Green Fingers Garden & Social Group

C.R.A. NEWS LETTER.

Dear CRA Member,

Welcome to the January issue of our newsletter, highlights include Community News, a new discount offer and much more.

Poligono Surveillance
Bob Owen held a meeting on 11th January for Poligono Reps to introduce the new poligono based security service. The offer of 10 € a month including IVA is based on a large proportion of each poligono taking part. The more that join the more patrols will be added.

The Mayor informed us at our meeting that we will NOT be getting a police station on Camposol as they can’t afford it. So there you have it folks, it’s a case of look after yourselves.

It is possible to join this scheme by email request to Conchi at the Business Centre on camposoldistrictjournal@gmail.com.
Click here for more information about the scheme.

Sector A Gardening Report
Processionary caterpillars: These little pests, virtually unknown in Britain, are a problem throughout the whole Mediterranean Region. They live in Pine trees, feeding by night ….. read the full report

New Business in Members Discount Scheme
Andy McCombe of Daisy Pool Covers Spain SL is offering a 10% discount to CRA members. Click Members Discount Scheme to view all of the businesses offering discounts

CRA Press Report
The CRA had its January meeting with the Town Hall and the following issues were discussed and agreements reached. It was, as have been our meetings to date, a positive meeting where both sides listened to the other. Read the full report

Meeting with Mayor
The minutes from the meeting with the Mayor can be read here

Committee Meeting
The 80th Committee Meeting was held on 19th January. Agenda items included the Treasurer’s report, membership, website advertising … Read the minutes

Community News
We’re in the process of updating our Community Activities webpage. If you’d like your community group listed on our website please email info@cracamposol.com. Click Community Activities to view.

PAL’s have a selection of events arranged for 2012, more information and contact details can be found here.

Some classes using the Cultural Centre have been stopped by the council as they believed those groups were charging fees… click here for further information.

Sessions available at the Cultural Centre, If you are interested in using the facilities please contact in the first instance, Bob Owen by email to chairman.bobowen@hotmail.co.uk or by phone on 968 970 577.

Finally, just a reminder that now the council office is open in the Cultural Centre, enquiries, problems and water leaks can be reported directly to Tatiana on 968 131 717 or by email to oficinacamposol@mazarron.es
The office is open Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 2.30 pm

Outside these hours the CRA duty phone 634 364 739 can be used to report water leaks, if you fail to get an answer please text your details including your phone number.

Kind regards
The Camposol Residents Association

Camposol ‘C’ Green Fingers Gardening and Social Group

Our Monday working party is again out with their woolly hats on, clearing the pavements and gutters as I type, during the coldest February I can remember! If you see our group working in your area, please offer them your support: some spare cash in the bucket or even a hot drink and biccies would be most appreciated! We are always looking for new volunteers – even if you aren’t resident and just spend your holidays here you are very welcome to join our happy band: we can offer bacon or sausage sarnies every Wednesday as an incentive! If you’d like to offer your skills, just get in touch with Bernard, our chairman, on 626 513 842. If you are not able to join our working parties but you’d like to donate a raffle prize or plants for future use, we would love to hear from you; no offer of help is too small!

Despite the recent biting winds our workers have gradually tidied all the streets on C2 as part of our ongoing road maintenance and the corner of Calles Ibiscum and Retama (the entrance to the pig farm track) has now been cleared of mud and retained by kerb stones to prevent the land slipping during heavy rain. This project was completed as a request from local residents asking for a solution to driving on the wrong side of the road around a dangerous blind corner. The track will remain temporarily closed while concrete ramps are added to the new kerb so the farm track and its’ junction are made safe again. Planting has continued along the verges at the roundabout near the Driving Range and weeding was completed along calle Puerto Lumbreras. I expect all residents of ‘C’ and ‘D’, and visitors to our side of the Rambla during any heavy rain, will be grateful to hear that a large drainage pipe has been concreted into the lower kerbside to cope with the flow of escaping water; the difference in the depth of flooding there is remarkable and there’s no longer a queue to edge through the torrent! Our current ongoing project is the ‘Welcome to C’ feature at the bottom of Avenida de los Covachos near said Rambla, including a wall, bench and surrounding planting but please let us know if you have any particular task you would like us to tackle in your area, within the next month if possible, as all the streets on our sector will have been cleared and weeded at least once by then. This work is ongoing too, of course, and we would like to keep our streets nice and tidy so we would ask; if you have a pet, please clear up after it and keep our area a pleasant place to stroll around? Thank-you.

Our maintenance scheme is now legally registered with the local council and is in the process of also being fiscally registered. We have at present 145 members, all of whom pay just Euros15 per quarter to improve our surroundings. I’m sure everyone will agree that it is a very small price to pay: Greenfingers have made a vast difference to the look of our streets; neat, gravelled verges, dustbins off the roads, many new plants and trees now becoming established and repairs where needed. Our volunteers have undertaken these tasks only until the local council take over responsibility for Camposol ‘C’ and it’s lovely to walk through our sector now, with its’ pretty planted areas – it is no longer looking overgrown and ‘forgotten’, even though some of the work has been backbreaking! If you would like to become a member of the scheme and know that you are making a valued contribution to keeping ‘C’ one of the nicest areas to live, please contact Bernard or your local reprensentative (we are still looking for representatives for C1, C3 andC6)…and if you know your next contribution is due, please also get in touch, thanks.

Our group would also like to let members and non-members alike know that we are holding a Games Night at 7.30pm. on 6th March, at the Golf Club to raise badly needed funds: everyone is welcome and tickets are available at Euros5 each from Bernard or your local area representative, or e-mail spainvilarosa@gmail.com and for any further information about us please visit the website: http://www.greenfingersgardenandsocialgroup.com/

A very big thank you to our new scribe Suzie Sambuca for taking on the roll to keep everyone informed what’s going on C -Sector.

This morning Adrian and I were out planting Oleanders from 10am until around 11.30. it was freezing cold but we managed to get in around 40 plants and watered them in.We planted them on the outer section of the roundabout near the driving range.
Then it was back to Adrian’s for coffee and cake thanks to Jo.

The weather has been so cold we have bought a couple of flasks ready for next Wed morning working parties we will be having a cup of soup and bacon sandwich, bring it on.
Bernard.

I am pleased to report we now have 144 on the maintenance scheme and still more in the pipe line about to join. If you have not joined yet please do as soon as possible.
We have to look after ourselves until the council get round to us.
They are still working on A so I think it will be a long time yet.
Self help is the best way forward.
I do hope you are starting to see improvements, like clean Calles and less weeds in the footpaths and roads. What about the palm trunks I think they look fantastic.
????? have you joined yet, Please contact your poiigono representative or Bernard 626 513 842.Thank you.