AN CARRANNACH The General Interest Magazine of Lochcarron, Shieldaig, Applecross, Kishorn and Torridon & Kinlochewe Districts NO: 355 JULY 2017 £1.00 On Saturday 15th July from 11:30 am to 5:00pm the games will be held at Attadale again. Save the Date! This will be the 39th year of the games and we are very proud of all the people who, over the years, have helped to make it happen. Some 60 people are required to volunteer on or around the day to set the field, erect the tents and stalls and manage the day, be that working on the gate, assisting in controlling the parking or running the actual events. Can you help? The Lochcarron Highland Games is supported by other local events over that weekend, the shinty team with their Friday night dance, see separate advert, another dance on the Saturday night, for those still needing to spend some energy. All money raised does return to the community and since 2014 we have awarded £13,500 to over 13 local organisations, some multiple times. So this year we will run a regular bus service from Lochcarron to Attadale, so leave the car at home. Along with your admission to the Games we also include free entry to Attadale Gardens. All the regular events return including the distinctive, one of a kind Hill Race, track and field events for all ages and increased prize money this year for juniors. Official Heavy events including Caber Tossing, Weight for Height and Throwing the Hammer will ensure a fun packed (Continued on page 2) 1 (Continued from page 1) AN CARRANNACH day for everyone. We have arranged more rides for children and Published by An Carrannach Society, Lochcarron. by popular demand, Mrs Bubbles will be back to paint faces and make balloons into Chairperson: Joanna Macpherson amazing shapes. This ensures we have an Editorial Content: [email protected] event for all the family. There will be more stalls than ever full of different things to buy Treasurer: Tony Caminiti and you can enjoy all the beer and food tents 10 Kirkton Road have to offer. Lochcarron IV54 8UF 01520 722 148 As always we are grateful to our lead sponsor [email protected] The Scottish Salmon Company as well as Mailing: Hilary “Post” Rooke sponsors Kishorn Port Ltd and Gilkes Energy for their support and all our advertisers both Distribution: Anthea Zell large and small. Raffle tickets are available now with a top prize of £200 and many other Area Representatives: prizes, so our thanks to all those who Applecross: Lenore Small 01520 744 337 donated. Kishorn: Carol Cocks 01520 733 213 Shieldaig: Lucy Kerr 01520 755 368 Torridon: Glyn Meredith 01445 791 270 Look out for the 2017 Games Programme available free in local shops and check our Features: website at www.lochcarrongames.org.uk for A Word from the Church/On Reflection additional information and any late changes. Gardening – Maureen Lyon – 01520 733 488 Entry remains as last year with Adult tickets email: [email protected] £7.00, Children and Seniors at £3.00. Pay at Nature Notes – Jean Stewart – 01520 722 238 the gate. email:[email protected] Advertising: [email protected] Local Rate: Proposed Let of a Croft Entertainments, Sales, Services, Trade – Whole Page £24, Half page £14, Quarter page £7 Iain Macrae is applying to let the tenancy of the Single items for sale or wanted - £4 with advert or £5 if croft at 171 Lochcarron Village in the parish of invoiced Lochcarron to Ruairidh Macrae of Sgurr Fhuran, Out of Area Rate: Please email us for prices 171 Lochcarron, Croft Road, Lochcarron, IV54 8YA. Insertions: Births, marriages, deaths, acknowledgements. 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Cover photograph by Unknown 2 Scottish Episcopal Church Courthill Chapel, Kishorn Are you looking for occasional Sunday Worship? Services for July Sunday Service 10.30 a.m. The Scottish Episcopal Church July 2 Holy Communion (Part of the Anglican Communion) Marcus Given 10.30 a.m Pentecost 4 meets in July 9 Eucharist Kinlochewe (Church of Scotland Rev. Heather 10.30 a.m Pentecost 5 Widdows Building) on the first Sunday each month at 2.30pm July 16 Eucharist Rev. John Searl Celebrant and Preacher: Revd Pam 10.30 a.m Pentecost 6 Shinkins July 23 Eucharist Rev. John Searl Next service: Sunday 2nd July 2017 10.30 a.m Pentecost 7 Tel: (01445) 781346 July 30 Eucharist (Scottish Charity Number SCO20389) Rev. Francis Minay 10.30 a.m Pentecost 8 Everyone welcome (Spotted on a church notice board: August 6 Holy Communion Jan Overmeer “Faithbook: You have one new friend request 10.30 a.m Pentecost 9 from Jesus!) For more information, ring: Marcus Given Rita Sykes 01520 722 617 01520 722 995 Rev. Heather Widdows or Rev. John Searl CHURCH OF SCOTLAND 01445 712 176 01445 741 231 APPLECROSS, LOCHCARRON & TORRIDON Roman Catholic Mass Father William MacLean Charity No: SCO32334 Monthly on Thursdays Times and Places of Worship for June Contact 01478 613 227 2017 Urgent 07881 956 660 nd FREE CHURCH 2 July Lochcarron 10.30am Torridon Community Hall 1.00pm LOCHCARRON & 9th July Lochcarron 10.30am APPLECROSS Shieldaig 1.00pm You are welcome at our services Applecross 1.00pm Lochcarron Church Street IV54 8YP 16th July Lochcarron 10.30am Sunday 11am and 6 pm Kinlochewe 1.00pm (Crèche and Sunday 23rd July Lochcarron 10.30am school) Applecross 1.00pm Midweek Wednesdays Shieldaig 1.00pm 7.30pm 30th July Joint Parish Communion Applecross Camusterrach IV54 8LU Applecross 12.00 noon 3 pm every Sunday Other events as intimated. Minister Scottish Charity SC038169 Rev. Anita Stutter, Church of Scotland Rev M. Florit 01520 722 999 Manse, [email protected] Colonel’s Road, Lochcarron Tel. 01520 722783 www.freechurch.org 3 cultivate a mindset that can accommodate and interrogate (so to speak) apparently opposing viewpoints, given that the reality we perceive is ON always complex, and often apparently ambiguous. Some would have it that nothing that cannot be REFLECTION logically or scientifically proved should be allowed the status and name of “truth”. That may be the case as regards “facts”, but “truths” are different from “facts” and not amenable in the same way to demonstrations of proof. People (both religious When we first started holidaying up here, it was a and otherwise) can often be dogmatic about what while before I began to understand that this or they hold to be “the truth”, whether it be from a that landmark that we were looking at (usually religious or a secular point of view, but hills!) was the same one that appeared so very dogmatism necessarily implies (demands!) a differently from elsewhere. It seems obvious, single point of view. once you’ve cottoned on to the fact that roads The great French painter Paul Cezanne painted must necessarily take the line of least resistance one mountain, Mont St.Victoire, over and over in getting from A to B, and that in a mountainous again in his attempt to express, or convey “the district that route will often be extremely devious, truth” of the mountain, as he saw it, and near the but it’s less obvious when you are encountering end of his life, wrote as follows:- “ I am working things for the first time: the point being that, doggedly, for I see the promised land before me. depending on your point of view, any particular Shall I be like the great Hebrew leader” - (ie. feature in a landscape may wear a totally different Moses, who saw, but was not permitted to enter aspect. What looks like a shapely, pointed summit the promised land) - “or shall I be able to enter. I from from the South may look like an amorphous have made some progress. Why so late and with lump from the North! such difficulty? Is art really a priesthood that The same thing goes, I feel sure, for the inner demands the pure in heart who must belong to it landscape of our perceptions and beliefs. It goes entirely?”. without saying, of course, that as individuals we I am certain the pursuit of “truth” is. What do you all come at the world from a different perspective, think? though not usually so different that we cannot Francis A.R.Minay appreciate each others point of view. Unless this were the case there could never be that meeting of minds that makes society possible: we should all be odd-balls, living in isolation and defending our territory with suspicion and alarm at any approach! (Well, yes, we all know people who really are like this!) However, I mean something more than that. What my example from topography demonstrates is that this or that “truth” inevitably has a number of different aspects, dependant upon where a person stands in relation to it – and the more someone can factor in how differently a thing may look from a variety of viewpoints, the more confident he or she can be that what they perceive has some relation to “the whole truth”.