Category: Community

The 2022 Festival of Archaeology programme has been revealed by organisers and is being hailed as the best yet.

Derek and I would like to thank everybody who contributed to make our Easter Egg Appeal so successful. We are overwhelmed by the generosity of people within the Kibworth community. In particular the children who attend Kibworth Mead Academy, numerous local business owners, and our very kind customers from The Railway Arms and O Hair hairdressers.

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St Wilfrid’s Church is to live-screen the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Service of Thanksgiving.

The children of The Hunny Hive Day Nursery have been learning about people who help us. The Kibworth Fire Crew kindly came to the setting to visit and the children were delighted to be able to learn about the equipment and sit in the fire engine!

Weddings! Summer is the most popular season for marriage ceremonies. Usually expense is on the generous side and fascinators add colour to the occasion. However, I do recall one wedding, not so long ago, when the bride was almost left standing at the altar when the bridegroom failed to appear - cold feet!Unsurprisingly, they were never married!

People are being invited to join together for an extraordinary ‘pilgrimage’ between two communities in honour of a Leicestershire saint.

‘Mma Ramotswe sighed. “We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.”  “That is true,” said Mma Potokwane sadly. “There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them.” ‘ Alexander McCall Smith - In the Company of Cheerful Ladies.

Illston- on- the- Hill WI are holding an Open Meeting on Thursday 9 June. More and more people are being subjected to crime in all its various forms. We therefore feel it is very important to address the problems. We will be welcoming a representative from the Leicestershire Police to give us some guidelines to follow. Subjects will include internet scams, emails, phone, doorstep scammers, as well as safety in our own homes – security, door locks, alarms, to name but a few topics.

Some Chronicle readers may remember a series of 10 articles on ‘The Challenge of Dementia’ that I submitted in 2018/19.