Carnival 2003 - Circus
Sue & John Parker
St Mary’s Village Carnival Committee welcomes Sue and John Parker to open this year’s Carnival.
Sue and John are real servants of our community and it is with great pleasure that we are able to thank them publicly for all their work by inviting them to judge the Procession floats and open the Carnival.
Although Sue’s work is perhaps more widely recognised than John’s, particularly for her eighteen years as Clerk to the Edlesborough Parish Council, the two work very much as a team in all they do. Since moving to Edlesborough in 1977 both have been actively involved in community life – on the Parish Council, FOES, Scouts, Edlesborough WI and especially serving Edlesborough Memorial Hall.
Many of you will remember the monthly Car Boot Sales held during the summer months over a period of ten years that John and Sue helped to organise – all in aid of the Memorial Hall refurbishment. Improvements have included: an extension, major work to the roof, provision of a damp proof course, gas central heating, new boiler room, new furniture and kitchen utensils, brick driveway and disabled path and access.
Another facility for which we should be grateful to the Parkers is the right to use a number of footpaths in the parish. These rights were only won after a 15 year planning battle culminating in a Public Enquiry. But these examples represent the public face of a couple who are just as much at home carrying out tasks that generally go unnoticed – cleaning the Memorial Hall, clearing litter of the Green, forking out ruts left after heavy lorries have been on the Green.
Sue and John take pride in their village and work hard for the good of the community. We are grateful for their example and all their endeavours on our behalf.
