LAWRENCE GARBER RETIRES

FROM TRIMëNæ PROPER

 

 

On January 30^th Laurence Garber retired from his salon in the village and is now teaching hairdressing, part-time, in a range of colleges decided upon by a professional placement agency. At present he is working at West London College in the Cromwell Road, Hammersmith. He also intends to take up Yoga and 9-hole golf. Laurence will still be working part-time in the new Ickenham shop on Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings.

 

When Laurence started his first business in Ickenham on 14^th July 1972 the shop was called Hair Flair and suffered severe damage in a fire. He was the first to introduce blow-drying to the area but this didn‰t cause the catastrophe! He took a teaching diploma and won a contract to instruct students. Until it was taken over by the large company, Joshua Galvin, for which Laurence worked, this Y.T.S. Group was very successful and held annual events at Swakeleys House. The Group became independent, once more, in 1998 and Laurence continued to run it until a year ago.

 

Laurence has always taken an active part in Ickenham Festival events. He played goalkeeper in the one and only adult 5-a-side football competition. The Salon also organised a rounders team, but it never won a game in the 20 years that it competed. Despite these awful defeats, Lawrence did ëcome up trumps‰ by winning the Best Traders Window Trophy in 1982, and Best Traders Car in another year. He said, ‹It was like being given a knighthood or a Nobel PrizeŠ. Laurence was also very proud to be asked, by David Millen, to judge the first Ickenham Festival beauty competition. A young woman called Kim won this.

 

One Christmas Laurence donned a red coat, and white beard, to play Santa Claus for the children at St. Giles‰ Happy Days Play School, which was run by his wife.

 

In addition to these community activities, Laurence wrote hairdressing articles for magazines and always insisted that local folk carried out the photography. He also designed, and created, wigs for a Beck Theatre Pantomime and for a Wayne Sleep tour. Another interest was helping the young adults, with special needs, at Pield Heath Convent and providing assistance to Vyners School duringæ Year 11 Careers Days.

 

Laurence is in training for a SPONSORED WALK ON BEHALF OF ASTHMA RESEARCH. He intends to walk alone, during October 2003, for seven hours per day, for eleven days, along the Great Wall of China. Previously he has walked 22 miles from Trafalgar Square to Denham Village on behalf of the same charity. Any one wishing to sponsor him should telephone 672591.

 

Laurence and Beverley intend to remain in their Edinburgh Drive home, so wish them good fortune when you see them out, and about, in the Village.

Editor

 

 

PARISH PUMP

Receipt is acknowledged, with grateful thanks, of the following donations towards the cost of I.C.N.:æ Seamus Gregory from Ruislip, Anonymous of The Grove, ëBeryl‰ of Swakeleys Drive.

 

Copy for the April edition should be with me by 13^th March.

 

 

FESTIVAL OF ICKENHAM - SPRING DANCE

Our annual Dance will again be held at Vyners School in Warren Road on Saturday 22^nd March starting at 8 p.m. Live music for dancing (whatever your preference) will be performed by RIO who we are pleased to welcome back.  A buffet supper is included in the ticket price of

£10 and a Licensed Bar will be applied for on this occasion, or BYO.  Why not join us at this

popular Community Event?
Application forms for tickets are available via Williams Butchers and Swakeleys Estates, and the Committee is grateful for their cooperation. Tickets may also be ordered direct from

Committee members by telephone; 01895 674224, 675387 or, 637932.  See You There!!

May we remind you of our AUCTION OF PROMISES on the 20th June where people can bid for donated services and items promised by individuals, organisations and companies.  We would welcome more offers of promises (however large or small).  Further details available from Alan Noad  01895 636736, Doug Neilson 633217 or David Edington 672783 

 

 

TEAMWORK

There are four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn‰t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

 

Question: How do vicars make telephone calls? Answer: Parson to parson!

Question: How would you feel if you crossed a vegetable with a fruit? Answer: Melon-cauli!