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AIRECommunity News VALLEY And Local Business MAG Directory May 2017 Distributed FREE to households and businesses in Fell Lane, Exley Head, Laycock, Keighley, Utley, Long Lee, Riddlesden, & East Morton www.airevalleymag.co.uk Is your conservatory Warm Roof AIRECommunity News VALLEY And Local Business MAG Directory Too hot in summer have the solution Call us today for a free As the magazine lands through your door, no obligation quote Too cold in winter? the sound of gears whizzing and wheels and transform your spinning will not be far from your home. conservatory into an all The Tour de Yorkshire once again visits year round living space. the district with all the usual fanfare and excitement. I hope you enjoy the spectacle. May is the month we welcome many visitors to the Worth & Aire valleys with the Bronte VIntage Gathering and 1940s Weekends back to back. All of our installations are We begin our series of pull out walks, with covered by a Homepro Insurance backed warranty. author, Lee Senior, whose book Walking In the Aire will be featured over the next months. We appreciate and encourage your feedback. 01422 416 292 • www.warmroofsolutions.co.uk 01535 642227 Have a great month, Liz Barker, editor. BW&G Ltd Advert.pdf 1 20/04/2017 16:44 C M Y CM MY CY NEXT NEW COURSE STARTS WEDS 24th MAY 2017 CMY K Say you saw it in the Aire Valley Mag! 3 by Andrew Kissack Happy 100th Birthday to you Dame Vera Lynn (From Left) Local resident Andy Kissack with Fast Forward... A few months ago I was the war to boost morale and she is still his team, artist John Francis and printer Howard Baker contacted by Dame Vera’s family asking recognised for her contribution. She has meet Dame Vera Lynn and create a permission to reuse the “Victory” prints devoted much of her life to charity work limited edition print for charity. to raise funds for her Children’s charity for ex-service personnel, disabled children a for her 100th birthday, I replied, “Of and breast cancer. At 100 years old she course, but surely it needs revamping is still actively supporting charities and and dedicating to her.” So we set to and signing books for auctions. Her vitality and changed the text to “Century”. enthusiasm is remarkable. One hundred numbered prints were Meeting Dame Vera is like meeting a produced that DV signed and an additional favourite aunt; she is welcoming, happy, 400 with just Artist signatures. chatty and makes you feel relaxed; she is a As a gesture of thanks my team was genuine Lady with all the best virtues. invited as VIP guests to the London I was encouraged to look at her family Palladium event. photos on the mantelpiece and photo It was a special occasion indeed! albums of her performing in Burma as well. I will treasure my time with this amazing Dame Vera has recently released 3 CD’s woman forever. and one of them achieved number 3 in These experiences and encounters have ‘Happy 100th Birthday Dame Vera Lynn’ There’ll Always Be an England, are amongst her Dame Vera Lynn Dame Vera Lynn, CH, DBE, LLD, M.Mus (born Vera Margaret Welch on 20 March 1917), is widely known as The Forces’ Sweetheart by Great Britain. As an English singer and actress, Vera’s musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during the Second World War. We’ll Meet Again, The White Cliffs of Dover, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square and humbled me, making me realise the major many popular songs. She held outdoor concerts for the troops and helped to keep the nation’s spirits high during our darkest days at war. Dame Vera has remained ever popular after the war, appearing on radio and television in the UK and the United States. Devoting much time and energy to charity work connected with ex-servicemen, disabled children and breast cancer. She is still held in great affection by veterans John Francis of the Second World War and in 2000 was named ‘the Briton who best exemplified the spirit of the twentieth century’ and more recently ‘The companion of honour’ award. At the age of 100 she still continues raising money for her Children’s Charity which was formed in 2001. The charity offers an early intervention service for babies and children under 5 years of age with Cerebral Palsy and other motor learning impairments. Dame Vera Lynn has signed just 100 of these numbered, special birthday commemorative prints together with artist John Francis. All production costs and expenses have been donated so thatwww.dvlcc.org.uk we can ensure every single penny received from their sale goes to her charity. sacrifices and subsequent freedoms ©John Francis www.idivision.co.uk Poster illustration that I enjoy were paid for by Dame Vera’s generation. his year I was especially delighted For her contribution she has received andT honoured to take part in Dame Vera many awards including Voted as the Lynn’s official birthday celebrations Briton who best exemplified the spirit of including attending a gala performance the 20th Century. And more recently by at the London Palladium where Her the Queen “A member of the “Order of Magesty the Queen was in attendance. the Companions of Honour” The Citation highlighted Dame Vera as “The voice of Rewind... Back in 2015 I was part of the white cliffs of Dover, with searchlights the album charts, number 1 in the easy hope during the darkest days of WW2 committee that chose the “Victory” theme making a V for Victory over Saint Paul’s listening charts and number 3 in the for the 40’s event in Haworth to celebrate cathedral and jubilant crowds dancing in classical charts. She is the oldest person The words of her song strike a personal 70 years since the end of WW2. London. Dame Vera was very happy to to ever appear in the charts and to achieve chord with every one. Dame Vera personifies the positive and agree to the project and signed the 70 such high positions is a tribute to her ‘Can Do’ attitude that helped defeat the prints to raise funds for SSAFA, the world’s timeless appeal. “We’ll meet again, don’t Nazis; she notoriously gave millions of oldest military charity and the official know where, don’t know people hope for a better future. beneficiary of the 40’s event at that time. During the war DV toured Egypt, India and I proposed producing a portrait picture I even managed to successfully gain Dame Burma with ENSA at outside concerts when. But I know we’ll meet of DVL that encompassed iconic images, Vera’s patronage to SSAFA which was a bringing optimism to the Allied troops. DV again some sunny day.” Bluebirds and Spitfires in collage with the very welcomed outcome for the charity. worked tirelessly and selflessly through 4 5 PAR Masonry Get Creative Services Limited with Damside Mill, the furniture EST. 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