Ro0112state

Returning Officer Statements for the January 2012 election.

Q&A session [1]

Carole Marland

Joy Abbott, Mid and North Devon

Hello, I live in a small village in North Devon with Elaine Willis who is both my lodger & Business Partner, we keep both tropical & cold water fishes, and I am the proud owner of both the Mid & North Devon Freegle groups and am also one of Elaine’s Mod’s in her Torridge Freegle group. Unlike a lot of you when I started the MidDevon group in October 2009 – it was the 1st Brand new Freegle group! - I did it without much knowledge of how to do things, although I had been a moderator in both the Bideford & NorthDevon Freecycle groups we didn’t have any training at all, was just told to accept members if they sounded OK & moderate their messages, so it’s been a new experience for me, and I’m learning all the time. From the time I left school in 1950 until 1957 when I became Self Employed I worked as a kennel maid and also with children. In 1957 I joined my Mum who had several Guest Houses & a Private Hotel, we sold the latter in 1966 and did various other jobs before becoming a Kleeneze agent in 1975, my Mum joined me & we became Joint agents and our aim was to become Main Agents which wasn’t very easy at the time as our Upline didn’t like any of his agents becoming one! however when he retired I joined Bill’s group & he gave us a lot of help and we made it! I am also on some of the Working Groups and try to take an active part in them, and if I were to be elected I promise you that I would do my best to help the current RO and also anyone else who asked me.

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