An event yesterday (Friday November 29), at the Castle Inn captured interest across the locality
‘Movember’, the campaign during November each year, to raise awareness over prostrate and testicular cancer, began in Australia in 1999 when a group of young men in Adelaide coined the term and began to grow moustaches through the month to draw attention to the issues surrounding this particular aspect of men’s health.
Since that time, the movement has spread across the world and created an an everlasting impact on the face of men’s health.
The event reached The Castle Inn last night, which over the last year has been involved in a number of novel fund raising events in the Bay and publicity for a whole variety of good causes.
A classic photograph framed the endeavours of the menfolk in the Bay with face sproutings that very neatly advertise the cause.
The best tash award went to Adam Bush with an outstanding effort that won for himself the well deserved sum of £50.00.
About 20 men were involved in the local campaign through ‘Movember’, raising lots of cash for charity in the process.
Profiling the issue of men’s health involves delicate questions.
Men in the past have chosen to avoid many of these questions. It is something that is vitally important to lives of half the people in the country, and the promotion of the cause by men themselves is the best way of all to get fundamentally important messages about health issues across to the male half of the population.
The Castle Inn is becoming the natural place in the Bay for the staging of these kinds of event.
The collaborative effort on display and the fun and spirited way in which the issue has been embraced by the menfolk in the community is a credit to all concerned.
