The next edition of ECHO will be our once a year double issue covering December AND January. Please contact us before the deadline date, Monday 16 November, with anything to be included for either month: articles, letters, adverts and events for the Diary (much reduced in number, sadly).
Category: Community
Criterion Auction
The Criterion Theatre is holding an on-line Promises Auction to raise funds to help it keep going into 2021, its 60th birthday year. Bidding is now open and the catalogue can be viewed from: https://www.criteriontheatre.co.uk/index.php There are some Items of Value here also that Earlsdon folk might be interested in. Bidding closes on 10th November …
PARKING CHARGES AT WMP
Coventry City Council have published proposals to end unlimited free parking at the three car parks at the War Memorial Park, entered from Kenilworth Road, Leamington Road and Coat of Arms Bridge Road. The justification given for this is that long stay parkers are often not park users and take up valuable spaces, preventing park …
CARTA Needs You!
The long-established CARTA (Chapelfields Area Residents’ and Traders’ Association) is looking for new blood – several of its committee have for various reasons had to stand down in recent months which means that they are seriously short-handed, with attendance figures at recent meetings being alarmingly low. They meet on the first Wednesday of every month …
Drinking Fountain – correction
Anyone who has tried to contact Mike Torbe in connection with the Earlsdon Drinking Fountain as per the article on page 25 of the September ECHO may have had a problem trying to use the mobile phone number printed for Mike (079665618046) which is incorrect. The correct number is 07966 518046.
LIBRARY NEWS
(Our apologies that due to an internal communication failure this article was accidentally omitted from our August issue). Earlsdon Carnegie Community Library would like to thank all of their library members for bearing with them during their recent closure and the subsequent lockdown period. They’re still awaiting guidance from Coventry City Council as to when …
Campaign Ramps Up
The WMRR Campaign is crowdfunding to start the design of the new skatepark at the War Memorial Park. For more details go to WMRR Crowdfunding
Earlsdon Library Reopening Still Not Scheduled
ECHO AVAILABILITY
A reminder that copies of ECHO are available from most of its regular outlets but there are still some which are closed. The ‘closed’ list includes the churches, Earlsdon Library, Coventry Resource Centre for the Blind and Hearsall Golf Club. The ‘open’ list is: Broomfield News Butts News Earlsdon St P.O. Hearsall News, Hearsall Lane …
Planning Application Concern
We have been asked by a reader to draw attention to an outline planning application, details of which are at the link below: Strictly speaking this is outside our area, being in Abbot’s Lane which is really Coundon / City Centre, but since it will impact Spon End, which is in our area, we are …