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AN CARRANNACH the General Interest Magazine of Lochcarron, Shieldaig, Applecross, Kishorn, Torridon & Kinlochewe Districts Photo by Peter Teago AN CARRANNACH The General Interest Magazine of Lochcarron, Shieldaig, Applecross, Kishorn, Torridon & Kinlochewe Districts Lochcarron By Peter Teago NO: 383 FEBRUARY 2020 £1.00 Mia Quigley Aged 13 2019 Highland Games & now Planning for 2020 In July 2019, the sun actually shone and some 2000 people joined us at the Lochcarron Highland Games. Thanks for the support of our sponsors, in particular our Lead Sponsor, the Scottish Salmon Company, and others such as Kishorn Port Ltd and Ferguson Transport, we were delighted by both the turnout and the enthusiasm of all those who helped both before and on the day. Naming names would be invidious but we do want to thank you all most sincerely and encourage you all to join us at our Thank You Evening on Thursday 5th March in the Upper Hall. We shall tell you about our successes and the resulting £7000 nominal profit we made. Every single person who works at the Games, before, during or afterwards does so for love not money. We always have to keep enough back for the following year, in case we have to cancel at the last minute, which has only had to happen once in over forty years but you never know. Allowing for this and thanks to the successful accumulation over several good years, during 2019 we were able to distribute £19,000 locally. We want to ensure that this July we raise as much money again so do please join us to hear about how the local groups have made the most of their additional funds raised. The following donations were made to those groups who requested support, both before and after last July. The Lochcarron Highland Games Association was delighted to donate £2000 each to the Lochcarron Sailing Club and the Lochcarron Coastal Rowing Association. In addition, £2000 was donated to the Kishorn Play Park with another £2000 to the Lochcarron Golf Club and £2000 for the Lochcarron Shinty Club. The Leisure Centre received £1000 and the Tea Set were given £500 towards their launch. The (Continued on page 2) 1 Lochcarron Primary School Parent Council also got £1000, the Quilters received £250 towards AN CARRANNACH their exhibition, and the Lochcarron Highland Published by An Carrannach Society, Lochcarron. Dancers received £500. Finally, last but by no means least, the Howard Doris Centre also Chairperson: Joanna Macpherson benefited to the tune of £7000 within the last Deputy Chair Roger Cundiff twelve months. Editorial Content Material for publication must be emailed to Michelle Teago at We’d be delighted to see as many of our [email protected] or a phone call to 01520 722688 volunteers as possible at the Thank You Evening, and would particularly welcome any potential new Sub Editor Joanna Macpherson helpers. Both current and new support is always greatly appreciated and indeed invaluable in Area Representatives: helping us maintain one of the main highlights of Applecross: the summer and the vitally important financial Kishorn: Carol Cocks 01520 733 213 contribution it makes to so many organisations in Shieldaig: Lucy Kerr 01520 755 368 our community. Torridon: Features: A Word from the Church/On Reflection Gardening – To be confirmed Autumn in Attadale Nature Notes – Hatty Arthur – 01520 722 551 Email: [email protected] Autumn in Attadale, Advertising: [email protected] where, for a while, a riot of russet, Local Rate: Entertainments, Sales, Services, Trade Whole Page £28, Half page £18, Quarter yellow, gold and green page £10 Out of Area Rate: Please email us for prices is seen in bright profusion. Here burnished beech leaves, heaven-hung, Mailing: Hilary “Post” Rooke lie banked in glitter of gold against the Distribution: Anthea Zell waning sun, while there, Treasurer: Alec Cormack Mackays Cottage a treasure trove of leaves lies limpid Strathcarron IV54 8YX on the still, dark surface of a pond, 01520 722603 like scattered coins. [email protected] Elsewhere a feast of un-plucked berries, Insertions: Births, marriages, deaths, acknowledgements. Congratulations, dark as drying blood, thanks notices – No charge brings frolic of fieldfare Subscriptions: 11 issues post paid, U.K. £25.00 Europe £54.00 in frenzy of feathered flighting, Australia £66.00 Canada and USA £60.00 alighting here, then there, Contact [email protected] in hurried hunger, while in the grove, reaching from riven rock, Website: www.ancarrannach.com where clutching roots suck moisture from Material intended for publication must include your name and address. each crack, the tall, gaunt conifers, Please note we can now accept copy in any format.. dreaming giants, rise like spires of prayer into the ether’s CLOSING DATE FOR THE thin, frost hinted air MARCH 2020 ISSUE feeling the fell of Winter nearly here, MATERIAL MUST BE RECEIVED BY and in the kitchen garden NO LATER THAN 15TH FEBRUARY PLEASE Christmas Pippins bring a promise of good Errors and omissions excepted. cheer.. The An Carrannach Society does not accept responsibility for the content/accuracy of reports, Francis Minay articles and advertisements received. The views expressed by contributors are NOT necessarily those of the Society. 2 CHURCH OF SCOTLAND APPLECROSS, LOCHCARRON & TORRIDON Charity No: SCO32334 Times and Places of Worship for February 2020 2nd February Lochcarron 10.30am Torridon Community Hall 1.00pm 9th February Lochcarron 10.30am Kinlochewe 1.00pm Applecross 1.00pm 16th February Lochcarron 10.30am Shieldaig 1.00pm 23rd February Lochcarron 10.30am Shieldaig 1.00pm Applecross 1.00pm Minister Rev. Anita Stutter Tel. 01520 722783 Email [email protected] ALL ARE WELCOME All Saints (Scottish Episcopal) Mission FREE CHURCH LOCHCARRON & Kinlochewe APPLECROSS (part of the world-wide Anglican You are welcome at our services Communion) Lochcarron Church Street IV54 8YP Sunday 11am and 6 pm invites you to services on the first Sunday of the month at 2.30pm (Church of (Crèche and Sunday school) Scotland Kinlochewe building) Midweek Wednesdays 7.30pm Sunday 2nd February 2020 Applecross Camusterrach IV54 8LU 3 pm every Sunday Celebrant and Preacher: Other events as intimated. The Most Revd Dr. Mark Strange Scottish Charity SC038169 (Primus Scottish Episcopal Church) Rev M. Florit 01520 722999 Everyone welcome [email protected] Further info: (01445) 781346 www.freechurch.org (Scottish Charity Number: SCO04655) 3 has taken humanity a long time to wake up to the fact of our mutual dependency, but we understand ON it now as we never have before, though the selfishness that infects us all as individuals also undermines the way nations interact with one REFLECTION another. Lent – the six weeks that lead up to Easter in the Knowing what we can do as individuals to aid the Christian calendar – begins on Ash Wednesday on process of reversing the trend, which has brought 26th February. Traditionally Lent was a time when about the crisis we face, is another matter. We Christians undertook the discipline of self- probably feel helpless in the face of necessary denial in solidarity with Jesus who fasted forty change so radical that only governments, or days and forty nights in the wilderness. industry can effect it. Yet it is as individuals that In an episode of “Call the Midwife” (screened in we have to respond, and it is the efforts of early January) nurse Trixie Franklin was seen individuals, the Greta Thunbergs as well as the trying to give up cigarettes, Fred Buckle was David Attenboroughs of this world, that change having a serious struggle to keep off cakes, and public opinion and create the pressure that can Sister Monica Joan was missing the “easing of bring reluctant world leaders to the table together. spirit” which flowers on the altar always brought her. Meanwhile, we have got to be prepared to “give Such minor observations of the Lenten discipline up” not merely chocolate, cigarettes or booze, if are typical of what Christians today think of as a we are all to come though this truly global Lent, “Lent fast”. Does any of it have any relevance in but things that will cut much more radically at our our day and age? life-styles. This is the fast that God – or if you prefer it, our future survival, requires, and it is Viewed from the perspective of the real crisis required of us all. facing today’s world – global climate change - giving up minor luxuries for Lent smacks somewhat of “fiddling while Rome burns” (while Francis Minay Australia burns, while Jakarta drowns, while the icecaps melt, while species after species in their thousands are made extinct, while the oceans fill with plastic). It’s little wonder that so many people think the Church an irrelevance, while it continues to obsess about sin and salvation! Salvation is, of course, the issue, but no more the personal and private affair the Church so often gives the impression of making it than it was for Jesus, who saw his own people – the people of God! - embittered, self-regarding and hate-filled - heading for a confrontation with Rome they couldn’t hope to win, their true vocation – that of being a “light to the nations” - forgotten and ignored. Salvation is – and always has been – about how we are to live together as God’s children in the world of his making, a world our “march to progress” now threatens with extinction. The discipline of fasting – doing without - was always right in aiming for “pieta”, that word that means solidarity with, an imaginative and empathetic walking in the shoes of the other, whether of Christ in his temptations, or the hungry and suffering of the world in their privations. The crisis of global warming demands of us all a radical “pieta” with all who regard Mother Earth as their home, not only the human family, but all that lives and moves on land, in air or in the sea.
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