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No, not the forthcoming election, but the kind that blows into my garden! Over the last year or so I have noticed a general increase in the amount of rubbish around our village. Outside the library and around the village college car park, along Middle Watch and around the football green and children's play area. Whilst some of the smaller items of litter could be attributed to the youngsters dropping sweet wrappers on the home to school route, what concerns me more are the larger items that I have observed over the winter months accumulating round the village and surrounding lanes: some of these can only be attributable to the actions of a small minority of the older village residents, as many must have been dumped from vehicles. For example:
I have even found bags of dog-dirt in between my fence and garage wall! Thanks for clearing it off the street, but why can't you take it home?!! And the final item that drove me to write this article was: finding a washing machine dumped in the no man's land between the new estate and Thistle Green, a small 10 foot wide stretch of land that no one seems to have claimed ownership to since the new estate fences went up. To dump this (and it can only have come from one of the few properties backing on this land) it would have to have been put over a 6 foot high fence, no mean feat if you have ever tried to lift one! I hope the person who dumped it is reading this and feels suitably ashamed. Do our children know what some of their parents are doing to the local environment that they will soon inherit? How can we expect our children to turn into responsible adults when they see what their elders are doing? How would you feel if someone dumped rubbish into your garden? And why, if you have gone to the trouble of loading rubbish into your car, can't you make a trip to the tip? Both Milton and Buckden are not that far away. Whilst most of the problem and its solution are in our hands I feel that perhaps the Parish Council could help to encourage a cleaner village by posting a number of new waste bins at the black spots around the village, providing a village skip for those items the dustcarts do not remove and reminding us all of the penalties for dropping litter. It's your and my village, so let us try to be responsible neighbours. DON'T DROP IT AND IF YOU DO clean it up. A concerned village resident [Ed's note: I too have noticed an increase in litter and rubbish in the area, what about you? Let us know your views.] |
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Could 1 through The Meridian thank everyone in Swavesey who supported the Millennium events which raised so much money for charitable causes. Although the fundraising was intended to be only incidental to the celebrations, not only were we able to purchase a defibrillator for the surgery, but the staggering amount of £2850.00 was donated to the Cambridge Branch of the Parkinson's Disease Society. Bob Stone presented the cheque for this at an Open Forum on the disease held in Cambridge on 26th April. I can assure everyone that the money will be put to good use. The Cambridge Branch employs four Welfare Visitors, all trained nurses, who help and support sufferers from the disease and their carers in Cambridge and the surrounding area. Two of these posts are currently vacant, and we are now in a position to recruit people to fill them. Their salaries are funded entirely from voluntary sources, apart from a small grant from the County Council, so we need to be constantly fund-raising. We have also made donations to the Brain Repair Centre at Addenbrooke's, which is doing vital research into the causes and cures for Parkinson's and other diseases of the brain. In this connection, can I use your pages to advertise a concert we are holding on Friday 15th June, 7.30 p.m., at Swavesey Village College, where the Cambridge Crofters are performing for us. There will be a raffle for a TV and a licensed bar kindly run for us by The White Horse. We can promise a great evening with this popular local folk group. Tickets, priced £8.00, are available from me at the above address or from Mervyn Howard on 230889. Thanks again to everyone for their support. |