Last night I went down to the Town Council chamber for an Environment sub committee meeting. I'll be reporting in another posting about the main agenda items but one item deserves a separate listing.
It was agreed that the Town Council would encourage and support the formation of an 'at arms length' group, perhaps called Friends of Stone Station', who would 'look after and care for' for station's public areas. This was an idea of mine having seen and heard of many similar schemes around the country. I well remember, a few years ago, a station on the Norfolk coast line which had been adopted by the local Women's Institute and was an absolute delight.
I believe that there are enough people in Stone who would be willing to give a few hours of their time each month to deal with flower beds, weeds graffiti etc. And I believe that the formation of a Friends group would also help to promote the station in readiness for the return of a train service next year.
So I intend to issue a press release and some leaflets to see if we can raise some support. If anyone reading this is interested please call me - 07939 450151
