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The Friends of St Wilfrid’s latest concert will be  SALVO BRASS

It was celebration time for the Fleckney & Kibworth Running Club last month. We held a long overdue awards evening for the 2020 and 2021 seasons. All nominations and votes come from fellow Club Members across a variety of categories.

My name is Samantha Shields, I am the landlady of The Railway Arms. Derek Ward from O Hairdressing Salon and I got together and launched an Easter Egg Appeal for the poorly children in the Leicester Royal Infirmary.

Last month we presented a £500 cheque to GEMS Charity. This was from the proceeds made at our Christmas concert. In return GEMS attended a rehearsal and presented us with a certificate of thanks for money raised. They confirmed the money will go towards their current project of converting a balcony into a treatment area for chemotherapy patients at the URI Osbourne building.

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After an absence of two years we are pleased to report that the Annual Show of the Gardening Club will again be taking place on Saturday 3 September at Jubilee Hall, Bowden Lane, Market Harborough.

Kibworth Harcourt Windmill Update - March 2022

My iPhone names it Mothers’ Day, but my WH Smith diary keeps the traditional English name of Mothering Sunday. Why the two titles? A clue, Mothers’ Day is celebrated in the USA on the second Sunday (why a Sunday?) in May but it was only introduced recently, in 1949. Is this another import from the USA, which partly explains its popularity in England in recent years, albeit at a different time to the USA?

Soave is world famous, but it’s not the only white wine in northern Italy. A wine from Lugana, a region at the southern end of Lake Garda, between Lombardy and Veneto, is a worthy rival. The wine is based on a single grape variety which was originally thought to be part of the ubiquitous, but dull, Trebbiano family and therefore called ‘Trebbiano di Lugana’. DNA analysis has shown that it’s closely related to Verdicchio, (of Castelli di Jesi fame), but that it’s not identical. So now it’s called ‘Turbiana’.

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