Headlines - June 2007
The highly visible, 40-strong, Bexley School Crossing Patrol
Team will be out in force in Bexleyheath Broadway on Friday 6 July, giving
a renewed boost to a year-long, London-wide 'Stop Means Stop' Campaign.
Don't be surprised to see young pirates and fairies running
around Belvedere Splash Park next month in search of buried treasure! The park
is hosting a special treasure hunt on the day the Tour de France comes through
the borough (8 July).
Fears about the management of JJ Newsagents, 221 Bellegrove
Road, Welling, led to the shop being targeted by Bexley Council and police
in a recent joint working initiative aimed at tackling underage sales of alcohol.
A warning that people should check before simply assuming that
organisations collecting old clothes are charities was issued this week by
Bexley Trading Standards.
Bexley Council has selected Kent Community Housing Trust (KCHT)
to provide support services to residents in some of the borough's sheltered
housing schemes.
This year's activities are bigger and better than ever at Danson
Park Watersports Centre. There are new courses available for children and adults
and once again the programme has been expanded for the season.
Bexley's Mayor, Cllr Nigel Betts, was delighted to have the
tables turned on him on Monday, 11 June, when, with the Mayoress, Mrs Hilary
Betts, he visited Pier Road Centre in Erith. to celebrate national Carers Week.
The Mayor, who usually has his tea poured for him when he makes an official
visit to various events, helped hand out the cuppas to guests at a special
buffet lunch organised by Bexley's Carers Services.
Bexley Council's Re-Use and Recycling Centre at Thames Road,
Crayford will be closed on Sunday 8 July. The depot is on the route that Tour
de France cyclists will take when they come racing through the borough.
The Mayor of Bexley, Councillor Nigel Betts and his Mayoress
wife Hilary have been learning more about eye health as they joined thousands
of young people and adults across the country to support the Guide Dogs for
the Blind Association's Shades Day, which is on Friday 29 June 2007.
Childminders and parents picnicked at Belvedere Splash Park
on Wednesday, 20 June, celebrating National Childminding Week (16-23 June).
Specialist sports, such as Boccia, a version of bowls for people
with mobility problems, and New Age Kurling, like Scottish curling but without
the ice, will be among the events when Erith Leisure Centre plays host to a
Charity Sports Day Challenge, organised by the Disabled Tenants and Residents
Association (DATRA) on Saturday 21 July.
Bexley Council, local businesses and community groups have organised
a list of fun events to celebrate the arrival of the Tour de France on 8 July.
Pupils at a Bexleyheath school saw the light during their recent Maths Week - with a little help from one of Bexley Council's officers.
Lessons resumed this week at the former home of the Bexley Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Sidcup, as the Council delivered on its promise to help students facing exams next month.
The problems facing the world's refugees were brought home to Bexley schoolchildren on Wednesday 20 June by a series of special events staged at Hall Place, Bourne Road.
Residents, police and Bexley councillors took part in a planned operation to clear Blackfen's rubbish and litter on Saturday, 16 June, to put pride back into the area as part of London's Capital Clean-up Campaign.
Hundreds of cycling enthusiasts of all ages braved the weather this weekend (16 June) to take part in a Family Fun Ride in Danson Park, organised by Bexley Council and local cycling club Go Ride Bexley.
Talented athletes are to get all the help that Bexley Council can possibly arrange in the run up to the 2012 Olympic Games
This year's Danson Festival will feature an all-new Arts Village, helping to create a bigger, better and more diverse Festival than ever before.
Cyclists with an interest in the past are invited to join a special Heritage Cycle Ride next weekend (24 June) following part of the route that Tour de France riders will take when they come through Bexley in July.
Residents and businesses in the north of the borough are being advised to prepare for the effects of the Tour de France when it passes through on 8 July.
Children from a number of Bexley's primary schools have got together to raise a phenomenal £10,750 for the charity Starfish Malawi. They will be handing over the money at a special presentation event next week (18 June).
There was dancing in the street last weekend (9 June) when the
annual summer arts festival came to Bexleyheath. Along with dancers, children's
performers and a 43-strong male voice choir there was a chance to paint, make
kites, create mosaics and buy some of the arts and crafts on display.
Children from Primary Schools across Bexley got a taste of a
new anti-bullying course at its launch earlier this month (4 June).
A man has been arrested after the recent spate of thefts of drain covers from the gutters of Bexley's roads.
In line with the rest of London, Bexley's motorists will face a two-tier parking penalty system from 1 July, 2007.
Bexley's Cabinet has given its backing to an emergency rescue package designed to help students of the Bexley Academy of Music and Performing Arts who are due to sit examinations next month.
A drab wall at Northumberland Heath Recreation Ground was hit by an explosion of colour last week (28 May - 1 June), thanks to an artistic young person from Howbury Youth Centre.
Cleeve Park students on the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme have been presented with a trailer for use on their outdoor expeditions.
Transport for London has apologised to Bexley residents for its handling of the decision to scrap the tidal flow at the Blackwall Tunnel.
There has been a massive increase in the use of Bexley's new e-Library service following its re-launch earlier this year.
Every year, as Wimbledon draws near, tennis fever hits England and many people feel the urge to dust off their tennis rackets, dig out their training shoes and head for the nearest public courts in an attempt to emulate the skills of superstars such as Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Justine Henin.
A man has been fined £1,250 for selling alcohol to underage
customers from his Bexleyheath store - after investigations by Bexley Council
trading standards officers and the police.
To reach as many carers in Bexley as possible with information
about support and advice on offer, Bexley Carers Services have organised a
series of events to coincide with Carers' Week 2007 (11-17 June).
Bexley Council understands that today Bexley Academy of Music and Performing Arts has placed itself in liquidation.
Little Miss Muffet, Mary Mary Quite Contrary and Old Mother Hubbard, were all guests of honour at Slade Green Infants School last Friday (25 May) when children enjoyed storytelling fun as part of their annual book event.
People in Blackfen are being urged to get behind the final phase of a large-scale clean-up operation in the town centre, which aims to help the community reclaim its local alleyways.
