From today until 29 April, there are road works on the south part of Park Avenue off Milton Road.  This is to install a sewer in connection with the new Portobello High School and involves lane and parking restrictions. I am assured that local residents were advised weeks ago by letter from Balfour Beatty in late March/early April.  I have a copy of that if anyone needs it.

Portobello Community Council meets tonight at 7.30pm in Portobello Baptist Church Hall, 185 Portobello High Street. Details of the agenda here: https://www.portobellocc.org/

There are local meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday at 7pm for Bingham and Magdalene (respectively) for Community Renewal to feed back about how people think they can build stronger communities.  See more here: http://chronicleonline.net/2016/04/25/public-meeting-for-magdalene-and-bingham/

Portobello Open Door (POD) AGM is on Wednesday 27 April at 7pm in The Wash House Community Centre 3 Adelphi Grove, EH EH15 1AP.  POD organise the Village Show and film nights, but if you have any new ideas then they want to know….Zombie Apocalypse Weekend festival, Waterballon…athon (you get the idea) Do go along.  They love new people. The AGM is not dull.  Once the legal stuff is over, they quickly move on to the exciting stuff.

Music Season at St Marks Church Portobello starts this Wednesday Wed 27 April at 7pm. More here:  http://www.stmarksportobello.org/st-marks-music-series-2016/

Community gardeners and people who use the outdoors in Craigmillar are having their third Get Together on Thursday 28 April from 11am-1pm at Greendykes organic allotments poly-tunnel at the end of Greendykes Road.  Please bring anything you have to swap, seeds, tools and plants. Greendykes allotments are looking for trowels and other tools. Greendykes Nursery are looking for herbs to attract bees into the nursery garden. More about all this from Karin Chipulina, Community Gardening Development worker, Craigmillar Community Grows The SPACE 11 Harewood Road Craigmillar EH16 4NT 0131 659 2949 or Tel:07824838364 or email Karin Chipulina [karinchipulina@carrgomm.org]

Brunstane Primary School parents group are looking for raffle prizes and to sell tickets for their fabulous disco fundraiser for a giant sand pit for their Nursery.  The Fundraising Disco is at the Jewel Miners Club on Friday 6 May from 7.30pm to Midnight.  Looks like fun:  https://mobile.twitter.com/8bf77eb3afc24f0/status/723518820187516928/photo/1

That’s all for now

Best wishes

Maureen

Councillor Maureen Child | Labour Elected Member | Portobello/Craigmillar (Ward 17) | City of Edinburgh Council | City Chambers | High Street | Edinburgh | EH1 1YJ | Tel 0131 529 3268 | Mobile 07718 666 481| Twitter @MaureenChild1

p.s. My face-to-face Councillor Advice Sessions, or ‘Surgeries’, are usually every Monday at 5.30 pm in Castleview Community Centre, 76 Craigmillar Castle Avenue (Phone 661 4064) and then at 7 pm in Portobello Library, 14 Rosefield Avenue (Phone 529 5558).  Now also at Craigmillar Library, 101 Niddrie Mains Road, EH16 4DT, 1st Wednesday of the month, drop-in session 5pm-5.30pm, thereafter by appointment only up until 7.30pm. Please phone me on Direct Line 0131 529 3268 or Mobile 07718 666 481, or email maureen.child@edinburgh.gov.uk to check availability, make an appointment or request a home visit.