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6 WESTLEA
Team sponsored
PB PLUMBING
The leaders of the West Swindon
SERVICES primary schools football league will
be playing with even more confi-
• Boilers Serviced dence, now that they have a new
• Pump strip.
Fitting Servicri Youngsters from Westlea School,
• Water who won the league last year, have
Softeners been sponsored by Royal Mail Re-
search & Development and will be
Fitted
wearing their logo on their new pur-
• Washing
ple shirts and sky blue shorts.
Machines and Mike Matty, Commercial Tech-
Dishwashers Installed
nology Manager with Royal Mail,
Tel: (0793) said one of the company's mission
statements required a closerinvolve-
642995 ment with the community. "As a
research and developmentestablish-
MikeMatty surrounded by plea sed play- ment we don't have obvious links
SOFT WATER CENTRE ers, from left, John Scrace, Gareth into the community, so we wel-
Adams, James Bruce, Michael comed the approach from Westlea
WOOTTON BASSETT
Spotiswood, Cohn Thornton. Front, to help them out. A lot of our staff
Come and see our full range of Water Softeners including the
Ben Taylor and Robert Harrington live in the west and some have chil-
AQUADIAL, DOMEXTRA, EURO, OAKLANDS, PERMUTIT dren at the school."
Also Available: Granular, Tablet, P.V.D. Salt
Table Top Sale Deputy headteacher Tom
All at Unit 4, Oaklands Enterprise Estate, Braydon, Nr. Wootton Harman said the school were very
Bassett. Open Saturdays ONLY 930am - 4pm. OR Saturday 15 February appreciative of the support from
Ring Swindon 853156 for further information or appointment. lOam - 12noon Westlea School Royal Mail and the team members
£5 per table. Ring Westlea were very pleased with their new
—I School on 870469 kit.
izzarama Parents and children at Westlea School held a collection for the
Albania collection gets underway
Wootton Bassett Albania Appeal at the end of January and produced
60 black bags of clothing and toys, and two big boxes of tinned food.
Parent organiser Judith Blake was so overwhelmed by the re-
WILL YOU HELP US RAISE £600 TO BUY sponse that she wrote the following poem:
A BABY INCUBATOR FOR THE WOOTTON Little children, girls and boys
Neighbours argue Are in need of clothes and toys
BASSETT ALBANIA APPEAL? We have some that we can share
in Birdcombe Road To show how much we love and
An attempt to make a Westlea street care
less dangerous to children has be- Little children need some food
come an arguement between resi- To grow up strong like children
dents. should
Birdcombe Road resident Philip
We have some that we can share
Rashid organised a meeting in his To show how much we love and
house before Christmas to discuss care
the safety of children who play in
the cul-de-sac. 'People drive into Little children, crying out
the road without a thought that there Don't know what Life is all about
could be a child in the road," said But we will help and we will share
Philip. "We want the shrub bed To show much we love and care
which hides the children replaced We have given these girls and
by a play area and also came up with boys
the idea of creating a community Our love, our food, our clothes,
garden at the other end of the road. our toys
"1 invited people in the street to We have given, we have shared
When you next buy your pizza from come to second meeting to talk about To show much we've loved and
how we could make the road safer,
cared
Pizzarama, present this advertisement and we more attra ctive and generally a nicer
place to live, but there were so many where children should and can play
will contribute !Z1.00 per Super Pizza* or objections thatit had to be cancelled." is being talked about," said Phil.
50p per Regular Size* to the appeal fund. Letters to Phil expressed disgust Pensioner resident Ted Fisher
Time is running out, we only have the month that he should be suggesting that agreed that some drivers need to
residents take responsiblity for the slow down but thought a play area
of February and desperately need your support public areas around their houses and instead of a shrub bed was a bad
(Not to be used with any other voucher) telling him children should be kept idea. "It'llbeusedby teenagers who
off the road by their parents. willcreatea lot more noise and cause
P1 ZZARAMA However no sooner had the meet- vandalismand the younger children
ing been cancelled when objectors won't stay in the play area. They'll
FREE TO YOUR DOOR - WHY PAY MORE? were on his doorstep complaining still play in the road."
that it should go ahead. Another meeting was finally con-
Tel: 40 7'44 IS dS A4 "All I wanted was a discussion, vened on 30 January to allow all
not abuse, but at least the issue of points of view to be expressed.