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4 Town & Around March 2019                                                         Tel: 01485 540620 email: editor@townandaround.net
        First word                                           and understanding of others. Practicing kindness will not only make
                                                             others feel better, it can make you feel good too, so today of all days
                                                             greet others with a cheery good morning or afternoon, pay someone a
                                                             compliment, help someone carry their shopping… you get the gist.
                                                              Add to all these St David’s Day 1st, Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day
                                 Hello and welcome to the March  – more on this elsewhere in the magazine) 7th, St Patrick’s Day 17th
                                 issue of Town and Around. March  and Mothering Sunday on 31st (which is also the day the clocks go
                                 is  a  pretty  amazing  month  with  forward giving us an extra hour of daylight each evening) making
                                 much to celebrate, here’s my top six  March a pretty amazing month.
                                 in date order:               Incidentally, I share my March birthday with Alexander Graham
                                   1st: Peanut Butter Lovers’ Day I  Bell; I like to think it is something to do with communication!
                                 had  to  include  this  one,  not  only  My  thanks  as  always  to  all  our  contributors,  photographers,
                                 because I really like peanut butter  advertisers and delivery team.
                                 but  to  remember  Hunstanton  is  Best wishes, and whatever you do, enjoy March
                                 twinned  with  the  67th  Special
                                 Operations Squadron, so it’s for our
                                 friends based at RAF Mildenhall. Elaine
        And, as a little extra, you can find a genuine American recipe for
        making your own peanut butter on page 52.            Elaine Bird, Editor, Hunstanton Town and Around
          7th:  World  Book  Day  World  Book  Day  is  the  world’s  biggest  The Perches, 18 Tapping Close, Snettisham PE31 7FF
        campaign to provide every child and young person in the country with  T: 01485 540620 M:07533 088196 E: editor@townandaround.net
        a book of their own. Supported by National Book Tokens World Book  Follow the latest stories at www.townandaround.net
        Day returns this year after one of its               and on Twitter @hunny_bird
        biggest years to date with a range of                www.facebook.com/pages/Hunstanton-Town-and-Around
        new initiatives that will help to get                Printed by Mortons of Horncastle Ltd
        even  more  books  directly  into  the
        hands of children and young people,
        especially  those  who  wouldn’t
        otherwise  have  access  to  them.
        Catering  for  all  age  groups,  from
        toddler to teen, the expanded list of 13
        new  £1  titles  for  World  Book  Day
        2019 has been created to appeal to the
        widest possible range of children and
        young people, tastes and abilities.
        Photo:World Book Day at Hunstanton
        Infants in 2014. Remember this?
          8th:  International  Women’s  Day:  With  the  theme  of
        #BalanceforBetter, International women’s Day celebrates women’s
        achievements  while  calling  for  a  more  gender  balanced  world.
        Celebrated since 1911 this year’s campaign says: “Balance is not a
        women's issue, it's a business issue. The race is on for the gender-
        balanced boardroom, a gender-balanced government, gender-balanced
        media coverage, a gender-balance of employees, more gender-balance
        in wealth, gender-balanced sport coverage ...
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          Gloria Steinem, feminist, journalist and activist said: "The story of  Eighth page: 88mm wide x 60mm high OR 180mm wide x 29mm high
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          20th: Spring Equinox marking the moment the Sun crosses the  for six months (£206.25 pro rata)
        celestial equator – the imaginary line in the sky above the Earth's
        equator – from south to north. Also referred to as the first day of  Centre DPS: 380mm wide x 246mm high £475.00 per issue or £2375
        Spring. Whilst  Druids,  Pagans  and  tourists  gather  at  Stonehenge,  for six months (£395.84 pro rata)
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          21st: Common Courtesy Day What a gem this day is; giving us all  transmitted  in  any  other  form,  or  by  any  other  means  without  written  prior
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        too. You probably remember as children that courtesy and respect were  of its contributors; not necessarily those of its editor or advertisers.
        paramount; you should say please and thank-you and be considerate
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