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AN CARRANNACH The General Interest Magazine of Lochcarron, Shieldaig, Applecross, Kishorn, Torridon & Kinlochewe Districts NO: 357 SEPTEMBER 2017 £1.00 Lochalsh Junior Pipe Band win at The World Pipe Band Championship Congratulations to Lochalsh Junior Pipe Band who have had an incredible year in 2017 winning the Novice Juvenile B grade in The Schools Pipe Band Championship, and The British Pipe Band Championship, coming second in The European Pipe Band Championship and on Saturday winning The World Pipe Band Championship in Glasgow. Titles thoroughly deserved after months of hard practice but an astonishing achievement for a young band whose first competition was only 2 ½ years ago. After beating 14 bands on Saturday the 12th of August, the band moves up to the next grade. The 'Worlds' is the top competition for pipe bands and this year attracted 8000 pipers and 219 bands and a crowd of 35,000. Congratulations and thanks to Pipe Major Niall Stewart and Drew Caldwell, the band's drumming tutor. 1 AN CARRANNACH Calling all journalists Well the year is fairly flying, can't Published by An Carrannach Society, Lochcarron. quite believe that this is the Chairperson: Joanna Macpherson September issue already. The new Treasurer: Tony Caminiti team here at An Carrannach are 10 Kirkton Road settling in well with this their 6th Lochcarron IV54 8UF 01520 722 148 Edition. I think it is only now we [email protected] realise just how much effort Mavis Mailing: Hilary “Post” Rooke put in to get the magazine printed every month. With this in mind the Distribution: Anthea Zell new team would like to ask you for Area Representatives: some input for the magazine. 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CLOSING DATE FOR THE The An Carrannach Society does not accept OCTOBER 2017 ISSUE responsibility for the content/accuracy of reports, articles and advertisements received. The views MATERIAL MUST BE RECEIVED BY expressed by contributors are NOT necessarily NO LATER THAN 15TH SETPTEMBER 2017 those of the Society. PLEASE E&OE. 2 Scottish Episcopal Church Courthill Chapel, Kishorn Services for September Sunday Service 10.30 a.m. Are you looking for occasional Sunday Worship? September 3 Eucharist Rev. Heather 10.30 a.m Pentecost 13 Widdows The Scottish Episcopal Church September 10 Holy Communion (Part of the Anglican Communion) Jan Overmeer 10.30 a.m Pentecost 14 meets in Kinlochewe (Church of September 17 Eucharist Scotland Building) Rev. John Searl 10.30 a.m Pentecost 15 on the first Sunday each month at 2.30pm September 24 Eucharist Celebrant and Preacher: Rev. Francis Minay Revd Pam Shinkins 10.30 a.m Pentecost 16 Next service Sunday August 6th 2017 October 1 Eucharist Rev. John Searl Everyone welcome 10.30 a.m Harvest Festival Tel: (01445) 781346 (Scottish Charity Number SCO20389) For more information, ring: Spotted on a church notice board: “Faithbook: You have one new friend request Marcus Given Rita Sykes 01520 722 617 01520 722 995 from Jesus!” Rev. Heather Widdows or Rev. John Searl 01445 712 176 01445 741 231 Roman Catholic Mass CHURCH OF SCOTLAND Father William MacLean Monthly on Thursdays APPLECROSS, LOCHCARRON & Contact 01478 613 227 TORRIDON Urgent 07881 956 660 Charity No: SCO32334 Times and Places of Worship for September 2017 FREE CHURCH 3rd September Lochcarron 10.30am LOCHCARRON & Torridon Community Hall 1.00pm APPLECROSS 10th September Lochcarron 10.30am You are welcome at our services Shieldaig 1.00pm Lochcarron Church Street IV54 8YP Applecross 1.00pm Sunday 11am and 6 pm th (Crèche and Sunday 17 September Lochcarron 10.30am school) Kinlochewe 1.00pm Midweek Wednesdays 24th September Lochcarron 10.30am 7.30pm Applecross 1.00pm Applecross Camusterrach IV54 8LU Shieldaig 1.00pm 3 pm every Sunday Other events as intimated. Minister Rev. Anita Stutter, Church of Scotland Manse, Scottish Charity SC038169 Colonel’s Road, Lochcarron Rev M. Florit 01520 722 999 Tel. 01520 722783 [email protected] www.freechurch.org 3 The political thinker, social historian and novelist, H. G. Wells , wrote his last book ‘A Short History of the World’ in 1945. He titled the last chapter ‘The Mind at the End of its ON Tether’. The extermination camps in Germany and the use of the atomic bomb in REFLECTION Hiroshima undermined his faith in human beings and his belief in the inevitability of social progress. A scripture reading that is often chosen for funerals begins with Jesus saying ‘Let not For people of faith and of no faith, there are your hearts be troubled …In my Father’s times when events in their lives or in our home there are many dwelling places’. To world lead them to despair. But Jesus says understand these words of Jesus, let’s try to to them ‘Let not your heart be troubled, in put them into their original context. Jesus my Father’s home there are many dwelling was speaking with his closest followers and places.’ Whenever disaster occurs there are friends during the last meal he had with people of faith and of no faith ready to reach them before his arrest, trial and execution. out caring hands, ready to help, becoming Despite Jesus’s popular appeal or perhaps dwelling places of love and care. ‘In my because of it, the Jewish authorities had Father’s home there are many dwelling rejected him and his message of hope. The places.’ hostility towards Jesus was such that when Jesus announced his intention to go to So this choice of reading at a funeral is an Jerusalem, their capital city, his followers invitation to those present to reach out in begged him not to go. And, famously, love and to care for those who have lost a Thomas said to the other supporters ‘Let’s dear one. So be it. go also that we may die with him’. There John Searl had been attempts on Jesus’s life before. Jesus was resolute. Jesus and a large group of his supporters had journeyed from Galilee and arrived in Jerusalem. His followers were afraid that their worst fears HIGHLAND MALE were about to be realised. And for them this was a crisis of faith. Their hopes for the VOICE CHOIR establishment of a new world, a world in which the sick would be properly cared for, Singing for us the poor would be lifted out of their poverty, the outsider would be welcomed into the again community, the hungry would be fed, their th hopes for that new world were shattered. On 18 September What was the way ahead? How could they go forward without Jesus’s guidance and Monday vision? How could the loving caring God that Jesus proclaimed and they believed in, at 7 p.m. how could that God allow it to happen? in Lochcarron And whenever we are faced by a disaster, whether it is the result of natural forces, like Church of Scotland. the forest fires in Portugal or the earthquake in Nepal, or by a disaster caused by human Do join us for the frailty, like the Grenfell Tower fire or the attack on the Twin Towers in 2001, the singing, followed thought re-occurs, ‘Why do these things happen?’ by refreshments. 4 WEATHER RECORD - SLUMBAY JULY 2017 Max Temp Min Temp Rainfall in Date: in oC in oC inches 1 13.70 10.80 0.13 2 13.90 8.30 0.47 3 16.20 8.30 0.01 4 19.60 8.20 ----- 5 19.80 11.70 0.31 6 15.50 11.30 0.31 7 15.30 10.40 0.01 8 14.20 10.40 0.61 9 16.60 7.90 ----- 10 18.20 9.40 0.02 11 17.90 6.50 0.02 12 19.90 6.90 ----- 13 16.70 10.30 0.38 14 15.30 11.30 0.08 15 15.70 10.30 0.56 16 15.20 11.30 0.17 17 18.60 7.60 ----- 18 27.70 11.30 ----- 19 23.10 11.20 0.28 20 17.70 7.10 ----- 21 18.80 15.00 ----- 22 20.70 14.10 ----- 23 23.30 9.70 ----- 24 21.30 7.60 ----- 25 20.10 11.10 ----- 26 15.10 9.80 0.40 27 16.20 11.30 0.27 28 15.30 12.10 0.56 29 14.50 11.30 1.00 30 16.50 10.50 0.46 31 17.80 10.70 0.08 TOTAL JULY 2017 6.13 RUNNING TOTAL 2017 38.10 TOTAL JULY 2016 8.91 RUNNING TOTAL 2016 41.97 5 NATURE NOTES assuming this was a joining up of the July 16th – August 15th flocks.