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Lindfield Times March 2006
Lindfield Times March 2006
Lindfield Times March 2006
Editorial
EVENTS AT
Supporting football
King Edward Hall in the community
Chad Ballooning
helps Blackthorns
reach new heights
LOCAL HOT AIR balloon experts, Chad Ballooning, sightseeing
helped to guarantee the success of Blackthorns tour of
School’s Valentine Dance by generously donating Lindfield and
two flight tickets for auction on the night. the local area. Their balloon is likely to reach a
King Edward Hall played host to fifty couples height of up 3,000ft and should allow them to
who, whilst dancing the night away, feasted on take in sights of historic landmarks such as the
pink champagne and poached salmon followed Balcombe viaduct and the Jack and Jill
by heart-shaped Pavlovas and an indulgent windmills on the South Downs.
chocolate fountain! An amazing £1200 was raised on the night
The organisers managed to secure some great itself, allowing Blackthorns School to reach their
raffle prizes including Take That concert tickets overall target of £10,000. The work on the
and Bluebell Railway family passes as well as a outside classroom can now finally begin!
superb arrangement of flowers donated by local
florist, Flowercraft. Guests were also encouraged
to include messages of love on heart shaped
The Civic Amenity
prize draw slips. Nevertheless, the highlight of Freighter
the evening was the auctioning of the romantic ...will next be in the Tollgate
balloon flight, which alone raised over £250. Car Park on Sunday 2nd April 2006
Commenting on the event as well as the from 10.30 a.m. to 12.00 noon.
school’s development plans, Mike Scholes of
Chad Ballooning said: “I am a huge supporter
of the school’s determination to create an
“outside classroom” in the grounds of the
school. It’s great that children can be given the
opportunity to learn in an environment that is
closer to nature. As someone who spends quite
a bit of time listening to forecasts, I was
particularly interested to hear about their plans
to include a weather station!”
Nicky and Tony Smith, the successful auction
bidders said: “It was such a brilliant evening and
it was very easy to get carried away with the
bidding.” Tony went on to explain that the flights
will form part of Nicky’s birthday present.
The Smiths can look forward to an hour-long
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Keeping Sussex
WA R M 190353
March designated
awareness month
THE CONCEPT of a University of the Third
Age (U3A) was hatched in France by a
lecturer at Toulouse University named Pierre
Vellas. There are now branches of U3A all
over the world. The first U3As in Great Britain
were created more than 20 years ago but the
French model of close affiliation to the local
University has been replaced by a model that
uses self-teaching; utilising Members’ existing
skills and expertise. Today there are 571 U3As
in England, Scotland and Wales, with a walking groups. New groups formed in the past
combined membership of 153,103 members. year include Local History, Spanish and Yoga. It
The Haywards Heath & District U3A held its is hoped to start a Russian Beginners group in
inaugural meeting in 1991 in Haywards Heath April 2006. All groups are informal and inter-
Town Hall, supported by a grant from the Town active and meet either in private homes or local
Council of £50. The first Chairman was Charles halls. The annual membership fee is currently
Cullis. By 1993, twenty four study and interest £12 irrespective of the number of groups
groups were up and running and the joined. Members of larger groups also pay a
organisation had 246 members. In 2006 there small contribution towards the cost of hall hire.
are 615 members, resident in Haywards Heath Open quarterly meetings take place at Clair
and surrounding villages. Hall, sometimes with an outside speaker. A recent
The purpose of the U3A is to promote life open meeting, pictured here, gave Members a
long learning. It is a registered charity. chance to try out some new audio visual
Membership is open to anyone no longer in full equipment, purchased with a £4,900 grant from
time employment. All that is needed is interest the ‘Awards for All’ programme. Coffee mornings
and enthusiasm. The organisation runs on a self- have recently been introduced and have been well
help basis with Members sharing their attended. In addition, the Sussex Region organises
expertise, knowledge and enthusiasm to explore regular Study Days on a variety of topics, when
subjects of interest. Everyone able to do so is professional lecturers are employed.
encouraged to contribute in some way, whether To find out more about your local U3A,
it is by giving a talk, helping with refreshments and to obtain a copy of our current
or assisting with group administration. programme, contact the Membership Secretary,
Members of Haywards Heath & District U3A Alastair Porter, on 01444 482001.
can choose from over fifty special interest Further details can be found on our website:
groups, catering for a wide range of interests www.haywardsheathu3a.org.uk
and activities. Some groups organise occasional and from the national website:
outings or field trips and there are also two www.u3a.org.uk
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Blackthorns makes
learning fun funny
Year 1981
Prince Charles got married;
Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe;
Australia lost the Ashes;
Pope Died.
Year 2005
Prince Charles got married;
Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe;
“TRANSPORT-PAST AND PRESENT” is Year Two’s Australia lost the Ashes;
key learning theme for this term and as a result, Pope died.
class teacher Jo Tulloch recently invited well
known author and illustrator, Val Biro into the Lesson learned?
classroom. Val is best known for the series of The next time Charles gets married,
stories he has written about Gumdrop, his old someone warn the Pope!
fashioned car, and a highlight for the children
was a visit of Gumdrop itself, which was driven
into the school grounds.
This is what a few of the excited children
said about the visit: Mulcare-Ball
“We had a fun time with Mr Biro. We looked
at some of his stories on the projector. He also
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A MAJOR CHANGE has occurred in the way littering and the need for repairs in the street
that parking regulations are being enforced in scene (for example, repairs to benches).
Mid Sussex. Changes in the law have allowed LAPE to be
On Monday 23rd January West Sussex County introduced. From now on, that income will be
Council introduced Local Authority Parking retained by the local authorities to meet the running
Enforcement (LAPE) with parking attendants costs of LAPE so that the costs do not fall on Council
employed by Mid Sussex district council Tax payers. Any surplus income would be spent
replacing Sussex Police traffic wardens. The locally on public transport and environmental
number of attendants has increased from the improvements so that Mid Sussex residents and
present level of 4 to 13. They are working its many visitors should enjoy the benefits.
throughout the District, in both towns and Unlike existing traffic wardens, the LAPE
villages including Lindfield. parking attendants will be using digital cameras
Among the key aims of LAPE are safer, less to record the contravention that led them to
congested streets together with the ability to issue a ticket. We expect that most disputes will
deal more quickly with areas where be determined locally but if this is not possible,
inconsiderate parking is creating serious a simpler process to resolve them is in place.
problems. It will also help high streets Instead of having to go in front of a magistrates’
throughout the district by making sure short- court, people who feel they have been wrongly
term parking areas designed for shoppers do ticketed will be able to use the independent
not get clogged up by all-day parking. National Parking Adjudication Service. The
But, at the same time, the attendants will also decision of the tribunal is final.
act as a highly visible uniformed presence on The issuing of a penalty charge notice will
the streets that will contribute towards result in fine of £60, which reduces to £30 if it
community safety by reporting incidents and is paid within 14 days. Late payment can see the
problems associated with antisocial behaviour, amount rise to £90.
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A legal conundrum!
AT THE 1994 annual awards dinner given for murder charge the old man and his wife were
Forensic Science, AAFS, President Dr. Don both adamant. They both said they thought the
Harper Mills astounded his audience with the shotgun was unloaded. The old man said it was
legal complications of a bizarre death. his long-standing habit to threaten his wife
Here is the story: with the unloaded shotgun. He had no
On March 23,1994 the medical examiner intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of
viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, the
that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. gun had been accidentally loaded.
Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten The continuing investigation turned up a
story building intending to commit suicide. He witness who saw the old couple's son loading the
left a note to that effect, indicating his shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident.
despondency. As he fell past the ninth floor his It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's
life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing financial support and the son, knowing the
through a window which killed him instantly. propensity of his father to use the shotgun
Neither the shooter nor the descender was threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation
aware that a safety net had been installed just that his father would shoot his mother.The case
below at the eighth floor level to protect some now becomes one of murder on the part of the
building workers and that Ronald Opus would son for the death of Ronald Opus.
not have been able to complete his suicide the Now here is the exquisite twist. Further
way he had planned. investigation revealed that the son was, in fact,
“Ordinarily,” Dr. Mills continued, “a person Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly
who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately despondent over the failure of his attempt to
succeeds, even though the mechanism might engineer his mother's murder. This led him to
not be what he intended, is still defined as jump off the ten storey building on March
committing suicide.” 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast
That Mr. Opus was shot on the way to certain passing through the ninth story window. The
death, but probably would not have been son had actually murdered himself so the
successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.
medical examiner to feel that he had a
homicide on his hands. The room on the ninth
floor, whence the shotgun blast emanated, was
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Final question, is there any competition between you and the neighbouring
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Beyond nutrition
WHEN SOMEONE mentions nutrition, most of become less needy.Your relationships will
us would think about the food, we eat. We are become psychologically cleaner as you will
all aware that a diet rich in fresh vegetables and require less attention from others to feel
other wholesome food is likely to be nutritious fulfiled. As you learn to stop your automatic
and health supporting. No doubt, those of you inner chatter you will become more aware of
that are health conscious try to keep junk food your own, and others real needs, and so your
to a minimum but have you ever considered responses and actions become more
that the impressions that you get from your appropriate. As a result, you will feel happier
experiences and surroundings are also a kind of and healthier and your relationship with your
food. Just as we can be susceptible to nutritional family, friends and work colleagues will be
deficiencies from a junk food diet, we can also more positive and constructive as proper
suffer from mental and emotional deficiency nourishment becomes available. Seize the day!
diseases from a perceptual junk food diet. Nigel Garion-Hutchings is a registered
We live in a sea of impressions that homoeopath and stress management consultant
continually assault our senses. When we were who runs Fullspectrum Homoeopathic Centre
younger we would look, feel, smell, listen and in Lindfield.
touch as if our lives depended on it. We would
soak in the impression of a flower, look at the
sky in wonder and experience the world in awe.
Very soon, we get too busy to stop and stare;
we get caught in a kind of consensus trance and
only receive small packets of information
through our senses, filling in the gaps with
concepts we have already formed about the Ophthalmic Opticians
world, others and ourselves. Many moment-by-
moment impressions begin to lack taste and Are you fed up
very often sensation becomes dulled. Repression with taking
and suppression can easily become our
watchwords trapping us in a kind of waking reading glasses
Alison Crowe
dream of automatic reactions and negative on and off? B.Sc., M.C.Optom.
Lindfield revisited
LAST MONTH we ran a photo which looked over fifty years old (inset) showing
some children playing on the pond. The response to this was tremendous and we
have since found out that the picture:
• Includes Ruth and Martin Palmer (12) and their late mother Phylis Palmer.
Also included was Betty Willis and the photo was taken during the big freeze
of Feb/March 1947 when the pond was frozen for six weeks. This ice was
four inches thick. During periods such as this “The Pond” became the
outdoor social centre for both villagers and outsiders who would congregate
for a chat, walk, slide, play hockey and skate on the ice.
• Martin encouraged over the years by the “Brighton Tigers” ice hockey team
has become a regular on the pond when the ice is thick enough. In 1990 he
was the only one on the pond.
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• Toenail & fingernail cutting
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just seen, plus many more. Range includes Cutter & Buck, Green Lamb, Daily Sports
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EXHIBITION OF PATCHWORK AND QUILTING by members of a local Quilting
Group, including prize winning quilts. Some small items for sale.
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