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OAP Ella Cycles for Cancer Charity
THE FACE of Ella Fisher (nee Smith) is one which many in Highland Perthshire have cause to recognise with affection and gratitude.
Ella, who started nursing in 1958 at Aberfeldy Cottage Hospital, worked successively at PRI, Rotten Row in Glasgow, Dundee Royal and back once more at PRI. During her professional career she brought care, comfort and support to many individuals and families in illness and distress throughout the heartland area, and from 1984 she extended this across the whole county when nursed with Marie Curie for more than 17 years.
Now a pensioner and living in Perth, Ella is in training for a charity fundraising bike marathon dueing this September in which she will peddle 300 miles from Krakow to Warsaw in Poland to raise in excess of £2,500 for Marie Curie Cancer Care. |
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Biking for the first time in 20 years, she is braving saddle soreness and leg ache for the cause to which she is still fully committed. “My soreness will go away, whereas for others the pain does not,” she observed.
“I miss doing my job and helping others as I have done all my life,” Ella said. “I’m up for anything and have never worried about a challenge; even though it’s a fair distance for an OAP, I will complete it.”
The 63 year old, accompanied by her daughter Donna, will join with 498 other cancer fundraising cyclist for the event in the Great 500 Challenge. The cash that she raises, she assures all her sponsors and subscribers, will be used solely for the benfit of people in Perthshire.
Comment readers and Ella’s local wellwishers can contribute to her cause by contacting her brother - Grant Smith of Acharn- at 4 Aberfeldy Road, Kenmore PH15 2HF ophone 01887 830587
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