| New Town Guide published |
| The latest edition of the Town Guide is now available free of charge from the Town Council Offices in Alverton Street, Penzance. |
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| Bendigo Sister Cities Committee … |
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| Peter Mundy, Chairman of The Bendigo Sister Cities Committee, has kindly sent this photo of the committee: from left to right — Jeff White, Doug Turner, Karen Sorensen, Sheryl Retallick (Treasurer), Chris (no longer on committee), Barry McNaught, Peter Mundy, Jill Karena, Jenny McQuilkin, Wendy Holland. Absent: Merle Hall, Li Zhang, James Reade (Youth Representative), Cr Trudi McClure, See Tuang Tan, Martin Leach. |
| … and some members of the Penzance and St. Just — Nevada City and Bendigo Twinning
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Photographed in St Just, across the road from the War Memorial, are (left to right): Arthur Edwards, Sylvia Smith, Monty Nicholls, Margaret Freeman, Teresa
Fogarty, Joyce Lee (Older People's Forum Rep) and Francis Angwin. |
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| Twinning News |
Penzance Town Council recently welcomed St Just Town Council as a partner in the twinning arrangement with Bendigo, Australia and Nevada City, California. |
It was felt that St Just and Pendeen’s mining heritage and the fact that vast numbers of tin miners left St Just in the nineteenth century to join the gold rush in the New World, made the twinning far more historically significant to them than to Penzance itself. |
We have been interested to note that an area of Bendigo, St Just Point, was so named because of the number of residents who came from St Just. To this day, there are still a few of 1870-80 miners’ weatherboard cottages still standing. We are told that these cottages can still be recognised by their hip and valley and ‘kangaroo’ style roofs, though we have to admit we aren’t too sure what these are. Perhaps our Australian friends can enlighten us! |
As part of our efforts to put family members on opposite sides of the world back in touch with each other, we are engaging in conversations with the Older Peoples’ Forum in the hope that some people have long memories! If any of the residents of Bendigo and Nevada are reading this and can help, please do get in touch. |
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| Report of the Councillors Commission |
| Chaired by Dame Jane Roberts, the Commission was set up by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government as an independent review to look at the incentives and barriers that encourage or deter people from standing for election as councillors. It has potentially wide-ranging implications for the future of local democratic representation. Click here to download a copy of the report in pdf format. If you have any views which you would like the Council to take into account, please write to your Councillor or the Town Clerk. |
Other downloads:
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| Penwith District Council Harbour Business Plan, 2008-13. |
Penwith Retail Study; Retail Study Appendices.
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| Unitary Council latest developments: link to “One Cornwall” web site |
