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Kibworth & Smeeton WI 

The Spinners go from strength to strength with four teams in the Leicestershire League and two in the Junior League. Spinners members Jack Feakes and Lennon Devlin were each part of winning teams of the B & H Table Tennis Competition, and will progress to the finals later in November. 

Actor Guy Henry will star alongside the Harborough Singers in their annual Celebrity Christmas Concert in December.

Rotarian Robert Easthope gave a sigh of relief as the firework display ended on Friday 1 November. After last year’s cancellation and the difficulties encountered we changed our venue to higher ground. Robert Easthope, and his committee, were determined to run the event again. Fortunately it was a fine evening and around 1.500 folk arrived, sampling the hot food and drinks provided, before the display.

Our annual Christmas concert is now less than a month away, and we really are getting excited to perform for you on Saturday 30 November!

By the time you read this, our Christmas musical, ‘Holly Jolly Saves Christmas’ will have been performed and put to bed. It proved to be a huge success and, for anyone who came to see it, catapulted them into the true and magical spirit of Christmas.

October meeting was a real treat with a visit from Jill and John Vickers from ‘Bridge 67’. Jill gave us a short history of how it all started during Covid. The shop opened in November 2020 and is a very popular venue in Kibworth.

For those readers who remain concerned about the speeding traffic along the A6 and the volume of traffic in other parts of the village, I thought it is a good opportunity to let you know that five out of six Telraam traffic sensors have been deployed by the Parish Council and the devices are now counting.

Our October Harvest celebrations, proved to be great fun. The Harvest supper and quiz night attracted a really good crowd and, having filled our tummies with lasagne, salad and French bread, we then moved on to a superb quiz, organised by Chris and Monica Gibbins. It was so cleverly planned that it ended up with the team scores being really close!

The group is coming up to its third birthday soon, so we thought it was time to share what we have been doing and what we have planned for the future.