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Members of the award-winning Green Horizon

Allotment project in plea for donations of tools after break-in

community allotment project, who had just

finished celebrating their ‘Most Improved’ award from ‘Ferryhill in Bloom’ for their allotment on the Storehouse site in Fer-ryhill, were left dismayed this week to discover that thieves had broken into the site and stolen all their spades, forks and rakes as well as other items.The project, which is sup-ported by two volunteers from Home Group, is open to all adults in the area and is part of Positive Horizons, an activity group which has been held every Saturday in the Dean Bank Centre for the past 12 years.Over the past two years the project members, several of whom have dis-abilities, have themselves cleared a derelict allot-ment site, built a shelter, fenced the site and grown a wide variety of fruit and vegetables.The group meets every

Chilton Town Council has announced that the town is set to have its first fire-works display in years on Friday 3rd November at the Charlie Wayman Playing Fields (opposite West Chilton Terrace). Funfair rides and catering will be available from 6.15pm, however the grand finale will be the fireworks display at 7.45pm. Residents are asked to note that there will not be a bonfire.A spokesperson for Chilton Town Council said: “This event is strictly for resi-dents of Chilton and entry to the Charlie Wayman Playing Fields will be by ticket only. “In order to get your tickets, please call in to the Town Council office with proof of your address

by Monday 30th October.“We are open Monday to Friday between 9am and 3pm. “It is recommended that children are accompanied and, as there won’t be any designated parking, residents are asked to walk to the event to al-leviate parking and traffic problems.“The event this year is free of charge and has only been made possible thanks to both Chilton Residents Association and County Councillor Christine Potts, who have both donated £1,000 towards the event. “The Town Council have enlisted a specialist company to carry out the fireworks display. “However due to the

Chilton to host fireworks display

The award-winning Green Horizon project has been broken into by thieves.

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Enter and View Visit useful in gaining information and feedback from users.”The full report is available on Healthwatch County Durham’s website, health w a t c h c o u n t y d u r h a m.co.uk, and includes the survey results, customer feedback, plus observa-tions and recommenda-tions. Healthwatch County Durham is the consumer champion for local Health and Social Care services.They give patients, service users and the public a voice, and using what they say to influence people who have the power to make things better. For more information contact 0191 378 1037 or email healthwatchcountydurham@pcp.uk.net.

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Cllr Atkinson, The Garth Warden Ms Jane Pennick, and the Ladies of the Craft Club.

Ex-mayor donates funds to The Garth Craft Club

Cllr Peter Atkinson popped into The Garth at Ferryhill to present their craft club a cheque of £250. This money comes from Cllr Atkinson’s community small budgets allowance (from Durham County

Council), which he says is an ideal way to support local groups in our area.The ladies where very busy knitting and crocheting for various projects leading up to Remembrance Sunday and Christmas.

Cllr Atkinson said: “I was very impressed with the work the ladies at The Garth were on with and the involvement of the staff organising this. They have big plans for next year too.”

week, currently on a Friday throughout the year but were appalled to see what was before them last week.The tools were old items, donated or bought at local car-boot sales, but which are now in weekly use to dig up vegetables and prepare the ground for autumn planting.A spokesperson for the group said; “We have been very well supported by other allotment holders - some of whom have also been broken into - and have previously had a small grant from Durham Council under the ‘It’s Your Neigh-bourhood’ Project.“But we would like to avoid spending what is left of our funds on buying new tools, so if anyone has any old but useable garden tools they could donate, we would be

very grateful. “We are always looking for new members too. We have lots of fun and there is going to be lots to do over the next few months so come and join us.”Despite this setback, the project is set to continue throughout the year and members are determined to continue to improve the allotment further with plans for a greenhouse and more flower planting next year. Members are keen to take part in other ways to improve the area and are participating in the Spruce Up Ferryhill campaign by doing a litter-pick in the park next week.To contact the group with donations, or to express an interest in joining the project, call Carolyn Ste-phenson on 07732 780386 or email saturdaypositive-horizons@gmail.com.

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Ferryhill Town and Durham County Councillor, Joe Makepeace will hold a Surgery on Friday 13th October from 2pm-3pm in the Council Chamber at Ferryhill Town Hall.

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Brian and Valerie McGill receive a bouquet of flowers and a whisky tumbler from Mayor of Ferryhill, Cllr John Lindsay on the occasion of their Golden Wedding anniversary.

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total of £292 was raised from the raffle and tickets.A spokesperson for the banner committee said: “Chilton Banner commit-tee would like to sincerely thank the Wheatsheaf for their generosity in provid-ing the venue and enter-tainment free of charge.

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Friday 6th October 2017 Ferryhill & Chilton ChapterIssue 849Page 8

SportLocal leagues, competitions and events...

Chapter Ferryhill & Chilton

On Sunday morning the under 10’s made the 70 mile round trip to face Redcar Athletic from the North Riding Division 3 in the cup. Fortunately as the game kicked off it stopped raining and brightened up. Ferryhill also started brightly and spent most of the first 20 minutes in the Redcar half. Plenty of chances were created with four converted in Ferry-hill’s favour with no reply.The second half was almost the same. Redcar came into it a bit more but couldn’t find the net and the only second half goal was also Ferryhill’s, making it 5-0 to the away team who progress to the next round.Coach Paul McKeown said: “Goals came from Zach (3), Jamie and Marc but a clean sheet for the whole team is

just as pleasing. The whole squad were involved in the performance.”The second game saw more rotation of the squad but more of the same on the pitch. The first half was a tighter affair with end to end football but little in terms of goals. As the match wore on, Fer-ryhill began to dominate with possession and chances. They took a 2-0 lead before Redcar managed to get one back. This didn’t deter the away team and they piled on the pressure, finally running out 5-1 winners.Goals came from Aaron (2), Aidan (2) and Zach.Paul added: “It was two enjoyable games and worth the trip. All ten players had plenty of game time and put in some superb performances.”

Ferryhill Under 10s enjoy away cup win

Ferryhill were at home against Second Division Pit-tington FC in the Durham Sports League Cup second round and showed the visitors no mercy in a second half in which they scored an incredible nine goals to run out eventual 10-0 winners and march emphatically into the next round. No one could have envis-aged what was to come after a slow first half in which Celtic were able to find the net just once, from a penalty converted

by Jonathan Agar in the fifteenth minute. But the second half was an entirely different story with Celtic quickly moving through the gears. Within two minutes, another Agar penalty doubled the lead and Pit-tington simply fell apart.Another two by Agar were complimented by strikes from Mark Burnett (2), Shane Todd (2), Jay Smith and Dane Eltringham as the visitors were subjected to a humiliating double-figure rout.

Celtic demolish Pittington in Cup

Ferryhill Indoor Bowls Club has converted an old storeroom into a new commitee room come changing rooms with the help of a £4,000 grant.

Improvements at Ferryhill Bowls Club thanks to funding

Ferryhill Indoor Bowls Club now have a new committee and changing room thanks to a generous grant from County Durham Community Foundation.More than £4,000 was secured to convert a

storeroom by installing a suspended ceiling, new LED lights and a new carpet.Most of the work was un-dertaken by local electri-cian Andy Heaviside, who also converted the lounge lighting to LED, giving the

club a much brighter ap-pearance.A spokesperson for the club said: “The members are very grateful for the grant, which has given them a much needed improvement to their premises.”

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Early September was the start of Ferryhill Indoor Bowls Club’s winter session and in addition to the usual club leagues, the bowlers faced four inter league matches within the first ten days.An away trip to Darlington IBC in the Senior Men's County Inter League was first up and proved to be fruitless with the club on the wrong end of a 6-0 scoreline.Five days later, two squads took part in the 1st leg of the Premier League at Gateshead and both hoped for a positive start. The A squad got off to a bad start dropping nine shots

from the first two ends and they never recovered from it. The B squad were always in with a chance against a strong home side.However, the last three ends proved costly as they conceded too many shots as they lost touch and went down by nine shots.Scores: Ferryhill A 22-30 Houghtonians; Ferryhill B 13-22 Gateshead B.The following day, the ladies played their first County Inter League game against Durham and here again the club suffered a heavy defeat. Only the rink of J Cadman, Y Cook, M Richardson and S Maughan were winners with a 20-13

victory to avoid a white-wash.The same day, Darlington IBC was again the venue as the club travelled for their first Durham & District Triples game. Ferryhill were represented by a very strong squad and had high hopes of bringing back the points. Unfortunately, as happens only too frequently away from home, the club failed to play to their potential and suffered a 2-6 defeat with only skip K Weallans taking two points.Scores: K Weallans 12-7 D Wilson; R Jefferson 10-20 B McKay; J Maddison 13-14 G Temple.

Opening results point to long winter ahead for Ferryhill IBC