Browsing Archive: June, 2010
Posted by Heather Othick on Wednesday, June 30, 2010,
5 days until you can buy it...! Things are going MAD here. Facebook has groups with over 3000 members now! 'Help get Ellie into the charts!' and 'Ellie's Fund - raising money for childhood brain tumour research.' I've done an interview for Yorkshire Coast radio tonight - tomorrow with Jon Morgan for Radio York. Calendar news are coming to film on Friday at Scalby school - I've to be there too... People are inundating Chris Evans fb page to play the song. It's MAD, but AMAZING. I think those of us... Continue reading ...
Posted by Heather Othick on Tuesday, June 29, 2010,
Only SIX days until the song is released... Can you send posts to all your MSN, Twitter, bebo, myspace contacts? Send them the link - http://www.youtube.com/user/TheScalbySchool Message from Chris Taylor, Scalby School -
Over 2,100 people have joined the Facebook page, 'Help get Ellie into the charts' in the last three days and the youtube video has now been watched over 9,000 times.
You may have noticed on the youtube page we have received another award - for being the 78th most subscribe... Continue reading ...
Posted by Heather Othick on Monday, June 28, 2010,
OK - let's start counting down. If you haven't already done so - please pass our link - either to this site or to facebook page 'Help get Ellie into the charts' on to everyone you know. Here's the link... http://www.youtube.com/user/TheScalbySchool The group has over 1000 members - most in the last 24 hours - WOW the power of Facebook, eh?! SO - MONDAY 5TH JULY - 7 days away! Please keep spreading the word, let's sell this song into the charts and raise brain tumour awareness..... Heather... Continue reading ...
Posted by Heather Othick on Monday, June 28, 2010,
Helene Anderson at Dare Hair salon is hosting a Virgin Vie party (at the salon) tomorrow night - all proceeds to Ellie's Fund. All you local ladies are welcome... Heather Don't forget you can leave messages by double clicking on the post title. Continue reading ...
Posted by Heather Othick on Sunday, June 27, 2010,
This is a slightly different post - a friend of mine emailed me - here is some of her email - ''Hi Heather, We are asking everyone to please pray for my sister
in law SALLY who is on life support in Southampton after a brain op
followed by brain swelling then a heart attack then another op. She is 40 with 2
very small children, my brother is there and my mum, and her family, camping out
in the hospital now.'' Sally doesn't have a brain tumour - but I know that there are people ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Heather Othick on Friday, June 25, 2010,
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk%2Fnews%2FPupils-on-song-for-charity.6373829.jp&h=6acfem-mL0tJtnW9WRDmXqYJ5Dw - this an article from Scarborough Evening News. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=133897413295483 - this group is called 'Help get Ellie into the charts' .Please look us up and join, and spread the word. THE POSTER FOR YOU TO PRINT OUT IS THE SMALL ICON AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE. DOUBLE CLICK ON IT & IT SHOULD OPEN UP FOR YOU. (Any problem... Continue reading ...
Posted by Heather Othick on Thursday, June 24, 2010,
In March this year, around the time that Ellie's Fund came to be - Mr Morgan at Scalby School, Scarborough (where Ellie and Phil both used to go) and his music department decided to take on a music project in memory of Ellie.
The result is 'Somewhere over the Rainbow/Wonderful World' performed by staff and pupils. It's really lovely - makes me shiver every time I listen to it (I've been involved in some of the idea crunching).
I think you'll love it too.
Now - THE BRAIN TUMOUR AWARENESS BIT....
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Posted by Heather Othick on Thursday, June 24, 2010,
I'm on my way out to collect Phoebe from nursery, but come back later today to read about 'Somewhere over the Rainbow/Wonderful World' recorded by Scalby School staff & pupils and available for download on July 5th 2010. Later I'll tell you why we're asking everyone to buy it in that same week, how we hope it will help others - and asking you all to spread the word too.... Heather Continue reading ...
Posted by Heather Othick on Monday, June 21, 2010,
Our table at Scalby Fair raised £101. (I put £106 on facebook - it was a typing error - or wishful thinking!) BIG thank you's to Natalie and Harriet, and Diane and Emily for all their help and hard work. And to Jason for helping me sort the table and car out! None of this could be done without all the help and support - and without people telling others about what we're trying to do... Heather Continue reading ...
Posted by Heather Othick on Tuesday, June 15, 2010,
We're going to have a table at Scalby Fair this Saturday, from noon - we'll be selling more cakes, have books, CDs, ribbons - and, for the first time, we'll be tellling people about a big idea we have for raising awareness. Why not come along and find out more....?! Also - next week, June 24th, 'Take a Break' are running Ellie's story - it's in issue 26. Bye for now, Heather Continue reading ...
Posted by Heather Othick on Monday, June 7, 2010,
On Saturday Ellie's friends spent the day packing bags at Marks & Spencer. Last night they brought me £309 to pay in to Ellie's Fund. Wow - well done girls! I know they worked VERY hard - they actually raised twice this amount but half went to Macmillan. Comments on their Facebook pages later told of how tired they all were, especially after Friday too. This morning I paid £838 into the account - the extra came from the leftover cakes and the leg waxing. Don't forget you can leave comments by c... Continue reading ...
Posted by Heather Othick on Saturday, June 5, 2010,
I'm delighted to be able to tell you that the coffee morning seems to have been a success. Having counted up there is £441 from the event. It was a lot of hard work pulling it all together - there was a lot of help from a lot of lovely people - THANK YOU to all of you. A special thank you to Lyn, who stepped in and helped at the very last minute (my mum was poorly and couldn't make it) To everyone who donated prizes/books/gifts - thank you. To our wonderful musicians who played/sang so beaut... Continue reading ...
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About Me
| Heather Othick |
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Proud mum of 3; I brought Phil and Ellie up alone after their Dad and I spilt up in 1996. I later met Jason and he moved in with the 3 of us in 2002.
We've been married since 2004 and have a daughter together.
I worked for 17 years in a bank until I left to have my youngest. She was born with a cleft lip and palate and research into helping her communicate led me to buying a franchise for TinyTalk, baby sign language classes. Ellie was a big part of that - coming to classes when she was on chemo; she loved helping out. I pressed pause on the business in August 2008 to become Ellie's full time carer.
Whilst I was at the bank I was the regional charity fund raising organiser - so when Ellie asked to raise funds to 'give something back' I had an idea where to start. She had a natural flair for it - and together we have helped to raise over £25 000, starting in June 2007 when local people raised £4000 in one night for us to have a family holiday.
I am extremely proud of all my children, and my family; how they all handled Ellie's illness.
And very proud to be Jason's wife. Through all of this he has been my rock.
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