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14 AT YOUR LIBRARY
Casual evening vacancy for A Cake for Bookstart
Swindon College Centre Head
at Greendown School
Monday to Thursday, 6pm to approx. Baby Amber Smith from Abbey Mead is Bookstart's 1,000th member in Swindon and Swindon South MP
8.30pmj. Immediate start to June Julia Drown joined us on 22 September to present her mum Emma with a bouquet, and cut a cake to
You will need to enjoy meeting people celebrate, writes librarian Robert Cotterell.
and have good organisational skills
Hourly rate: £7.60 Sponsored by Sainsbury's, tial in society today.
For fu rther details contact Raziya Bookstart is a national scheme, Libraries have board books with
or Caroline on 871413 aimed at encouraging parents to pages of thick card which are at
read with their babies from an early less risk of being torn by little ones
age. New members receive a free and every library in Swindon has
starter pack which contains infor- this section highlighted as 'Books
£12.95 could change
mation on how to share reading, for Bookstart Babies'. Library
your mind two story books for the very young membership and book borrowing
and details of how to join Swin- is free.
The Crime of don's library service. The packs And don't forget the regular
are given out by Health Visistors storytimes for under fives every
Being German at the child's seven month hearing Friday at 10.30am at West Swin-
test. don library and Mondays, 11am,
ISBN 1 85776 204 5 It's never too soon to start being at Central library.
can now be ordered through aware of books, colours, shapes We are looking forward to an-
and letters, and gradually develop other thousand Bookstart babies
your bookshop, or direct from:
a love of reading which is so essen- by the end of the year.
The Book Guild
25 High Street,
Lewes BN7 2LU
Julia Drown MP, right, with centre, Be creative for the Millennium
Credit card orders on Emma and Amber Smith, and Mary
(01825)723398 Dawes of the library service Write a poem
West Swindon based Ligden Poetry Society is running a competition
backed by Burmah Castrol and the Swindon Arts Foundation. Win-
accommodation... beNefits... ning and recommended poems will be published in a Pulsar millen-
nium poetry anthology.
e^lucatioN... family.., health... Organiser David Pike, from
justice... money... sport... Grange Park, said the publication
will act as a permanent and col-
leisure... traiNiNg... lectable record and will show how
poets thought at the turn of the
AND ALL."f''Ht< "1"S B 'T ! EEN To ZED second millennium.
On offer are three main prizes:
.. 1st £75, 2nd £50, £3rd £25.
There is a small fee of £2 for the
Computer database available to search for answers
first poem and 50p for subsequent
locally and nationally, plus internet access @ entries to recover printing costs.
The Youth Unit, Link Centre Poems of not more than 40 lines
should be typed on A4 and sub-
Drop in or make an appointment or mitted by 29 February 2000 to The
swmnon
call Jo Marchment on 465466 for details Editor, Pulsar Poetry Magazine,
34 Lineacre, Grange Park, Swin-
don, SN5 6DA.
Entry fee cheques /postal orders
SWINDON CYCLES should be made payable to 'Ligden
S
Poetry Society.' Radio launch for the millennium po-
SUPERSTORE 1 A full set of rules and conditions etry competition. David Pike, front
can be seen at Swindon's web site left, with Liz Rouse of Burmah Castrol,
60a Beechcroft Road (Ex Car Showroom) www.swindonlink.com or they Sandy Martin of BBC Wiltshire Sound
Between Stratton Crossroads & Kingsdown can be obtained from David Pike and Erik Burnett-Godfree of the Swin-
Tel: (01793) II on 875941. don Foundation for the Arts
Write a short story
n With over 230 cycles r' Burmah Castrol staff charity group is inviting entries to its annual
on show, the choice is BIG short story competition.
The top prize is £1,000, second prize £300 and third £200.
• Ranging from juniors Entries can be on any theme and should be between 1,500 and 1,800
to around the words, double line typed on single sided A4 paper.
Open Monday to They should be prefaced with a front page containing the title of the
£2,000 lightweight Saturday 9am to 5.30p story, name and address of the entrant. No identification marks should
Closed Sundays appear on the actual manuscript. Multiple entries are allowed but must
be accompanied by £5 entry fee per story.
IOCIRENLESTER
PENNILL Entries should be sent to June Hoskins, Short Story Competition,
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(RALEIGH _ H `e ' o
400NMItEPS Burmah Castrol, Pipers Way, Swindon, by 7 January 2000.
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