From the
EditorBy Viv Robins
For a record-breaking third month in a row we have managed to produce a 28-page Newsletter – all the more impressive when you consider that we when we started out (almost exactly seven years ago) we had a mere 12 pages!
After the icy start to the year you’ll find much talk of the weather (and some nice photographs too). With roads out of the village often close to impassable the Community Shop really came into its own, taking £700 on the worst day of snow on 2nd February, and notching up weekly sales of £3,770 thereafter. On our Letters page John Glanfield ponders the Shop’s many advantages, though it seems shrinking violet Mike Senior was taken aback by one particular line of merchandise. Other writers weigh into the debate about a possible relocation to the Shop of one of the neighbouring post-boxes, while a distinctly other-worldly note is struck by John Clarke, a self-confessed film buff who clearly counts Ghost-Busters among his favourites.
Once you’ve exhausted the Newsletter’s many other delights you can always turn to the virtual world: our resident computer buffs have set up an online forum which will provide The Lee with its very own online social network!
Finally we salute Emma Burgess, who is off to work in a school in Mexico in September as a volunteer with the charity Outreach International. Emma follows in a proud tradition of young people locally who’ve done charitable work in far-flung climes, often helped by sponsorship from the generous people of The Lee!
Copy for the April Newsletter should be sent by March 12th to theleenewsletter@googlemail.com or, if on paper, to Peter Archer at Red Lion House, Red Lion Hill, HP16 9NF. We wish him well on his debut as Editor!