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The Tapton Hill Congregational Church fayre, which was due to take place last Saturday 23 March, will now take place this Saturday, 30 March from 2pm.
The fayre was postponed due to the snow last weekend.
Update 27 March: The Easter morning bonfire in Carver Fields is cancelled due to the snow. Other activities on Easter morning will go ahead as planned.
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St. Columba’s church will be celebrating Easter morning, Sunday 31 March, with a bonfire and service held on Carver Fields at 8.30am.
There’s a celebration breakfast in the church hall at 9am with an Easter egg hunt, and at 10am there is a festive and family-friendly service of holy communion in the church.
To join St Columba’s for the bonfire, take the footpath off Hagg Lane opposite the junction with Den Bank Drive.
You’re welcome to join them at whichever time/event suits you. Remember to put your clocks forward the day before.
Snow falling in Crosspool over the last 36 hours has caused problems on local roads and disruption to public transport and events.
The snowfall in Crosspool seems to be around 15cm, although the wind has caused drifts in some places of up to 50cm.
The 51 bus has been disrupted, with a Saturday morning update on the Travel South Yorkshire website stating the service was terminating at Brook hill and Gleadless.
The snow is still falling, with main roads and side roads not clear at 11am today. Some forecasts are indicating that the snow may ease off this afternoon.
Do check up on your neighbours who may feel isolated and vulnerable during the cold spell.
A Community Assemblies meeting takes place at Wesley Hall Methodist Church in Crookes on Thursday 21 March 2013, starting at 7pm.
The Sheffield Folk Chorale will be performing in Crosspool on 16 March in aid of Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospital.
The event takes place at Stephen Hill Methodist church on Manchester Road and starts at 7.30pm. For tickets (£5) telephone 0114 233 8574 or 0114 286 3637.
Crosspool Forum is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year and is looking for more people to get involved – could that be you?
You can read more about Crosspool Forum’s history here. It was set up in 2003 to help make our community a great place to live. This is done through organising events, working to improve our neighbourood and tackling issues raised by residents. It also publishes a quarterly magazine and of course this website.
Steered by Chairman Ian Hague, Crosspool Forum is run entirely by volunteers through its 15 elected committee members. The continued success and expansion of the Forum has meant that in recent months its work has been spread between just a few people and it’d be great to build on this success with you on board.
Can you help? If you can spare a modest amount of time to take on a small administrative roll or one of the two vacant management committee positions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with chairman Ian Hague using crosspoolforum@fsmail.net or by telephone on 0114 335 1674/07713 687 955.
In particular, we’re looking for people:
Getting involved is rewarding and can make a real difference to our community, so please give it some thought.
Local police officers will be offering advice and answering questions on Wednesday 20 March outside Crosspool shops.
The Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) will be in Crosspool from 2–3pm. It’s your opportunity to meet some of the team, get community safety advice and discuss any issues that are relevant to you.
If you can’t get to the shops on Wednesday then you can also contact the South West SNT by telephoning 101.
There is also a Fulwood and area Neighbourhood Watch meeting taking place on Tuesday 16 April at Stephen Hill Methodist Church in Crosspool. A speaker will be discussing safety in the use of the internet covering such areas as chatting, buying and using email. Refreshments will be available from 6.45pm, with the meeting starting at 7.15pm.
The temporary traffic lights in Broomhill are not due to be removed until Monday 4 March.
Work is currently underway to excavate up to 15 meters of footway to locate high voltage cables that have caused loss of power.
The multi-way temporary traffic lights are causing delays to traffic travelling through Broomhill. During the morning rush hour tailbacks are stretching up Manchester Road all the way to Crosspool, causing delays to commuters.
Update 28 February: the wors appear to have been completed unexpectedly early, so the temporary traffic lights have now been removed.
The new issue of the Crosspool Clarion will soon be landing on your doormat. If you can’t wait, then download and read a PDF of it below.
Download current issue: Spring 2013, volume 10, issue 1 (PDF, 946KB)
Download current issue: Spring 2013, volume 10, issue 1 (PDF, 946KB)
The Crosspool Clarion is the official newsletter of Crospool Forum. It is a free, quarterly publication, with over 2,500 copies delivered to local households.
Some back issues of past editions of the Crosspool Clarion are also available to download.
To read PDFs on your computer, you may need to first download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Rivelin Valley-based Hillside Harvest have sent the following report and photos from last weekend’s open day. Their next open day is all about plot planning and is taking place on Saturday March 16 from 11am.
On a sunny, dry Saturday in February, we came together for our first Open Day in 2013.
Apart from our members, we had a very eager group of students from the University of Sheffield, and a good number of other visitors. The students made quite a difference to the various areas of the site, including bringing back to life a number of plots.
The visitors were treated to an in-depth training session, by a local expert, on composting, learning such things as the importance of getting the balance between the right amounts of nitrogen and carbon-based products!
In the middle of the day, we all gathered for a shared lunch of a vegetable stew and a number of cakes (though not together!). It was also a time of getting to know each other and to share our joys and failures in composting and other gardening activities.
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