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Water for a runner PITSHANGER LANE W5 > Sporting number 3222, Ealing Half Marathon runner ‘Barbora’ accepts the offer of water from a Scouts volunteer at the St Barnabas church water stop on Sunday. > see pages 2-7
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Q&A Caroline Bryants was lead volunteer at the St Barnabas Church water stop on Pitshanger Lane during Sunday’s Ealing Half Marathon. Interviewed minutes before the first runner zoomed past, she explains what she expects the day to be like...
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t feels like the calm before the storm at the moment. So what is going to happen today, then? > It’s going to be complete chaos! There’s a lot of shouting involved. You see, what some people like to do when they’re volunteering is that they see someone across the other side of the road that they’d really love to give water to, so they creep across the road, and they get in the way of the runners. We’re always shouting “foot on the yellow lines”, and I end up quite hoarse by the end of it. So yeah it’s going to be really really busy, thousands of runners coming through, very very thirsty, coming up to this water station at nearly four
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miles in. And then it’s the mass clearup afterwards. So we clear up all the way down to the end of Pitshanger Lane. How many volunteers have you got today? > We’ve got a good bunch – I think about 25, 30 people, and then we’ve got the Scouts who are helping us out this year, which is fantastic. I’ve been doing this now, hmm, this is my third year.
Have you ever run the Ealing Half Marathon, or would you run it yourself? > No, I’m not a runner. I like cycling, but I don’t think I’d get to running it myself. This is all part of the great Pitshanger welcome, with Pitshanger Lane being Great British High Street and all... > Plus the church is 100 years old this year, so it’s a big year for us. It’s a very community-spirited church, so it’s great to be able to do this, and great to be invited to do this each year.
Does this volunteering activity tie in with your day job at all? > No, I’m a psychologist, so – nothing to do with my day job at all! And just good fun. Would you do it again next year? > Every year we say this is the last time, and next year we’ll sit outside a cafe on Pitshanger Lane to watch the race go by. But it hasn’t happened yet! barnabites.org @Barnabites ealinghalfmarathon.com @EalingHalf – interview by Carlene Bender
Online readers: click to watch our interview with Caroline: youtu.be/GNXn78j0K3c
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Fifth Ealing Half Marathon PITSHANGER LANE W5 > Since 2012, the Ealing Half Marathon has been starting and finishing in Lammas Park W5, through a course of 13.1miles skirting the centre of the borough via W5, W13 and W7. With over 30,000 people cheering on the runners (this year roughly 7000 of them), supported by a good 700 or so volunteers, this multiple award-winning is easily the biggest single event of the year in Ealing. The_Ealinger decided to check out the St Barnabas water stop, the second of five church stops along the race route, at the four-mile point, to see how the people of Pitshanger welcomed the runners.
In photos, below: first wave runners blasting through Pitshanger. Bottom: Josphat Kemei sneaks the tiniest of smiles as he leads the race through Pitshanger. Josphat would go on to win in a time of 1:04:14, a good eight minutes ahead of the second-place finisher. Bottom left: waters at the ready.
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HALF MARATHON (continued) Below: David Bone, number 1370, a member of local running club Ealing Eagles, gives us the thumbs-up as he passes through the Pitshanger Lane water station at St Barnabas Church.
More race photos and videos at: contactusealinghomebiz Continued on pages 6-7
Bottom: The Jamal family, regular volunteers at the St Barnabas stop
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HALF MARATHON (continued) Below left: Two runners bearing the green and yellow vest of Ealing, Southall and Middlesex Athletics Club (ESMAC) make their way along Pitshanger Lane. Below right: Number 620, Nick Papavassiliou, who has multiple sclerosis, has the support of the crowd. (Good to see from the results that Nick covered 6.55miles – over half the distance of the race.)
Local band Chasing Deer put on a live rocking beat to as an energy-boost for the runners as they exited Pitshanger Lane Online readers: click to watch our video of Chasing Deer on Sunday: youtu.be/te-Cd4eTNvo
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HALF MARATHON (continued) Below: And after the race, the clear-up along Pitshanger Lane – volunteers (St Barnabas parishioners, local residents, Scouts) empty the remains of the plastic water bottles and collect them for recycling. Surprising that it could all be over so quickly – the volunteers gathered around 7.30am, then the race started at 9am, and had passed through and it was all over and the road reopened and everything back to normal by 11am. Congratulations to all who ran the Ealing Half Marathon on Sunday; kudos to the volunteers, unofficial helpers, cheering neighbours and general happy people who came out in support. Next year: Sunday 24 September.
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Xtreme it was... EALING GREEN W5 > With the skate ramp deemed sufficiently gnarly (?) for the teenagers and young men to get up on it and not come down until home time, it was left to the rest of the park to provide entertainment and a bit of learning and practice for the younger visitors, most of whom turned up to Sports Xtreme Ealing with their wheels already attached. Exceptions to the wheeled brigade were the climbing wall, with its very patient queue, and some of the local keep-fit businesses such as Tribeca Studios and Fit 4 Less gyms. Another top event from Make it Ealing (the Ealing Broadway Business Improvement District) over two days of a super sporty weekend in Ealing.
Click to catch the buzz from the weekend-long Sports Xtreme Ealing: youtu.be/WXpp8BAnxOs
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SPORTS XTREME (continued) Below: The climbing wall and the mini-ramp Bottom: Some of the businesses who took display stands at the event Opposite: Little bikes and big bikes, and some flying skills to show that what goes up does come down
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Broncos end season in style VALLIS WAY W13 > Featherstone Rovers waited until the last five minutes of the game to score their first try, but Sunday’s game was all the way a London Broncos of Ealing affair. Final score 46-6, to bring a stunning season and an awesome Super 8s series to a close. Broncos will not gain promotion to the Super League after, all so it’s another year at the rugby league Championship level. @LondonBroncosRL
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Arden University reaches out
Bottom photo: (left to right) Angeer, Martha and Melanie working on promoting Arden University to shoppers in Ealing Broadway
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EALING BROADWAY SHOPPING CENTRE W5 > The_Ealinger stopped to chat with Angeer, Martha and Melanie to find out what this new university on Ealing Green was like. “Arden University has been going a long time,” explained Melanie, “but this is the first year we are actually having classes in a classroom.” “Even so, most courses you only have to come in twice a week – most of the course material is online, so if you miss a class you can catch up,” she continued. “It’s really good for mature students, or students who have to work at the same time as study. Foundation courses are also available, in case you don’t have the right entry qualifications.” So what’s the green apple all about? “That’s for you to take a selfie with; you could win a Kindle Fire.” Arden has some open event days coming up – see advert on page 18. @Arden_Uni
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Transport talks Local event coming up? Contact Joanna Dudzinska and invite her to come along to cover it for The_Ealinger. Find Joanna on Facebook: English Lessons Online and Offline Ealing Walking, Talking and Exploring Group • Next walk/talk: WEST EALING – FRI 30 SEP 11am-12.45pm
HIGH STREET W3 > Freelance contributor for The_Ealinger, Joanna Dudzinska, was out and about in Acton when she chanced upon this group of men. “A poster saying ‘Play on tonight’ lured me into The Acton Trade Union Club,” writes Joanna, “where instead I met four men at a table debating the changes to public transport in Ealing. “I was asked to pass on the address: www.eptug.org for everyone to have their say.” EPTUG stands for Ealing Passenger Transport Users’ Group. Read the full version of Joanna’s story on her blog: tinyurl.com/Joanna-Four-Men
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Wira of Warsaw: a closer look EALING CENTRAL LIBRARY W5 > Acton-based author George Szlachetko, along with wife Jacqui and daughter Emma, took part in a presentation and Q&A last Thursday based around his first book, ‘Wira of Warsaw’, which tells the story of George’s mother, Wira, who joined the Polish underground army during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. She eventually came to live in Ealing as a political refugee. Photos by Joanna Dudzinska
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Above and at left: Wira’s granddaughter Emma reading from the book (for which she designed the cover, bottom left). Emma is now older than Wira was (14) when she joined the resistance forces. Below: George discusses parts of the book as his wife Jacqui (far left) looks on
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Athena women’s lunch SCOTCH COMMON W5 > Ealing members of the Athena West London women’s networking group meet at the Duke of Kent every third Tuesday of the month. Below: new member Pascale Chaillet explains what will happen at her Shiatsu for Dementia course (see ad, p15). Bottom: Isabelle Morley-Fletcher (with colour wheel); and Stephanie Mclean (with wig). @AthenaWLondon
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Ealing Connect restarts DICKENS YARD W5 > After a bit of a break for the summer, Anita Wong’s Ealing Connect networking group got going again with an afternoon of networking at Charlotte’s W5. The next Ealing Connect networking will be a morning session, on Wednesday 5 October, 10am to 11.45am. Below: Women’s business coach Margaret Guillen provided the inspirational talk over pastries and coffees. @EalingConnect
Zen Shiatsu Therapy course www.zenshiatsutherapy.com Looking after someone with dementia? Don’t miss this workshop: Sat 22 Oct, 10am4pm, Ealing Broadway, £80 @ShiatsuWLondon
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Not only is a new coworking hub space coming to West Ealing (see page 17), there’s also an all-encompassing website being built to cover all the social media, forums and websites dedicated to the area. Below: Simon Hall, Loredana Baranga and Jack Jones (plus The_Ealinger’s Carlene Bender) discuss the My West Ealing design.
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Join our September meetup BROADWAY W13 > Exciting news for West London’s rapidly expanding home-based businesses: a schedule of activities is being launched at the new West Ealing Workspace as it is being refurbished, starting with our very own Contactus magazines monthly business meetups. The meetups will now alternate between Acton and West Ealing in the last week of the month. See you on Fri 30 Sep.
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Local physio opening hours w5physio.co.uk Ealing’s premier physio clinic. Mon-Thu 08:00 - 20:00 Fri 08:00 - 18:00 Sat 09:00 - 16:00 @W5Physio W5Physio
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