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CAB lifeline THE Citizens Advice Bureau, which operates from the library in Snodland High Street, will be con- tinuing in 2018 – and has received another £5,000 donation fromthe Snodland Partnership. The CAB has been in the town
since 2006 and has been helped throughout by the partnership. It has met in a number of venues and is now in the library every Tuesday from 9.30am to 1pm. Caroline Farquhar, funding and
PAINTER and decorator Eric Bowyer is back to the day job after his latest brush with the film world. The 61-year-old has been work-
development manager, said that last year 257 Snodland residents were helped with more than 800 different problems ranging from disabilities and debt to benefits and relationships. Appointments have to be booked by calling 0300 330 9001.
ing as an extra in Paddington 2, the sequel to the hit film about the famous orphan bear from Peru. Keith spent a
day in dress re- hearsals
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Pinewood Studios and then acted in a crowd scene at London’s Porto- bello Market.
Based on the 1958 Michael
SNODLAND Town Council will not be raising its council tax precept for 2018-19. The council is responsible for
167 street lights in the town (KCC owns the remainder) and all the lights are to be upgraded to LED, which are cheaper to run. New playground equipment is to be in- stalled in the recreation ground and Nevill Park. There will be no increase in the local council tax.
Bond children’s stories, the movie stars Julie Walters, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent and Peter Capaldi, with furry favourite Paddington as an animation. But Eric was disappointed not to
see some of the stars during his day on location. He said: “I was a passer-by in
the market, we were just told to pretend there was a bear there.” Eric, who lives in Gassons Road
with his wife Bettina, fancied trying his hand at acting and joined the
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Extra Keith in a brush with stars
School’s deputy head is to retire after 33 years
Helping to keep the town clean
books of Uni-VersalExtras about four years ago. He was invited to an audition in Chatham for a part in Tulip Fever, starring Dame Judi Dench and ChristopherWaltz and landed a part. Based on the book by Deborah Moggach, the story is set in Ams- terdam in 1637 and Keith played the role of a peasant haggling with stallholders in a market. He was filmed on various days over six weeks at Conham Hall and he was particularly impressed by the man-made moat around the manor house. A year later, he spent five days
being an extra until a few years ago. I heard about a chap doing it and I thought ‘I can do that’ so I wrote off to the agency “It’s not as glamorous as you
GERALD Cadwallader, the deputy head teacher at St Katherine's Pri- mary School in Snodland, is retir- ing this month after teaching at the school for 33 years. He had hopes of becoming a
professional footballer – hewas on the books of Burnley for two years – but when he realised he was not going to make it he turned to teaching. Gerald, pictured right, played
as an extra on the set of StarWars VIII at Pinewood Studios. He said: “I never thought of
football into his 40s, including a stint with Gravesend & Northfleet. He is a season ticket holder at Charlton Athletic, who he watches, along with Vanarama National League side Ebbsfleet United, the current incarnation of his former club. Born in Wales, he has been
might think as I don’t always get to see the top stars,” he said. “But it’s interesting and it’s good fun. I can earn £170 in a day so it can be a lot more lucrative than paint- ing and decorating.”
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married to Janice for 37 years. and they have four children – Ceri, Ruth, David and Helen – and two grandchildren. Mr Cadwallader, who has lived
in Gravesend for 40 years, first taught at Knockhall Primary School in Greenhithe. When he joined St Katherine’s the school
DO you know a deserving Snod- land resident or local group to nom- inate as a “Love Where You Live” Environmental Champion? Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council launched the scheme in 2009 to encourage people to make an extra effort to improve the envi- ronment. The last Snodland winner was town council member Alan Keeley in 2015. He was chairman of Snodland
Goes Cleaner and went round all the shops persuading the owners to clean the areas outside their shops. If you know of someone who
goes the extra mile to improve the town, nomination forms are avail- able at
www.tmbc.gov.uk/ECA2017 or send an email to lovewherey-
oulive@tmbc.gov.uk.
and double glazing. It was
opened by MP Tracey Crouch in 2015, and was named after him. Extensions were built to the ex-
isting school and a nursery school was added. Mr Cadwallader was acting
head for three years after the pre- vious head, Sharon Alexander, was suspended in 2013. His specialist subjects were PE,
Clean-up champion Alan Keeley
science and maths, but he has also taught every other subject. “You find that deputy heads do
Betting shop is taken over
was on two sites, a small building in St Katherine's Lane, huts for classrooms and the Wolfe Build- ing (now part of The Holmesdale School). The swimming pool was in a
LADBROKES, the betting shop in Holborough Road, Snodland, for many years, has been sold to Betfred. The company has merged
with Coral, which has a shop in the High Street. The Com- petition regulators ruled in July that the merged com- pany, which makes it the biggest high street book- maker in the UK, must sell 350-400 shops for the merger to be cleared. Betfred is buying 322 shops. All the Ladbrokes staff in Snodland are being kept on.
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just about everything,” he added. “I know I have been teaching for a long time but it does not seem like it was very long because of all the changes there have been.” He plans to spend more time
with his grandchildren, do volun- tary work and visit his family in Wales more often. John Edgar, the chairman of
school governors, said: “As a long serving governor at St Katherine's, I thank him on behalf of the gov- erning body for his dedication and commitment to the school and its pupils.”
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