Specsavers teams in Heswall have joined forces with other stores across the region to donate 200 chocolate easter eggs to charitable causes. The teams at Specsavers Ellesmere Port, Cheshire Oaks, Runcorn, and Heswall all clubbed together to donate to The Port Grocery and Halton Helping Kids this Easter. The donations were made through personal staff contributions and from store partners. Rita Lewis, director at The Port Grocery, said: “Thank you so much to our local Specsavers stores for their kind donation of over 100 Easter eggs for our members. “Specsavers has always been a tremendous supporter of The Port Grocery, so we were delighted that they wanted to make sure that at least some of the local children get a treat this weekend.”
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If Lucy’s forecast is correct, winter in Nova Scotia will continue for another six weeks. The sun is shining yet the air is chilly and the ground is dusted with snow. Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer checking my phone’s weather app to relying on the forecasting skills of a lobster.
Like Punxsutawney Phil, the rodent in the film Groundhog Day, Lucy the Lobster participates in a prognosticating ceremony each February 2. Onlookers gather by the causeway leading to Cape Sable Island, the Canadian province’s most southerly tip, to discover whether she’ll see her own shadow on emerging from the Atlantic Ocean. According to the Groundhog Day tradition, an animal seeing its shadow means a prolonged winter.
AN Ellesmere Port charity has ramped up the number of meals it is providing to those in need thanks to the ongoing support of the Marks & Spencer store near Cheshire Oaks. With the countdown to Christmas now on and many experiencing financial difficulties, The Port Grocery is continuing to benefit greatly from the vital M&S food redistribution programme. A colleague app, launched at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, is now used to notify charities when surplus food is available, helping to increase donations and stop food going to waste. More than 240,000 meals have been provided to charity groups across Cheshire using surplus food donated by M&S.