Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

Peterborough Concert Band

MARCHES, MUSICALS & MEMORIES 

Saturday 11 May 2019 @ 7.30 pm

 @ St Andrew’s Church @  Church Street, Whittlesey

 Tickets £8 per person (Includes a glass of wine and nibbles)

 Proceeds to Christian Aid

 Tickets available from David Mason, Tel: 01733 208215

All clear yesterday – some Low-Life decides to dump something nearby The Field of Dreams – This will be removed but it costs us all….both financially (In our rates) and the Environmental impact.

Well advertised but make a date in your diary….

You may have seen a post a couple of weeks ago, where my wife Connie is doing another sponsored Walk-To-Remember to support The Sue Ryder Foundation based at Thorpe Hall Peterborough. I am sure most readers have heard of the Sue Ryder Group – who do fantastic work and support both to and for patients and their relatives.

We are pleased to update, as of today 27th May – Connie has raised £294:00 towards her goal of £300 – so we’re nearly there +++++ A BIG Thank you to everyone who has donated to this very good cause.
The Walk takes place on the 19th May by which time we hope the target goal will have been well beaten.

Please help The Sue Ryder Foundation by supporting Connie’s Walk-To-Remember you can donate on her ‘Just Giving Page’

Connie Gerstner-Walk-To-Remember-Sue Ryder

My thanks to ED for going around as he usually does collating open & closed Businesses in our town and his stats for yesterday were.
124 Businesses** of which 13 are presently closed, this includes The New Silver River™ – Chinese take-Away which is looking to re-locate. Picture on right is the notice in the window of Subway™

** does not include some Businesses which are run from home premises.

A well attended meeting last night with 18 members, with a presentation by Mr Gary Garfield a corporate director at FDC about Vision 2020 (Wisbech).
http://www.wisbech2020vision.co.uk/
I’ve attended some of these presentations as far back as 2012 and to say progress has been somewhat slow – the plan now goes forward by 40 years! – Mr Garfield acknowledged that our closeness to Peterborough didn’t really impact any of the benefits of the 2020 plan for Wisbech. The latest is to build in the region of 8 – 10,000 new houses.

A variety of other topics were aired at the meeting, including another sponsored walk that will now probably take place in September – more information when confirmed.

My thanks to PD for informing me of several other shops/businesses that have recently closed – the much publicised ‘Subway’ not paying their staff wages featured in the Peterborough Telegraph©, so besides as reported yesterday – ‘Antidote’ closing, the Eastern European/Polish shop ‘Felix’ closed a few weeks ago.

Looks very much like Whittlesey is suffering a bit, with these latest small businesses.

‘Wrights’ having been closed for several months along with the Ex ‘RSPCA’ shop.

Maybe there are other factors affecting our area which ‘we’ are not fully aware of.

Hopefully some of these vacant businesses will be occupied again in the near future.

Sorry to hear/see that ‘Antidote’ has closed.
a ‘Healthy’ Food and Drink Shop.
‘Lilly’ from Peterboro’ has probably miscalculated on the clientele she was marketing.
Only opened in late September – she tried hard –

Last night I attended the AGM of Eastrea Village Hall – No candidates from Coates were in attendance (Mr Bob Wicks set me his apology as he had another meeting scheduled).
The Village Hall is a fantastic success story, in existence for some 6 years, the Hall is very well booked and in good financial governance.
Plans for small extension in the near future.
Remembering back when Professor Ford gave a presentation to the Whittlesey Town Council at the time (about 8/9 years ago), the disparaging remarks made by Councillors some have since retired, but some are still on WTC today – I was and still am – an avid supporter of any community hub which enhances local peoples well being.

http://www.eastreacentre.co.uk/