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18 The Link Magazine 'August 1999
Wedding & Portrait Comeback kid has choice of sports
Photography Graham A Ridgeway School athlete has made an excellent recovery from
injury during the winter to perform well against older opposition.
is not all the same McCallion Promising rugby player Alex
There is some which is head- PHOTOGRAPHIC Norcross from Shaw competed in
and-shoulders STUDIO the high jump for the first time this
above the rest! season, having recovered from a
WEDDINGS broken collar bone last September
Have you seen
PORTRAITS and a badly damaged knee in Feb-
our brochure?
Contact us now! COMMERCIA ruary which put a leg in plaster for
several weeks. Both injuries came
Alan's just before selection games for the
Photographs Wiltshire county under 15 squad.
Services A long fightback with help from
Tel: 01793 854076 151 HIGH STREET Tim Whiting, head of PE at Ridge-
2 Apsley House, High Street, WOOTTON BASSETT way, saw the now six foot one inch
Wootton Bassett fourteen year old representing
Wiltshire at the English County
Championships in June.
On 3 July he was a member of
the Ridgeway team at the English
Schools Athletics Association cup
final where he took a notable fourth
place in the high jump event and
A beautiful keepsake of We strip your fifth in the 100 metres against fif- has already started and Alex, above,
your most memorable day old doors and teen and sixteen year olds. is hoping to stay clear of injury
pine furniture Training for the rugby season and show his true potential.
Also available for corsages,
back to natural
buttonholes, silk/sugarcraft Junior rugby club to build on strengths
flowers and other wood.
floral tributes. So throw away your hot air guns Wootton Bassett rugby club junior section is looking for boys and
No pressing involved and let us do the hard work. girls who want to learn the game and maintain its success.
NO JOB TOO SMALL programme of matches.
A unique service by It is regarded as one of the lead-
Give us a ring today for a quote ers in junior rugby development The under 15s squad in particu-
Jan Haugh on Free collection and delivery
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01793 881991 oret'er 01793 772657 in the south of England and its lar wants to strengthen its squad
of 25 players so that it can field two
teams regularly win games against
Call anytime.
Mobile 07771 801266 more well known clubs. All mini teams in the coming season. Last
and junior coaches have passed year 17 of them were selected to
national coaching awards. play for Wiltshire.
Wootton Bassett is the only club Parents who would like to intro-
Comfortable in the country to submit all coaches duce their son or daughter to the
and assistants working with the
game can just turn up to a training
children to police checks. session at the Stoneover Lane
Mini teams begin from under 7s ground in Wootton Bassett, or call
independence and pre-season training has started 851425 for a squad contact.
on Thursday evening and Sunday
To find out more about the un-
morning. Teams are mixed to un- der 15s, call Glynn Parker on
der 12s level and there is a busy 853916.
Judo players perform well
Five members of the Shaw Judo Club competed in the British Judo
Council's Welsh national finals at the end of June.
They were Emma Bunce,9; Katie
Jackman, 10; Phillip Hutchings, 11;
Stuart Jackman, 12 and Emily Hill, 14.
Emma had to fight bigger girls
in a higher weight group as she
For your retirement living, we have vacancies was only 0.25kg over the limit.
at Brain Court, Stratton St. Margaret and Windmill Phillip was in a group of 27 com-
Court, Freshbrook, Swindon. petitors from all over the country.
He won two fights against higher
Please contact our Regional Office:
grades than himself, but did not
Western Region, 10 The Parade progress through to the knockout
Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 1NE rounds.
In the under 60 kilo group Stuart
Tel: 01672 515622 won very hard bouts against higher
SHELTERED PROPERTIES THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH grades to win the bronze trophy in
his category.
The club was founded in 1995
James Butcher and now boasts over 40 members, Bronze winner Stuart Jackman with
Shaw club coach Mike Crowe
including a very strong senior sec-
Housing Association tion including ex-British Squad Tuesdays and Thursdays. For de-
member, Craig Curtis. tails about joining, call Mike Crowe
It meets at Brook Field School on on 881383.