Chapelfields “out of school” club seeks additional users

New Chapelfields Focus published

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LibDems make final appeal to Westfield electors

New Chapelfields Focus published

Polls are showing a swing from Labour to Liberal Democrat candidate Andrew Waller in the final run up to Thursday’s by election.

Former Westfield Councillor and local resident Andrew Waller needs only 139 additional votes to overtake the Labour candidate.

Andrew has issued a final leaflet and appealed for a big turn out on Thursday.

“It is important that the result is decisive. It is the first opportunity that residents have had in York to give a verdict on James Alexander’s, mistake prone, administration”.

Many residents are saying that the Council needs more experienced members as it faces a period where no party will have overall control.

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Restore Community Centre grants says LibDem candidate

Sanderson House community centre

With concern growing over threats to voluntary groups using the Burton Stone Community Centre, Westfield LibDem candidate Andrew Waller has called for the grants to local community centres to be reinstated.

In the Westfield area, both the Foxwood and Chapelfields community centres have seen their grants cut by the Labour Council.

Both centres are now relying entirely on the work of volunteers.

The committees at both centres are working very hard to keep them open but, in the long term, both would benefit if an annual grant of £15,000 was reinstated.

This would allow them to employ a part time caretaker and expand use of the facilities.

Former Labour Leader David Scott claimed on Thursday that “There is not one member of this (Labour) Cabinet I would offer a proper job to, not that many of them know what a proper job is”.

The £14,000 a year that these, apparently ineffective, Cabinet members draw in salary payments would be better spent on sustaining local community centres.

Chapelfields rallying round Sanderson House Community Centre

There was a good turnout at the annual meeting of Chapelfields Residents group yesterday.

Most discussion focussed on the future of the Community Centre.

Residents are mostly unhappy about the cut in York Council funding, but are determined to keep the centre going at least until May 2015 when a new Council will be elected.

In the meantime, a charity is being formed to run the centre and a new committee has been appointed.

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Chapelfields pre school activities

Gardening activities at Sanderson House in Chapelfields

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Urgent appeal as bogus caller targets elderly Chapelfields man

York police have issued an urgent appeal and warning following a distraction burglary in York yesterday (Tuesday 20 May).

At around 11.30am, a man called at the home of a man in his 80s in Bramham Avenue, claiming he was from the “waterboard” and needed to check his taps.

He got the elderly resident to turn on his kitchen taps and empty a basin of water into a drain outside.

During this time, the suspect searched the victim’s house and stole an amount of cash.

The suspect is described as white, aged in his late 20s to early 30s with a tanned complexion, and a small dark moustache. He was around 6ft tall and of very slim build, He was wearing a dark coloured baseball cap, and dark coloured short sleeved shirt, trousers and shoes.

Police have issued the following appeal to members of the public to contact them if;