Ich Dien - Ronald Paul Ahlfeld BEM
“Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn.” ― Edmund Burke Friends, I’m briefly breaking my Lent social media fast to share the news that my Father has decided not to seek re-election after 15 years as a councillor for Gourock, many thanks to everyone who supported him and voted for him over the years. It goes without saying that the whole family are immensely proud of everything Dad has achieved in that time and also during the many decades beforehand, establishing and running Gourock YAC alongside my Uncle Brian Woods. It’s been a life of service and while Dad will be enjoying his well earned retirement, I’m sure there’s still much to come. My Dad was born just after the war and raised on Shore Street in a part of the town we like to call ‘Old Gourock’ or ‘Gourock Bay’. His own father, grandfather and numerous uncles all worked in Adams Boat Yard just along the road at Adams Street, as did many of their neighbours on Shore Street, a street of