SOUTH OCKENDON teenager, Brogan Priscilla Price has her hopes set on competing in an international beauty pageant being held in Disneyland Paris!
Brogan (18) has been chosen by the Face Of The Globe organisation to compete at a regional heat being held at the famous Elstree Studios in August.
DAVID Bareham, Lead Elder for Community Church said, “We are regularly full at our Sunday morning service so the 4:00 pm service will allow the opportunity for some of our congregation to switch to the afternoon and create some space for others to attend the morning service. We also believe that this new service will attract people who may not be able to attend on a Sunday morning. This is an exciting new season for us as a church as we will now be meeting in three services over two sites!”
THIS is an informal event where people can pop in and chat one-to-one with a social worker who will be able to explain the process and answer questions. The second event is an open evening on Wednesday, 2 April starting at 7pm at Orsett Hall Hotel, Prince Charles Avenue, Orsett (RM16 3HS). The evening begins with a short presentation followed by a question and answer session with existing foster carers.?
WITH spring upon us, Thurrock Council’s Langdon Hills’ ranger team is gearing up for its regular environmental club meetings for young people. The Junior Nature Club is for young people aged eight to 11 and runs between 10am and noon - £3 a session – one Saturday a month until November.
IN a medical context, a normal consultation is a meeting between patient and doctor, in which a patient seeks advice regarding health matters. Consultations in which a patient makes their own diagnosis and determines the course of action, against medical protocol, is not a consultation, or at best a dysfunctional consultation. For a patient to behave in this manner, they have to assume that they know more about medicine than their doctor. Alternatively, they have to assume that their doctor is not trustworthy. If the latter is the case, one must beg the question of why such a patient would remain with the same GP.
QUIZ night on behalf of the Chadwell St Mary Community Forum. The night will be on Saturday March 22nd at 7pm in the Scout Hut in Waterson Road. All welcome. Tickers are £3.00 a head. Bring your own food and drink.
THURROCK Lifestyle Solutions are running another ‘Stay Safe’ event every 6 months – aimed at people with Learning Disabilities – an all day training for FREE – It would be great for you to come and or recommend someone you know to have this experience. It’s based in the lovely Grays fire station hall and all the Police, Firebrigade, First Aiders, Trading Standards, Road Safety come along and support people to work on an action plan for their community safety.
IF you’ve noticed lots of extra-stylish ladies around Bulphan lately, it’s down to our talk by Elaine Smith, an image and style consultant, who shared the secrets of transformation, helping us to feel good inside and out! We were given useful tips on how to decide if we need winter or summer cool, blue-based colours - or spring or autumn warm, yellow-based colours.
SOUTH OCKENDON building company, HW Wilson spent a night out on the streets of Southend and all for a very noble cause. Staff were participating in a charity event called the Southend SleepEasy, raising money for the Southend YMCA for youth homelessness.
INTU, the UK’s biggest shopping centre brand, launched a campaign to celebrate mums up and down the country by encouraging shoppers to take to Twitter. With Mother’s Day fast approaching, intu Lakeside is hoping to find out why shoppers believe they have the very best mum and all the reasons that they love them.
ASYE helps newly qualified social workers develop their skills, knowledge and capability and strengthen their professional confidence by providing regular and focused support during their first year of employment. The Social Workers have had their practice with service users observed by senior staff and have received feedback on their performance as well as having to ensure their practice meets the needs of their role.
Hundreds of local people have already signed up to run one, three, or six miles, but there’s still time to bag a place, don that headband and enter the fun and games! The race starts at 10.30am, with registration opening at 9.30am.
LOVERS of local history and creative art are being invited to join the community art project South Ockendon Reflects. It is being organised by art tutor Pat Wakefield, and community worker Maggie Pollock, to commemorate this year’s centenary of the First World War.
Wojciech Holub, AoS’ port chaplain in Tilbury provided encouragement to the only Ukrainian seafarer who was onboard a Russian ship with a full Russian crew. The ship arrived at the port on Ash Wednesday. “In times like these it is important to be ambassadors of reconciliation,” he said.
Officers acting on intelligence have been working with two Essex based internet businesses. The team tested the products on sale by the businesses and they were found to be unsafe for babies and young children. Officers are now working closely with the businesses to provide them with advice while helping them to recall the jewellery already sold.
