Four years ago, a wonderful inspirational thought came to mind which saw the face of a match booking on Liverpool & District’s calendar change completely. Inspired by kindness and a thought of doing what you can from where you are and with what you have, 11 year old Callie Dickson put a fantastic idea before her father Mike Dickson who is Match Secretary of Liverpool & District Angling Association.
As Callie, a Year 7 pupil at Deyes High School, Maghull, suggested, Mike immediately drew up a plan that would see every participant entering the annual Easter Good Friday open match by requesting that everyone bring along an Easter egg to enter. Now in its fourth year since Callie first saw a chocolate egg arriving, once again the inspiration shown by the supporters of this popular event, it again saw another huge influx of kindness shown by anglers from all over the region joining us here on Merseyside.
Support also generated local business to contribute and thanks must be offered to Global Air Conditioning, One Stop shop, St James Church and Andy Mower’s, not forgetting Callie herself and of course mum, dad and the rest of the Dickson family. With over fifty entrants participating on the day, nearly two hundred eggs were offered to me personally at the draw which I personally had the pleasure to direct to services within Sefton.
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All to be distributed to children and families who simply would not have had any to receive on Easter Sunday. Onto the bank, with the spirit of the event in full flow stretching from Pilling Lane back through Lydiate and ending on the duck’s length at Westway, Maghull, it was hoped that this one could be a match that
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