Kinross-Shire Can in the Village All My Life
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Kinross Newsletter Founded in 1977 by Mrs Nan Walker, MBE Issue No 367 September 2009 www.kinrossnewsletter.org ISSN 1757-4781 DEADLINE CONTENTS for the October Issue From the Editor ............................................................2 2.00 pm, Monday 21 September 2009 Letters ..........................................................................2 News and Articles .........................................................4 for publication on Kinross Show Prize Winners..........................................6 Saturday 3 October 2009 Police Box..................................................................11 Community Councils...................................................12 Contributions for inclusion in the Club & Community Group News .................................20 Newsletter Sport ..........................................................................31 The Newsletter welcomes items from clubs, Out & About...............................................................37 community organisations and individuals for Gardens Open..............................................................39 publication. This is free of charge (we only Congratulations and Thanks.........................................40 charge for commercial advertising - see Church Information, Obituaries....................................41 below right). All items may be subject to Playgroups & Nurseries...............................................43 editing. Please also see our Letters Policy on Notices.......................................................................44 page 2. Day Centre & Chemists................................................47 Submit your item (except adverts) in one o f Classified Adverts.......................................................47 the following ways: Situations Vacant.........................................................47 Email : [email protected] Diary..........................................................................48 Post : Eileen Thomas Editor, Kinross Newsletter 50 Muirs, Kinross, KY13 8AU Hand in : 50 Muirs, Kinross Commercial Advertising in the Newsletter or : 24 Victoria Avenue, Display Adverts Milnathort We have updated our arrangements for Display Adverts. Please go to our Editor website www.kinrossnewsletter.org and click on Advertising for full Eileen Thomas details, or contact our Advertising Manager. 50 Muirs Typed Adv erts Kinross, KY13 8AU ..................... 863714 A typed advert may be placed for one or more months. These adverts are [email protected] text only (no graphics allowed). There are two rates: Advertising Manager Up to NINE lines (including blank lines) £7.00 per insertion Ann Harley TEN to FIFTEEN lines (including blank lines) £11.00 per insertion 2 Hatchbank Road, As a guide, eight words is the maximum that can be fitted on a line. To Kinross KY13 9JY ....................... 864512 place a Typed Advert, contact our Advertising Manager, Ann Harley (see [email protected] left for contact details). You will need to send her: Your name, address, telephone number and, optionally, email address. Subscriptions • Glenn Neve • The wording of your advert. Saltire Transport Services • A note of the number of insertions required. 15 Marshall Place • Your remittance – cheques payable to “ Kinross Newsletter”. Ballingry, Fife KY5 8JW ...... 01592 860808 Send all this to the Advertising Manager by the normal monthly Newsletter [email protected] deadline (see top of left-hand column for date). Distribution The Newsletter reserves the right to vary the physical size of these adverts Glenn Neve (address & tel as above) from issue to issue according to the space available. [email protected] If you wish to place a Typed Advert on a permanent or semi-permanent basis, contact the Advertising Manager to see if you can go on to our Treasurer billing list. 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 Glenn Neve Subscriptions Glenn Neve 2 Letters Editorial Disabled parking at Kinross Show 10.08.09 On Saturday 8 August I took the opportunity to drive across The Focus Groups held by P&KC to find out what local from East Kilbride to take my disabled mother to the people think about Kinross – how the town looks, the Kinross Show. My mother has lived in Milnathort for over services provided, what should happen to publicly owned 30 years now. She is now in a wheelchair due to having buildings – are over, but if you didn’t manage to get along cancer for the second time in two years. The door staff were to one of the meetings, you can tell the Council what you very helpful in pointing out the best place to park. But to think by completing an online questionnaire. More details on page 15. my utter amazement my mother was charged £3 to park the car in a disabled place. Please can you tell me how this can There is also a separate online questionnaire about an appraisal of the Kinross Conservation Area – again, be justified, as I am sure enough money was raised through the other numerous parking and entry fees. If possible details are on page 15. If you are buying this Newsletter as soon as it goes on sale, you will still have a chance to visit please can you print this letter and ask the appropriate persons to respond to these questions. Thank you for your the exhibition about the Conservation Area, which finishes on 1st September. assistance in this matter. Mrs Pauline Miller Special congratulations to our word processing assistant, Julia Fulton and her husband Ian, on the birth of their baby 1 Culzean Avenue, Stewartfield, East Kilbride, Glasgow daughter Mia, a sister for Jamie. Best wishes to you all. Thanks to Shireen Paterson for coming out of retirement to provide maternity cover! Disabled parking at Show – reply 17.08.09 There is a huge amount happening in the county in In reply to the letter from Mrs Pauline Miller about being September as a glance at the diary will tell you – surely charged to park her car for Kinross Show I would like to say something for everyone! how sorry I was to hear of her grievance and hope she and her mother had an otherwise enjoyable visit to the show. Letters Policy Having spoken to a few people about the points which her We reserve the right not to publish any letter. Letters will not be letter raises it would seem that the situation would be the published unless the sender’s name and address are supplied and same at other similar events; there is provision for disabled they are prepared to have them published along with their letter. parking but the usual charge still applies. The subject of Please note that the Newsletter does not necessarily agree with giving disabled badge holders free parking has, to the best any of the views expressed on these pages. of my knowledge, never been discussed but it certainly will be discussed, along with all other entry fees by our Abbreviations Used committee in due course. We at Kinross shire Agricultural Society aim to provide an event which offers all our visitors P&KC = Perth & Kinross Council an enjoyable, good value day out and we have not changed CC = Community Council our entry fees for several years. Cllr = Councillor I would recommend that anyone with particular access or CCllr = Community Councillor mobility needs contacts the society prior to show day so that appropriate arrangements can be made to minimise AUSTIN HEATING & ELECTRICAL inconvenience to themselves and make things simpler for our volunteers stewarding the entrances. Also, I would ask SERVICE, REPAIR & INSTALLATION OF: that if anyone has a complaint on show day, please go to the • Central Heating Systems secretary’s tent where it can be sorted out there and then. • Boilers, Fires, Warm Air Heating On behalf of the society, I would like to thank everyone • Cookers, Ranges, Water Heaters & Showers who came to the show and I hope they all enjoyed the • GAS, LPG & OIL sunshine as much as I did. We had a very well attended, Plus – Gas Safety Checks & Landlord’s Certificates successful show this year and hopefully this will go some Also all Domestic Electrical Works undertaken way in balancing out the two previous years which fell No Call Out Charge in Normal Working Hours victim to terrible weather. John Buchanan, Society President Tel: 01577 861188 or Mobile: 07786 705261 J. MILLER CHILDMINDER CARPET AND UPHOLSTERY Has vacancies for children aged from 6 weeks CLEANING I am an experienced childminder with primary teaching and N.N.E.B. qualifications Domestic and Commercial Hours to suit, with pre-school education, holidays, Free No Obligatory Quotations before and after school runs to Kinross Primary available. Free Deodoriser Fully Insured & Qualified Contact Denise on 01577 861465 or 01577 864129 or 07961415871 [email protected] Letters 3 In appreciation of Dave Goodwin 12.08.09 Inappropriate Article 17.08.09 I was born in the village of Kinnesswood and have resided The Newsletter is a publication of which Kinross-shire can in the village all my life. That will be 65 years this be justly proud. However the high standards of this month. Needless to say, I have witnessed many changes to publication were