By Margaret Crosby

Published at 15:53, Wednesday, 13 February 2008

THE manager of Egremont’s Ehen Court is due to retire in April after 10 years in the post.

Mary Young will have mixed feelings as she leaves her friends at the sheltered housing scheme, vacates the warden’s accommodation and looks for a new home.

She has looked after the welfare of many elderly people during her time there having previously been at Dentholme, Cleator Moor, where she was a care-worker.

She has fond memories from there of resident Annie King, who died in 2002 aged 104.

Describing herself as a hands-on kind of a person, Mary, who will be 60 in April, is nostalgic for past days when there was less paperwork to contend with.

She is now looking forward to being able to spend more time with her grandchildren.

January has been a quiet time for the 21 Ehen Court residents after a hectic Christmas which included a visit from the Mayor of Copeland, filling shoe-boxes for Bosnian children, donating £200 to the St Bees lifeboat, welcoming a performance of the Christmas Story by Egremont nursery children and holding a fair which raised £400.

Mary said: “ I have really loved my time here at Ehen Court, the residents have been fantastic. These are the things I am going to miss when I retire, but I will have great memories.”

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