November Newsletter
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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 457 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 November 2017 DEADLINE CONTENTS for the December Issue From the Editor ........................................................................... 2 5pm, Letters ......................................................................................... 2 Congratulations & Thanks. .......................................................... 4 Friday 17 November 2017 News and Articles ........................................................................ 5 for publication on Police Box .................................................................................. 18 Saturday 2 December 2017 Community Councils ................................................................. 19 Club & Community Group News ............................................... 28 Sport .......................................................................................... 46 Contributions for inclusion in the Scottish Women’s Institutes. ..................................................... 54 Newsletter Out & About. ............................................................................. 55 The Newsletter welcomes items from community Church Information ................................................................... 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 Day Centre & Chemists .............................................................. 68 subject to editing and we reserve the right not to Classified Adverts, Situations Vacant ......................................... 69 publish an item. Please also see our Letters Policy Diary .......................................................................................... 70 and Notes on page 2. Submit your item (except adverts) in one of the following ways: Cover: Kinross-shire’s Winter Festival artwork by Esther Kent. Email: [email protected] Kinross Newsletter cover design by Cree8. (all emails will be acknowledged) Commercial Advertising in the Newsletter Post or hand in to: These prices are with effect from the October 2017 issue Eileen Thomas, Editor 50 Muirs Display Adverts Eighth Page Quarter Page Half Page Kinross KY13 8AU Black & White £14.70 £29.40 £58.80 Colour (internal) £25.50 £51.00 £102.00 Editor The above prices are per issue, based on a six-month run of advertising being placed. One-off adverts are charged at a higher rate. The Newsletter welcomes Eileen Thomas advertising enquiries. We do not have a waiting list for adverts. 50 Muirs Kinross, KY13 8AU .....................01577 863714 Typed Adverts 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. 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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 New Church in Kinross-shire Winter Festival Dear Editor, in response to your recent appeal about the Our cover feature is Kinross-shire’s Winter Festival. The absence of correspondence, I thought that I would supply main attractions are listed on page 21, but full listings you with one item, at least. can be found in the Winter Festival brochure delivered to My name is Jerome O’Brien and I am the Minister of a new households throughout the county. Church that has started meeting in Crook of Devon. Our gathering is a Mission Outreach of the United Free Church of Community listings Scotland and I am one of the Ministers of that Kirk. We have very many active community groups in Kinross- We have been meeting in the Crook for just over a year now shire, and it is evident from this issue of the Newsletter and the gathering is growing in numbers and confidence, and that quite a number of them are holding their Annual we are all enjoying our new experience of what it means to General Meetings in November. If your organisation has a be a faith community in a new setting and trying new things. change of secretary or other relevant office-bearer, please I attach a leaflet* that we distributed through the area remember to change the contact details in the lists of local surrounding Crook which gives you a flavour of who we are organisations on the kinross.cc website by emailing the and who we welcome. administrator, Pauline Watson, via [email protected] I would be so grateful if you could include us in your Events in January? intimations of Church Services in the Kinross area. Our Club correspondents are reminded that there is no January gathering details are as per the attached document and as issue of the Newsletter. Therefore, if your organisation is set out below. planning an event for January and would like to publicise it Many thanks, in anticipation, for including us in your most in the Newsletter, please submit details for the December excellent magazine. issue. The deadline for the December issue is Friday Regards, 17 November. Jerome O’Brien [email protected] Note to Contributors 07840 262790 A great deal of the Newsletter comprises reports supplied by www.trinity-church.co.uk local clubs and other organisations. These reports are accepted in good faith. Clubs etc should ensure that reports are factually Trinity Church, Crook of Devon accurate and do not contain material which could cause legal Mission outreach of the United Free Church of Scotland proceedings to be taken against the Newsletter. We meet every Sunday at Crook of Devon Village Hall Letters Policy (corner Main Street and Station Road, KY13 0PG) Senders must supply their name and address, which will be Meeting time: 11am(10.30am for refreshments before the published with the letter. Letters should be truthful and not gathering) contain matter which could cause legal proceedings to be taken against the Newsletter. The Newsletter does not necessarily agree with any of the views expressed on the Letters or indeed *Editor’s note: Information from the leaflet is reproduced in other pages. In special circumstances addresses may be withheld the Churches Section. See page 97. from publication on request (but must still be supplied to the editor). Planning of community events Note to Readers: Advertising Having received the wonderful Winter Festival Brochure, it Inclusion of advertisements in the Newsletter does not imply any is great to see how much is going on in Kinross and district particular endorsement or recommendation of services or over the next couple of months. As we are generally a busy companies by Kinross CC or Kinross Newsletter Ltd. community throughout the year, I was thinking it would be Abbreviations very useful to have a central diary to consult when planning PKC: Perth & Kinross Council Cllr: Councillor activities, to avoid clashing with similar ones locally. I have CC: Community Council CCllr: Community Councillor discovered that the diary on the community website, www. kinross.cc, can be used for any time in advance to advertise About the Kinross Newsletter events, beyond the month or so which is listed in each The Newsletter has been informing and supporting the Newsletter.