A SENIOR healthcare support worker based on South Ward at Fairfield General Hospital has looked back on a long career as the NHS celebrates its 73rd anniversary. Lynn Curran, 73, was born in January 1948, just months before the NHS was founded and remembers growing up and seeing the benefits of the health service. She said: “My brother is two years younger than me and he was one of the first to be born in Beech Mount, a maternity home in Harpurhey, and the free prescriptions were a massive help. “I remember getting scarlet fever when I was four and I was lucky I could get a prescription and have medicine at home.
Pandemic spurs library to show and sell artistsâ clay creations
BROOKLIN â It was very much by chance that Odette Heideman fell into the craft of making pottery.
For years, the Naskeag Point Road resident explained, her husband had given her gift certificates for facials and massages that went unused. Heideman floated an idea of something she might like to do, so he gave her a gift certificate for six lessons with a potter in Sag Harbor, N.Y., where they used to live.
Heideman, who had been working as a literary editor, took the classes.
âI was hooked,â she said. Then the San Francisco native decided to get serious about the craft. So, she embarked on a two-year course of study at Clay College in Stoke on Trent, England, where she learned about materials and the basics of having a studio. That was 2018-2019.