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HELP WANTED ° MOANS & GaOANS No 2'
Those of you who remember Link No.2 will remember the moans
The outhouses at the and groans section which covered basically I A'iING, SE"V1J'_S
and ROADS. ,ell we've ,;ot another Telephone Box and street
Farmhouse are at pre — lighting in some areas as improved BUT a number of other
grumbles (and some new ones too!) still' remain.
sent in a poor state
Of disrepair yet thethey IF YCu HAVE ANY LOANS, LT US KNOW AND WE'LL TRY 20 PASS
p
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THE& UN TO 'Oii NLLEVA.NT JCJNJIL T,1.PA,M..!NTS FOR YOU.
all have so much (Contact any of the names listed on Page 1.)
potential . We all This month the main Roans . Groans are again connected with
such as:-
services,
complain about lack 1) VHEN ARE 'VE GOING TO GET A RESIT P2 DOCTOR(?) as most of us
of facilities - here ' s do not conveniently fall ill between 8.30 and 9.30, nether
can we make an appointment before we're ill;
a golden opportunity.
We want any help - 2) PRES.IRIPTIONS - where can we change our prescriptions? The
nearest chemist is well over a mile away (nearer 2 miles)
whether you are a and that is a hefty distance for someone who is ill or
elderly. Are we going to gat a chemist - if so, when?
skilled person or not
or whether you d just 3) FOOTPATHS - again particularly worrying when you consider
the number of young mums with prams traipsing to town.
like to make the tea - Can we expect a footpath by or around the Shaw Lane roundabout
to renovate these or must an acciden t occur before action is taken?
buildings for OUR use. 4) LIBRARY - with so many young children and young mums on
Toothill and Frshbrook, do we not merit a mobile library,
vie aim to build up a albeit every fortnight?
sizeable workforce SO 5) DANGER - apart from the footpath (or lack of) already
don't think you'll mentioned two particularly dan„ercus situations are very
y
commit yourself to one evident on our estate. Firstl , however well we police our
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children, the inevitable lure of a building Site will always
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day a week for life ; Continue with the obvious inherent dangers of broken glass,
upturned nails and tools left unattended overnight. io'uldn.'t
the respective builders fence oft their sites and in so doing
If you can't make it wouldn't that help their problem of pilfering which worries
one week fine, come them so much that on three aeperate nights (to cur icno wledf_e )
the police ran spot checks on all cars leaving Toothill.
when you can. Secondly - a problem particularly worrying to the residents
of ^LeTsay,(who incidently have made repeated attempts to
If interested contact : discover the ownership) of a very, very large ditch (about
12 foot), which after a heavy rainfall fills with water and
again p^cvides an inevitable lure to youngsters to form a
'human chain" to retrieve balls and home made boats etc.
BOB BANNIaTER Can't the owners (woever they are) fill it in or again
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5 KIRKST JJL OLDS. must a disaster occur?
(24695)
These are a few of our present groans - let's hope those
who are responsible can clear them up, and let's hope 1
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Thameodo wn can inform us of dfXiN various services will be
provided;
Geoff Richmond
Don't forget - if you have any moine let one of ue know,
or better etill come to a meeting!
Toothill's great ; - lots of
brand new houses for many people. It
'An exciting present and an assured >
future' say Bradleys, who claim that NFW
Swindon has some of the'best thinking
in post-war planning'.
But can we ask God what he makes
Others put a different point o es ed?
to
view. Lovely countryside and farmland of this, as he watches de
he glad, or depmessed.
is destroyed. Problems abound, and speak.
Glad, Z m sure, to see people working
I'm
life is not always rosy, constructively, making a new place,
sy
Which is the true picture - the
a new home, new friends. Sad when
inviting prospectus, - or our moans opportunities are ignored and things
and groans?
left half-done. Patient when we
To my mind, it's a bit of both, Willing, as always,
to
New houses are needed all the time, go wrong.
accept us as we are - and then to
and the planning here is sometimes
work with us and for us.
streets ahead of what has happened in God is interested in what's new.
some other places. Lessons have been
learned . But it takes more than Remember he started the whole thing
planning to build an estate; it going.
takes hard work, and it makes demands !.
on all of us. ul^
