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With referendums on slots casino host community agreements in Millbury and Leominster less than a month away, neighboring towns vary widely in preparing for how they may be affected.
State Gaming Commission officials have tried to get the word out to neighboring communities that they could see both positive and negative impacts. They sent a letter Aug. 16 to geographically adjacent and other potentially affected communities and have spoken about the process for surrounding communities at meetings and presentations.
Neighboring communities could be eligible for funding for impact studies, although not until host community voters approve their own agreement with developers. Votes are scheduled for Sept. 24 in Millbury and Leominster.
If a town is designated a surrounding impact community by the developer, or if not by the developer, by the commission, the community may negotiate impact mitigation under state gaming regulations.
Surrounding community agreements are intended to be largely lined up by the time phase 2 applications are filed. The deadline for slots casino applicants to submit a phase 2 application to the Gaming Commission, if it has received local approval, is Oct. 4, creating a short window for neighbors taking a wait-and-see approach.
The deadline for resort casino applications, including Foxwoods' proposal for Milford and Mohegan Sun's Palmer application, is Dec. 31.
If surrounding community agreements aren't reached by the time the state awards casino licenses, developers and surrounding towns would enter mandatory negotiations and then arbitration.
"We do encourage everyone to begin those conversations," said Elaine Driscoll, spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. "The hope is that there are as many signed surrounding community agreements as appropriate."
Auburn Town Manager Julie Jacobson said her town has been watching Mass Gaming & Entertainment's proposal for a $200 million slots parlor since it was first targeted for Worcester in the spring.
That deal fell apart in June but resurfaced a month later, proposed for McCracken Road in Millbury, by the Shoppes at Blackstone Valley, with similar implications for neighboring Auburn.
Department heads have been working on possible casino fallout for months. On Aug. 5, Ms. Jacobson sent a letter to Rush Street Gaming, Mass Gaming & Entertainment's parent company, requesting funding to study the impacts and asking to negotiate an agreement. She sent another letter Thursday, confirming the request.
While money for studies isn't yet available, the town has asked for price quotes from consultants that have been prequalified by the Gaming Commission.
"It's premature for me to say what those impacts are, but not too early to say there will be impacts," Ms. Jacobson said. "My major concern is, it takes time to identify those impacts."
Among the ripple effects of a Millbury casino, she said, Auburn could have increased traffic and motor vehicle accidents, which could strain public safety resources; heavier use of local roads and intersections; potentially lower property values in neighborhoods and business districts, which would affect real estate taxes; and aesthetic impacts on scenic roads.
Ms. Jacobson said: "It's to their benefit, as well as ours, to negotiate an agreement in good faith. We're trying to be reasonable. I just want to make sure we're protecting what's in the best interest of the town of Auburn."
Auburn Police Chief Andrew Sluckis said he'd like to have an independent company take a look at what it thinks the impact would be, and not just rely on studies that are being done for Millbury.
"I'm particularly concerned with potential traffic problems on Millbury Street," he said, citing the possibility of more impaired drivers from the casino.
Sutton Town Administrator James A. Smith said his town plans to file for surrounding community status and he has just identified a lawyer, Jed M. Nosal with Brown Rudnick, to represent it.
"This is so new I haven't informed the selectmen yet," Mr. Smith said.
The casino could affect Sutton in several ways. "Certainly, traffic (will be a problem), which is predominantly on (Route) 146," he said. "The site is probably a half-mile from the town of Sutton. But we're also concerned about crime."
Once the lawyer is retained, Mr. Smith said, a conference call would be set up to discuss the next steps.
He said impact studies need to be done, but "for me, it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to spend money until we're confirmed as a surrounding community."
Grafton Town Administrator Timothy P. McInerney has said previously that his town also intends to negotiate mitigation with Mass Gaming & Entertainment, but he was not available Thursday to provide further details.
Worcester officials decided last month to begin an evaluation on their own, according to news reports. The city is worried about traffic, public safety and market impacts.
Lancaster Town Administrator Orlando Pacheco said in a news article last week that town officials were anxious to start an evaluation on impacts such as increased traffic and storm-water runoff generated by a proposed slots casino nearby on Jungle Road in Leominster. But some other communities surrounding Leominster are waiting to enter the fray.
Terri Ackerman, town administrator in Sterling, said, "We are just watching carefully now."
She said officials haven't started community impact discussions. "It's all very iffy right now as to whether it's going to happen."
Lunenburg Town Manager Kerry A. Speidel said she hadn't received the Gaming Commission's surrounding community letter, even though the town borders Leominster.
"We just haven't sat down and talked about it," she said. "It's really not anywhere close to Lunenburg."
Town officials in Fitchburg, Princeton and Westminster could not be reached for comment.
Representatives of Mass Gaming & Entertainment, developers of the proposed Millbury slots casino, and proposed Leominster slots developer, the Cordish Cos., did not reply to requests for comment.
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Hunger strike entering second week at NC prison
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Administrators at a North Carolina prison are monitoring a hunger strike by a few inmates demanding better medical care and living conditions.
Nine inmates at Central Prison in Raleigh began skipping meals last week after issuing a list of demands that included law books, toilet brushes, supplies for cleaning cell walls and windows. They also want to be allowed to shower without wearing restraints.
Prison spokeswoman Pam Walker said Thursday the number refusing meals has dropped to four. All are being held on control status, where inmates spend 23 hours a day alone in their cells.
Walker says the medical staff is monitoring those not eating and will "intervene" if necessary.
An online petition is calling for a protest outside the prison Sunday in solidarity with the striking inmates.
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Did you manage to get your hands on Boots Gift of the Week?? All my local stores have sold out, however after getting the set last year I've decided to give it a miss. For me the star product of the set has to be Peaches and Clean which can be used on any skin type. As the name suggests the scent of this is peach, however its also quite minty, but still overall it reminds me of Archers. On a side note I think I must have sickened myself off with Archers from back in the day as I won't touch it nowadays.
I don't normally use this to take my make up off however it does do a bloody good job of removing all leftover bits of make up (mainly mascara). This doesn't dry my skin, nor does the scent transfer onto the skin. Personally I alternate this and another cleanser as I find I get better results. There is a negative with the product, quite a bit of the product is left in the bottom and you can't get it out with the pump. Bit of a waste if I'm honest with you, however putting that aside its a brilliant product which I will be picking up once I've gotten through my 1001 cleansers. Yet again another winner from Soap and Glory.


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Katherine Hayles has an interesting and thought-provoking article on how we read in today's world of the ubiquitous screen.
The first point I felt worth noting was the fact the Professor Hayles published her article on her own website, but via Scribd. Depending on your device and configuration, this initially means the dreaded scroll bar within a scroll bar, which a lot of unmotivated would surf away from instantly. The presentation is also clearly print-like pages, thus suggesting that Professor Hayles prefers printed material herself.
|The Dreaded Double Scroll Bar
In the debate of print versus digital, deep versus skim/scan, she openly comes down on the side of deep reading traditionally associated with print.
When I can, I print, (though an ecologist at heart), sometimes to give my eyes a screen break I will shed a few leaves of (hopefully sustainable) forest. Also, you can scribble notes, underline, or even highlight if you have the fancy pens. All of which describes the deep reading many of us have been brought up on, the loss of which many lament, and not just among academia. Parents of a certain age, frequently regret the loss of such skills among their screen-addicted teen offspring. Professor Hayles also notes how digital reading, skimming and scanning, establishes different brain pathways when compared to print and deep reading.
The essential difference as I see it, is when we read digitally we are often in a hurry, and it is this rushing which is contrary to deep reading (sitting somewhere quiet giving a poem/slice of text your entire attention), truly attempting to connect to all the writer had in mind, plus of course the multiple layers of linguistic artistry binding those layers of meaning. Apparently, research (the results of which the professor calls into question) has been done on brain activity of various groups while reading digitally. An interesting study might be a comparison of heart rate while reading print versus digital. Studies have found that we absorb more, the more relaxed we are. If we rush when reading digitally, we are not relaxed, therefore absorbing less? Or perhaps feeling less? That is, not fully empathizing with the message or messenger?
Skapinke (2015) in a recent Financial Times article cites research by Mangen and Kuiken (2014) which compares print versus digital when reading fiction and non-fiction.
Results indicated that, independently of prior experience with reading on electronic media, readers in the iPad reported dislocation within the text and awkwardness in handling their medium. Also, iPad readers who believed they were reading non-fiction were less likely to report narrative coherence and transportation, while booklet readers who believed they were reading non-fiction were, if anything, more likely to report narrative coherence. Finally, booklet (but not iPad) readers were more likely to report a close association between transportation and empathy.
When measuring how long screen reading has been around compared to print, (the latter about 5,000 years), Skapinke describes the former as "a just-peeled-the-protective-plastic-off novelty".
The fact is screen reading is now natural for many below a certain age, and there is no way to put that genie back in the box.
|Reading is "cool" on-screen
According to the National Literacy Trust, boys think it is cool to read on-screen.
If we want younger generations to learn how to read deeply, as Professor Hayles, and many others do, then we must find ways to adapt our teaching to integrate the screen. Alan Liu in the English department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been teaching what he calls a Literature+ course, an example of which is rewiring Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet into "Romeo and Juliet: A Facebook Tragedy". Thus a form which is familiar to the students is used to present the age old theme of love and tragedy in a way that contemporizes it for them, and hopefully develops their capacity as readers of text, and indeed life.
Hayles, N. (2010). "How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine". Nkhayles.com. Retrieved 10 December 2015, from http://nkhayles.com/how_we_read.html
Skapinke, M. Those
headed for the top add print to their digital reading. (2015). Retrieved from: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/97b30e60-249a-11e5-bd83-71cb60e8f08c.html#axzz3o9uEkSam
Mangen, A. &
Kuiken, D. (2014). Lost in the iPad: Narrative engagement on paper and tablet. Retrieved
from: http://www.academia.edu/9002863/Mangen_A._and_Kuiken_D._2014_._Lost_in_the_iPad_Narrative_engagement_on_paper_and_tablet
Telegraph.co.uk,. (2015). Ebooks boost boys' reading abilities, research
finds. Retrieved 10 December 2015, from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12040488/Ebooks-boost-boys-reading-abilities-research-finds.html
Literacytrust.org.uk,. (2015). Our research shows using ebooks increases boys' reading progress and makes them keener, more confident readers. Retrieved 10 December 2015, from http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/news/6974_our_research_shows_using_ebooks_increases_boys_reading_progress_and_makes_them_keener_more_confident_readers


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There are many good things about Numinous, the bi-monthly gig celebrating all kinds of performances that's organised by local spoken word artist Sheena Baharudin. Recently held in Merdekarya (a new space we like), it is a great way to spend the weekend checking out new acts. And with no cover charge, a willing audience is not difficult to find. The best thing about Numinous, however, is its spirit. Numinous has a great deal of heart — the audience is generous, Sheena as emcee has something good to say about everyone, and the vibe is warm. The performers take turns to share their work apologetically; tuning a guitar, pacifying a fussy toddler, worrying over individuals in the audience who may not understand Malay, Korean, Nigerian or…


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Stark warning Ireland needs to speed up austerity effort to ensure bailout success
INTERVIEW:Jürgen Stark's abrupt exit from the powerful executive board of the European Central Bank sparked turmoil in the euro zone last Friday. Hours before his resignation was made public, he was interviewed by 'The Irish Times' in his Frankfurt office and made the case for public service pay cuts in Ireland to bring the public finances under control
JÜRGEN STARK seems like he hasn't a care in the world. He is within hours of his resignation from the European Central Bank but gives nothing away, as he argues for cuts in Irish Civil Service pay to help bring the public finances under control.
This is toxic politically and would blow apart the Croke Park deal, which compels the Kenny administration not to cut public pay or make compulsory redundancies.
Yet Stark, who has an uncompromising attachment to balanced budgets, insists the Government must quicken the austerity effort to ensure the bailout is successful.
"I think the Irish Government has the chance to surprise the market positively," he says.
"A very clear mandate was given to this Government by a broad majority of the Irish electorate so I think this Government really can do more, because it seems to me that the large majority of the people is behind this approach."
We are sitting in his 34th floor office in the ECB's Eurotower building in downtown Frankfurt. Books line the wall, a potted palm plant stands on the wooden floor.
Stark sees over-indebtedness as a moral problem and, by reputation, is something of a rottweiler when it comes to fiscal correctitude.
Still, aggression is absent as he calmly explains why Ireland should swiftly increase its dosage of austerity. Although he is soon to depart the ECB, his views on Ireland reflect the bank's position.
"WE KNOW THATafter a certain period of time there is always a risk of reform fatigue," says Stark.
"The Government should be even more ambitious in cutting the public deficit ratio, which is still at double-digit level."
The debt crisis in the euro zone is into a dangerous new phase. Italy and Spain came close to the abyss last month and the ailing Greek bailout is again under threat.
The turmoil is stretching Europe to its limits, yet Dublin is increasingly winning plaudits for its execution of the bailout plan and notional Irish borrowing costs have eased. Stark warns, however, that sentiment could suddenly turn against Ireland. To guard against that, he says the Government should proceed further, faster down the path of fiscal recovery.
"The spreads of Government bonds over German bonds have come down. This is a positive sign, but it is not a given that this downward trend will continue.
"Ireland needs to rebuild confidence in financial markets. This requires a lot of hard work and also tough decisions, which have to be well communicated to the public.
"Without the support of the public and without strong political leadership, there is a risk that the programme gets off track and that Ireland fails to restore confidence in financial markets."
The ECB is one of three institutions in the "troika" overseeing the Irish bailout, the others being the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund. Although each of the troika's quarterly reviews of the programme has been positive, the view in Frankfurt right now is that Ireland needs to do more.
IN THIS ANALYSIS,the December budget provides a pivotal opportunity for the Government to prove its determination to see the rescue through.
As it stands, Minister for Finance Michael Noonan is obliged under the bailout to target a reduction in the budget deficit to 8.6 per cent of GDP.
This will require a cutbacks and tax increases of at least €3.6 billion, though more may be needed in light of stubbornly high unemployment and lower growth projections for the world economy.
Stark believes Noonan should pursue a bigger cut in the deficit anyway, saying the ECB's governing council wanted a faster recovery plan when the bailout deal was done last November. "We were in favour of more ambitious targets." Crucial here, he says, are "adjustments" in public pay, wage conditions more generally and social welfare entitlements.
This is code for cuts, hardly the stuff of popularity for a Government still basking in a post-election afterglow.
But Stark throws down the gauntlet to Dublin, saying the "frontloading" of difficult decisions would be good for the economy and good for the Government's political standing with its sponsors in the euro zone. The preferred timeframe is the looming budget for 2012 and budget 2013.
"We fully appreciate what the Government has already done in correcting public wages," he says.
"However, if you compare the wages in the public sector with the wages in the public sector of other countries in the euro area, together with Greece, Ireland is still ranking top. Public wage increases since the start of EMU [Economic and Monetary Union] have by far outpaced productivity gains. This needs to be corrected.
"It gives a signalling effect so that also private sector wages adjust to help restore competitiveness and it supports fiscal consolidation. I think also from a political point of view – which in principle I have no comment – one needs to consider that other countries of the euro area provide financial support to Ireland in which the wages of the civil service are significantly lower."
So what exactly does he want? "What I say in a nutshell is that there is scope, further room for adjustment and to be more in line with the wages in the public sector in the euro area as a whole."
Stark won't be prescriptive as regards the scale of pay cuts he would like to see, but agrees with the interpretation that he would rather such moves came sooner than later. "It is an element of frontloading, exactly," he says.
"The lower the deficit, the earlier the debt-to-GDP ratio will decline and the Government will be less dependent on the financial markets for refinancing the debt. So it's as simple as that."
Stark also expresses concerns about the extent of the Government's effort to overhaul the State's wage-setting mechanisms in the private sector.
In essence, he wants greater scope to cut pay. This is particularly difficult for Labour in Coalition, but proponents of the notion say it would serve to protect existing jobs and foster new ones.
"One issue that was addressed by the troika is downward wage flexibility in Irish employment contracts. Some progress has been made. However, this is a field in which there is also scope to be more ambitious," he says.
With all of that in mind, does Stark believe social welfare payments should be cut too?
"This is up to the Government to decide and up to the parliament to agree in the end. It's not up to the central banker." Despite his caution, Stark says welfare entitlements should be examined.
"Reform of the welfare state is, by the way, an issue for pretty much every euro area country. Also Germany, France, Italy have ageing populations.
"I think it is obvious that the social security system and pensions system, healthcare, unemployment benefit schemes have to be adjusted. They have to be under scrutiny."
THERE IS NO little frustration in Frankfurt at the Government's continued push to impose big losses on some senior bond investors in Anglo Irish Bank.
In defiance of Dublin's effort to raise the question again, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet said last Thursday that he was not for turning. Stark echoes that sentiment. Burning bondholders is a "non-issue" in the bank's eyes, and the Government's priorities must lie elsewhere.
"I'm as surprised as the president that this issue seems still to be on the political agenda.
"Our position has not changed, for good reasons. The Irish Government has to consider what it means to be a member of monetary union, to participate in the single market, so whatever is decided in this context – to burn senior bondholders – has an impact on other market segments and on other regions in the euro area.
"This has to be considered. So Ireland is not autonomous in taking this decision and needs to consider the overall context."
So is he saying this debate should be closed definitively? "Concentrate on the items that have to be on the top of the political agenda, to reform the Irish economy to bring the deficit down and not to bring up issues that in our view are non-issues."
In the course an hour-long interview with The Irish Times on Friday morning, Stark gives no sense that he has been considering his own personal position in the bank or has any reservations about any of its policies.
At a press conference the day before, Trichet gave an impassioned defence of the ECB's response to the financial crisis when questioned about blunt German criticism of its extraordinary interventions in sovereign bond markets.
Asked whether Trichet spoke for all in the ECB, Stark pointed out that the bank's president was also its chief spokesman.
His anxiety about the bond-buying policy is widely held to be behind his resignation, which was announced less than four hours after this interview.
However, he describes as "absurd" and "inappropriate" political claims in Germany that the initiative has reduced the ECB to a pan-European bad bank.
"Those who criticise us and say that the ECB has become a bad bank forget that we are taking responsibility and repairing mistakes made at the level of the banking system."
STARK SAYS HE cannot confirm an intervention by the ECB to buy Italian and Spanish bonds, but accepts that market sentiment towards these countries has changed. The bank sent messages to Rome and Madrid when they came under market pressure last month, he says.
"From Ireland you know that when a government has lost confidence it takes a long period of time to restore confidence.
"For this reason in our view it was necessary and appropriate that the Italian government and parliament took action and implemented the measures to bring down the government deficit." The crisis demands early corrective action from all countries affected by the crisis, he argues.
"We have seen in the case of Greece and Ireland that there can be a sudden stop, that governments don't have access to capital markets anymore to finance their budgets. This can happen for larger, advanced economies too.
"In the current situation no countries are really protected, they have to be ahead of the curve and convince the market it is worth investing in the country and that public finances are sound."
Stark appears unperturbed by increasing talk about the possible expulsion of Greece from the euro zone, raised last week by Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte.
"Heads of state and governments have no intention to expel a country. At the summit on July 21st they gave clear signals to support member states in trouble based on conditionality – conditions defined and spelled out and implemented, to be financially supported," he says.
"Conditionality is what counts, as solidarity must not be overstretched. Solidarity never can be a one-way street.
"What is needed at this point is to demonstrate solidarity with the single currency and to comply with the rules to allow monetary union to function smoothly."
Stark, who is often portrayed as the arch-German anti-inflation hawk, has scant regard for those who say the relentless drive for austerity in Europe will not work.
"What is the alternative approach? To continue with high debt ratios, to increase debt even further, running the risk of losing access to financial markets, to put a heavy burden on future generations?" he asks.
"I think from a moral and ethical point of view, also from a political point of view, and from a point of view of inter-generational justice, this is impossible and not feasible.
"There is a need for adjustment, an urgent need for adjustment, in particular taking into account the decline in population in the number of people in advanced economies so we put an ever heavier burden on future generations and this is not acceptable."
JÜrgen Stark omnipresent in all major German policy decisions
THE DEUTSCHMARK had vanished four years before Jürgen Stark arrived in the ECB in 2006. But for the moustachioed, bespectacled civil servant, his mission in Frankfurt was to act as the executor of the marks economic legacy of fiscal solidity and price stability.
As head of ECB economic analysis and statistics, he gave countless interviews and speeches urging greater fiscal discipline in the euro zone. Behind closed doors, he voted against ECB sovereign debt buy-ups, warning they undermined the banks credibility and independence.
As tensions grew on the ECB board, prompting the departure of Bundesbank president Axel Weber, Stark saw himself as the last defender of German-style Ordnungspolitik: allowing free markets operate within a clear regulatory framework.
Born in 1948, Stark's career was shaped by the values of modesty, austerity and thrift he learned while growing up in postwar Germany.
After deciding against taking over his fathers vineyard in the Rheinhessen wine region, he studied economics. Completing his doctorate in Tübingen, near Stuttgart, he was exposed to the tensions of student revolution. Rather than join in he finished his studies and, as he said later, became more serious – read conservative.
He joined the Christian Democrats (CDU), rose quickly through the ranks of the Bonn political establishment and began work at the economics ministry. From 1988 he served four years at the Helmut Kohl chancellery and, from 1992, at the finance ministry.
In these years he was a Zelig-like omnipresence in all major German policy decisions. He helped crunch the numbers for unification in 1990, co-drafted the Stability and Growth Pact and assisted in fighting off the French to guarantee the political independence of the new ECB in the tradition of the Bundesbank, where he served for a time as deputy president.
When scandal forced out Bundesbank president Ernst Welteke in 2004, the Social Democrat government did not ask Stark to succeed him.
Just two years later, however, the CDU were back in power and Stark was nominated to join the ECB's six-strong executive board as its de facto chief economist.
He had almost three years in his non-renewable ECB term left to run. Of late, he suggested he would like to see more of his wife and two children and his Baltic Sea holiday home.
After catching chancellor Merkel off-guard with his surprise resignation, he knows not to expect any more phone calls from Berlin. DEREK SCALLY
Divisions exposed: ECB under pressure
THE EUROPEAN Central Bank attributed Jürgen Stark's resignation to "personal reasons" but his departure reflects divisions at the top of the bank over its interventions in bond markets.
The policy saw the bank buy Irish bonds last year but it was always controversial and led to the defection of former Bundesbank chief Axel Weber in February. The initiative intensified last month when the bank started buying the bonds of Italy and Spain. Stark opposed the decision, as did Weber's successor Jens Weidmann.
In spite of private reservations, Stark never wavered from his public support of ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet. Such backing was crucial as Stark was seen as a bulwark representing instinctive German scepticism about the ECB's expanding remit and its ever-increasing financial exposure to the weakest euro zone countries and their banks.
With political leaders divided over their response to the crisis, the ECB has made use of its operational independence to make extraordinary interventions in financial markets. This has cast the Frankfurt-based bank as one of the last lines of defence against the relentless turmoil in sovereign bond markets.
At a time when the crisis is escalating rapidly, the internal tensions exposed by Stark's resignation may curtail the ECB's room for manoeuvre. ARTHUR BEESLEY


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As we look forward to the 2018 season I am honoured to be the Chairlady and Away Team Manager of our Cheshire County Juniors, and to represent the hard work and commitment that our juniors strive for.
The 2017 season saw some great successes for Cheshire County juniors, some great examples of these include Cheshire being represented at the BCGBA All England junior Merit final, the success of some great wins both Home and Away at our matches against Yorkshire & Merseyside matches; and great results at the supplementary matches in Wolverhampton. Not forgetting the commitment of our juniors entering other competitions and achieving great success, including one of our Cheshire County juniors in the final of the junior Waterloo and winning the over 16 section of the Waterloo.
I want to thank each & every Cheshire County junior, parents, grandparents, friends and family that support our teams both Home and Away. The successes are purely down to all your hard work, commitment & enthusiasm.
2018 is promising to be a year of new beginnings for our teams, with the newly formed youth team who will be playing the 18-21 year old Federation matches in May and July. This gives our older juniors the opportunity to play for Cheshire County for a further 3 years.
We will be holding an end of season presentation event & friendly competition on the 2nd September at Owley Wood, to celebrate the successes of our juniors and as our way of expressing our thanks.
We have a fantastic team of committee members and Cheshire County officials working behind the scenes to make sure the 2018 season is exciting and everything runs smoothly.
The 2018 junior trials are being held on Sunday 8th April and 15th April 2018 at Knutsford Crosstown Bowling Club, start time 10.30am, each trials will be held in round robin format to give more opportunity for games, coaching & both will be followed by a buffet and refreshments.
I'm very much looking forward to the 2018 season and beyond, and seeing our juniors continue to go from strength to strength.
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In preparation for the 2018 BCGBA Junior County Championship, Cheshire will once again be holding pre-season Junior Trials days. All players of any ability will be made most welcome and coaching will be available. Any interested juniors should come down on the day alternatively please contact Alex Harris at
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