The big sign advertising 6 months free rent has come down. Shelves have been put in place for the what I believe will be a CD and DVD exchange (possibly records and other objects too). Time will soon tell.
Every Tuesday at Preston Road Community Centre there is Bingo. Eyes down at 8:00 pm. Unlike the online Bingo it is a community event where people get together with friends and chat between games. Its twitter hashtag is #prestonroadjackpot.
On Friday the Blood Donation Service take over the centre for the day so I would guess the usual Friday Youth Club for South Abingdon has a week off.
The Abingdon U3A meet at Preston Road Community Centre. The University of the Third Age is for people who have retired and still want to learn and discover new things.
There are lots more groups who use Preston Road Community Centre. The centre is run by a small group of volunteers, who would welcome new volunteers, and is there for the local community. New sliding partitions have been recently installed so that different areas are soundproofed and the large hall can be divided in two, as can the lounge, or it can all be opened up for one big event – very configurable.
This week (Jan 27 – Feb 1 2014) there is a chance to find out about Apprenticeships in the Community Shop. It is both for young people, from 16-60, who are thinking of doing an apprenticeship, and for employers thinking of taking on an apprentice. (For employers there is also an event at the Miele Centre on Thursday called Make Sense of Apprenticeships.)
The event is run by Oxfordshire Apprenticeships who had apprentice shop fitters to set up the shop. (Thanks to them for the pictures.)
Apprenticeships seem to cover a much wider range of skills than traditional trade apprenticeships. They can be anything from Accounting to Youth Work.
John said “There is a lot of activity at the Boundary House Traffic Junction. Perhaps one of your knowledgeable followers can tell is what is going on. It seems curious that money is being spent on this junction – where as a user I have never noticed a problem – when there are potholes galore waiting for attention!
Better publicised is the work to begin this week at the Wootton Road / Dunmore Road roundabout. There will a new toucan crossing on the Dunmore Road, and the pavement from the roundabout to beyond Abingdon College will be widened to include a cycle lane.
This £300K scheme is funded by the Department for Transport and Oxfordshire County Council to improve cycle safety. The Abingdon northern ring road has had more than its share of cycle accidents and fatalities.
“Think Bicycle!”