UK News links Gamlingay (main menu) Service and Utilities In the March 2001 Issue Leading page The Silent Invader (poem) Combating Hate Crime News from St Mary's Church Services - Gamlingay, Everton and Hatley St George News from the Baptists Village Diary New Year Parish Walk Gamlingay Grows Greater Neighbourhood Watch Gamlingay First School Gamlingay First School - New Building Enquiries Received From Teesdale to Tasmania Community Corner Clubs and Societies Church Mouse Parish Council News 24 Hr Freephone for South Cambs Housing Tenants Green Wellie What’s On? Editorial Committee Chairman: Graham Virgo Production Editor: Jackie Hough Advertising: Claire Twydell, 42 Stocks Lane Tel 01767 650113 email:twydell@btinternet.com The Gazette now has its own email address: email: GamlingayGazette@tesco.net The Gazette is produced on a PC using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Publisher. If you are providing a disc, and are not using Microsoft Word, please save your file as a TEXT file not in your word processor’s native format. Thank you. Your letters and items for articles can also be dropped in at the Village College Library. Just mark them for The Gazette. Every care is taken to ensure the accuracy of the items included but the views expressed do not necessarily represent the views of the Committee. Internet Version: HTML code hand coded by Roderick Starksfield Text and graphics pasted from Microsoft Publisher.

GAMLINGAY VILLAGE COLLEGE SAFER ROUTES TO SCHOOL by Lesley Hall (SRTS Project Team) There will be an exhibition of the Village College element of the Safer Routes To School (SRTS) Project at the College on Thursday 29th March. The exhibition will be open from 3.30pm to 5pm and from 7pm to 8pm. The College has built a 3D model of the school and surrounding environment. Parents, Governors, Teachers and Residents are invited to visit and see the model, to discuss the problems and give their ideas to make things better. The objective is to improve the approaches to the school and make them more attractive and safer for everyone. The meeting is very informal and will be fun. For further information about the exhibition or the SRTS Project, contact Lesley Hall on 01480 376721. THE SILENT INVADER It stole the life of bug and bird, And with its silent shroud interred, The frozen forms of their remains, And made their tiny souls its gains. Its army was invading snow, Its navy was the iceberg flow, Its air force was the driving sleet, And all the world lay at its feet. It celebrates each gory fight, By turning all its captives white, And lies atop them all to quell, Their inclination to rebel. Yet who could not behold with awe, A frozen world held in its claw, With all its armour shining bright, And glare that calls the sun to fight? So sun climbs up to join the fray, Once more its ancient foe to slay, Proclaiming with each victory, Snow’s melting valedictory. Sent in by Kathleen Smith Top of page