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Crosspool Forum committee are trying to reunite this pouch with the owner. It was lost at the 2016 Summer Fayre at CDYST on Coldwell Lane. The contents are quite special and may have some sentimental value. If you think it is yours, please email crosspoolforum@gmail.com.
Residents in Crosspool nominated and elected Glenda de Brouwer the 2016 Crosspool Person of the Year.
The award was presented to Glenda by Crosspool Forum chair Ian Hague during the Lydgate Junior School’s Friday morning assembly, marking the valued and much-appreciated contribution she has made to our community.
Glenda’s dedicated leadership of the Beavers every week in the Benty Lane scout hut for the past 12 years and her positive influence as a teacher at Lydgate Junior School has benefited many children and parents and made her both well-known and respected in the community.
The time and leadership Glenda has given through scouting, teaching and many other things has led to countless young people having life-enriching experiences.
Crosspool would not be such a great place to live without people like Glenda, who just gets on with serving the community week in, week out.
Whilst at the school, Ian Hague and vice chair of the Crosspool Forum Steve Reynolds took the opportunity to present a £300 cheque towards the school funds, a proportion of money raised from this year’s Crosspool Forum’s festival.
A young person’s purse was handed in at last Saturday’s busy Summer Fayre on Coldwell Lane.
If you have lost your purse and think it may be yours then please call 0114 266 3473, or contact the Crosspool Forum via crosspoolforum@fsmail.net giving a brief description and we’ll try to return it to its owner.
Also – if anyone has found a child’s pink rain mac that was lost at the Crosspool Summer Fayre on Saturday, please let us know.
Two items were found at the end of the street market – are they yours?
If so, please email batchelor.cl@gmail.com
The list of roads where we are expecting to see scarecrows is below. Happy hunting!
Street |
Scarecrow names/themes |
| Benty Lane | CarnivalBeavers around the world join the carnival |
| Barholm Road | Ellie FaulknerJessica Ennis |
| Barnfield Drive | Carnival |
| Cardoness Road | Rio the carnival bird |
| Den Bank Crescent | Doriteia de Den Bank Domingo de Den Bank |
| Dransfield Road | Rio the carnival queen Take a Daly dive |
| Forres Road | Olympic cheer girl |
| Hagg Lane | Action! |
| Lydgate Lane | Rio Olympics |
| Manchester Road | Bob the Olympic scooter champion Rosie Arch Arthur the Archer Goalkeeper Graham Golfing Bob Horse riding hero The fat golfer Jazzy javelin |
| Marsh Lane | Olympics, let’s dive in |
| Rygate Road | Football |
| Sandygate Road | Olympic Gold-winning symnastics Gloria |
From Rachel Suddrick, Sally Parkinson, Debbie Boyd and Beckie Howe:
We would like to invite you to join in with the Crosspool Festival scarecrow competition. The theme for the festival is Carnival and the Olympics so we would like you as a family to make a scarecrow that represents either. This might be a sportsman, Brazilian carnival queen or a carnival animal, go wild and use your imagination!
If you have not made a scarecrow before, it is easier than you might think and there is lots of information and advice online.
All scarecrows need to be displayed on or in the front of your home, visible from the road. This might be in a window, a front garden or even on your door! You can make them as big or as small as you like!
They should be in place by 10 am on Saturday 25 June and should remain in place throughout the festival. Each entry will be judged by local sculpture Noel Lockley at some point during the festival. Winners will be announced on Saturday 3 July at the Festival Fayre. This year we are also adding a local children’s group category, so if you are involved in any group that works with children in Crosspool, then please ask them if they would like to enter a crow.
Monday 13 June is the closing date for the scarecrow competition.
The prizes this year are
You can enter via Nest cafe or by emailing beckiegreenuk@yahoo.co.uk. Please supply the following information:
Family name or group name:
Scarecrow name/theme:
Address the scarecrow will be displayed at:
Contact number:
You’ll also need to supply a £3 entry fee.
All profits will be split between LISA and FOLA. Entry forms can also be collected and returned to Nest in Crosspool. If you go to school in Crosspool but don’t live in Crosspool and would still like to join in, please contact us and we will arrange for your scarecrow to be displayed.
We hope you have great fun making your scarecrows together as a family and will enjoy spotting scarecrows around Crosspool during the festival week. A list of roads on which we expect scarecrows to be displayed will be available to collect from NEST from Friday 17 June and on this website.
The 2016 festival runs Friday 24 June-3 July, with the Summer Fayre scheduled for Saturday 2 July.
This year’s festival theme is Carnival, a summer party with great activities happening on the streets to coincide with this year’s Olympics in Brazil, the queen’s 90th celebrations and more besides.
The organisers are hoping it’ll be a colourful and exciting week for the community to get out and about, meet the neighbours, make new friends and try new activities.
You may have already picked up a copy of the programme from one of our local shops. If not you can browse it online now!
Join us on the afternoons of Sunday 5 and Sunday 12 June at 2pm-5pm to learn how to make a beautiful willow lantern.
Materials included in £5 ticket. We will be making simple stars, globes and cone lanterns… but if you feel like being more adventurous we will be on hand to help you make your creation.
Contact Lucy Hughes: lucyehughes@live.co.uk
To enter the competition, take a great photo that shows ACTION and email it to us. It doesn’t need to capture movement in the photo as that is technically quite challenging but just something that suggests some action is about to happen or that there is a sense of movement.
Remember, the photo should make an impact, tell a story and follow the theme of ACTION.
Categories are open to anyone living/working/ studying in the area and are as follows:
Closing date for entries is Sunday 19 June.
Email your photo as a jpg to: crosspoolfestivalphotos@gmail.com.
Please state:
There will be prizes for all the category winners.
The adult winner’s photo will also be included in this year’s Crosspool Calendar. The best three in each category will be put on the Crosspool Forum website www.crosspool.info and voting for the winners will start from Monday 20 June. The exhibition at St Columba’s will display all the entries on Wednesday 29 June from 1.30pm-4.30pm. You can also meet photographers from Sheffield Photographic Society, see their photos on display and ask them your photo questions. Maybe we can start a local photography group? The winners will be announced at St Columba’s on Wednesday 29 June at 4pm. Tea and coffee will be provided by St Columba’s.
Don’t miss the Crosspool Summer Fayre on Saturday 2 July, one of the many events taking place as part of this year’s Crosspool Festival. Look out for the full programme coming soon!
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