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RA’s new litter initiative TERRY BROOKS
A select group of Suburb residents not intended to be in any way Golders Green Girl Guides group,
gathered at Fellowship House prescriptive. who meet in Fellowship House
on the evening of June 20 to There was a lively discussion on a Monday evening, have
inaugurate the RA’s new litter around litter; how to deal with volunteered to help and had
picking initiative. Many of the it; worries about disposing of any already cleared Willifield Green
more than 50 volunteers involved litter collected; stories of litter and much of Willifield Way
in the scheme were present to bins going missing; what to do before the meeting began, using
get their litter grabbers and with clothes (some volunteers their own litter pickers.
Outstanding Archer answers to any questions. wash and donate them to charity RA litter pickers in the Suburb
There used to be a group of
shops); using the blue bins for
Michael Green, co-ordinator
of the group, and Emma Howard, bottles and cans, and more. some years ago, which some
Just six years after opening, the assessment, personal development, hard working students, who Chair of the RA, thanked Suburb The general rule when readers will probably remember
Archer Academy has been judged behaviour and welfare, and out- have already, over the last Ward Councillor, John Marshall, residents have a litter related being part of. Perhaps there are
an outstanding school by Ofsted comes for pupils. academic year, shown their
in all the areas they rate, which Lucy Harrison, the school’s considerable talent and skills in for taking the time to turn up at problem is to report it on Barnet even some still using their old
Council’s website at www.barnet.
the meeting and helping to
grabbers to keep their surroundings
is, leadership and management, head, gave thanks to her drama and dance. arrange for Barnet Council to gov.uk, or e-mail first.contact@ clear of litter.
quality of teaching, learning and fantastic staff team and all the TONY BRAND
supply the equipment. barnet.gov.uk, and, if that does The RA would like more
Volunteers usually pick up not produce results, then e-mail volunteers, young and old, to
Literary Lives – any rubbish from the area our councillors. come forward and if you would
around their house as often as
The RA hopes the initiative
like to find out more about RA
talk at Suburb Community Library they choose to, and are free to will encourage residents to be litter picking, please contact
range as far as they want. more mindful of their environ-
Michael Green at litter@hgsra.uk.
Michael said the scheme was ment. Leading the way, the 2nd TERRY BROOKS
A Suburb
centenarian
CHRISTINA JANSEN
Suburb News would like to let
residents know that Hilda
Williams will be celebrating her
100th birthday on August 10.
She is best known for her
stewardship of Fellowship House
STEVE BEALING/LANDMARK MEDIA
for more than 30 years, and
some readers will remember the
feature we did in the winter
2017 issue of Suburb News
(SN129, page 9).
Born in 1919 on the island
Gill Paul and Tracy Rees spend other author’s books of art and foundling is left in the snow and
their working lives writing about history, and was eventually rescued. A legacy leads this young of St Helena, she is off to South
Africa on August 2 to be with
historic times and the people tempted to try her own hand. woman on a treasure hunt in her family, but will be back.
(Gill, non-fictional; Tracy, fictional) Tracy has always been a writer, this Gothic mystery complete
who lived in them. But on June but had recently completed her with Dickensian class hopping.
6, the centenary of the D-Day training as a counsellor for Gill chooses characters who
landings, before a packed house families dealing with cancer are well enough known to be
at the HGS Community Library, when she learnt that she had internationally appealing, such Tracey Rees and Gill Paul at the Suburb Community library
they had a chance to talk about won the 2014 Richard and Judy as Wallis Simpson and Lady
themselves. This included their Search for a Bestseller competition Diana in Another Woman’s passion for the Romanov’s is learning about different times
and spending time there through
explored in The Lost Daughter
backgrounds, subject matter, for her debut novel, Amy Snow. Husband. Sometimes the choice and The Secret Wife. their writing makes up for any
working methods, and the highs Characters come first for Tracy, is dictated by its topicality, such Each writer has her own downside.
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After this fascinating talk, a
careers in historical fiction. the first person, it was an image: timed to coincide with the writing process, but reading lively Q&A session revealed Gill
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Gill trained in medicine
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