Offers of help on ramps

for skateboard park

NEW ramps could be added to the skateboard facilities at Thanckes Park in Torpoint. Skateboarders have requested that additional ramps are put in place at the skateboard park which opened last year.

The request has been made to the town council which has responded by suggesting that the skateboarders form themselves into a group to raise funds towards new ramps.

Deputy mayor Diane Curran and Councillor Alan Brimacombe, who is secretary of the Torpoint Community Development Trust, have offered to help the skateboarders try to obtain grants.

Councillors stressed that health and safety issues must be taken into account over any new ramps and that RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) should be fully involved in any expansion of the present facilities. The skateboard park is part of a multi-games area which cost around £37,500 to create.

Monthly club for the

visually-impaired

A CLUB for blind and partially-sighted people is meeting in Torpoint once a month.

The VISTA club, which is for people living in Torpoint and on the Rame Peninsula, meets for a social afternoon on the last Wednesday of each month at the Naval Families Community Centre in Trevorder Road. Transport can be arranged to and from the club.

For more information, contact Dinah Reynolds on 01752 813102 or Marion Bolton on 01752 812628.

Stamps to help

deaf people

USED postage stamps are being collected by Dave Rosson of the Torpoint and Rame Peninsula Lions Club for Hearing Dogs for the Deaf. Stamps can be passed into the barber shop in Elliot Square in Torpoint.

Book sale

TORPOINT Library is holding a book sale on September 11-18.

Plan to extend

30mph limit

A PLAN to extend the 30mph speed limit on the main road into Torpoint from the Antony direction has been put forward by Cornwall County Council.

The council wants to start the 30mph zone on the A374 more than 200 metres earlier than at present.

Look over the

garden hedge

AS part of the National Trust's Gardens Year 2001, Antony House near Torpoint is staging an event entitled Over The Garden Hedge on Wednesday, September 19, at 2pm. Details are available from 01752 812364.

Ferry committee

role for John

JOHN Crago, the new Cornwall County Councillor for Torpoint, has been appointed to sit on the Tamar Bridge and Torpoint Ferry Joint Committee and the Mount Edgcumbe Park Joint Committee.