A cat has been taken from the Chillout Lounge without the owner’s permission. An “older woman with short hair” went into the Chillout Lounge, said “I’m here to collect the cat” and took it (we don’t know who she was).
The cat is fluffy, grey and white (part Persian) and is called Izzit.
Anyone seeing such a cat should contact Flash or the Chillout Lounge as they both have the owner’s details. Thanks!
We’ve heard through the grapevine that the former Tyre World shop (used to be Age Concern before) is to become a bathroom and tile shop.
Also the former ‘La Mama’ cafe is being refurbished but we’re not sure for what business yet – if anyone knows already, please drop us a line!
Following sightings of a tow truck operating in our neighbourhood very late at night, our Safer Neighbourhoods team thinks that it may be being used by car thieves. So if you see a tow truck with a car on its back at an unusually late hour, please take the registration number if you can and call 999 to report it.
Spring Clean volunteers with their haul
Today FARA participated in the borough-wide Spring Clean, and appropriately we had a beautiful spring day and warm sunshine. The Council supplied us with litter pickers/sacks/gloves and high-visibility vests, and also a council official to take part alongside us (and get her ear bent about some of our local litter and recycling issues!). Some of us went round the streets in the FARA area, de-littering the roadsides and noting various flytips and dirty front gardens to report to the Council. Others performed a thorough clean-up of ‘our’ section of Wanstead Flats. Altogether we gathered about a dozen sackloads of assorted rubbish which the Council later sent a truck to collect. Thanks to all the volunteers who took part!
At the annual meeting on 26 January the following people were elected to manage FARA in the coming year:
Chair – Flash Bristow
Vice chair – Wendy Reilly
Minutes secretary – Mike Bristow
Treasurer – Gail Smart
Honorary chair – Jane Sterland
Membership secretary – Vicky Allen
Communications officer – Liz Dawson
Street coordinators:
Malvern Road – Vicky Allen
Ferndale Road – Joyce Bussey
Montague Road – Nicholas Russell and Georgina Farrer
Cotton Close – Ellie Towers
Davies Lane – Simon Barker
Thanks to everyone who braved the cold weather to attend the meeting!
Bushwood Residents Association have once again invited FARA members to join them for their next quiz night which will be held on Saturday 28th November at 7.30pm. The last time we fielded a team we managed to reach the dizzying heights of 2nd place, thanks to a couple of (much) younger residents on our quiz table. Could we go one better, or at least hold on to our position on the podium? We are up to the challenge, but need some volunteers to join the quiz team.
A buffet from the Star of India will be provided on the night, and there is a £3 cost for entering the quiz or £8 including the buffet. The venue will be Leytonstone Social Club, 603 High Road (just past the railway bridge on the right).
If you’re interested in joining the team please email
info@fara-leytonstone.org.uk
Woodhouse Players have kindly given FARA a pair of free tickets for the Saturday 7 November performance of a great new production. ‘The Lark’, a play about Joan of Arc by Jean Anouilh, mixes high drama with comedy. It presents Joan’s life in a series of flashbacks as she fights for her life before a politically-motivated Church Court. This production is the world premiere of a new English translation by a member of the Woodhouse Players.
Anyone living in the FARA area is eligible to enter our prize draw to win these tickets. Simply email your name/address with ‘Theatre Tickets’ in the subject line to info@fara-leytonstone.org.uk. First entry out of the hat on Saturday 31 October wins the tickets.
More about the play at www.woodhouseplayers.co.uk
Good news – the Leytonstone Community Council has awarded FARA £150 worth of funding towards next year’s photo competition. We hope to make it the best one yet!
If you are a permit holder for the CPZ covering Davies Lane, please be aware you need to renew it by 6 November. Last year quite a few residents missed the deadline and received parking tickets, so make sure you don’t get caught out this year!
FARA is setting up a ‘flu buddy scheme’ to help residents during the swine flu pandemic. More details about the Flu Buddy Scheme.
