Herald - Issue 403

Page 64 • The HERALD • 11th March 20201 v THE HERALD - PART OF YOUR COMMUNITY v SPORT IN THE HERALD • Bike Sales • Cycle Servicing for all makes and models • Spares, accessories and good honest advice! Open Tuesday-Saturday Blackfield Business Centre, Hampton Lane, Blackfield Please call 023 8089 0712 to arrange a service! FAWLEY RFC JUNIORS LAUNCH 5-WEEK LOCKDOWN CHALLENGE! Fawley Rugby Club Junior members are being kept t and busy in lockdown with a 5-week challenge which has been set by their coaches and the committee. e challenge started in early February where each member was challenged to lm a video of themselves passing a ball from le to right. Each clip will then be cleverly stitched together by some computer wizardry courtesy of George White of the U14’s to create a ‘Fawley RFC Juniors chain of passes’. For the next month, the juniors will be tasked with designing rugby shirts, quizzes, spot the ball competitions and Strava workouts that everyone can follow. Organisers are looking forward to seeing all the entries and eagerly anticipate the day when prizes can be presented and rugby on the Waterside can start again. If you’re in school years R-11 and are interested in joining a thriving local club, please contact: juniorchair@fawleyrfc.co.uk Aidan Cross of Fawley U14’s completing the week 1 challenge Tottonians Rugby Club Wants You! Tottonians Rugby Club who are based in Water Lane Totton, are inviting people of all ages; from Year R (5 years old) to Senior Players, no matter if you’ve played before, your skill set or talent! Rugby is an inclusive game, for all abilities and ages. e Seniors (18 years+) train on a Tuesday and ursday, 7.30pm-9pm and Saturdays 2pm-4pm. e Colts (16-18 years) train on a Tuesday and ursday 7pm-8.30pm and the Juniors/Minis (5-16 years) train on Sundays 10am–Midday, usually an hour or so (depending on age). e Under 16’s, 15’s and 14’s also train on Wednesday evenings from 6pm-7.30pm. e club are really keen to hear from anyone in their school year 10 (U15’s). Coaching is provided by England Rugby Union Quali ed Coaches, at all levels. ere is access to gym facilities, physio support and strength and conditioning advice. e club has its own clubhouse and a great social atmosphere. If you just want to join for fun, tness or feel you can be the next David Sisi or Marcus Smith at senior level or any age, pop along to Tottonians RFC, you will be made to feel very welcome. Please email the club on: info@tottonians.com for more information. Fawley Falcons FC are looking for players to join their U11’s Turbo’s team. If you are currently in year 6 and have a passion for football then they want to hear from you. With a fully quali ed FA level manager/coach you will train in a fun, safe and enjoyable environment. Training takes place on Saturday mornings at the QE2 Recreation Ground, Black eld, with matches on Sundays. For more information and to register your interest please get in touch with Team Manager Carl ompson on: 07859 999667 or email: triggerct85@hotmail.com Totton & Eling Bowls Club has enrolled many new members this autumn who are enjoying bowling outdoors on their all- weather green. Indoor short mat bowling is also available, which is especially welcome if the weather gets too cold or wet for playing outdoors. However, you don’t have to join the Club to play Bowls, you can still buy a season ticket or just turn up for ‘pay and play’. ey have all the necessary COVID-19 safety requirements in place. For more details phone the Bowls Centre on: 023 8086 8846. Footy with the Falcons NEWMEMBERS WANTED Hampshire Firefighters Join Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit Firefighters have been deployed to work side-by- side with medics on the frontline. Ten volunteers from Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service (HFRS) have joined doctors and nurses at University Hospital Southampton’s (UHS) intensive care unit (ICU). ey have been working long and demanding shifts in the hospital’s busiest department, helping to prone patients The volunteers from Urban Search and Rescue team (USAR) su ering from COVID-19. Proning is a vital technique used in the treatment of COVID-19 and involves turning patients onto their front to relieve pressure on their vital organs and assist their breathing. e re ghters volunteered to lend their specialist skills to help local healthcare colleagues who have come under intense pressure during recent weeks. Five re ghters from HFRS’s Urban Search and Rescue team (USAR) were the rst in - and their work has now paved the way for more volunteers to assist in ICU. Medical Response and Health Lead, Station Manager, Alex Rhodes said: “We understand the importance of the life- saving work being undertaken in the ICU departments up and down the country and all felt that we would like to support the doctors and nurses carrying out this vital role. We are used to working under sustained pressure for long periods of time, in some of the most challenging environments, and that is why I knew our teams would be able to adapt quickly to life in the ICU. Our search and rescue and firefighting roles mean we have all been exposed to traumatic situations before and that’s really important from a wellbeing perspective. Our teams are supported by team leaders and managers who place that wellbeing uppermost in the deployment plans.” Eastleigh Station Manager, Simon Forster, is part of the USAR team and added: “We spend long periods in full ICU PPE, working arm in arm with the regular ICU staff and the whole experience has been really positive. Our driving force was to help and put our training to good use. It is a very demanding role but incredibly rewarding.” David French, interim chief executive o cer at UHS, said: “ We are immensely grateful for the offer of support from Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service at this crucial time. It coincides with our Trust being asked to step-up our intensive care (ICU) capacity across the region and so extra staff on the ground who are able to assist in looking after our most vulnerable COVID-19 patients will help ease the pressure on our already stretched ICU teams. We have always worked closely with our emergency service partners who are highly skilled, used to working under pressure in challenging situations and whose skills are easily transferable to the complex working of an ICU department.” He added: “ The pandemic has brought many challenges to our hospital, however it has also brought us together as a community and with our partner services such as HFRS. The team will become part of the UHS family. We welcome and thank them as they join our dedicated clinicians working on the frontline.” Since the start of the pandemic, personnel from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Services have been helping in a variety of ways. is has included driving ambulances, training to become vaccinators, responding to life-threatening medical emergencies as co-responders and performing other tasks to help the community, including grocery shopping and collecting prescriptions. Area manager, Dan Tasker, said: “We are immensely proud of the way personnel from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Services have responded since the very beginning of the pandemic. Our teams are well-placed to cope with the demands of working in the hospital’s ICU department and we know that they have a valuable role to play.” ‘Pass a Puzzle...Totton’ was founded by Rissy Perkin with the idea of sharing puzzles between a few friends over lockdown. It has now grown into a puzzle lending library with over 200 members in Totton and surrounding area, which is managed by Sue Savage and Kelly Rice. Sue manages the 1,000 piece puzzles and Kelly the 500. There are no membership or borrowing fees. e club survives on donations of puzzles from members and they have hundreds of puzzles to choose from. ey have also had brand new puzzles supplied from various companies which they have contacted about the group, this has been exciting! Members choose the puzzles they would like and they are collected weekly. In line with COVID-19 restrictions, there is hand gel supplied and collection boxes are placed outside. e club has turned into a great support for a lot of people who are isolating. Puzzling itself is a great hobby for calming the mind and, of course, passing the time, two things that have proven to be invaluable this year! ey always welcome new members and donations. If you would like to join them please look them up on ‘Pass a Puzzle...Totton’ on Facebook or get in touch about donations at: tottonpuzzlers2020@gmail.com PASS A PUZZLE