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Coupar Angus Best Ever Cycling Festival CANdo Coupar Angus and District Community Magazine ‘Eighth in the top ten healthiest places to live in the UK’ Coupar Angus best ever Cycling Festival ISSUE 90 July/August 2019 Joe Richards Collectables WANTED: Old tools & coins, Tilley lamps, war items 01828 628138 or 07840 794453 [email protected] Ryan Black, fish merchant in Coupar Bits n Bobs with Kids and Gifts Angus & area, Thursdays 8.30 am till 5 pm. At The Cross 12 till 12.45 ‘straight from the shore to your door’ CANdo July/August 2019 Editorial The other day I came across an interesting statistic, which you may have read in the local and national press. Apparently, Coupar Angus is one of the healthiest of places to live in the UK. It came eighth in a list of the top ten. You may view this with some scepticism - why not in the top three? Or with surprise that our town is mentioned at all. Further investigation revealed how the list was compiled. It comes from Liverpool University and the Consumer Data Research Centre. This body selected various criteria and applied them to towns and villages across the country. These criteria included access to health services - mainly GPs and dentists - air/environmental quality, green spaces, amenities and leisure facilities. With its Butterybank community woodland, park and blue spaces like the Burn, Coupar Angus did well in this analysis. If you are fit and healthy you may be gratified by this result. If however you are less fortunate, this particular league table will have less appeal. But it is salutary to learn that your home town has many advantages. What relevance has this to CANdo? Quite a lot, as it happens. In this issue you can read articles on keeping fit and well-being initiatives; on environmental improvement; on sport and leisure opportunities; on the work of volunteers. In addition, there is a report on the recent cycle festival and profiles of local businesses. There is the usual “What’s On” section, which is itself a reflection of the many varied activities taking place on a regular basis. We hope you find the contents interesting and stimulating. And we are delighted that a regular reader has given a generous donation to be used exclusively to help with the costs of producing CANdo. As a result, our finances are looking a good deal healthier. David Carson, on behalf of the editorial team, contact Val Kidd - [email protected] or read CANdo at https://forwardcouparangus.co.uk CANdo is produced by Forward Coupar Angus Your advertisement in this space? It will be seen by all the organisations/school/outlets in Coupar Angus as well as in Burrelton, Meigle, Kettins, Blairgowrie and beyond. Contact Kenny [email protected] or Val to discuss, and in this way support CANdo, your local free magazine Second hand bikes for sale at the Cycling Hub, Forfar Road, Coupar Angus WHERE IS THIS IN YOUR COMMUNITY Professionally NPTC qualified, offering: Felling, Pruning, logging & stacking services. Get in touch with Grant for a quote 07444641283 or [email protected] Coupar Angus Cycling Festival 2019 - What an incredible weekend! The best Cycling festival Saturday in Larghan Park yet we think, with so many more people walking and cycling to the events and so many more things for people to do and see. It truly was such a good weekend and we were lucky that the rain held off until The Clan Stunt Team finished their last show. As always, everyone is here to get people of all ages and abilities on bikes...and I think we all did a great job of achieving this. Events kicked off on Friday with Markus Stitz, an incredible ambassador for cycling, who stayed all weekend to talk about his trip round the world, run a bike-packing workshop and inspire people to get on a bike and explore the amazing area we live in. Raffle winners will be posted later along with the light-weight kids’ bike active schools raffle to see who won that amazing new Frog bike! Back at the cycling hub, Jennifer Tough kickstarted the Saturday evening entertainment, delivering an incredible talk to inspire people to get on their bikes, and so many mind-blowing stories and insights into her cycling career. After the talk, the pizza oven was fired up alongside Lonely Mountain Skis and their sound system with good vibes all round, and thunder and lightning in the background. 71 Brewing provided the tasty lager and the night was topped off by a fantastic band, The Derailleurs. Sunday was race day for Scotland's Spiciest Mountain bike race, Ballo Enduro. The trails on Saturday practice were dusty dry, but come Sunday, it was a different story after all the rain. But that is what racing is all about. Everyone returned to the Cycling Hub for food, coffee and music whilst chilling in the sun, waiting for all the participants to return. It just happened to be one of the Cycling Hub boys who took the fastest time of the day, so congrats to Calum Mackie as well as all other racers and riders. You all made it such a great weekend. Anyone who enters Ballo Enduro helps to make our FREE festival sustainable, so we really appreciate you coming and racing. Finally, we want to say a HUGE thank you to all our volunteers, marshals, supporters, believers, members and participants and a special thanks to our fantastic sponsors who really make this festival financially viable. Grant Murdoch A Business That Has You Covered The business in question is Edington and Neave in Coupar Angus. Ask Bobby Edington what the firm does, and his answer is succinct: “We’re roofers but also do cement work, plaster work, ceramic tiling and external plumbing.” There are currently eight employees, four of them serving their apprenticeship with the firm. This involves attending college to learn the trade and associated skills, a route Bobby himself followed. After leaving Blairgowrie High, Bobby worked for Craigie Roofers in Blairgowrie for seven years while attending Perth College. It’s often the case that chance rather than design dictates the direction of travel. Bobby had known Andy Neave at school, and it was Andy who (over a game of darts) learned that G.S. Brown were looking for roofers to work on a self-employed basis. He told Bobby about this, and the pair signed up. “On the grip” as Bobby explains. Nowadays we would describe this as a zero hours contract. Bobby and Andy formed a self- contained squad and carried out the tasks stipulated by G.S. Brown, such as roof tiling and rendering new houses. Most of their work was local, but on occasions involved going to places like Stonehaven. It was a case of ‘Have van and bag of tools, will do the job’. It was a way of earning a living, but not sustainable in the longer term. Clearly however, the freedom and degree of independence appealed to them both. They had learned that there was plenty of work out there, so in due course they took on their own apprentice, who still works with them today. And when Kenny Pithie retired, they took over his yard − by then Edington and Neave was born. The business is now 28 years old. It’s a colourful back story, and appropriate since Bobby’s personal background is equally colourful. His family was from Coupar Angus, but he was born in Errol and returned to Coupar Angus at the age of two. His maternal grandmother was “Dundee Italian” while Bobby’s maternal grandfather was Polish and his other grandfather was the GP in Errol. His mother worked for a spell at Timex in Dundee then in Jack Oldings before taking a computing course at Dundee College. She became a programmer at Perth College (in fact several members of the Edington clan have worked there over the years, including Bobby himself who lectured there). Bobby is a passionate skier. He claims he was a late developer, not starting until he was fourteen, but that hasn’t prevented him gaining coaching qualifications. Growing up, he played football, and when the Nortel opened, he became a squash devotee, and in due course captain of the men’s team. His grandfather, who was a member at Rosemount, introduced him to golf. But next to skiing he would place cricket. Geoff Drought for many years encouraged and coached youngsters in the art of cricket, and Bobby soon became both an enthusiast of the game and a very proficient exponent. He was captain of the Coupar Angus team for 26 years. It was a sad day when the team, due to lack of members, finally stopped playing. But sport lives on for Bobby, in a vicarious way. His son Josh, who is fourteen, is a prolific sports player like his father, and has recently been selected for the Scottish cricket team. But lest we think the Edington household is dominated by sport, we should mention that their sixteen-year-old daughter Freya is an accomplished musician. She plays bassoon in Perth Youth Orchestra. Not only that, she is a member of the Scottish Junior Conservatoire. And Liz, Mrs. Edington, works with the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. At 53, Bobby has led a busy and eventful life, building up a business in partnership with Andy Neave and enjoying energetic leisure activities. He is realistic about the work of a roofer, however. “It’s not an easy job. You’re outside in all weathers. You need to be fit and flexible.
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