This month’s Newsletter is sponsored by David Riding

PARBOLD PICTURE HOUSE

The ‘Film Crew’ is planning to start the first season of movies on the big screen in November.  We hope to present a family season over the Christmas period, possibly with afternoon screenings.  Films we are considering include: ‘Dr Zhivago’, ‘Star Trek’, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, ‘Young Victoria’, ‘Muppets Christmas Carol’, ‘Piaf - La Vie en Rose’, ‘Brief Encounter’ and a Harry Potter.  There will be more information in the next Newsletter.  If you would like to suggest other films or register your interest, please contact Jenni West on 07976 913170 or email:west7797@btinternet.com

The Hut on the Hill is off the ground!

FUN QUIZ  (In aid of refurbishment of the Village Hall) - SAT 3^RD OCT at 7.30 pm in the Village Hall

Hot Dogs and American pie supper, Raffle, Bring your own drinks. Tables of up to 6, Tickets £5 each (including supper).  To book your table ‘phone  462649 or 464533

"A date for your diary" Bingo Night Friday 27th November at the Village hall. More information in the November Newsletter.

'PATERNAL OAK'  AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AND POEMS at Mere Sands Wood Nature Reserve From 23 Sept until 1 Nov. 10.30-5.00.Closed Fridays. email: secrettartwork@hotmail.com

JEWELLERY, HANDBAGS AND BOXES - We are still collecting items of unwanted jewellery and handbags to sell as a fund raiser for the new Parbold Scout and Guide Hut.  We also need lots of jewellery boxes – especially ones suitable for necklaces.  If you can help us, please contact Nadine Downhill  464809 or Sandy Smith 463407 to arrange collection.  Thank you for all your support.

WE’RE BACK – AND THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL -  Well, it’s personal as far as Phil is concerned in “CAUGHT ON THE HOP”, a COMEDY written by the late Derek Benfield, which is being performed by Parbold’s very own DOUGLAS DRAMA GROUP on Wednesday 25, Friday 27 & Saturday 28 November at the WI Hall – Doors open 7.00pm, curtain up 7.30 pm.

It’s Phil’s personal life that’s the problem. You see, the thing is, he is an incurable romantic, who just can’t help chatting up the opposite sex. He’s had more birds on his arm (yes I know that’s not very PC) than St Francis of Assisi. Problem No.1 – Phil’s latest squeeze is looking for more than small talk and wants to set up home. Problem No.2 – Phil’s already MARRIED to long-suffering, but very much in control, Maggie. Step forward George, Phil’s best mate, whose always getting him out of trouble. Can he do it this time ? Come along, banish those winter blues, engage those chuckle muscles and watch the plot unfold. Tickets are only £5 each and are available NOW, just ring Sandra on 462430 or Alan on 464426, or ask any member of the group or call in at Parbold Fruit and Veg, 16 Lathom Avenue.     

DOUGLAS DRAMA GROUP – WE DON’T MAKE A CRISIS OUT OF A DRAMA

PARBOLD WI

Fri 2 Oct: Barn Dance 7.30 pm. Hot-Pot & Apple pie supper. Tickets £8 from Sylvia Wright 463411.

Tues 6 Oct WI monthly meeting - Speaker Susan Hosker ‘ Landscape Painting’ 7.30pm.

Frid 9 Oct - Junior disco 7.30 pm £2.50. ¯
Sat 7th Nov Table Top Sale in the WI hall  9am-1pm. Tables are £10.  Please see Sylvia Wright 463411 for more details. Includes a cake stall and refreshments are available. ‐

PACT – Police and Communities Together. The next PACT meetings are on:

Monday 5^th October,      13.00 – 14.00 at Parbold library

Tuesday 13^th October,    17.00 – 18.00 at Wrightington Village Hall

Tuesday 3^rd November 19.00 – 20.00 at Parbold Douglas School

In this time of recession it’s refreshing to see our local Pubs doing so well. However the issue of noise late at night when folk are leaving the pubs has been brought to the attention of the PACT Panel. We realise sometimes these problems are not caused by local residents, but appeal to all locals to set a precedent by keeping the noise to a minimum when leaving the premises. Many thanks, PACT Panel.

PUBLIC MEETING  - SPEEDING ON RURAL ROADS

Including a presentation from Bispham Green Action Group regarding their speed limit reduction success.

Tuesday 6^th October, 7pm, St.Michael’s school hall, Dalton

(junction of Higher Lane/Beacon Lane). All residents welcome including Wrightington.

Open Evening - Our Lady and All Saints Primary School. Wed Oct 21^st 6.30pm. You are very welcome to come along to Our Lady’s to see what exciting opportunities we can offer your child. As well as having very high academic expectations we are extremely proud of the varied activities that we provide. Open Evening will give you a flavour of some of them so come along and see gymnastics, cookery, the brass band, some singing, French and Japanese, computer work, dance and various other classroom based activities.

Rail Travel update: Services from Parbold from 5th Oct are retimed for the 'Leaf Fall' season - they will leave a few minutes earlier going towards Wigan. The scheduled weekend closure between Wigan and Warrington from mid-morning Saturday to mid-afternoon Sunday starting Novr 7th has been brought forward to start on the 24th Oct. Check services available if you plan to use Virgin trains on those days

‘PARBOLD PONG’ - If you wish to complain about this ongoing problem please phone BOTH these numbers:

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH:  01695 577177 and ask for Andy Pickup .    UNITED UTILITIES:  0845 7462200

DOUGLASmusicPARBOLDLancs

        Live music at the Weekend on Saturdays at 7.45p.m., in Parbold Village hall

Saturday October 17^th 2009 New Orleans Wiggle with Carolyn Topsy Hilton

     play and sing ‘Songs from the Delta’ and evening of ‘down home’ Delta Jazz favourites

Saturday November 21^st 2009 James Willshire – piano. Young Wigan pianist returns as

     international prizewinner to where he gave his first solo recital 10 years ago.

A leaflet with the full programme details including events for the remainder of the season in 2010 and season tickets are available by telephoning: The Box Office: 01257 421526 or 462382. The full seasons programme is posted on the website: www. parbold.org

It is worthy of note that Margaret (Maggie) White, a former resident of Parbold and founder of Douglas Music, is to mark her 90th birthday year  with a Tandem Sky Dive.  Although undertaken primarily for 'fun', 'Independent Age' & 'Almeley Wooton Quaker Meeting House' are two charities to benefit from any sponsorship. More details

re. sponsorship from 'Maggie' on 01544 388437 or David Young 01257 462501.

Wool Cargo returns to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal - 46 years ago the big freeze of the winter of 1963-64 finished off general cargo carrying on the Leeds and Liverpool canal as the ice was that thick, which prevented the boats moving the cargos which were lost to lorries never to return, until now. Following discussions with fellow boaters about the demise of knitting wool shops close to the canal Carole investigated providing a service of selling a range of knitting wool from the narrowboat “Patty Ann”.  This summer Carole and Colin Wareing of Colin and Carole’s Creations navigated “Patty Ann” over to Yorkshire. There they loaded a cargo of wool from James C Brett wool wholesalers. Brett’s are located a stone’s throw from the Leeds and Liverpool canal in Bingley. This and further loads they have been retailing to fellow boaters and bank side knitters alongside the canal. Now they are on their return journey to their West Lancashire base in Burscough and will be mooring in towns and villages of Lancashire to provide an opportunity for local knitters to purchase supplies of wool and yarns. Over the coming winter they are going to be moored near the canal bridge in Parbold on a monthly basis with the first visit being over the weekend of 30th October to 1^st November. Carole a hand knitter herself creates a varied range of garments, hats, fingerless gloves and jumpers, based on the traditional “Gansey” as worn by the working Leeds and Liverpool boatmen before the big freeze and can also design and produce an exclusive garment to your ideas, colours and requirements. Colin and Carole can be contacted on 07931 356204 to find out where they are at present.

HILLDALE COFFEE & CAKE MORNING

Hilldale Village Hall

Sat 30^th October10.30 to 12

Portrait class 

In Parbold WI Hall on the last Friday of every month, term - time only, from 11am - 1pm.

Members need to bring their own art materials.  Gloria Reeves 01772 455723

Red Lion Railway Circle  v

Next  meeting 13^th October at 7.30 pm

The Red Lion, Newburgh. For details ' 462641

Parbold, newburgh & district garden society  j

Wed 14^th October at 8 pm in the WI Hall

‘MERE SANDS’ WOODS’  by Lindsay Beaton

tel: Tom 462647 or John 462514

PARBOLD AND DISTRICT FLOWER CLUB  

Parbold W.I. Hall at 1.30 pm

Wed 14^th October

Application to the West Lancashire Borough Council for a Variation to the Premises License.Notice is hereby given that I Susan Elizabeth Halton applied on 14^th September 2009 to West Lancashire Borough Council in respect of the premises known as: Parbold Village Hall, 2 The Green, Parbold, WN8 7DN under the of the local government Licensing Act 2003 for a variation to the existing License to include the showing of films on the afore mentioned premises. Any objections to this application must be sent in writing to: The Licensing Officer, West Lancashire Borough Council, Westec House, 52 Derby Street,Ormskirk, L39 2DQ not later than 21 days of my application or 14 days from the date of this notice, whichever is the later, stating the grounds of objection.

A copy must also be sent to me: Susan E Halton, 15 Beech Avenue, Parbold, Wigan WN8 7NS

Digital TV Switchover Advice from Digital UK , Parbold WI Hall,  Fri 9^th Oct,  11 am - 3 pm

Free, independent advice on the television switchover (which starts in the Granada TV region

on 4 November) and the BBC’s Help Scheme. Please feel free to call in with any questions.

National switchover helpline: 08456 50 50 50  Website: www.digitaluk.co.uk

Medicine and Chernobyl Parbold Group Following a very successful visit last June of six children from Belarus we are busy fundraising again for next summer. We will be holding our ANNUAL AUCTION on SATURDAY 10^TH OCTOBER 2009 at PARBOLD VILLAGE HALL. If you have any items to donate to the Auction, no clothes please, call Marie Mayson on 01257 464461 or Simon Greenhalgh on 01257 464915 and they will arrange collection. Thank you for your ongoing support. Can you offer a couple of hours to support us at our Annual Auction? We are looking for help on Friday 9^th October 2010 from 7pm at Parbold Village Hall to set up for the Auction. Or can you help on the day of the Auction, Saturday 10^th October, for example, in the kitchen, on the door, or manning a stall. If so please, call Marie Mayson on 01257 464461 or Simon Greenhalgh on 01257 464915. Thank you for your ongoing support.

Belarus Aid presents a Lancashire Night at the Royal  British Legion in Lord Street, Burscough on Saturday October 17th. Tickets are £8-50 which includes a hot-pot supper.

PARISH COUNCIL NOTES - Clerk:  Mrs Elizabeth-Anne Broad, 1 Pinewood, Skelmersdale WN8 6UZ. Tel  01695 557678 

Mob:  07973 340254    e-mail:  parboldpc.clerk@yahoo.com. Parbold Parish Council meets on the first Friday of each month except August at 7.30pm at Parbold Village Hall. An agenda is placed on the Parish Council Notice Board on The Common three days before each meeting to give public notice of the order of business.   Hedgerows: Please keep an eye on any of your hedgerows that run alongside roads and pavements to ensure that they are not overgrown and causing obstruction.  Also, if you have a culvert or watercourse running through your land please do not be tempted to dump garden waste into it, which would lead to flooding. Your Parish Councillors Contact details are on the Parish Council Notice Board on The Common

NEW BUSINESS IN PARBOLD:  Angels Boutique -  A beautiful and unique store selling ladies clothing, handbags and jewellery,  Open every day except Sundays 10am until 5pm, 2 Mill lane, Parbold ( within The Storehouse) 01257 464010

WALKING AND OTHER LOCAL EVENTS: Parbold Ramblers: First Sunday in the month. Tel: 463057, 01942 200967    West Lancs Footpath Group –tel: 01704 880782. Life Long Learning – Group Walk Fridays with Pub lunch tel: 01695 579095. West Lancs Ramblers Assoc.  Tel 01772 812034

West Lancs Countryside Events for October:  Sat Oct 24^th at 10.30 am. National Apple Day. Walk around the Community Orchard  at Beacon Country Park, learning all about this fruit. tel: 01695 622794.

Friends of Mere Sands Wood: October -Sat 10th 2 pm ‘Fungal Foray’.  Wed 21st  7 pm ‘Owls’  (Indoors)

Tel: 01704 821809

FLEAMARKET  Parbold Village Hall – last Sun in month (25 October) - Sponsored by the Festival Committee