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Last year’s well dressing helpers are being asked to check their garages and garden huts as we are not sure where they were stored after the 2017 festival.
If you have any information please get in touch with Crosspool Forum using crosspoolforum@gmail.com or 07713 687 955.
A local resident who has spent decades helping out in our local community has been rewarded with this year’s Crosspool Person of the Year award.
Sheila Lomas is well known for her voluntary work at Tapton Congregational Church where she has been involved with hosting garden parties, Christmas events and summer fetes and other fundraisers.
Her selfless work in the local community has been truly remarkable and she is a worthy recipient for this award.
In 1997 Sheila started the Soup and a Roll lunch club with 6 guests. Still running today, it has grown to nearly 40 diners, meeting monthly for lunch, a natter and an afternoon of entertainment.
Crosspool Forum had arranged for the Lord Mayor Councillor Anne Murphy to make the presentation at the Open Meeting on Thursday, but due to a last minute reschedule the Lord Mayor was unable to attend and has therefore kindly agreed to officially present Sheila with the award a little later in the year.
Wednesday’s quiz night at The Sportsman pub was well attended as usual.
The local quiz regulars were joined by visitors from Stannington and Hillsborough as resident quizmaster Roger chose a selection of traditional and Crosspool quiz questions to make the evening enjoyable for all.
The speed limit on a stretch of Manchester Road in Crosspool has been reduced to 30mph.
For around 40 years the speed limit has been 40mph between Den Bank Avenue and Coppice View.
There has been continued concern by residents for the safety of both drivers and pedestrians along this part of the road and over the years there have been requests for it to be reduced back to its original speed limit of 30mph.
An elderly gentleman has been in touch to say his wife has lost her gold necklace either on Lydgate Hall Crescent or between St. Columba’s Church and Stephen Hill on the evening of Saturday 24 March 2017.
If you have found it, please can you get in touch with Crosspool Forum Chairman Ian Hague using crosspoolforum@gmail.com or by telephone on 07713 687 955.
2017 Crosspool Calendars are almost out of stock. If you’d like a copy or two for stocking fillers then make sure you pick them up before they sell out.
They’re available from GT News, Charisma, Nest, Enhance and the pet shop.
Many thanks to those who have already purchased their copies. Money raised will help Crosspool Forum funds for local events and improvements to our neighbourhood.
The Crosspool Christmas trees will be installed above our local shops on Sunday morning.
If you have an hour to spare from 9:30am on Sunday 11 December 2016, any help with putting the lights on the trees would be welcomed and very much appreciated.
The council have proposed plans for 33 allotments at the Spider Park, Lodge Moor, with car parking and access from Blackbrook Road.
A consultation meeting is to be held at St Luke’s church on Monday 14 November at 6:30pm.
For more information contact: Head of Service, Countryside and Environment Section, Chris Heeley on Christopher.Heeley@sheffield.gov.uk or 0114 273 4285.
When Crosspool historian Joe Castle, 90, received a parcel of documents through the post he was shocked to find them nibbled around the edges.
A letter from Royal Mail was inside the parcel, explaining that despite putting slug pellets inside their boxes, snails had climbed inside the letterbox and munched away at his package.
Joe said: “I find it all a  little bit comical. Although a bit nibbled around the edges the documents weren’t too badly damaged. I think you’ll agree that it gives a whole new meaning to snail mail.”
The letter from Royal Mail explained: “I am sorry that the enclosed letter has been damaged and subsequently delayed. The item was found during a scheduled collection from a post box and had been damaged by snails. Unfortunately, despite regular cleaning and placing slug pellets in the boxes, we find that slugs and snails still occasionally manage to creep into the apertures, fall down into the box and start eating the glue on the stamps and envelopes.”
The statement went on to apologise for the unusual tampering and delay to Joe’s letter.
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