Get active to fight plastic
Every year an estimated 14 million pieces
of plastic end up in and around our canals and rivers. Why not join the Canal
& Rivers Trust’s Plastics Challenge?
It is a bit last minute, but now that restrictions are being
relaxed, we have decided to pick up this challenge by doing a litter pick this Friday 26 June, meeting at the
container by the lock at 9.30 am, though I feel sure someone will be near the
car park on Nursery Lane to distribute sacks and litter picking equipment for
anyone who turns up.
The CRT’s interest is
particularly in relation to canals and rivers, so I expect it will concentrate
on the Trans-Pennine Trail, the Island and around the Fish Pass. However, picking anywhere within the locality
will be greatly appreciated. The more
helpers that turn up, the better, so tell all your friends.
Hello again everyone.
Can you believe it’s the longest day today! It seems only a short time since I wrote last
February and yet so much has happened in the meantime, with the Coronavirus
pandemic and the lockdown since the end of March. On a personal level, it has been horrendous,
with break-ins, thefts and further damage being caused to our home and those of
other residents at Lower Sprotborough, so that we now worry about starting any
renovation due to the possibility of further criminal activity.
None of that, however, has had any impact on the popularity
of the Gorge as visitors have flooded in (no pun intended) on a daily basis
since before the lockdown, regardless of social distancing, and the parking has
been worse than ever, not helped by the Boat Inn car park being
unavailable. On several occasions cars
have been parked all the way up Nursery Lane and on double yellow lines from
the car park to the Boat Inn entrance, including inconsiderate parking across
the access to the lane to the woods, so that residents have been unable to get
in or out. It is also unacceptable for
cars to park in front of the gate to the river bank when the turning space may
be required for the farmer and delivery or workers’ vehicles involved in the
cottage renovations.
DGCG AGM
This was held in March and we welcomed Ian Carpenter as our
new Chairman. I feel sure he is going to
prove to be an excellent choice and will lead us on to better things. Cllr Alan Bennett, representing Warmsworth
Parish Council, was elected Treasurer and other committee members are Cllr
Cynthia Ransome, representing S&C Parish Council, Steve Swift and Paul
Allot of Sprotbrough and Mark Whittaker
of Warmsworth.
Free Trees
Just to update you on this.
The trees were planted and it is hoped they are now growing well, though
I must admit I personally haven’t been able to go and check.
Co-op Community
Fund
This fund is progressing very nicely and we have already
received nearly £3000 from donations from Co-op members, so a big thank you
goes out to all those lovely people who have chosen our group as their
designated charity this year. The final
grant will come in October, so there is still time for anyone who shops at the
Co-op to become a member and choose us. There
are shops at Askern, Cantley, Doncaster and Edlington, including funeral
parlours.
“Sprotbrough Oral
History: From Rural Estate to Real Estate”
Unfortunately we had to cancel meetings during the lockdown,
but the ‘home-time’ has given me space to make good progress with the book and
I am now just waiting for the last three contributors to send in their final
amendments. I am also hoping that we
will all soon be able to meet again for a group photograph for the book, which
has been impossible so far. It will then
go out to a few ‘readers’ for checking before going to the printers. I am now hoping it will be out around the end
of July.
Liz Reeve
Secretary
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