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Highlights of
OXFORD CLEAN SLATE
WEEK
November 29 - December
5
Monday 29 November
Fox FM broadcast news items about Clean Slate Week throughout
the day.
Edward Feild Primary School in Kidlington held a school assembly
and had a ceremonial burning of pieces of paper on which children
and staff had written the things they wanted to leave behind
in the old millennium. This was reported in The Oxford Mail
on Dec 3rd.
Edward Peters addressed the Oxford
City Rotary Club about the campaign.
The Oxford Channel broadcast
street interviews with Oxfordshire residents about what they
want to do to clean their slates.
Thursday 2 December
Leaflets were handed out in Bonn
Square throughout the day, and there was considerable interest
from passers by.
The Lord Mayor of Oxford
held a tea party in her Town Hall parlour for the 12 winners
of the schools competition. This was reported on The Oxford
Channel.
Friday 3 December
The Oxford
Mail carried a report on the symbolic burning by school
children of things they wanted to leave behind in the old millennium.
BBC Radio
Thames Valley
interviewed one of the winners of the schools competition, Sabrina
Cardoso of Frideswide School.
Children from
Edward Feild Primary School in Kidlington presented highlights
of their work with the clean slate theme, at a public meeting
for parents and other guests. It was a powerful presentation
of music, art and poetry.
Local MP
Evan Harris spoke.
Saturday 4 December
A millennium exhibition at St
Albans Church, Charles Street, included the Clean Slate Campaign.
(This exhibition will be open from 2-4pm every Saturday and Sunday
until 19 December.)
Sunday 5 December
Several churches marked
the Clean Slate theme in special ways.
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