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Kinross Newsletter Founded in 1977 by Mrs Nan Walker, MBE Issue No 357 October 2008 www.kinrossnewsletter.org ISSN 1757-4781 DEADLINE CONTENTS for the November Issue 2.00 pm, Monday From the Editor ............................................................2 20 October 2008 Letters ..........................................................................2 for publication on News and Articles .........................................................4 Police Box....................................................................8 Saturday 1 November 2008 Book Competition Winners............................................8 Community Councils.....................................................9 Contributions for inclusion in the Club & Community Group News .................................16 Newsletter Sport ..........................................................................22 The Newsletter welcomes items from clubs, News from the Rurals..................................................28 community organisations and individuals for Out & About...............................................................29 publication. This is free of charge (we only Gardens Open..............................................................31 charge for commercial advertising - see Congratulations and Thanks.........................................32 below right). All items may be subject to Church Information, Obituaries....................................33 editing. Please also see our Letters Policy on Playgroups & Nurseries...............................................35 page 2. Notices.......................................................................36 Submit your item (except adverts) in one o f the following ways: Day Centre & Chemists................................................39 Diary..........................................................................40 Email : [email protected] Post : Eileen Thomas Editor, Kinross Newsletter Cover Photo: Craig Thomson, courtesy of www.kinross.cc photo library 50 Muirs, Kinross, KY13 8AU Hand in : 50 Muirs, Kinross Advertising in the Newsletter or : 24 Victoria Avenue, Typed Adv erts Milnathort A Typed Advert is £10.00 per insertion and may be placed for one or more Editor months. These adverts are text only, no graphics allowed. Fifteen lines Eileen Thomas (including blank lines) is the maximum permitted. As a guide, eight words 50 Muirs maximum on a line. To place a Typed Advert, send the following: Kinross, KY13 8AU ..................... 863714 • Your full name and address details and a telephone number. [email protected] • Your e-mail address (optional). Advertising Manager • The wording of your advert. Ann Harley 2 Hatchbank Road, • A note of the number of insertions required. Kinross KY13 9JY ....................... 864512 • Your remittance (£10 per insertion) payable to “ Kinross Newsletter”. [email protected] Send all the above to our Advertising Manager, Ann Harley, by the normal Subscriptions monthly Newsletter deadline (see left for contact details). Ann Harley (address & tel as above) The Newsletter reserves the right to vary the physical size of these adverts [email protected] from issue to issue according to the space available. Distribution If you wish to place a Typed Advert on a permanent or semi-permanent Craig Williams basis, contact our Advertising Manager to see if you can go on to our Muirs Business Centre billing list. 62 Muirs Printed (Display) Adverts Kinross KY13 8AU ..................... 863186 These run for six months at a time. There are a fixed number of pages [email protected] available for Printed Adverts. To go on our waiting list, please contact our Treasurer Advertising Manager. Ross McConnell 3 High Street The Newsletter reserves the right to refuse or amend any Kinross KY13 8AW...................... 865885 advertisement or submission and accepts no liability for any [email protected] omission or inaccuracy. Editor Eileen Thomas Typesetting and Layout Tony Dyson Word Processing Julia Fulton Advertising Ann Harley Treasurer Ross McConnell Distribution Craig Williams Subscriptions Ann Harley 2 Letters Editorial Postal erosion 10.9.08 The way the weather has been this year, it is hard to tell the For decades our wonderful posties have uplifted letters for difference between summer and autumn (see the report posting. This much appreciated service was even more from Malcolm, our weather-watcher in Carnbo, and be welcome when the Post Office sealed up our local post box. appalled at the rainfall statistics for the summer!) but the The replacement post box is further away and requires a club entries to the Newsletter tell us the seasons are longer walk along a very dangerous part of the A911. Now changing with the tennis club championship results in and we are told the posties may no longer collect outgoing mail the bowling clubs playing their last games. Soon phrases from us. I am sure the Post Office will have a very good like “ ach! hogged it”, “did you see that angled raise?” and reason for this but it is particularly unfortunate that this “hurry, hurry, hurry!” will be in the air. Yes, it’s the curling change of policy coincides with the imminent demise of our season. See the Sports section for ways to join in. Any local Post Office. beginner curler who has had some tuition but is looking to Helen Glover gain more confidence before joining a club and is free on a Meikle Balgedie, Wester Balgedie Monday morning might like to join the informal “ Time Out” group – call Angela on 862976 for more info. (Sorry, Kinross Library 11.9.08 should have put that in the Sports section!) I have lived in Kinross for five years and am a regular We are always keen to make the Newsletter as good as it library user. I would like to express my thanks to the library can be, so if you have any comments about the appearance staff, for making the library such a welcoming, friendly or content of the Newsletter, be they positive or negative, or place, which provides an excellent service. Although the suggestions, please do get in touch with us using the library will be moving to premises in the new high school in contact details on the previous page. about a year’s time, I would like to encourage members o f Letters Policy the community who have not visited the library for a while, We reserve the right not to publish any letter. Letters will not be or perhaps ever, to make use of the facility now, rather then published unless the sender’s name and address are supplied and waiting for a new building. The library has a wide selection of adult fiction and non- they are prepared to have them published along with their letter. fiction, books for children and teens, CDs, DVDs and audio Please note that the Newsletter does not necessarily agree with books, a photocopier and internet access, which can be any of the views expressed on these pages. booked in advance. For those who feel that the library is too small, any book (or Abbreviations Used other item) currently stocked by Perth and Kinross Libraries P&KC = Perth & Kinross Council can be ordered free of charge and will be delivered to the CC = Community Council library as soon as possible, at which point library staff will phone to inform you. Books can also be renewed on-line or Cllr = Councillor over the phone. There is also a service for book groups, CCllr = Community Councillor which allows up to 12 copies of the same book to be loaned for a slightly extended period. I hope that the library will continue to be well supported, by DRIVING TUITION people of all ages, in the years to come. K Jarvie LOCHLEVEN DRIVING SCHOOL Wester Loan, Milnathort Call Marie Scott on Dance heritage 7.9.08 Kinross 862266 Earlier this year I was asked to help to produce a Established 23 years programme of dances that Robert Burns would have enjoyed dancing, to be danced the way he would have danced. It hasn’t been easy, but it has been very enjoyable. ALDERBANK LTD The dances he did include the ones we think of as Scottish – Hardwood Flooring Specialists reels, jigs and strathspeys, but that is only half of the story. The missing half has been missing for much too long. Americans, English, Italians and others are now enjoying it, • New Floors Supplied and Fitted but not yet the Scots; and, we don’t even do the ones that • Old Floors Repaired, Sanded and Refinished we do in quite the same way he did. If you would like to try the dances of our Scottish heritage For Free Advice and Quotations in their full range, in the full elegance of 18th century style, Call Niall Simpson on 07778 772354 and can come to Glenfarg on Sunday nights, contact R or 01259 781394 Lambie on 01577 830295. or see www.alderbank.com R Lambie for more info and special offers Bountree, Glenfarg Letters 3 T in the Park 4.09.08 Support for football in Kinross 11.09.08 In response to comments made by Kinross CC through your Having returned to the Kinross area after an absence o f Newsletter, I as a farmer and owner of Lathro Farm want to three years but having kept in touch via grandchildren and make it clear that I have never sought nor received of course the Newsletter, it has been fascinating to see the payments by the above or any campsite owner. new High School taking shape. It is also a pity that if Community Councilor Colliar had My wife and I lived here through the eighties and nineties “toured” my farmland I could have shown him a broken until 2003 when we moved to the Borders.

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