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Downholland Parish Council Vacancy for a councillor If you are interested in serving your comunity as a Parish Councillor please contact the clerk on 01704 822265 for details on how to apply. Closing date : 3rd October 2008. _______________________________________________________

COMPUTER COURSES AUTUMN 2008

AT HASKAYNE VILLAGE HALL

Haskayne & Downholland Community Association have recently secured a grant from the Big Lottery Awards for All Scheme. This has enabled the purchase of 12 new computers at their Computer Suite at Haskayne Village Hall, all with Windows Vista and Internet access.

Our six week courses are open to everyone and cost just Ł5 per one and a half hour session (Ł30 in total payable in advance on the first day of enrolment).

Computer Art

Learn how to design posters, fliers, cards, invitations and lots more.

Tuesdays 7.30pm to 9.00pm

Commencing: 14th October

Absolute Beginners

Learn how to operate your computer with confidence!

Fridays 10.00am to 11.30am and 11.45am to 1.15pm

Commencing: 17th October

Email and Internet

Learn how to create an email account, search for low cost holidays and shop on-line!

Fridays 2.00pm to 3.30pm

Commencing: 17th October

For further details, on any of our courses, or to book your place,

please ring 01704 840175 (or 07890 353010 after 4pm).

Places are limited so please don't delay.

The HDCA will be holding their next Committee Meeting on Thursday 8th January 2009 at 7.30pm Everyone welcome

Best Kept Garden and Best Hanging Basket Competition

At the November meeting of the Council, it was the pleasure of the Chairman and the Council to present the Andrew Keith Cup and Shield for the Best Kept Garden and Best Hanging Basket in the village respectively. The cup and shield are a donation of Mr Keith who also judges the competition each year. The winners this year were Mr and Mrs Bradshaw of School Lane for the Best Kept Garden and Ms Cull of Park Crescent for the Best Hanging Basket. Mr and Mrs Bradshaw and Ms Cull are pictured below receiving their awards from the Chairman, Cllr Andrew Johnson.

Downholland is Lancashire Calor Village of the Year!

Following an entry made by the Parish Council, Downholland has won the coveted Lancashire Calor Village of the Year award. Seen receiving the award from Nick Parrot of Calor (first left) and Sonja Rewhorn of Government Office North West are (left to right) Eamon Duffy and Andrew Johnson of Downholland Parish Council and Cliff Kenyon of the HDCA. The winners of each regional award are automatically entered into the national competition for the English Village of the Year award.

Footpath Group

Feeling Fit? Why not join our Footpath Group? We aim to meet on the last Sunday of every month to walk paths in the local area, around Sefton or perhaps further afield. Boots or strong footware advisable.

For further details, please contact Alan Carr on 01704-840762. A full programme for the year will be distributed to interested parties.

Downholland Parish Plan

In December 2003, the Parish Council decided to make a start with a Parish Plan with a Public meeting in February 2004. We wanted to find out what the community felt were the local problems and opportunities and to work out ways of achieving our communities vision for the future.

As many parishioners will remember we had a Parish Exhibition and Visioning Event in September 2004 and sent out questionnaires about that time.

There was an amazing response to both events which gave the Parish Plan Steering group – chaired by Eamon Duffy - a real insight into the concerns and aspirations of the residents of the Parish.

The information gathered was put into a Community Audit Report and the final Parish Plan- a summary of the Report’s findings -was published in November 2005.

The topics covered were

1. Local Health and Health Care

2. Traffic and Road Safety

3. Youth and Youth Facilities

4. Developing a Viable Community

5. Enhancing the Local Environment

The completed Parish Plan is now available as a pdf download.
If you would like to continue with turning the Parish’s vision into reality Contact Eamon Duffy on duffysafety@aol.com , or Andrew Johnson on andvon@globalnet.co.uk

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