Hi, we’re the OFS Blog Team! From now on we’re going to be updating the Blog once a week to show everyone what we’re upto as there’s lots going on. The Team is:

Tracy (secretary in charge)
Tracy likes going out & about and likes computers and watching tv.

Karen (chief photographer)
Karen likes tai chi, knitting, going out for a drink, and cruise ships.

Patsy (intrepid lady reporter, food and music correspondent)
Patsy likes computers, cooking, shopping and loves listening to Abba and Shirley Bassey.

Jane (intrepid lady reporter, health and beauty and current affairs correspondent)
Jane likes art, going out, ladies magazines and loves to keep up with the news.

Jamie (intrepid reporter, activities and fitness correspondent)
Jamie likes keeping fit at the gym, swimming, dancing and all music.

Barry (intrepid reporter, out and about and transport correspondent)
Barry likes getting out and about on the bus, transport museums, trucks (especially Jack Richards and son) and cooking.

Jackie (tea girl and typist)
Jackie likes being outside, camping, swimming, aquafit and reading and loves working at the Old Fire Station!

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We’re also going to be producing a monthly newsletter to show everybody what we’re doing as well as we’ve all got pretty busy timetables.

For example, today at the OFS, we’ve got an art group, a gym group, a group at Reaseheath college, and a group out and about on the bus, plus our BLOG group.

Aswell as the OFS, the newsletter will cover Frodsham CDS, Firdale, Meadowbank Lodge and Dane Walk so if anyone has any stories for us to feature, please let one of the team know. We’re interested in any news so keep in touch!

As our first special report, today we got chance to interview some star swimmers. The photo below shows swimmers Emma Calvert (with all the medals!), Jamie Walker (on the left), and Peter Edwards (on the right), along with interviewers Patsy Scott and Barry Williams. Other swimmers from the Old Fire Station also won medals so we’re hoping for our photographer Karen Morrey to be able to take some exclusive photos of them soon! Watch this space!

Emma did particularly well at the swimming gala in Cardiff as she got lots of medals but she also almost beat the world record for the 25m breast stroke. The record is 26.89 seconds, and Emma swam it in 26.95 seconds, well done Emma!
Emma said she enjoyed the gala very much, and even though there were lots of people, she wasn’t nervous at all. She also said she liked having all her family and friends there to cheer everyone on, and that she had some nice meals in Cardiff but that it was a long way on the bus!

Bye for now!

Watch this Space!

We're going to be getting up to date again with all the goings on at the Old Fire Station very soon so .... Watch this Space!

Jackie

SCHOOL DAYS !

Sarah Rathbone is continuing to work hard at her work placement at Wincham Primary School and by all accounts is a great sucess.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK !!!

Congratulations to Antony who has started work at Shopmobility in Northwich as a volunteer. He works on a friday morning at present but who knows where it may lead.

It was very quiet here at the Old Fire Station at the beginning of June as many of the guys from here were enjoying the sunshine in Blackpool on the annual Holiday organised by Holidays with help. But those of us who were left behind were not going to out done and we took advantage of the smaller numbers and enjoyed visits to the Anderton boat lift and Chester. Well done to Barry who walked along the river from Northwich to the boat lift.

GETTING OUR HANDS DIRTY

We have linked up with Castleleigh gardening group and Mid cheshire college in a weekly gardening project. We are still in the planting stage but looking forward to seeing the fruits of our labour later on in the year.

RED NOSES

The Old Firestation football team hire Winnington Youth Centre on a Friday morning. On friday March 13th they were proud to support comic relief. The money donated was enough to buy 4 mosquito nets.