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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/rot454leics/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114The Rotary Club of Leicester Novus is one of several Rotary clubs across the east Midlands which is collecting aluminium cans.
The cans will be smelted into ingots which will eventually provide the raw material to build helipads for air ambulance helicopters. Neither Leicester Royal Infirmary, nor Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, have helipads at the moment, so far too frequently, vital minutes can be lost as critically-ill patients are transferred into road ambulances or they are flown many miles away to hospitals at Coventry or even further away.
Novus is lucky to have attracted help from members’ contacts so the inward flow of cans is significant. Zeph’s Cafe at Oadby Trinity Methodist Church are collecting the cans. So, too, are staff at The Pizza Parlour in Belgrave Road, Leicester. And the daughter-in-law of Novus member Jim Matthews often brings cans from her shifts at Premier Inn.
Although the cans will be crushed by prisoners at Stocken Prison, Oakham, Jim decided it would be much better to crush them first so that John Nowell, the brains behind and the leading light in front of Helipads for Hospitals, could collect more weight in fewer trips from his home in Oakham. Jim bought a foot-operated can crusher.
His granddaughters Sophia (8) and Isabela (5) volunteered to help ‘Grampy’ as he crushed the latest donations.In units of ten, Isabela counted and put the crushed cans in a bin while Sophia filmed the video below<\/a>…
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