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40 The Link Magazine • August 2002
Combined golden jubilee celebration Gardeners cash in for breast cancer
Oliver Tomkins Infants School marked the Queen's Jubilee at the A weekend of open gardens in West Swindon in aid of Breakthrough
end of its creative arts week in mid-July by opening a butterfly and Breast Cancer in June proved a huge hit with around 800 people
insect garden which will be used as an outdoor classroom. wandering the streets, mainly in Nine Elms, discovering some fasci-
Designed by nursery nurse Caroline Belson, the garden has a number nating designs and hidden corners.
of distinct areas around a central pergola, including a meadow, vegeta- Co-organiser Denise Jones said a lot more gardeners want to take part
ble patch, a pebble beach and a wood. next year. "So many have said that there was a great community spirit
over the weekend."
Swindon Breakthrough Breast Cancer coordinator Shirley Garman collects the
£2,038 raised at the open gardens from Lesley Dredge and Denise Jones
Sharon Watson organised >^: T
an ice cream factory with - ,
her daughter Becky and
Peter Newton

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• , West Swiudou team rector Rcv Stephan Skinner launches the '=T
garden intraditional Mexican styleby wacking a inata fullo -'
confetti butterflies with the help of Rev Alan Hawker, Archdeacon Plant sale and cream teas at Riddlers Cottage, Old Shaw Lane, in aid of
k_` Breakthrough Breast Cancer: Sunday 25 August, 2pm - 5pm,
of Malmesbury, watchetl ' ;, headteaeher Penny Summers

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