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WE all make new years resolutions
but Alison Partridge, from
Pembroke Dock, kept hers and is
now reaping the benefits. Here she
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I have been
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We love our girlie days out, having lunch
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into any shop we like and buy clothes that
we love.
A FORMER Haverford-
west woman is flying out
to Ethiopia next month as
part of a project to pro-
vide expert medical treat-
ment for children with
facial disabilities and dis-
figurements.
Catherine Collins, who is
now a ward sister in a
London Hospital, but grew
up in Haverfordwest, will be
one of 14 volunteers who will
fly out to Ethiopia on April
13th to take part in Project
Harar.
Set up more than ten years
ago, Project Harar helps
young people with serious
facial disabilities including
tumours, animal attacks,
cleft lip and cleft palate.
Catherine will be part of a
specialist team that will pre-
pare, operate on and then
rehabilitate between 40-50
young patients in just two
weeks, having been brought
in from rural areas of the
country.
She will be working with
five local nurses at a public
hospital in the countrys cap-
ital Addis Ababa on the post-
operative care of the
patients.
She said: It is going to be
really complicated surgery
in very different conditions.
There will be an exchange of
skills and well be there to
give expert support.
Im really excited, its an
incredible opportunity.
For more information visit
www.projectharar.org.
medi.george@
westerntelegraph.co.uk
A LONG-HAIRED dad
who shed his locks for
charity has raised
more than 3,000 for
two charities close to
his heart.
Leighton Davies of
Begelly had been growing
his hair for nearly five
years when he braved the
barbers chair last
October.
With his wife Emily
and their two-year-old
son, Luca, he has now
presented cheques of
1,835.59 each to the
Bucketful of Hope appeal
and the Withybush
Hospital Special Care
Baby Unit.
Leighton said: I chose
the Bucketful of Hope
appeal as I used to work
with Adam Evans-
Thomass dad, and the
Special Care Baby Unit
because Luca was a
patient there after he was
born, explained 38-year-
old Leighton.
I set out to raise
around 1,000, so to col-
lect more than three
times that is absolutely
brilliant.
As well as support from
individual sponsors,
around 40 local business-
es donated items for an
auction. This alone raised
900, and was held on
Leightons hair-cutting
night at Coastal
Galleries, Narberth,
where hairstylist Andrew
Price got to work on cre-
ating his sleek new style.
GREAT hope for the future
was the message that chief
executive Matthew Reed
brought to Cystic Fibrosis
families at the
Pembrokeshire branch
annual lunch at
Wolfscastle Country Hotel
this month.
Last year, planned clinical
trials, which offer the
prospect of treating the CF
condition rather than the
symptoms, were threatened
by a 6million funding short-
fall.
Major fundraising by fami-
lies and friends of the CF
community has now brought
in more than 2.3m, suffi-
cient to attract grants which
enable the trials to go ahead.
Starting in May around 130
patients will be given the
gene therapy product or
placebo once a month for a
year.
The energetic efforts of the
Pembrokeshire branch and
its supporters raised more
than 16,000 towards the
appeal and the members
were thanked for their dedi-
cation and determination.
You have helped to secure
the future of this crucial
research which could pre-
vent or halt the development
of lung damage in people
with CF, said Mr Reed.
The lunch, arranged by
Branch president Penny
Drew, raised more than
1,600, including donations.
Continued fundraising
remains vital to provide care
and support for CF patients
and the birth last year of little
Violet Howells in Milford
Haven - the groups youngest
CF patient - provides ever
greater impetus for the mem-
bers of the Pembrokeshire
Branch .
Trials bring hope
to those with CF
THERE has been a 19%
reduction in the number of
reported incidents of anti-
social behaviour across
Pembrokeshire in the past
year, the latest figures
show.
From April 2011 to
February 2012 there were
1,548 fewer incidents of anti-
social behvaiour in
Pembrokeshire, down from
8,134 to 6,586.
Chief Inspector Andy John,
of Dyfed-Powys Police, said:
We are encouraged that fig-
ures are considerably
reduced, but its always diffi-
cult to say why these figures
go down, but officers across
the county take anti-social
behaviour very seriously and
try and resolve issues wher-
ever possible.
It is well known that we
will never achieve reductions
as a lone agency and it is only
through our combined efforts
through the Community
Safety Partnership that we
will really begin making a
difference to the quality of
life of our communities..
To report anti-social behav-
iour to Dyfed-Powys Police,
call 101.
Figures reveal 19%
reduction in reports of
anti-social behaviour
Nurse on a mission
to treat African kids
Going for the chop raises 3,000
By Medi George
HAIR-RAISING SUM: Leighton Davies presents a cheque for
1,835.59 to Chris Evans-Thomas of the Bucketful of Hope
appeal. The same amount has also been received by
Withybushs Special Care Baby Unit.
OPPORTUNITY:
Haverfordwest nurse
Catherine Collins, will be
flying out to take part in
Project Harar in Ethiopia
next month.