Author: Andrew Taylor

Stone Quarry Group are crowdfunding for a new café counter

Read more about the project here: https://www.spacehive.com/quarry-cafe-counter

There will be a short service in the High St from 10.30 in which a Deputy Lieutenant and Town Mayor amongst others will lay a wreath, a parade back to East Court which the public can fall in behind and then see exhibits including WW1 bi-plane & army encampment and farrier back at East Court. There will be music and speeches.

It is a family day out (ending at 3.30) children can enlist in the army and be drilled!

Sponsors for the day include East Grinstead Town Council, Mid Sussex District Council and West Sussex County Council

USERS OF THE EAST COURT ESTATE ARE ASKED NOT TO PARK ON THE TOWN COUNCIL DRIVE NOR CAR PARKS ON 30TH DUE TO THE EXHIBITS BEING SET UP FROM 7.30 AM ..AND TO NOTE THE FOLLOWING DAY IS EAST COURT LIVE WHERE AGAIN THE DRIVE AND CAR PARKS WILL BE RESTRICTED.

Please find below, the OFWAT report into the water disruption that was encountered in the District/Sussex following the adverse weather event (‘Beast from the East’) in March.

OFWAT Report

The Community Safety & Wellbeing Team (CSWB) is asking West Sussex Parents & Carers for their views & experiences in relation to keeping their children safe online.

We are looking to establish what parents & carers main concerns are when parenting in the digital age and what challenges they have faced. We want to understand how confident parents & carers are when dealing with these issues and if they know where to go for help, advice & support.

We want to know about the types of resources parents utilise, are aware of and have available to them, as well as the resources they really value in helping them to better support their young people.

The aim of the survey is to assist us in identifying if any further resources may need to be developed, or to raise awareness of existing resources and how we can better support parents and carers in this area.

We will be running the online survey to try and capture parents & carers views across the County and are encouraging as many people as possible to take part.

https://haveyoursay.westsussex.gov.uk/communities-public-protection/parent-online-safety

The survey will close on the 8th of July 2018.

A choir from East Grinstead who sang at the daily Last Post ceremony in Ypres were praised for making it extra special for the hundreds of people gathered to remember the fallen from the First World War.

East Grinstead Choral Society members sang two specially selected songs while poppy wreaths were laid at the famous Menin Gate memorial in the Belgian town.

The Last Post, the traditional final salute to the fallen, is played by the buglers in honour of the memory of the 300,000 soldiers from the British and Commonwealth, who died in battles in the so-called Ypres Salient.

The service, which attracts hundreds of visitors, takes place every evening at 8pm at the Menin Gate, a memorial whose walls are inscribed with the names of almost 55,000 soldiers who have no known last resting place.

Chairman Richard Young said it was a very emotional experience for the choir.

“The response from the crowd afterwards was incredible, with people of different nationalities coming up to us to say how beautifully we sang and to thank us for making the occasion so special for them.”

As well as taking part in the Last Post Ceremony, the choir also sang at Mass at St Martin’s Cathedral and morning eucharist at St George’s, an Anglican church built in Ypres to serve both as permanent memorial to the dead and as a meeting place for the visiting relatives.

East Grinstead Choral Society’s next event is a Summer Soiree – an evening of popular choral classics and songs from West Side Story and Oliver!  – on Saturday 23 June at Imberhorne Lower School, Windmill Lane, East Grinstead. They will be joined by young voices from St Mary’s Primary School. Tickets, price £15, include a light supper and are available in advance only from choir members or by calling 01342 328774.

The choir will also be performing at East Court Live, the free party in the park on East Grinstead’s East Court terraces on Sunday 1 July.

Poignant moment: East Grinstead Choral Society at the Menin Gate, the walls of which are inscribed with the names of almost 55,000 fallen soldiers

Musical memories: the choir at St George’s Anglican Church in Ypres where they sang at morning eucharist.

Lasting tribute: The Menin Gate is a memorial to soldiers who have no known grave

Tragic waste: the choir visited Tyne Cot, the largest cemetery for British and Commonwealth forces in the world

The choir rehearses every Thursday evening during term time from 7.30pm to 9.45pm at the Jubilee Community Centre, East Grinstead, and new members would be made very welcome.

To find out about the choir visit www.egcs.org.uk.