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Smoke Signal is the independent village magazine for the people of Crofton To
increase community awareness Open
to contributions from all members of the community Issued in the first week of each month (usually) A brief history of the magazine is listed below |
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Available from local distributors and only £3 per year - delivered. 30p
each collected from the Post Offices Produced
& Distributed by Volunteers All surplus funds donated to charity |
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Smoke Signal Team: Ann & Brian Perkins, Cynthia & Gerry Dickinson |
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| Smoke Signal was founded as a
village magazine in 1981 by the then rector of All Saints Church and a
group of church members . Contributions for articles were invited from
the village community and the magazine was distributed by volunteers. For
over 15 years now the magazine has been independant of the church
although some people still refer to it as t'church magazine.
Originally, articles sent for publishing were hand written and the magazine proofs were typed and then duplicated on an hand operated duplicator. The result was often difficult to produce and to read. Today, many contributions are sent by e-mail or other computer media, the proofs are produced by computer and printing of 730 magazines is much more mechanised. Collating and stapling is still a time consuming and somewhat laborious activity but the whole process repeats every month and has done, amazingly bearing in mind the inevitable family hitches, without a miss for the past 24 years - over 250 publications. In addition to the magazines sold through the villages 2 post offices, 30 or so volunteers distribute around 600 magazines each month. |
