Minutes of the Threlkeld Parish Council Meeting held at the Blencathra Centre on Tuesday 23^rd April at 7.30pm.

Present:  Cllr Carolyn Cripps chaired the meeting with Cllr Guy Duxbury, Cllr Donald Angus, Cllr David Huxley, Cllr Roger Bragg, Cllr Dot Benson, Cllr Tim Foster, Cllr Les Dalzell and Cllr Madeleine Singleton.

Members of the Public present:

Mr Pickering

Mr Le Huray

Mr Bragg (Visitor to Threlkeld)

Cathy Reynolds – Eden District Council

Sara Watson – Eden District Council

Robert and Val Graham will deliver the Saturday Herald Paper to anyone. 

If you require this service please contact us on 017684 80100 or 07771611088.

On a bitterly cold Monday morning five hardy souls turned out to remove old tree guards and prune trees on the recreation field.  The work was completed with a fire that was most welcome on such a cold day.

The next meet will on Monday April 8^th at 10am on Kiln  How.

The task will be removing growing tubes. pruning trees and clearing gutters.  We hope to have a fire to burn the brash.  Please wear old cloths and bring cutting tools.  Also a packed lunch if you intend to stay all day.

The following items were discussed:

New Parish Councillor

There was one application for the Vacancy of Parish Councillor. This was Mrs Singleton, who left the room whilst this was discussed.Mrs Singleton’s application was discussed, and the Cllr Les Dalzell Proposed that Mrs Singleton be co-opted onto the Parish Council, this was seconded by Cllr Dot Benson, and agreed by all.The Parish Council welcomed Mrs Singleton onto the Parish Council.The Clerk to arrange for all necessary paperwork to be completed my Mrs Singleton.

At our meeting on March 19^th nine of the volunteers were joined by Trevor Roberts, Chairman of the Village Hall Trust, who came to see how we were getting on.

The landscape section at the top of the main banner has now been painted.  We saw work progress towards representations of the Village Hall (embroidered), C2C signs (appliqué), sheep (knitted), a red squirrel (knitted) and a quarry worker (stamp work).

Recycling

Thank you to Fiona, Anne, Marian, Dave and Steven for helping to keep the recycling area tidy over the past few weeks.

Keep Calm and Flourish

Threlkeld School celebrated a Health and Wellbeing week.  Teachers planned a programme of activities that addressed both a healthy body and healthy mind, therefore there were sporting activities and dance, and also music, arts and relaxation activities such as yoga.

Ruth Taylor introduced this month’s speaker Jeff Taylor who gave us a captivating talk on the subject of ‘John Corry’s Keswick’. 

Revitalisation Project Work Starts

At long last work on the revitalisation scheme has started. The Village Hall Trust has signed a contract with Postlethwaite Construction Ltd of Carlisle. Stripping out and preliminary external work started on the 25^th March. Thanks to Lucy Bennett and Katie Hewitson for doing the honours of kicking the project off - details were in all the local papers.

I heard a muted tinkling
as if of fairy bells
but sheep were too far distant
grazing upon the fells....

Rev’d Peter Barnes, The Rectory, Threlkeld (79714)