8 STALYBRIDGE
November 16, 2023
Defib launch
In Remembrance Lest we forget
Festive switch on The final Stalybridge Street Fest of the year will be staged on Saturday, No- vember 25, to coincide with the town’s Christmas lights switch on. The Food Fest will run as usual offering an array of food and drink stalls accompanied by live music from 5pm to 9pm around Armentiers Square. Stalybridge Buffet Bar, one of the few remaining Victorian station buffet bars, is already making plans for Christmas. The ever popular bar has announced that it cele- brate Christmas Eve being a Sunday night this year by holding its usual quiz and play your cards right in festive style. Everyone is welcome to take part at 5pm. Raise a quiz glass Christmas double St George’s Church in Staly- bridge holds its Christmas Fair event on Saturday, November 25. There will be crafts, raffles, games, the cafe with refreshments and more at the Church Street Church, with the event running from 11am to 2pm on the day. Meanwhile the church is taking bookings for its ‘Brunch with Santa’ event on Saturday, December 2. There will be two sittings and a visit with Santa. Tick- ets will be £5 for children and £3 for adults. Book at brunchwithsanta@yahoo. com Stalybridge Fire station and St John Ambulance have launched a project to deliver essential defibrillator training across schools in Stalybridge. The launch took place at Buckton Vale Primary School to Year 6 children. Theinitiative is providing hands-on training to young people, equipping them with the skills to save lives. The Civic Mayor of Tame- side Cllr Tafheen Shariff was at the launch of the project to provide her support as part of a special partnership. Cllr Taf said: “To make change you have to start with the young. “If one person, be it young or old, is equipped with this life saving training it can go a long way.” The mayor added: “I am proud to have been able to launch this training with our partners.”
Stalybridge
pictures by NIGEL WOOD
Out in force PAYING THEIR RESPECTS: The town of Stalybridge braved the rain and cold on Remembrance Sunday to come out to pay tribute to the fallen.
Young and old rubbed shoulders as thousands came together to mark Remem- brance Sunday in Stalybridge. A smaller service was conducted at the town’s war memorial on Armistice Day, with a two minutes’ silence and wreath laying on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. But it was on Remem- brance Sunday that the town once again came out in
strength for the traditional parade from Armentieres Square to the Trinity Street war memorial. Peter Edwards, Chairman of the RBL Stalybridge and Dukinfield Branch, led the services, with the town’s MP Jonathan Reynolds, town dignitaries and uniformed services’ representatives placing wreaths at the memorial.
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