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NOSTALGIA ADULT Learning to Study Enrolment Info
WEEKEND EDUCATION Are you considering going on an Enrolment in local AE courses
6th AND 7th JUNE NEWS exam course in September? If next September will be on at
LYDIARD COUNTRY by Rod Kensett you haven't studied for many Greendown on a Saturday. You
years or never did much but now will be able to enrol in any of
PARK Let's hope by the time you read wish you had, you may feel a our courses, however, as soon as
this the Summer weather will little apprehensive about the details are published. Publication
The weekend of June 6th and 7th have returned and those of you prospect. The 'Return to Learn is timed for July. Look out for
will bring together one of the interested in Tennis - learning, - Study Skills' may be of great further news then.
largest collections of vintage match play or playing socially - help to you. Starting early June Over to You
steam engines, cars, motorcycles, will have made contact and be for 2 hours on Tuesday and
tractors and stationary engines making daytime, evening or Thursday evenings, over three Finally, we are very anxious at
ever held in Swindon at Lydiard weekend use of the excellent weeks it seeks to help you organ- Greendown to provide the sorts
Country Park. courts at Greendown. Details ise your thoughts, review the of activities - through Adult
Organised by Swindon Ma- from Steve O'Sullivan on 874224 skills you'll need and, through Education courses or clubs - to
chinery Preservation Society, or me. practical activities, gives you the • interest you and your family. If
the show has taken 12 months to opportunity to practise them. you have any ideas, professional
arrange. This is the third organ- weekend, some of our entries Course tutor Erica Walton. skills to offer or hobbies that
ised by the S.M.P.S. and this having travelled from as far away Further details on 871413. could be shared with others, or
year it promises to be even bigger as Lincolnshire. In the craft sec- Planning Local Action anyone else who has, let me
and better. Stars of the show will tion a demonstration of Honition know.
be the steam engines, some over Lace making will be given. Out- Some time ago I came across a
80 years old. Mr. Peter Watts will side, on the show field, you will course being organised in the Rod Kensett
be showing his fair-ground organ be able to watch a thatcher at West Country concerned with Adult and Community Tutor,
'Neptune' that he has just finished work, and also wood turning. people meeting to discuss their Greendown Conununity School,
restoring. These are just a few of the crafts community, its development and Grange Park, West Swindon
The star attraction in the area you will be able to see. Shire making plans of action to meet Tel: 871413 (Ansaphone)
will be the 'Comets' motorcycle horses will be pulling old farm local needs. It was very success-
display team from Nottingham. carts around the arena. ful after a tricky start - as soon HELPING
All the riders are children aged Amond the rides available will as those attending realised that
eight to eighteen. be a flight in a helicopter or fly they could change things and STROKE
Over fifty vintage cars will be on through the air on a 50 year old achieve something. Are you VICTIMS
show along with the same number set of chair-o-planes. More down interested in anything similar?
of farm tractors and motorcycles. to the ground you could ride in Let me know if you are. Strokes can hit anybody and they
One hundred stationary engines an old farm cart. usually change the victim's life
will be 'popping away' over the A great weekend is in store. for ever.
WEST Whilst the intelligence is not
/ damaged following a stroke, very
SWINDON often there is a loss of physical
ability. The Chest, Heart and
ADVICE Stroke Association exists to pro-
CENTRE vide support to people who have
communication problems. They
by Jean Kiddle need volunteers who can help
Do you need help with any of the patients with reading, writing,
following problems? Supplemen- numbers, telling the time, recog-
tary Benefits, Unemployment nition of money and many other
Benefits, Housing problems, basic skills that are taken for
Debts, Invalidity rights (attend- granted. The volunteers are asked
ance allowance, mobility, invalid to offer one hour a week to help
care etc.). Then the West the stroke patients re-build their
Swindon Advice Centre is there confidence and their lives. To
to help you. They hold advice find out more, Pam Bygraves on
sessions at 15 Gainsborough 27394 can help with more infor-
Way, Freshbrook (West Swindon mation.
Family Project) on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday mornings
from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, and at Centre in Toothill at the end of
Toothill Community Centre every last year. There are a number of
Tuesday morning from 10 a.m. other volunteers, at present doing
to 12 noon. the course on Welfare Benefits
The advice sessions are run at The Law Centre, who will also
entirely by volunteers, trained by be able to offer their help at the
STEAM TRACTION ENGINES' VINTAGE TRACTORS' CARS' MOTORCYCLES' STATIONARY ENGINES'
CHILDREN'S FAIRGROUND' GRAND PARADE' COUNTRY CRAFTS' FAIRGROUND ORGAN' STALLS' Thamesdown Law Centre, and Advice Centre at some date in
MODEL AIRCRAFT' HELICOPTER RIDES' COMETS MOTORCYCLE DISPLAY TEAM' WEWE THROWING' they are always ready and willing the near future.
AND MUCH MUCH MORE!
to offer their help to anyone The advice is given in the strict-
SAT & SUN 6th & 7th JUNE 1987
At LYDIARD COUNTRY PARK, LYDIARD TREGOZE,SWINDON (M4 JUNCTION 16) who needs it. Roy Williams, of est confidence, and completely
Freshbrook, has been with the free of charge, so, if you are
OPENING TIMES Advice Centre since it first feeling in a muddle over DHSS
SAT 12.00 noon- 5.00pm. SUN 10.30am - 5.00pm. opened in Gainsborough Way problems, Debts, Housing etc.,
over two years ago. He is helped then just pop in to any advice
ADMISSION: ADULTS - £1.00 CHILDREN AND CONCESSIONS - SOp
by Maria Rooney, also of Fresh- session, or an appointment can
FREE CAR PARK
brook, and Jean Kiddie, who be made by telephoning the
lives in Toothill, and who organ- Family Project on 871303 during
ised the opening of an Advice office hours.