The Chapter 20th May 2005

A caring social worker has been elected Mayor of Ferryhill for the ensuing year and will be raising money for three organisations whilst she is the town’s first citizen. Julie Bainbridge , who lives in Raby Road, Ferryhill, was elected to office at the annual meeting of Ferryhill Town Council a week last Wednesday. Cllr Bainbridge is a rapid response social worker and covers much of the Durham Dales.

She has been a town councillor for two years and was elected deputy Mayor in 1994. She is married, has two grown up children and a new granddaughter During her year in office she will be fund-raising for Breast Cancer Awareness, The All Saints Day Centre in Dean Road and for the Sure Start programme in Ferryhill. She is already in consultation with Town Council staff to organise a number of fund-raising events, including a bungee jump, a 1940’s style dance, music evenings and a number of raffles and tombolas.

A group of enthusiastic youngsters from Ferryhill’s Business and Enterprise College were in the Village last week, gently encouraging local residents to pick up their litter and to emphasise their point, they were using megaphones to get their message across. The four youngsters Liam Williams, Kallen Gibbons, Shane Bowmer and Ryan Sweetlove, were being helped in their clean-up campaign by the Borough’s Environmental Officer Andy Denham and Ferryhill’s Police Support Officer.

Mr. Denham was quick to remind residents caught depositing litter of the danger of receiving a £50 on the spot fine. On one occasion he stopped a woman getting on a bus, making her pick up the cigarette butt she had stamped out on the floor.

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