Monday, 17 June 2013

Congratulations Cllr Flick Rea MBE - a message from Russell and Nancy

A very nice surprise greeted us all on Saturday as we discovered that our colleague (and fellow blogger) Flick Rea had been awarded an MBE for:
"Services to Local Goverment and the community in London"
Flick has been a local councillor for the West Hampstead and Fortune Green areas for over 27 years and she was deeply involved in community life long before she first got elected.
We suspect that the "...and to the community in London" part of the commendation is a special recognition of her work with the Jester Festival - which she helped after the old West Hampstead Community Association which was running it until a few years ago collapsed quite in the run up to that year's festival. Rather than watch a much-loved local tradition die, Flick rolled up her sleeves and made sure a team of committed volunteers were coralled into making sure the show did go on.
Flick is helping to organise the festival again this year - set to be on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th July.
Hope to see you there!
Russell and Nancy

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