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Recycling xmas trees The Rotary Club of Storrington & Pulborough District together with Chanctonbury Lions Club are making arrangements to collect and recycle Christmas trees in early January for a minimum donation of just £5. If you live within 3 miles radius of Storrington & Pulborough, or within Ashington Village, call 07477 829967, or email recyclexmastree@hotmail.com, leaving your name, address, including postcode, and contact telephone number. The trees will be chipped, and the wood chips will be spread on footpaths across farmland. All proceeds to charities. Storrington Conservation At our well attended AGM on 26th October Chairman Mick Denness gave a brief summary of the activities of the Society over the past year and outlined plans for the future. These include extending our to include Hurston Warren. Our next work party will again be at Fryern Dell on 7th December starting at 10.00am. The aim is to clear self-seeded trees around the pond. Healthy, gentle exercise with like minded people with a coffee break. Come along, there is the risk you may enjoy it! www.storringtonconservation.org.uk Planting crocuses for Polio Five children from Storrington Primary School recently joined the Rotary Club to help plant in excess of 3,000 purple crocus bulbs in the Memorial Pond area. The purpose was to commemorate World Polio
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Storrington Primary school children planting crocuses
Day when Rotary Clubs recognise progress in the global fight to end polio. Purple is the colour that the recipients’ fingers are painted when they have received their mouth drops. The Rotary Club kindly gave the children a bag of crocus bulbs to take back to plant outside the school where they will be seen by passers-by and visitors. Our young people parade What a fantastic turnout there was for the Storrington Rememberance Parade on a beautiful, crisp November day. All the young people’s organisations - Air Cadets, Scouts, Guides, Cubs, Brownies, Beavers and Rainbows looked fantastic as they marched with pride in their uniforms along the High Street to St Mary’s, where, joined by a large contingent of residents, they all observed the silence impeccably.
Storrington Remembrance Parade
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Your letters - Air Quality Dear Editor, Certainly people leaving their car engines running whilst stationary is an issue - and two traffic light systems fairly close together don't improve matters; but we should not dismiss the heavy goods vehicle problem. I work in the local Oxfam shop, and see the number of these vehicles which use Storrington as a short cut every day. The local council could do something about this if they had the will. We must keep the pressure on. Liz Armstrong, Storrington. Dear Editor, Many people have covered options for improving traffic flow through the village and I would like to add that I'm also for just one set of pedestrian lights to operate; we don't have to spend a fortune putting a new set in, just stop one set from operating - initially! I do live and shop in the village and always use a crossing. Quite often we're held up by a delivery lorry outside The Moon - why not limit this parking space so that only 'deliveries' are allowed during daylight hours. I suggest making North Road and Spierbridge Road one-way, which would allow delivery lorries to remain close to the premises they're visiting (Lloyds and One Stop for example) and also disabled drivers would be able to park safely to collect their prescriptions, exiting down the Western end of Spierbridge Road? This would also improve the thoroughfare past the many residents' parked cars, which make it difficult to negotiate a passageway through, when faced with traffic
from the opposite direction, especially at school in/out times. It's virtually impossible to exit Monastery Lane without getting wiped out and, once again, queuing traffic entering the Esso Station can cause quite a disturbance to flow. With the new surgery are we going to need traffic lights here? Would that help or make the pollution worse? Drusilla Phillips, Storrington Dear Editor, From daily observation at the Esso garage it would appear that there is more cars flowing into Storrington from Amberley than Pulborough. I hope your excellent article continues to create discussion. Graham Nicholson, Storrington Shop volunteers needed Save the Children store in Storrington is looking for Volunteers. Save the Children is the world's leading independent organisation for children, our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you think you could help please call Sarah on 07828 258979. Ex Parish Councillor Mark Lewis protesting about Storrington’s pollution
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