Our town thanks you all
It’s great that The Scarborough News has chosen to highlight all those that have been helping people, both through their jobs and through volunteering with charities and in other ways, such as fundraising.
There are people working in different professions – health care workers, teachers, carers, supermarket workers, paramedics, delivery workers, engineers – who have worked all through this crisis.
There is also an army of people who have volunteered, offering to make PPE or providing food for key workers. Their help has been invaluable.
Some people have applied skills that they already had, some people have learnt new skills very quickly in order to help.
There are people who have been helping those that have been shielding by bringing them food because they cannot go out.
Their help has been indispensable. These are people who have stepped up to the mark.
The emergency services – the police, fire service, ambulance service, coastguards and lifeboat crews – have often had to put themselves at risk to help people.
Scarborough Borough Council has gone above and beyond through this.
When it came to processing the payments that go to people, Scarborough was in the top ten in getting that money out the door.
I pay tribute to the council’s chief executive as his management of the authority has been exemplary.
I think we’ve seen the best of British and Yorkshire grit in response to the challenge.
Although it’s been a different enemy and a different challenge, we’ve seen many of the same characteristics of determination and resolve that people had to show in the Second World War, and the character and spirit of the people of Scarborough and Whitby have been shown.
There has been great courage and determination in the face of adversity.