Cookham
Rise Post Office Not to be Axed
30
January 2008
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With
the many Post Offices that are being closed down
around the country, there was a worry that Cookham
might lose theirs, however Mrs Jangrai, who runs
Cookham Rise Post Office with her husband, has heard
that their Post Office will not be axed, which will
be a great relief to Cookham Residents.
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Completion
of Longridge Purchase
28
January 2008
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On
Thursday 31st January, the charity
Longridge On The Thames will complete the purchase
of the Longridge site in
Quarry Wood Road
in Marlow. This achievement marks the end of a
very long battle to secure the site for the benefit
of young people and was only possible due to the
generosity of our community in making donations and
the hard work of our supporters in encouraging those
donations. However, the sale would not have
been possible without The Royal Bank of
Scotland
agreeing to lend the charity £800,000 as a
commercial loan to be repaid over the next 20-years.
Longridge
now enters into a new phase of rejuvenating the site
by adding in new activities and improving the
facilities. Such rejuvenation will have two
outcomes, firstly allow more young people to use the
site more often and when young people are not using
the site encourage adults and businesses to use the
facilities, which will allow the site to pay off the
loan and once it's new facilities are in place
become completely self-sufficient.
The
Commercial Director of Longridge, Amanda Foister
says " we are extremely grateful to everyone
that has helped us buy the site but ask that you see
this as a reprieve as we continue to need lots of
help with fundraising and volunteer support to
transform our facilities and pay off the large debt.
A fun way of helping is to use the site more often
and encourage all of your friends, family and
colleagues to do likewise, we will be sharing our
vision for the site at our ball at the
Crowne
Plaza
on April 19th and hope to see many of you
there".
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Come
and Learn Salsa
26
January 2008
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 Salsa
is coming back to Cookham for all those who would
like to learn. There is to be a five week beginners'
course starting 1 February 2008 at the Pinder
Hall on Lower Road. It will be every Friday for five
weeks from 11am - 12pm. Classes are only £6. You
do not need a partner and this will be a great
opportunity to learn something new and to enjoy
yourself.
Contact
07887 982898 for more information http://www.salsamarlow.co.uk/
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Reply
to the Cookham Plan
25
January 2008
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The
Chairman of the Transport and Traffic report which
is part of the Cookham Plan has written a reply to
the criticisms of some of the suggestions put
forward to the Plan. Mike Clark who lives in Cookham
Village has explained the reasoning for the
proposals of the committee, so that villagers can
understand why the Committee put forward the ideas
that they did. Click
here to see Mike's reply.
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Try
the NEW Cookham Reviewer
19
January 2008
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Now
anyone can add a review of their favourite or not so
favourite restaurant, pub, shop, company or workman
directly onto Cookham.com without having to go
through the Webmaster. This was made possible by the
generous sponsorship by Catalyst and Nick
Billinghurst who lives in Whyteladyes Lane and who
works for Catalyst. A star rating can be given to
each of the reviews just like Amazon, it is hoped
that lots of people will use the facility, so give
it a go and tell others what you think about places
in Cookham and the surrounding area. Click
here.
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Come
On Cookham Dean Football Club
19
January 2008
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 The
Old Football club is 129 years old this year and
is still going strong, the first team are once
again in with a chance of reaching a Cup Final
again at Readings Madejski Stadium, that's if
they can just win one or two more ties.
The
last time the team got that far was in 2005 when
they played local rivals Marlow United and 1,000
people attended, it would be nice to repeat the
feat this May.
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Death
of Ed Cairney
10
January 2008
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It was
with sadness that Cookham.com learnt of the death of
Ed Cairney who lived on Lower Road. Ed and Pat had
moved to Cookham four years ago and Ed loved the
village and kept saying he would have moved earlier
if he had known what a great place it was to live
in. Ed was involved in many activities in the
village, he was one of the people who helped write
the Cookham Plan and was on the Business and Economy
Group. He had joined many of the societies including
the Cookham Society where he was on the committee,
Cookham Dean Cricket Club and the Friends of
Spencer. He was also a very keen Rotarian. His
funeral will be held at St Elisabeth's in Lower Road
Cookham on Tuesday 15 January at 10am.
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Barbara
does it for the 22nd Time
6
January 2008
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 Barbara
Walmsley has just added up the total of her
fundraising after her twenty second thirty eight
hour annual fast at Sainsbury's in Maidenhead on
behalf of Oxfam.
The final total was over £17,545, a magnificent
sum. This is £1,929 over the total in 2006.
Barbara
says "I am very surprised and truly grateful to
everyone for their generosity. I have already booked
my place for this year for October 31st and November
1st and 2nd!"
Well
done Barbara and do support her on her annual fast
in 2008.
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Cookham
Webmaster MBE
29
December 2007
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 Cookham.com
Webmaster, Liz Kwantes, was awarded the MBE in the
New Year Honours for services to the community of
Cookham. This included fundraising for Amnesty
International since university days, being a trustee
and national treasurer for the charity Arthritis
Care, setting up Cookham Twinning in 1993 with
Cookham's twin village St Benoit, organising the
Millennium and Jubilee celebrations with Brian Clews
and Cookham Summer FM 2006 with Timmy Mallett, being
a Parish Councillor and a Cookham Rise School
governor, chairman of the Pinder Hall management
committee, a trustee of the Kings Hall Trust that
own the Spencer Gallery and setting up the Cookham
Youth Project in 1998. Liz also has been fighting
for the victims of the Equitable Life disaster for
the last seven years. This has taken her to present
to the European Parliament In Brussels and to stand
as a parliamentary candidate against Gordon Brown at
the last general election in 2005. Last but not
least looking after the Cookham website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/7163559.stm
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Cookham
Dean Post Office Closes
21
December 2007
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 Cookham
Dean Post Office is closing today Friday 21
December. We wish Jackie the current owner all the
best for the future. Since the unfortunate death of
her husband this summer, it has been very hard for
Jackie to carry on with her enterprise and she says
she has been very much living from day to day. It
does not seem so long ago that she set up the new
look Post Office, with its trendy coffee tables and
café atmosphere. It will be sorely missed.
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Death
of Morris Brodie
19
December 2007
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 Sadly,
a well known Cookham figure, Morris Brodie, died
suddenly on Monday 17 December 2007. Morris,
who lived in High Road, had been very active in
his support of Oxfam and Amnesty and was often
involved in fund raising for the two charities.
Morris used to hold Christmas parties at his home
for the Cookham and Maidenhead Amnesty Group which
he had founded 34 years ago.
His
funeral will take place at 1.45pm on Monday 31
December at the Milton Chapel, Chilterns
Crematorium, Whieldon Lane, Amersham HP7 0ND
www.chilternscrematorium.co.uk
Rather
than flowers, donations can be sent to one of the
two charities he actively supported: Oxfam
or Amnesty International. Please send
donations c/o Pymm & Hooper, 65/67
Moorbridge Road, Maidenhead, Berks SL6 8LT (01628
623822).
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New
Road Closed
17
December 2007
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Anyone
trying to drive down New Road on the afternoon
and evening of Monday 17 December would have
encountered a lot of police tape. An elderly
gentleman had been walking up the hill and near
the top collapsed. Paramedics were unable to
revive him. It then became a police crime scene,
as there could have been the possibility of foul
play.
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