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6 The Link Maqazine • June 1999
Swindon aid provides comfort for Kosovars

Five truck-loads of aid for Kosovar refugees were despatched to Albania in May and more donations will be welcomed in June.
Over 500 cubic metres of materi- Commenting on the generosity The collection will continue in June,
als has been collected by Upper of Swindon people church elder but opening times may change. Kosovo events
Stratton Baptist Church in Green Chris Butcher said, "we've all been • The most up to date information Kosovo Aid at Oasis Leisure Centre
Road, stretching their resources to overwhelmed by the response, on the efforts by Upper Stratton 30 May, start time to be confirmed
the limit. Volunteers, including a Many people have said they are Baptist Church can be seen 0: Midge Ure, Mike Scott, Howard Jones,
number of Kosovar's asylum seek- glad a centre is available in Swin- www.usbc.freeserve.co.uk/ John Otway + others.
ers, who have arrived in the town don as it allows them to do more refugee.htm Tickets: £15. Info: 01672 541015
since last September, have packed than just give money." • USBC info, line, tel: 538851
the trucks tightly with mattresses, The items are trucked to a refu- Summer Ball: The Chinese Experience
clothing, baby equipment and toys, gee camp in the Albanian town of • Items can be left atToothill Com- 25 June. Tickets: £25 from 877888
food and toiletries. Berat where missionary Dudley munity Centre, Holy Trinity £10 will be donated to Oxfam
Church, Shaw
Using a storage barn located on Powell organises distribution.
a hill near Purton, it is ironic that If donating items, please con-
those loading the aid can see the sider that the church has an urgent After school children help out
tail fins of NATO aircraft, just six need for hard cash to pay for the Members of Toothill After School Club spent the afternoon on 5 May
miles miles across the Thames river trucks to get the aid out to Albania. packing shoe boxes with items collected for refugee children. Each
valley at Fairford, where service- Each trip costs nearly £3,000. contained food, toiletries, toys and sweets.
men load up Cruise missiles for The church is also appealing to Donna Lewis said she was sad to see all the children on telvision with
raids on Serbia. business for corporate donations. nothing. Brother Dale said he had put a teddy into his shoebox.
Someoft/wafter school club children with theirgifts, rearfrom left, Dale Lewis,
Lianne Mead, Donna Lewis. Front, Chantelle Haywood, Alexandra Baldwin,
Paris Steernson, Charlotte Francis

Volunteers loading the first aid truck on 30 April

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'e Furniture Cyclists take up challenge
Martin Dearing, 11, right below, Ukraine Dentaid
and Christopher Ashcroft, 10, of
The chair Grange Park raised over £200 trip on
when they cycled ten miles around
West Swindon in late April. Freshbrook dentist Brendon Ball
is well advanced in planning his
that supports They organised their ride after trip to the Ukraine with fellow
an assembly about the plight of the dentist Richard Swift in late July.
the parts that Kosovar refugees at their school, They have collected a large
Oliver Tomkins Juniors. amount of material and equipment
others don't With help from mum Ruth which they will install. They will
Dearing, they delivered a car load then provide training to local den-
Sole stockist in Swindon of baby items, toiletries and food tists on how it should be used.
to Upper Stratton Baptist Church. As chairman of the local dental
committee and representative on
1herapod®
the General Dental Services Com-
mittee, Brendon has been able to
publicise his trip and has been over-
whelmed by donations from other
In house CAD dentists and suppliers.
design service available for "Being dental equipment, many
of the items are small but the value
all new furniture installations is very high," he said. "Most of it is
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in excellent condition; we have
For all your office requirements: enough to equip a small hospital."
Brendon decided to help Den-
Choice OFFICE FURNITURE taid after reading articles about
their work in The Link over the last
BSS House, Unit 22, Cheney Manor, Swindon two years.
Open: Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.30pm. Saturday gam to Ip He and Richard plan to give talks
to other dentists and local groups
Tel: 01793 521212 • Fax: 01793 534410 on their return.