The 50th Reunion Committee visited Bethesda this week to donate the £500 collection money from the Reunion weekend to the Hospice facility. Thanks to everyone who contributed.
While we were there Carol gave us a tour of the Nursing home and the work done so far for the new upstairs. It’s a great facility and we wish them well for the future. We girls were fighting over rooms for future use. The unit is run on an entirely non-profit basis. The Nursing Home beds are primarily occupied by clients of the Western Isles Council Social Work Department and is therefore self-financing.
By contrast, less than 50% of Hospice costs are met by the Western Isles Health Board. The shortfall must be raised from charitable contributions, grants and fundraising. This shortfall currently amounts to £230,000 per year. Carol explained their dependency on the kindness of donations such as our own and she thanked us all for the donation to this worthy cause.
They all do a fantastic job.
Keep donating, everyone, every penny is welcome and well deserved.
Well thats it all over! What a weekend, we hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did and we look forward to doing it all over again in another ten years. (Maybe five if we can be persuaded)
We are currently adding photographs to the site and would be glad for any contributions to any of our galleries.
If you have any photographs from the reunion or fromyour school days, whether class photogrqphs, team photographs or just old snapshots and you would like to see them on the site, please scan and forward to erisort1@btinternet.com with a few details and we will upload them on to the site.
(Alternatively you could drop your photographs off, in an envelope marked Reunion, at Events on Cromwell St , with your name and details, and we will scan and return them.)
Please contact any of the committee members should you wish any further information or alternatively leave a message on our Guestbook page.
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Iain Macaulay (Sheep) iainmmacaulay@hotmail.com
Kate Macdonald (Macfarlane) kmacdonald1a@gnes.net
Ishbel Scott (Mackenzie) islandershellfish@tiscali.co.uk
Heather Murray (Fhraochie) fhraochie@yahoo.co.uk
Findlay Maciver findlay.maciver@virgin.net
David Morrison davidshader@hotmail.com
Catherine Anne Smith(Macrae) catherineanne39@btinternet.com
Katherine Macleod erisort1@btinternet.com Web Site Admin
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