COME on, the people of Weymouth and Portland – start blowing your own trumpets.

As the outgoing (now gone) Mayor and Mayoress of Weymouth and Portland Borough Council we have, over our year in office, met some wonderful people and we feel very proud to live in such a fantastic part of the world. There are so many amazing people who make our borough such a great place to live.

Those ordinary, yet extraordinary, people who work tirelessly and selflessly helping others, will probably never get an MBE or such like – many of them go about their lives behind the scenes with little or no recognition of the enormous contribution they make to our borough.

It would be so good to read some positive letters in our Dorset Echo – letters about good things we have seen or heard. Letters that build us up and expose the great things going on and the people who make these things happen.

With the Olympic Games fast approaching we will see an enormous influx of people from all around the world.

Many of these visitors will pick up the local Echo and from this will be influenced about the goings on in our borough – wouldn’t it be great for us all to read some good news?

Start looking around and seeing the good in our neighbourhood. How many people would love to live in such a fantastic place?

Let’s have more acknowledgement of the great people and good deeds being done around us.

Celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee has lifted many of our dampened spirits.

Yes, there are awful things going on and injustices we have to speak out against – but don’t let’s forget how great it makes us feel to celebrate good things!

Can we remind you that every year the mayor presents Good Citizens awards?

Please be on the look out for people you can nominate. Check out WPBC website for details.

We are involved in community projects that we were not aware of prior to being mayor and mayoress.

One of these projects is to set up a Friends of the Guildhall. We feel strongly that to lose this building would be a travesty and a detrimental step for our community. We are awaiting a reply from the Civic Society before doing anything else about this.

Graham Winter, Mary Jordan-Winter, Samphire Close, Weymouth