FOLKFEST Parade Cancelled This Year

This is not the type of news that we are accustomed to at this time of the year. I should be telling you of all the plans that your hard working club members are planning for this year.
At our small meeting at Abbeyfield hall on Monday 17th, we had to make this crucial decision. All those in favour of cancelling the parade this year, please put up your hand. This was soul crunching time for us all, but the 5 members put up their hands.
It has been very hard for me, for I saw the writing on the wall. I appealed early in this year for the need of getting members of the community to rescue this parade but working together and taking over the chairmanship of the Parade. For the past seven years, we had relied on Gillian Shearwater to take on this role and she did a magnificent job. I thank her for the countless hours that she has given to us all. She deserves her rest.
Back to our committee. They make sure that you understand that this is not the end of Folk fest. We have decided to continue our regular meetings, and have faith that this community will make the theme. WORKING TOGETHER a reality. We believe that we can come together and put on a spectacular celebration in 2015...and the theme. WORKING TOGETHER.
I have faith in this community. Shakespeare spoke these words to me. Sweet are the uses of adversity. Pumping in my veins at present are the words of Winston Churchill. We shall never surrender. Another teacher Earl Nightingale keeps whispering to me. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve! This is a positive thinking and doing community. Let us start working here and now on one of the most fantastic birthday of our country in 2015.
The moving finger write and having writ. Moves on. The past is dead. Let us all live in the living present. Let us not wallow in the past. The glorious present is here and now. We shall make the theme for 2015... WORKING TOGETHER. Thanks, and I am proud of this community.