By Rachel Conner-Hill echorachelc Chief Reporter (Tees Valley & North Yorkshire)
Collection volunteer Paul Wheatley, house clearance manager, was one of those helping St Teresa s Hospice A CHRISTMAS tree collection service has raised more than £14,000 for a hospice. Despite Covid restictions and bad weather, volunteers for St Teresa s Hospice, in Darlington, collected more than 1,400 trees following the festive season. It was the tenth time the hospice has carried out a tree collection service and it managed to pick up almost as many trees as last year, despite fewer vans and volunteers. Communications manager John Paul Stabler said: “We are so grateful for the efforts of volunteers who worked tirelessly in bad weather, which caused some serious delays – even the padlock at the warehouse was frozen solid which meant we couldn’t get in to the vans on
THE MAYOR of a North-East town is teaming up with the world’s oldest Burns club to stage a fundraising event in honour of Scotland’s famous national poet. Darlington’s Mayor, Councillor Chris McEwan, was born in Greenock, on the Scottish coast, on Christmas Day, in 1965, and although he left the town when he was only six-weeks-old, he has always retained an affinity with the town. Now Councillor McEwan has forged an innovative link with Greenock Burns Club – known as The Mother Club – to raise money for charities close to his heart. He will be staging a virtual Burns Supper event on Saturday, January 23, with speeches, poems, singing, and the piping in of the haggis, all being relayed by Zoom from Greenock 200 miles away.
Making contact with St Teresa’s Hospice, L-R, Haughton Chippy proprietors Pamela and Frank Suhadolnik with Mel Smith and the contactless collection point installed in memory of his wife Liz A HOSPICE concerned about funding turned to technology with the help of long-time supporters to try and solve the issue. St Teresa s Hospice, in Darlington, has installed a contactless collection box in the reception of the in-patient thanks to the generosity of Haughton Chippy. Pamela and Frank Suhadolnik have been proprietors for the past 40 years and wanted to help in memory of their friend Liz Smith, who was helped by the hospice before passing away.
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By Rachel Conner-Hill echorachelc Chief Reporter (Tees Valley & North Yorkshire)
Karl and Mags Harvey outside St Teresa’s Hospice AN electrical company is lighting up a hospice in thanks of the way it cared for a grieving widow as she succumbed to a broken heart . Mags Harvey, who runs Harvey Electrical Services with her husband Karl, wanted to give something back to St Teresa s Hospice to say thank you for the way her mother was looked after in her final days. Mrs Harvey says her mother Joyce Vance found comfort in the inpatient unit after losing the will to live in the wake of her husband Eric’s death.