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2     The Link Magazine • May 2001                                                                    www.swindo
                           'Spirit of Swindon' takes to the water

    Landlocked Swindon will soon see its name riding the ocean waves when Norman Butler from Westlea and Andy Norris from Lechlade make
    a 70 day dash across the Atlantic in the Ward Evans Atlantic rowing challenge.
      Eighteen months after entering                                    We're aiming to  with 40 foot waves, Atlantic
    for the 3,000 mile race, Norman                                     achieve a high  storms, being run down by tank-
    saw the next stage of his dream                                     placing in the  ers and overturned by whales.
    come true when his self-built boat                                  'Spirit of Swin-
    'Spirit of Swindon was launched                                     don."             24 hour row for
    at the end of March.                                                  Starting in  asthma at Sainsburys
     Now teamed up with Andy                                            Tenerife on 7
    Norris from Lechlade, Norman has                                    October it will  Meet Norman and Andy, see
    built the 24 foot vessel from a stand-                              take between 70  the 'Spirit of Swindon' and find
    ard kit of 27 sheets of marine ply-                                 to 90 days to  out about their adventure at a
    wood which all fifty teams from                                     reach Barbados.  24 hour machine row in aid of
    around the globe have had to work                                   The race will  the National Asthma Campaign
    with.                        Swindon businesses including  impose extreme physical and men-  on 17 and 18 May at Sains-
     "It's really gratifying to see the Early Learning Centre, deSign,  tal demands upon the teams. Along
    'Spirit of Swindon' on the water Nationwide Building Society,  the way they will have to contend  burys, Bridgemead.
    after all the hard work to get this Innogy, and Link Centre have pro-
    far," said Norman. "Apart from vided assistance.       Backing for fire-fighters China fundraising trek
    constructing the boat in my spare Norman's confidence in success
    time, we've built a support team to has not faltered since he entered  Fire-fighters from Group 2 at Westlea station all went blond in public
    help us prepare ourselves physi- the race in September 1999. "Hav-  at a mass bleach at the West Swindon Centre on 14 April with the help
    cally and mentally, and attracted ing Andy aboard is tremendous;  of hair stylists from Partners hair salon.
    some major sponsorship."   we get on well and he is very fit.
                                                            The event
                                                          raised money
                                                          for the Fire Serv-
                                                          ices Benevolent
                                                          Fund and to
                                                          help Sean Dun-
        inip              vements.                        ham take part in
                                                          the Fire-fighters
                                                          Trek along the
        Installers of quality replacement PVCu            Great Wall of
                                                          China in aid of
          windows, doors and conservatories               the fund.
                                                            Sean travels
        Also fascia boards, soffits and claddings         to the remote
                                                          eastern areas of
     Styles and                                           China in mid-
    elegance to                     ®^                    June to negoti-
    complement           _^       ®^ ®Y^                  ate mountains
                                                          and deep gorges.           are a £300 mountain bike and
    your home
                                                            See the blonde bombshells with passes to the Wiltshire Festival
    Free quotations  ^^^  t  l  ' 1 ;  ^.^                their roots emerging at the fire sta- Party in the Park and Classical
    and computer   ^      ^^   ^^                         tion open day on 19 May when Evening. Raffle tickets can also be
                                                          raffle tickets will be on sale. Prizes obtained by calling 07796 192329.
    aided design         I
    service                                       1
    Special rates
    on supply only
     For details, tel. or fax: 01793 855492
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