THANK you for publicising the chefs charity calendar (Evening Press, December 4).

I should also like to thank David Rose and Kenny Noble from the Blue Bicycle and our events officer Liz Topi who came up with the idea (over a glass of very nice wine, I understand); all the brave chefs; Steve Hutchinson and Ken Bray in the council's marketing department who organised design and printing.

Thanks also to Turpins Printers who subsidised the printing; and the civic party who launched the calendar on Wednesday at the Blue Minelle in Fossgate.

If you are too late to buy a copy from Brown's, Borders, or their favourite contributing restaurant, there will be a stall in York Market on Saturday, December 21 where you can buy a calendar.

Peter Boardman,

Arts commissioner,

City of York Council,

Back Swinegate,

York.

Updated: 11:04 Thursday, December 12, 2002