THE gifts of time and support have been celebrated at a special volunteers evening at Bury Hospice.
Long service awards were presented to nine people who had completed five years and four people who had been volunteers for 10 years at the Dumers Lane centre and in the charity shops.
The five year award recipients were: Freda Briggs, Margaret Rowles, Sheila Thomason, Eddie Caldwell, Ian Farrington, Vera Swallow, Maureen Thomson, Christine Waddington and Ian Jordan. The ten-year award winners were Rita Cranshaw, Dorothy Morgan, Marjorie Allen and Elaine Earl.
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