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10 THE NEW COUNTESTHORPE HERALD
9th OCTOBER
WEAR YELLOW
Calling all students, workers, mums, dads, granddads and grandmas, wear yellow for LOROS Hospice this October! Remember those bright yellow trousers you bought that time? Or the daffodil coloured hat you tend to only dust off for holidays? Well now is your chance to put all of those fantastically yellow-coloured items in your wardrobe to good use. LOROS is once again encouraging everyone and anyone in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland to dig out their yellow clothes and accessories for this year’s annual Yellow Day.
The event, which is happening during national Hospice Care Week, is this year taking place on Friday, 9th October and sets to see thousands of people across the city and county raising awareness and funds for LOROS by wearing yellow. The money raised with go towards supporting terminally ill adults in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland,
like Flick Cracknell, who died at LOROS following her battle with breast cancer. Her daughter Fay said: “Mum was very positive about how much help LOROS could offer and I know she liked being there.“The care was so different to anything we’d experienced elsewhere.”
Flick went into LOROS just before Christmas four years ago, after living with breast cancer for more than a decade.
“I was able to stay overnight there and I didn’t even have to ask if it was OK, I could just stay,” added Fay.
“When someone is terminally ill you don’t want to be told when you’re allowed to see them.
“Being able to come and go as you please is such a simple thing but it makes such a big difference.”
Each year LOROS Hospice needs to raise £4.5 million.
Five people paying £1 on Yellow Day could pay for a patient, like Flick’s, meals for one day. If 25 people pay £1 on Yellow Day, that could cover the cost of care for patients like Flick for one hour. And 500 people paying £1 to wear yellow could help LOROS look after people like Flick for one day.
Fay added: “Mum’s death is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me. We knew the end was coming but we knew she was being looked after.
“It was the best way it could have happened and I’m sure it’s exactly what mum would have wanted.”
Whether you are at school, college or at work, whatever you are doing on 9th October, make sure you are wearing yellow to support LOROS Hospice.
For more details visit lorow.co.uk/yellow or call the LOROS Fundraising Team on 231 8431/2
BLABY SOCIETY OF
ARTISTS
Our October meeting is on the 15th with Pollyanna Pickering giving an illustrated talk on international wildlife. 7pm at Blaby Civic Centre.
Non members are most welcome at all
OCTOBER 2015
meetings (£5 per meeting). Membership is £25 per year.
2015 Annual Art Exhibition
Blaby Society of Artists (A District Wide Art Society) are delighted to have Jennifer, Lady Gretton JP, H.M. Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire to open our, 2015 Annual Art Exhibition.
The exhibition of members works of art, in various styles and mediums is on Saturday 31st October and Sunday 1st November from 10am till 4pm, at Blaby Civic Centre. Free admission - disabled access - refreshments will be available.
A novel feature at the exhibition will be a display of £10 note sized pictures donated by members, all are framed and at £10 each will make perfect Christmas presents, with all profits from these going to this year’s supported charity Soft Touch Arts (An award winning Leicestershire charity using the arts as a tool to engage with and change the lives of disadvantaged young people) For family interest there is also a children’s trail around these pictures.
For more information Contact: Marguerite Armstrong (Chairman) 2775577 or Fran Andrews (Secretary) 2841739. blaby.society_artists@hotmail.com www.leicestershirevillages. com/blaby/blaby-society-of- artists.html
BLABY DISTRICT OVER 50s FORUM
Are you aged 50 years or over and living in Blaby District? Do you want to have your say and keep informed about local issues and services that affect you? If so come along to the Blaby District Over 50s Forum.
The last meeting is took place on Monday 14 September from 2pm until 4pm in the council chamber at the council offices on Desford Road, Narborough, LE19 2EP.
The topic for the meeting was keeping safe and well this winter. Guest speakers include Blaby District Council’s Health Improvement Officer, Leicestershire Police and the Papworth Trust who talked about their new ‘Warm Homes, Healthy Homes’ project.
There was advice on crime prevention and health and fitness services for the Over 50s within the district. These were all issues that residents told us were important in the ageing well consultation earlier this year.
Joy, a member from Braunstone Town, said: “I’ve been going to the forum for years now and it’s really come on a lot over time. You get so much out of going to the meetings!”
For more information please contact Zoe Coulson at strategic.partnerships@blaby. gov.uk or call 272 7566.
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