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Singing along Farm on a fence
Mounts Bay Rotary Club and Penzance Post Torquay Rotary Club has been creating
Office Counters staff have joined forces in their excitement in the primary schools again by
efforts to support Macmillan Cancer. sponsoring a “farm on a fence”.
The project is aimed at those areas where there
isn’t a lot of open space, and the club works with
the school to plant seeds in cut-down bottles
against a wire fence.
This year’s chosen school is Ellacombe, Torquay,
and the chosen vegetables are radishes.
Post Office staff (see photo above) raised £320 The radishes were harvested
from cake bake days and collection buckets while In mid – July!
a karaoke evening organised by the Rotary club
and Newlyn newsagent Davie Barron topped it up
by £210.
The proceeds went to the soon-to-be-completed
Cove Cancer Support and Information Centre at
Treliske to pay for furnishings and equipment.
In the past, link-ups between the Post Office staff
and Rotary have raised £1,500 for Cancer
Research UK and, when added to the sponsorship
money raised from Rotary’s Cancer Cycle Ride,
their joint efforts have netted more than £16,000.
More from George Hawken of Mounts Bay at
Edwinhawken@gmail.com.
