Top recruiter Karen earned Lord’s award
●●10 years ago: ORPORAL Karen Mainwaring of the Territorial Army, was awarded the Lord Lieutenant’s Certificate at Preston.
Karen, aged 33, from Whitworth, received the award from HM Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire Colonel the Hon Lord Shuttleworth.
Karen was serving with the Adjutant General’s Corps, attached to the 4th Battalion, the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment in Preston, where in addition to being a clerk, she was also a recruiting corporal.
Her citation read: ‘Her enthusiasm is tireless. She has the ability to engage with young recruits. Her caring and honest approach has consistently produced excellent results and she has a fine reputation as a marvellous ambassador of the TA.’
Karen was working as an administrator at Rochdale Infirmary.
Her guests at the presentation were her parents, David and Christine Mainwaring and her partner, Warrant Officer Class 2, Mark Lydiate.
CA BARMAID celebrated 25 years of pulling pints in a town centre pub.
Kathleen Burke, who had worked at the Roebuck in Yorkshire Street since 1982, said: “I love it.
“My favourite part of the job is looking after the customers.
“We have some lovely regulars here.”
She continued: “I think there’s some kind of celebration planned, but noone’s telling me anything about it.
“It sounds like there might be a surprise party.”
She started working behind the bar in the Wellington Hotel, before moving to the Roebuck 13 years later. FLOWERS bloomed in Newbold as green-fingered residents got involved in a painting workshop.
The Guinness Trust Housing Association organised the Newbold in Bloom workshop as part of neighbourhood renewal scheme.
Representatives from British Trust Conservation Volunteers visited the area and showed 25 residents ways of potting plants and making hanging baskets.
The residents then got to keep the pots or baskets they’d made and the Guinness Trust’s maintenance technicians were on hand to put them up.
Janan Billings, from the Guinness Trust Housing Association, said: “The day was a huge success with a lot of Newbold residents getting involved to make the community a better place.” CYCLING to school should have been an easy task for pupils at Meanwood Primary School after a cycling safety course.
Pupils in Years 5 and 6 had the chance to complete the course, offered by the school, which taught about safety on the bikes.
After that, if they had a roadworthy bike and wore both a helmet and florescent jacket, the children would be allowed to travel to school and leave their bikes in new bike shelters.
A school spokeswoman said: “As Meanwood had healthy schools status we constructed the cycle shelter as a result of our school travel plan.
“Many of the older children expressed a desire to be able to have somewhere secure to store the bikes.” MEMBERS of Rochdale’s branch of Unison organised a reception and presentation for a wellrespected Cuban doctor.
Dr Juan Carlos Dupuy Nunez, the head of a medical brigade in Cuba, was joined by Natasha Hickman from the Cuban Solidarity Campaign.
He was welcomed by Ghulam Rasul Shahzad from Rochdale Unison.
Dr Nunez then gave a talk about the work he and his co-worker had done to aid victims of the earthquake in Pakistan and Kashmir in autumn 2005.
Mr Shahzad thanked Dr Nunez, saying: “By this gesture of goodwill you have made a place in the heart of every Pakistani and Kashmiri in the whole world.”
He went on to add that he hoped that Cuban doctors would continue to serve humanity. RAINY weather didn’t dampen the spirits of Rotary Club members, who enjoyed their annual charity garden party at Holingworth Lake.
Young sisters performed classic songs such as ‘Hey Jude’ to get the crowd going and musicians from the Rochdale Youth Wind Band also kept guests entertained.
Raymond Matthews, who organised the event, said: “The band was superb and we had a really good turnout.”
The total raised stood at more than £1,000.