Allotments centenary
Association members Meryl Basham and Christine Callard.
NEWTON Abbot and District Co-operative Allotment Association is poised to celebrate its 100th birthday, been formed in 1919 just after the first spaces were made available in the town. Now members are looking to track down their history and
anyone who can help should contact membership secretary Steve Garlick,
sj.garlick@
icloud.com or 07808 689223 or go to
www.nadcaa.org.uk. The first allotment was thought to have been set up at Decoy and there
In other news...
NEWTONAbbot Jobcentre has moved to the district council offices at Forde House, vacating its former Kingsteignton Road offices. The new facility cost £1.1 million and is situated in former ground floor reception and planning area of the council’s HQ where it was formally opened by council leader Jeremy Christophers. It includes computers and interview rooms and the manager is Cheryl Ward. Teignbridge Council’s former head of paid services Phil Shears has been appointed the authority’s Managing Director. Mr Shears has worked for Teignbridge Council for 25 years and was deputy to former Teignbridge Council chief executive Nicola Bulbeck, who is now executive director for West Sussex County Council. Newton Abbot and District Civic Society celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. It was founded by Lord of the Manorial Borough Keith Stokes Smith in 1997 to improve the local environment and chairman is Martin Davie and vice chairman Roger Keys. The society can be contacted via
http://newtonabbotcivicsociety.com or by email at
wickestate@supanet.com.
South Devon was hit not once but twice by the Beast from the East snowfalls in March. The weight of snow smashed a glass canopy at Newton Abbot rail station.
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are now five allotments administered by the town council and ranging from 22 to 106 plots: Blake’s, Bradley, Coach Road, Cooke’s and Decoy. And there is a waiting list. Lord Clifford of Chudleigh is association president.
MORE than £7,000 was given to community groups by the town council last year, including Citizen’s Advice, Newton Abbot and District Society of Arts, community transport and suicide bereavement support group Pete’s Dragon. Cllr Ann Jones, 2017-18 Mayor, presented cheques worth £5,800 at a town hall grants ceremony and a further £1,500 was awarded to Teignbridge Community Safety Partnership to help combat anti-social behaviour in the area. Below, Cllr Jones is pictured with a group of happy grant recipients: Valerie Gaze (Society of Arts), Lin Wooldridge (THAT foodbank), Vincent Wilson (Citizens Advice), Kay Yendall (community transport) and Alison Hill (Pete’s Dragon).
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