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March2008.Pdf Kinross Newsletter Founded in 1977 by Mrs Nan Walker, MBE Issue No 350 March 2008 www.kinrossnewsletter.org DEADLINE CONTENTS for the April Issue From the Editor ............................................................2 Letters ..........................................................................2 2.00 pm, Monday 17 March 2008 News and Articles .........................................................4 Police Box..................................................................11 for publication on Future of Kinross Questionnaire...................................12 Saturday 29 March 2008 Community Councils...................................................13 Club & Community Group News .................................25 Contributions for inclusion in the Sport ..........................................................................31 Newsletter News from the Rurals .................................................34 The Newsletter welcomes items from clubs, Congratulations and Thanks ........................................34 community organisations and individuals for Out & About...............................................................35 publication. This is free of charge (we only Church Information, Obituaries ...................................37 charge for commercial advertising - see Playgroups & Nurseries...............................................39 below right). All items may be subject to Notices.......................................................................40 editing. Please also see our Letters Policy on Day Centre & Chemists................................................43 page 2. Diary..........................................................................44 Submit your item (except adverts) in one o f the following ways: Front Cover: Design by Tony Dyson Email : [email protected] Hang Gliding photo by Nigel Kellet, kinross.cc photo library Post : Eileen Thomas Kinross in Bloom by Dave Cuthbert, kinross.cc photo library Editor, Kinross Newsletter Other images by Tony Dyson and Eileen Thomas 50 Muirs, Kinross, KY13 8AU Advertising in the Newsletter Hand in : 50 Muirs, Kinross or : 24 Victoria Avenue, Typed Adv erts Milnathort A Typed Advert is £10.00 per insertion and may be placed for one or more months. These adverts are text only, no graphics allowed. Fifteen lines (including blank lines) is the maximum permitted. As a guide, eight words Editor maximum on a line. To place a Typed Advert, send the following: Eileen Thomas 50 Muirs • Your full name and address details and a telephone number. 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There are a fixed number of pages Kinross KY13 8AU ......................863186 available for Printed Adverts. To go on our waiting list, please contact our [email protected] Advertising Manager. Treasurer The Newsletter reserves the right to refuse or amend any Ross McConnell 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 Craig Williams Subscriptions Ann Harley 2 Letters Dog Fouling 18.02.08 Editorial Following up on A Milne’s letter in the previous issue on Asking the Community the same subject, I too would like to express my disgust at Consultation is the name of the game this month. the shameful behaviour of some dog owners using the new The main purpose of a community council is to ascertain, Loch Leven Heritage Trail. Recently, 20 bags of dog poo co-ordinate and express the views of the community to the were picked out of the undergrowth along a 500 yard stretch local authority and other public bodies. Kinross CC has of the path which is an utter disgrace. Regardless of their produced a questionnaire to gather the community’s views contents, these plastic bags are an environmental disaster on the future of Kinross (page 12). anyway but particularly so around Loch Leven National The proposed Core Path Network is mentioned throughout Nature Reserve. the Newsletter. Find out how to view it and comment on it In all fairness, this potential problem was foreseen prior to on page 4. the opening of the path. When a dog ‘performs’ at the start Dogs of a walk along the trail, there is an understandable A recurrent theme is the practices of dog walkers on the reluctance to carry the bag for mile after mile – a shameful, heritage trail. We have had several letters this month on this sly lob into the undergrowth and the problem is solved for subject and there is a special feature on page 8 by SNH. the owner. Dog litter bins every several hundred yards The Place to Be along the path are simply not practical because who is going Kinross-shire is the place to be in the second weekend in to empty and clean them? Some dog owners have taken to March. There are three days of entertainment to be had at hanging their bags on gates and fence posts under the the Milnathort Folk Festival, plus the Better Place to Live pretext of collecting them on the way back – judging by the Fair in Kinross High School on Saturday 8th. Details of number of bags remaining hanging for days on end, there is both are on page 4. obviously the Loch Leven equivalent of the Bermuda Farewell Triangle where dogs and their owners are getting lost and Farewell to the Rev Dr John Munro, who conducts his last never returning! service as Minister of Kinross Parish Church at the end of The recent announcement of the move to make Kinross- this month, and very best wishes to him and his wife Pat in shire into the first plastic bag free county is to be applauded their retirement. and dog owners using the Heritage Trail should take the lead. I realize that it is politically correct nowadays for Letters Policy owners to pick up dog poo in plastic bags and they are to be applauded for their diligence. However, this measure was We reserve the right not to publish any letter. Letters will not be primarily designed to keep town pavements clean and parks published unless the sender’s name and address are supplied and safe for children to play in. On a linear path such as the they are prepared to have them published along with their letter. Heritage Trail, a different code of practice should be in Please note that the Newsletter does not necessarily agree with place. Instead of owners removing the offending object in a any of the views expressed on these pages. plastic bag, deposits laid on the path by dogs should be flicked into the undergrowth using a trowel or stick where it will do no harm and degrade naturally. It is time for Abbreviations Used commonsense to come to the fore. P&KC = Perth & Kinross Council Jamie Montgomery CC = Community Council Kinross House Cllr = Councillor Dogs 29.01.08 CCllr = Community Councillor I refer to the report of the Milnathort Community Council in the issue of January/February 08. The problem of owners picking up after their dogs then HATRICK – BRUCE leaving the bags about was discussed. This practice is Introduce Kalirel Central heating gruesome. To encapsulate the mess in plastic which may in An Alternative Electric Central Heating System. some cases take hundreds of years to degrade is much worse than leaving the mess which would degrade If you already have electric heating, are replacing reasonably quickly. gas central heating or installing from new, Kalirel Where there is a formal situation, i.e. a park, a bag and bin is the answer. Kalirel radiators offer total control is always the answer. For wilder country I sometimes of each individual unit installed within your home wonder whether a neatly performed burial is not greener. or business. No pipework is needed; the radiator While not wishing to see country paths bedecked with can either connect to an existing storage heater point notices and bins, I do feel that the crassness of leaving mess or a local socket. bags about should be publicised, at the very least to prevent guilt-ridden dogs owners like me walking about carrying Hatrick-Bruce Ltd is a qualified installer of Kalirel. the output of one’s own dog and also that of others, in the For more information call Mark Duncan name of the beauty of the countryside. on 01577 863967 or email [email protected] Iain W D Forde Causewayend, Main Street, Scotlandwell Letters 3 Lochside Heritage Trail 14.02.08 Marie Curie Daffodil Appeal 23.01.08 My name is Des Cochrane. I am a BASC registered goose As a local Marie Curie Cancer Care Nurse, I am calling on guide based
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