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February 2022
No.479
Exciting New Project Coming To The Court House
Stradbroke Library is running an exciting new project late February/ March 2022. We will be making a ‘Stradbroke Tapestry’ to hang in our Court House Café. Suffolk Libraries is funding the project with Suffolk Artlink, using some funding from the Arts Council’s ‘Let’s Get Creative’ grant. We need about 20 people (adults/ teenagers/children) to help us put the project together with ideas, designs about what Stradbroke means to you, what you like about our village and what stands out, to create an historic textile tapestry, incorporating all those ideas. My ideas would include the Bee Orchids at the cemetery, the Robin Welch ceramic sculpture at the Fire Station, the allotments and the Library/Post Office/Café in the Court House, what would yours be?? We will be running 5 workshop sessions on Sunday mornings from 10am to 1pm in the Court House, starting Sunday 27th February and finishing on Sunday 27th March 2022. Refreshments will be provided. There will be an official launch for everyone to attend at the end of the project, when we will be unveiling our work of art to an appreciative audience. Two innovative textile artists Shelley O’Brien and Felicity Brown will be leading the workshops, to enable us to create our own community tapestry with their expertise and creativity. If you are interested in getting involved in this brilliant project, please contact Maureen at the library to reserve your place-it will be on a firstcome first-served basis, as we have only 20 spaces available. Ideally you would be able to make all 5 workshops. It will be fun, creative and absolutely amazing!!! Maureen John, Library Manager
Stradbroke Parish Council Climate Change Group
Commentators on COP26 say the necessary action is for nations to act on practical climate plans, which include swapping emissions of fossil fuels from source, particularly coal, for renewables, and funding citizens properly to be energy efficient. We must lock fossil fuels in the ground to control our futures. There will be post-COP26 annual reviews of nations. Updates and information: See the United Nations publication, www.news.un.org/en (menu: Topics/Climate Change). Also, brief, accurate information is available on concerned sites such as, www.goodenergy.co.uk/blog (go to menu: Learn/Climate Change for short articles). East Anglian councils are active in making changes and need our help in cutting out fossil fuels. You might wish to change to renewable energy and/or discuss this with friends and family. Spread the word! Our energy bills are going up. Although we have no mains gas in Stradbroke, gas in the major cause and it affects all electricity prices. Wholesale gas prices from all generators, including electric, are continuing to rise for 2022. This is one more reason to move to renewables, so UK is not reliant on gas and volatile fossil fuel markets. Renewables are among the cheapest ways to generate power. Save money in Stradbroke Free, detailed, reliable Groundwork leaflets on how to save water, heating, lighting bills, costs, pros and cons, etc, in your own home are available NOW in Stradbroke Library. These include: a No cost actions a Solar Panels a Heat pumps a LED Lighting a Roof and Loft Insulation a DIY Draught Proofing a Green Energy Tariffs … and you can order others, such as Water Efficiency. Ask the librarians. More Information: www.stradbroke.org the village website with links to Suffolk County Council --Environment/Climate Change sarahgill@groundwork.org.uk 07720 08890 and www.groundwork.org.uk See also: www.ethicalconsumer.org for useful links and ideas on energy and its production’s cost to the environment. Toni Wisbey, SPC Climate Change Group