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6 HAYDON WICK & WOODHALL PARK
VERRUCAS & Country and Western Ho-Dowrj
WARTS (hands) with live band The Downlanders

A PROBLEM? Friday 4 July, 6pm to 9pm
Haydon Leigh School
Book your appointment with
Martin Drew MBcHA, MSSch Licensed saloon bar, western diner and bar-b-q,
Aunty Karen's pantry. Pony rides, races, stalls,
CHIROPODIST games, bouncy castle
All welcome to take part and join in the fun
Children's verruca surgery open. Admission: 50p adults, children free
All other aspects of foot care
catered for.
12x12' & 14'x14 Open air tribute St John's Pre-School
For Parties & Events Call: (01793) 511284 anytime Open day
Home visit service or t to Greenmeadow
All with rain covers Thursday 3 July, 1pm - 3pm
come to our modern town y St John's Church, Haydon Wick
©527538 centre surgery stalwart Ball pool, lucky dip, bouncy
Members of the Ramblers Asso- castle, face painting, refreshments
ciation and friends of Mick
Whittingham, from Helmsdale,
BUY FACTORY Haydon Wick, who died last year New for pre-schoolers
aged 79, came together on 20 June The Haydon Centre launches a soft
DIRECT SAVE LEs CHARISMA to remember his efforts to improve play park for pre-school children
BLINDS the environment. in early July.
Large Range • Quality Fabrics A bench was unveiled in his It will be open on Tuesday and
memory at Mouldon Hill, near Thursday, 11am to 1230pm. Par-
1 Woodhall Park, which is being de- ents will be required to supervise
ERTIC Of veloped as part of the Great West- their children whilst they enjoy
BLIND 1 no ern Community Forest. the fun.
rome 1 rom £20 a.- - • I I - Phil Claridge, speaking on be-
I half of the Ramblers Association Footballers wanted
FREE FITTING said, "Mick was a founder of the Teams from all parts of Swindon
ADVICE
North Wilts Stile Unit in 1989 which are invited to enter the Haydon
HOME/SITE VISITS 04 Pi
built stiles to give people access to Centre summer 5 a-side soccer
Factory Showroom open at BSS House, Cheney Manor Ind. Estate, Swindon their local countryside. Lydiard tournament for 8 toll year olds on
Open: Monda - Frido ,9.3Oam - 5.30pm • Saturday 10.00cm - 400pm Tregoze was the first parish he Sunday 27 July, 11am to 5pm.
TEL: (0 1793) 434584 worked with to open up paths Entry, £15 per team, by 13 July.
which had been unusable for years. For details, call 706666.
Despite being in his late seventies,
he worked a day each week on School land
GREENMEADOW repairing and building easy-to-use secured
stiles. During his time, he helped
put up between 700 and 800.
"He was a remarkably enthusi- Another battle has been won to
SERVICE STATION astic and dedicated volunteer and protect a field for future school
we feel the bench at Mouldon Hill expansion.
Thames Avenue, will be a lasting reminder of his A scheme last year by Wiltshire
work." County Council to sell the strip of
Greenmeadow, Swindon land adjacent to Haydon Leigh
School on Westfield Way for com-
Tel: 534501/535895 Call a councillor mercial development was killed
With the build up of the Abbey off by planning objections and the
ervice and repairs Meads population, local council- transfer of responsibilities to Swin-
lors are keen to let residents know don Council.
I 0 all makes of car they can be contacted. The area may be needed to ex-
Abbey Meads is split between pand the school as the northern
Haydon Wick ward which in- expansion grows.
MOT repairs including welding cludes the Haydon Wick parish, Now Swindon Council has dug
and Blunsdon Ward. Houses to a trench around the site to prevent
MOT testing classes 3 & 4 including the south and west of Elstree Way travellers setting up camp again.
are in Haydon Wick, represented One group were evicted in early
catalytic converters & diesels by Kelvin King, tel: 721147 and June and a second left on 15 June,
David Couch, tel: 729576. They just before a court order came into
No need to book. also cover Burgley Park. effect.
They hold surgeries on the last Local councillor Kelvin King
First come, first served Friday of the month, 630pm to said he was very pleased at the
830pm, at the Haydon Centre. success of the campaign to stop
Open: Monday to Friday 8.00am - 5.00pm Houses to the east of the village commercial development. "It
centre site, past Hayward Close, keeps options open for the school's
Saturday 8.00am - 3.00pm and along Blunsdon Ridge fall needs. I was disappointed that the
Sunday 9.00am - 12 noon (MOTs only) within Blunsdon ward represented travellers occupied the area, but I
by Doreen Dart, tel: 762033. hope the trench around the site
Friendly service and competitive prices Do you have a Haydon Wick or will prevent them moving in
again."
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