ON Saturday, February 28, the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team held a fund-raising appeal and vehicle display in Darwen Town Centre.
The magnificent sum of £335.09 was raised, and the whole team expresses its immense gratitude for the support of the public and local shopkeepers, who so generously gave to our appeal on the day, and also for the genuine interest expressed in the work of the team, both in the Darwen and wider area.
In 1997, we dealt with 37 incidents, with 10 to date this year, and with annual running costs nearing £12,000, the support of the public enables us to continue providing a voluntary search and rescue service to the local and regional community that is second to none.
GARRY RHODES (leader, Bolton Mountain Rescue Team Blandford Close, Tyldesley).
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