It's Our Centenary Issue!
Cramond Grapevine 100_Grapevine 27/08/2018 12:12 Page 1 CRAMOND KIRK MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2018 ISSUE No. 100 IT’S OUR CENTENARY ISSUE! When the first edition of a then-unnamed Kirk newsletter edited The Grapevine for the past 50 issues; Grahame Boyne dropped through the letterboxes of the people of Cramond in (and previously Brenda Wilson) collate the adverts; Irene November 1993, giving details of the Christmas Fair and Dunn (and previously Willie Prest) plan and commission Services, I doubt anyone anticipated we’d still be perusing content; Parish Committee conveners have mobilised a vast that very same magazine some 25 years later. distribution network to ensure the magazine reaches The second issue, published in March 1994, contained Easter everyone in the Cramond and Barnton area. Louise Madeley, Eating recipes from Masterchef Sue Lawrence. our Church Secretary, quietly ensures all the components come together smoothly. By the third issue, following a competition, the magazine had a name. Eschewing suggestions like Cramond Eggs and And now, following this landmark edition, The Grapevine is Cramond Cantorial, the shortlist included Cramond Eagle, changing again. Our next issue will appear in full colour, with Pew Review and the Cramond Kirk Beacon, but the winner - more photos, fewer pages, and shorter articles. Longer announced by Russell Barr in his sermon of 5 June 1994 - was features will be published online: you can read them in full on The Grapevine. our website www.cramondkirk.org. “... through the grapevine of the magazine an important This reflects the way more of us get our news nowadays, and ministry takes place,” said Dr Barr.
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