Bridge Parish Councillors Mark Esdale Chairman, Publicity 01227 832740 bpc@esdale.com John Hill Vice Chairman, Planning 01227 830215 john.e.hill@virgin.net Colin Beesty Recreation Ground, KAPC 07989 495202 cbeesty@hotmail.com Barbara Beinder Planning, Village Hall 01227 830514 John Corfield Planning, Publicity Recreation Ground 01227 830976 john@blackvanilla.org.uk Pam Dobson Village Hall, Environment, Publicity 01227 832369 pam_dobson@ hotmail.com Ann Edmonds Environment, Mill Centre 01227 830795 Mervyn Gulvin Recreation Ground, Sports Trust, Mill Centre 01227 830881 mervyn@ gulvin92.freeserve.co.uk Selwyn Lewis KAPC 01227 830186 linsel.bridge@tesco.net We hope to produce a news letter four times a year from now on to keep you up to date. Parish Clerk Tina Burchell - Parish Clerk Tina is an ex-youth worker and careers adviser. She lives in Bek-esbourne and has been Clerk since November 2003 Contact the Council To contact us please write, telephone, fax or e-mail: Tina Burchell, 3 Cranmer Close, Bekesbourne, Canterbury, CT4 5DF Telephone/Fax: 01227 831085 E-mail: tinaburchell@onetel.com Do visit our website www.bridgevillage.org.uk where you will find Minutes of Council meetings and other information Newsletter and website published by John Corfield Newsletter Summer 2003 New Council sworn in Welcome to the new look Parish Council, and thank you all for your votes. We now have four re-elected councillors and five new council-lors - read more about us all inside. We look forward to meeting as many of you as we can, and doing our best for the village. An important task for the new Council will be to set in motion the production of the Parish Plan. More of which in the next Newsletter. If you have any comments about this Newsletter or other Parish matters do let us know. Pam Dobson—Editor Next Council meeting 7.30 pm Thursday 11th September 2003 In the Village Hall Starting with this meeting, for a trial period, we are going to meet in the main hall so that it is easier for everyone to attend - please come along. Your newly elected Parish Councillors Mark Esdale John Hilll Colin Beesty Mark is the new Chairman He is a programmer and technical di-rector. He moved to Bridge in 1998 and has two children at Bridge School. He is the Village Hall Secretary and was elected this May. John is Vice Chairman. He re-cently retired. He has lived in Bridge for 36 years. He founded Bridge Tennis Club, is a member of the PCC and has been a Councillor since 1976, he was Chairman for several years. Colin is raw materials man-ager for an animal feed busi-ness. He moved to Bridge in 2000 and has a child at Bridge School and the Playgroup. He was elected this May. Barbara Beinder John Corfield Pam Dobson Barbara is a retired primary school teacher. She has lived in Bridge for 30 years. She is a member of the History and Hor-ticultural Societies and the WEA. She was elected in May. John is a retired medical physi-cist. He moved to Bridge in 1994. He is active with the Vil-lage Hall, Art in Bridge, the vil-lage website and has been a Councillor since 1998. Pam has been a primary school teacher. She moved to Bridge in 1993 and has two children at the School. She is active with the Village Hall, the School PFA, the Allotment As-sociation, Art in Bridge and been a Councillor since 2000. Ann Edmonds Mervyn Gulvin Selwyn Lewis Ann is retired and involved with footpaths and the Horticultural Society, She was elected in May - previously on the Council in 1980’s as Ann King. Mervyn is an architect and has lived in Bridge since 1976. He is active with the Village Hall, Bridge Sports Trust, the Mill Centre and has been a Councillor since 1979. Selwyn is a retired teacher and has lived in Bridge since 1966. He is a member of the church choir and is now a clearer of untidy areas in the village. He was elected in May Youth Bus A big thank you to all those who took part in our consultation for the Youth Bus. Along with eight other Parishes we have now put in a bid for funding and should have news of this very soon. Allotments The new allotment site has been cleared and The Bridge Allotment Association has been formed. Al-lotments have been allocated to all those on the original waiting list. Contact Tina if you are interested in sharing or going on the waiting list. Computer Course Bridge School will be running an intro-ductory 10 week computer course start-ing in September for £75. Each weekly evening session will last 2 hours and be staffed by two qualified tutors. The course is limited to 15 persons and pay-ment is required in advance. Please con-tact the Parish Clerk to reserve a place