Category: Editorial

Like most societies, councils, community forums and groups of friends, The Kibworth & District Chronicle Management Committee has been holding its meetings online. Zoom, Google and Microsoft have really been helping with communication though most of us would really like to go back to face to face I suspect. Some of those meetings will have been to discuss finances and perhaps lack of funds for day to day running or future projects.

A somewhat late editorial as we are halfway through July, and the schools are closed, or rather home schooling has ceased for many. Do I hear a parental sign of relief?

Sue Buchanan has been organising the distribution of the Kibworth & District Chronicle to 5,000 homes in villages around Kibworth for almost eight years. Each month Sue has checked the availability of volunteers and arranged cover if any are unwell or on holiday.

All things being normal Thursday 18 June 2020 would have seen the Chronicle being delivered for the last time before the summer break.

‘A voluntary community newspaper for the Kibworth area.’ The very first issue of the Chronicle in April 1978 bore those words underneath the mast head. For 42 years our aim has remained the same. Community and volunteers are what the Chronicle is all about.

Every year as we reach the end of May, and June is fast approaching, I recall my primary school days and my best friend’s sister who was called June. Her brother would tease his sister by singing “June is bustin’ out all over” from the musical Carousel whenever his sister appeared in a new outfit. He was usually chased out of the house but escaped in the garden.

Regular visitors to the Kibworth & District Chronicle website will remember the iconic signpost logo that symbolised the many villages that are represented in our pages. Back in 2010, it was decided that it was time to update the early website that had been set up by enthusiastic volunteers. The design and maintenance of a new site were put out to tender and the proposals of Jan Heaney of Fleckney were accepted.

We welcomed Adrienne Fennel to the Kibworth Chronicle in the Spring of 2016 as the new advertising manager. Adrienne immediately fitted into the team, ably taking over the reigns from Keith Jackson, and bringing with her plenty of enthusiasm and new ideas. She wasted no time in updating the databases and quickly began corresponding with our regular advertisers.

"Letters, we get letters we get lots and lots of letters."
If you recognise those words you are of a certain age, mature, and you will recall the next three lines were:

For 42 years, each month from September to June, the Kibworth & District Chronicle has dropped onto the doormats of homes in Kibworth and the surrounding villages.