Full News Report

1st November 2024

Widegates pays tribute with Remembrance garden display

THE tradition of having an annual Widegates Remembrance garden display has been maintained, thanks to Morval Parish Council chairman Andy Jackson and his colleagues.

At the Council’s monthly meeting in Widegates Village Hall last month, the Clerk, Laura Storey, reported that Barbara Winter, Jane Viney and their husbands would be unable to stage the Village Green tribute this year due to unforeseen personal circumstances.

But Council Chairman Andy Jackson, a former commando who spent 17 years in the Army, immediately promised to keep the memorial going.

Praising both Barbara and Jane for their previous efforts which, he said, were much appreciated by parishioners, Cllr Jackson said that councillors would take the lead and with the assistance of his vice-chairman, Cllr John Collings, and Cllr Toni Patterson, the garden tribute is now in place.

“I hope successive Parish Councils will now uphold this tradition for years to come,” said Cllr Jackson.

The Act of Remembrance service at the War Memorial, Morval, will take place on Sunday, November 10, assembling at 10.45 am. It will be followed by a Remembrance Service in the nearby St Wenna’s Parish Church, and everyone is invited to attend either or both services.

THE next meeting of Morval Parish Council takes place at the Village Hall, Widegates at 7.00 pm on Wednesday, November 6.

The agenda is now available at: 

https://www.morvalparishcouncil.org.uk/data/uploads/921_221182633.pdf. 

Members of the public are invited to attend and while they cannot take part in the actual meeting itself, they can address councillors during the Public Participation session in the first 15 minutes of the meeting.

Each speaker gets a maximum of five minutes, although more can be allocated at the chairman’s discretion.

The official agenda for the monthly meetings always invites ‘members of the public to address the meeting in relation to the business to be carried out at the meeting’ but, in reality, almost anything topic can be raised.

Speakers do not have to give the chairman or the clerk pre-warning of what they will mention – although, as ever, prior notice can be useful if a satisfactory outcome is to be swiftly achieved.

Anyone interested in speaking is asked to notify the Clerk, Laura Storey 

(clerk@morvalparishcouncil.org.uk) beforehand as a matter of courtesy.