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The Thirsk Weekly News is a family-owned paper for Thirsk and the surrounding area
26th March, 2021.
"Not the Park Run" continues weekly, with thousands of runners sending in their times, and this week 10 Harriers were involved, largely due to the encouragement and enthusiasm of Paul Chapman, appreciation for collating these results. Mike Cropper recorded the quickest time, 22.30, and it's good to see him getting back into form. Martyn Coy had a good outing in 23.14, and Duncan Fothergill was delighted with his 24.52, his first time under 25 minutes for a 5k. Sonja van der Westhuisen did a PB in 25.18, with ever present Gary Wilkinson taking 25.29, Kirsty Naylor 27.40, Sarah Harrison 29.13. Siobhan Woodland with PB 33.24, Sharon Keegan 35.50 and Rosie Gatenby 39.29....
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26th March, 2021.
There are some people whom I call People Who Put Thirsk On The Map. A mixed bunch, they include our Magna Carta baron, William de Mowbray, cricketer John Lord, John Gilbert Baker the botanist (as in Baker’s Alley), and more recently, Alf Wight, Peter Wright and Julian Norton, and lastly Jasmine Harrison, our transatlantic rower.
One name omitted from that list is Adam Carlisle Bamlett. You can find his blue plaque, if you look carefully, on Bamlett House on the Tesco site.
Adam Bamlett was born in 1835 at Great Smeaton, the son of Carlisle Bamlett, farmer, who chose for his son the name of the first gardener in the Garden of Eden. This 19th Century Adam turned out to be an innovative engineer with business acumen who built up a farm machinery manufacturing business in Thirsk of international reputation, employing several hundred men. His machines won prize after prize at agricultural shows....
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26th March, 2021.
Here are some pictures of the lovely displays our school children have been involved with since returning to school.
Lockdown has been challenging for each of us but we are all starting to think about the positive things we can all look forward to!
This includes Hopes for the future, the people we hope to see soon, places we will go and reflecting on the lessons we have learnt from the Covid 19 pandemic, Thirsk Community Primary School....
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19th March, 2021.
As part of World Book Day at Topcliffe CofE Academy, the children in Seedlings Class (Nursery) have been reading a book called "Real Superheroes". In this book, it recognizes all the amazing people who have worked super hard over the last year throughout the pandemic. The children enjoyed a day dressing up as real superheroes....
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19th March, 2021.
A pioneering traffic detection system is to be installed in Thirsk to warn of traffic problems at Sutton Bank.
The queue detection system will advise road users to avoid the route when necessary and allows highways officers to react to closures and disruption on Sutton Bank quickly.
Live updates will be displayed on two interactive signs on Long Street in Thirsk and on the A168/A19 roundabout on York Road.
The scheme was partly funded by local North Yorkshire County Council member Councillor Gareth Dadd from his locality budget. He said: “I’m delighted to spend part of my budget on introducing this queue detection system which will be a huge benefit for those using Sutton Bank. The system along the route will pick up a change in traffic behaviour and automatically display it on the message boards....
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19th March, 2021.
Returning to school in March, pupils may have been forgiven for thinking that the worst of the winter weather was behind them. Yet, last Wednesday, pupils from Cundall Manor School donned fancy dress, and braved gale force winds and driving rain in an attempt to raise funds for Cancer Research UK by completing the Race for Life.
The wet weather made for difficult terrain but pupils as young as FOUR and as old as 13 took part in the race with plenty of youthful enthusiasm.
Pupils from the school, based between Helperby and Topcliffe, continued the tradition, now well established, after the nationwide lockdown postponed the event which is usually held on the first week in January. The pupils had to walk, jog or run in aid of Cancer Research UK’s life-saving work and enhanced the fun by sporting fancy dress. Several pupils also decided to work together to tackle the course and compete in their own three-legged challenge....
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19th March, 2021.
Personnel from locally based Army unit have donned the famous blue berets of the UN as they prepare to deploy to the Mediterranean.
6 Regiment Royal Logistic Corps (RLC), which operates out of Thirsk, will form part of Operation TOSCA, Britain’s contribution to the peacekeeping mission in Cyprus.
Captain Zabina Holt, who will be deploying as a liaison officer, said: “It really is a multinational effort to help keep peace. It is a mandate that is renewed every six months. We are really used to working in a diverse organization.”
The international force, established under UNSC Resolution 186 in 1964, sees troops patrol the 112-mile long Buffer Zone.
UN forces in the country are made up of almost 1,000 soldiers and police officers from countries as far apart as China and Paraguay....
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12th March, 2021.
World Book Day was on Thursday 4th March and this year was based on the theme 'Share a Story- anytime, anywhere'. Our teachers prepared a fun day of learning based around a specially chosen book for each class. All week we had share a story videos from staff across the school. We also held a Share a Story competition to encourage reading at home and become a reading Star showing exciting ways you can share stories - not just at bedtime....
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12th March, 2021.
On Friday, David A Kerfoot, MBE presented the school with the High Sheriff award. It was in recognition of the whole staff team and pupils embracing the challenges of the Covid-19 Pandemic and continuing the safe and successful running of the school for continued learning, support and wellbeing for all....
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12th March, 2021.
Thirsk Yarnbombers have paid their tribute to Jasmine Harrison and her epic transoceanic voyage in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. The town centre is now host to an assortment of sea creatures, including starfish, whales, dolphins, sparkling coloured fish and bright octopi, together with a tiny knitted version of Jasmine’s boat Argo....
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12th March, 2021.
Work colleagues at Inspired Pet Nutrition’s manufacturing site at Dalton Airfield are helping local pet charities and animal rescue centres get free meals as part of the firm’s national Miles & Meals initiative which launched at the end of 2020 and has already seen more than 430,000 free meals donated across the UK to pet charities as well as other organizations such as food banks and the RSPCA. Under the scheme, the business contributes one meal for every mile covered walking, running or cycling.
About 90 colleagues across all departments at Dalton have signed up to the initiative, formed teams and record their hours spent exercising – which also includes activities such as yoga and pilates. Up till the end of February, team IPN had completed nearly 700 hours of exercise....
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5th March, 2021.
The World of James Herriot in Thirsk is a winner of the Triumph over Adversity Award in the Rural Business Awards 2021. The World of James Herriot team is celebrating following the Rural Business Awards 2020/21 National Final, held online for the first time due to lockdown. Jules Hudson, the BBC Escape to the Country presenter, delighted the finalists as host for the ceremony on Thursday 25th February.
Speaking after winning The Triumph Over Adversity Award, Ian Ashton, managing director World of James Herriot, said:
“I am truly humbled to receive the Triumph Over Adversity Award alongside every other worthy winner in this category at the Rural Business Awards. The past year has been especially difficult for businesses, so to receive this award means the absolute world to me. I want the success of World of James Herriot to be a glimmer of hope for anyone who is currently struggling or has struggled in the past – better days are on the horizon. Much appreciation, Rural Business Awards and Amazon....
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5th March, 2021.
Jasmine Harrison has the spirit of adventure in her. As the youngest female to row solo across the Atlantic she has earned at age 21 her place in the Guinness Book of Records. And here is how. She left home at 18 and spent 7 months travelling, borrowed a boat to sail around the Caribbean and happened to be at Nelson’s Dockyard on Antigua in 2018 as the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2017 race was finishing. “I saw the finish line and said I’m going to do it one day,” she told me as she sat in a sunny and warm Nelson’s Dockyard in Antigua last week with tropical birdsong in the background and I spoke to her by Zoom from a Thirsk flirting with spring sunshine. She was pleased with her achievement. “It’s taken me three years to get here and now I’m here and I’ve done it....
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5th March, 2021.
Last October members of Thirsk Rotary joined in the planting of crocus corns at Sowerby Gateway, Carlton Miniott and Marage Road. This annual event is in support of the World Health Organization’s END POLIO NOW campaign. The purple colour of the Spring flowers relates to the dye used to mark a finger of each child vaccinated in the ongoing campaign, which is supported by Rotary International, the Gates Foundation and others....
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.jpg "Thirsk and Sowerby Harriers Photo courtesy Alison Butcher as featured in The Thirsk Weeky News 6th March 2021 edition")
5th March, 2021.
In Oct 2004, Paul Sinton-Hewitt organized a run in Bushy Park, London with 13 of his friends so they could continue their sessions together, and this was the beginning of the Park Run movement which has since overtaken the country. Thousands of runners each Saturday, in normal times, descend on their local 5k Park Run course and have a timed run round it. These days, you have a bar code which is scanned at the finish, and results incorporated on a central computer before being published on the website. (In the early days it was tap washers and pencil and paper!) The benefits to health are recognized, and park runs are even promoted in Doctors' surgeries, with a feeling of well being is certain after a run. 20 countries have taken up park runs, and on holiday almost anywhere, you are likely to find a park run. Some runners see how many different park runs they can collect, and "alphabet" park runs are attempted - a run beginning with each letter of the alphabet, and one can imagine Fountains Abbey is a must for a run beginning with F, Photo Tracey Lowther ahead of Pat Kirby at the recent virtual cross country Photo courtesy Alison Butcher....
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