Kintore Konnect Connecting Issue 37 September 2019 the Community Railway on Track for Opening
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Kintore Konnect Connecting Issue 37 September 2019 The Community railway on track for opening From May... ..to August Photo’s provided by A.Benton, A.Gibb & H.Orr CRAFTY CAFE OPENING SOON see page 18 Highlights Kintore Parish Church Bicentenary Page 2 Councillor Martin Ford’s Report Page 10 Schools Competition Church News Page 12 Drawing Competition - win Panto tickets Page 4 KDCC Page 14 What’s Happening at Kintore Library Page 6 Crafty Cafe Page 18 Rotary Club Page 8 What’s Happening at Kemnay Page 21 Published in association with Kintore Community Council and Kintore Parish Church and Printed by Wellheads Crescent, Dyce Back copies of Kintore Konnect are available from: www.kintore.org.uk or www.kintorekirk.org Kintore Parish Church Bicentenary Schools Competition The building at Kintore Parish Church was built in 1819. creative entries were received. Well done to everyone who As part of our Bicentenary celebrations we held an took part, you seem to have had a lot of fun creating your Art competition for P1’s – P4’s, and a Creative Writing artwork and essays. Book vouchers were awarded for competition for P5’s – P7’s. Class groups from our two each year group, and we are happy to publish some of the local schools, Kintore Primary and Midmill Primary visited winning entries here: the church for inspiration and hundreds of extremely Kintore Parish Church – Bicentenary Art Competition The Parish Church building at Kintore is a beautiful granite structure built in 1819 by the famous Aberdeenshire architect, Archibald Simpson. It has many beautiful pieces of art including stained-glass windows and iron artwork. You are invited to draw, paint or form a collage picture of the church building or any of the artwork you can see at the church. Kintore Parish Church – Bicentenary Creative Writing Competition Inside the main gate at Kintore Parish Church stands an ancient Pictish Stone adorned with strange mystical symbols. One day as you pass by you step through the gate and stand gazing at the stone. Suddenly your head begins to spin. You fall. When you awake, you have been transported 200 years back in time to the year 1819. Nearby some men are working hard to build the walls of the new church building. When they discover that you are from the year 2019 they are eager to hear what life will be like in their town so far into the future. In 300 words or less, describe life in Kintore in 2019 to the group of 1819 church-builders. Art Competition - 1st Places Left: P1 - Sophie Kinsella Right: P2 - Euan Walker Right: P3 - Caiddie Reid See page 24 for 2nd and 3rd places for the Art Competition Left: P4 - Calum Ledford Page 2 Page 3 Writing Competition - 1st Places P5 Winning Essay | Church Story | By Chloe Campbell, P5, Kintore Primary School Let me tell you all about life in Kintore in 2019: electricity to work. Tractors are often used by farmers for These days people have radiators for heating, they’re like their farming. We use lots of cables and we plug them these machines that produce heat. People also have cars into sockets, that’s where we manage to get electricity for transport, cars are a type of vehicle on four wheels, for things like straighteners, girls use them on their hair it has a roof and a wheel to steer. There are also these to make it straight, they produce heat and that’s how things called mobile phones, they are a rectangle shaped they straighten. If something needs charged, we use and can be used to play games, text other people and sockets to charge them as well. We can use calculators make calls. Kintore Town House is still up, so is this church for helping us with maths questions, they are little devices you are building. There are flushing toilets, there is just that you can type up the question and it will give you the a handle to flush. There is a running fountain just by the answer. Lorries, vans and trucks are just like cars but Town House. We use lampposts to light up the streets at bigger. night, they are poles with lights on top to lighten up the So that is what Kintore is like in 2019. You would be place. There are computers that people use to do work on, proud how the church has lasted all of these years. they have a keyboard for typing, a screen and they need P6 Winning Essay | Church Story – A Travel Back in Time | By Khara-Marie Fermin, P6, Kintore School Every now and then I passed the church but never took “So, this is the year 1819!” I said in panic. much interest in it. I’d been there on school trips but, “What do you think it is, 2019?” said Robert, laughing. suddenly, something happened that had never happened “Yes, it was 2019 a second ago!” I said. before; I felt attracted to the iron gates! I had just got out “If you’re from 2019, tell me about Kintore in the future.” of school and had nothing to do, so I crossed the road and “Fine, Kintore has grown 10x bigger in people and size!” I opened the gate. I felt as if my eyes were jerked towards exclaimed. what I thought was a Pictish stone, with the most beautiful “WOW!” he said with his mouth open. carvings I had ever seen. But, I started to feel dizzy and “And now we have two schools to work in instead of hot! I thought it was the sun, as it was a nice day, but I working in the church,” I declared. suddenly collapsed on the floor… “So, the future’s exciting, huh?” he asked. “Wait… what? Where am I?” I thought to myself, as I raised “Not everything’s good, we started cutting down trees and my head off the cold, stone floor. I heard a sort of ‘clip- taking animals out of their natural habitats,” I explained. clapping’ noise which startled me. I got up onto my feet I told him what habitats were and about endangered and realised I was not alone. I met a not-so-nice builder species, but he wasn’t really listening. He was more who had a sweaty, red face, green eyes, ginger, short hair interested in who the minister of the church was now. and really big ears. He said, “Oi! Fit ya doing here kid? On I told Robert that someone in the church actually told a worksite? And, wait, why are you wearing all those weird me about the builders. I also mentioned that Hallforest clothes?” Castle’s ruins are still standing. “That’s ruuuuude! My clothes are so on trend,” I told the I was about to tell him about all our technological builder. advances but, then, a bright light flashed in my face and “Trend! What’s a trend? Stop wasting my time, can’t you I woke up to my mum shaking me, saying that I slept in see I’m trying to build a church here?” cried Robert. (I and would be late for school! asked him his name.) P7 Winning Essay | Life in Kintore | By John Fraser, P7, Midmill School Hello! My name is John, I’m not sure what happened but The Italian take-away is great, the pizzas are like the I’ve ended up in 1819. world’s best pizzas. Barber shops have been added also, I’m from 2019 in the future, if you don’t believe me look at and the one I go to is quite good and cheap. Nowadays this, it’s called a phone, in around 57 years a phone will be barber shops are not like hospitals anymore, they are for invented. Since I’m from 2019 and you live in 1819, why cutting head hair or facial hair. don’t I tell you a bit about the future in Kintore? There are two new schools that have been added. One is Can you see that fountain over there? It stopped working, called Midmill School, it is the one I go to, it is the newest but in 2019 the council fixed it and it looks great! The only one, it looks really good and you get a good education. thing that doesn’t look good is the price, it cost the council Kintore Primary School is the older school and it is also £30 000 to rebuild it and get it to work. good. There have been a lot of new shops, both Sainsburys and There is a car garage in Kintore. A car is like a horse and the Co-op are shops for food, drinks and groceries. There cart without the horse, it has something called an engine are a lot of food take-aways, like Jasmine the Chinese and and it runs on petrol or diesel. A car garage fixes the the Kintore Fish Bar. There was an ice cream shop, but it engine if it breaks. Also, a radio station has been added shut down after a while. There is a very good butcher in that gives you music in a car or on a radio. Kintore, he has won awards for his great sausages. Page 2 Page 3 WIN 2x TICKETS TO PANTO All children up to 10 years of age can enter this competition. Please hand in your entries to your local butcher, J&G Dossett or to Kintore Library by 1st November 2019. Well done to everyone who submitted entries for Issue 36.