Recent Newspaper Article
In case you missed it, this letter was printed in last week’s LBO.
“Still waiting for a thank you”
“I am hoping through your paper I can make contact with Leighton Buzzard Young Farmers Club. On May 21 I found a fleece on the South Downs Way at Pyecombe, West Sussex. On the back was the letters LBYFC Rally 2012. Using the internet I managed to confirm through their website what the letters LBYFC represented. The website gave the phone number of the secretary and I left a message on the voicemail with a request for someone to phone me. Nobody has to this day. Back to the website and phoned the chairman who answered. I mentioned that large numbers of young people were hiking on The South Down on May 19/20 as part of The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. Immediately the chairman said “I know who the owner will be”. The chairman gave me his own address and I posted the article to him with my details. No response or a thank you from anyone which does not say a lot for the young people of your local YFC. I do hope it reached the owner.”
Daughton, West Sussex”
We didn’t think this showed us in a very good light so I wrote this reply:
