LOOKING again to the week of October 2 to October 8, ten years in the past…
A PIONEERING scheme which goals to recruit 1,000 volunteers to assist their aged neighbours was launched in Darlington in October 2013.
The Good Friends venture, commissioned by Darlington Partnership, aimed to assist 1,500 older and susceptible individuals in Darlington in its first yr by recruiting volunteers to assist them with easy day-to-day duties in a bid to fight isolation and improve independence in older individuals.
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Run by Age UK Darlington, in partnership with Darlington Police and Darlington Neighbourhood Watch Association, the scheme additionally aimed to build a assist community for each volunteers and their aged neighbours.
The chief govt of Age UK Darlington, Gillian Peel, stated: “The Good Friends goes to be a military of 1,000 casual volunteers who will do small duties to assist neighbours and others of their neighborhood to make sure they’ve a greater high quality of life.
“Small jobs might embrace pushing the wheelie bin spherical, walking the canine, phoning to say, are you okay, or reaching for one thing on the highest shelf.”
A former sergeant main within the Parachute Regiment fulfilled a dream by building a Wild West city to stage high-octane paintball shootouts, in October 2013.
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John Wayne fan Will Scullion stated he hoped the city of Purgatory, set within the Black Plantation, on Aske Moor, close to Richmond, North Yorkshire, alongside a Krypton Factor assault course, would appeal to as much as 16,000 paintballing followers a yr.
The city, based mostly on traditional Western motion pictures, is the scale of two soccer pitches and might maintain video games for as much as 50 paintballers at a time.
It encompasses a church, full with pews and a pulpit, a barbers, a cemetery, a basic retailer, a two-storey resort and saloon with beer pumps, a financial institution with a secure, a teepee, a put up workplace and a scaffold with hangman’s noose.
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Finally, a grandfather who fell right into a river whereas doing DIY outdoors his neighbour’s home thanked everybody concerned together with his dramatic rescue and has spoken of his terrifying ordeal.
Jim Cunningham, 78, was left with agonising accidents after falling backwards off a ladder and into the River Tees, at Barnard Castle, whereas portray his neighbour’s conservatory at Demesnes Mill, on Saturday, September 14, 2013.
Mr Cunningham was airlifted to James Cook University Hospital after struggling 9 damaged ribs, a punctured lung, two wedge fractures of his backbone and hypothermia.
