DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Saturday 10th July 2.00pm - 4.00pm
St Barnabas Church Fete – scarecrow theme!

Tuesday 13th July 6.30pm - Kennet Room Civic Centre
Transport Users Forum, chaired by Cllr Richard Willis

Saturday 17th July 11.00am - 3.00pm Forbury Gardens
Age Concern Berkshire Diamond Jubilee Celebration
Music. Tai chi, archery, line dancing, circus skills, gardening, children’s craft sessions. Trading Standards, Police, Fire and Rescue.

Tuesday 20th July 6.00 – 8.00pm Highdown School
Upper Caversham Neighbourhood Action Group (includes Caversham Heights, Emmer Green and Caversham Park Village) Please contact Inspector Penny Mackenzie on 0845 8 505 505 if you wish to attend.

Monday 13th September St Barnabas Church Hall
Age Concern 50Plus+ Meeting
Details of the last meeting are http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/17/44907

Wednesday 22nd September 7.30pm
EGRA committee meeting. If you think you might like to join the committee do come along for a taster. Ring 0118 9470922 for details.


NEWS:

Bus Shelters
Cllr Richard Willis has given us the schedules for bus shelter replacement:
Emmer Green Pond - 16 July
Buckingham Drive (inbound) - 16 July
Buckingham Drive (outbound) - 22 July
Rotherfield Way - 30 July.
St Barnabas Church - 25 August
Kiln Road - 25 August
Grove Hill / Hemdean Rd - 24 September
IMPORTANT:
Because of changing usage figures it is proposed to relocate the former 23 bus shelter from the top end of Courtenay Drive to the bottom. Please let us know, as soon as possible, whether you want this or not, so we can inform Cllr Richard Willis.

Recreation Ground
Work is now completed on the new children’s play area. Further landscaping will take place in the autumn. It has provided a generous space for our young people enabling them to build and develop social and recreational skills. It is proving to be very popular. Unfortunately there is a small element whose behaviour can be deemed as anti-social. This is being closely monitored by the Police Community Support Team and the Parks Department.
We have also been advised that when the Emmer Green Community Centre is being rebuilt in July and August that supervised outdoor activities for the Youth Club will be relocating the park on Friday and Monday evenings. Games will cease at 9.00pm.

Caversham Good Neighbours
This voluntary organisation based in Caversham helps residents of Caversham and Emmer Green by offering transport to local surgeries, hospital etc. and home visits. They would like to recruit more volunteers and also promote the service they offer. Please phone the office on 0118 9483466 Monday to Friday 9.30am -11.30am or Secretary Pat Rawlings on 0118 9477778.

History of Emmer Green website
For ten years this site has been hosted by Highdown School and we wish to thank Jane Moody for her help creating the pages and maintaining it. The school now has a new website which is hosted externally. In future EGRA will be hosting the history site. It may well take a while to reconfigure and incorporate into the EGRA site. We will let you know when that is done.

Car Clampers
Please be aware that there has been a recent crackdown on illicit parking at the precinct car park. It is a privately run car park with a two hours maximum stay. We hope to get clarification on the disabled bays and, if a miracle happens, better lighting.

Rosehill Cedar
It has come to our attention that the veteran tree planted 200 years ago is likely to be felled. EGRA members who live in the vicinity have been informed of this intention.

Friends of Clayfield Copse
The group meets on the first Sunday in each month at 10.00am in the car park, for active conservation work in and around the woods. For more details and contact information, visit their website. New volunteers are always welcome. Phone Anne Latto on 0118 9484454 or email anne_latto@yahoo.co.uk