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A copy of the Village Plan Questionnaire will shortly be delivered to your home and collected a little while after. Please make sure to complete the questionnaire as it is important your voice is heard and that the Village Plan reflects the views of everyone who lives in East Mersea. Thank you. |
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Village Plan Questionnaire Your help is needed to set the questions and to help distribute and collect the questionnaires. If you can spare the time to help then please contact Harry Sharp on 384737. |
Want to have your say and help with the Village Plan? |
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The Village Party will be on Saturday 12 January at 7pm in the Village Hall. All are welcome. There will be a free buffet with either a glass of wine or Mersea Beer so do come and join us. As well as your Clerk and Councillors, members of the Village Plan Committee will be there to answer any questions you may have about the questionnaire which is due out soon.
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First meeting of Cudmore Grove Forum A small number of us met at the Ranger's Cottage in Cudmore Grove on Saturday 10 November 2007. We discussed a wide range of topics relating to the running of the park in order to keep the prestigious Green Flag for next year. Once again there were a number of East Mersea Parish Councillors attending together with our Clerk. This reflects the keeness of your Councillors to work on behalf of this community by supporting the hard work put in by our Ranger Dougal Urquhart. As a Parish Council we want to help where we can to involve the residents of East Mersea in the activities at the Park. |
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Lighter Than Air About fifty-five adults and children were treated to Danny's antics in his circuloso riduculoso on Friday 2 November. If you weren't there you certainly missed a treat as there was plenty of laughter at this family entertainment. We would like to thank Danny, Essex On Tour, Paul Button and his team at the Mersea Outdoors Centre, Len Broadhurst and especially those who supported our first venture into providing a community fund raising venture. |
Danny Schlesinger is seen here with Parish Council Chairman, Peter Mann, Clerk Len Broadhurst and Vice Chairman Teresa Parkins |
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Paul Button of Mersea Outdoors |
The Parish Council would like to congratulate Paul Button on his recent appointment as Manager of the Mersea Outdoors centre in East Mersea. Paul has a great enthusiasm for his work and we wish him every success.
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Gill Mann on our litterpick day |
Many thanks to those who helped with the latest litterpick. Once again it was the same few people which is such a shame as it was a lovely day and is a missed opportunity to build some community spirit here in East Mersea. Apparently some people think that the Council should pay for the litter to be picked up but others feel that a bit of work keeping our village cleaner means valuable funds are left for other more pressing needs. What do you think? Have a look at the discussions page and add your comments. |
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EAST MERSEA PARISH COUNCIL PROUDLY PRESENT A FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT BY ESSEX ON TOUR Please come along to the Mersea Outdoors Centre on Friday 2 November at 7pm when you will be able to enjoy a family entertainment brought to you by Essex On Tour. Danny Schlesinger is Circo Ridiculoso-a one man circus troupe, an expert in eccentricity, a visual poet, a certified fool, a multi-talented modern vaudeville artist and a wild rubber tamer. Funny and yet moving, his unique style (and Theater of Balloons) gives the audience an utterly joyous experience to remember for a lifetime. For ages 10 years and over, or anyone who loves a bit of silliness. The show is approximately one hour with no interval and you can see him performing his one man show at the Youth Camp on Friday 2nd November. Tickets available from Len Broadhurst 383894, Teresa Parkins 385112 or Peter Mann 383224. They cost £3.00 adults (£3.50 on the night) and £1.50 children.
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GREEN FLAG PRESENTATION
Dougal Urquhart is presented with the Green Flag at a ceremony |
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BRIGHTLINGSEA FERRY VISIT The Clerk and Councillors visited Brightlingsea on the Ferry on Friday 24 August to deliver a cheque for £20 to go towards the cost of printing the Ferry Timetable. Over 6,000 people visited East Mersea using the Ferry last year and it looks like the numbers have increased this year despite the lack of sunshine. This is a wonderful opportunity for the business in and around our village and we hope that they will consider joining those who already advertise themselves on the Ferry timetable next year. The Parish Council is also hoping to arrange to use the Community Bus to meet the Ferry and any support from local businesses in this venture would benefit both local people and visitors, so please contact the Clerk, Len Broadhurst on 383894 if you are interested in helping. |
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GREEN FLAG
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GREEN FLAG INSPECTION AT CUDMORE GROVE |
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VILLAGE PLAN INAUGURAL ANNUAL MEETING At the Inaugural Annual Meeting Harry Sharp was appointed Chairman with Angela Payne as Treasurer and Heather Corbett as Secretary. |
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 The information centre will soon be expanded so that visitors will be able to buy refreshments and icecream and other items. |
CUDMORE GROVE NEWS
Councillors Peter Mann and Teresa Parkins together with the Clerk, Len Broadhurst met with Park representatives Dougal Urquhart, David Nichols and Dawn Holmes to talk about the proposed Country Park Strategy. |
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Parish Plan - Next Meeting
You will see on the main menu we have now made a page for anything relating to the Parish Plan. |
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The Parish Party
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Lots of people came along to the Parish Party and enjoyed a lovely buffet provided by the Clerk, Len Broadhurst and his wife, Jean. Thank you both for all your hard work that evening. Thanks also to Ron Green for bringing along a display of memories of East Mersea. We were also delighted to have Stella Meesters from the Rural Community Council of Essex. Stella introduced us all to Parish Plans and will be contacting those who showed an interest in getting involved. |
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The Litter Pick Saturday 25 November 2006 It may have been a wet and blustery day but it didn't stop a small group of local residents from tidying up their patch.
Sensibly Elizabeth arrived well wrapped up and even Len our Parish Clerk got stuck in - almost literally - and just look at the Thorley's bootload of litter. |
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On Friday 17 November 2006, members of East Mersea Parish Council met with a Highways Officer. We met at the Turning Circle and thanks to the photographs taken by local residents the problems of parking and difficulties of lorries turning were well illustrated. |
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