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RALPH TSP Getting to know you
PALMER TEL: Toothill's new neighbourhood
community worker is quickly get-
ting to know the area by meeting
PHARMACY KAR HIRE 610188 individuals and group members.
3 Deerhurst Way, VAN HIRE Miriam Minty has moved into
Toothill 7cwt. TO LUTONS Stamford Close, Tooth!!! from
Scunthorpe where she started and
MINI-BUSES (12) ran a Women's Outreach Project
Hours of Opening: for 14 months.
Mon - Fri DRIVERS AVAILABLE Originally from Chester, Miriam
9a.m. - 1p.m. CAR HIRE started training as a teacher at Sun-
230p.m. - 6p.m. MICRA - ROVERS derland Polytechnic and then
3 MONTH HIRE transferred to a Combined Arts
Sat. 9a.m. -12noon course. After gaining her degree
FROM £62 PER WEEK she spent a year as a welfare officer
Telephone: 512063 Cheney Manor Trading Estate with the Students' Union.
Miriam said the Toothill job ap-
pealed to her because it would al-
low her to concentrate on working
Toothill Chinese Kitchen with people in one area. "I had to Miriam Minty
work in three diverse neighbour- Community Bon-Fire and fireworks
English Food and Fish & Chips hoods in Scunthorpe which didn't event atToothill Farmon 2 Novem-
allow me to develop strong con- ber. Even though she hates fire-
Special Chinese Food tacts. Being just in Toothill will works, she's plugging her ears and
allow me to get to know the people looking for volunteers to make it a
'i Take-Away Menu well and work with them to de- big success like last year.
velop groups which will benefit Miriam can be contacted at
- Tel: 487055 the area." Thamesdown Council's Commu-
One of her first tasks will be to nity Development Division on
Hours of Business coordinate the now traditional 526161 ext.4831 or 613183.
Sunday 6- 11.3Opm
Monday Closed all day
Tuesday 5- 11.3Opm Make the bonfire a big one
Wednesday 12- 1.45pm 5- 11.30pm This year's community bonfire event at Toothill Farm takes
Thursday 12- 1.45pm 5- 11.30pm place on Friday 2nd November and volunteers are needed to
Friday 12 - 1.45pm 5 - 12.00am make it successful.
Saturday 12 - 2.00pm 5 - 12.00am
It will be the only organised fireworks event in West Swindon.
An estimated 3,000 people attended last year and lots of help
is needed to organise safety and marshalling, building the bon-
fire, letting off fire-works, catering, etc.
• STORM MANAGEMENT SERVICES Another theme is needed as well. Last year's was 'beat the
Storm Technical & Industrial Division poll-tax' and the year before the Houses of Parliament went up
in flames.
Ideas and help should be offered to Miriam Minty on 613183
TEMPS • TEMPS TEMPS or 526161 ext.4831.
• Link Arts Studios will be running workshops to help
COME ON DOWN AND youngsters make something to burn on the pyre. Ring Mel
SAY HELLO TO MIKE & JULIE Jones on 871212 for details and dates.

IJ WAREHOUSE OPERATORS Shocking performance at school
Ll FORK LIFT DRIVERS Some of the pupils atToothill School
spent an afternoon in September
D ANCILLARY WORKERS learning science by watching a play.
The Kinetic Theatre put on No
D STORES PEOPLE Smoke Without Fire to get across
lots of messages about how things
Ll PICKERS/PACKERS are made from electricity, how
Ll VAN DRIVERS electricity itself is made and what
the dangers there are when han-
IJ EVENING SHIFT WORKERS dling different kinds of energy.
The play told a story about a
company which makes plastic-
STORM INTO 1990 WITH S.M.S. ducks. The arrival of an 'energy-
The Right Choice saving' machine makes life simple
at first, but its greedy appetite for
Office Hours: Mon - Fri 7.30am - 5.30pm fuel creates lots of problems. The Kinetic Theatre, actors Graham
The two man theatre-in-educa- Scottand Michael Whibnorewith,from
Sat. 9am - 12 noon ti. -ì company enthralled the audi- left, Caroline Lambert, Diane Bentley,
32 Morley Street, Swindon, Wilts. ence with quick costume changes Christopher Pentecost and Michael
by acting out all the parts. The Fall ows, and the energy hungry duck
Tel: (0793) 480693 pupils were sent back to their sci- producing machine which had ideas of
ence projects full of ideas. taking over the world