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Archer
September 2022 No. 341
A community newspaper for East Finchley run entirely by volunteers.
First steps to the High Road of the future
By John Lawrence
East Finchley Town Team is bringing a whole day of activities and useful information about recycling and reducing waste to the High Road on Saturday 17 September. The Sustainable High Road event will take over the area outside Budgens, Amy’s and Iceland from 11am to 4pm, and will be free and open to everyone. Twenty groups and organisations will be there to help us find ways to recycle, repair and reuse items in our daily lives, and to use transport and energy in ways that reduce our impact on climate change. Project co-ordinator Chris Hampson said: “This event is about the many aspects of sustainability: the traders, the High Road of the future and what East Finchley can do to reduce climate change. The aim is to have plenty of useful
Mighteefit gym, Goodgym and MillsPower Architects, who are currently working on the Trinity Road underpass. There will also be a central East Finchley Town Team Information point. Everyone has a chance to win £25 by bringing along their answers to the Town Team’s sustainability quiz. Turn to page 2 for part two and see last month’s Archer for part one.
2040 Screening
information but to keep it as fun and enjoyable as possible.”
Taste the juice, meet the bees
Amongst the groups with stalls on the day will be The People’s Pantry and Fairwell zero packaging refill services, general store Amy’s, recycling project Bin There Donate That, Rewild my Street, Barnet Cyclists, Friends of the Earth, clean energy campaigners Power for People, beekeeper Lucie Chaumeton, Roger Chapman of The Pollinator Project and his apple press, East Finchley Festival CIC with their cotton shopping bags,
Following the High Road event on the Saturday, the weekend will be rounded off on Sunday 18 September when the Phoenix Cinema hosts a special screening of the documentary film 2040, which investigates the effects of climate change over the next two decades.
More events planned
The sustainability day is the first of three consultation events being planned by the Town Team to bring people back to the High Road and boost the profiles of local traders and services. You can find out more at www. N2United.co.uk/TownTeam or follow them on Instagram and Twitter @eftownteam and on Facebook @East Finchley Town Team
Party time: Guests and carers came together at the Your Choice Barnet centre in Colindale to mark the service’s 10th birthday
A celebration of independent lives
More than 300 guests came along to a summer party to celebrate the 10th birthday of specialist care and support service Your Choice Barnet, which helps people across the borough with a range of physical and learning needs to live independent lives. The service employs about 500 care and support staff to carry out its work, which has recently expanded to help elderly people too. Find out more at www.yourchoicebarnet. org or telephone 020 8080 6587.
Electric cars
Motoring is moving slowly but inexorably away from fossil fuels towards electric vehicles, but how ready is East Finchley to cope with the demand for charging points that this shift is starting to create? Find out on page 6.
Store burgled
A local grocery store has been burgled in the latest of a spate of callous attacks over the last two years, just when small businesses have struggled to keep going. Turn to page 3.
In this issue Mercy mission to Ukraine… P4 Women’s football glory…..P5 Electric car charging…......P6 Stories from the archives…P8 New martial arts dojo…... P9 Cat delivers The Archer…P12 Food Project returns…....P12
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