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March Newsletter Founding editor, Mrs Nan Walker, MBE Kinross Newsletter Founded in 1977 by Kinross Community Council ISSN 1757-4781 Published by Kinross Newsletter Limited, Company No. SC374361 Issue No 438 All profits given away to local good causes by The Kinross Community Council Newsletter, Charitable Company No. SC040913 www.kinrossnewsletter.org www.facebook.com/kinrossnewsletter March 2016 DEADLINE CONTENTS for the April Issue From the Editor ........................................................................... 2 5.00 pm, Letters ......................................................................................... 2 Friday 18 March 2016 Congratulations & Thanks ........................................................... 3 News and Articles ........................................................................ 4 for publication on Police Box .................................................................................. 17 Saturday 2 April 2016 Community Councils ................................................................. 18 Club & Community Group News ............................................... 26 Sport .......................................................................................... 45 Contributions for inclusion in the News from the Rurals ................................................................ 54 Newsletter Out & About. ............................................................................. 55 The Newsletter welcomes items from community Church Information and Obituaries........................................... 57 organisations and individuals for publication. This Playgroups and Toddlers............................................................ 60 is free of charge (we only charge for business Notices ...................................................................................... 61 advertising – see below right). All items may be subject to editing and we reserve the right not to Day Centre & Chemists .............................................................. 68 publish an item. Please also see our Letters Policy Classified Adverts, Situations Vacant ......................................... 69 and Notes on page 2. Submit your item (except Diary .......................................................................................... 70 adverts) in one of the following ways: Email: [email protected] Front Cover: Landscape photograph by Dave Cuthbert. (all emails will be acknowledged) Post or hand in to: Commercial Advertising in the Newsletter Eileen Thomas, Editor Display Adverts 50 Muirs Eighth Page Quarter Page Half Page Kinross KY13 8AU Black & White £14.50 £29.00 £63.00 Colour (internal) £24.65 £49.30 £107.10 The above prices are per issue, based on a six-month run of advertising being Editor placed. One-off adverts are charged at a higher rate. There is a 10% discount for Eileen Thomas prompt payment. 50 Muirs Typed Adverts Kinross, KY13 8AU.................. 01577 863714 These adverts are text only. The price is the same per insertion whether the advert [email protected] is placed for one issue or several issues. Advertising Manager Up to NINE lines (including blank lines) £8.40 per insertion Julia Fulton TEN to FIFTEEN lines (including blank lines) £14.00 per insertion As a guide, eight words is the maximum that can be fitted on a line. To place a 10 Gowan Lea Typed Advert, contact our Advertising Manager, Julia Fulton (see left for contact Dollar, FK14 7FA ...................... 07936 151223 details). You will need to send her: [email protected] • Your name, address, telephone number and, optionally, email address. Treasurer • The wording of your advert. • A note of the number of insertions required. Ross McConnell • Your remittance – cheques payable to “Kinross Newsletter Ltd”. 3 High Street Send all this to the Advertising Manager by the normal monthly Newsletter Kinross KY13 8AW .................. 01577 865885 deadline (see top of left-hand column for date). [email protected] The Newsletter reserves the right to vary the physical size of these adverts from Subscriptions issue to issue according to the space available. If you wish to place a Typed Advert on a permanent or semi-permanent basis, Ross McConnell (address as above) contact the Advertising Manager to see if you can go on to our billing list. [email protected] For full information on advertising in the Newsletter, please go to our website Distribution www.kinrossnewsletter.org and click on 'Advertising'. Lee Scammacca (Cree8) 62 Muirs, Kinross KY13 8AU .. 01577 863186 The Newsletter reserves the right to refuse or amend any advertisement or submission [email protected] and accepts no liability for any omission or inaccuracy. No part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any form without the express written permission of the publishers. Editor Eileen Thomas Typesetting and Layout Tony Dyson Distribution Lee Scammacca Advertising Julia Fulton Treasurer and Subscriptions Ross McConnell Assistant Editor Joyce Horsman Letters Editorial Milnathort Post Office Move The biennial Better Place to Live Fair, happening on On 27 January, the postal service in Milnathort moved from Saturday 5 March, is a great event for anyone interested number 13 New Road into the Giacopazzi (Nisa) store next in the Kinross-shire community, particularly if you are new door. to the area. There will be dozens of community groups, On behalf of Winnie, Janet and Beth, I would like to thank sports clubs and other organisations on hand to give out everyone who came into our post office for their custom over information about what they do and how you can get the years and for their kind words, cards and gifts leading up involved. There will also be trade stalls, workshops, music to our retirement. All four of us consider ourselves fortunate and much more. to have served and worked in such a friendly and supportive community. Although we are naturally sad at saying goodbye The Newsletter will have a stall at the Fair and we’d love to everyone, we are doing so in the knowledge that the postal you to stop by and have a chat about what you’d like to see service will be in the very safe hands of Joanna and Frank and in your community Newsletter. their staff next door. You might meet Julia, our new Advertising Manager, whom With regard to the shop at no 13, it will remain closed for we warmly welcome to the team this month. That should a short period and then reopen in the not too distant future be ‘welcome back’, as Julia has worked for the Newsletter under new management. before, assisting with processing submissions. David G Hall Julia will be in touch with all our regular advertisers in 13 New Road, Milnathort the next week or so. If you have a local business and are CIA 10th Birthday Thanks thinking of advertising, Julia would love to hear from you. The Cleaning Intelligence Agency is celebrating its 10th We can offer colour or black and white display advertising birthday this year. in a variety of sizes, or our quick and simple Typed Adverts. We would like to take this opportunity, on the tenth anniversary of the start of our business, to acknowledge and thank all our customers and cleaners who have supported us over the years. Note to Contributors It feels like no time at all since myself and Sarah started off A great deal of the Newsletter comprises reports supplied by local the C.I.A, cleaning houses ourselves and working out of clubs and other organisations. These reports are accepted in good a small office at home. We are delighted that the business faith. Clubs etc should ensure that reports are factually accurate has grown to become what it is today: a family-run cleaning and do not contain material which could cause legal proceedings to be taken against the Newsletter. company that retains the personal touch, with a fully trained staff of 22 cleaners who know exactly how our customers like Letters Policy Senders must supply their name and address, which will be things done. published with the letter. Letters should be truthful and not We now work from offices at Kingfisher House in Milnathort, contain matter which could cause legal proceedings to be taken with the support of a manager and an administrator to aid in against the Newsletter. The Newsletter does not necessarily agree the day-to-day running of the business. Each of our customers with any of the views expressed on the Letters or indeed other has a service that is tailored specifically to their needs, and pages. In special circumstances addresses may be withheld from this attention to detail has led us to a point where we are publication on request (but must still be supplied to the editor). servicing over 200 properties per week. Note to Readers: Advertising As we continue to watch our business flourish and grow, we Inclusion of advertisements in the Newsletter does not imply any look forward to welcoming new clients to our books. Many particular endorsement or recommendation of services or thanks again to all for their continued support, and here’s to companies by Kinross CC or Kinross Newsletter Ltd. the next 10 years! Abbreviations Richard & Sarah Scott PKC: Perth & Kinross Council Cllr: Councillor Cleaning Intelligence Agency CC: Community Council CCllr: Community Councillor Kingfisher House Auld Mart Business Park Milnathort About the Kinross Newsletter The Newsletter has been informing and supporting the community for 38 years. JOE BURNS It began as a
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