Veronica Goddard

Wednesday, 1st Funding Conference, John Fretwell Facility

                              Group Leaders’ Meeting

Monday 6th - 9th - sick leave

Friday, 10th Official opening of Big Wheel in Mansfield

Monday, 13th Planning Committee

Tuesday, 14th Navi saheli Committee meeting

Monday, 20th Joint Housing Strategy briefing

Tuesday, 21st H & S Day of Action

Wednesday, 22nd Joint Housing Strategy, Rainworth

Thursday, 23rd Patch 21 Walkabout

                             Manor School Governor photocall

Monday 27th Friends of Peafield Park meeting

Tuesday, 28th Citizens’ Panel AGM, Sudexo

                           Fencing contractor meeting ref Charlesworth Court

Friday, 31st Meet Your Local Councillor, Mansfield Woodhouse

                       Hallowe’en presentation of Commendation for Playscheme Leaders

Monday, 1st Visit to Hornby plantation, Friends of Peafield Park & Hornby

                       Regional Development strategy, Council

Tuesday, 2nd Navi Saheli, lunch and open meeting

Wednesday, 3rd Site visit

Thursday, 4th Working on Big Lottery Fund for Navi Saheli

Monday, 8th playscheme meeting

Tuesday, 9th Council Meeting

Wednesday, 10th Delegated Planning Decisions, Council

Thursday & Friday, Holiday

Monday, 15th Manchester Conference - Participatory budgeting

Tuesday, 16th Group meeting

Friday, 19th Meet Your Local Councillor, Mansfield

Tuesday, 23rd group meeting followed by Full Council Meeting

Wednesday, 24th Jigsaw AGM

Thursday, 25th Area Assembly

Friday, 26th Navi Saheli CommitteeMonday 29th Friends of Peafield Park & Hornby plantation

Monday, 29th Select Commission 1

…and given the same rights as their UK and Commonwealth counterparts, then please go to this website and sign up: give your support to this worthy campaign. You will even get a ‘thank you’ from Joanna Lumley, their staunchest supporter!

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….the sole preserve of Pagans and the practitioners of the black arts. It is now firmly in the ownership of families, especially children.

This last Hallowe’en I went as a helper to the home of Sue Wills, the driving force of the Peafields Playscheme, along with Carol Stares. Sue and Carol, secretary and chairman respectively, were each presented by Deputy Mayor, Roger Sutcliffe with a Mayor’s Citation in recognition of the hard work they put in to the Peafield Carnival and Playscheme. Sue’s house was decked out with ghouls, grave stones and bats, to name but a few. Sue and her neighbours put on food in the form of Bat’s Bites, Snake Nests, Witches Apples and the like to attract the children of Peafields Estate.  The queue of children snaked around the street all waiting to see the witch and claim their gift.  The Grim Reaper (Sue’s partner, Nigel) was keeping order, complete with scythe! I was made up as a ghoul, but looked more like a Pekinese!

Donations were for next year’s carnival and the parents were very generous. Aside from a short shower of rain, the evening was a huge success. It was a pleasure to take part in this, the third Hallowe’en party.

……………I remain just one thing and one thing only and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

The way some members of the Government are clowning around at the moment would seem to point to their having taken their degrees at Barnum & Bailey’s school of tomfoolery.

If you look at the points made by Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, about the current financial woes, you will no doubt want to join the party. To do so, call me, or go online to the Lib Dem website; you will find details there.

…….was on Wednesday evening and wouldn’t you know it? The traffic was grid-locked all around Mansfield and Mansfield Woodhouse. It took one and a half hours to reach the Civic Centre from my home. However, it was worth the aggravation of the journey. There was a short intro’ by Mayor, Tony Egginton and the rest of the meeting covered the year’s results and improvements. The presentation by the Town Centre Team was riveting and the Enviro Warden gave a great insight into the workings of the team.

 The panel numbers approximately 1000 in a membership of all ages and these worthy citizens really care about our district and help to make  the suggestions and put forward the fresh ideas to improve Mansfield. The whole evening was filled with  exciting facts and figures and I  am very glad I took time to attend.  My reward was being chosen, along with Councillor Andrew Tristram to judge the competition to find a fitting caption for the  photo of Mayor Egginton, giving the golden Jimmy Choo shoes to Rebecca Adlington, Mansfield’s Golden Girl. It was a tremendous evening, with displays from the Museum, Grimebusters and Town Centre - with market stall rent books going back to the 1930s!

.….. .………..……This is the dilemma facing many low paid workers and unemployed during this roll up to a full-blown recession. Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg is calling for a drop of 2p in income tax, which would be recovered by closing the loopholes in the tax system  which allow many wealthy  people to play the system and avoid taxation. The LDs would also increase tax on the most polluting activities.

…….Thomas Jefferson said this in 1802.

‘I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.’
 

…..Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats is encouraging us to be Proud to be British and in order to  help kick-start the economy consumers should be proud to ‘buy British’ and ‘buy local’ this will stimulate demand for UK businesses. Nick Clegg said “Economic recovery starts at home.”

Read more at: http://beta.libdems.org.uk/news/clegg-proud-to-buy-british-32550988

………I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility…

These words are as relevant today as when they were written and it is good to see the world of finance pulling together to bring this current crisis to a satisfactory conclusion. Vince Cable, LD Shadow Chancellor has spoken very eloquently on the strategy needed to address and solve this problem, which is touching all our lives.

You can read what the Liberal Democrat leadership has to say on the matter by logging on to the LD website at http://www.libdems.org.uk/