Keith Blake, Ottery
A few years ago I made a promise that I would not eat a plate of pickled fish until I have first given a plate to a poor person.
My son, the president and the vice-president of the Ottery Boyz MCC biker club, realised my promise and for eight years bikers from different clubs and donors have contributed to the Pickled Fish Run, taking place at 18 Trenance Road, Ottery, this year on Friday March 29, from 9am.
A week before, bikers meet and make this delicacy and fill containers full and, in a massive convoy, visit the poorest of the poor identified areas and serve up pickled fish, bread and Easter eggs.
This year will be different: A few weeks ago I proposed that we need to put the fear of God into a person not to become a drug addict.
As a result numerous leaders of the community with myself have formed a committee to realise this message via murals on walls, posters at schools clinics etc with the message of the terrible consequences of being or starting to be a drug addict.
A TikTok film is going to be made and I have decided to bring the whole biker convoy to two identified areas: Oribi Street, Lotus River, and Blackbird Avenue, Parkwood.
At these two places the sound and presence of the massive biker convoy will attract hundreds of people of all ages and there at these two venues posters and placards and short speeches even a rap singer will present the consequences of being a drug addict and this will be filmed.
Then the bikers will serve up the pickled fish bread, rolls and Easter eggs.