Author: Peter Major

We have been told that there will be temporary traffic lights from Tuesday 18th to Thursday 20th July in Church Road, near Crossfield Close, while Openreach carry out work.

The June edition of the Parish Paper has now been published, and your Parish Councillors are out and about popping it through your letterboxes. If you haven’t received your copy yet, you can expect it within the next few days.

As usual, there will be some spare copies available at Wembdon Village Hall. Or you can read it online.

There will temporary traffic lights on Wembdon Rise on two occasions in the next two weeks:

• From Tuesday 20th to Thursday 2nd June, while a contractor removes the dangerous wall fronting number 30 Wembdon Rise
• From Wednesday 28th to Friday 30th June at an unspecified location between Homberg Way and Inwood Road, while Jurassic Fibre carry out further work.
  For further information, or if you have questions or concerns, you can contact Jurassic Fibre on 01392 345600, quoting works reference C9001Q4BWD36-WP13183.

Your volunteer Parish Councillors have been out in the Spring sunshine delivering the latest edition of the Wembdon Parish Paper. Most Wembdon households have now received their copies, but if you haven’t received your yet, you can be sure it’s on its way.

If you think you’ve been missed, there are some spare copies available at Wembdon Village Hall. Or you can read it online.

Somerset Sight is recruiting volunteers to befriend visually impaired people on a regular basis.
Would you like to help someone in your local area?
They would like you to join their team of volunteers, who help people to remain independent and overcome loneliness and isolation.
Enjoy a free day out when taking your Service User out.
All reasonable and out of pocket expenses are paid.
For more information please contact Somerset Sight on 01823 333818 or email admin@somersetsight.org.uk.

Somerset Sight is a local charity that has been supporting sight impaired people across Somerset for over a hundred years and in 2019 we proudly won the Queens Award for Voluntary Service.

One of the services they offer is the Volunteer Visiting Service, whereby volunteers are matched locally with a sight impaired person for regular visits for company and support and to alleviate their loneliness and isolation. 

Volunteer visitors help with a variety of tasks such as reading, correspondence, or making appointments, going out for a drive or just a cup of tea and a chat.  Many volunteers get great satisfaction and enjoyment from their voluntary work, many friendships are formed and the people they support very much look forward to their visits, some telling them that it is the highlight of their week.  Full training is provided and we cover all reasonable expenses.

They say “We currently have a number of visually impaired people in all areas who would welcome a volunteer visitor, but they are on a waiting list as we don’t have enough volunteers to match them with.”

Further information is available on Somerset Sight’s website.

By now, all Wembdon households should have received a copy of the August edition of the Parish Paper through their letterbox, thanks to our team of hard-working volunteers. If your copy seems to have gone astray, you can pick one up from the Village Hall.

There wasn’t enough space in the printed version to include any photographs of Wembdon Parklands, but an extra page has been added to the online version so that the photos can be included.

Many households in Wembdon have already received their copy of edition 35 of the Parish Paper. If you don’t have yours yet, please be assured that it will be dropping onto your doormat very soon.

You can also download edition 35 from our website. Previous editions are also available from our Parish Paper web page.

The path between the Prairie Meadow and the dog walking fields has always been slippery and hazardous, particularly during the winter months.

To improve public safety, a Parish Council contractor has recently installed a short flight of steps. The steps have solid timber edgings with a gravel infill. The bridge has been fitted with a handrail, too.