ged February 26th, 2010
The past month has been quite a busy one with a wide variety of callouts including, inevitably, some caused by the icy conditions. The new system of activating only the nearest on duty vehicle, which is tracked by its radio, means that two, or even on some occasions three, CFR vehicles don’t all turn up to a call. It is more sensible, but we do miss the old pagers all the same, even though they had us chasing all over the place!
Donations this month are very gratefully received from: Mrs Jennifer Davies who held a Domino knockout competition at the Rock Inn in memory of Richard Elkes and raised £145, The Butchers Arms at Reapsmoor who had a Bingo Night and raised £104.17 and Michela Griffith’s Longnor Calendar made a final total of £163.01. Thank you all very much.
We have a new responder in the group who has successfully completed her initial training and look forward to her becoming fully active very soon. There are only four of us able to respond regularly and six more who do the best they can to fit being on duty around busy lives, so we are very pleased to welcome Sarah and any more who think they could give some time to help their community.
Keep your ears open for news of Emma Wentworth and the London Marathon, she will be looking for some sponsorship and details will be here on the web site but we will also have some forms. A date for your diaries and another fund raiser: Saturday 8th May at the Winking Man a Hog Roast and music and entertainment with the Houghton Weavers, more details later.
ged February 1st, 2010
Hi Folks, The winter weather has certainly made for some interesting callouts for us. Thank heavens our little ambulance is a 4×4, it has earned it’s keep over the last few weeks and got us to some fairly remote places where we have been able to help and reassure people while waiting for the big ambulance to be towed in or in some cases have taken casualties to meet the ambulance. Mind you we have been stuck a couple of times and thank you to the people who towed us out with their tractors. It has been quite a busy time with a lot of calls related to the weather. One week two of us gave 148 hours of cover because no one else in the group could get out!
We have had some very generous donations over the last two months and thank you to everyone for your support;
£30 Christmas donation from Ewart and Pauline Hall and family, £40 from Swainsley Cottage, £20 from the Bowers, £27.52 from the collecting box at the Red Lion in Thorncliffe, £1.92 from Brownspit Farm in Longnor, £48.53 from The Greyhound in Warslow, £390 in memory of Mr Frank Goodwin from Wallbrook, £600 in memory of Phyllis Gould from Longnor, The bonfire night and some other functions at The Greyhound raised £359.11 and Warslow Village Hall Carol Singing £142.
Thank you all again for keeping us running and a special thank you to the families of Frank Goodwin and Phyllis Gould at this sad time.
Keep your ears open for news of Emma Wentworth from Quarnford who is running the London Marathon for us and will be looking for some sponsorship. Good luck Emma.
We have just heard that the sales of the Longnor Calendar, with its wonderful photographs of the area, went very well and have raised £151 for us. Thank you Michela
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