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West Swindon's
Community Newspaper
Est.1978 Circ. 7,800 No.59 December 1986
OLD & SEASONS
NEW GREETINGS
UNITE As The Link enters its 8th
n year of publication may we
wish all our readers a very
Happy Christmas and a pros-
A Toast of Vodka h- perous New Year. From
from Hideo with humble beginnings in 1978, we
the Mayor looking now present you with the larg-
on. est Link ever - 16 pages pack-
ed with news and information
West Swindon's second comm about the West Swindon comm-
unity sculpture was unveiled Centre Plans unity.
recently at Freshbrook Village May we also wish all the
Centre by Japanese sculptor Xmas Jamboree best to the volunteers who put
Hideo Furuta. With the help the paper together and dis-
of Melanie, his wife, the piece ribute it across the area, 150
has been named NEXUS, mean- Toothill Community Centres people, to our printers and
joined together, connected to Christmas will be fun for many Taurus products who count the
make an integrated whole. and hard work for a few. papers, and all our advertisers
The 10 tons of stone has Parties for all ages are planned who keep us going financially.
been hewn with tools made by and they are all free. On 13th Roger Ogle - Editor
Hideo into 4 large blocks set December, pensionsioners will
on on timber to give the im- be having a dinner and knees
pression that it is floating in up with a 1940s show. LINK WINS
air. Teenagers have a Disco on
When asked "W hat does it 18th December with food and MAJOR
mean" Hideo replied "When I music from Heals Disco who
came to live and work in return for an under 1 is party AWARD
Freshbrook I was immediately on 21st December, 3pm to 6pm.
aware of its newness and lack Chair of the Community
of history. All the people Centre June Lawton is looking The building we gave our
living here have come together forward to the big effort. name to in 1984 is one of
from all over the place, there "Its hard work for the volunt- only four in the U.K. to win
is no community history yet. eer workers but its great fun a commendation in this years
NEXUS is sculptured from Blue for all who come." "Architecture at Work"
Pennant stone, the same as awards, a top competition
Stonehenge - millions of years organised by the Financial
old. It tries to represent Times.
many different elen: ents-the June The award is one of the
coming together of people, the Lawton very few ever given to a
growth of a community, our local authority designed or
connections with the past, our run building.
conection with natural mater- *contued on
ials like stone, wood and air." page 2 *continued on page 2.
