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   The Friends of St Wilfrid's Church Kibworth are currently looking to repair the clocks and the leaks in the roof.

Sadly the pandemic has had a catastrophic effect for many people, including many readers of the Kibworth Chronicle; loss of jobs and loss of income, loss of family members and friends. It all seems hopeless. And yet, it is being seen by many as a wakeup call and a vital opportunity for us. There is still time to change how we live, for a safer and fairer society and to stop further pandemics.

Kibworth & District Chronicle is delivered to many villages which are in the four divisions of Harborough District Council: Bruntingthorpe; Gartree; Market Harborough East; and Market Harborough West & Foxton. Here are the candidates who are standing on Thursday 6 May.

Many of you, as you drive past the church, will notice that the clocks have stopped on the church tower.

At Edmonds and Slatter Opticians we pride ourselves in offering the highest quality of patient visual care. We are also very pleased to be able to offer the same high quality of hearing care to our patients.

The Well Cafe and Shop reopened on Monday (12 April). It was so lovely to welcome back some old friends and meet a few new ones. We all sat happily in the garden soaking up the sunshine. We are open every weekday from 9.30am to 1pm.

Fiona Cairns Ltd is a local business based in Fleckney making many thousands of luxury cakes each year. The business has grown from its humble origins at a kitchen table in Mowsley.

Celia Herrick is a Kibworth based British Wheel of Yoga teacher who has taught Yoga for twenty-eight years, predominantly in Kibworth but also across South East Leicestershire, including Drayton, Smeeton Westerby, Great Glen, Oadby, Leicester, Market Harborough and Hallaton. 

28 March 1996 …. Our lives changed forever!

The Big Knit campaign has returned and Age UK Leicestershire & Rutland is calling on the knitters and crocheters to get their knitting needles out again to help raise urgent funds for local older people most in need.

John Willcocks, a former resident of Kibworth Harcourt, has died at the age of 86.

The word ‘affirmation’ comes from the Latin meaning ‘to make strong’ and via Middle English with the sense of making firm. In terms of wellbeing an affirmation is a statement we repeat to ourselves and aim to achieve and live by.

My intention this month was to tell you about the insects that benefit from the Sallow, a tree in the Willow family. Not being particularly “good” on trees I needed to do some research. This was so interesting that the insects will have to wait until next month.           

I was born at Horsforth near Leeds, West Yorkshire in the springtime of 1935 and lived in Menston-in-Wharfedale, near Ilkley. I was the younger of twin boys, weighing only 3 lbs (pounds) at birth and not expected to survive, relying on being wrapped in cotton wool in the absence of incubators. But survive I did!

The AGM, our first by Zoom, was held on Monday 22 March and officers re-elected. Chair: Paul Rose, Vice-Chair: Sarah Cripps, Treasurer: David Jenkinson and Secretary (because no one else will fill such big shoes): Erica Parsons. Other committee members are Jean McCann and Helen Simpson.