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Woodstock Oxfordshire Welcomes Woodstock Illinois On Tuesday 25th May, Woodstock Town Mayor, Cllr Julian Cooper welcomed Dr Brian Sager, Mayor of Woodstock City, Illinois, USA at a small reception in the assembly rooms at the Town Hall. Dr Sager, on vacation with members of his family, were invited to meet members of Woodstock Town Council following past Mayor Peter Jay's contacts with the many Woodstock towns around the globe as part of our Woodstock @ 900 celebrations. The reception was further honoured by the presence of Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. Dr Sager explained that what Woodstock, Illinois lacked in ancient history was compensated by the vibrant community spirit in the city of 24,000 citizens, including the oldest regularly performing town band in the USA! He thanked the Mayor and Peter Jay for the invitation and presented the town with a framed plaque marking the event, a Woodstock Illinois city banner and letters of friendship. Cllr Cooper presented copies of the newly published book on 900 years of Woodstock and the Park, illustrated booklets on the Woodstock Wall Hangings and a number of Sustainable Woodstock bags in which to carry these tokens home! After the brief reception, the party were invited to the parish church where past mayor Pauline Richardson explained the history of the church, and Dr Sager's nephew, himself a Director of Music and organist, was let loose on the church organ filling the place with some magnificent music. Town Mayor Julian Cooper, members of the Council, Dr Sager and his family then retired to The Feathers for lunch.
Woodstock Town Council has a New Town Mayor
The new Town Mayor is Cllr Julian Cooper and after his election and the formal signing of the Declaration of Office he took the Chair. Cllr Cooper is no newcomer to the Woodstock Town Council stage. He is, in fact the longest serving of the sixteen Councillors having been a representative of the town continuously for 25years and in fact was a member of the old Hensington Without Parish Council before that. His family have been steeped in Woodstock politics for even longer. Julian's mother was town clerk and later a Councillor and his father too was a member of the Council. He came to Woodstock with his family at a very early age and has lived on the Hensington Gate estate since then receiving his schooling at Gosford Hill School in Kidlington. In 1986 Julian was elected as a Liberal Democrat Councillor to West Oxfordshire District Council where he was Chairman of the Planning Committee. Although he lost out in the 2006 election he regained the seat at the local elections on May 6th this year. He also served on Oxfordshire County Council as a Councillor from 2001 until 2005. Julian is Chairman of the Woodstock Youth Club and Chairman of the Council's Traffic Advisory Committee. In his spare time he enjoys a round of golf and would dearly like to recover his one time single figure handicap. His new commitments will make that all the more difficult!
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Town Council, Town Clerk, Lorraine Watling, Town Hall, Market Square, Woodstock,
Oxfordshire, OX20 1SL |
After
two busy years as Town Mayor, Cllr Peter Jay handed on the baton of leadership
to a new successor. Cllr Jay expressed his appreciation for all the help
he had been given by town hall staff and Councillors throughout his term of
office and in particular to the stalwart support of his Deputy Cllr Tony
Gardiner.