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  • Mayor hopes charities will ‘pocket’ proceeds from Snooker Knockout

    THE Mayor of Thame, a keen snooker player himself, wants other snooker players to join him in taking part in a Charity Snooker Knockout in aid of his chosen charities, Thame Players and Thame SAFARI (Self Advocacy For Adults Requiring Independence).

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    The Mayor or Thame, Peter Lambert attempts to pot the brown in preparation for his Charity Snooker Knockout (Image by Frank Millar)

    The Charity Snooker Knockout will start at 7pm on Thursday, March 27, at Thame Snooker Club in Wellington Street, Thame. The entry fee is £5 which includes all table time while playing. There will also be a few tables with free use during the tournament but the Mayor, Cllr Peter Lambert, hopes that a donation will be made.

    The Mayor, who usually plays snooker twice a week,  has emphasised that there is no need to book a place in the tournament, just to turn up on the day at 7pm to take part.

     

  • Run, walk, cycle or roll a mile for Sport Relief 2014

    THE number of Thame people and organisations taking part in Sport Relief 2014, is growing and Thame Lions Club has announced that it will be hosting a Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile and is inviting everyone to take part.

    Jack Shrimpton and Martin King, from Racquets Fitness Centre, Spin for Sport Relief back in 2012
    Jack Shrimpton and Martin King, from Racquets Fitness Centre, Spin for Sport Relief back in 2012

    “Come on down and walk, jog, run or roll the Mile through stunning scenery, including the Phoenix Trail and Cuttlebrook Nature Reserve,” exhorts Thame Lions Club on the Sport Relief websitehttp://www.sportrelief.com/

    So, “Grab your friends and family and snap up your place at The Thame Lions Mile today!” Full information can instructions for entering can be found here http://my.sportrelief.com/search/event/result?id=1872&location=thame&event-type=run

    Racquets Fitness Centre has loaned out four of its Spinning bikes to local businesses,  CPM, Nationwide Bank, McCormack Spices and Sainsbury’s for their fund-raising events. During Sport Relief weekend, the Centre will be hosting the Squash Inter-county over 45s weekend, and will be showing Sport Relief on its TVs and running a Zumba class on the Friday night, March 21, at 6.15pm and all Thame residents are welcome to go along to the centre in North Street, Thame (at the back of the Cattlemarket) for a small donatin to Sport Relief.

    Sport Relief 2014 runs from Friday, March 21, to Sunday, March 23.

  • Retail apprentice wanted in Thame

    Retail apprentice wanted at Whats Cooking in Thame http://bit.ly/1ook2iN

    What's Cooking's premises in Cornmarket, Thame
    What’s Cooking’s premises in Cornmarket, Thame

    This role will involve serving customers, taking orders and payments and dealing with customer enquiries as well as being involved in the sales promotion and merchandising of the food products within the shop. Apply here http://bit.ly/1az8cco and search for vacancy ref 403955

  • Family search: Jack Featherstone & Sonja Gordon

    FAMILY search request: Does anyone remember Jack Featherstone and Sonja Gordon who lived in Thame from 1981 to 1987?  We would be interested in any information.

    Please respond via The Editor – editor@thame.net

  • Join the Mayor to celebrate Thame’s Health Centre make-over

    THAME’S Health Centre has been manfully carrying on over the past twelve months, providing medical care for its 15,000 patients, during the inevitable disruption of a period of complete refurbishment.

    The temporary Rycote Practice waiting room during the rennovation work
    The temporary Rycote Practice waiting room during the rennovation work

     

     

     

     

    To celebrate the completion of the work, the Rycote Practice and Trinity Health are holding an open evening on Thursday, March 20, for patients to see for themselves the final results which the centre hopes will improve the service offered there for both patients and the medical staff.

    Once the door are opened at 5:45pm, and refreshments have been shared, Dr James Weir & Dr Charles Chubb will welcome everyone and give a summary of the redevlopment work at 6pm. Then, Rycote Practice Patient Group Chair, Andy Jinman and Trinity Health Patient Group Chair, Sandra Davison, will talk about The Importance of Good Healthcare facilities in Thame – A patient View.

    The highlight of the evening will be the long anticipated, judging of the Rycote Practice Photo Competition, judged by Wendy Court (PPG – Patient Participation Group member) and a panel of judges. The official opening of the newly refurbished health centre will then be carried out by the Mayor of Thame, Peter Lambert, before groups of visitors will be taken on a tour of the building in informal groups by staff of both Practices.

    Anyone who would like to attend should contact: katy.clarke1@nhs.net by Wednesday, March 19.

  • Sue needs your help to spruce up the town

    Thame Scouts with their collective rubbish after Thame Tidy Day 2013
    Thame Scouts with their collective rubbish after Thame Tidy Day 2013

    PLANS for this year’s Thame Tidy Day, which in past years has seen the town centre phone box painted, bus stops spruced up, the Phoenix Trail cleared of litter, shopping trolleys and other discarded junk, benches repaired, weeds from gutters removed, hedges trimmed and pathways cleared, as well as the whole town being blitzed of litter, are underway.

    The event was started in 2011 by the then Mayor, Adam Buckland, who also organsied the event in 2012. Then last year, Town Cllrs Mary Stiles and Andy Gunn took over leading the event. Thame’s top Womble for the big tidy up of 2014, is Thame Squash Coach and business woman, Sue Martin Downhill who has issued a plea for local people, organisations, schools, churches etc to join her for a meeting at Racquets Fitness Centre on Friday, March 21, at 6.30pm.

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    Sue Downhill

    If you or your organisation can help in any way, Sue would love to hear from you via email: suedownhill@gmail.com She would like local people to suggest places around Thame that need tidying up. 

     

  • AMENDED: Notices of Road Works – Thame

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    BELL LANE, Thame – Scheduled Road Works – DELAYED
    Oxfordshire County Council will be closing Bell Lane to westbound traffic only and issuing a ‘No Waiting’ restriction in order to facilitate kerb drainage and repair works on a delayed date of Monday, March 24, for five days. Access will be maintained for emergency service vehicles and also limited access for those residents within the closure area, subject to the progress of the works. Please note that access routes will depend on exactlywhere the works vehicles are at any time and may need to be negotiated with the gang on site as necessary. For further information regarding the works please call OCC Highway and Transport on 0845 310 11 11.

    THAME PARK ROAD Scheduled Road Works – Resurfacing and junction improvement works on the B4012 Thame Park Road are scheduled to commence mid-March and are expected to last a total of five weeks. For the first week, traffic on Thame Park Road will be managed with traffic lights and for the remainder or the works a diversion sign route will operate.

    BELL LANE Scheduled Road Works
    Bell Lane, Thame, will be closed to westbound traffic only with a ‘No Waiting’ restriction for kerb drainage and repair works, on Monday, March 17, for five days. Access will be maintained for emergency service vehicles and also limited access for those residents within the closure area, subject to the progress of the works. Please note that access routes will depend on exactly where the works vehicles are at any time and may need to be negotiated with the gang on site as necessary. For further information regarding the works please call OCC Highway and Transport on 0845 310 11 11.

  • AMENDMENT: Get set for a ‘World of Sport’ Carnival

    Thame Carnival 2011, Thame Headmaster, Alan Haigh, shares the stage with Peter Andre
    Thame Carnival 2011, Thame Headmaster, Alan Haigh, shares the stage with Peter Andre

    AMENDMENT: I would like to point out that the town council will still be represented on the Carnival Committee, and that the omission of this fact in the report below, was in NO WAY a deliberate act to put the council in a negative light. (See Reponses 2 Comments above)

    THAME Carnival looked in danger of having to be cancelled this year, after the town council announced that it no longer had the resources to take the lead in organising the event. But thankfully, this week, Thame resident and business woman, Sue Martin-Downhill, has stepped forward and volunteered to lead the Carnival committee.

    The 2014 Carnival will now go ahead on Saturday, June 14, 2014, and appropriately enough as Sue is a qualified Squash coach, the theme will be World of Sport. So, if you or your organisation or club would like to enter a float in the parade or have a stall at the event, you can contact Sue on: suedownhill@gmail.com

  • Call to action to bring ‘little High Street’ to the Thame Show

    AS the sun begins to shine, and thoughts turn to warm, balmy days ahead, it’s good to be reminded of some of the highlights to come in Thame’s events calender. One of these has to be the Oxfordshire & Thame Agricultural Show, which returns to its traditional third Thursday in September, the 18th, after a short dalliance with July in 2013, following a two-year sabbatical to take stock after a financially crippling few years.

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    Thame Show was primarily an agricultural and produce show which took place to coincide with the farming calendar and by returning to September, after public consultation, it will be going back to its roots. However, most people agree that the show needs some sort of injection of new thinking and a Thame Town Councillor has put forward a proposal to bring Thame’s High Street into the Show Ground. Cllr Vaughan Humphries’ clarion call to Thame’s town centre shops and businesses is to go out in the form of a letter in the next few days. In it he writes:

    “I have been in discussion with the Show Director, along with 21st Century Thame and other interested parties about a proposal that I hope will breathe some life back into the Show and foster better links with the independent retailers of Thame. 

    “What I propose is that we reproduce what is good about Thame town centre and create a ‘Little High Street’ that will form a section on its own.

    “What I hope this will achieve is to take advantage of the thousands of people, both local and from further afield to get a taste of what Thame has to offer when the Show is not on. If there were a large number of High Street businesses represented and if we gather momentum now, we can benefit from SODC’s Town and Village Infrastructure Fund, which could potentially pay for capital equipment. There is also a small amount of revenue funding via the Thame Action Plan that could help with other non-capital items of expenditure.

    “We can only achieve support from the local authorities if we can show that we have strong support from local retailers, who intend on paying for a stall at the show. If we can get 15-30 businesses to confirm their attendance, this would provide enough evidence of strong support. Thame Town Council also has the capacity to allocate some funding, based on the evidence that there would be significant and sustained benefit for the town centre.

    “The Association have offered to extend their 20% discount offer that ends on the 28th March, suffice to say, I am doing my utmost to mitigate any expense you would incur by having a stall, but I really need your support to make it happen!

    “Trade stands are from as little as £140 + VAT (less 20% = £134.40) for a 4m wide x 6m deep pitch and electricity connections from £60 + VAT for a double-socket @ 1kW. If you would like an application pack, please do not hesitate to contact the Show Office, who are located at: Suite 3, 55 North Street, Thame, OX9 3BH. Alternatively, you can email them at info@thameshow.co.uk – please put ‘Little High Street’ in the subject header.

    “If you are interested in participating in this initiative, please contact me via vhumphries@gmail.com or collect a form from the Town Hall marked for the attention of ‘Councillor Humphries’. If there are any points on which you would like further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact me, or if you have any further comments or ideas, please do not hesitate to add it to your reply.” Cllr Vaughan Humphries

    ATTRACTIONS for 2014, include a Fun Dog Show, Food And Drink Village, Home & Garden Marquee (Formerly Domestic), Food Hall, a Bakery Display, Shopping & Craft Marquee, Trade stalls, Livestock Classes Sheep / Cattle, Showjumping, Showing Classes, Alpaca Display, Bird Display, Rabbit Display, Vintage Machinery, Lorries & Tractors, Steam Fair, Classic Cars, Morris Dancers, Sheepdogs Display, Falconry Display, Pig Agility, Mules R Us and LOADS more!

    Tickets will be available from July. Adult tickets £12 in advance or £15 on the day, Senior Citizen Tickets £8 & £10 on the day, Junior Tickets: 5-15 Years (when accompanied by a paying adult) FREE, Junior Tickets 5-15 Years £4 in advance or £5 on the day, Under 5s Entrance FREE

  • Increased housing numbers: ‘We will work to minimise any effect on Thame’

    FOLLOWING the report (SHMAR) on new, increased figures for future housing need in South Oxfordshire, Thame Town Council has responded to the question of whether Thame’s Neighbourhood Plan could be impacted.

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    The Town Clerk, Helen Stewart, said: “Until SODC (South Oxfordshire District Council) decide on how they are to allocate the additional numbers across the district, we cannot offer much of a response apart from obviously working with SODC to seek and secure a distribution strategy that minimises any effect on Thame.”

    Cllr Mike Dyer, who was involved in developing the TNP, responded: “There is clearly no need for SODC or Thame Town Council to panic over this report. It is also worth bearing in mind that SODC, having an adopted Core Strategy, is in a stronger position than some other districts and, within that context, the Thame Neighbourhood Plan provides us with a solid foundation.”

    READ yesterday’s report here: https://www.thame.net/archives/13474