At both North Yorkshire County Council and Ryedale District, we have just completed our budget meetings. It looks as if these times of austerity are going to continue for the foreseeable future, so with that in mind we have produced a very prudent budget. I am pleased to report that once again, we will not be making an increase to our council tax.

The new timetable for the post bus has been published. There is some active work being done by Parish councils across the Wolds for improving this service and we are told that changes could be considered as long as they were within budget. It is important that we are made aware of how you would like to use this service in the future so that we can try to incorporate your ideas to tailor the service – no promises, but if we don’t know, we can’t do, if we do know, we can at least try!

Hopefully by now, you will all know about NYCC aim to bring fast broadband to the Wolds. Access to fast broadband is essential for our local firms and businesses especially in our rural areas. It provides access to new markets with the potential to create desperately needed jobs. Please register your interest and sign up to our “Go ON” campaign at www.northyorks.gov.uk

North Yorkshire County Council’s Home library service is on a recruitment drive to find clients who might benefit from home deliveries. If you do not know about this service and think that you would benefit from it, please contact Cheryl Siddons (01609 798905 or cheryl.siddons@northyorks.gov.uk)who is the HLIS coordinator for our area.

Janet Sanderson    01751 474516 

Cllr.Janet.Sanderson@northyorks.gov.uk

The Friends of St Andrews Weaverthorpe are arranging a week-long festival to include:
* Friday 20th April – Nicky Milner will be talking about the archaeology of Star Carr near Seamer
* Saturday 21st April – Art exhibition in the Village Hall
* Saturday 21st April – Filey Fisherman’s Choir at the Church
* Friday 27th April – Talent Show
* Saturday 28th April – Craft Fair in the Village Hall
* Sunday 29th April – Church trail down the valley
* Sundays 22nd and 29th April – Pop up tea room in the Village Hall

During the week in the Church – “What’s in your Attic” Exhibition
The “What’s in your Attic” will feature everything from Wedding Dresses to your child’s first shoes, perhaps Grandad’s demob suit, an ancient doll or other old toy. If you have a story to go with them that would be even better!
Further details will follow in the MarchWarbler but meanwhile any ideas or offers of help or participation are needed to get this event off the ground.
Contacts are: Jill and Pete Wilson, 738282, pandjwilson@btopenworld.com and Jeff and Penny House, 738841, pennyhouse@talktalk.net

How many times have you been washing the car, cutting the grass or just walking along the road and a delivery driver stops and asks you where a certain house is? Well thanks to Dennis Horseman help is now at hand. Dennis has found a web site called www.colinday.co.uk/maps that has a map of Weaverthorpe with most of the houses marked on it. I have put a copy on the notice board or you can download your own copy from the website. If you do not have access to a computer, I can always let you have a copy if you call at Boltby Cottage. 

So in future when the delivery driver stops tell him the map is on the notice board outside Chalk Pit Farm or refer to your own copy! 

For those of you in the other villages along the Valley, there’s a map of your village on the web site as well. 

Jeff House 
Clerk to Weaverthorpe Parish Council 

Click here for a direct link to the Weaverthorpe Map

Our first meeting of 2012 was a huge success with a good turnout of members. Many thanks to Mike Thompson for the entertaining quiz that woke up our dormant brain cells. The food brought for the faith supper was, as usual, very, very good and more than we could eat – or should have eaten!!! 

It was agreed at the meeting that the annual subscription of £6 should be paid at he February meeting so that we have an ccurate list of members for the year before the programme for 2012/13 is put together. If anyone can’t get to the meeting perhaps you would send your subs with somebody else or give me a ring and I will arrange to collect your money. 

Our next meeting is on Tuesday 14th February and will be a talk by a talk by Scarborough Historian, John Rushton, on Valentines Customs and Traditions. If you think you may be interested in joining us just come along to the Village Hall for 7.30 or give me a ring to find out more. 

Norma Harrison, Chair     01944 738866

Tea and Tots will continue on Mondays 9.30 till 11.30 in the Luttons School Hall, I will be handing the role of Group leader to Vicki Hopper (738469). 

I would like to thank everyone who has supported the group and my children and I have enjoyed our Monday mornings and meeting new friends at the group. 

Shanie 

Everyone welcome – with tots or without!

Once again we are faced with the unenviable but necessary task of setting the budget for the forthcoming year. We are striving to keep council tax as low as feasibly possible but this inevitably means pressure on some (so-called ‘non-essential’) services. Nevertheless, thanks to responsible housekeeping over the past few years, Ryedale should escape the pain faced by many other councils across the country. The A64 junction improvements at Brambling Fields should soon become a reality with the hope that it will encourage eastbound heavy traffic to avoid Malton town centre. Planning issues remain a hot topic. Our planning strategy is nearing completion (I realise that I’ve been saying this for the past 4 years or so but this time it really is!!) 

Given the fact that (a) the Council stands to profit (substantially) from the proposed supermarket development at Wentworth Street and (b) a number of Councilors (some of whom sit on the planning committee) had already voiced their support or antipathy to there being a supermarket on that site I felt that it might be in everyone’s best interests for there to be a transparent public enquiry into the proposal chaired by an independent planning inspector. Sadly, in scenes that wouldn’t have been out of place in North Korea, Councilors were prevented from even debating the issue! 

As before, please feel free to contact me at edward.legard@btconnect.com regarding any issue that falls within the District Council’s control. 

Edward Legard 

Staff, governors, pupils and parents at Luttons CP School, West Lutton, are celebrating the New Year with the news that the school has been taken out of ‘Special Measures’.

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