Town Talk
CHOICEBET bookies in Snodland High Street has been sold to Coral. The
shop
opened in August 2006 and was the second for Julian Head. The first was in Portsmouth and others were in Hove, Gillingham and Herne Bay. Manager John Hackett (above)
has worked in the Snodland shop for seven years. He said: “The punters here are the best I have ever had. Everybody knows each other. There are never problems.” Customers were hoping Choicebet’s special offers would continue.
Life skills help
THE Beat Project in Snodland is teaming up with Circle Housing to run a life skills course at the Cof- fee & Chat session at Snodland Workingmen’s Club, Holborough Road, on Wednesdays. Jenny Wheeler, community de- velopment coordinator at the Beat Project, said: “Each week will have a different focus and, by the end, participants will have an indi- vidual development plan, some new found confidence and poten- tially some new friends.”
A SNODLANDstudent is in the top one per cent of the 30,000 stu- dents in the UK who took an ex- amination in financial studies. Jaimee Mallion, of Taylor Road,
was a pupil at Maidstone Girls Grammar School and now studies at the University of Kent. She won a £750 scholarship towards her degree from the Institute of Finan- cial Services University College. In December 2007, Town Talk reported that Jaimee had received a Triumph over Adversity award and was chosen by St John Am- bulance to meet the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace “as a young achiever.”
Local news for Snodland and Halling Bookies’ choice Jaimee tops financial exam table She suffers from complex re-
gional pain syndrome and Ehlers- Danlos syndrome. She has to use a wheelchair to get about but manages to “potter around” indoors. She said: “I
have good days and bad days.”
Jaimee (19)
drives to Can- terbury every day and plans to be a forensic psychologist. She lives with her parents, John and Andy. Andy said Jaimee had
Marathon bid a life-saver
A SNODLAND woman is run- ning in the London Marathon to raise funds for a life-saving de- fibrillator for a local school. Georgina Nicolettos, whose
family owns Andrew’s Fish Bar in the High Street, Snodland is the constituency assistant for Chatham and Aylesford MP, Tracey Crouch. Georgina (23), who lives at Edgeler Court, off Hollow Lane, said: “A defibrillator can be used when someone goes into
cardiac arrest to get the heart pumping again. “This piece of equipment can
be the difference between life and death.” Georgina (right) runs regu-
larly and has completed 5k and 10k races and will shortly be tackling a half-marathon. She trains three time a week. Donations can be made at
www.gofundme.com/Georgina DoesLDNMarathon or at An- drew’s Fish Bar.
taught them a lot about money. Jaimee started dancing at the
age of two and was involved in gymnastics, swimming and archery. By the time she was 13 she had won more than 50 medals and badges. Archery is now her only hobby
and she is a level 1 coach. She was the Kent Disability Ladies Jun- ior champion for three years and won the senior championship last year. The Independent Financial Studies University College asked Jaimee to return to her school where she received her certificate in front of sixth-form pupils.
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