Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Sue Nicholas wrote:My daughter in law see Channel Rocks is encouraging people to paint pebbles and place them under the Banksy.I think she is designing a heart and then pebbles can be placed inside.This will done on Sunday .a tribute to a young girl who was artistic .
What a lovely idea, I will pass this information on.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thank you
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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RIP Kelly such sad news.
Having come into contact with Kelly many times over past year or so she was such a brave girl.
My thoughts are with the family at this very sad time.
It brings you back to the real world when we have our little moans,
This family showed true grit and determination.
RIP Kelly
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,881
The following is information received via Channel Rocks on Facebook......
"Information for those creating a rock in memory of Kelly.
Location for these rocks to be placed will be at our local Banksy in Dover. Kelly was a keen artist and art lover.
Please just write #doingitforkelly and #channelrocks on the back of your decorated rock. This hopefully will keep the rocks from wandering off.
Keep rocks young, bright and colourful and be super creative.
It would be lovely, if we have enough we could create a heart shape with the pebbles and people can continue to add rocks to fill in. So I would suggest we aim to have lots ready to be placed from Sunday. If people could volunteer to start placing them from 3pm that would be fabulous.".......
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Whatever one might think of our MP this tribute from Charlie is the best I have read.....
"Kelly was an inspiration to everyone in Dover and Deal
We woke up to the most heart breaking news on Monday morning - that Kelly Turner, the girl who united our entire community, had passed away.
Our thoughts are with her parents Martin and Linda, who fought relentlessly to save their daughter. They needed to raise £1 million for treatment in the US. And in a year they raised more than half that target. They did so through tireless campaigning which inspired the people of Dover.
The response from the Dover community has been incredible. So many people got involved to do their bit for Kelly. It felt like the whole town was pulling together. Whether you knew Kelly personally or not, it didn't matter. Everyone wanted to help. To give Kelly the chance and the hope she deserved.
And this is part of what makes Kelly's death, aged 17, so devastating. It feels like the passing of this incredible brave girl is more than just a single life lost. It's the loss of someone who united the entire community. The town is in mourning and Kelly and her family will be in our thoughts when we pause for a minute’s silence on Sunday.
The devastation also hits hard at the thought of Martin and Linda having to say goodbye to their beautiful daughter. A girl with real artistic talent who had so much potential. Yet not only was she talented – Kelly’s determination and drive was clear for all to see. Her determination to battle a rare form of cancer which weakened her body day by day - yet her spirit was always strong. Her determination to keep fighting against the steepest odds - and always keep smiling. To get up, go to school and achieve great results in her GCSEs.
Kelly was a softly spoken, polite young girl. Yet deep inside there was a fire raging. She refused to let her spirit be beaten.
Kelly was a true inspiration. None of us doubt that she could have achieved great things. Yet all she wanted - more than anything - was to live.
This has been cruelly denied her. It leaves us asking painful questions. Why does this have to happen? Why Kelly? Why was she taken so young? These questions are all the more painful because we cannot begin to answer them.
We feel angry - that despite doing everything we could it still wasn't enough to save Kelly. We grieve because we feel one of Dover's brightest lights has gone out.
So what can we do? We must follow Kelly's example. We must keep a fire burning in all our hearts. We must remember Kelly for who she was - the girl who united our town and always stayed strong.
I will remember Kelly as the girl enjoying herself at Dover Music Festival this summer - smiling and dancing like a teenager should - in the moment, loving life. Defiant and brave as always.
Kelly and her family will always be in our hearts. We will never forget her fight and her spirit. In Dover, her light will never go out."
Ross Miller, Guest 1914, Alec Sheldon and
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Just read this, about what will happen to the money already raised......
"Richard Esdale is with Martin Turner and Linda Turner.
6 hrs · Kent
I’ve been receiving messages asking me so I can now announce that I will also be joining a board of trustees for the KELLY TURNER FOUNDATION to help raise funds in Kelly’s name for research from January... I am extremely honoured to have been asked and along with John and the family we will be working hard to keep the momentum going and keep this beautiful angels legacy alive... Remembering that the amazing people of DOVER all came together because of this special girl and we must continue HER message of LOVE ... ❤️
Even more than ever the #doingitforkelly needs to be pushed and shared and promoted..."
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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a very large turn out this morning, a full church plus around a 100 or so outside with a scooter/motorbike guard of honur outside.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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There is now another local child in desperate need of funds for cancer treatment abroad, such a shame people have to travel overseas to get vital cancer treatment.
The Turner family have already donated to this little boy and plan to help further. John Ashman who raised so much for Kelly has agreed to donate (with the Turner family's agreement) what is in his Kelly fundraising account which is over £9000.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/evan-westfold2017Brian Dixon likes this
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Jan Higgins wrote:There is now another local child in desperate need of funds for cancer treatment abroad, such a shame people have to travel overseas to get vital cancer treatment.
Jan, with all due respect, I'm not sure this is the case. Not being medically trained I try to avoid commenting on cases like this, especially when as a parent I suspect that if one of my children were ill I too might be looking for anything anywhere which might give even an outside chance of recovery.
NHS Choices have a piece here after a like case a few years ago
https://www.nhs.uk/news/cancer/what-is-proton-beam-therapy/
NHS is
already paying for patients to be treated abroad 'in already established centres in the US and Switzerland, and has been doing so since 2008'.
http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2017/07/17/proton-beam-therapy-is-arriving-in-the-uk-what-does-that-mean-for-patients/howard mcsweeney1 likes this
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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I only put the information on here so those who donated to John Ashman's Kelly fund knew where some of the money that has not been forwarded to her fund was going.
Unfortunately the NHS does not always fund treatment that is proved as beneficial, an example being some of the drugs deemed as just to expensive. Only fair I guess unless you happen to be one of those who actually needs that drug or procedure then you do all you can even if there is only a slim chance of a good result. I remember that little boy that the parents 'abducted' and took abroad because the NHS (our doctors) said there was nothing else to be done.
Sometimes public fund raising is then the only way to go unless you win the lottery.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Jan
for other posters it's quite easy to say itsnot the NHS but likely they use private medicine anyway.
The NHS has for some time been in crisis, needing to decide it which direction its to go.
Which hospital provides which services?
What does it/doesn't it fund.
Of course as a parent myself we would all fight for treatment for our children wherever that may come from
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