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                             Take to the beach in North Swindon

     The sight of completely soaked children has become a common site at the North Swindon district centre where the town's newest attraction
      has proved a huge hit over the summer months.
       The £500,000 dancing fountains                                                    "I must admit that I was slightly
      designed by a Canadian company                                                   outraged when I saw the kids in
      at the heart of the centre draws                                                 'my fountain.' But it's a commu-
      children of all ages like bees to                                                nity facility and there's a nice at-
     honey. They are to be seen larking                                                mosphere with the mums and dads
      about for hours chasing the spouts                                               sitting around the side watching
      of water, sitting on the jets and                                      f    `.   the children."
      letting them shoot up their T shirts.
       But with the tragic deaths from
      outbreaks of Legionnaires Disease                                                 In Inderjeet's memory
     in other parts of the country this                                                Win a flight to New York or a
     year, maintaining the fountains to                                                flight in a hot air balloon.
                                                                                                    y
      the highest standard is paramount.                                                 These and man  other prizes are
       The job falls to Julian Leggett                                                 on offer at a multi-cu 1 to ral evening
      from Freshbrook who is manager                                                   on 5 October to
      of the West Swindon district cen-                                -               celebrate the
      tre, and formerly had responsibil-                       I                       life of Inderjeet
     ity for several big office blocks in                                              Bharaj from     '•
      the town centre with air condition-     Julian keeping an eye on his fountains   Grange Park,    ^'
     ing units. "Legonella is an airborne  • under the fountains is a huge  • super fine jets around the  who tragically
     bacteria which can spread when  tank which takes 27 hours to fill;  fountains, fed directly from the died of a sud-
     water droplets are turned into a  • there at 48 jets powered by two  mains, will create a fine mist  den asthma at-  ,.
     fine aerosol," he said.       pumps;                     which sits like a fog over the site tack in February.
       "In the mild form people have  • one fountain has its own pump  on a quiet evening;  The event, which includes an In-
      cold symptoms, but older people,  and is capable of throwing a jet  • a nearby gauge will turn the  dian buffet and entertainment,
      smokers and young children arevul-  up to 30 metres, higher than the  fountains off if the wind gets  takes place at King Edward's Place,
     nerable to serious illness. It means  adjacent shops;    above ten miles per hour and a  Wanborough and will raise money
      the water quality in a facility like the  • controlled by a computer run by  thermometer does the same if  for the respiratory ward at the new
     fountains has tobe regularly checked  a company in Surrey, an infinite  the temperature drops within  Great Western Hospital.
      and the right chemical levels main-  number of jet combinations can  two degrees of freezing.  Tickets at £25 are available from
     tained to kill off the bug."  be programmed into the system;  Being responsible for such ex- Freshbrook pharmacy, tel. 870226,
       Apart from the cost, Julian said  • each jet has a floodlight in its  pensive kit, Julian said he did not or call 703229 or 725071.
     other features of the fountain were  base to create a fascinating light  want children in the fountains at  Raffle tickets at £1 are available
     impressive:                   and water show;          first.                     from these numbers.



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