MEMBERS of Warrington's Sikh community celebrated a holy festival with two town leaders.
Chief constable of Cheshire police Peter Fahy and Warrington South MP Helen Southworth were at the temple on Dover Road in Latchford to celebrate the festival of Vaisakhi.
The festival, which falls on April 13, celebrates the day in 1699 when Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru of the Sikhs, turned them into Khalsa Sikhs (The Saint Soldiers ), to stand up against the brutal oppression practised by the Mughal rulers of the then Indian Subcontinent and uphold the Sikh religion's values of equality, freedom of thought and worship for all faiths and, above all, a peaceful co-existence for all communities.
Amarjit Grewal, secretary of the temple, said: "Mr Fahy and Helen Southworth both said that these core values of the Sikh religion are the ones we should all strive to uphold in modern Britain.
"Both of them said that the Warrington Sikh community is a hard-working and peace-loving community and they praised its members' efforts to integrate and contribute to the wider community of Warrington."
During the lunch, the templegoers gave a cheque for more than £100 to St Rocco's Hospice while money was also raised for Punjab United, a football team with members from every community in Warrington.
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