Call Sign April 2008 - Page 20 - DAC DRIVER’S DAUGHTER IN CROSS CHANNEL SWIM - DAC’S SECURITY MINISTER!

Ask Dial-a-Cab’s Andrew O’Regan (B92) what his 15-year old daughter Ella is doing in July while most of the country are on holiday and you’ll get a surprising answer… she is going to be part of a team of youngsters who are swimming the English Channel. Ella wrote to Call Sign on behalf of the Clissold Swimming Club asking whether we would consider being a sponsor for the club’s Channel relay in July. Ella is a member of the Hackney-based swimming club and they are currently trying to get enough sponsorship to help train for the channel relay. As a swimming club, they train for many hours and on top of that are having extra sessions for the Channel	DAC DRIVER’S DAUGHTER IN CROSS CHANNEL SWIM
	Some of the youngsters who are hoping to swim the channel swim that will hopefully help their stamina for the long swim in icy cold water. Ella told Call Sign: "We hold these sessions in the London Fields lido every Saturday morning. As a club we are situated in Clissold Leisure Centre although	we also swim in Kings Hall, Ironmonger Row and the Lido, which are all local pools." Ella finished by saying: "In order to complete the channel swim, we are holding a mock Channel relay on Saturday 29th March at Clissold Leisure Centre to practice for the real thing. The whole squad will have to swim 1,482 lengths in a 25-metre pool in order to reach ‘France’ and we are looking for sponsorship for this event. And DAC are our local circuit!" Clissold are looking to raise Ł10.5K. If you’d like to help these youngsters in their goal, contact Anna Hart: 07977094330 or email HERE.

DAC’S SECURITY MINISTER!

Many Dial-a-Cab drivers who work on an evening shift will know the happy face of security guard Francis Odutuyo. What you might not know is that besides working as a security guard, Francis is also a senior church Minister at the Solid Rock Gospel Church. The name of the church comes from belief that in Jesus Christ, the solid rock they stand.
   At church services, in addition to reading from the Gospel, they have an excellent Gospel choir and also provide counselling for a range of problems, in addition to running classes on computer literacy.
   Francis, who usually has a copy of the bible with him wherever he goes, is naturally religious but always happy to discuss his beliefs without forcibly pushing his views onto you.
   He is married to Emily, who is also involved in the church. Call Sign asked whether women were treated as equals to men at the Solid Rock Gospel Church?
   "Of course," said Francis, "when Jesus died for us, he saved men and women and we make no difference between the two sexes."
   And why is he always smiling?
"Because Jesus is in my life, I have no worries. Why worry when you can pray?"
   Francis and Emily have three children in John, Deborah and Peter.

KEN: "TWENTY’S PLENTY TO SAVE LIVES!"

In a move that current Mayor Ken Livingstone hopes will help win him May’s Mayoral election, he pledged that by 2010 he would halve the number of child deaths and serious injuries on London’s roads.
The Mayor was visiting a London primary school and claimed that the policies he has put into action since taking over in 2000 meant around 500 fewer casualties a year than there would otherwise have been.
His plan to halve numbers include working with the boroughs to put 20mph speed limits on all residential roads and put into place more pedestrian

crossings. Speaking of a reduction in deaths and injuries since he came to power of 40%, Mr Livingstone said:
   "This is the result of comprehensive policies to support pedestrians, including more pedestrian crossings and giving pedestrians longer to cross at traffic lights – even if it means we have to wait a few seconds longer."
   He continued by saying: "To maintain real progress, my transport manifesto sets out a commitment to now deliver a 50% reduction in all casualties and a 50% reduction in under-16 child road casualties by 2010."
   According to TfL figures, close to 950 children were seriously injured or killed in 1998 but that figure had fallen to 400 by 2006.

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