Chill Out at the Lock - Sunday 14 July

 

Youth Council Meeting - 2nd July

Business, grants and pest control on Youth Council agenda

On Tuesday 2 July  from 5:30pm to 7:00pm Three Rivers Youth Council are holding a meeting to discuss the latest issues on the agenda in Three Rivers.

Firstly there will be a talk from Mark Jervis from Three Rivers District Council which will be about pest control. There will also be a talk from a local young business man about how to successfully set up and run a business. Groups which have received Youth Council grants will  talk about their work  with Rickmansworrth and Watford Sea Cadets, Quench youth café, MENCAP and St Helen’s and Merchant Taylor’s schools'  PHAB project.

Three Rivers District Council has been running the  Youth  Council since March 1996 to provide young people with an opportunity to participate in local decisions and issues. If you want to have fun, have your say and help make a difference in the local community then feel free to come along. The meeting welcomes young people aged between 11 and 19 and children of mixed ability including those registered disabled.

If you are interested please go to Penn Chamber, Three Rivers District Council, Three Rivers House, Northway, Rickmansworth, WD31RL on Tuesday the 2nd of July at 5:30pm.

For more information please call 01923 776611 or email Kevin Snow at kevin.snow@threerivers.gov.uk.

Recycling to go back to weekly! Latest news from TRDC

In a major improvement in its service to residents, Three Rivers District Council is to move to weekly recycling collections next year. New collection arrangements, to take effect from October 2014, will see the weekly collection of cans, plastics, cartons, glass, paper and cardboard in a single wheeled bin, rather than in separate boxes emptied each fortnight. 
At the same time the Council will be introducing a new weekly collection of food waste using handy ‘back door’ caddies. These easy-to-use 25 litre containers should be large enough for all the food waste produced by most households, although the Council will still encourage home composting where possible.
Speaking after the Council's Executive Committee on 24th June, Councillor Phil Brading,  Portfolio  Holder for Public Services and Health, said:

“In making these changes we are responding to surveys and comments from residents on how we could make further improvements to the service. We know that some residents don’t recycle as much as they could, either because the current system is too time consuming, or because the present boxes are too small for the amount of recycling they produce. The new service will be simpler to use, as people won’t need to sort their recycling into separate boxes. The new wheeled bins will offer more capacity, and they’ll be emptied weekly.
“We have committed to these changes now because we had to find a way of removing cardboard from the brown bin organic waste collection. The problem is that much of the cardboard used in packaging today does not produce a compost of acceptable quality. Card coated with plastic or wax, or heavily dyed with printing inks, does not rot down in the composting process, leaving an end product of poor quality. Three Rivers, in common with all other councils, is taking steps to remove cardboard from the organic waste 'stream' to meet new, tougher, composting standards.”
Councillor Stephen Giles-Medhurst, Chairman of the Council’s Public Service and Health Committee, said :  “We spent a great deal of time discussing the best and most cost effective way forward, given the need to remove cardboard from the composting waste stream. The Committee unanimously supported the move to weekly collections for recycling and for food waste. Both are clearly major improvements, and I am sure will be warmly welcomed by residents.”
Removal of cardboard and food waste from the brown bin means that from October 2014 the existing brown bins will revert to garden waste only, and will be collected fortnightly. Any remaining household refuse which cannot be recycled will also be collected fortnightly, as at present.  

You are invited to a Summer Serenade

The Rickmansworth Players Choir invites you to join them for an eclectic selection of acapella songs, including madrigals, part-songs and pop songs.

 • "April Is In My Mistress Face"
 • "The Longest Time"
 • "Sail Me There"
 • "Just The Way You Look Tonight"
 • "Too Much I Once Lamented"
 • "As Torrents In Summer"
 • "Don't Worry Be Happy" 
 • "Teddy Bears' Picnic"
 • "Viva La Vida"
 • "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"......
 • ..... and the debut performance of a new piece, specially written for the concert.
Come and enjoy the warm sounds of our "Summer Serenade"

Date: Saturday 13 July 2013
Time: 8pm (finishing 9.30pm)
Tickets: £7 (accompanying under-two's sitting on a lap free)http://www.rickmansworth-players.org.uk/serenade/
Venue: Rickmansworth School Performing Arts Centre
Click here for more details and to book (unreserved) tickets (online booking only)

Latest from Owl - Neighbourhood Watch

Residents are being warned to safeguard against distraction theft which has occurred recently in Rickmansworth.
In Rickmansworth library, schoolgirls were studying for exams when they were approached by males handing out leaflets. One of the girls had her mobile phone taken while they were doing this. The offenders were described as foreign with european accents.
In The Tree Public House on Uxbridge road males entered the pub waving £50 notes asking for cocktails. A mobile phone belonging to a customer was taken in the process. The offenders were described as foreign with european accent.
In Tesco, Harefield road, A man was approached by two women in the car park who had informed him that he had dropped a £10 note on the floor. The females were very insistent in giving it back to him.The males debit card was taken while they were doing this. The male had just paid for shopping using his debit card. It is thought that someone in the queue behind him would have seen him type his pin number in while paying at the till. With the card cleverly retrieved the offenders went on to draw cash from the victims account from a nearby atm. The offenders were described as foreign with european accents. ALWAYS COVER YOUR PIN WHEN PAYING FOR SHOPPING OR DRAWING MONEY FROM AN ATM.

NEVER LEAVE YOUR MOBILE PHONE IN VIEW IN A PUBLIC PLACE.
If anyone approaches you using the above methods of distraction then this should be reported to Police immediately on 101. If you suddenly realise you have been victim of theft from a distraction then dial 999. alan.waller@herts.pnn.police.uk