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36 The Link Magazine • March 2005
Get ready to play at school SAS puppy prepares
Adventure play equipment has been installed on the Catherine 'Sassy,' a guide dog puppy is in training and will soon be working
Wayte School field in Abbey Meads - but children have to wait until with a blind person, thanks to customers and staff at Drove Veteri-
the weather improves before they can make use of it. nary Hospital.
Once the ground dries out, the However committee member The animal hospital set " ,r,
series of obstacles, rope bridges Dawn Chilvers said more parents itself a 2004 target of rail ` _
and balance beams named The need to join the PTA if help for the ing £5,000 to sponsor a .. m
Smokey Mountain Trail will be the school is to continue. "Only a hand- guide dog and fundraising l$ ^
centre of playtime activity. ful are involved in organising fund took place throughout the
raising activities; year, including a summer
we really do need fete and the production of
more people to a calendar.
come forward to But a vet, two nurses and
help plan and run a receptionist went beyond
events." the call of duty by taking
Joanne Baldwin part inaSAS'are you tough
said last summer's enough' challenge last July.
school fete was Vet Ann Walton said she
nearly cancelled for and her colleagues had to
lack of helpers. endure a weekend of dep-
"We're all parents, rivation and hard military
just like all the oth- discipline, of yomping
ers. It's not a huge around the Brecon Beacons
Youngsters at Catherine Wayte School keen to play with commitment dur- without food and very lit- meets Drove's SAS team, from left, Sue
headteacherCeliaMessenger,Tracey Major, Joan ne Baldwin ing the year and tlesleep."Weweretheonly Sassy
Rolfe, Ann Walton, Nicky Bint, Jo Mitchell.
and Dawn Chilvers most of the plan- women on the course with Front, Geraldine Tracey
ning is done in the about 30 blokes, but the
Headteacher Celia Messenger pub or in the playground. The chil- trainers didn't make any allow- Nurse Sue Rolfe said the puppy
congratulated the school's Parent dren are desperate for more discos ances. We put up with the hiking, was given the name Sassy to re-
Teacher Association for the £3,900 if there are enough adults to help lack of sleep, the cold and the wet, member the endurance weekend.
raised for the equipment. "The and we could raise more money if but carrying the packs was agonis- "It was all worth it to see her in
parents' committee have done a more parents came forward." ing." training, knowing that she will be
wonderfuljoborganisingthesum- Catherine Wayte parents and The women were also put helping a blind person in a few
mer fete, Christmas and Easter grandparents who would like to through a weapons training ses- months."
events and also children's discos join the PTA committee should sion and had to carry out a night Geraldine Tracey, Guide Dogs
and parents have been very gener- contact Ms Messenger in school, time reconnaissance and attack for the Blind Association local
ous in their financial support." or call 727405. mission. Continued opposite

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