Kinross Newsletter Founded in 1977 by Kinross Community Council. Founding Editor: Mrs Nan Walker, MBE Published by Kinross Newsletter Limited, Company No. SC374361 Issue No 413 November 2013 www.kinrossnewsletter.org ISSN 1757-4781 DEADLINE for the December Issue CONTENTS 5.00 pm, Friday 15 November 2013 From the Editor ............................................................ 2 for publication on Letters ......................................................................... 2 News and Articles ........................................................ 4 Saturday 30 November 2013 Police Box...................................................................14 Community Councils....................................................15 Contributions for inclusion in the Club & Community Group News .................................25 Newsletter Sport ..........................................................................40 The Newsletter welcomes items from community News from the Rurals...................................................49 organisations and individuals for publication. Out & About................................................................50 This is free of charge (we only charge for Congratulations & Thanks. ...........................................53 business advertising – see below right). All items Church Information......................................................54 may be subject to editing and we reserve the right not to publish an item. Please also see our Letters Playgroups and Toddlers ..............................................57 Policy and Notes on page 2. 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Editor Eileen Thomas Typesetting and Layout Tony Dyson Distribution Lee Scammacca Advertising Ann Harley Treasurer and Subscriptions Ross McConnell Word Processing Julia Fulton 2 Letters Editorial SSAFA’s First World War Welcome to the November Newsletter. This November is the last Remembrance Sunday before we May we take this opportunity to remind local organisations mark the events of the centenary of the First World War in that there is no Newsletter at the beginning of January. The 2014. SSAFA was one of the few still existing military first Newsletter of 2014 will be published on 1st February. charities to have provided care and support to our troops January events need to be publicised in the December and their families during that terrible conflict. Newsletter, the deadline for which is 15 November. Back then, as now, SSAFA had a team of volunteers working in the Perth and Kinross area, to care for the wives Note to Contributors and children of those sent to the front. We were also there to A great deal of the Newsletter comprises reports supplied by local clubs and other organisations. These reports are accepted in good deal with the consequences, when the men did not return, or faith. Clubs etc should ensure that reports are factually accurate came back damaged in mind or body. and do not contain material which could cause legal proceedings SSAFA Perth & Kinross is seeking to discover more about to be taken against the Newsletter. the people we supported, to help us mark our contribution to Letters Policy the nation’s war effort. If you have memorabilia, a diary, or Senders must supply their name and address, which will be a family connection to a client or volunteer during the Great published with the letter. Letters should be truthful and not War, then SSAFA would like to hear from you. contain matter which could cause legal proceedings to be taken We continue to be as relevant today as we were then, and against the Newsletter. The Newsletter does not necessarily agree SSAFA is still providing our Forces and their families with with any of the views expressed on the Letters pages. In special lifelong support. In this area alone we helped over 125 circumstances addresses may be withheld from publication on people and families last year. request (but must still be supplied to the editor). If you have any information regarding SSAFA and the Note to Readers: Advertising Great War then please do contact us at: [email protected] Inclusion of advertisements in the Newsletter does not imply any or write to: SSAFA, Queen’s Barracks, Dunkeld Road, particular endorsement or recommendation of services or PERTH PH1 5BT. companies by Kinross CC or Kinross Newsletter Ltd. Yours with thanks, Abbreviations : Andy Middlemiss PKC: Perth & Kinross Council CC: Community Council Chairman – SSAFA, Perth &Kinross Cllr: Councillor CCllr: Community Councillor Health Centre I read in the August Newsletter of the threat by the Health Centre to “consider taking action against those patients” who post complaints and comments on Facebook and Twitter about the Health Centre. I’d like to make two points. Firstly, my family and I have always received an excellent service from the staff at Loch Leven Health Centre. Secondly, it is completely unacceptable for people to be making rude or offensive comments on social media. A big THANK YOU ! But there is another side to the story. I would like to thank the members of my I recall when I had cause to complain about an aspect of the Fitness Pilates classes, the ladies of Kinross 50 centre’s operation. I was met by a very unsympathetic Plus Keep Fit group and my therapy clients person, who listened to me in silence and without any who all so generously donated to and supported empathy, and answered by saying, in so many words – our Afternoon Tea event in the Masonic Hall on Tuesday 1 “ well, that’s what we do here.” To the best of my October in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. As always, knowledge, no record of the complaint was written down, so everyone gave so generously of their time to provide an presumably no formal record of complaints is kept for excellent afternoon tea with delicious home baking, raffle analysis. I was made to feel that I was wasting their time by prizes and much more. Many thanks to Isobel and Anne raising a matter of concern to me. who brought their Traidcraft stall, kindly donating tea, Based on the unhelpful response to my complaint, I coffee, sugar for the event and to Sally for her Phoenix wouldn’t complain again. cards stall and raffle donations. Special thanks to Joan, Eve, So my advice to these people using social media to raise Margaret, Evelyn, Linda and Thelma for their support in complaints is as follows: stop the rudeness and abuse as this organizing the event and for their hard work on the day. To is completely inappropriate, but keep posting your all those who dropped in for a cuppa and cake or donated in complaints in a factual and calm manner on Twitter and any way, an enormous heartfelt thank you for your Facebook as they are more likely to be acted upon than the generosity and compassion towards such a worthy cause. It official complaints system. was a great success and the total