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TOOTH ILL

UNHAPPY Keen cake makers cook up cash V.E. Day Family Event
Toothill Community Centre
WITH YOUR An energetic group of Toothill help them bake 400 cakes and bis- Monday 8 May, 5.30pm
School 9 year olds decided to raise cuits.
ACCOUNTS, a little more money for Comic Re- "We were rushed off our feet," Entertainment from West
lief and also the Swindon's Chalet said Rebecca Deegan, describing Swindon Townswomen's Guild,
BOOKS OR TAX School in the last week of the Easter the roaring trade her friends con- Dancing, a Traditional Sing Song,
Refreshments. All Welcome
term by selling cakes to other chil-
HEADACHES? dren. ducted at break times in the last
three days of term. £60 was raised
Gems Accountancy Seven girls and one boy in Hazel to be split between Comic Relief Outdoor project
Services specialises in the Hamilton's year 5 class roped in and the Chalet School for special
accountancy needs of: mums, aunties and grandmas to needs in Swindon. gets going
Cakes for sale from, back to front, Youngsters at Toothill School will
• Small Business Table Top Sale Samantha Woodley, Hayley Cypher, be digging in to spruce up their
• Sole Traders 6 May 2pm - 4pm Gemma Irving, Rachel Gray, Mat- school grounds during May.
• Self Employed Toothill Community Centre thew Pearce, Sara Egan, Melanie Wednesday 3 May is National
• Individuals Tables: £4 from Lily Wylie Lewington, Rebecca Deegan School Grounds Day and pupils,
on 495644 staff and parent volunteers will be
• Taxation or 614492 (Mon-Thurs mornings) creating flower beds around mo-
• Wages & PAYE bile classrooms in readiness for BT
• VAT Returns, Environmental Week from 22 to 26
• SC60 calculations RON AHRENS May when topsoil paid for by Eng-
lish Nature will be arriving.
Friendly Service & BUILDER Last month the school launched
Reasonable Rates DECORATOR a plan to redevelop the grounds
plus appointments to suit you over the next ten years.
Specialising in all aspects The school playground was re-
surfaced in the Easter holidays and
of high quality building
a new path has been made to the
work especially decorating, recently fenced pond.
carpentry & plastering. The BBC Wiltshire Sound 'Watch
Orchard House, Kiln Lane Out Wilts' programme is follow-
off Cheney Manor Road, All work guaranteed. ing the development of the school
Swindon No job too small. grounds and will be making re-
Tel: (01793) 531111 Free estimates ports on its progress.
or 877599 eves/w'ends Telephone: 615972 New Russia aid trip planned
(West Swindon)
A voluntary aid worker from phanages and hospitals in the city.
Toothill returns to Russia in May. He flies to Russia on 28 May for
Tim Bath from Markenfield took two weeks with basic medicines
part in a sponsored walk around like paracetomol and vitamins. He
Barbury Castle with eight friends hopes to make visits to families in
DR PETER SWINYARD on 1 April to raise cash for items he villages and small towns beyond
will be taking to poor families in the St Petersburg area where most
the St Petersburg area. of the aid has been going.
THE PHOENIX SURGERY Tim visited Russia twice last year Donations of items and cash will
AT ASHINGTON HOUSE with Christian charity the Messi- be welcomed. Tim can be contacted
anic Testimony with aid for or- on 613219.

Telephone: 433211 Pupils learn about blindness
Guide Dogs for the Blind benefitted portunity to tell the children about
Fax: 433903 by fundraising events by Lower blindness and how guide dogs
Juniors at Toothill's Oliver improve the quality of life for those
Tomkins Junior School during the without sight."
Surgery times. Easter Term. It takes two years to train a guide
Roy Martin from Purton visited dog and costs about £2,500.
Monday: 8.30am - noon 4pm - 7pm
the school at the beginning of
Tuesday: 8.30am - noon 3pm - 6pm March with his guide dog Zoe to
talk about living as a blind person
Wednesday: 8.30am - noon and the help trained guide dogs
can provide.
Thursday: 8.30am - noon
The children baked cakes and
2pm - 3pm 4pm -6pm biscuits as part of their technology
(antenatal) curriculum work and sold them to
older children and staff. When
Friday: 8.30am-noon • combined with the Lent Week col-
lection, £130 was raised and pre-
Saturday: lOam-noon (not every week)
sented to Roy Martin before term
ended.
He said the fundraising was very
Nurse appointments by arrangement welcome and would help train
another dog. "It was a good op-
Roy Martin with Zoe and from left,
Martin French, Natasha Rue, Vicky
Lewis, Sneha Mehta in front