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AT YOUR LIBRARY
Competitions, Queues and Breaking Records
Its all happening atWest Swindon Library according to Librarian Linda Black
Many thanks to all those children Apologies to all those read- will be asking where she is. Well,
who contributed to our summer ers who have been faced with the news is not all sad, Pat's hard
Jungle Trek' competition. All li- queues recently. Staff on the work has seen her promoted to a
braries in Thamesdown have move has left us a little short senior post at Wootton Bassett
submitted their four best entries handed at times so do bear with Library; so for those of you who
to the Divisional Library in Swin- us. July was a record month for feel that coming to the library
don to be judged by representa- the library with book issues up at will not be the same, then the next
tives of Sherraft & Hughes. 30,000 (with the same number time you are shopping in Bassett
The West Swindon staff being returned), 250 new mem- High Street, pop into the library
Styling at Home chose the entries from the follow- bers and over 300 specially re- and say hello! I know that Pat
ing children for the finals. In the quested items being supplied - will always be pleased to see li-
younger age group, Lucy Marion we certainly try and do our best! brary readers from West Swin-
of Freshbrook and Elspeth Kirk- September will see the li- don. I, along with all the staff,
man of Wootton Bassett. In the brary accommodating some in- wish Pat every success and hap-
older age group, Thomas Smith teresting displays, including a piness in her new job.
of Toothill and Sarah Jarvis from presentation by the University of Finally, some new books -
o science fiction buffs will enjoy
TEL: 870776 Wootton Bassett. Good luck to the 3rd Age, concerned with
the finalists. portunities available in the T - the new title from Arthur C.
amesdown area for the 'over Clarke written in conjunction
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1b11EIL2P AVIE 1lA11N 50's' - everything from philoso- with top American space scien-
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phy to flower arranging! The tist Gentry Lee and entitled
V1fiULNG WVLI1DUIF1 Area Museum Council's 'Butter- 'Cradle'. Our horror selection of
fly Lives' will be with us right the month goes to lames Herbert
through to the beginning of Oc- for The Haunting' - traditional
World Wildlife Fund for Nature - Swindon tober which I know to be a very horror, an isolated mansion,
Area Supporters' Group
colourful and interesting exhibi- spectres and ghosts and things
,
Annual Sponsored tion. The library itself will be that go bump in the night!
organizing a big display of all the House of Vandekar' by Evelyn
Walk for Wildlife many different types of leaflets it Anthony gets our best psycho-
holds on various aspects of com- logical thriller nomination - and
Sunday 9th October munity information - everything for the entleman then Peter Dri-
from consumer affairs to health scoll's Spear Head' should sat-
Lydiard Park. 10.30am start. and leisure. isfy - set amidst the social ten-
This month I had intended sions of contemporary South
devoting this feature to the last of Africa, this story offers action
Sponsor forms/details: Judy Turner, 52 High our staff profiles, but sadly for and excitement on every page.
Street, Watchfield SN6 8SW. Tel: 783483 our team, Pat Thompson will be On the blockbuster scene look
leaving us at the end of August. out for Anna Murdoch's 'Family
I had to mention this be- Business' - all the excitement of
AN EXTRA ROOM" cause I know how popular Pat the international publishing
has been with so many of our scene, and Allen Dury's 'Destiny
readers over the past three years, Makers' - Pentagon intrigue and
by and I also know how many of you scandal. Happy reading
Southmoor Conservatories Walk for Wildlife at Lydiard

Jill Skerry of the Swindon Area Supporter Group of the World
Can be used as a Sun Lounge, Dining Room, Wildlife Fund for Nature asks Link readers to take part In a
Childrens Play Room, Breakfast Room sponsored walk in aid of Britain's wildlife
Sponsor forms can be ob-
and for Entertaining Your Friends More and more wildlife is under
threat in our countryside. Many tamed by contacting Mrs Judy
artimals and plants are decreas- Turner, 52 High Street, Watch-
ing rapidly -many have been lost field, Swindon, SN6 8SW. Tel:
already forever. At risk today are 783483. The walk is sponsored
the dormouse, otter and cowslip, by Heinz Foods under their
the greater horseshoe bat, the red Guardians of the Countryside
kite and wild orchid -to name but programme - every walker tak-
ing part will receive a wildlife
a few.
We MUST protect our coun- certificate and badge; if you raise
tryside from further harm - land, more than £60 you will receive a
water, air and living things are all beautiful colour print of a barn
fundamental to own existence. If owl by artist Richard Orr. There
they perish, we perish. It's as are many more attractive prizes,
simple as that. There is some- - a group of walkers from the
thing YOU can do to halt this same school, youth club, Scout or
destruction: SPEND A DAY AT Guide group raising £175 or
Extend your home economically, LYDIA RD COUNTRY PARK more will receive a plaque show-
ON SUNDAY 9TH OCTOBER. ing a barn owl.
adding valuable space and value to The grand opening will be at Our Supporters' Group
your property. 10.30a.m. bythe Mayorand May- looks forward to meeting YOU
oress of Thamesdown. on Sunday 9th October outside
There will be an attractive the Visitors' Centre for the start
Tel: 875943 (24 hours) route through the park, with laps of our 1988 Walk for Wildlife. For
of 1.5 miles (maximum number more information about the
Brochures, Surveys, to be walked - 5). Wheelchairs Group, please contact Mrs Jill
Quotations and pushchairs will be accom- Skerry (Secretary), 16 Chapel
modated on a special walk, so no- Hill, Watchfield, Swindon. Tel:
782947.
one need feel left out.