Town Talk Shoebox appeal
ANYBODY who wants to take part in the annual shoebox appeal, which gives Christ- mas presents to deprived children in eastern European countries can take their gifts into Christ Church, Snodland, or the Blythswood Care char- ity shop in Snodland High Street. Boxes can contain toi- letries, underwear, hats, scarves, gloves, T-shirts, py- jamas, shirts and stationery, including pens, crayons, pen- cils, sharpeners, rules, rub- bers and colouring books as well as small toys. The boxes can be delivered
to Blythswood Care between November 7 and 21 and to the shoebox service in Christ Church at 10am on Decem- ber 4.
THE Christmas lights in Snodland will be turned on this year on November 26. Santa’s sleigh will tour the town in the morning, visiting the Berkeley Homes development at Hol- borough Lakes and the new homes at Church Field. The town’s Christmas tree will be in the front of
the United Church in the High Street but, because the church is closed, Santa’s Grotto has been moved to the Devonshire Rooms inWaghorn Road. After Santa has toured the town he will be in his grotto from noon until 4pm. Last year about 400
Local news for Snodland and Halling Lighting up for Christmas in Snodland
children visited the grotto. The Mayor of Tonbridge & Malling, Brian Luker,
will ride in the sleigh with Santa from his grotto and arrive in the High Street, outside the Co-op, at 5pm where, after carol singing led by Snodland Choral Society, the lights will be switched on. The Lights for Life bookings will again be avail-
able, for £2, from the town council office in Waghorn Road. Snodland Scouts will be providing food and
drinks in the car park throughout the day and will also serve refreshments at the Devonshire Rooms.
Club airs views on smoking ban
TRACEY Crouch,MP for Chatham and Aylesford, accepted an invitation from Snodland Working Men’s Club to dis- cuss the damage the smoking ban has had on licensed premises. The Club & Institute Union (CIU) has
asked clubs to support its ‘Save our Pubs and Clubs’ campaign to allow a smoking room in pubs and clubs that have sufficient room. Tracey met the president of the Snodland Club, Paul Hickmott, stew- ard Richard Steele and committee members who pointed out how the smoking ban has affected clubs and pubs. They then took her on a tour of the club. Tracey told Town Talk: “It was good
to meet members of the Snodland club and hear about all the various things they use the club for. However, I amsympathetic to concerns that the smoking ban has had a negative im- pact on the number of people using the club. “While I wouldn’t support a full re-
versal of the smoking ban, I do think we could introduce some flexibility into thelegislation,suchasthatinother European countries, which allows smoking in specific rooms. “I will watch with interest as this de-
bate evolves.” Paul Hickmott said the meeting was
ameaningful exchange of ideas on the way forward. The impact of the total banning of smoking in pubs and clubs
Goddess award SIMONE Morris has won the Green Goddess Designer Award at the Miss Teen Earth Pageant in Birmingham. Simone, of Malling Road, Snodland, has won numer- ous prizes since she started taking part in pageants. She was featured in the last issue of Town Talk collecting rubbish for recycling in preparation for Miss Teen Earth. “This one was completely different from any of the other pageants,” she said. “It was all about recycling. I won my prize for designing and mak- ing a T-shirt and I alsomade an ECO outfit out of recycled ma- terials such as plastic bags, magazines and newspapers.” Simone, aged 16, has been invited to attend Europe’s Per- fect Finalist Pageant at Porth- call, Wales, at the end of October.
4 Town Talk Simone’s Green MP Tracey Crouch with club officials
could not be overstated. “Many licensed premises have sim-
Relaxing of smoking ban could ‘help club to survive’
Town’s new homes are picture perfect
ply gone out of business through cus- tomers voting with their feet, choosing to stay indoors to smoke and drink,” Paul continued. “Our committee would welcome a relaxing of the smoking ban to allow a designated smoking room that, of course, will have to be well ventilated and away from the main bar. “This measure would not cost the Government any revenue but just might increase its take and help our club to survive. “We look forward to a relaxing of this rather overbearing legislation.”
PEOPLE living in Queens Avenue, Snodland, were quite surprised to see the new houses that re- placed the Catholic Church were numbered 1, 2, 3,4 and 5 – not least the people living in the orig- inal numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Our intrepid reporter was soon on the case and discovered from Tonbridge and Malling Borough
Council that the houses recently completed by builder Bernard Berry were numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Picture House Terrace, Queens Avenue, Snodland ME6 5FF. There is no sign up yet, but the Catholic Church originally started its life as a cinema. Demolition revelations – Town Talk P8
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