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Hayle Heritage Centre

At last!!!! Our own Heritage Centre opens on the 30th August at John Harvey House. Established by Harvey's Foundry Trust and created by the Heritage sub committee led by Laura Christan, this has been a long held bream by many and especially those of us who have been actively protecting our Heritage since 1986 and earlier. Workers such as Stella Thomas, Barbara Bromley, Rob Lello and Marshall Hutchins are at last seeing their ambitions fulfilled. Harveys have now established a very successful Archive at the Old Brewery Office and this latest project. Brian Sullivan has long been the doyen of Hayle historians and his contribution to cvraeting the Heritage Centre is enormous!! Exciting, so come and have a look.

Check out the web site: Heritage Centre

Events

I love August in Hayle - its that time of year when community groups and organisations appear to raise funds and provide entertainment. So in the last fortnight we have had the Raft Race, the Carnival, The Rotary Car Show, the Lions Fun Day , the Art Club Exhibition and Churches Together Songs of Praise. Even the weather has been quite good! Hayle is full of visitors at the moment but we, the resi9dents have had great opportunities not only to enjoy ourselves but also to give some money to good causes.

Highways

Oh the frustration!! I have several schemes on the books for completion at the behest of residents but their progress up the priority order is painfully slow. Examples include the re painting of yellow lines at the bottom of Lower Church Street - completed this week but reported eighteen months ago! The land slip on the slope at Clifton Terrace occurred on the 24th December 2012. Works have been agreed to stabilise the whole area but funding is not available, so we wait.....! Finally at Beatrice Terrace 'build outs' were constructed which were unacceptable (by a private contractor) and it has taken a year to get remedial action (at no cost to the Council) to be started. This should happen in the September. The reason - not incompetence or at the end of the day the slowness of the system, quite simply there is too much to do and too little money to do it.

August 2013