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Sam makes clean start at Bearsted laundree


WHO would have thought a mum-of-fourwould fancy the idea of opening a laundrette – but that’s exactly what Sam Michaelas has done. After years as the backroom girl, bringing up the kids and doing the paperwork for husband Donda’s fish and chip shop, Marino’s, on the Ashford Road, Sam is going into business for herself. She is taking on the Roseacre Laundrette, behind her husband’s successful business in Bearsted. Sam said: “It’s fantastic to try something new and I’m well-re- hearsed when it comes towashing, drying and ironing with children of 12, 10, eight and two.” The 33-year-old is investing £10,000 into the business and has big plans to introduce daily service washes, a 48-hour dry cleaning service and ironing, in addition to the self-service offer. She said: “My little girl Sophia is desperate to help me out and is al- ready calling me Dot, as a big fan of EastEnders!” Sam has been busy painting and


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already has plans for the laundrette to be brought up to date with new coin slots for the machines, new dryers and her eyes set on a profes- sional steam ironing system. In the meantime, it’s business as


usual for self-service customers, but by the middle of March she hopes to be offering the complete clothes cleaning service from 9am to 4pm Monday to Saturday, and jobs for another two people. The laundrette started life more than 20 years ago on the Ashford


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Road, where the Simon Miller es- tate agency is; it then moved down the side road behind Marino’s, where it was run for 15 years by Barry and Sheila Chapman. Donda said: “Sam has always


said if the business became avail- able she would like to take it on and this is her chance to shine.” Sam added: “It will certainly


keep mebusy juggling the children, our new puppy and turning the business back into the success it oncewas.”


News Homes fears


MAIDSTONE Council has rejected a request from Hollingbourne’s vil- lage hall committee to ask for a traf- fic survey with proposals for 12 houses behind theWindmill pub. Villagers fear the development


can only be reached by a public foot- path off Eyhorne Street, allowing an entrance of just four metres wide. The committee said: “For the au- thority to not request a transport statement to enable fair and consis- tent assessment of the proposed de- velopment is tantamount to biased pre-determination.”


Locks mystery


A MYSTERY vandal has been tam- pering with the door locks at Hollingbourne village hall. The door has had to be partially dismantled three times to get it open. Village Hall chairman John Holley asked hall users and vil- lagers to report any suspicious ac- tivity at the hall, behind the Windmill pub.


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