concerned. Another delight was the coffee morning organised by Friday Friends. This is a delightful group of people that was facing the loss of funding but had decided to carry on offering a wide range of activities for its members. As their name suggests they meet every Friday in the Echo Building (Church Hall) behind the church in Windsor Road.

I just had to break off writing this piece of art to carry out some urgent repairs and domestic tasks. First of all I had to sew a button on a coat and then sew a pocket on a pair of jeans then I got a call my sister Jacquie. She needed a copy of Dad’s death certificate and his National Insurance Number. It appears she needs this information to get a copy of his war record. So the search is on. Where to look, that is the question.

October’s Saltburn Neighbour Partnership was unfortunately poorly attended, which was a shame because the meeting was interesting. Barry Coppinger, the Police & Crime Commissioner for Cleveland was the main speaker and he answered questions from the floor. Unfortunately he couldn’t stay for long as he had another engagement. The police then gave their report. Anti-Social Behaviour is down. 29 incidents, and only 3 caused by young people and the rest by adults. At this point I rather lost the plot.

Tracee, our hardworking support officer, started to explain the latest Love it Campaign, which is rather similar to Kennedy’s “Ask not what America can do for you but what you can do for America”. We live in Saltburn, where the community have over the years led the way in getting involved in helping the Council improve the quality of life within the town. The Parish Council also played its part in this work. In fact Saltburn groups have helped and assisted other community groups across the Borough if not the region. This is the rub, it appears that the Borough has great difficulty controlling areas of concern to the general public. Which I would suggest are possibly some of the following: dogs on the beach in summer, dog fouling, fly tipping anywhere, illegal parking. Another example: some years ago the then council suggested that the town centre become an alcohol free zone. Each sign cost around £150 and the Parish council and other community groups paid up. I do believe that when the police arrested some offenders the Council would not prosecute, therefore, the Police stopped taking action.

Finally, it appears in my last muse the last paragraph upset a member of the public; for this I am sorry, but it appears I upset him on a regular basis. All I can say is, if I respect his opinion surely he should respect mine.

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The Saltburn Crossword no 185 set by Duke Across 1 and 7 Down GI troll man will have to be restructured to find this Saltburn way (6, 4) 4 An innocent may be found amongst the Apache rubbish (6) 8 Arrange a pint alone with a man from Naples (10) 9 See 1 Down 10 Is the sporting trophy the residue of the genus Fraxinus? (5) 11 Nun and old lad combine for this North Wales town (9) 14 United Nations sit around to get these measures (5) 16 Is astrological fish cooked in this local restaurant? (6) 18 The WI turns to traditional Christmas colour (5) 19 Ian rioted about his Talk of the Town job (6) 20 Dorothy meets herb inside (5) 21 and 20 Down I cut the momentary change to find this local place of entertainment (9, 7) 23 To turn inside out is never torn inside (5) 25 and 28 Across Local shop built by reborn cook (4, 6) 27 Entrust Lee to change location of this local club (4, 6) 28 See 25 Across 29 He owes it to you backing rot bed (6)

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1 and 9 Across Small VW found on Saltburn Promenade? (9, 4) 2 Achieve or arrive to plough acre before hydrogen (5) 3 Woodwind players may be a bit so-so (7) 4 Make a saint, ie scan one arrangement (8) 5 This year’s sporting venue found briefly inglorious (3) 6 Did this comic character tell a small lie back to the Foreign Office initially? (5) 7 See 1 Across 12 Being tolerant I follow Len entirely at first (7) 13 Of French being shy is an enticement (5) 15 Idiot without a cuppa but with his mother initially is not what it seems (5) 17 Alteration to carpets has an observer (9) 18 American cowboy is senior student at debating (8) 20 See 21 Across 21 Young lion I see sounding in three dimensional form (5) 22 Famous saintly French fashion designer found in grey vest (4) 24 Remove right from first failure to abandon aircraft (5) 26 Sounds like alternative form of water propulsion (3)

Solution to Crossword no 184

The winner of last month’s crossword was Geoff Reynolds of Eden Street, Saltburn.

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Send your completed crossword to: Saltburn Crossword no 185, c/o Jackie’s Saverstore, 8 Station Buildings, Saltburn, TS12 1AQ

by Friday, 18th November 2016. First correct solution out of the bag wins a £10 voucher kindly donated by Tim and Sheila of Real Meals.

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