This is the first year that the calendar has been on sale and features many photos of Corringham including the view from the Manorway to the Thames and the Fruit and Veg stall in Corringham Town Centre.
The Aveley Community Centre also held their first Christmas Dinner. This proved to be so popular we had to move to the Aveley Public Hall to hold everyone. 85 local residents joined together to celebrate with a traditional Christmas menu. Their volunteer chef, John Livermore from the Whitmore Arms, Orsett, brought a team from work and some friends to cook and serve a most magnificent meal.
Maggie Whitbread chairperson, addressed a well attended monthly meeting of Thurrock branch of U3A at the Civic Hall, Blackshots, Grays. This was the final meeting of the year. The meeting on January 25th. 2012 at the same venue to incorporate the 11th. AGM.
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HIGH House Production Park, with its partners the Royal Opera House and the National Skills Academy is hosting its very first Christmas Festival on Saturday 10th December 2011. All the family are welcome to celebrate the festive season with Carol Singing accompanied by the Tilbury Brass Band, the Christmas Tree lights switch on ceremony and a special performance from the Thurrock Youth Orchestra.
ngage, the community organisation are holding their annual Christmas Fun Night this year on Thursday 15th December between 4.00pm and 7.30pm at the Civic Hall, Blackshots, Grays. The whole night is FREE and includes free entertainment, craft and play activities for the children, mince pies and refreshments and much more. To top it all, Father Christmas has promised to drop in on his sleigh with a free gift for children under the age of 10 (limited to first 250).
At the Doug Siddons Older People's Complex we met a few residents who appreciated the improvements carried out to the Hall but asked to get the front resurfaced. In that area there is a big problem of parking which is now facilitated by the car parks which are on housing land. These parks needed improvements and regularising their usage.
Insp Anna Brennan, in charge of the neighbourhood policing teams for the affected areas, said: "The amount of burglaries that have been reported over the last month are staggering. Since noticing the increase, we have put additional patrols in place to curb further offences, but we need residents to help us by practising good home security. The burglaries have occurred during the day and at night and I would urge anyone who sees’s anything suspicious to ring us.
The Chafford councillors said: “In view of the lack of consultation as promised with ward members, lack of consultation with members of the public, as set out within the Council’s constitution, incompleteness of the Cabinet Report on which the decision was made, and the lack of financial clarity, call in of the Cabinet decision is warranted”.
Cllr Lynn Worrall, Thurrock's portfolio holder for communities, said: "We want people living in Tilbury, Chadwell and between South Stifford and Purfleet to come together and suggest schemes that could be funded." She said: "These wards are eligible to form a Community First Panel made up of local people that can recommend projects or activities to be funded in their wards.
The surgeries will provide local access to Adult Social Care and will provide advice, information, and signposting to appropriate providers of services, in supporting and caring for loved ones. It is hoped that the sessions will be able to prevent carers’ issues and minimise the need for crisis interventions. They are aimed at providing information about social care services for clients and their carers.
An Essex Police spokesperson said: "Six graves have been vandalised. it appears that it is the lights and trinkets surrounding graves that have been damaged. "We will be conducting regular patrols in the area. These have been callous acts and so we appeal for any help in apprehending the perpetrators."
The daughter of a carpenter, Jane Packer was born on September 22 1959 and brought up in Chadwell St Mary. Her father’s passion for gardening made its mark on her, and as a schoolgirl Jane spent her holidays working in a local florist’s. “It started off as a way to earn pocket money,” she later said, “but I got hooked.”
The evening was full of Asian , Western, classical, modern and folk music and dancing. The highlights of the evening were Diwali Songs sung by the Asian Adult Music Group; Bollywood dancing performances by the Zarine Dancers, Storm Entertainment and The Thurrock Naplese Group. A loud cheers came from the audience to the beautiful classical performance of Bharatanatyam Dancers led by Sanskriti. The audience appreciated the vocal performance of Jai Khan and Voilin Playing by Adisha.
Over the next weeks, letters will be sent to 5,000 residents in and around Tilbury asking them put items like sanitary waste and wipes into their grey or green bins instead of flushing them away. Free sink strainers are also being handed out to catch food waste before it goes down the drain. In Thurrock, these scraps can then be put into people’s brown wheelie bins.
