A LETTER
FROM COUNCILLOR MARGARET RAYMOND (RETIRING CHAIRMAN)
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I just thought I
ought to tell you that it is my intention to retire at the end of this
summer term. Having been a Parish Councillor for over 22 years, in fact
from the Council’s inception, I now feel it is time for me to
step back.
During my time as
a councillor we have written 22 annual reports which have been distributed
each April. We have organised “The Way We Used To Be” exhibitions
at the Memorial Hall, Kirk Ella, the Church Hall, South Ella and at
the Kirk Ella School, all supported by our M.P. David Davis. We have
had Yorkshire Day and charity money raising coffee mornings at our two
local pubs and of course the production of our Heritage Trail book which
my husband, Stan, helped me to produce and have printed following a
successful grant application from “Awards for All”. He then
erected more than 20 blue plaques on historic buildings round this trail.
All this to enhance the historic value of our two most interesting villages.
There have been
several other successful grant applications with which we have been
able to buy street furniture, namely seats and information boards. Our
latest is being supervised by the then Vice Chairman, now Chairman Councillor
Shaun Horton, an historic information board for the Sycamores the old
South Ella School site.
Our last major function
was of course the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee barbecue, organised
by Councillors Stan Raymond and John Bailey in conjunction with the
management of the Hull Golf Club when our beacon was lit twice, on both
the Thursday and Saturday evenings.
Kirk Ella and West
Ella Parish Council is a most successful one not least because of the
extreme hard work of our Clerk, Mandy Pickering. Thank you all for your
support and friendship, the friendship which I hope will continue during
my retirement.
Councillor Margaret Raymond
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