Available online or in the Sycamore, the Ashboune News Telegraph has the following stories:
p.2 – snowfall causes potholes influx – potholes caused by the recent heavy snowfall will be repaired in due course say roads bosses.
p.3 – Family statement on Lionel Webster’s shop – Lionel Webster’s family has issued a statement for customers still waiting for news of property left at his shop for sale or repair.
p.10 – New Dentist for town – Ashbourne is to get a new NHS dentist’s surgery next month.
p.11 – Time for a new Hat Stand – an article by Debbie Webster, volunteer co-ordinator for the Volunteer Centre Derbyshire Dales and Parwich resident.
p.11 – A photo by our very own village photographer, JF-S, – of an igloo built by his son and grandson during the recent snowy period.
On the new Ashbourne News Telegraph website, I also found a a link to Debbie Webster’s blog at the Ashbourne News Telegraph which you may be interested in reading.
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We’ve added a permanent link to Debbie’s new blog on the right hand sidebar, in the LOCAL LINKS section.
Congratulations Debbie on the funding to keep your work going.
There are a number of groups locally that undertake voluntary work and are run by volunteers, though the general complaint is it feels like more and more is being done by fewer and fewer people.
Historically in rural communities people have leant a hand and got on with things that need doing, however there is perhaps a national trend for people increasingly to look to a mysterious ‘they’ to do things for them. Opportunities for funding community projects are better than they have ever been, but this perhaps also has the flip side that it increases expectation for ‘government’ to sort things out.
This may just be a fact of life, however do you have any ideas Debbie about how we can get people feeling more positive about what they are already doing, or get more people to be active.