Westminster Park Residents Association

STRONGER FUTURES

Share your ideas on overcoming the challenges of COVID-19 and building a stronger future

Cheshire West and Chester Council has launched Stronger Futures – an engagement exercise to give everyone the chance to share ideas about how we overcome the challenges of COVID-19 and build a stronger future.

Throughout the pandemic people have acted together to do the right thing and support each other. We want that to continue so communities can emerge from the pandemic stronger. Please get involved and share your ideas:

• What does a stronger future mean to you?
• Which challenges do you think are most important to focus on to build a stronger future?
• How do you think the Council and your community can help build a stronger future?

Take part here – Stronger Futures 

A message from Razia Daniels, our Councillor:
Good Afternoon Everyone
I hope you and your family are well.
The fortnightly kerbside garden waste collection service will resume in west Cheshire on Thursday 4 June 2020.
It was suspended in March at the start of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown as staff sickness levels in the workforce increased, and this decision ensured the domestic waste and recycling service could continue to operate as normal.
Staff sickness levels have fallen in recent weeks and more staff are now available to collect residents’ garden waste in addition to providing the usual service.
Collections will return to the previously advertised schedule. Residents are asked not to overfill their bins or leave side garden waste, as they are not be able to collect any garden waste that is not in the green bin.
Please put your green bin out by 7am on your normal scheduled collection day.
They can only empty your garden waste container once on your scheduled collection day. Excess garden waste can be composted, taken to your nearest recycling centre or placed into your garden waste container ready for the next scheduled collection.
Household waste and recycling collections will continue as normal. They will continue to monitor the national COVID risk rating, infection rate, and the continued availability of staff in the weeks to come to ensure they can continue to run all services while ensuring staff safety.
I hope this information is helpful but if you would like any further information please do not hesitate to contact me.
Take Care and Stay Safe
Many Thanks
Best Wishes
Razia
Cllr Razia Daniels
Shadow Cabinet Member for Children and Families
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I am not aware of any changes to the ‘shopping list’ that serves Westminster Park, but the ‘experiencechester.co.uk’ website, our digital high street, has been updated with businesses reopening, delivery services, car park info etc. Worth a look if you are thinking of heading into town.

The Secret Gardens of Westminster Park
Many of us have spent more time in our gardens than ever before. They are weeded, planted, clipped and watered to perfection … but we can’t invite anyone in to show them off.

And so to remedy this we are asking for photos – no more than two per garden – and these will be available to view online in the Westminster Park Residents Association Gallery as from Saturday 27 June.

Please send your photos to Mary Pole at pole.mary@gmail.com before Friday 19 June.
Remember, no more than two per garden and these can also include wildlife that visits your garden.

We will display as many as we can but may be constrained by the available digital storage space. No names or addresses will be displayed – the gardens will remain ‘Secret’.

Looking forward to seeing all your lovely gardens.

Westminster Park Gardening Club

Get them to try some free online courses for 13 + students

FutureLearn Schools offers free access to hundreds of online educational courses for school students aged 13+, to continue and expand their learning.  The courses vary from creating computer games to maths puzzles to finding out about the universe – there’s something for everyone.

Find out more about FutureLearn Schools, and get involved here.

Westminster Park certainly know how to party, even in lockdown! Thanks to Annemarie and Niall Macfadyen who cycled around the estate on their tandem taking photos of the celebrations going on. Their photos are on our Facebook page and we hope to post them here in due course. Well done all!

1. Winston Churchill
2. 15.8.1945
3. Clement Attlee
4. Dwight Eisenhower
5. Harry S Truman
6. Harry S Truman
7. Trafalgar Square , The Mall and outside Buckingham Palace
8. Leonard Spencer
9. No not until 1946
10. 1953- just in time for the Coronation!
11. No , but they were often in short supply
12. Meat in 1954
13. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
14. Mein Kamph
15. 7/12/1941
16. Operation Overlord
17. Glenn Miller
18. Major
19. 28
20. ‘My son, my son’ in 1954.

Our resident quizmaster Colin Dollimore has put together a quiz to keep you entertained on VE Day.  Here are the questions.  The answers will be posted on Friday evening (or Saturday morning if I forget!)  Good luck!

   VE 75 DAY QUIZ

1 Who was the British Prime Minister on VE DAY ?

2 What was the date of VJ day ?

3 Who was the British Prime Minister on VJ day ?

4 Which American was Supreme Allied Commander in Europe ?

5 Who was the US President on VE day  ?

6 Who was the US President on VJ day ?

7 Where did the main people’s party take place on VE day ?

8 What were Winston Churchill’s middle names ?

9 Was bread rationed in WW2 ?

10 When did sweet rationing end?

11 Were fruit and vegetables rationed ?

12 What was the last item to be de-rationed ?

13 In which two Japanese cities were nuclear bombs detonated in August 1945 ?

14 Adolf Hitler predicted WW2 in his memoirs published in 1925. What were they called ?

15 On what date was Pearl Harbour attacked by the Japanese ?

16 What was the codename for the D-Day invasion.

17 Which American first recorded ‘American Patrol ‘ ?

18 What rank did Glenn Miller attain in the Army/Airforce Band ?

19 How old was Vera Lynn on VE day ?

20 What was Vera Lynn’s only charted No 1 single in the UK ?