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St Andrews in Focus - Issue 38 - January / February 2010

From the Editor

Home for me is St Andrews. I’ve asked many different people what it is about this town that draws us all so strongly. Is it the kindness of its citizens? Is it the sense of its long history? Is it the architecture (when you can see it behind the cars!)? Is it the sea, with the mountains calling on the horizon? Or the green fields all around?

It must surely be some magical, harmonious combination of all these things. Change can’t be stopped, any more than the tides; nor is it desirable. But it can and should be sensitive, gradual change, in tune with the spirit of place, and the wishes of its citizens. Alas, bureaucracy is immune to all that. Money and directives rule. All the more reason we should support that brave St Andrean, who cares about the town with every fibre of her being, and who, on her own initiative, has lodged a Legal Challenge in an effort to prevent St Andrews being transformed into just another grey industrial zone attached to an historical theme park and a university.

Can people power work here? I think we should give it a try, wouldn’t you agree? Let’s make 2010 the year we all unite together for this town we love. Let’s make it truly a Happy New Year for all of us!!

Flora Selwyn

Press Release - Rotarians honour magazine founder

From The Courier 24th June 2009

THE FOUNDER and editor of the award-winning St Andrews in Focus magazine, Flora Selwyn, has been honoured by local Rotarians.

At a ceremony in the Best Western Scores Hotel, Mrs Selwyn was presented with the 2009 Community and Vocational Service Award -- the highest accolade given to a non-Rotarian -- by Dennis Hopper, president of St Andrews Rotary Club.

Mrs Selwyn first came to St Andrews as a student in the 1950s and her love of the town brought her back almost four decades later following the death of her husband. It also inspired the St Andrews in Focus magazine that she founded six years ago. Read More >>

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