ADELE’S LEGACY
IT WAS great to be part of an event that highlighted some of the magnificent things being done in Liverpool. It was also an occasion that filled my family with pride – the naming of a food and clothes bank as the Adele Dowling Food Union, in recognition of the support my late sister-in-law gave to the community.
Liverpool Six Community Association had kindly invited us all to the event in Queens Road – the area where Adele
by TOM DOWLING, editor
lived and served for eight years as a city councillor, the area where we played as kids, and, tragically, the area that now ranks among the poorest in Europe.
Last year, the L6 charity gave food and clothes to more than 1,100 people – 60% of whom were in low-paid work.
Lord Mayor Cllr Mary Rasmussen said: “The L6 Association is doing a terrific job, helping people faced with serious financial problems. Adele was always there to help. She came into politics for all the rights reasons – to help people. That’s all she wanted to do. It is only fitting that she will be remembered this way.”
Cllr Gerard Woodhouse added: “Adele did so much for our community. She was always helping us here, always trying to fix people’s problems – right up until the day she died. Through the Adele Dowling Food Union we’ve made sure that she will be remembered every day.”
Adele died in April 2020, aged 73.