Time for The Village NEWS team to take a break

Time for The Village NEWS team to take a break

This is the good NEWS – Ed

We all know the saying: It never rains but it pours. Along with almost every other business in Hermanus, The Village NEWS has been hard hit by the Coronavirus pandemic. A year ago we thought it would mean a bit of temporary hardship, which we were confident we could overcome.

However, as the pandemic dragged on and on and it eventually became clear that it was not going away any time soon, but would continue to present a threat in the form of repeated waves and lockdowns, we had to face reality.

Cutting costs became essential to our survival, and it was with great sadness that we not only had to give up our lovely offices but also had to see our robust team of 16 dwindle to a core group of only eight individuals.

Losing loyal, hard-working and beloved colleagues and the camaraderie that comes with working together from one office was a bitter pill to swallow. Of our team of eight people, a mere five are currently working full-time on producing a newspaper every week.

That’s a lot of pressure for mere mortals, some of us not that young any more, to endure, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that some of us have succumbed to ill health.

Click on the newspaper below to read more (see page 4).