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2010-02-09  Free Wifi for Garforth Kids

A project to provide broadband wireless internet access to all families with children at any one of the member schools of the School Partnership Trust is coming to Garforth, to help to bring learning into the home. Project Cirrus will consist of approximately 125 access points in the streets of Garforth providing free wifi at speeds upto 4mbps. The internet service is supplied by the Leeds learning Network which currently provides filtered internet to all of Garforth’s schools. It is hoped that the project will be completed by mid November.  

2010-02-09  Kippax Nature Trail to Be Repaired

Kippax councillors are to provide a grant of six thousand pounds to protect the nature trail Lines Way from flooding. Parts of the track will be raised, resurfaced and additional drainage put in. Lines Way which runs through Billy Wood is a disused railway route. It forms part of the Leeds to Garforth cycle track and is popular with walkers, cyclists and families. 

2010-02-08  Micklefield Pact Meeting Change of Venue

The Police And Communities Together (Pact) Meeting at Micklefield on Monday 8th February 2010 will now be held at Micklefield School instead of the Fire Station.  

2010-02-08  MPs League Table of Expenses Published

The latest list of MPs expenses, for 2008/09, shows that John Grogan was 29th most expensive, claiming 177 thousand pounds and Colin Burgon was 227th most expensive claiming 157 thousand pounds.  

2010-02-07  Councillors Taking Elderly to Theatre

Kippax Councillors are using a council grant to treat 30 local elderly residents to a trip to see a performance of Oliver at Brigshaw High School  

2010-02-07  Youngsters Rise to Walk Challenge

Five year old Denby Williams from Garforth who suffers from cerebral palsy will be taking part in the Sport Relief Mile in March and hopes to raise eighty pounds for a Haiti charity. She will be joined by her twin sister Dana and older sisters Kira and Paisley. To sponsor them contact www. Mysportrelief.com/ kiradenbydana  

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Editorial Comment

Mayoress of Garforth 

Congratulations to Garforth Councillor Andrea McKenna and her Councillor husband Jim on their appointments as Lady Mayoress and Lord Mayor respectively of the city of Leeds from next May. It is a great honour to represent our city in this way and she will not let us down. Well done councillor.  

RAF Blows Windmills Away 

The proposed wind turbines at Micklefield have been rejected by the Council because they will affect radar at nearby RAF airfields, jeopardising the lives of aircrew using them. A good decision, why risk lives unnecessarily when any other field in Leeds would be equally as suitable as the one at Hook Moor? Fortunately we have Councillors and MPs across the city who have spoken out strongly in support of building windfarms. They will no doubt be scouring their constituencies for a suitable plot of land. But don’t hold your breath.  

Kippax Parish Council Show the Way 

Having surveyed every home, giving every resident the opportunity to say how they want their community to develop, then analysing, publishing and issuing the findings to every household, Kippax Parish Plan steering group is now taking the first steps to realising these aspirations of their community, confident that it has a popular mandate. Meanwhile in other communities across the district, people similarly charged with finding better ways of engaging with the general public, have briefly discussed the matter in small, unpublicised meetings and decided that it is probably best if they continue to make decisions for the community in small unpublicised meetings. Shame. 

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Events 9-11/2/10 Brigshaw School The Brigshaw production of the musical Oliver. Tickets £6 and £4. 13/2/10 Irish Centre on York Road Garforth Villa entertainment night followed by disco 13/2/10 Garforth Town FC Garforth Town FC v Salford City 3pm ko Sponsored by The Needle Partnership 18/2/10 Community Center at Church Gardens off Church Lane, Garforth Garforth Historical society talk - A Trip Down Memory Lane by Kieth & Margaret Barber 20/2/10 Garforth Town FC Garforth Town FC v Ossett Albion 3pm ko 20/2/10 Garforth Welfare Hall RNLI Coffee Morning 27/2/10 Garforth Town FC Garforth Town FC v Wakefield FC 3pm ko Match sponsor Fast Signs 02/03/09 Garforth Miners Welfare Hall Police and communities together (PACT) meeting 7:00pm – 8:30pm 2/3/10 Welfare Hall Garforth Police and communities together (PACT) meetings 7pm - 8.30pm 2/3/10 Sherburn High School Library FOSH (Friends of Sherburn High School) meeting 6/3/10 Garforth Welfare Hall GADS jumble sale 10am Refreshments available and great bargains to be had. 8/3/10 Scout Hut Barleyhill Crescent Off Barleyhill Road Garforth in Bloom Meeting 7.30pm all welcome 8/3/10 Youth Centre (Old Fire Station) PACT meeting Youth Centre (Old Fire Station) , Great North Road, Micklefield 7pm – 8pm 9/3/10 Garforth Town FC Garforth Town FC v Prescott Cables 7.45 ko 18/3/10 Community Center at Church Gardens off Church Lane, Garforth Garforth Historical society talk - World War 2 by Paul Schofield 20/3/10 Garforth Town FC Garforth Town FC v Warrington Town 3pm ko Match sponsor JS Whites Accountants 17-20/3/10 Garforth Welfare Hall Garforth Amateur Dramatic Society presents Caramba’s Revenge by William Norfolk. 24/3/10 Green Lane School The School Partnership Trust achievement week art display 25/3/10 Green Lane School The School Partnership Trust achievement week first annual public speaking event 27/3/10 Garforth Town FC Garforth Town FC v Leigh Genesis 3pm ko

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