Worthington Parish Council

Yesterday saw the first of our defibrillator / CPR training sessions at St. Matthew’s Church, Worthington.

The event was well supported and led by local resident Mr. Ray Woolley. Ray was a member of the ambulance service for 16 years and has considerable actual experience of administering CPR and using defibrillators for cases of cardiac arrest. In fact he received a number of commendations for saving lives and in one instance had to administer CPR for 35 minutes; as the participants will now know that is some considerable feat and requires a great deal of physical energy. Ray explained the workings of AEDs (automated external defibrillator) and we all had an opportunity to see for ourselves how they work.

We are very grateful to Ray for carrying out the training and thank all the participants and hope it was a valuable session.

If there is sufficient interest, we will be happy to arrange more training later in the year.

And as a reminder, the five public access defibrillators are located at Newbold School, Cross Keys Inn in Newbold, St. Matthew’s Church in Worthington, the Malt Shovel public house in Worthington and Griffydam School. The exact location with What3Words details are on the parish council website https://www.worthington-pc.gov.uk/our-parish/defibrillators/ and on noticeboards around the parish.

It appears that dogs are being walked down the grass track at the side of the allotments, probably early morning / late evening and sadly their human companions are not picking up after them. Its not very pleasant for the allotment tenants so please little canines, if your human takes you for a stroll and doesn’t see your deposits, give them a little nudge to pick up! Thank you.

The meeting scheduled for 8th April has been moved to Thursday 16th April at Newbold School, commencing 6.00 p.m. The agenda will be published prior to the meeting.