November 2008 Archives

The Chiltern American Women's Club is celebrating its 21st birthday this year and last week featured in a Radio 4 programme entitled Lives in a Landscape: Stars, Stripes and Chalfont St Giles'.
On Sunday, November 23, it held now-famous bazaar at the BellHouse Hotel in Beaconsfield, an event which usually raises approximately £10,000 for charity. Club chairwoman Louise Fortier is confident that the sum raised this year will be equally healthy, with the money going to the NSE and Bucks Carers.

Four families have given the Chalfont St Giles property market a welcome boost and saved themselves money and stress by swapping houses.
Melissa and James Dickinson moved last month from Albion Road to a property in Back Lane, exchanging houses with Frances and Alan Hawkins.
The Dickinsons wanted a larger house for their three children, while Mr and Mrs Hawkins wanted to downsize now their children have left home.

Chalfont St Giles will take on an old-fashioned feel for the turn-on of its Christmas lights.
On Saturday, December 6 Father Christmas will be the star of the show.
Just before he arrives, at 6pm, a procession of village children will make their way to the village green in time for carol singing.
The evening's proceedings will continue until 7.30pm with entertainment for all the family.

Chalfont St Giles parish council is opening a new chapter in the life of the village library, now that its plans to buy the library building from Bucks County Council (BCC) have been approved.
The move means that the parish council, which for several years has met at the garden centre on School Lane, will be rehoused in the library, alongside the Chalfont St Giles tourist information office.

Online children's clothing company Livvy and Tom was set up by Chalfont St Giles mother-of-three Niki Hall, 42, in March 2006. The business is named after her two oldest children Olivia, eight, and Thomas, six.

Charities will still receive donations from the proceeds of the Chalfont St Giles village show, even though bad weather meant that this year's takings were disappointingly low.
Fred Nolan, honorary president of the show, confirmed that the show's profits this year came to just under £2000, which he said would be divided among the 11 charities and organisations that had applied for money.

Confusion reigned in Chalfont St Giles when phone and computer lines went down in the village roughly between 9am and 11am on Monday (17/11) and Tuesday (18/11).
Customers at the Old Post House found they were unable to use swipe card technology to top up their mobile phones and customers could not get through to estate agents Bramptons, although branch manager Kit Rose was bemused to find himself talking to a cold caller from abroad at the very time when all other lines were dead.

The police are planning another Speed Enforcement Day in Chalfont St Giles, Chalfont St Peter and the surrounding villages, on November 26.
PC Jim Clarke said that last year's speed Enforcement Day was very successful, with several drivers caught speeding, including one driver who was caught in three different villages on the same day.

Deanway United Church will be having their Christmas Fair on Saturday, November 22 from 10am - 2pm.

Pupils at Chalfont St Giles junior school proudly display the results of their hard work during Arts Week (November 10 - 14), which culminated in an open exhibition for parents and members of the local community. .