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12 The Link Magazine • July 2006 Free classifieds now available @ www.swindonlink.com

Getting ready for 20 School turns out to clean up their community
Greendown Community Youngsters from Greendown Community School in Grange Park did their bit to keep their neighbour-
School Family Fun Day to hood clean and tidy with a mass litter pick and graffiti scrub down on the last day of term.
celebrate the opening of the
school in September 1986
Saturday 15 July, 11am to 4pm
at Greendown, Grange Park
Free entry
• Stalls, car boot sale
• 5-a-side football tournament
• Arts and crafts fair
• Sponge a teacher, face
painting, bouncy castle, raffle
• Beer tent, BBQ, Fairtrade stall
Greendown graduates reunited -
where are you now? Meet up with
old friends or send information to
the school as soon as possible.
Call Julie Porter on 758842 to
sign up for arts and crafts pitches
at £15 and car boot at £5.
Organised by the
Friends of Greendown The Mayor and Mayoress of Swindon Mike and Joyce Bawden with enthusiastic yoirngsters reuIt to hit their area
Nearly 100 pupils
Operation Toothill Safe & Clean were given the
morning off lessons
Thursday 27 July - morning to tour Grange Park,
Freshbrook and the
A multi-agency project to tidy up Toothill Village Centre and West Swindon Cen-
surrounding area involving the police, fire brigade, Swindon tre removing rub-
Council Crime & Disorder Team, waste cleansing department, bish and scrubbing
graffiti hit squad and others.
graffiti vandalism
Toothill residents are invited to join one of the clean up teams off street furniture.
removing litter and graffiti. For details about taking part They were joined
call Jane Dudley on 466473. by Swindon coun-
cillors, housing de-
partment wardens,
police officers, fire-
fighters, church
youth workers and representatives reported that their staff had re-
from ntl and BT. moved graffiti or repainted 14
At an assembly beforehand green and grey roadside cabinets
Mayor Mike Bawden congratu- across West Swindon by early June.
lated the pupils for their direct Headteacher Steve O'Sullivan
action. "Society does not take said he was proud that young peo-
enough responsibility and litter ple were willing to keep their area
always seems to be somebody clear of litter. "As West Swindon's
else's problem. People of all ages community school we are both de-
drop litter; I think it's fabulous livering education and also ad-
that Greendown pupils are show- dressing what it means to be a
ing so much enthusiasm for keep- good citizen."
ing their area tidy." Leanne Rayner, 13, said, "our
In the run up to the clean up day community action group came to-
on 26 May the youngsters had gether because we're sick of being
written to utility companies and accused of all the graffiti and litter
representatives from ntl and BT there is. Young people should not
came to the assembly. ntl contrac- be blamed for causing all the mess;
tors joined the clean up and BT we care about our area."