Island Life August/September 2018

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InterviewRon’s bootsare madefor walkingAfter a long and productive working life, the Branch Director forJewson’s Isle of Wight stores, Ron Bowler, will be retiring from the dayjob next year – but it’s unlikely to be a ‘pipe and slippers’ retirementfor this dedicated charity fundraiser. As he tells Jackie McCarrick, itwill just free up even more of his time to throw into his pet projectof the past 28 years, the now world-famous Walk the Wight.It attracts thousands of peopleevery year to walk across the Isleof Wight countryside and since1991, has raised an incredible£4.5 million to support the workof Earl Mountbatten Hospice,but few people know thehumble beginnings of what hasbecome an iconic Island event.Ron Bowler, however,remembers it distinctly.At the time, he was adminmanager of the old-establishedIsland timber business Morey’s,where the yard manager BillBradley and colleague FrankStevens had been runninginformal weekend walks for staff.It was in 1991 that they decidedto organise walk from east towest of the Island, Bembridgeto Alum Bay, and Ron agreedto help marshal the event.“On that first walk wehad 35 people, all Morey’semployees plus some friendsand relatives, and it was donereally just as a bonding exercise32www.visitilife.com
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