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Crosspool residents can have their Christmas tree shredded free this Sunday morning, 6 January.
You can bring your Christmas tree to precinct between 10am and 12 noon where a tree surgeon will be on hand to shred it.
Valleyside Garden Centre is also offering to collect and recycle your Christmas tree over the weekend of 15 and 16 January for £3. Contact them on 0114 230 1925 for more information.
The Christmas trees and lights above the Crosspool shops are due to come down on Sunday.
Do you know anyone in Crosspool who is learning to use computers or who has not used one before?
Crosspool Forum is organising more computer courses to help people build their IT skills. Enrolment is on Monday 7 January 2013 between 10am and 12pm at the Scout Hall on Benty Lane.
Following this, different courses for beginners and the more advanced are expected to take place on:
A laptop is provided and a projector is used to display lessons on to a large screen.
To reserve a place in a class or find our more information, contact Ian Hague on 0114 335 1674 or Maxine on 0114 250 0613. You can also email crosspoolforum@fsmail.net.
The Friends of Bole Hills are looking for anyone with an interest in the Crookes park to get involved with their group.
Contact Liz on friendsofthebolehills@yahoo.co.uk or 07734 801082 for more information.
Their provisional 2013 meeting dates are:
The usual meeting venue is the Bowling Pavillion in the Bole Hills Park, starting at 7pm.
First has announced the timetable for the 51 bus route over Christmas and new year.
It includes a special 51 service on Boxing day and New Year’s day with a flat rate fare of £1.
Full details are on the First South Yorkshire website:
Christmas and new year First bus services (2012/13) in South Yorkshire
Stephen Hill Methodist Church and St. Columba’s Church invite you to join them for a joint carol service on Sunday 16 December at 4pm at St. Columba’s Church.
You can hear the Christmas story through readings, poetry, plus traditional and local carols, with warming refreshments afterwards.
Drivers on the bottom end of Manchester Road will have noticed the electronic speed indication displays (SIDs) return last month. We got in touch the council to find out what data about traffic speeds the SIDs have collected.
The speed limit for this stretch of road is 30mph. The idea is that the SIDs slow cars down by making drivers aware when they are driving at unsafe speeds.
The data below from previous periods when SIDs have been installed on Manchester Road shows a reduction in average speed when they are present:
| Period | Average vehicle speed into town | Average vehicle speed away from town |
| No SIDs on site | 34mph | 31mph |
| February 2011 | 31mph | 29mph |
| July 2010 | 31mph | 27mph |
The SIDs on Manchester Road will be there for an eight-week period before they are rotated to another site by the Central Community Assembly.
A new bench has been installed on the precinct next to the outward-bound bus stop.
The old bench had previously been removed by Street Force due to damage.
Three events mark the start of Christmas festivities in Crosspool this weekend.
On Saturday 1 December from 10am-2pm Crosspool WI hosts a Christmas Fayre in Lounge@Crosspool cafe. Pop along for craft stalls, refreshments, homemade cakes and their great Crosspool bake-off!
On Sunday morning the Christmas trees will be going up in the precinct above our local shops. So look out for them when you pass through next week.
And on Sunday afternoon from 1.30-3.30pm there’s a Christmas disco for children between 3-11 years at St Columba’s church hall. Father Christmas will bring a present for every child and refreshments and nibbles will be served.
The four local Crosspool churches have announced their programme of services for the Christmas season.
In addition to the church services, Loxley Silver Band will be playing local carols and Christmas tunes from 8.30pm at The Sportsman pub on Sunday 9 December, and there are also carols at Sandygate on Thursday 20 December.
16 December 10am Family Communion; 4pm Carol Service (with Stephen Hill Methodist Church)
23 December 10am Morning Worship
24 December 4pm Candlelight Nativity Service
25 December 10am Christmas Family Communion
24 December 4pm Children’s Nativity Service; 8pm Christmas Night Mass
25 December 10am Christmas Day Mass
23 December 2.45pm Candlelight Service
25 December 10.15am Christmas Day Service
24 December 4pm Children’s Service with Christingles; 11.30pm Midnight Communion
25 December 10am Worship for all the family
Hallam FC chaplain Reverend Peter Allan is to host an evening of Christmas carols, mulled wine and mince pies at Sandygate, the oldest football ground in the world.
From 7pm on Thursday 20 December Peter will lead a choir and guests through some best-loved carols around the tree in the 1860 Suite.
All the family are welcome and the bar will stay open afterwards.
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