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22 NEWS & VIEWS

SOFT WATER CENTRE New homes to allow a normal life
West Swindon people are being with the people who live dose-by
Come and see our full range of Water Softeners including the invited to visit three new bungalows throughout and answer questions as
NEW 19"HIGH PERMUTIT 2000E. in Shaw which have been built to they have arisen.
DOMEXTRA, BRUNER, PERMO, SEREIN AND EURO RANGE provide an alternative to hospital "The bungalows will become
IN STOCK care. home for people who may have spent
All at Unit 4, Oaklands Enterprise Estate, Braydon, Nr. Wootton The six bedroomed bungalows will quite a lot of time in hospital. This
Bassett. Open Saturdays ONLY 9.30am - 4pm. provide a home for eighteen mentally will be a chance for them to use local
Ring Swindon 853156 for further information or appointment. handicapped people who presently shops, pubs and community facilities
live in Burderop Hospital. The just like anybody else."
residents will mostly be people who Mr. Baskett would welcome any
have lived in West Swindon or whose local people who might like to
P B PLUMBING SERVICES parents have moved to the area. befriend the new residents of Shaw.
The bungalows will be managed Volunteers will be able to usefully
Boilers Serviced
by Locality Manager Graham Walker help the handicapped people use
Pump Fitting Service and a team of skilled and trained local facilities and widen their circle
Water Softeners Fitted staff. Each bungalow will have a of friends. There are also a number of
Washing Machines and Dishwashers Fitted home leader and a member of staff paid positions still to be filled.
will be on hand at all times. To find out more, telephone
Telephone: (0793) 642995 Swindon Health Authority Graham Walker of Mike Baskett at
Community Development Manager Burderop Hospital on 812826.
Mike Baskett has guided the Shaw The open days at the Shaw
homes project through the various Bungalows are and 11 May, between
R.K. planning stages and is looking 9a.m. and 5p.m. and 10 May between
forward to the first people moving 7p.m. and 10.30p.m. All interested
Garden Services out of hospital care into the readers will be welcomed. They can
community. "The development of be found at the top of Angus Close,
the homes has been a slow process, off Ramleaze Drive, dose to Shaw
Special Offer to Link Readers but we've been able to communicate Village Centre.
Turfing from £1.85 (price includes turf per sq. yard)
It's Time to Right Coping with
'Rotivating 'Patios 'Fencing 'Shrubs 'Trees 'Plants Wrong's teenagers
FREE ESTIMATES Am I going mad? What's hap-
pened to my little boy/girl? Are
Have your grass cut and garden maintained they going mad? Whyarethey so
at a set price for a year. rude? They treat me like a door
mat. Are they ashamed of me?
Phone Ray on 512287 or Brian on 486526 They only come to me for money.
West Swindon's friendly and prompt gardening service They don't appreciate anything
I've done for them.
Do anyof these questions strike
a chord with you? To the major-
ity of us living with our children
OGGLEBOX through their teenage years can
seem like walking through a
Specialists in video minefield with no hope of reach-
That's the slogan for this year's ing the other side.
& TV repairs Christian Aid Week, 15-20 May, and As a Youth Counsellor I am in
Free home estimates it emphasises the need not just for daily contact with young people
emergency disaster relief, but for a
All work guaranteed real transfer of resources to help the who are going through this pe-
poorest people. That is what riod in their lives. In reality the
Service from 8am - 9pm going can be just as tough for
Christian Aid is all about.
NO CALL OUT CHARGE Education, health and community them but this is hard to appreci-
projects, land reform and small-scale ate when we, as parents are in the
agriculture - all these things thick of it.
TEL: SWINDON 813485 strengthen the poor but cost money. It seems to be generally ac-
In 1987/88 Christian Aid spent £17.7 cepted, and rightly so, that par-
million, of which almost £10 million ents of young children need sup-
went to such development projects port, however no one seems to
overseas and nearly £5 million on
Home help Baby equipment and emergencies and refugees (only 3% consider the needs of parents of
wanted toy sale of its money goes on administration). teenagers.
Last year people knocking on There will be a meeting on
I live locally in Freshbrook and have Swindon Branch of the National doors in West Swindon raised over Tuesday 9 May at 7.30pm in the
recently become physically disabled Childbirth Trust (NCT) is holding a £1,000 from ordinary people who Community Suite at the Link
with Motor Neurone Disease. I have Baby Equipment & Toy Sale on wanted to show that they cared. We Centre to discuss this subject.
two young sons, aged 5 and 3, and a Saturday 13 May in the Main Hall, should like to do much better this Martha Parry of Community
husband with ademanding job which Community Suite, Link Centre year, so please be generous. Even if Development, Cath Ryder of
frequently takes him away from between 1100a.m. and noon. we call at an awkward time, we're W.E.A. and myself, Marian
home. Check-in of items for sale will be not really doing it on purpose.
I am looking for a mature, active between 915a.m. and 1045a.m. and If you would like to find out more Northam from 'Off the Record'
person, to help me with occupying collection of money and/or unsold about Christian Aid, or to help to will be there. We hope that any-
the children, preparing meals and articles between 100p.m. and collect from a few houses in your one going through the mill at the
some tidying up from 300p.m. - 2.00p.m. neighbourhood, contact Ian Schagen moment will come along.
600p.m., Monday to Friday (and The equipment will be sold on a on 871093. Going on Hoilday?
occasionally until7.30p.m.). A salary commission basis, the seller keeping Pensioner will look after your
is available. 75% with 25% to the NCT. Clothing Alterations & home and/or pets and garden.
If you feel you can assist me and Further details and registration Repairs. Tel: 872096
Excellent references.
my family, please telephone me, Jan forms available from Jane Halstead Mrs. White, Freshbrook. Tel: 614879 for quotation.
Devine, on Swindon 39210 (771892) and Gail Grant (853411).