November 2009

St. Day Newsletter

Issue No.30 November 2009

Published by Action St.Day

and St.Day Parish Council

Important Announcement The future of this Newsletter and

many other projects in St. Day

are in jeopardy because The Action St. Day

Group is in need of support.

An Extra Ordinary General Meeting will

be held on 24th November at 7.30pm

at the Community Centre.

Please read page 3 inside

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Residents are receiving about 10% discount on heating oil

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Deliveries are made on the 3rd Wednesday of each month.

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Action St. Day Group Since its start in 2002 ASDG has participated in the following community activities many of which would not have happened if it were not for the efforts of local people and Action St. Day--

Planning for Real Project Cycle Management

Mineral Tramways Project Management Group Play Equipment at Wheal Jewell Field

Skateboard Park Village Noticeboard by the Clock

Village Diary in the PO Bal Kov play by the School

The Parish Plan The Citizenship Awards

The New Village Website The St Day in the Bag

We have also been instrumental in continuing

projects which benefit the community such as:--- Litter Picks

The New Residents Welcome Pack The Village of the Year Competition

Battery Recycling The Oil Club

The Lantern Parade The Old Church Project

The Newsletter.

If you care about events such as these, then your support is needed. Please attend the Extra Ordinary

General Meeting at the Community Centre 7.30pm on Tuesday 24th November

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SEWING SERVICES DOMESTIC AND MARINE

St.Day Launderette

12 Church Street, Tel. 01209 820280 Service washes—

Double loaders for duvets etc Monday—Saturday 8.30am to 7.00pm

Sundays 9.30am to 3.00pm Ask for Tom or Ray

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The Neighbourhood Policing Team

The Neighbourhood Policing Team for St Day has seen a number of changes over the past 12 months. Initially PCSO Zoe Smith joined us replacing PCSO Bunyan last December. Zoe moved back to Camborne in July and was replaced by PCSO Paul Ferris. Paul policed the village prior to an attachment to the Anti-Social Behaviour Team at Kerrier and is enjoying being back on patch. PC Claire Sheer got married in June and is now Claire Penaluna. Further to the above changes, PCSO Karen Morley is expecting her first child and as a result will be off from the beginning of December for approximately 6 months. Although the staff policing the village has changed considerably, it is felt that the same level of service has been provided and with the launch of the neighbourhood website the team is now more accessible. Community cohesion in a small community is so important, and to see so many local residents supporting events in St Day, such as St Day Feast, was fantastic. We would like to take this opportunity to congratu-late those who organise such events, keeping the community spirit in the village alive. Unfortunately St Day has been subjected to mindless Anti-Social Be-haviour, vandalism and criminal Damage over recent months, where recent acts include plants being pulled out of flower beds. This is com-pletely unacceptable. Those responsible know exactly who they are and should be ashamed of themselves. I would like those responsible of any act of Criminal Damage, vandalism and Anti-Social Behaviour to know that our enquiries continue, and we do everything within our power to identify who is responsible. They are showing a complete lack of respect for both themselves and the community. If we catch those responsible they will be dealt with robustly and will be forced to accept the consequences for their actions. Often names do not always come to light straight after the event and it may be months down the line when we find out, however these people will still be dealt with. Members of the community work exceptionally hard to ensure the village is looking its best and providing amenities for the locals, and this is being ruined by a small handful of people which is disgraceful. Finally, Christmas will soon be upon us. There is however the need for people to remain vigilant throughout this festive period. The pressures felt by many can lead to uncharacteristic behaviours. It has been an-

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Councillor Mark Kaczmarek

will be holding a surgery in the vil-lage Community Hall Tuesday 17

November 2009 at 2.00pm – 4.30pm., there will be no need to make an appointment just come along a if you need any help and

advice on council services..

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LIVING & LEARNING IN ST DAY Action St Day Group to make St Day a better place to !live and work

Two and a half years of work have paid off and St Day is to have a whole new play area at the Wheal Jewel Playing Field. The play equipment that is there was well past its sell by date years ago and the Action St Day Group with the help of Scott James, Bryony Nicholls and Mervyn Smallwood of Ker-rier District Council Regeneration team have put together £65,474 of funding granted by the Live-ability Community Pot, Cornwall County Playing fields Association, Cory Environmental Trust, St Day Parish Council, the Neighbourhood Renewal Com-munity Chest, Devon & Cornwall Housing, Living Spaces, the Local Network Fund, the Neighbourhood Community Chest Grant Fund, Lt. Comdr. J Mills, the St Day Jubilee Committee and the Action St Day Group. Quite a list but it’s quite a sum of money and it shows that the support is wide based. The project started with the selection of potential contractors and Rolf Necked of Kerrier DC Engineer-ing Service provided a select list and has kept in touch with the project right through and, since the completed play area is to be maintained by KDC, he will always be involved. Five contractors were asked to submit a scheme and their designs were exhibited at St Day & Carharrack School to be commented on by the pupils and their parents. As well as being shown at the school a public display was viewed at the Action St Day Group Annual General Meeting and from the comment

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These things have been in St Day and Gwennap

by

Richard R Blewett Part IV(b)

Overcrowding, disease and death. St Day 1833 – 1866. The Great Cholera Outbreak, Gwennap 1849

Cholera is a tropical disease which nowadays is found chiefly in Eastern Asia. It is a disease of insanitation. Its disappearance in Britain coin-cided with rising standards of public and private hygiene. In an outbreak amongst the teeming populations of the East it is not unusual for 60% of the untreated victims to die. How came it to afflict the people of St Day and Gwennap in 1849? Like the Black Death (Bubonic Plague) of 1349 which has been traced to Weymouth, 500 years later the cholera out-break has been traced to one of the northeastern English ports. In its devastating journey across the country it killed 50,000 people. By the time it reached Cornwall it was coming to its tragic journey’s end with no sign of decreasing virulence. In the early summer of 1849 it came to Mevagissey where, it was said, a large proportion of the population left their houses and lived in tents in the neighbouring fields. A case of chol-era in 1842 and another in 1845 brought death to St Day. It might have been in a mild form or the diagnosis was wrong – nothing came of it until the late summer of 1849 and the Gwennap Parish Vestry, meeting in the chapel of the old parish workhouse at St Day, roused itself to un-accustomed activity. In all the severe epidemics that had gone before, not a word appears in the Vestry minutes, not an official hand was raised to protect the parish population. In the dreadful scarlet fever epidemic of 1842, which brought 39 deaths and lowered the average age at death for that year to under 18 years, the Vestry minutes had not a mention of it. Scarlet fever brought disas-ter mostly to the children; here in 1849 was cholera on the rampage, riding on the feet of houseflies and adults could not escape its on-slaught. Reading the minutes of the Vestry meetings one picks up a feeling of panic. The members of the Vestry, their wives and their fami-lies are in danger. At the dictates of their strongest instinct of self-preservation they took quick action and cared not for expense. There may have been other influences at work. After the passing of the


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1832 Reform Act the Reform parliaments that followed began the slow march toward what we know now as democratic government involving the welfare and happiness of the governed. They began by giving an annual grant of £20,000 for the building of schools – the first education grant. It is true the grant for the stables of King William IV was ten times that amount! Later the governments began to be interested in ‘Housing of the People’ and ‘Health of the People’. It made little difference to our great, great-grandparents but the feeble beginnings have led to great results nowadays. The growing concern for the people had possibly seeped down to the Gwennap Parish Vestry and it went to work with a will to fight the oncoming enemy – cholera. Dr Michell was the resident medical man; his house and surgery were in Vogue Hill. At the begin-ning of September the Vestry sent to Mevagissey where Dr Govett had been in charge during their troubles – now subsided – and invited him to come to Gwennap. The Vestry paid him £10 a week, his lodgings and his travelling expenses from the rates. Medicines required for necessi-tous persons were purchased in large quantities and notices were printed and exhibited all over the parish telling of the various places where medicine could be obtained. The Account House (in modern speech – the Offices) of East Wheal Damsel Mine was fitted up as a hospital with beds, bedding, changes of clothing for the patients and all necessary furniture. East Wheal Damsel Mine was on the right-hand side of the road leading from the lower end of Carharrack to Crofthandy. Nurses were employed to tend the patients. We will hope they were not of the Sairey Gamp type families to readers of Charles Dickens’ novels. But even at the best there was little of the modern nurse about them. It was seven years after the Gwennap infection that Florence Nightingale set off for the hospital at Scutari to nurse the wounded soldiers of the Crimean War. It will be some years after that before she will have the Nightingale Training Home for Nurses built with her national gift of £50,000. So the road is long and tiresome from East Wheal Damsel Hospital to the modern hospital; but, as will be seen when we come to mortality figures, the services to the sick were not ineffective. The coffin enclosing the corpse of a cholera victim was not taken inside the Church – the service took place at the graveside and the two doc-tors arranged for the funerals to take place by timetable. There is a tra-dition that the coffins were placed in trenches and it may well be true. The only ground that looks likely for the resting place of the victims is on the right-hand side of the south path on the right-hand side of the Old Church and in a line with the extreme east exterior end of the Church. It measures about 12 feet by 20 feet and inside that space there is not a

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sign that any stone has ever been erected there. One of the most terrifying jobs of the frightening period was that of Henry Strike – official coffin maker to the Gwennap Parish Vestry. He was paid 15 shillings (£0.75) for each adult size coffin and, reading be-tween the lines of the Vestry minutes, he was in the habit of leaving the coffin outside the front door, leaving the relatives inside to do the rest. But the Vestry minutes are explicit – he is to provide a cloth dipped in tar and he, himself, must wrap the body in it and place it in the coffin. Whether he picked up the infection it is impossible to say but I looked in vain for his name in the Burial Register. The first victim of the infection was buried on August 31, a young woman of 21 years of Vogue; the last victim was buried on September 26, a little girl of 2½ years, also of Vogue. Within six weeks of the latter funeral there was a death from smallpox at Treskerby. The ‘cloth dipped in tar’ is interesting. Louis Pasteur, born in 1822, did not become Director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris until 1888, so the germ theory of disease was unknown in 1849; yet somebody had the idea that something in tar had some power of killing something in chol-era even at that date. Joseph Lister, influenced by Louis Pasteur’s dis-covery of germs, used a derivative of tar in his first experiments in anti-septic surgery. Carbolic acid, found in the heavy coal oils in the form of powder and liquid, was the popular disinfectant for many decades after-wards. How effective was the fight against the disease? There were 592 cases of cholera, 28 of which were malignant. The number of deaths in St Day and locality was 20, of whom there were 6 children of average age 3½ years and 14 adults of average age 39 years. There were 3 deaths in Vogue, one in Vogue Terrace, nine in Crofthandy and 3 at Poldice. 11 families were visited by death. Most of the surnames have disap-peared from the district – one of the victims was Mary Kinsman, aged 56. From these figures it will be seen that the labour of the Parish Ves-try, their doctors and their nurses, was not in vain. What with the emi-grants who had not long ago left the parish and the fatal results of the infection –

The earth was full of farewells to the living, And mournings for the dead; Of Rachael weeping for her children, Would not be comforted.



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Bulky refuse (settees, chairs,

beds, televisions)

If you have an item that you

need to get rid of… please contact Cornwall Council on

01209 614000 and ask staff to send you a bulky refuse form.

There is a small charge for the Council to collect any bulky refuse. The first item is £5 then £2 for every additional item Once they receive your payment they will collect between 7 – 10 days

The alternative is to take your items to the tip.

Coastline housing does not remove waste of any kind!

Please arrange for all bulky refuse to be collected and keep St. Day clean and tidy!

Useful contact numbers

Cornwall Council 01209 614000

Coastline housing 08082 027728

Devon and Cornwall Housing 01872 267300

Please note:

All orange bins in the village can be used for dog litter

Please pick up after your dog.

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Chris and the staff look forward to seeing you soon!!!

Probably The Best Traditional Butcher in the area.

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All local Cornish fresh beef, pork and lamb from Truro Market

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The Parish Vestry was to function for another 45 years – until 1894 – when it would be replaced by Gwennap Parish Council, but throughout that period there were signs of the development of the hygienic mind. Every now and again attention was called in the minutes to heaps of rubbish in various parts of the parish and either paying for the removal of them or threatening someone with legal proceedings unless there was immediate removal. Occasionally, for a year or two after 1849, a case of cholera was mentioned in the minutes, a reading of which gives the impression that the Vestry was ready to pounce, but there were no more cholera epidemics.


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ST DAY HISTORICAL AND CONSERVATION

SOCIETY Forthcoming events

Wednesday 18th November at 7.30 p.m. in Teyluva Children’s Centre. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, with election of officers and committee. Please give careful thought to the possibility of standing this year; there is a voting slip below. PLEASE NOTE; our Treasurer has decided to stand down this year; fortunately a suitable candidate has kindly offered to stand; as with all Committee and Officer posts, new nominations are welcome if alternative candidates are democratically preferred by mem-bers. Last year a motion was passed that subscriptions should be in-creased from £3 to £4 per person, and the admission fee for non-members from 75p to £1, for the year 2009/10; this is now in force. The AGM will be followed by THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL, an illus-trated talk on quirky details in stained glass by MICHAEL SWIFT (please note that this is not the title previously announced.) Wednesday 9th December at 7.30 for 8.00 p.m. is the date for our CHRISTMAS DINNER. Once again we’re going to THE STAR INN, VOGUE, ST DAY, where a three course meal, with plenty of choice including a vegetarian dish, and a glass of wine, is £14.95, or the Credit Crunch special, just 2 courses, is £9.95. Both in-clude coffee or tea and a mince pie. You need to book in advance – there will be a list at the AGM, or ring us on 01209 821124 or email us. It’s important that as many people as possible BOOK EARLY! To speed up the process, a menu is attached. The society’s email address is [email protected]. Please let us know your email address if you have one, as it’s much easier and cheaper to send out these leaflets by that means. Please note that subscriptions are due at the end of November; it’s now £4 (MINIMUM) per person for a whole year (09/10) of events! Please pay at the AGM, or by post or in person to 17 Chapel Street, St Day TR16 5NE. Cheques should be made payable to ST DAY HISTORICAL & CONSERVATION SOCIETY

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CARHARRACK & ST DAY RETIRED AND PENSIONERS’ CLUB

It doesn’t seem two minutes since I wrote wishing you the compliments of the season in 2008 and here we are again at that time of the year! Some may say that this is a sign of aging but of course I would never say that! First of all, a very big thank you to all those who helped and supported us at our recent Autumn Fayre. To those of you who baked or provided goods to sell or raffle and to those of you who came down to Mills Hall on the Friday to help sort out the donations and on Saturday for the setting up and dismantling of the whole event we couldn’t have managed without you! More importantly to those of you who came to the Fayre and bought or participated in the various games another big thank you and just to let you know that we raised £578 towards the free Christmas lunch we provide for the members. So here we are then, just time for me to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year. If you need further information about anything to do with the club please ring me on 01209 821150. Margaret McFarlane

Secretary

other hard year for many, and as such, some may go to extreme levels to make it a Christmas to remember, even if this is at the expense of others. We would like to stress the importance of respecting others and their property. May we take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year. Your neighbourhood team, PC Claire Penaluna, PCSO Karen Morley and PCSO Paul Ferris.


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These things have been in St Day and Gwennap

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Mark and Rachel welcome you

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Cut Flowers & Bouquets Always Available.

Christmas Trees Order in November with a small deposit. (For December collection or delivery).

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Check our New Arrivals Section Many New & Unusual Plants. Anthony & Caroline, friendly and helpful advice from the couple

that care about your garden and your plants NEW WINTER OPENING HOURS 1st November 1st February 2010

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Sunny Corner Nurseries Plantsmen & Garden Centre

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Cut Flowers & Bouquets Always Available.

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Saturday 12th December

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Christmas Trees: Orders Now Taken. Roses Have Arrived: Over 30 Varieties.

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Remembering a Loved One at Christmas

With Christmas fast approaching many people’s thoughts turn to cele-brations and family and friends coming together. For others Christmas can be a time of reflection, remembering loved ones who may no longer be with us. Cornwall Hospice Care’s Light Up A Life campaign not only gives people the chance to remember their loved ones and celebrate their lives, but also helps to raise some of the £5.3 million needed annually to provide adult hospice care to the people of Cornwall. Those who take part in Light Up A Life are invited to one of the special services either at Truro Cathedral; The Humphry Davy Stature, Pen-zance; St Julia’s Hospice or Mount Edgcumbe Hospice. At the end of the service lights symbolising the lives of people being remembered are lit and each name is recorded in the special Book of Lights. Retired St Julia’s Hospice nurse, Cathy Davey, has taken part in Light Up A Life for several years to personally remember loved ones lost, and to show her support for the work of Cornwall Hospice Care. “Having worked at the hospice for a number of years you see how deeply people feel when they lose a loved one. Light Up A Life brings people together who share similar experiences and it can be a very important part of the healing process. It helps people to remember loved ones at such a spe-cial time of the year,” said Cathy. Cathy, who was a nurse at St Julia’s for fourteen years, is now retired but continues to remain as a member of the bank nursing staff. “The service itself is wonderful, such a warm and moving experience. It can be so meaningful for people who have lost a loved one and not just at one of the hospices. It is also very symbolic to see the names of those you are remembering written so beautifully in the Book of Lights,” she added. The Light Up A Life services will be held at Penzance, at the Humphrey Davey statue on Saturday 28th November at 4:30pm, and at Truro Ca-thedral on Wednesday 2nd December at 6:30pm. There will also be ser-vices at St Julia’s Hospice on Sunday 6th December at 4:30pm and Mount Edgcumbe Hospice on Sunday 13th December at 4:30pm. The Books of Lights will be available to view at the end of each service. If you would like to remember a loved one this Christmas through the Light Up A Life campaign please call Clare Bray on 01726 66869 or


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email [email protected]. For further information contact Clare Bray, Events Officer, on 01726 66869. Background Information Cornwall Hospice Care, which incorporates Mount Edgcumbe Hospice in St Austell and St Julia’s Hospice in Hayle, is the charity which pro-vides the only adult hospice care within the county. Every year thou-sands of people are touched by the work of the two hospices as their loved ones are given specialist palliative care to help them cope with life limiting illnesses.

Pop In

Pop-in meets on the second Monday in each month, at St. Day Methodist Church Sun-day school room from 11am to 1pm.for coffee followed by a soup and dessert lunch. Des-serts are made by our able team of helpers. We are joined by six children from years five and six each month, from St. Day school. It is a delight to have children sharing lunch with us, they are always well behaved, helpful and a credit to Mrs. Green and staff. Two of our ladies celebrated their 90th birthday in June and

July; Mrs. Betty Godwin and Mrs. Lilly Blundell. Approxi-mately 40-50 people attend each month. Our aim is to share fellowship and to pass on the love of God to all. We are holding our Pop-in Christmas service, to be led by the Rev. Danny Reed at 3pm. on Sunday December 6th, to be followed by Christmas tea. We extend a warm welcome to anyone wishing to join us. Contact: Anita Penny - 820 774 or Esther Gilbert - 821 100. From all at Pop - in, we wish you

all a Happy and Peaceful Christmas.

COPY DATE FOR THE NEXT ISSUE IS

1st February 2010

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St. Day Allotment Society Please accept MY sincere apologies for missing the last issue of the St. Day Newsletter. My only excuse is that Caroline and I had only just taken over Sunny Corner Nursery (Thank you St. Day residents for coming down and having a look). Though I had written the following article I missed “The Deadline”. Sorry! “ I have spoken to (what was Kerrier Council and the new Unitary Council on numerous occasions regarding the proposed allot-ments. The response has always been the same i.e. that it would cost in excess of £100,000 to clear the contaminated soil and to have it re-placed. I have spoken to 2 topsoil contractors and they advise the cost is closer to £30,000 but I am still awaiting written quotes. (To date am still awaiting the quotes). The advice that has been given (by The Council) is that we find our own land to rent or purchase. Thus avoiding the need for soil testing. Such a pity that (either) council is too cowardly to put that in writing! And to put, future, allotment holders to unnecessary risk. Local councillors are to busy with their new posts to care or to be forth-coming with any, sensible, advice. On a positive note, the council has 2 years from receiving a list of names of proposed allotment holders (October 2008), to provide allot-ments. If they fail to do so, it is a simple application to the Court to force them to do so. Let us hope that common sense will prevail and that the residents of St. Day have the allotments they deserve. Anthony & Caroline

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Opening hours Mon-Friday 7am- 7pm

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THE PARISH CHURCH OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY ST DAY.

SUNDAY SERVICES: 10am Sung Eucharist (1st & 3rd Sunday’s) 3pm Said Eucharist (2nd & 4th Sunday’s)

WEEKDAY’S: 10am Said Eucharist every Wednesday

Visit the Parish Website: www.stdaychurch.btik.com

Weddings, funerals & baptisms contact:

Vicar: The Reverend Fr. Andrew Gough BA Tel: 01209 820275 Email: [email protected]

What’s on:

ANTIQUE VALUATION EVENING

With Martyn Rowe St Day church hall, 7.30pm.

All welcome

Whose Job is it? This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done!

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Scorrier Christian Fellowship

SCORRIER CHAPEL(Opposite the Crossroads Lodge)

ARRANGES THE FOLLOWING MEETINGS EACH SUNDAY Morning Meeting 10.00am Prayer Meeting 6.30pm

Evening Meeting 7.00pm For further information please contact Tim Jenkin 01209 899009 and visit our

website www.scf.org

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Sundays First Sunday of the month Family Worship at 10:30 am 6pm Evening Worship Other Sundays 10.30 Informal Worship 10.30 Junior Church 6pm Evening Worship Mondays 9:00 am Prayer meeting (Prayer requests can be left in the prayer box on the Chapel gate) 7:30 pm Fellowship & Bible Study (5 Carew Road, St. Day) Second Monday of every month - Pop In - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm - A chance for a soup and sweet lunch, chat and fellowship. Tuesdays 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Bright Hour (a meeting for ladies) Wednesdays 4th Wednesday of the month 12 noon for 12.15 Luncheon Club

1st and 3rd Wednesday—Ray’s Bargain Bin 10.30-4pm Thursdays 10.15 am Coffee, Prayer and Bible Study Other special events are organised and details can be found on the Church door or notice board. Contacts Weddings, Christenings & guidance:Rev Danny Reed 01209 217573 Church services & activities: Mr Ralph Gilbert 01209 821100 Junior Church: Mr Steven Pomfrett 07791950980 Hiring contact: Mr Gerald Triggs 01209 821327 Friendly fellowship, transport no problem, Comfortable surroundings, genuine love and support offered to all.

St. Day Methodist Church The Methodist Church in St. Day warmly welcomes you to share with them in their events and activities. Methodism has been present in St. Day for many years. The Methodist Church and family seek to serve and follow Christ's teaching as a group of believers and individuals. We extend the love of God to all whether regular worshipper, seeker or visitor.

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St.Day and Carharrack Community School

St Day & Carharrack Community School have had a busy start to the year, taking part in many outside school activities and hosting various events within the school. We took part in Book Week – a week of book related activities such as “Snuggle Up Time” when we all squashed into the Library in our dress-ing gown and slippers, read our books and drank hot chocolate with marshmallows. This was followed by a dress-up day when everyone dressed up as character from a Roald Dahl book or a traditional fairy tale! Many schools around Cornwall took part at the same time! In the week after that we had Harvest and a Harvest Festival Assembly to celebrate our food and crops. Key Stage I told the story of the Enor-mous Turnip while Key Stage 2 told the story of The Hungry Caterpillar ……. in French!! During Harvest Week we attended the Flower Festi-val at the local church, where we displayed our Harvest Scene and sang at the opening service. Later on in the half term we had an assembly to launch our new partner-ship scheme, PACT, which stands for “Parents and Children and Teach-ers Together.” Several representatives of local services attended in-cluding amongst others our local PCSO. We also had a picture in the West Briton of the School Councillors and the different visitors. After the ceremony there were tea, coffee and biscuits. During the same week our Year 4 and Year 5 pupils took part in a mod-ern language day at Trewirgie Junior School together with pupils from Stithians and Treloweth Schools. They learnt new French and Spanish words, songs and dances and experienced French and Spanish food such as baguettes and French onion soup. During our business we have had time to do lots of clubs such as Net-ball, Guitars, Line Dancing, Country Dancing, Football, ICT and Samba Band. Next Half Term we are looking forward to being part of the City of Lights Parade in Truro where we will carry our lanterns made with Clare Sum-merson. All KS2 pupils will have a trip to Truro by boat from Falmouth visiting the Cathedral and later in the term we will all be going to the Hall for Cornwall to watch a pantomime! Report by Lucy Radley, Year 6 School Councillor .


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Sunny Days Nursery This is the busiest Autumn term we have ever had at Sunny Day’s. It has been great to see how well children have settled. The lovely weather has helped and chil-dren have played out side most of the time. The pre-school children created pictures on the com-

puter for St Day Horticultural Show. The pictures looked great and the children’s descriptions of their pictures created added interest. On 24th September we had an OFSTED inspection. We gained an ‘outstanding’ grade in some areas, with a ‘good: this provision is strong’ judgement overall. The inspector reported; ‘Children are happy and secure at this welcoming setting…. Children make progress in all areas of learning. Older children.

School Dates:

12th Nov. - School Choir performing in Camborne Music Festival 18th Nov - City of Lights Parade 4th Dec. - School Choir & Carharrack & St Day Silver Band Christmas Concert 10th Dec. - Christmas Lunch – Parents & Senior Citizens invited 11th Dec - FOSD Christmas Fair at school 15th Dec - School Nativity 17th Dec - Jack & Beanstalk at Hall for Cornwall GARDENING HELP WANTED PLEASE We have a garden area with a greenhouse and an orchard of 30 fruit trees at school. We have a weekly Gardening Club at school and we are looking for helpers from the community. Do you love gardening? Would you like to pass on your skills to future generations? Do you have some time to spare? If so, we would love to hear from you. Please contact Mrs Green via the School Office or by phone 01209 820456.

SCHOOL VISITS Are you currently filling in your application for your child to start school in September 2010? If so and you would like to know more about us, walk around our school and ask any questions you may have, Mrs Green would be very happy to show you around. Please make an ap-pointment by contacting Mrs Hill in the School Office (01209 820456).

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act as good role models. This increases their sense of self esteem and achievement and consequently children behave well.’ Children ‘learn how plants, including vegetables and herbs, grow. As they explore the area they delight in discovering the scent and texture of mint leaves.’ The whole report can be accessed on the OFSTED web site. We celebrated Harvest Festival by making soup and bread and the older children joined St Day and Carharrack School for their assembly. Autumn is a lovely time for lots of leaf activities and we have been collecting leaves and making collages. We are looking forward to 5th November when we will be having a bonfire and hot chocolate in the school woodland area. Sunny Day’s Nursery can be contacted on 01209 821868 or in per-son.

Parish Council News The Parish Council normally meets on the second Monday of each month, (except in August), at 7:00pm in the Committee Room of the Community Centre. The meetings are open to the public (unless an item has to be taken in private) and agenda item 3 is always for public participation (limited to 15 minutes). It is sometimes necessary to ar-range extra meetings, often concerning planning applications. Notices of all the meetings are displayed on the notice board at least 3 days before a meeting. Minutes of meetings are displayed on the notice board and also on our web site www.stday.org

Parish Councillors

Vernon Baldry 822311 Naomi Belert 820927

Pippa Bray 820446 Bobby Dyer 820021

Geoff Nankivell 820201 John Newcombe 820841

Broderick Ross 822258

Clerk to Parish Council S Steve Edwards 821829

Cornwall Councillor Mark Kaczmarek 211366

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Unitary Authority Councillor Mark Kaczmarek will be holding a surgery in the committee room of the Community Centre on Tuesday 17th November from 2 to 4:30pm. If you need help or advice just come along. Planning In future only planning applications which are potentially con-troversial will be advertised in the papers, but notice of a planning appli-cation will be posted near the site. The Parish Council will still be consulted on all applications. Recently several planning decisions have gone against the recommen-dations of the parish council, other parishes are reporting a similar situation. At present planning applications can still be viewed on the Kerrier Web Site www.kerrier.gov.uk

Action St.Day has run into problems due to the inability to find offi-cers to run it. The Parish Council set up the group to be independent of the Parish Council to obtain funding which was not accessible to the Parish Council and to involve a wider range of residents in the improve-ment of facilities and life in the parish. Without the group we would not have the children’s play equipment at Wheal Jewel or the Parish Plan amongst many other things. This newsletter has been a joint venture with the group and we would like it to continue, as we know many readers appreciate it. With help it can continue, Nigel who has worked hard to edit it and prepare it for printing, is prepared to continue but we could do with help in dealing with advertisers and getting articles from individuals and groups in the parish. Can you help? Parking continues to cause problems for vehicles passing through and the traffic wardens are visiting on a regular basis and giving out fixed penalty fines. Please do not park on double yellow lines – they are there for a purpose! Oil Club The Oil Club continues to attract more members who are getting their oil at a discounted price. Orders must be placed through Nigel Knight, the co-ordinator, for deliv-ery on a specified day each month. Contact Nigel for details on 01209 820441

One Stop Shop Your local “One Stop Shop” is opposite the railway station in Redruth where it should be possible to deal with most of your problems and business relating to Cornwall Council.

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Police The phone number for our local team for non-urgent messages is 01209 202324 but this number is not staffed continuously. For real emergencies dial 999 but for other matters 0845 777444 Vandalism Again we have suffered an act of vandalism - the flowers in the truck at Playing Field Crossroads were pulled out and the soil scat-tered. However a local resident saw the culprits so there is a hope that they may be brought to book. Also a back gate in Mills St was damaged on the same night. If you have any information please contact the police on 01209 202324. These incidents happened during the night of Saturday 24 Oct/Sunday 25 Oct. Were your children out late or all night on that night?

Buses Following the visit of Managers from First to our July meeting the No 40 service has been retimed by about 30 mins so that the 47 and 40 services do not come through St.Day at the same time. There is now a bus to and from Richard Lander School leaving St Day at 7:49 and returning from Richard Lander at 15:35 but unfortunately it is not free. The 47 service is now extended to Redruth Tesco. If you have any issues with public transport please report them to Cllr. Ross.

Footpaths County has again reiterated that it will only pay for cutting the growth coming up from a footpath and the growth from the hedges is the responsibility of the adjacent landowner, as is the case with road-side hedges.

Council Tax The parishes have to decide at their December meet-ing their precept for the 2010/11year. As yet we do not know at what level the new authority will fund various services, such as footpath maintenance, maintenance of the closed part of the churchyard and the opening of the toilets in the Community Centre for public use. We do know that there will be severe cutbacks in services financed at County level. Housing and Open Spaces The Parish Council is looking at various ideas as to how this money can be spent. Unfortunately many of the ideas which people have put forward cannot be implemented as there are very strict rules governing how the funds can be spent.

Waste Transfer Station At Scorrier. Cornwall Council is saying that it has abandoned the idea of using the site at Scorrier but we hear it is considering Hallenbeagle.

United Downs At the September meeting of the Liaison Group at

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the Landfill Site SITA gave assurances that the site will close in October 2010 and it was only when pressed by the representative from St.Day that the representative from Cornwall Council admitted that they are carrying out a feasibility study into using the site for a Waste Transfer Station and waste recycling as a temporary measure until they can identify a suitable alternative site. It is said that there will be less material going to this site as there will be other facilities for the Penryn/Falmouth, Camborne and Roseland areas. Cornwall Council is faced with a big problem as there is only a limited amount of space left at Conon Bridge near Liskeard and it will take sev-eral years to build a Waste to Energy Plant as the proposed facility at St.Dennis was refused by the planning committee but SITA has lodged an appeal and it may take 12 months to reach a decision. Web Site Our new web site is up and running on www.stday.org.uk The minutes of the Parish Council are on the site and it can offer a space for local clubs and businesses to get publicity. If you are inter-ested please contact either the Parish Council or Action St.Day Parking We continue to get complaints about parking on the road in Telegraph Hill in front of the new houses. We understand that Ocean Housing will be closing up most of the gaps in the hedge and if this does not alleviate the problem they are prepared to pay for double yel-low lines to be put down. The cost is about £3,000!

Litter, Rubbish, Re-Cycling, Fly-tipping It is an offence to put out your rubbish earlier than the evening prior to day of collection and you could be charged with depositing litter. The council collects recyclable materials via the Blue Box Scheme fort-nightly on Fridays. For details ring 0300 1234 141.There are Bottle Banks at the Enterprise Centre at Vogue and containers for paper at the School. If you see materials, which have been fly tipped please report it to 0300 1234 141. There are various items such as televisions and furniture which will not be collected by the refuse lorries. If you put out items, which are not collected, it is your responsibility to make other arrangements for their disposal. Market Square and West End are places where such items are often left beside the road for several weeks, making the areas un-tidy.

Dog Mess We continue to get complaints about dog mess being left on the roads and pavements. Please clean up after your dog. There are plenty of dog bins. The man who trims the footpaths has to pick up the

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mess before he strims or he risks getting an eyeful.

Teyluva Children’s Centre The centre provides a wide range of activities and services to children and parents. Are you taking advan-tage of this facility which is not available in many villages? For details of services available ring 821479

Mobile Library visits St.Day every fortnight, for details ring 219111

New Projects If anyone has an idea for anything which will improve the Parish or the lives of residents it may be possible to obtain funding to get it started. Enquiries can be made via the Parish Council or Vanessa Luckwell the Regeneration Officer on 614067. Several pro-jects have received grants.

Chairman John Newcombe 820841 Clerk Steve Edwards 821829

Follow the Footpaths Six Circular Walks

from St Day

A new publication from St Day Parish Council

featuring walks to: Treskerby Unity Wood

Carn Marth Creegbrawse Wheal Maid Valley

St Aubyn and Grambler Available from local outlets

including St Day Post Office and Make Do And Mend.

Follow the Footpaths

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