Published by the Walkerburn News Group ISSUE NINETY NINE – NOVEMBER 2010

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY – 14 NOVEMBER 2010 Parade, Act of Remembrance and Reception. This year’s Act of Remembrance will take place at the War Memorial at 10.45 am on Sunday 14th November followed by a reception at the Public Hall. Reception Summary of timings on Remembrance Sunday: There will be a reception in the Hall following the wreath- 10.00 am Public Hall opens for warmth and shelter laying, sponsored by Walkerburn Community Council. prior to the Parade. EVERYONE is welcome to come along for refreshments 10.35 am Ex-Service parade steps off for War and a ‘blether’. Hot soup, sandwiches and snacks, tea Memorial and coffee will be available until 2pm. 10.45 am Act of Remembrance at War Memorial There will also be a display of photographs of 100 years 11.15am – 2pm Refreshments and display at of Walkerburn men and women in Uniform. Public Hall.

COMMUNITY FAIR MORNING The annual Community Fair drew an appreciative and generous crowd to the displays of crafts, baking, and bric-a-brac. As well as coffee and biscuits, there was also A list of raffle prize-winners is displayed in the Post home-made soup and rolls fresh from the kitchen to Office. warm villagers on a cold October Saturday! We also want to say a big ‘thank-you’ to those who The 2011 Walkerburn calendars were soon sold donated Tombola and Raffle prizes, as well as all out (more have been printed and are on sale in the who attended and all who took part. Post Office!) and other stall holders reported Also, many thanks to everyone who sold tickets excellent sales. and who bought tickets. It was good to see a mixture of stalls run by Village Well done everybody! groups, associations, and charities.

COMMUNITY TREE PLANTING The Community Development Trust has several hundred trees to plant! In fact there is enough for every household in the elsewhere. If you would like to suggest a suitable village to plant one. The trees are all native and public location please do so. will help to make the village a more colourful and If you would like to help in organising the planting attractive place. sessions or just put yourself or your group forward The planting is to be done during National Tree to help with the planting please do so. Week, from 25th November to 5th December. Contact Derek Russell on 07989 420158 or contact During this time a number of events in a number of any of the Community Development Trust board. locations in the village are being arranged. All organised groups and individuals are welcome Some trees will be planted to replace the conifers to take part. recently felled, but there are enough to plant

ISSUE 100 The December edition of BURNing Issues will reach a big landmark. We will be publishing the 100th issue of the village newsletter. We welcome any letters or articles and look forward to having any comments or suggestions to include in this bumper Christmas issue. Would any organisation or individual wanting to have a notice of forthcoming events please note that, as is our usual custom, there will not be a January issue. Please be sure to let us have details of notices for both months.

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Walkerburn RFC are back in action this November and 27th vs Dalkeith (H) KO 1.30pm (Bowl Round 1) face three giants of the rugby world - the current December Fixtures world number ones New Zealand (Sat 13 Nov, KO 4th vs Broughton (A) KO 2pm 5.15, Murrayfield Stadium); World Cup holders 11th vs Gala YM (H) KO 2pm, then South Africa (Sat 20 Nov, KO 2.30, Murrayfield 7pm ‘A Horse Race night of fun!’ Stadium); and the mighty Samoa (Sat 27 Nov, KO 18th Standby Date 2.30, Pittodrie, Aberdeen). Burns Night - January 22nd. Tickets are on sale now! Visit Book ahead for fantastic Burns Night. Tickets from www.scottishrugby.org for more information. (Too committee members or Secretary late to order through club now for the Autumn (Tel: 01896-870762) Tests, however, plan ahead for the Spring Sponsors for the rugby club have been so Internationals & order through the club for advance generous this year and the players will be wearing booking! Tel 01896-870660) the new strip with www.miketoddcarsales.co.uk The club house will be open before & during the Their new dress shirts sponsored by Structural matches and members and visitors can watch on Engineers R. F. Blackhall (www.rfbp.co.uk) the big screen! Good company too! St Ronan’s Hotel and the Corner House have Rugby reports: sponsored kit bags and socks. With Walkerburn’s two thrilling consecutive wins Additionally there are club ties sporting first against Inverleith then high flying RDVC, www.ChAOil Systems.com players are gaining confidence and starting to show Please contact [email protected] results from training. There is still a long way to go WRFC new Web site is; this season and some tough challenging games lie www.walkerburnrugby.org.uk ahead. Spectators are very welcome and we need you October ‘200 Club’ Winners Draw there supporting the players on the side lines as £50 149 S. Entwhistle they tackle the next few games both Home and Away. £10 39 D. Lindsay November Fixtures £ 5 165 Angie Lees 13th Club Outing to Murrayfield. Bus places contact Peter Irvine on 07873-362108 £ 5 52 Mark Linton 20th vs Leith (H) KO 12pm

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Important Announcement To reduce costs, Walkerburn News Group has to make a decision whether to stop automatically producing paper copies of the BURNing Issues for every household with effect from the February edition in 2011. If the cost of production necessitates this, please be assured that we will still make a paper copy available - but this will be by request only. Both the email PDF and web-based copy at www.walkerburn.com will remain available. If you would like to continue to receive a paper copy of the news please give us a note of your name and address and leave them at the village hall (post box on outside wall) or in our box at the Post Office. Thank you, Walkerburn News Group

Quiz Night A quiz night is planned for Friday 12th November at 7pm in the Hall, so keep the date free. This will be a fun, family friendly quiz with any profits being donated to a local good cause. If you would like to book a table (4 max per team) please contact me. Tables of 4 only £4. Derek Russell

Craft Club The craft club has moved premises to extend its opening times and will be open every Tuesday to Thursday 10am - 4pm and Wednesday 7-9pm. Still in Walkerburn, the new location is Unit 1, Jubilee Road (next to DCB Welding & the Garage). The club continues to offer help and equipment to those interested in learning/advancing their skills in knitting, sewing, beading and many other crafts. Newcomers always given a warm welcome. Individual tuition is available if required. For more details contact Christine Hoggarth on 01896 870431 or email [email protected].

CRAFTS4 XMAS FAIR SAT. 4TH DECEMBER 10am - 4pm HOT SOUP, BREAD AND MULLED WINE served on the day. GRAND PRIZE DRAW RAFFLE will be drawn on the day Stalls include: White Elephant, Toys, Books, Hand-made gifts, Tombola, Lucky Dip, Knitwear and Cakes.

Walkerburn Church Guild We meet once a fortnight in the Village Hall.and our usual time is 7.30pm. We are always looking for new members – any age – and I am sure you would find our meetings interesting, as we have some very good speakers covering a variety of subjects.

Walkerburn Guild Grand Christmas Bazaar Saturday 20th November 2010 in the Village Hall from 10.00 to 11.30am Cake and candy stall, toys, bric-a-brac, soft goods, guess the weight of the cake Santa will be back in his Grotto again this year Coffee and biscuits will be served Please come for the fun of it and help us to raise money for Branch Funds (, Walkerburn and Parish Church SCO 01100) and also for 3 Guild projects: ‘Leprosy Mission Scotland’ SCO 22411, ‘Church of Scotland Crossreach’ SCO 11353 and ‘International Justice Mission UK’ 1099126.

Walkerburn Old Age Pensioners’ Association We meet once a month on the second Tuesday in the HBMI Club at 2.30pm and we are looking for new people to come and join us. Membership of the Association is only £2 per year. You can have a game of either whist or dominoes, a cup of tea and then we finish with 4 games of bingo, usually around 4pm. 3 Wild Side Hard frosts have started and early mornings are often misty, as the dew from the ground condenses during the night. What a difference these frosts have made to the watchers is seeing them leaping out of the water on trees. A couple more weeks and most will be bare. their journey past waterfalls, weirs and caulds. For The oak keeps its autumn spectacle until fishermen, no doubt, the highlight is somewhat November when it also ‘rains’ acorns; a welcome different. There has been a good turnout of fishers bonus for squirrels and jays. The birds enjoy this year; let’s hope they’ve had a good season so turning over fallen leaves looking for spiders and far. If the numbers of wee fish in the burns are any insects and will search in the garden beds after indication of future seasons, things are looking you’ve been clearing up or digging. The robins are rosy. Much will depend on the fish-eating birds like always first on the scene and at this time of year, goosanders, herons and cormorants, I fear. spend a lot of time at the tops of trees or high If the weather’s too cold for you to venture far and vantage points singing a lovely tuneful song. Wrens you can’t see the bird feeders in your garden, and thrushes are also singing well at this time of there’s always some Wildlife to watch on TV. Until the year. the end of November, the BBC Autumnwatch Fishermen (or women) will be well aware that by programme is on Thursday evenings. A different November, the adult Atlantic salmon are migrating format to usual with one weekly show for eight back to the place of their birth in the gravelly weeks and no more Simon King (sob!) but still full shallows upstream. The fish arrive from the sea, of down to earth advice on watching wild life and entering the estuaries and then move on to the full of ideas for things to do outdoors in Autumn. rivers. It is said they find the river of their birth by Best of all, wrap up warm and just get outside to smell and the chemical composition of the water. enjoy the last of the glorious autumn colours, flocks They swim upstream against the current to spawn, of feeding birds, the last of the fungi and rekindle and unlike their Pacific cousins, many Atlantic your youth by kicking up or leaping into piles of salmon survive the spawning season and return to fallen leaves. It’ll make that bowl of hot soup even the sea, possibly repeating the arduous migration better! three times in a lifetime. The highlight for wildlife

Rural Round-Up The nights are fairly drawing in but you can always guarantee a warm welcome at the Rural! This month another well known face to the Rural, magnificent sum of just over £98!! Jenny Beddoe-Stephens, came and spoke with This month’s competition winners were: great conviction about the work she had done with A Plate of Stovies – 1st H Shepherd, 2nd M Millar, the charity Lepra helping those affected by leprosy 3rd J Gillie in India. Her slides showed the terrible side effects Draught Excluder – 1st J Gillie, 2nd M Millar that are caused by this condition and the work that The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 1st is being done to try and combat it. Although Jenny December in the Village Hall at 7.30 pm, when I will had seen scenes of terrible poverty and illness she be talking about my hobby of photography and had found India to be a wonderful country and sharing some tips on how to take better spoke of how welcome everybody there had made photographs. her. Leprosy is still a big problem not only in India Competitions are an Individual Vegetable Quiche but across the world. For further information please and a Photo of a Winter Scene. go to Lepra’s website www.leprahealthinaction.org Could all members please bring a plate of Thank you to everybody who supported the Rural something sweet or savoury for a buffet tea. table at last month’s Community Fair, we raised the Heather Shepherd

4 Powerdown News Free Insulation Offer Some very good news! You can afford to reduce your heating bills this winter. Scottish Borders Council has been successful in a Interest free loans are available to householders in bid to the Scottish Government for a free insulation the Tweeddale area as part of the scheme. These measures scheme in the Tweeddale area for all can be used to pay (or part pay) for the costs of homeowners and those in privately rented property. replacing old, inefficient boilers, renewable * All cavity wall insulation, loft insulation and loft technologies and solid wall insulation. insulation top-ups are provided for free. Loans of between £500 and £10,000 are available * Enabling measures such as work on loft hatches, (please note: loans are only available up to a scaffolding, water tanks and pipes in the loft space maximum of £4,000 for solar photovoltaic (PV), are also provided free through the scheme. wind turbines and small scale hydro technologies) * It does not cover items such as partial lofts, flat and are paid back in monthly installments over a roofs, coombs, solid wall insulation and draught- maximum of eight years. proofing. The savings you can make may make this This scheme is a fantastic chance for you to get worthwhile. your home insulated for nothing. It may seem too You might for example; good to be true but it is absolutely above board and * Save over £200 per year by installing a new boiler as simple as it seems. The Scottish Government is * Generate over £800 by generating electricity investing this money to reduce our energy needs using solar panels and to improve the quality of housing in Scotland. * Reduce heat loss through solid walls and save How will the scheme work? around £360 per year. From November: The additional advantages of making investments The letter about the scheme arrives. like these are increased comfort, reducing future You contact the Energy Saving advice centre by energy bills as prices rise, and reducing carbon phone on 0800 512 012 (mention Tweeddale free emissions. insulation offer) or wait for an assessor to call. If you have any doubts, queries, questions or just You will be asked to answer a number of questions need a bit of help with accessing the scheme about your home etc. please get in touch on either 07989 420158 or A free survey is then organised to assess what email [email protected] - or just drop in to work is possible or necessary. the hall on a Thursday or Friday. After the survey contractor will arrange a date for Derek Russell the work and it will be carried out, free of charge. Walkerburn Powerdown Officer. You then enjoy reduced bills and a warmer home. All work is planned for completion by March 2011. The sooner you respond the sooner it will be done. Additional Feature - Interest free loans

Walkerburn Lunch Club Timetable - November 12.00pm to 1.00pm-1.30pm 1.30pm-2.30pm 1.00pm 16th November Lunch Club Carpet Bowls Seated Keep Fit 30th November Lunch Club Carpet Bowls Seated Keep Fit 7th December Lunch Club Please contact Nichola Sewell for further information on 07748320108

Tweedholm Bed & Breakfast “In the beautiful Tweed Valley”

Evelyn & Colin Grahame Tweedholm House, Walkerburn EH43 6AN Tel: 01896 870266 Email: [email protected]

5 Tweed Fishing at Walkerburn October News from the River Bank. The month of October was one of very mixed fortunes. The weather changed frequently and with it the amount of water varied considerably from ‘not enough’ to ‘far too much’! The diary for 16th October noted that: 29th October: “with the water draining away all week to, now, Water 1’1" and steady. A 5lb Grilse for Craig below normal summer level (off the gage outside Pauley and two more to our favourite ghillie at last the hut) conditions have got very difficult. All the knockings. A 25 pounder and a 12 pounder. All more frustrating after a near record week the week three from the Bridge Pool. All three returned. before and such a huge run of fish in the system. Heavy rain last night and the river is already rising But records are what they are and just three fish this morning. were put in the book for the past week, 15, 10 and 1st November 5lbs, bringing our autumn total so far to 31 Salmon Water 1`6" and clear. Perfect conditions but lots of (which we shouldn`t forget included fish of 23, 20, stale fish about and 5 lost this morning. But John 19 and 18lbs) and 6 sea trout to 7lbs. Evans did manage his biggest ever Salmon from Keep praying for rain.” the Cauld Hole just after lunch at 25lbs a slightly A week later, the entries for 22nd and 23rd October stale hen and Peter Flockhart followed on with a read: fairly fresh fish of 9lbs from the Clure. Both fish “We have only two rods on and dead low water, but were returned. a couple of inches of fresh water bought the fish Reports of big catches on some of the lower beats back on. will hopefully mean a run of fresh fish are coming Fane Gaffney had a nice 12lb fish from the up river. Weaver. Jan Hogarth then had a 9 pounder from 2nd Nov the Clure and handed the rod to her husband, who Water up to 2ft on Monday night, promptly hooked and landed a 5 pounder followed back down to 1ft 9ins in the moring by a huge old cock fish of 26lbs from the same but back up to over 2ft during the pool. (So there goes the theory that women catch afternoon on squally gale force all the big fish!) winds and heavy showers. At the end of the same day Steve then had a cast Well done to our new owner John and added an 8lb fish to the total from the Weaver. Miller for his first ever Scottish 5 fish for a day under these conditions is terrific.” Salmon, from Upper Caberston - a cracking 12 “23rd Oct, and low water continued until Saturday pound cock fish, barely two days off the tide, out of lunchtime when the river rose to just under 2ft and the Clure! coloured badly, washing us off. Well done also to John Evans for following his With just a Salmon (8lbs) and a Seatrout (6lbs) on 25lbs salmon yesterday (his biggest ever) with a Friday and a single Salmon on Saturday morning cracking 9lb Sea trout from the Bridge Pool. (12lbs) all slightly coloured and all caught and Great to see fresh fish coming through but we need returned from the Bridge pool, we finished with 10 it to stop raining and let the fish settle now. Salmon to 26lbs and the Seatrout. Not bad for low (Anyone interested in how things have gone can water and seemingly hopless conditions. log on to the Michael Evans website at With a bit of luck the water over the weekend will www.michaelevans .co.uk and then look at the move some fresh fish up river.” Walkerburn beat daily diary.)

6 School Report Firstly a ‘BIG’ thank you to everyone who donated old textiles for the recent Rag Bag collection. We had 53 bags of various sizes - over 200kg of goods. We estimate this raises just over £80 for school We have a very exciting time coming up for school funds! with a school trip for the Primary children to the The week beginning November 22nd is Primary 1 Edinburgh Playhouse to watch a matinee and Nursery Enrolment week when we will be performance of Joseph. enrolling for next session (starting August 2011- We will then be performing our own version at our April2012). If your child is 3 years old and eligible Christmas concert on 15th December at to begin nursery during that time please contact the 7.00pm, joined by the pre-school children singing school for enrolment forms, or with any queries. some seasonal songs. Children already attending our nursery or school We are hoping for a big audience to support the will be issued the relevant forms that week. children, so please note the date in your diary!

St Andrew's Scottish Episcopal Church Services St Andrew's Church, Church Street, Innerleithen (Note the yellow door!) Services take place each Sunday at 10am. However there are some exceptions : On Sunday 28th November 11am, for St Andrew's Celebration the congregation of St Peter's in Peebles join us for a Service at 11am followed by a 'pot luck' lunch. A children's creche will be organised in the adjoining Father Hurt Room during part of the service. The Very Reverend James Mein who is the Dean of this Diocese is taking charge at this time while our Rector Robin Lee is convalescing. Sunday 19th December Carol Singing. Do you enjoy singing Carols? Then follow the crowd and you will be supplied with Carol sheets - just dress warmly, bring a torch, and meet up at either end of Walkerburn from where we go house-to- house, ending up at the Rugby club for a Wassail Cup by 7pm for a brief story a Carol, a prayer and friendship. Friday 24th December There will be a Service of 9 Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve. All welcome and children - bring a favourite gift! (More detail in the December issue) Visitors are always very welcome!

Monthly Music Mornings Coffee and music appreciation At The Old Railway Station, Walkerburn, 10am for 10.30am This is a music appreciation venture for anybody interested in learning about and listening to some favourite music. Each month there will be an invited guest or guests who will talk about their favourite music and we will listen to it and explore a theme each session. Everyone welcome! Friday 26th November – John Fairless

Walkerburn Bowling Club The Annual General Meeting will be held in the Clubhouse on Sunday 21st November at 2pm. It is hoped for a good attendance of players and intending players.

Walkerburn Vegetable Association AGM The Annual General Meeting for the Vegetable Association will be held in the Village Hall on MONDAY 22nd NOVEMBER at 7.00pm. All are welcome. 7 WALKERBURN & DISTRICT COMMUNITY COUNCIL th Extract from the Draft Minutes of meeting held on 18 October 2010 Monthly Report from WCDT questionnaire for consideration at November The Secretary WCDT reported that: meeting. Available online at a. Allotments Development. Work was well www.scotborders.gov.uk/life/planningbuilding/plans underway and WCDT has obtained a felling licence and research/25514.html to fell the Sitka Spruce on condition the area was Report on SBCCN Seminar replanted with broadleaf trees. The spruces were Mr Thornton reported on a successful and useful too close to houses and may become landlocked in seminar attended by himself and Miss McIntosh. future which would make felling much more difficult The seminar discussed the ‘Big Society’ where and expensive. WCDT has been successful in community spirit, self help and involvement was obtaining a grant through Woodland Trust to encouraged. Networking with other Community purchase 400 broadleaf trees and shrubs for Council members also useful. Miss McIntosh landscaping the whole field area. Planting would reported that WCC was held in high regard for how take place in November/December or the Spring as it operates. Gillian Steele (Chair Innerleithen, a Community event. Traquair and the Glen CC) to be invited as an b. Vattenfall had not yet lodged an appeal so no observer to a future WDCC meeting. reason to meet as yet re Community Gain Mr Thornton provided a written report - lodged with negotiations. These would begin again as soon as secretary. an appeal is lodged. Company keen to reach Reports by Members settlement before any appeal is heard. a.) Mr Brett proposed that members formally c. SBC successful in gaining a substantial grant for agreed to the new Code of Conduct as read and insulation work in Peebles, Innerleithen and discussed. Seconded Ms Ogilvie. Passed. Walkerburn areas. Householders need to have an b.) Mrs Thornton commented re the clearance of energy assessment of their property completed the flower beds at the Memorial Garden. All which may then mean any insulation work can be considered it too early and queried whether plants carried out free of charge. Also available will be low could be donated or sold at low cost to community cost loans for installation of renewable energy to avoid waste. Cllr Herd to follow up. units. Both schemes coming on stream shortly. c.) Miss McIntosh requested the seats at Memorial WDCT trying to raise awareness within the Garden be repainted by SB Local. Thanks to the community. Parks department for their upkeep of the area. Police Business d.) Request for repainting of SLOW signs on road PC Craig Rogerson unable to attend but had sent surface between the George Hotel and War in a police report. With regard to the suggestion by Memorial on A72. a member of the Borders Party that police e.) Ms Ogilvie expressed her thanks for the Road attendance at CC meetings was a waste of police Safety on the pavements around the village. Mrs time, all present strongly refuted this. It was seen Horsburgh intimated that responsibility for these as a vital link to communities particularly with was due to a parent member of the school parent forthcoming cuts. It allows a useful exchange of council and Phillippa Gilhooley from SBC as part of information and builds confidence in the police the School Travel Plan and Safe Routes to School service within the community. Chair reported that initiative. She would pass on her expression of Community Safety Teams making progress with thanks. community involvement and keeping the two way f) Condition of ‘Twenty’s Plenty’ signs queried. Mrs contact. Horsburgh to report to Cllr Herd Planning g.) Possibilty of ‘Children Playing’ sign at end of Minch Moor Windfarm: Still nothing so far on any private road near WRFC to be investigated. appeal. h.) Congratulations to WRFC for ground Broadmeadows Windfarm: Members encouraged maintenance and attractive new fence at Caberston to attend public consultation meetings re Haugh. Broadmeadows at Caddonfoot Village Hall 5 - i.) Ms Ogilvie commented on the Mental Health 8.30pm Wednesday 20th October and Yarrowford Strategy and it’s emphasis on the value of craft 3 -8.30pm Tuesday 19th October. Response to workshops etc for those with mental health amended application to be discussed at November problems. Queried whether money was available to meeting. run workshops in conjunction with those run at Local Plan Report: Important for members to read previously at WRFC and now in ex-SBC unit. as will direct what happens in planning in future. Cathie Sutherland (WCDT) asked for comment. Critical pages to be printed for circulation. She reported that WCDT can apply for funding for Early Engagement on Local Development Plan: – sessional workshops for the community but that the Secretary has requested paper copy of individual running the current craft workshops was 8 a business and could only be employed via grant c.) Some areas still not received recycling bins in funding for community workshops. which case bags should still be used. Bins should Reports by SBC Councillors be delivered in the near future. Cllr Herd reported d.) New petrol station being built at ASDA in a.) The banking to High Cottages was to be cut . Cllr Herd hoping that national pricing back a little to improve balance under the small policy will be instigated and we will see competitive schemes funding, but no major work could be done petrol prices locally. at this stage. Date of Next Meeting. b.) Cllr Herd and Cllr Logan still working on river 15th November at 7.30pm. issues.

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9 WHAT’S ON IN THE HALL – NOVEMBER/DECEMBER (Anyone interested in booking the hall, please contact Mollie McIntosh at 01896 870234) ALL EVENTS: Month Month NOVEMBER DECEMBER Date Event Time Date Event Time 11 Youth Club 7.00pm 1 Woman’s Rural 7.30-9.30pm 12 Derek Russell’s Quiz 6 Gentle Exercise 9.30-10.30am Night – Tables of 4 (£4) 7.30pm 14 Remembrance Day 10.00am 7 Over 50’s Xmas onwards Lunch 12 noon Table Tennis 6.00–9.00pm Junior Zumba Class 3.15-4.00pm Adult Zumba Class 7.30-8.30pm 15 Gentle Exercise 9.30-10.30am 13 Gentle Exercise 9.30-10.30am (Last one this year) 16 Over 50’s Lunch Club 12 noon–1.00pm 14 Women’s Guild 7.30pm Carpet Bowls 1.00-1.30pm Seated Keep Fit 1.30-2.30pm Junior Zumba Class 3.15-4.00pm Women’s Guild 7.30pm 18 Youth Club 7.00pm 15 Primary School 7.00pm Concert (Doors open at 6.30pm) 20 Walkerburn Guild Grand Christmas Bazaar 10.00-11.30am 21 Church Service 10.00am Table Tennis Club 6.00-9.00pm 22 Gentle Exercise 9.30-10.30am Vegetable Association AGM 7.00pm 23 Ann Park Fellowship, Friendship and Fun 9.00am-12noon Junior Zumba Class 3.15-4.00pm Adult Zumba Class 7.30-8.30pm 28 Table Tennis Club 6.00-9.00pm 29 Gentle Exercise 9.30-10.30am 30 Over 50’s Lunch Club 12 noon–1.00pm Carpet Bowls 1.00-1.30pm Seated Keep Fit 1.30-2.30pm Junior Zumba Class 3.15-4.00pm Woman’s Guild 7.30pm Adult Zumba Classes – Please note that on alternate weeks, i.e. November 16th and 30th and December 14th, this class will be held in the Memorial Hall, Innerleithen from 7.30-8.30pm Healthy Living Contact: Nichola Sewell 07748 320108

Contacts Walkerburn Community Council Patricia Purves (Secretary) Glenmead EH43 6DD Tel: 01896 870 447 Email: [email protected] Walkerburn Community Development Trust Cathie Sutherland (Company Secretary) 73 Tweedholm Avenue EH43 6AP Tel: 01896 870 470 Email: [email protected] If there are any other groups that would like contact details added to Burning Issues to allow people interested in their club to contact them please send the details to [email protected] 10