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34 The Link Magazine • April 200 2
Moonwalkers mourn death of a good friend
Well over 200 women and a few men have applied to do the London Moonwalk in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer and the Bristol Cancer
Help Centre in May under the banner of Swindon Twin Peaks, but they will be doing the overnight marathon in memory of one of their
stalwart supporters Dinos Papadakis, who was killed in an accident at junction 15 on the M4 on 6 March.
Ironically Dinos and his girl- don so that he would not have to his wacky antics, he was thought- chairwoman Shirley Garman said
friend Nikki, who got together af- commute. ful and very good at resolving disa- Dinos had become involved after a
ter last year's Moonwalk, had only Twin Peaks coordinator Eunice greements in meetings. His posi- work colleague had suffered from
just decided to move closer to Lon- Salmon said that team members tive outlook will be greatly missed; breast cancer. "Dinos became an-
were devastated to hear of the trag- well be walking for him in May as other son to me in the three years
edy. "Dinos was such a nice guy; well as the victims of breast can- we knew each other. There was
he always had a smile on his face cer." nothing we could not ask him to
and bags of enthusiasm. But for all Swindon Breakthrough branch do. Apart from walking through
Dinos with Twin Peak members getting ready for the Moonwalk 2000, fi•oni London wearing a bra, he would
left, Tracey Watt, Eunice Salmon, Traces/ Lcwc^is, Alison Pewsey, Sarah Bailey shake a tin for us wearing a super-
man outfit. It's so awful that he has
been taken from us; we're very sad
for Nikki."
Entries for the Moonwalk are
now closed and the Twin Peaks
walkers are training and raising

mLasyea theyraised50000and
are keen to top the figure for the
th dir
e a donaton to a walker,
i
including the Mayor of Swindon,
call Eunice Salmon on 871606.

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