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SHARE October news update
SHARE AGM was held on September 18th.Members will receive a full report and details will be posted on the web page. This year has proved another VERY busy and profitable year and has attracted a number of new members, in and around the parish.
If you haven’t signed up yet, email us or phone Astrid 01579 383620 and we’ll drop a membership form to you and answer any questions you may have.
We have enjoyed and been shocked on the recent visits to the:
Materials Recycling Facility at Bodmin: 30 took a coach on this fascinating visit, to see where our kerb side recycling goes and what happens to it. SUEZ monitor the contracts and processing and can confidently say that all materials stay in the UK.
Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre at St. Dennis: as numbers where limited to 10 per visit, we organised 2 visits here to watch our kerb site waste being incinerated and generating enough electricity to power 21,000 homes. There are no operating landfill sites in Cornwall, all our ”black bag” waste is incinerated here. The tons of ash produced is processed on site and are used as aggregate for roads and building.
Langage Farm Anaerobic Digestion Facility operating since 2010, takes food waste from local restaurants and schools and generates power to produce their ice-cream products with surplus electricity powering around 500 homes. After 6 months being digested the resulting “waste” is a rich material used by local farmers to improve their farmland.
We visited a water wheel to see if hydro power generation is viable. We’re still not sure. More visits are being planned, if you have suggestions or contacts let us know.
SHARE Trees: If you have land to plant trees please get in touch, it’s more important now than ever. Planting and managing trees & woodland so they are fit for the future is a big responsibly, SHARE can help. Plant native trees and know where they have been sourced. Insect pests & organisms such as certain bacteria & fungi are a real threat. Take a note of any Ash Die Back, take a photo, record and watch for any changes. The Forestry Commission has information as will our local arborists. SHARE is concerned.
SHARE Firewood for Sale: Many of our regulars have already stocked up, but if you need top ups a full load is £120 and dumpy bag is £60 ALL local seasoned wood, sized for you. Email SHARE@south-hill.co.uk All profits go towards planting more trees.
Annual Trees Sale. These won’t last long : TEXT Ali 07305 044049 this week From Endsleigh Milton Abbot: Pears £25, all others a tenner: Apples , Crab Apples . Ornamental Weeping Cotoneaster, Weeping Cherry, Robenia x Slavince “Hillier”
Recycling Project. We have sent Terracycle around 375kg, equating to over £600for Kicks Count charity. Every Friday at 10am we sort the items at Green Meadows, join us, just to see what we do! see the amount of “rubbish” saved from being wasted.
What Wikipedia say about Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, journalist, and popular historian who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015, having been the MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008. He was Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016, and from 2016 to 2018 he served as Foreign Secretary. A member of the Conservative Party, Johnson identifies as a one-nation conservative and has been associated with both economically and socially liberal policies. Johnson is a candidate for Leader of the Conservative Party, and thus Prime Minister, in the 2019 leadership contest. Born in New York City to wealthy upper-middle class British parents, Johnson was educated at the European School, Brussels I, Ashdown House, and Eton College. He read Classics at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was elected President of the Oxford Union in 1986. He began his career in journalism at The Times, but was sacked for falsifying a quotation. He later became The Daily Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent, with his articles exerting a strong influence on the growing Eurosceptic sentiment among the British right-wing. He was eventually made assistant editor of the Telegraph in 1994. In 1999, he left the Telegraph to become editor of The Spectator, a role he would hold until 2005. He was elected MP for Henley in 2001, and largely adhered to the Conservatives’ party line during his first period in Parliament. He did, however, adopt a more socially liberal stance on issues like LGBT rights. He was later selected to be the Conservative candidate for the 2008 London mayoral election; Johnson defeated Labour incumbent Ken Livingstone in the election, and subsequently resigned his seat in the House of Commons. During his first term as Mayor of London, he banned alcohol consumption on the city’s public transport, and introduced the New Routemaster buses, cycle hire scheme, and Thames cable car. In 2012, he was re-elected Mayor, again defeating Livingstone. During his second term he oversaw the 2012 Olympics. In 2015, he returned to Parliament as MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, stepping down as Mayor the following year. In 2016, Johnson was a prominent figure in the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union, becoming a leading figure in the successful Vote Leave campaign. He later declined to run in the party leadership election immediately following the referendum, despite speculation that he would. After Theresa May won the leadership, she appointed Johnson Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. He served in this position for two years, before resigning in protest at May’s approach to Brexit, criticising the Chequers Agreement. Johnson is a controversial figure within British politics and journalism. Supporters have praised him as an entertaining, humorous, and popular figure, with an appeal stretching beyond traditional Conservative voters. Conversely, he has been criticised by figures on both the left and the right, who have accused him of elitism, cronyism, dishonesty, laziness, and using racist and homophobic language. Johnson is the subject of several biographies and a number of fictionalised portrayals.
159,000 Conservative members voted 87.4% 509 voting papers were rejected.
Jeremy Hunt 46,000 Boris Johnson 92,000
European Parliamentary Elections
Elections for the European Parliament are currently scheduled to take place in the UK on Thursday 23 May.
Full details on Cornwall Council website here…
Key dates
- Registration deadline – Tuesday 7 May
- EU citizens declaration form due – Tuesday 7 May
- Postal vote application deadline – 5pm on Wednesday 8 May
- Proxy vote deadline – 5pm on Wednesday 15 May
- Polling day – Thursday 23 May
Are you registered to vote?
The electoral register, also known as the electoral roll, is a list of everyone who is entitled to vote.
You must be on the register to be able to vote at an election. Are you registered?
To vote in these elections, anyone who has never registered or has recently moved must register by Tuesday 7 May.
People must re-register if they’ve changed address, name or nationality.
If you are already registered you do not need to apply again unless your circumstances have recently changed.
Register to vote at: https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
STATEMENT OF PARTIES AND INDIVIDUAL CANDIDATES NOMINATED
Recycling for Charity
Save these valuable resources being wasted. They can help our charities raise funds.
- all biscuits and crackers packets, inc. penguin and similar bars & multiply pack wrappers
- mini rolls and individual cake wrappers
- baby food pouches and lids, Ella kitchen and similar, plus the snack wrappers
- used toothbrushes, electric heads and packaging and all tooth paste tubes
- all crisp/snacks, pringles & peanut packets, please bag together
- > triggers and pumps off cleaning products
- > plastic air fresheners and packaging
- > flexible plastic cleaning wipe packets, any brand
- > tops off washing up liquid bottles > all recycle together
- all brands of bread bags
- all Weleda products in soft plastic tubes
- contact lenses & all plastic/foil packaging, coming soon.
- pet food pouches, biscuits and treats packs, please put the pouches inside a bag so as not to contaminate the other recycling
- all used stamps, leave on the backing
- old mobile phones, gadgets, cameras, unwanted jewellery, Sat Navs, games consoles, laptops & tablets, MP3’s and unwanted banknotes any country and if obsolete.
Please don’t mix in other plastics as I have to sort it out and in most cases these plastics can be taken to Tesco Callington in store recycling area. If in doubt contact me Ali 01579 384544, email SHARE@south-hill.co.uk or bring it to Green Meadows and we’ll sort it together or bring it to
Tamar Valley AONB centre, Cemetery Road at Drakewalls Thursday May 30th 10am – 1pm
When we’ll be sorting out our recycling with SHARE, Cornwall Council and others. For more information visit http://south-hill.co.uk/charity-recycling/
Join our Recycling for Charity. Facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/832979876753455
Come and meet the donkey
Palm Sunday, 25th March, St Sampson’s Church, South Hill, are planning an informal service, with a real donkey, A good natured miniature chap called Corduroy, who is a local resident. it will take place at Golberdon parish Hall at 10am We will have a short walk of witness and singing, led by the donkey, starting from outside Green Meadow, (on the road towards South Hill) to the hall, join us there or along the route, or at the hall, bring a branch to wave. This will be followed by a short friendly service, biscuit making for all ages, tea coffee and hot cross buns.
Contact judithayers@yahoo.co.uk for more information.
St Sampson’s Harvest Supper and Auction
Thanksgiving for our animals
Thanksgiving service for our animals
Celebrating God’s care and concern for creation
Sunday 24th September 10am
St Sampson’s Church, South Hill
This will be a
short informal service followed by coffee, tea, juice and the best cake ever.
Our lives are enriched by our animals. They bring us many blessings and they play a big part in our lives, giving us joy, companionship, livelihood and sustenance.
You are invited to bring your well behaved: dog, cat, rabbit, parrot, stick insect, sheep, horse or chicken, whatever, to give thanks for the part they play in your life.
Bring a photo of your pet past or present.
South Hill Horticultural Show
Classes include: Floral Art, Pot Plants, Fruits & Vegetables, Preserves, Cookery, Handicrafts, Photography and new tallest Sunflower Children’s classes include: Animal made from fruit & vegetables, Garden in a seed tray, Recycled model, Handwritten verse, 3 cup cakes, Mini pizza, Lego model, Decorated boiled egg, Photographs.
The Sunflower class is an addition to the Horticultural Show Programme, and is open to everyone, the winner will be the plant that has grown taller than the person that planted it. On August 14th submit your entries including your height and the height of your sunflower!