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Dwelling celebrates 25 years A Secretarial
Two of the first residents at Elsie Hazel Court sheltered housing in & Administrative
Freshbrook and three of its first staff met up again at the end of March Outsourcing
to celebrate the official opening of the building on the same day a Solution
quarter of a century ago.
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Mavis Cooper also had young chil- Current and third warden Dave
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She said the first six residents arrived.”
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year’s very bad winter. “We had to second warden, is now a resident (Only items valued at £35 or more can be accepted)
open up earlier than planned be- and social secretary.

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