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Veterans fascinate Greendown pupils
Sensata Ltd. are a professional Microsoft
Certified IT Services and Support History was brought to life for pupils at Greendown School when
war veterans were invited to share their memories.
company. We provide, install and
support a full range of IT solutions that The visit, organised by Swindon
deliver significant business value to South MP Anne Snelgrove to mark
small and medium sized businesses in the second Veterans’ Day at the
Wiltshire and surrounding counties. end of June, gave Year 9 pupils
who have signed up for GCSE his-
LOCAL, AFFORDABLE tory, a chance to put a variety of
questions to ex-servicemen who
IT PROFESSIONALS had served in conflicts ranging
from World War II to the Gulf War.
WITH OVER 30 YEARS TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE Among the visitors was D-Day
Providing glider pilot Bill Higgs, 87, from
• Networking, Firewall and Internet solutions including wireless Wroughton. He said, “I go to a lot
• Hardware including IBM, HP and Dell of lectures all over Wiltshire to The colours match. Brendon Wallwork
• Anti-Virus / Anti-Spam products speak about my experiences. It is tries on Bill Higg’s historic beret at the
• Software based on Microsoft product portfolio important young people learn Veterans’ Day event at Greendown
what war is about, both the ugly
• Free initial audit
side as well as the comradeship of experience. For them to get a sense
Installing the soldiers involved.” of the unity and pride after all
• System implementation, configuration and documentation. The pupils recorded their inter- those years, it was a positive thing.”
• Data integration, migration and co-existing views on video for a documentary Head of history, Vicki Lewis
• Application hosting, back-up and disaster recovery solutions which they will edit to help others said, “it was really encouraging
Support learn about 20th Century conflict. that the pupils showed such inter-
Sophie Hartley, 14, said, “it’s a
• On & Offsite technical support lot more interesting than reading est and wanted a deeper under-
standing of the war veterans’ ex-
• Problem diagnosis and resolution history books. Meeting the veter- periences. This is something they
• Remote systems management, monitoring and administration ans offered an insight into real life.” will remember forever.”
Call Sensata now 0845 014 1500 Anne Snelgrove, MP, was War child Sheila Jarvis, 76, from
pleased with the pupils’ interest. Grange Park, was delighted to take
E-mail: [email protected] “We can mark our respect to veter- part. “I was so impressed that I
ans and say thank you for the job wrote a letter to the Queen de-
www.sensata.co.uk they did, while asking them to pass scribing how the young people at
on their knowledge as a learning Greendown are learning about our
experience.” brave servicemen and she sent me
Freshbrook Church youth such a nice reply which I have
worker Dave Davidson, a former passed on to Ms Lewis.”
RAF armaments specialist and • Sheila visits schools to talk about
Gulf War veteran, commented, “I her wartime childhood. Her story
think some of the pupils were con- will be featured in the September
www.timberdeckingco.co.uk sidering a military career after the Link.

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They want to hear from indi- As part of the Government
Specialist
viduals, community and voluntary agenda to engage citizens in deci-
groups who want to make a differ- sion making, Caroline’s role is to
ence in their neighbourhood. Any- demystify council procedures and
one who feels strongly about local consultations. She will help peo-
issues, for example road safety out- ple find their way through the for-
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lections or policing, can use SCEN that all those who want to express
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& Gazebos Co-ordinator, Caroline Cooper, tual, communicating via email,
said that many people want to newsletter and an online forum.
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Aggregates know how to be effective. “There tunity to meet up from time to
are things that people feel very time. To join, call Caroline Cooper
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