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Mar 2021
A popular shopkeeper who has gone the extra mile to help villagers during covid was flooded with presents on her 60th birthday today.
Lynn Raffle, who has owned Markington Post Office and General Store for seven years, said she was overwhelmed by the show of affection.
She told the Stray Ferret:
Karen Moss, who painted the portrait, said Ms Raffle had been the beating heart of the village, which is between Harrogate and Ripon, over the last 12 months:
Ms Raffle was a cook in the village school for 14 years before taking over the post office.
She works seven days a week, rising at 5.30am every weekday and being in the shop an hour later until 6.15pm at night. She joked:
The shop was built in 1846 as a chapel and has had many purposes since.
Many old features remain, including meat hooks from its time as a butcher's shop. Ms Raffle said:
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