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Alyth Voice 132nd Edition, March 2009 Tel. 01828 633045 Minimum Circulation 1700 Email address: [email protected] Website: www.alythvoice.co.uk CITIZENS OF THE YEAR 2008 PRESENTATION & VOLUNTEERS PARTY Alyth Community Council held its annual Volunteers Party on Sunday 8th February in the Town Hall. The hall was packed with volunteers of all ages who enjoyed the crowning of Ron Kirkpatrick and Grant Duffy as Citizen and Young Citizen of the Year 2008 respectively. Chairman Jim Adam, who steps down from office this year, gave an emotional speech before the presentations and was thanked by Councillor Dennis Melloy for his 13 dedicated years to the Community Council. CITIZENS OF THE YEAR 2008 Ron Kirkpatrick and Grant Duffy Presentation Party from left: Jim Adam (ACC Chairman), Irene Robertson (2007 COTY) who presented to the new COTY, Ron Kirkpatrick (2008 COTY), Grant Duffy (2008 YCOTY), Mr Gray (RBS Manager) who presented to the new YCOTY, Councillor Dennis Melloy A large turnout of volunteers from every organisation in Alyth once again enjoyed the Community Council’s hospitality, and pipe music from Willie Townsley & Kyle Macintyre of Alyth & District Pipe Band. All images © DH Todd Website: www.alythclimateactiontown.co.uk Email: [email protected] After just over a year since we started the ‘Energy Challenge’ with Scottish Hydro and their Smart meters, we now have some comparisons to show you all. In the first graph you can see the energy we have all used in percentage per day measured against last year’s usage. The energy used is compared against the same days in the week. In the graph you can see the days that we used more than last year in the red bars above the line, and in the green we can see the times that we have done better than last year i.e. made a saving. The second graph displays the same information but as two lines, where the higher the line the more energy that has been used. We would like to see the orange line well under the blue line. Continued on page 27... 2 Memory Lane © J Watt Above L-R: The Crichton Boys - James, Thomas (Jake’s grandfather), William, Robert, Alex (great grandfather), Sandie, John, David. FATHER SAW SEVEN SONS OFF TO WORLD WAR ONE Thank you to Jake Watt of Airlie Street who submitted the above photograph of his great grandfather and seven sons on the eve of their posting to Belgium in WWI. The sons were all musicians and members of the 7th/9th Royal Scots (Leith). Jake’s grandfather, Thomas, was one of the first 9th Royal Scots to be killed in action when he was on patrol in a “slit trench” along with two of his brothers. Jake’s grandmother was told Thomas, a Sergeant, was shot through the neck by a sniper and he died instantly on 14th March 1915. Thomas left a wife, two sons and two daughters. His name joined thousands of others on the Menin Gate at Ypres. One can only imagine the worry Jake’s great-grandparents felt throughout the war. © A Thomson PRINCESS MARGARET AT ST NINIAN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1956 The Princess Margaret and the Revd Robertson at St. Ninian’s Episcopal Church, circa 1956. Andrew Dewar was ringing the bell to welcome the Princess when the rope broke! Submitted by Alice Thomson (nee Dewar) 3 Useful Telephone Numbers Airlie Street Hall (contact-Margaret Smith) - 01828 632256 ALYTH HEALTH CENTRE Blairgowrie Police Station - 0845 600 5750 NEW ALYTH ROAD, ALYTH, PH11 8EQ Perth Police Station - 01738 621141 Hydro-Electric Emergencies - 0800 300999 Telephone: 01828 632317 Scottish Gas Emergencies - 0800 111999 Scottish Water - 0845 6008 855 Repeat Prescription Line: 01828 633663 Alyth Post Office - 01828 632301 (24 hour answering machine) Alyth Health Centre - 01828 632317 Alyth Primary School - 01828 632462 Community Nurse: 01828 632425 Blairgowrie High School - 01250 873445 Alyth Environmental Group - 01828 632907 Health Visitor: 01828 633954 NHS 24—new 24 hour health service - 08454 24 24 24 Anti-social Behaviour Team - 01738 476173 Opening Hours - Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm If you offer an emergency or breakdown service, send the Voice your name and number. After Hours - NHS24 tel: 08454 24 24 24 ALYTH VOICE TEAM Late surgeries by appointment Editor: Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday - 5pm to 6pm Paul Ramsay - 01828 632992 - [email protected] Early Surgeries by appointment Compositor/Secretary: Irene Robertson - 01828 633045 - [email protected] Blood Clinic - Monday/Wednesday - 8.30am to 9.30am Advertising: Pamela Luscombe - 01828 632046 - [email protected] Marjory Macpherson & Margaret McKenzie Distribution: Paul & Barbara Prettyman - 01828 633725 - - VOICE TEASER - - - Treasurer: What is the origin of the name CAMNO or CUMNO? Michael Kay - 01828 632252/632690 - [email protected] ~~~ Webmaster: Derek Todd - [email protected] Answer to last month’s Teaser – The origin of Cairns? ARTICLE/ADVERT SUBMISSION to the Voice Cairn 1794, 1805 - Ainslie, Stobie. In order to avoid disappointment please ensure that articles/ads for publication are submitted before the 21st day (8th for colour photos/16th for ads) of each month. Note: G. càrn, a heap of stones, adopted in English. The views expressed in the Alyth Voice are not necessarily those of the team nor can If Ainslie and Stobie were thoroughly dependable, they would over- they accept any responsibility for accuracy and spelling of any article. Please note ALL articles must be accompanied with a name and address turn the common idea that when the district was moorland, there BEFORE they will be published in the Voice. were several cairns near by to which the plural was due. But, as it On request, the name and address may be withheld from publication. is, it must remain doubtful whether the plural in common use is not Any submission without these details will NOT be included. due rather to there being several houses of the name - East, Mid, and West. The one marked by Ainslie is Mid Cairns, which stood in *~*~* Dates for Your Diary *~*~* the middle of the field not far from what is now the cottar house of MAR Due to the advance notice of these dates, please check for changes! West Cairns. The house of East Cairns was once part of Gateside. 1st E.G.M. Lesser Town Hall RBLS Alyth Branch The cairn or cairns would doubtless be ancient, but there is a 2nd Exercise Class, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Senior Citizens Club tradition that one of Colonel Cleland’s Cameronians on their return 5th Airlie Street Hall Alyth Parish Guild from Dunkeld, where they held up the Highland army after 7th Coffee Morning, Airlie Street Hall Kilry WRI Killiecrankie, died on the march, and was buried beside the track at 9th Exercise Class, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Senior Citizens Club no great distance from Mid Cairns. When the “new road” came to 11th Annual Dinner with Earl & Countess Airlie Alyth Literary Society (p13) 14th Coffee Morning, Airlie Street Hall Episcopal Mothers’ Union be made from Blairgowrie, the skeleton was put under the south 16th Exercise Class, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Senior Citizens Club dike, tend yards or so east from the boundary between the present 16th Public Meeting, Coupar Angus Town Hall Neighbourhood Watch Ass. two farms of the name. 21st Coffee Morning, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Scout Group FIELDS (on East Cairns): Blair’s Park (O.S. 1368); The Beltin Park 21st Car Wash, Alyth Fire Station Jam in the Den (1413), sheltered on the north by a belt of trees (cut in 1922). 23rd Exercise Class, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Senior Citizens Club 24th Desperate Dan lived in Dundee Meigle History Society [Extract from Meikle’s ‘Places and Place-Names Round Alyth’ 1925] 28th Coffee Morning, Airlie Street Hall Women’s Clinic in Africa 28th Car Wash, Alyth Fire Station Alyth Scout Group 28th Spring Concert, Alyth Parish Church Alyth Choral Union PLEASE 30th Lunch Club, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Senior Citizens Club NOTE 30th AGM Guide Hut Alyth Pipe Band IMPORTANT APR For future editions, the Voice Team hope to print photos in colour where possible: 2nd Stracathro Hospital Talk, Airlie Street Hall APC Guild Submit photos in JPEG file format (max 2MB each) by email to 4th/5th Market Place, Airlie Street Hall stART Festival [email protected] or put in to the Voice Box for scanning. 6th Exercise Class, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Senior Citizens Club DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS 10th Hoolie in Alyth Town Hall Jam in the Den Colour Photos BY 08th of EACH MONTH 11th Coffee Morning, Airlie Street Hall APC Guild Adverts BY 16th of EACH MONTH 18th Coffee Morning, Airlie Street Hall Blair All Sports all other items BY 21st of EACH MONTH 20th Exercise Class, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Senior Citizens Club (N.B. the Voice fills up very quickly each month - first come first printed) 21-25 Fiddler on the Roof, Alyth Town Hall Alyth Musical Society The VOICE BOX for articles/letters is now located in 25th Coffee Morning, Airlie Street Hall McMillan Support Michael Kay’s Hairdressers, 13 Airlie Street. 27th Lunch Club, Airlie Street Hall Alyth Senior Citizens Club DATES FOR 2009 10am - 3pm on the following dates: Strathmore & the Glens Rural Partnership 28th March - Coupar Angus Horse Fair 11th April - Blairgowrie and Rattray Easter Fair PO Box 6621, Blairgowrie PH12 8YF 23rd May - Alyth Square www.strathmoreglens.org 27th June - Blairgowrie Wellmeadow or contact Sue Cole on 01828 640763 or [email protected] 25th July - Alyth Square 22nd August - Blairgowrie Wellmeadow 4 Lochside Lodge & Roundhouse Restaurant Lintrathen New Dinner Menu now individually priced, offering main courses from £9.95 - £17.50.