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Keeping in touch Do you have an email address? Do you want to be TEALING NEWS kept informed of the latest news and events going on in the village? Around 50 local people have Published by Tealing Community Council already registered to receive the latest village www.tealingvillage.org news more quickly by email. Submit your email address on the website or send the details to Thanks to Rembrand Timber Ltd for their ongoing generous [email protected] support of the Tealing website and our community. New Community Council making Good Local Projects good progress Tealing Community Council (TCC) has a quite healthy balance in the projects account, but is rarely asked to help fund good local initiatives. If Introduction you have a small project with clear community The new Community Council was appointed in benefit and need a little help with funding, please October 2010 after 8 nominations were received for send the details to TCC Secretary Nicki the 9 places available. I am delighted to serve again Donaldson at [email protected] as Community Council Chairman along with my fellow community councillors, who are: The current economic climate is making public Tealing Hall funding even tighter than usual but, with your help,

The facilities offer outstanding value (from £5 to we will do our best to help secure improvements for £7 an hour) for anyone needing a great local Thanks to Hally’s Garage for their ongoing support of the Tealing Nicki Donaldson (Secretary) Tel 380222 website and our local community the benefit of the community. In this issue, we venue for a meeting, class or event. Please help Kay Dennis (Treasurer) Tel 380668 report on progress so far and we hope you find it promote the hall’s availability to family, friends, Sandra Burke (Website and Newsletter) Tel 380437 helpful. As always, we are keen to have feedback colleagues and organisations you know, so we Alex Henderson (Planning Contact) Tel 380215 and to hear your views – by telephone to any of us can ensure it’s well used and generates enough Useful Contacts Lindsay Hay Tel 380203 or use the contact form on the website income to meet the running costs. Contact Bessie Community Council Graeme Reoch 380571 Janet Stewart, Tel 380382 www.tealingvillage.org If you are interested in Coventry Tel 380395 for bookings. Bob Taylor, Tel 380306 Line Dancing and Margaret Thomson 380322 being co-opted on to fill the one remaining

Dog Training community council vacancy, please contact me to Reprint the Tealing Book? We are all keen to be active and get things done, so express interest. Finally, we wish you and your Tealing School Alison Scott 380210 The 500 copies of Tealing the Gateway to Angus we are working our way through the results of the family a very happy festive season. published in 2000 to celebrate the Millennium sold Tealing Church Rev David Collins 778874 residents survey done earlier this year. We will out within weeks and over the years we have had WRI Carol Cant 506726 concentrate on the issues and suggestions that you Graeme Reoch, Chairman said were the most important to you and your several purchase requests. The Community Tealing Hall, Guild, Bessie Coventry 380395 Tealing Community Council, Tel 380571 Council would consider reprinting and selling the families. and Wednesday Club book if there is sufficient demand. The Speckled Hen is also keen to stock the book telling the story Website Editor Sandra Burke 380437 Seagreen Wind Energy propose Tealing substation expansion – of our interesting village history. It would help in Angus Council Customer Helpline 08452 the decision making process if we could get a 777778 PUBLIC EXHIBITION in Tealing Hall, Thurs 20 Jan, 12 noon to 8pm rough idea of likely orders – so please get in touch to let us know how many copies you would be Seagreen Wind Energy plans to develop the Firth approved, it will need a very large building to house Articles Wanted interested in getting, to [email protected] of Forth R3 Zone wind farm out in the North Sea. the converter, almost doubling the size of the

Phase One covers an area of approximately existing sub-station. Seagreen is undertaking a Have you got an idea for a local story or feature for Tealing Community Plan 600km2 and lies 25km from the Angus coast. They scoping exercise on the development options and Angus Council is encouraging local communities Tealing News or the website? Perhaps you have written have accepted the offer from the National Grid of will submit plans for approval to Angus Council and to develop plans for the future of their areas and is an amusing poem or taken an eye-catching photograph. connection at the Tealing sub-station. In order to the Scottish Government. Come along to their offering practical assistance from their officers to Perhaps you or a member of your family has had a big pull it together. A plan would set out the area’s connect the wind farm to the grid network, public exhibition on 20 Jan to express your views. success or won an award? Share the good news by strengths and weaknesses and consider the short, Seagreen hope to lay an onshore electricity cable Find out more at www.seagreenwindenergy.com or sending the details to [email protected] or write medium and long term priorities. If we do try to underground from the coast to Tealing and for more information contact Chris Bell, Corporate develop a Tealing Community Plan, we will of to The Editor, Sandra Burke, Ivy Lodge, Tealing, construct an HVDC converter station here. If Affairs SSE Renewables Tel 0141 225 8488 course involve everyone who wants to have their , DD4 0QZ. We look forward to hearing from say - watch this space! you. www.tealingvillage.org Page 2 Tealing News Tealing News Page 3

Church Christmas Services Your ideas and suggestions Tealing Blanketed in Snow Sun 19th Dec 9.30am (Lessons & Carols) - where have we got to? 11.00am (Sunday School Nativity) 11.15am (Sunday School Nativity) 20mph speed limit on School Road Mon 20th Dec Good news – this has been approved by Angus 9.15am Auchterhouse School Christmas Assembly Council and will be implemented sometime next st Tues 21 Dec year. Special thanks to Angus Councillors Jean 10.00am Tealing School Christmas Assembly (at Lee and John Whyte for their strong support on Auchterhouse) Thanks to the Speckled Hen for its this issue. The Courier features this lovely scenic shot of Tealing Fri 24th Dec ongoing support of the Tealing Regular village newsletter Den on its website photo gallery 5.00pm Auchterhouse Family Service website and our local community 7.00pm Monikie Family Service More good news – this is the second issue of the 11.30pm Auchterhouse Watchnight Service (carols11.15pm) revived Tealing News, which will be published launching the Tealing book and the photographic 11.30pm Murroes Watchnight Service (carols 11.15pm) three to four times per year. JOYFUL CAROL SINGING! exhibition in the hall. There may be scope for a 50mph speed limit on the A90 through Tealing Note – there is no service on Christmas day Summer Gala Day organised by all the local Everyone is invited to come along This request was formally rejected by the to the carol singing around community groups working together and also government Minister in 2000/01 and speed Sun 26th Dec Auchterhouse in aid of SHELTER involving the school and the church. We will 10.00am Tealing Hall (united service) on Sunday 19th December at 6pm cameras were installed instead. We will raise it st approach all community groups to find out if Sun 2nd Jan and Tuesday 21 December at again with the current administration. 6.30pm. Children are welcome to there’s any interest. 9.30am Murroes Play park near the school 11.00am Auchterhouse join us for the first hour or so on the Sunday. The new play park at the school is now open and 11.15am Monikie Other Suggestions/Issues available for use – pop along and have a look. We will also discuss the following issues with More daily bus services and more bus stops Tea ling Churchyard and Cemetery Angus Council and local Councillors to find out We find it hard to make a strong case for more what scope there is, if any, for taking them scheduled public transport when the existing Poor public access to the cemetery behind disused forward. services are not that well used, but we will Tealing Church has been an ongoing issue raised by explore whether there are any options for more several residents. Over the years, Angus Council has • More pavements and footpaths flexible “request type” transport services repeatedly been asked to investigate the possibility of • Community use of the school buildings Corner shop or post office establishing a car park near the side gate; creating • Walk way connecting to the This would be a commercial decision for a private sufficient space for a hearse and mourners to pull Auchterhouse Road individual to make unless there’s scope for a co- alongside without blocking the road; improving access for • Roadside improvements to remove operative or social enterprise approach. We will elderly and disabled people, including those in wheelchairs eyesore buildings make enquiries. and, more recently after a mourner badly hurt her hand • Mains gas and mains drainage Shuttle bus to Morrisons trying to open the gate; to repair the original gates to • Improved broadband We wrote to Morrisons about this possibility when ensure easy opening and closing. Angus Council recently • Speed control on Newbigging Road the store opened, but they replied to say that they advised “It is taking time to further research the options • More recycling facilities, refuse skips weren’t planning to put on shuttle buses for any of here. It’s a very complex situation which involves multiple • Youth club, badminton, yoga, music the local communities. land ownership and access arrangements. It is an issue classes (yoga is now on every Tues Annual Gala Day or Fete which is ongoing.” evening in Tealing Hall at 7.15pm) The Millennium Event in June 2000 at Tealing

The late Councillor Frank Ellis tried to make progress on Hall was very well attended, but we think this was this and Councillor Jean Lee is now also trying to assist. because it was such a special occasion and was We hope a resolution is not too far away. . www.tealingvillage.org