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January 2013 Issue 56

www.hooleroundabout.com Tel 01244 350398

Inside this month: Hoole history group, Plans revealed or academy, Hoole Tennis,

Andy Medcrats Backyard, Thought or the Month, fnancial column and whats on.

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HAPPY new year to all.

2013 promises to be a big yearfor education in Hoole. Weve gotpictures on how the new academymight look when it opens inSeptember this year. The groupbehind the free school have revealedmore details, which you can read

about in this edition.Theres also loads of local newsJonathan Seddons nancial feature,Hoole Rangers and Thought for theMonth with Andy Glover.

Wed like to wish you all a MerryChristmas and a Happy New Year

The Talkabout Team32

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DESIGNS for Hooles

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have been unveiled.

The acadey is likely

t be at the ld cucil

purchasig buildig ext

t the disused library

Hle Rad.

nrth West Acadeies

have a budget f 2

illi t secure ad

trasfr the buildig it

a der, purpse-built

learig eviret

for its rst pupils in

Septeber 2013

At a recet pe eveig nrth West Acadeies directr Steve Dckig shared iages f

hw he sees the buildig wrkig as a schl if plaig perissi is grated ext th.

He said: We want it to reect the type of education St Martins pupils will receive, we want to

create a fresh, excitig ad vibrat eviret.

Key areas f develpet iclude the creati f a curved classr blck at the rear f therigial buildig, desiged t fllw the track f the su thrughut the day.

nick Wheeler, f Isite Architecture, said: The eths behid this is that this will prvide light,

bright ad airy teachig spaces which will prvide a excellet educatial eviret.

We are citted t ecpassig se f the latest eclgical desig priciples t

lesse the eviretal ipact f the buildig ad help create a feelig f eviretal

respsibility withi ur pupils.

other eleets f the prpsed desig iclude:

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will ai t bled with the histric

ature f the rigial buildig

l mural wall t playgrud area

l new ftpath lik fr

Alexadra Park ad All Saits

Church

mr Wheeler added: our

classrs are the key

areas which will face suth,verlkig the playgrud.

They will be accessed by

a glazed circulati space

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circulati space.

Althugh the desigs

are subject t plaig

perissi, mr Dckig says

the basic priciples behid the

develpet will reai the sae.He said: We want St Martins to encompass the latest in educational thinking, a modern

eviret fr the der learer. But a sese f beig part f a schl faily, a place f

urture ad care, will fr the fudatis f ur success.

esigns revealedStM

Hoole, Chester

The former purchasing building near the disused

Hoole Library on Hoole Road is the preferred site

for the academy.


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THE ewly-fred Hle Histry ad

Heritage Sciety has just bee awarded

4300 by the Heritage Lttery Fud t

undertake a major project on HoolesVictria Heritage.

The applicati, which was ade thrugh

the Hle Cuity Trust is a big bst

t the sciety which was ly fred i

octber f this year

The veture is part f the atial All our

Stries prject which is helpig cuity

grups t pla activities that help explre,

share ad celebrate their w histries.

Hooles History Society has ambitiousplas t explre the ipact f the railways

ad Chester Stati up the grwth f

the cuity durig the reig f Quee

Victria. Its ais are t egage lcal peple

i recrdig the ways i which Hle grew

it the vibrat cuity it is tday. may

f the streets, buildigs, busiesses ad

leisure activities still have clear liks t their

19th cetury past.

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iterpretati bards, resurces frchildre ad eve a virtual tur f Hle.

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mebers f the sciety have already

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our ext geeral eetig t pla the way

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Hoole history hits the jackpot!


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If you want to have fun, get t and get the best results thenDynamics Dance anD Fitness is the place to be

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itness classes available with-

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In June 2010 Dynamics Dance and Fitness

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Finance with Jonathan Seddon

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Care Planning

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We are absolutely delighted and extremely proud to

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London Hotel. The very best agents from throughout the UK gather to find out who

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Royal British Legion Club - New Class**20 Heath Road, Upton, Chester, CH2 1HXTuesday 9:30 - 11:00 am (Slim & Aerobics)

URC Hoole - New Class**

Hoole Road, Chester, CH2 3NTWednesday 9:30 - 11:00 am (Slim & Aerobics)

All Saints Church Hall - New Class**Vicarage Road, Off Hoole Road,Hoole, Chester, CH2 3HZWednesday 1:00 - 2:30 pm (Zumba Fitness)

Dorin Park School - New Class**Wealstone Lane, Upton, Chester, CH2 1HDWednesday 6:00 - 7:30 pm (Slim & Aerobics)

CHESTERHoole Community Centre - New Class**Westminster Road, Hoole, Chester, CH2 3AUThursday 6:00 - 7:30 pm (Zumba Fitness)

ELLESMERE PORTEllesmere Port Catholic High School, CapenhurstLane, Whitby, Ellesmere Port, CH65 7AQMonday 6:00 - 7:30 pm (Zumba Fitness)

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After a year of success with her Wirral Classes, JaneMann is expanding her Rosemary Conley Diet & Fit-ness Franchise Business into Chester.

In October Jane was a Finalist Newcomer of the Year

at the Rosemary Conley Convention. Pictured withRosemary Conley, Jane said I am thrilled to be bring-ing Rosemarys successful formula of Diet and Exer-cise to my home town and the ladies of Chester. Ourclasses bring ladies together in a very positive way.We have fun learning about nutrition, a healthy lowfat low calorie diet, and of course we do the exercise.

Now running 17 Classes in Chester and Wirral, Janehas 3 qualified and experienced Instructors to as-sist her. We wish Jane every success with her newClasses.


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Some musings about Hoole with Andy Medcraft

Happy New YearA smAll patch of white cing to the ate oppoite, jut out of the reach of the

eary afternoon un a it creep around the chiney and throw a crip ight into

y newy tark iving roo.

The chill that hangs in the air is simply metaphysical. The warmth of Christmas still resonates

through me and although I am more a Disney drop-out rather than Santas Little Helper, it is with a

sense of sadness that I packed away the decorations for another year.

The whole festive thing candy coated my world for a few weeks. Upbeat sing-a-long soundtracks

encouraged everybody to spend a bit more and to smile as we handed over our hard-earned cash

in return for what some might say were overpriced baubles. And for once those slightly cynical

some did not include me.

The overspill of beaming parents clutching small children with glow sticks after the Hoole

Christmas light switch on warmed a place in my heart that had been entirely deep frozen for what

seemed like my entire adult life to-date. I even chased the Coca-Cola lorry to Cheshire Oaks,

crawled into Chester at stupid oclock to cheer on the Santa dash and contemplated a seasonal

inspired latte from Starbucks - although the placard-waving protesters blocking the entrance

reminded me that at this most wonderful time of the year, paying over the odds for eggnog

lavoured hot milk to a company that has avoided paying its taxes does somewhat dampen the

Christmas cheer.

Every year, on the run up to Christmas, I fall foul of the infamous man lu. And, every year, I

do my bit to attack it. My mother is a irm believer in prevention rather than cure and with that

in mind I popped into the Groves Herbal dispensary in Charles Street to top up on Echinacea.

Unfortunately my best intentions were lawed as it sat on the kitchen worktop until I began the

nose blowing and therefore my mothers wise words resonated in my mucus illed skull but even

with the weight of the near-death experience for those two days that rendered me helpless and

pathetic, I still embraced the sickly sweet daytime soft focused movies of good will to all men with

much ho ho-ing and even a partridge in a pear tree.

But now that Christmas is over, we are returned to our former selves and it would appear that

those few weeks of hugging everybody and wishing them a merry Christmas was the only time of

the year that doesnt result in a citizens arrest and restraining order.

Being back to the hum-drum of daily life sees us returning to our insular ways. We begin to smile

only at those we know and return to our comfort zone of living in modest fear of those we dont.

So, with the knowledge that Christmas cheer has a limited shelf life, my aim for January is not to

write a list of resolutions. It is simply to savour the lavour of the festivities as well as taking full

advantage of the insular fall out and sculpt my year from it.

Without further ado, I wish you a very happy, healthy and successful year because we are what

we create, so lets all embrace 2013 and make sure its a good one for us all. Im o now for areasonably unseasonal inspired latte at cafe.com and I promise to crack a few smiles on route

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HooLE LTC has bee aed Club f the

Year 2012 by the Cheshire LTA.

of re tha 90 teis clubs i Cheshire,

Hle LTC was e f just fur clubs t

be iated fr the award. The criteria

fr judgig the best club i Cheshire are

wide ragig but iclude a welcig

eviret, a pe

ebership plicy, a

cprehesive juirprgrae ad sud

nancial management.

Despite havig just

ve courts, Hoole LTC is the top club in

Cheshire fr regularly cpetig juirs,

with 110 juir ebers wh have played

at least 6 cpetitive atches ad 44 wh

have played re tha 20 i the last 12

ths.

Hle LTC has several teas i lcal

leagues, with juir teas ragig fr 8&U

t 18&U, three mes teas, a Ladies tea

ad tw mixed teas. The Aual ope

Turaet held i the suer attracted

126 players with evets fr all ages.

I 2010 Hle LTC paid fr the

refurbishet f the curts i Alexadra

Park s that the lcal

cuity ad the Club

could share the benets.The nancial investment and

the utreach prgraes

established by the Club at

Alexadra Park have led t Beac Status

beig grated t the schee by the British

Teis Fudati.

The Cheshire LTA auced the Club f

the Year award at their Presetati Eveig

at the Park Ryal Htel i Warrigt i

octber. Hle LTC was preseted with a

salver t ark the ccasi.

Sarah Rizvi, Hoole LTC Junior Coordinator, receives Club of the Year 2012 award

from Rob Forster, Prestbury LTC (2011 Club of the Year winners), with Hoole Junior

members Saleem Rizvi, Jac Newis, Jamal Rizvi and Katie Merrick.

Hoole LTC named countys

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HErE we ae in the st month of anothe band New Yea 2013!The stat of a New Yea can only mean one thing, New Yeaesolutions! People will be vowing to lose weight, stop smoking,

stick to a budget, save money, nd a bette job, become moe oganized,execise moe, be moe patient, eat bette, and ________ (ll in youown esolution). New Yeas esolutions have been with us fo 4,000yeas, eve since the Babylonians began celebating the stat of eachnew planting cycle. The Babylonians wee the st to have New Yeasesolutions. The most common pomises wee to etun boowedfam equipment and pay off old debts. Im all fo New Yeasesolutions. But do I keep these esolutions? And what about you?Do you keep you esolutions?

If the roman god Janus wee aound today, hed have a thing o two tosay about this. Enshined in ancient mythology, he was the god of change,tansitions, and beginnings. The romans named the st month of theyea afte him. Janus was often pictued with a set of keys, in keepingwith his ole as waden of gates. Shines to him typically took the fomof achways, gateways, and acades. As fo his physical appeaance, well,Janus had a face only a mothe could love. Thats because he had twofaces -- one looking fowad, the othe backwad. This showed his ability to watch entances and exits.Symbolically, it signalled the need to balance ou hopes fo tomoow with a keen awaeness of whathappened yesteday. It stikes me that Janus might know why so many esolutions ae fogotten byFebuay. Could it be that wee only looking fowad -- when we should be looking back in equalmeasue? We have New Yeas esolutions. What about Old Yea eections?

Is it eally possible to change, to make a diffeence in ou own lives, in the life of a community o anation I cetainly think it is. I love the following little stoy because it illustates that even whensometime the poblems and issues of a peson o in a community o acoss ou wold can seeminsumountable. If we focus on the enomity of some of these issues it can seem that any one individualcant possible change anything but if we ecognised that actually each of us can make a diffeence, ifwe decide to do something instead of doing nothing, we would see that change is possible.

One moning an old man was walking along the beach and noticed the tide had washed thousands of

stash up on the shoe. In the distance he spotted a boy who was gatheing up the stash and oneby one was thowing them back into the ocean. He appoached the boy and asked him why he spentso much enegy doing what seemed to be a waste of time. The boy eplied, If these stash ae leftout hee like this they will bake in the sun, and by this aftenoon they will all be dead. The old mangazed out as fa as he could see and esponded, But, thee must be hundeds of miles of beach andthousands of stash. You cant possibly escue all of them. What diffeence is thowing a few backgoing to make anyway? The boy then held up the stash he had in his hand and eplied, Its suegoing to make a lot of diffeence to this one!

Chistianity is about the oppotunity to change. As we stat 2013 may this be the time fo you toexpeience a new beginning, to expeience the change you desie to see in you life. Chistianity teaches

that things can change; it can be diffeent because God gives us the powe to bing about change.

Finally, may I take this oppotunity to wish you a vey happy, healthy and hopeful New Yea. A yeawhen you see a diffeence in you life and you make a diffeence though you life by the choices you

make.

reSOLutiOnS

Andy Glove has lived inHoole with his wife Sue

fo 22 yeas. Andy beganat Hoole Baptist Chuch,on Westminste road,as Youth Pasto, befoebecoming the Pasto andnow Team Leade.

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Hle Church f Eglad Priary ad

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Cll alx blckLabur:

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COMMUNITY LISTINGS

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HOOLE

If you have a regular event that you would like listing here for freethen please get in touch. 350398 / [email protected]

Slimming World

At County Ofcers,

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Tel. 01244 536 754

o Wedesdays at

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Newton Pre-school

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Fri 9a-12 at newt

Schl, Kigsway West

Tel. 01244 314271

Plas Newton WI

The Womens Institute

eetig is held 3rd

Wedesday f each th

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Hoole Lawn Tennis Club

Faireld Road, Hoole

Senior Club Nights:

mday ad Thursday eveigs

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Ladies Mornings:

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American Tournaments:

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Friday eveigs April t Septeber

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