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Dalston
Annual Parish Meeting |
Tuesday
1st May 2012 |
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to R: Alan Dinning, Sue Haynes, Bryan
Craig, Chris Drouet, Kevin Walsh |
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60
parishioners attended the Annual Parish
Meeting in the Victory Hall. This year's
APM was lively with a never ending stream
of questions for the Chairman, Bryan
Craig, and the principle speaker, Mr
Kevin Walsh, Highways Manager, Cumbria
Couty Council.
While
quite new in post Mr Walsh dealt deftly
with the questions about the Station
Road and Townhead Road Junctions, as
well as other highway related matters
around Dalston. He agreed to find out
about issues which required more information.
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Chris
Drouet, Dalston's broadband parish champion,
gave a brief update on the current status
of the Connecting Cumbria project and
Alan Dinning, the Chairman of the Festival
Committee, outlined the plans for the
2012 Festival in August. |
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Carlisle
Olympic Torch Bearer From Dalston
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8,000
inspirational people will carry the
Olympic Flame as it journeys across
the UK. Tens of thousands were nominated
and 8,000 have been selected. Liz Auld,
Parish Clerk in Dalston for 17 years
will be one of them. Liz will be carrying
the flame on 21st June 2012 when it
leaves Carlisle for Wigton having visited
Carlisle for the second time. The section
of the route on which Liz will be carrying
the torch is not yet known (click the
map on the left to see a larger version
of the map).
Watch
this space for more information.
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The
Redspearlands Footpath Group Needs
Your Help |
If
you value the work that this excellent
organisation does within Dalston
Parish, then please consider joining
and taking part in their activities.
A Treasurer is urgently required
and if one cannot be found, then
the RFG might be forced to close. |
Click
here
for Annual Report and here
for the Treasurer's Report |
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DALSTON
PARISH PAPER SPECIAL SOUVENIR JUNE 2012 EDITION
The June 2012 edition of Dalston
Parish Paper will be published in its normal
format and style including the advertisements,
but with a special cover and incorporating a
souvenir supplement, both in colour, to mark
the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Extra copies
will be printed for non-subscribers to purchase
for £1 per copy, with no additional charge
for
existing readers. Parishioners are requested
to contribute to this
commemorative issue. Here’s how:
COVER DESIGN - a competition,
open to all ages, is being held to design the
front and back cover, both inside and outside.
Entries can be a photograph, painting, or drawing
on thin card or paper any size up to A3, bearing
in mind that it will be reproduced as an A5
size in the Paper. It should be a powerful celebratory
image with a Jubilee theme. There will be prizes
for the best three entries. It is hoped that
all entries will be exhibited in the Victory
Hall on 4th June. Please submit your unfolded
entry by 30th April 2012 to Wragg Mark-Bell
Solicitors, or to one of the Editors, Ronnie
Auld or David Marsden. Your name and contact
address and telephone number should be printed
in block letters on the back of the entry.
MEMORIES
FROM THE DECADES - articles, amusing
anecdotes, poems, reminiscences, snippets, historical
notes and cartoons are all needed for the supplement
to make the June Parish Paper a truly special
read. We would like something to highlight each
decade over the last sixty years. All contributions
should be received by 30th April either through
Church House letterbox, Wragg Mark-Bell Solicitors,
either of the Editors or sent to theparishpaper@hotmail.co.uk
Please include your name and contact details
with your submission.
This is your chance to highlight the special
things about Dalston Please take time to enter
something to make the June parish paper a publication
to be proud of.
We
want the queen to enjoy reading her copy in
Buckingham Palace!
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Rose
Castle has had a reprieve |
The
Church Commissioners have decided, in
principle, to sell Rose Castle, which
was the residence of the Bishops of Carlisle
until it was declared unsuitable as a
See House in 2009. The Commissioners will
now begin formal consultations with the
Diocese of Carlisle and English Heritage
to discuss the nature and terms of the
proposed sale.
The
Commissioners have also decided to delay
the marketing process until Autumn 2013
... more
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Dalston
White Bridge Repaired and open to the public
again |
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If
you have any pictures of your own and would
like to add them to the archive, then please
send them to the
webmaster |
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Dalston
Annual Parish Meeting 2011 |
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Dalston
Cemetery / Churchyard Management
Consultation |
The
Dalston website has been asked by
the Parish Council to carry out
a special consultation on the management
of Dalston cemetery. The cemetery
and churchyard are of great importance
to the people of Dalston but recently
the PC has been asked to consider
changing the type of managment which
it uses whereby an area of the churchyard
is left unmown until the autumn,
primarily for the consultation of
wildlife.
Futhermore,
part of the central area is not
cut as intensively as the new cemetery,
again as an aid to wildlife.
Some
residents have commented that the
old churchyard looks untidy and
would prefer for it to be cut with
the same frequency as the closely
mown cemetery area. |
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| Waxwings
visit Dalston again in November 2010 |
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There
were around 200 in the village on 6th
November feeding on rowan berries at the
school and Barras Close. On Saturday 6th
November single flock of 125 were seen
feeding on Station Road Dalston. Pictures
by David Hickson. Click
here to view David's 2008 pictures.
Click on the above pictures to enlarge.
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An
Opportunity for a Volunteer
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There
are currently one billion people
living day after day without clean
water.
A
mother dies every minute of every
day in childbirth because the healthcare
systems are not there to save her
life. These are just two of the
many injustices that exist across
the world that Oxfam is working
to end. But we can’t do it
alone, and our work cannot continue
without the support of communities
throughout the UK.
Oxfam
are looking for a dedicated volunteer
to join our team and manage fundraising
collections across North Cumbria
which will support the world’s
most vulnerable people.
If
you would like to make a real and
lasting difference, please get in
touch today and find out more. Call
Harriett on 07787 180 194 or email
hchristie@oxfam.org.uk |
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Dog
Fouling is becoming a Major Problem
in Dalston on The Green, the Churchyard
and the Railway Path |
Allowing
your dog to poop without scooping
the result and safely disposing
in a bin or taking it home with
you is both irresponsible and dangerous.
Even worse, some people are throwing
bags of dog muck from the railway
path over onto the railway. This
is a major health hazard for children.
This habit can potentially expose
young children to Toxocariasis
(click the link for more information
or the image to see what the worm
looks like). Maximum fine £75. |
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Do
you have some good snow or weather pictures?
Email them to webmaster@dalston.org.uk
and we will put the best of them on the
website. |
| Click
here for snow pictures submitted by Stuart
Hudson |
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DALSTON
LADIES CHOIR - NEW WEBPAGE |
We
are always looking for more content
for the Dalston website and are happy
to carry pages for local organisations.
Click
on this link to view the page for
the Dalston Ladies Choir.
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**
WARNING ** |
This
collection may not be as charitable as
it sounds |
This
collection has been reported to the
Police, who followed it up and discovered
that it is NOT a charity, but a bogus
company known to Trading Standards and
have even been mentioned in Parliament.
The registration number apparently means
nothing and the phone no leads nowhere.
Evidently clothing is a lucrative business
these days!
If you read it carefully you will see
that they only SUGGEST that you will
be contributing to a charity. The Police
do not believe this to be the case.
These
collections are being made quite regularly
in Dalston, so beware.
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Read
the Parish Council's progress report on
traffic and parking issues in Dalston |
This
report has been written by Liz Auld in
an attempt to summarise the progress (or
lack of progress) made by the Parish Council
in recent years. Many attempts have been
made to aleviate the growing crisis in
Dalston and it was thought helpful to
publish a summary of the current postion.
Click
here for Liz Auld's report. |
| At
last the Carlisle Northern Development Route
is going ahead. Click
here to view video. |
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Caldew
- Brampton Neighbourhood Policing Team |
You
can have a look at the Caldew Neighbourhood
Police webpage by clicking
here.
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