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Week 2 – waste collection – recyclables

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New Bins
Week 2 of the new refuse collection. Being town centre they came round early before the traffic builds up.
New Bins
Our large green bin was full so we could be doubling the amount recycled compared with the old system. The brown composting bin is quite empty – two large bunches of flowers from a birthday and a few grass cutting. The old style dustbin is there to be recycled itself. The little green food waste bin has less kitchen waste than last week.

The Duke of Gloucester came to Abingdon

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Duke of Gloucester
Yesterday, The Duke of Gloucester opened Abingdon Resource and Wellbeing Centre. The Day Centre which used to be near the library, has moved to the Abbey Centre in Audlett Drive and been upgraded to a Resource and Well Being Centre – something more than a Day Centre. It now also has the aim of ‘ keeping individuals in their own homes for as long as possible and to actively address health needs at an early stage.‘ They and other user groups of the Abbey Centre were there to see him.

(Sorry I did not get a picture. Please send if you did.)

Runaway Fair

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Abingdon Runaway Fair
This much smaller fair causes less disruption than the big Michaelmas fair. There is a small diversion as High Street is closed. and so large buses round the tight corners of East and West St Helen Street from early Sunday to late Monday. The rides are primarily for children, and by about 7:30 pm you hear the stall holders deciding whether to pack up or not.

I believe the runaway fair gave people a second chance if they had to runaway from their first post – back in the days when the Michaelmas and Runaway Fair were hiring fairs.

Choose Abingdon Partnership One Year On

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Choose Abingdon Partnership
This evening the Choose Abingdon Partnership gave a presentation on what they have been doing since their creation almost a year ago. Choose Abingdon is a partnership along the lines of Didcot First and Bicester Vision – whose aim is to promote the town. So far Choose Abingdon has …

1. Set up the community shop. The current premises is about to be let, and so Scottish Widows who own the shop have offered Choose Abingdon an alternative premises.

2. Set up the Choose Abingdon Local Food and Craft Market with the help of Carbon Cutters. The first one will be on Saturday 23rd October.

3. Set up the Choose Abingdon Loyalty Card with sponsorship by Miele. The launch will be this coming Saturday.

4. Promoted Abingdon through the Whats On in Abingdon leaflet which has come out quarterly.

5. Designed new tourist maps for the town – which will soon appear instead of the current faded specimens.

We were shown a two minute video as a sampler of the 6 hours of Abingdon life that that has been professionally recorded. This and a growing photo library will be aimed at promoting Abingdon up to the Olympics.