VIDEO: Grantown care home dedicates poem to town's community spirited football team
Staff at Lynemore Care Home in Grantown have dedicated a poem to the town’s Highland League football club as a thank you for their support during the Covid-19 crisis.
Strathspey Thistle Football Club donated a supply of PPE equipment and sanitisers to care staff at the home, one of countless acts of kindness by local individuals and businesses.
By way of thanks, Eleanor Tregaskis, deputy manager and nurse of the care home, has penned and read out her poem in tribute to the club.
‘There cannae be a person who’s not heard of PPE,
It’s in your papers, on your Facebook, even on TV.
'We’ve always used it where there’s need, but now it’s mandatory.
We’re using it to keep folk safe to live out their life story.
'We’re donning and we’re doffing, and it’s not like we can share,
But due to Strathspey Thistle, we’ve enough to safely care.
'For that is what we daily do, for people we support,
Our burden’s eased, our worries calmed, thanks to a kindly thought.
'Lynemore is touched to know that STFC’s on our side
Their charity may mean that hope, and faith, and love abide.’
Donations of sanitiser and hand spray have also been received from Kinrara Gin Distillery, Chivas Brothers and William Grant and Sons.
Locals Rory Boyd and Kenny McGougan have also donated protective visors for care staff and Body Shop at Home and Tropic consultants have donated hand creams and foot soaks.
Others have taken to baking cakes for residents and staff, including Grace MacAulay, a senior pupil from Grantown Grammar School.
Fiona Brown, manager of Lynemore Care Home said: “We have been overwhelmed with the generosity of our friends, relatives and our local community for their kind words and gifts of sweets, chocolates, cakes, PPE, hand creams, sanitiser, visors and ear-savers.
“We are so grateful, and it has been a great boost to the morale of our residents and staff. Grantown and our surrounding towns and villages have an amazing community spirit.”