Calder High, assembly

Monday 23rd April

My Mayoral theme 2011/ 2012 it to encourage school twinning activities and to encourage youngsters to get involved with international links.

I speak fluent German and use my language  regularly in my daily paid job outside being Mayor. I travel overseas approximately every 2 weeks and help generate much needed export business for the UK. As a trained Engineer with a 2nd language capability I have done this successfully for over 20 years.

This year in my Community role as Mayor my simple wish was to influence as many young people as possible in the area as possible so that future links could be made. It is for this reason I did the school assembly to around 200 year 8 students, who are currently making life choices in the subjects they are taking.

Assisted by our International President David Parry, the assembly presentation was in 2 parts; first element was a brief overview of the function of the council and role of the Mayor. I reminded the student that Parish council work was voluntary. During the question session, one diligent student asked how did I pay my bills and feed the family. This led perfectly onto the second part of the presentation - working for a global business and the importance of international links.

In short I told them about our global export business at Cummins Turbo Technologies and how international links / languages  had not only helped me gain much needed export business but also enabled me to travel and see the world over the past 20 years in the process. I told them that during my school years I was involved in school twinning and this initiated my interest in languages and foreign links to helps me where I am today

David Parry also reminded the students the importance of getting involved with our existing twinning links so that connections/ friend could be formed and new languages be developed.

David Parry and myself during the presentations

The students all listened diligently and may questions were asked. Both myself and David were very pleased with the interest and we both said we would be very happy to give future assemblies in the coming future.


Cllr Scott Trickett
Mayor of Hebden Royd Town Council

Picture House Gala Evening - Fanny and Elvis

22nd April 2012

I had the enormous privilege of  representing Hebden Royd Town Council at the opening gala evening to celebrate the picture house brought back into community control in Hebden Bridge on the 1st April 2012.

I was also completely overwhelmed to sit through the entire production of the film with the respected Producer Kay Mellor and husband Tony Mellor. The film itself was Fanny and Elvis. During the film I sat next to Kay and Tony and too be honest the film was totally superb I laughed and cried throughout the whole film. My wife Amy sadly could not attend and it was so good I promptly bought the DVD . It was also a joy to reflect on elements in the film with Kay and her husband Tony.

I came to Hebden Royd around area 17 years ago and remember vividly the filming in the 'old square' in Hebden, when cars were allowed. I remember how nuch of a stir it caused at the time amoungst the locals. The Gala evening was super in that those memerories were revitalised and also it was great to spot local scenes throughout the film.

It was even better to know that they both shared my passion for our area during their filming in Hebden Royd and loved the friendliness and community spirit.Ssitting next to them and talking about the film was a real joy and one I will not forget for a very long time

Pictured together with Kay Mellor

During my speech to the audience I thanked Town council Clerk Jason Boom and the entire office staff, the picture house committee, the newly reformed friends of the picture house and of course the whole staff of the Picture House for all the support in the transition to Hebden Royd. Town council

Speech

Overall it was a super evening enjoyed by a packed theatre of over 500 guests and evryone I spoke to had a great evening.

Scott

Cllr Scott Trickett

Mayor of Hebden Royd Town Council

Mayor's Civic Dinner

   

21st April 2012

Amy and I had our Civic dinner on 21st April

We were delighted with over 70 guests at our annual civic dinner in support of the Mayor's charity

Amy and I before the dinner

We were honoured also at the Dignatary guests including

• Major Stan and Kay Hardy representing the Lieutenancy office of West Yorkshire
• MEP for Yorkshire and Humber Rebecca Taylor.
• Mayor of Calderdale, Nader Fekri 
• Mayor and consort of Ripponden, Cllr Brian and Geraldine Carter
• Chair and consort of Blackshaw Head, Cllr Dorothy Sutcliffe with Cllr Beaching
• Chair of Wadsworth, Cllr Mavis Ring

Entertainment

Our entertainment was form Vegas Elvis – AKA – Craig and Julie Simcock

to say they got the guests 'rocking' was an understatement - see the link below

View 2 Mayors and our very own Rev Canon entertaining the audience

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnndNiQ7RLk

Great Mayoral moves

During my speech I thanked Rebekah Cox for doing a fab job in organising the event and also also to Jackie Robinson for the superb catering

In my speech I gave some highlights of our year

Year Highlights

·         Opened the MYT Gala with Black l Lace and Eric Pollard – lead the conga round the field in Mytholmroyd – that was definitely a unque experience and probably will never be repeated

·    Opened the arts festival with the Worlds strongest lady Betty Brawn – she was definitely not to be messed with

·    Vintage car rally

·    Starting fireworks in Hebden Bridge

·    Naming a bridge in Warstein 'Hebden Bridge' - - Many of you know I speak German so my speech was in german – when the press were interviewing me – I exclaimed proud I was that when I was a student in Germany in 1989, my favourite Beer was coincidentally Warsteiner Pils – and now I am standing on a bridge in Warstein drinking the stuff with the Mayor of Warstein – I said ‘ Es gibt ein Gott im Himmel’ – they printed the full quote the next day –

·    Other events included Christmas lights and the first lighting of lights in MYT for years and fabulous local carol services

·    Yorkshire day, with all the Mayors of Yorkshire region

·    Opened newly refurbished Cragg Park

·    Represented the Council at the war memorials – this was very moving and an enormous honour

·    14 school assemblies – we have 2 on Monday – one at Calder high and our first ever school twinning skype meeting between Hebden Royd Primary and Johannes Grundschiule in Warstein. Rebekah Taylor or MEP and David Parry form our international group have kindly agreed to help with that. Over in Warstein along with the children will be the Mayor of Warstein Manfred Goedde and other Councillors for Stadtrat Warstein. I am absolutely elated over this event

·    All in all I thing we have done over a 100 things – the whole year has been truly amazing and a real privilege

Past Mayors

In my Speech I also gave a presentation to past Mayors. Past Mayors have not been honoured in the past and felt that in my year I had to put right that wrong.

I have long admired the work of past mayors. In the past 6 years in Council I have experienced at first hand the first of all Betty Ward – Betty sadly is no longer with us and Harry her husband is on holiday I will be presented something to Harry on 5^th May. After Betty came John Beacroft Mitchel, then Nader, then Susan Press, then of course Robin Dixon. It was during these time I really stated to appreciate what a hard job this was.

Going back to my experience again in May last year when I was taking over from Robin. I reflected on his year in my speech and what a great job he and Catherine did. During the speech I went to great lengths to congratulate him on the fabulous job and it realy came home the enormous amount of work that had been done eg Bridge 500 celebrations. I then simply shook his hand patted him on the back and off he trotted.... This felt wrong to be honest

Therefore as the months went on I decided I had to put right that wrong and past Mayors needed a symbol / token that can be shown to the grandchildren etc. So as part of events tonight I would like to present our past Mayors with a token of appreciation from us all for the enormous efforts that have been put into our community.

Past Mayors honoured during the evening were:

Janet McConachie 1983-1984

William Morris 1987 to 1988

Vera Badrick 1989 to 1990

Robert Ward 1992 to 1993

David Parry 1995 to 1996

Leslie Siddall 1996 to 1997

Paul Monahan 2000 to 2001

Cllr Christine Bampton-Smith 2002 to 2003

Leone Murty 2003 to 2004

Revd Cllr James Allison 2004 to 2005

Cllr Nader Fekri 2007 to 2008

Cllr John Beacroft Mitchell 2009 to 2010

Robin Dixon 2010 to 2011

David Parry

 Cllr Christine Bampton- Smith

 Mayor of Calderdale

and

past Hebden Royd Mayor Cllr Nader Fekri

Past Mayor I took over from;

 Robin Dixon

Past Mayors who were unable to attend will of course receive there badges on other occasions.

I was very proud indeed to honour all those past Mayors who have contributed so much to our community.

The whole evening was in fact one Amy and I will never forget and we raised around a great deal of money for our Mayor's charity 

Cllr Scott Trickett

Mayor of Hebden Royd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnndNiQ7RLk

Mayor's charity Lottery 2012

Tickets for this years Mayors Charity lottery go on sale this week.

Tickets are £1 each and can be purchased at the outlets listed at the outlets listed below and also the Town Hall.

Proceeds from the raffle will go to this years chosen charity which is a fund to ensure young people with financial restrictions have the ability to engage in twin town activities with our twin town’s in St Pol, France and Warstein, Germany. The fund will also help with School Twinning.

We have had excellent links with our twin towns for many years and whilst benefits have been gained for many, a good number of enthusiastic young people with financial restrictions sadly cannot benefit.

As a young person I had an opportunity supported by a local fund. this opportinity led to my current professional life in export sales, I am now is fluent in German and have worked  in Europe for over 20 years to generate valuable export business. My simple wish as Mayor this year is to enable as many young people in our area the same opportunity that I had and give them inspiration to drive for the wider world and to create more educational and business links, this will of course be good for the youngsters personnal growth and local business accordingly.

I am absolutely delighted with the responses from local business right across our whole area. The support for this Community initiative has been truly wonderful. All the businesses involved  showed  the true spirit of community involvement and must be applauded. We are so lucky in our area to have such a deep rooted community base and involvement This involement without question makes Hebden Royd such a great place to live and helps attract visitors to our fantastic area.

I would like to pay particular thanks to our headline donation of a brand new IPad from Craggs Energy. I was totally elated to receive such a donation and this should realy help the sale of tickets along with the other prizes. Chris Bingham and business associates have worked very hard in the community involvement in my time during Mayor and I cannot thank them enough. Craggs Energy is a local Heating oil and fuel supplier based in Cragg Vale, supplying homes and businesses across our region with fuel. 

Headline Prize:  New Apple iPad 

Kindly donated by Chris Bingham Craggs Energy

Chris Bingham, Craggs Energy and myself with the headline Prize

Plus over 20 Other Fabulous Prizes

Overnight Stay for 2 with Dinner and Bottle of Wine – the Dusty Miller

Meal for 2 - The Robin Hood, Cragg Vale

£50 Food Hamper - COOP

Case of Beer - Little Valley Brewery

MOT – Star Garage

Meal for Two – Moyles Restaurant, Hebden Bridge

Meal for Two – Olive Branch, Hebden Bridge 

Overnight stay in delux room in the White Lion

Meal for two at Bridge Balti - Sowerby Bridge

Trim & Blow Dry – Hair & There, Hebden Bridge

4 Tickets to the Cinema – Hebden Bridge Picture House

Back, Neck & Shoulder Massage – The Beauty Bank, Mytholmroyd

Gift Voucher – Flying Saucers, Hebden Bridge

Book Voucher – The Book Case, Hebden Bridge

CD – The Old Treehouse, Hebden Bridge

Chocolate / truffle selction – Pennine Wine & Cheese, Hebden Bridge

Chocolates – Something Sweet

Food Hamper - William Holt

Meat Selection - David Woodhead butchers

Champagne, chocoatles, Wine and Warsteiner Beer - Mayor

Overall I am totally elated at all our prizes and the lottery to help youngsters in our area should benefit immensely

Prize giving shortly after the draw,

iPad won by Mrs Welsh from Calder High School

2nd price won by Yuan Li Cummins Turbo Technologies

Scott

Cllr Scott Trickett

Mayor of Hebden Royd