The Good News Newsletter, which started at the beginning of lockdown in March 2020, has taken the decision to change direction as explained below by the creators:
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Hello and welcome to a somewhat different Good News Newsletter
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First, the History lesson! On 20th March 2020 we closed Milford Community Library due to the imminent national lockdown, promising that we might send out the odd quiz or two by email if we could manage that.
The rest, you know; Milford Library joined forces with the Village Voice, Milford Mutual Aid and David Long to produce The Good Newsletter. The title was suggested by a young MutualAid volunteer and we thought it was a great choice, as good news was what we all needed at that time.
So we had a focus, a team of five people and the first issue of TGN hit your inboxes on the following Friday. From then on we issued The Good Newsletter every Friday for 25 weeks! The team only ever communicated by email and it was quite intensive work, though hugely rewarding. We really did try to write upbeat articles and lift spirits with positive thinking, so hope you found something of interest each time.
By September 2020 both our young MutualAid volunteers had found jobs and moved away, so were unavailable. At that point we decided to produce a monthly TGN interspersed with a mini TGN in the Village Voice because there was the possibility of more lockdowns and we hoped TGN might help if that occurred.
In Spring/Summer 2021 vaccinations started happening. Now that was really good news! The world began to open up again, people ventured out more and aspects of ‘normal’ life began to appear. However, we hit a major problem in September 2021 when it became apparent that work and family commitments were making the ongoing production of even a monthly TGN virtually impossible. You may have noticed that there was no TGN in that month, for which we apologise. Because of these factors we needed to think again.
Remember Ecclesiastes? “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:... ” Well, having fulfilled its original remit, this seems to be the time for TGN to change direction again and become simply a smaller version, the mini TGN which appears in the Village Voice every couple of months. We are truly sorry if you are not in the delivery area for the Village Voice; we haven’t thought of a way round that one, except to encourage you to sign up to David Long’s wonderful website www.milfordonseanews.org where you can follow everything happening in the area.
This has been a difficult decision for all of us. However, please remember that Milford Community Library continues to be open four days a week for books and jigsaws and chat. We’d love to welcome you in person, and who knows, there might be the occasional Library newsletter, so watch this space!
Jill Neill
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