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EVA CELEBRATES 100TH BIRTHDAY AT LYNCROFT CARE HOME.
Staff and residents at Lyncroft Care Home in Wisbech celebrated the 100th birthday of resident Eva McAdam on Wednesday 22nd July with a birthday party, cake, cards and flowers. Eva enjoyed receiving her telegram from Her Majesty The Queen as well as many cards from family members and well-wishers. “We all wish Eva a very Happy Birthday,” said Home Manager, Brenda Durrington “She’s a great character with some wonderful stories. We’ve
had a fantastic day celebrating with her”.
Staff at Lyncroft Care Home organised a wonderful afternoon tea which Eva enjoyed with her friends at Lyncroft. Chef Neil prepared a 100th Birthday cake with strawberries and cream and the staff decorated the home with balloons and flowers. A beautiful flower arrangement was donated by Natalya Shlyapina a local expert florist and homebaked treats arrived from Manor Farm Cakes and Bakes in Wisbech.
Eva grew up in London and lived above her family’s barbershop on Tower Bridge Road, in keeping with the family tradition she later became a hairdresser herself and had her own salon. Hairdressing is in her blood with one of her relatives being Raymond Bessone, also known as Mr Teasy-Weasy, a famously flamboyant British hairdresser from 1930 to 1960. He styled the hair of many celebrities in his chain of luxurious hair-salons in the West End and he even trained Vidal Sassoon.
Eva puts her long-life down to a good Italian Neapolitan diet in her early years, however, aged 50 she discovered she had a hiatus hernia so had to change her diet to fresh boiled vegetables and chicken soup which she says has kept her going all these years. Eva is a great animal lover and as a child had two Alsatians called Carlo and Rita and later two cats. She enjoys knitting, reading and cooking and is very artistic. Eva’s husband passed away in 1994 aged seventytwo, they had one son, called Graeme who she says is her special achievement in life, a wonderful human being and very generous.
For more information about Lyncroft Care Home in Wisbech please contact Customer Relations Manager, Laura Mills on 07725 799 217 or email laura. mills@countrycourtcare.com.
Having returned from his family holiday, The Mayor of Wisbech, Councillor Aigars Balsevics, has provided information about local causes that are close to his heart and for which he has commenced his fundraising activities.
The community causes selected by the Mayor are: • The Rosmini Centre, particularly for their support to people who are homeless, the
English as Second Language support they provide and the overall integration of the
Wisbech community. • Local Sports Groups, particularly those aimed at local children to get fit or learn a new skill in gymnastics, swimming and tennis.
Councillor Balsevics said, “I hope to have ten local businesses helping me to fundraise, but if more come forward that will be excellent, and we will hand out more. I want to be able to visit each business to give them their fundraising pot and to say a personal ‘thank you’ for their support. With the current Covid-19 regulations, organising events is quite difficult, but I have a couple of ideas that I will share shortly.”
Not only has he placed three fundraising pots in each of the pubs that he manages, but he is also appealing to local shops and businesses to contact him if they are willing to help by having a pot on their premises. If you are a shop or business and would like the Mayor to visit you with a fundraising pot, please contact info@wisbechtowncouncil.gov. uk.
If you would like to make a donation to the Mayor’s chosen causes, please also contact him via info@wisbechtowncouncil. gov.uk.
Fenland District Council launched a new as our new website will provide a significantly website on August 17th, making it easier than improved modern, user-friendly platform for ever for residents and businesses to access residents to find Council information, our latest information and services online. The new news and access local services. Our old website website is still accessible via the same web served us well for several years, and increasingly address – www.fenland.gov.uk – but it has been became the first port of call for anyone wanting transformed to offer residents a more modern, to access a council service. But with over user-friendly browsing experience. It also brings 685,000 visits per year to the website and nearly added benefits including: 10,000 forms submitted, it was time to have a website which better reflects our future goals • New and easier to read content. and provides a strong foundation for further • Easier to navigate menus, with ‘quick links’ to improvements and transformation projects. the Council’s most-used services. Given the monumental task of updating such • Fully optimised for use on smartphones, tablets a vast website, we anticipate that there may and desktop computers. be one or two initial teething issues. We will work • Improved ways to pay for, report or request quickly to address any issues as they are found
Council services. and will be adjusting and tweaking the website • Improved search tool. throughout the year to constantly improve its usability. We would welcome members of the Councillor Steve Tierney, the Council’s Portfolio public to help us with this by letting us know any Holder for Transformation and Communication, hiccups they may find or any ideas they have said, “This is a really exciting time for the Council for making things easier.”
