Monteray Drive, Hordle. Picture: Google Streetview PLANS to build a bungalow beside an existing property have been thrown out.
New Forest District Council (NFDC) has rejected a proposal relating to an overgrown piece of land at Monteray Drive in Hordle. Hordle Parish Council had urged NFDC to refuse the application. But Monteray Drive resident Jackie Watson supported the proposal. In a letter to the authority she said: After so many years it would be a pleasure to see a nice dwelling there instead of an overgrown mess. However, NFDC has refused to grant planning permission. A report to members said: While the proposed development would make a modest contribution to housing stock, it would fail to preserve the character of the area, would provide a poor level of amenity space to future occupiers and has not mitigated its impact on protected European sites.
From her home, the non-profit worker thought of her parents as she witnessed Kamala Harris – the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India - become the United States’ first female, vice-president of Caribbean descent.
“Everyone was excited to have another Caribbean woman fighting for us,” she said, pinpointing the Virgin Islands congresswoman Stacey Plaskett as the other. “My parents would have wanted to vote for her so it was like making their dream come true.”
As residents of the Caribbean territory, Jones’s parents are among the more than 100,000 Virgin Islanders who even as American citizens, are ineligible to vote in the general election. She said casting her absentee ballot as a resident of Illinois felt like giving them a voice.
The nation faces a grim milestone of having a record number of overdose deaths in 2020. One expert says social isolation increased the risk of dying from an overdose.
Pandemic Fuels Record Overdose Deaths
By Corrinne Hess
January 14, 2021
After their son died, Jackie and Robert Watson found a stack of popsicle sticks in his Milwaukee apartment. He’d written an affirmation on each one.
“I am a fighter.” “Don’t sweat the small stuff.” “My kids love me.”
Brandon Cullins, 31, had been working with a drug counselor, who advised him to write the messages to himself.
Picking up the popsicle sticks, the Watsons were able to see how hard their son wanted to kick his battle with cocaine. But they also wondered why he hadn’t asked them for help.