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Local & Parish Council news... have your say! We’re keen to hear your views, so please get in touch with your thoughts, frustrations, stories and observations. Our contact details are on page 49 or you can link via our website. KYDS member wins award for best actress From Kerry Stocker, Publicity Offi cer. KYDS are delighted that Rachel Shortland has been awarded the NETG Showcase Award for Best Young Actress at this year’s North Essex Theatre Guild award ceremony in Clacton! Rachel has been acting with KYDS since our very fi rst production of Dracula Spectacular in 2009. Rachel received the award for her exceptional performance as Squire Trelawney in Treasure Island. The NETG adjudicator described Rachel’s performance as “the outstanding performance in the show... delightful and engaging”. KYDS are thrilled that Rachel has fi nally received the recognition that she deserves for the dedication and enthusiasm she puts in to all of her roles on stage. KYDS would also like to celebrate the success of Jodie Cole who OCTOBER 2012 CONTENTS Local & Parish Council News 3 - 6, 8 10 & 11 Courtyard Clinic (history of...) 7 Aperture 9 (Marshlands Photographic) Bawtrees LLP Solicitors 13 Property 17 - 21 Mersea’s Paralympian 22 Garden <strong>LIFE</strong> 23 Events & Activities 24 & 25 Campaign for Real Ale 28 Winning <strong>LIFE</strong> 29 (Competitions & Web Offers) was also nominated for her performance of Tinkerbell in the Society’s production of Peter Pan the Musical. In this non-speaking role Jodie really had to use her movement and gestures on stage to show her character’s feelings, something which any actor will tell you is not easy in the slightest! The adjudicator said that she was “most impressed with Jodie’s performance… Jodie’s speechless “comments” were all the more effective for being so sharply defi ned”. Congratulations to Jodie for being nominated which, in itself, is a huge achievement and something to be very proud of. Make sure that you don’t miss seeing Rachel and Jodie in our next production Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs! The production will be held on the 30th November and 1st December. Follow us on twitter @kydsyouthdrama or like us on Facebook – www.kyds.org.uk/ facebook for more details. Our Local Museums 31 Animal <strong>LIFE</strong> 33 (Zoo News & SESAW Animal Rescue) Gourmet <strong>LIFE</strong> 34 - 37 Pumpkin Cake Recipe 37 Pawz Outdoors (fi reworks) 38 Tiptree Garden Club & Horticultural Society 48 How to get in touch... 49 Your Directory 49 - 50 Adveriser GOLD List 51 Dear Editor <strong>LIFE</strong> Magazine reaches NZ I have just received A Life magazine from my daughter in law, Val Carpenter-Green. What a lovely interesting magazine. My wife, Dawn, and I have visited Mersea Island and tucked into a fi ne meal at the Shed – French loaf, bottle of wine and the biggest platter of delicious sea food ever. We owned a 33ft ketch, 8 tonne, for 18 years which we have sailed round our coast. I now own a 36 Olly Engerling which was sailed down to New Zealand via the Panama Canal. I keep her on a swing mooring at our small harbour at Matiatia, on Waiheke Island, where we live. My old yacht was called Sea Call, as the Swedish name for my new boat didn’t suit our tongues, I renamed her ‘Ahoy’. Waiheke Island is half an hour from Auckland in a fast ferry, permanent population about 8,000. Many commute for work ashore, lots of vineyards, beaches, good fi shing. Captain Cook passed by here a few years ago and there is a durville in the Hauraki Gulf so the French have called here it would seem. Well in this computer age all the blurb can be found on the Net. I just felt I should commend your magazine and all your helpers. Ao-tea-roa – the land of the long white cloud. Yours, Peter Green & Dawn Harvey Thank you Peter and Dawn, We know that we distribute 16,000 copies of the <strong>LIFE</strong> magazines – we know that they are read from Rowhedge via Mersea, Tiptree, Maldon and the villages - to Bradwell – but New Zealand – that has to be a fi rst.!! Ed. Parish Council News Edwardian Evening The chairman reported that he has been advised by the organisers of the Edwardian evenings, held for the past few years, that there will be no such event this year. Instead an alternative event is being considered for next year. Tiptree Residents’ Association (TRA) Cllr John Elliott advised the council that the TRA has been offi cially disbanded, and handed the balance of moneys (£219) held in TRA funds over to the parish council to be spent specifi cally on the community centre. Brook House The issue of Brook House, Maldon Road was raised yet again. It appears that a London fi rm is interested in purchasing the building but that the building must fi rst be in the ownership of Colchester BC which has not the funds available at present. It was noted that the cost of erecting scaffolding and covering the building completely would be £130/140,000. Continued on page 5... Book a ‘Casino Night’ with Casino Royale £100 discount for <strong>LIFE</strong> Readers See page 23 For editorial call 01206 386666 or email editor@estuarylife.co.uk | Design/Web enquiries to designdesk@estuarylife.co.uk 3
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