Announcements of the Civic Chair.
Minutes:
Councillor Peter Slack, Civic Chair, gave the following announcements:
“On Saturday 25th May I attended the blessing of the Wirksworth Well Dressing, there were many outstanding well dressings, in this age old ceremony of blessings for water in Derbyshire Dales Towns and villages tradition.
The following day on Sunday 26th I attended the Wirksworth Well Dressings carnival parade, this was very long parade and we just managed to dodge the rain at the end of the parade.
On 1st June, my consort and I attended the opening of the new skateboard park in Wirksworth fanny shaws community park. This new skateboard park is constructed of concrete, which should be more durable than the wooden skateboard park it replaced. There were many young people eager to get onto the new skateboard area and it was a very well attended event.
On Monday 4th June my consort and I attended Derby Cathedral for a service of affirmation to celebrate the Carers in the Community and all the service they give to the community. It was a very moving service conducted by Peter Robinson, Dean of Derby Cathedral.
Thursday morning of 6th June I attended the 80th anniversary of D-Day at Matlock Park and it was quite surprising, great numbers attended this anniversary. It was a great tribute to the D-Day soldiers.
I was again at Derby Cathedral for the D-Day service on Thursday the 6th June. The Cathedral was absolutely full with ex-service men and women, army cadets, scouts, general public and Civic Mayors and Civic Chairs from all over Derbyshire. It was a very moving service, with a gentleman from Ilkeston attending 101 veteran that was on the D-Day Beaches.
On Sunday 9th June, we were again at Derby Cathedral for the Lord lieutenant service for the Volunteers service. Again, the Cathedral was full and we were given a musical interlude of wonderful songs from a choir of 50 plus volunteers. It was a really wonderful event.
On Thursday 13th June, Councillor David Chapman, Vice Civic Chair attended the opening of Bradwell Land trust development.
My consort and I were invited to the Civic and County Leaders brunch from 10:30 till 12:30 on Monday 24th June. It was very interesting discussion with Derbyshire’s Vice Lord Lieutenant on climate change and different sources of hydrogen energy for the future of HGVs. There was a splendid buffet put on by the Bishop of Derby, in a lovely Garden.
On Sunday 7th July, my consort and I attended the American regimental pilgrimage to the Crich war memorial. We were fortunate with the weather as it to be pouring with rain in the morning but show the afternoon. This was very well attended with Mayors and Civic Chairs from Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Lancashire, parts of Derbyshire Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. With many Ex-servicemen and women attending. The American regimental was superb in playing music from the first and second World Wars. This was the 101st pilgrimage to Crich memorial which was opened after the Great War 1923.
On my return from Holiday on Saturday 20th July, I attended the Local Middleton Millennium Gardens for the 20th Anniversary of the opening of the garden. This was very special to myself, as I was the Chair of Middleton garden group for 10 years and I was very delighted to be asked to speak about the funding and development of the garden 20 years ago and to be part of the celebration with a local folk group and number of supported singers, which was a very entertaining afternoon.”