Around Ealing Summer 2019 | Page 8

UP FRONT Love it T his picture of Northala Fields was voted as the winner of our Love Your Place photography competition with 32% of votes. It was taken by Malgorzata Sikora. You chose the winner and the runners-up by voting for your favourite picture in our online poll at our @EalingLondon Facebook page, all of which were sent in by readers of Around Ealing and EalingNewsExtra.co.uk Second place (26%) was Ash Hazari with a photo of their niece and nephew walking through Ealing – framed by blossom-filled trees. And in third place was with 19% of votes was Nigel Tooth and his picture of local beekeeper Mel lovingly relocating a swarm of honeybees. Each image captures a moment that made the entrants love where they live. We teamed up with Tonkotsu Ealing for Love Your Place and the winning entry has won lunch or dinner for two people at the Japanese restaurant in Ealing Broadway, to the value of £50. There were also prizes for the runner-up and for the third placed entry, of rewards vouchers. You can still view all seven shortlisted entries at ealingnewsextra.co.uk/gallery Love Your Place: Summer will open on 10 June and will be themed around photos of events in the borough over the summer months. Could be Ealing Summer Festivals, local fairs or even garden parties. Visit ealingnewsextra.co.uk/features/ love-summer for more details. Plaques, vigil and march A plaque-unveiling ceremony, a vigil of remembrance and a march for unity were among the events to have taken place recently to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Southall riot. The Southall Rising exhibition, which we reported on previously, opened at the Dominion Centre on 23 April – the exact anniversary of the events that unfolded in 1979 – and is open to visitors. Three commemorative plaques have been put up at Southall Town Hall. One commemorates teacher Blair Peach who died during the riot, another is for local band Misty Roots whose manager was badly beaten, and the third to Gurdip Singh Chaggar who was killed in an earlier racist attack. Read more at ealingnewsextra.co.uk/features/anniversary-riot 8 around ealing    Summer 2019