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Easter Bonnets cause headache
West Swindon Centre manager Lionel Dicks had the difficult job of
judging the best Easter bonnets at the centre's Good Friday competition.
"I don't know why I let myself in for this," he said. "All the entries are
so good."
All entries received a small prize and he eventually chose the follow-
ing winners who received big Easter Eggs:
Best decorated
1st Nicola Holt, from Toothill
2nd Laura Hillier, Nine Elms Holy Rood run
3rd Kate Moon, Ramleaze
Funniest Old Town
1St Tracy Bujas, Greenmeadow to the west
2nd Samantha Ledkin, Toothill
3rd James Portsmouth, Toothill An eight kilometre run from Swin-
Most Inventive don Old Town to West Swindon
1st Michelle Forder, Freshbrook and back takes place on Sunday 20
2nd Lucy Marion, W/Bassett May.
The entrants and their bonnets. Mr Dicks is hiding behind! 3rd Yasmin Sheikh, Westlea The run, in aid of Holy Rood
Junior School, starts at 1030a.m. It
A Reaction to follows a route along the old rail-
way line from Old Town to
Easterti me Mannnington, then parallel to the
OGGLEB (A poem in the April edition) Great Western Way through the
Blagrove Open Space to
Baker of Toothill
Specialists in video by
Freshbrook, up through Toothill
& TV repairs Go to church and wear your best, Park, along Bodiam Drive,Toothill
Free home estimates Don't let your mums hopes down, and back along the railway line.
Even though there's homelessness, Entry costs £3 and forms can be
All work guaranteed And despair in our town. obtained from most sports shops,
Service from 8am - 9pm from race orga niser Terry Dixon on
If you're good, obey 'your' rules, 874492 or the headteacher on
Life will be good, you're sure. 527679.
Just never look when misery There will also be a fun run of
. TEL: SWINDON 813485 Is passing by your door. one and a half miles around the
Lawns on 20 May which costs £1 to
Civilised, you call this, enter.
A nice way that we can live?
And anyway, who cares, when West Swindon
death road race with new
Is waiting to forgive.
sponsors
Mankind, who once lived wild and Sunday 24 June at 11a.m. sees the
free, start of the Swindon Roadrunners
Has trapped himself, and me. annual 10Km race from Lydiard
From nature, he has turned away. Park, West Swindon. The race, this
She'll turn away from thee! year principally sponsored by Inter-
graph who are celebrating 10 years
Your New Calor Gas in the UK, will have a modified
course from previous years which
Main Dealer in Swindon Anti-poll tax has become necessary because of
union formed the closure and re-routing of Hay
Hotline: (0793) 613391 Lane. The change has also given
A meeting on 3 April decided to the club an opportunity to improve
24 hour telephone - form an Anti Poll Tax Union in the course for runners, and it hopes
West Swindon to give support to to gain BARR grade 11 status this
ordering service those living in the area who have year by taking more of the course
along roads rather than across
decided not to pay the Poll Tax.
Collections from our Depot at Bridgend Road The 50 people who attended woodland tracks in the park.
heard from Lee English of the Swin- There is an extensive range of
don Anti-Poll Tax Federation who prizes on offer, including travel and
Showroom at said there were a lot of myths about sports vouchers for the category
14, The Orbit Centre the Poll Tax and reminded the winners, tee shirts for the first 40
meeting that not paying the tax male and ten female runners, and
Ashworth Road was a civil disobediance and not a commemorative mugs for all fin-
Great Western Way, criminal act. He said that a lot of ishers.
people had decided not to pay for Application forms, which should
Swindon many reasons, but it was impor- be completed and returned to club
tant for them to be part of an or- secretary Sue Brown at 7 Sywell
Displays of Fixed gas fires, ganisation which provided help Road, Lower Stratton, by 15 June,
and support, especially those who are available from the displays at
mobile cabinet heaters were least able to pay and were the the Link and Oasis Centres, and
and miscellaneous most vulnerable. from Total Fitness and Terry
Telephone John Moore on 480418 Warner Sports. The cost of entry is
Calor appliances to find out about the next meeting £3.00 for club runners and £3.50 for
of the group. non-affiliated runners.
