Community Bus

Thanks to the efforts of PATCAG (the Padstow and Trevone Action Group) we are about to have a community bus. This will be fully converted to include handrails and a wheelchair lift so that it can be used by everyone in the community. They hope to run a weekly service for all those communities within the area who are not on any bus route. There is already a list of volunteers who want to help and local groups who wish to use it. If you would like to be a driver or a helper or you would like to know more about the service, please contact Mike Huntley at 32 Egerton Road in Padstow or email him at mikehuntley1@tiscali.co.uk

Closure of Trevone Village Store

Ian and Julie Reynolds have announced with sadness and with great reluctance that the Village Store will be closing on April 5th. Ian has battled on bravely since the closure of the post office facility but it has become financially unviable to continue trading.
Many elderly residents treat their daily walk to the shop not as a shopping trip but as an essential social interlude in their day. It has always been more than just a place to pick up a paper and buy food, and Ian feels he is letting people down by closing. However, the numbers are just not adding up. Ian is hoping to open the store during high season for essential goods required for holiday makers which means it will be closed for three months from April 5th until July. Heidi and Grahame are now in negotiation with W. H. Smith to take on the papers and also hope to negotiate some extra collection points for this, eg the Well Parc, so that those living at Windmill don'f have the full three quarters of a mile to walk to collect their daily paper. There are lots of possibilities for the future, including development and renovation of the Village Hall which we hope at some point will have a daily drop-in coffee facility. Heidi has also promised that whatever happens the village will always have a village shop. In addition, there is the new community bus. ((see later post)

TaWRA Open Forum

Please try and come to the TaWRA Open Forum at 7.00 pm in the Village Hall on Thursday March 25th. This is a chance to share and air any concerns that you might have about life in the village or the local environment and also to have a bit of social time with the other residents. It is also a chance to catch up with anything that TaWRA may be involved in. At present some of the more important issues are the water quality on Rocky Beach, the closure of the Village Store, the local footpaths, and a planned traditional country fayre at the end of May. Tea and coffee will be served.
It is hoped that the March newsletter will be available before the meeting both for those of you who have it delivered to your home and also to those of you who receive it online.