Being a Cub, Scout, or Guide opens up a world of opportunity – and local young people have seized that chance to enjoy success and develop as people down the years. One example was when canoeists from 1st Kendal Scouts and Guides were national champions in 1989 after success in the National Scout Canoe Championships on Windermere. The event was part of the National Scout Marathon. PARADING: Kentdale Scouts taking part in the St George’s Day Parade in Kendal in 1993 Five competitors from Kendal became champions out of 130 entries from all over the country. A stiff breeze down the lake was in the competitors’ favour. But it made conditions choppy on the juniors’ six-and-a-quarter-mile course and seniors’ seven-and-a-half-mile course from Bowness Bay to Fellfoot Park.
LETTER TO THE MARBLEHEAD EDITOR: Vote Yes on Article 42
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The Marblehead Board of Selectman has a very unique service format – a one-year term. No other Select Board or School Committee we know of has a 1-year term. In fact, even multi-generation Marbleheaders often seem surprised by this fact. The inevitable question is, “Why, that sounds crazy? Why not the usual 3-year staggered term?”
No one really knows why, but the reasons generally given are tradition and the ability for the voters to “Throw the bums out.” Or maybe in 1649, when the Selectman first met, a one-year commitment was plenty given a 38-year average life span.
LOCAL council leaders have paid their respects to His Royal Highness Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, who has died today. South Lakeland District Council s leader and chairman added their tributes as the county and nation continue to pay their respects to the 99-year-old. Councillor Stephen Coleman, chairman of South Lakeland District Council, led the tributes, saying: “This is indeed a sad day and a day of national, and international mourning. “I want to pass on my sympathy, and the sympathy of the district of South Lakeland, to the Royal family who we must also think of at this time of great personal loss.
Election season is here in Marblehead
Nomination papers will be available Monday, March 15 in the Town Clerk s office
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It doesn’t have the fanfare or the feel of the Red Sox opening day but Election season with its own quiet but palpable thrum of excitement is here.
Two candidates, Ben Berman and Yael Magen, have already openly tossed their hats into the ring for the Board of Selectmen seats, and Jim Zissons has essentially been running since he lost last June s election. With five seats up for grab, two left wide open by the departure of David Depew and the death of Judy Jacobi, 2021 could produce a strong race for a seat at the selectmen’s table.
Looking ahead to 2021, what is your vision for supporting the South Lakeland economy? Coronavirus undoubtedly presents one of the biggest challenges to our district. SLDC is working with multiple agencies as part of the immediate response to the pandemic but is also focussed on doing everything in our power to create the conditions necessary for our businesses and communities to recover. SLDC has a clear plan of activity for the district which will help with recovery, build confidence, attract investment and ultimately make South Lakeland a better place to live, work and explore. We were pursuing many of these projects anyway, but it is all the more vital that we deliver on them now.