Contents:
- Editor's welcome
- David Marshall Red Arrow engineer
- Feel Good Picnics are highlight of summer
- Hanson Springs celebrates 60 years
- New independent vet practice opens in Milnrow
- Noise phobias in dogs
- Lemon drizzle cake
- GEM Appeal Strawberry Sparkle Lunch »
- Budding photographer’s snap of Ellenroad Engine House Steam Museum wins monthly contest
- Hairdressing trend - bubble bob
- Town hall restoration: new stained glass windows for Mayor’s Dining Room
- Rochdale Classic Car & Bike Show
- A short history of Hare Hill House: The Newall Family
- Success for Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club at the European Championships
- Tour of Britain
- Health and wellbeing during Metal season
- Garlic chilli chicken with parmesan cream, gnocchi and seasonal tenderstem broccoli
- “It’s right on your doorstep and it deserves to be romanticised.”
- How late is too late to start saving for retirement?
- Rochdale scent company inspires employee to write children’s novel
- Rochdale Masonic Hall
- New specialised dementia garden launched at Springhill Hospice
- A typical week for a football lawyer
- Silver for Petrus at Tatton
- New ‘Chatty Café’ to reduce loneliness and social isolation opens in Rochdale town centre
- Local independent fashion retailers shortlisted for Drapers Awards
Autumn 2023GEM Appeal Strawberry Sparkle Lunch
This year’s Strawberry Sparkle Ladies’ Lunch at Rochdale Golf Club raised £3,367 for the GEM Appeal charity, a fabulous afternoon of raising money for research into rare genetic diseases.
Singer James Cockerill and Tricia Penrose provided entertainment, with special guests, actors Chris Hargreaves and Jason Done.
GEM Appeal chairman Karen Johnson gave a heart-rending speech about how pioneering research at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital has resulted in enzyme replacement therapy treatments being developed.
Research at the hospital’s Willink Unit laboratory, named after Karen’s sons Simon and Mikey, means rare genetic conditions, such as Hunter Syndrome – which both boys suffered with – no longer means a death sentence, as it did for them.
The next GEM Appeal fundraiser is the Fizz Fashion Show at Rochdale Golf Club at 7pm on 2 October 2023. Tickets £5. Full details: www.gemappeal.org.uk