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Founding editor, Mrs Nan Walker, MBE Kinross Newsletter Founded in 1977 by Kinross Community Council ISSN 1757-4781 Published by Kinross Newsletter Limited, Company No. SC374361 Issue No 443 All profits given away to local good causes by The Kinross Community Council Newsletter, Charitable Company No. SC040913 www.kinrossnewsletter.org www.facebook.com/kinrossnewsletter August 2016 DEADLINE CONTENTS for the September Issue From the Editor ........................................................................... 2 5pm, Letters ......................................................................................... 3 Friday 12 August 2016 News and Articles ........................................................................ 4 Police Box .................................................................................. 18 for publication on Community Councils ................................................................. 19 Saturday 27 August 2016 Club & Community Group News ............................................... 24 Sport .......................................................................................... 36 Out & About. ............................................................................. 43 Contributions for inclusion in the Congratulations & Thanks. ........................................................ 45 Newsletter Kinross High School Awards. ..................................................... 46 The Newsletter welcomes items from community Church Information ................................................................... 47 organisations and individuals for publication. This Playgroups and Toddlers............................................................ 49 is free of charge (we only charge for business Notices ...................................................................................... 50 advertising – see below right). All items may be subject to editing and we reserve the right not to Day Centre & Chemists .............................................................. 56 publish an item. Please also see our Letters Policy Classified Adverts, Situations Vacant ......................................... 57 and Notes on page 2. Submit your item (except Diary .......................................................................................... 58 adverts) in one of the following ways: Email: [email protected] Front Cover: Boat Race photographs courtesy of Sean Bolton, (all emails will be acknowledged) Kinross and District Rotary Club. Post or hand in to: Commercial Advertising in the Newsletter Eileen Thomas, Editor 50 Muirs Display Adverts Kinross KY13 8AU Eighth Page Quarter Page Half Page Black & White £14.50 £29.00 £63.00 Colour (internal) £24.65 £49.30 £107.10 Editor The above prices are per issue, based on a six-month run of advertising being Eileen Thomas placed. One-off adverts are charged at a higher rate. The Newsletter welcomes advertising enquiries. 50 Muirs Kinross, KY13 8AU .....................01577 863714 Typed Adverts These adverts are text only. The price is the same per insertion whether the advert [email protected] is placed for one issue or several issues. Advertising Manager Up to NINE lines (including blank lines) £8.40 per insertion Julia Fulton TEN to FIFTEEN lines (including blank lines) £14.00 per insertion 10 Gowan Lea As a guide, eight words is the maximum that can be fitted on a line. To place a Dollar, FK14 7FA .........................07936 151223 Typed Advert, contact our Advertising Manager, Julia Fulton (see left for contact details). You will need to send her: [email protected] • Your name, address, telephone number and, optionally, email address. Treasurer • The wording of your advert. Ross McConnell • A note of the number of insertions required. 3 High Street • Your remittance – cheques payable to “Kinross Newsletter Ltd”. Kinross KY13 8AW......................01577 865885 Send all this to the Advertising Manager by the normal monthly Newsletter deadline (see top of left-hand column for date). [email protected] The Newsletter reserves the right to vary the physical size of these adverts from Subscriptions issue to issue according to the space available. Ross McConnell (address as above) If you wish to place a Typed Advert on a permanent or semi-permanent basis, contact the Advertising Manager to see if you can go on to our billing list. [email protected] For full information on advertising in the Newsletter, please go to our website Distribution www.kinrossnewsletter.org and click on 'Advertising'. Lee Scammacca (Cree8) 62 Muirs, Kinross KY13 8AU ......01577 863186 The Newsletter reserves the right to refuse or amend any advertisement or submission and [email protected] accepts no liability for any omission or inaccuracy. No part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any form without the express written permission of the publishers. Editor Eileen Thomas Typesetting and Layout Tony Dyson Distribution Lee Scammacca Advertising Julia Fulton Treasurer and Subscriptions Ross McConnell Assistant Editor Joyce Horsman From the Editorial Team Editorial Kinross Newsletter review of the year It’s a slightly more slimline Newsletter this month as there For the period April 2015 to March 2016 are fewer community events and club meetings during the We are delighted to report that sales of Newsletters have school holidays. However, a couple events that are taking risen for the second year in a row. We now sell an average of place are pretty spectacular! 2070 copies per issue. The Kinross Show takes place again in the stunning setting of Members of the Newsletter team enjoyed meeting some of the RSPB reserve, with Loch Leven as a backdrop. Following our readers and contributors at the Better Place to Live Fair our preview last month, we have more details, including a in March. Feedback on the Newsletter was very positive, with show programme, in this issue. It really is a wonderful day compliments for our new colour pages. out. See pages 12 and 13 for more information. We are using our Facebook page more often, and our followers of this have more than doubled in the last year. The other big event fast becoming a favourite in the annual The Newsletter continues to work in partnership with the Kinross-shire calendar is the Rotary Club’s Mary Queen of community website, kinross.cc Scots ‘The Great Escape!’ Boat Race (our cover feature). We have had some staff changes in the past business year. This is terrific fun to take part in, and very entertaining to Joyce Horsman joined last summer as Assistant Editor and watch. So, if you haven’t already signed up a team to take is proving to be hugely helpful in sharing the workload. We part, now is your chance! See pages 14 and 38 for more said goodbye to Ann Harley after ten years as advertising details. manager, but welcomed back a familiar face in Julia Fulton, Fingers crossed for great weather for these two events! who used to carry out word processing for the Newsletter, and who now looks after the adverts. We were saddened by the death of a former Newsletter Note to Contributors editor, Isabel Gillon, who passed away last October. A great deal of the Newsletter comprises reports supplied by We are very grateful to our advertisers; without them, the local clubs and other organisations. These reports are accepted Newsletter would not exist. We would be happy to hear from in good faith. Clubs etc should ensure that reports are factually any local businesses that don’t advertise in the Newsletter at accurate and do not contain material which could cause legal the moment but would consider doing so. proceedings to be taken against the Newsletter. Thanks also go to the various outlets that stock the Newsletter, Letters Policy Senders must supply their name and address, which will be including new ones in the last business year: Loch Leven’s published with the letter. Letters should be truthful and not Larder, RSPB Loch Leven, Heaven Scent, Powmill Stores and contain matter which could cause legal proceedings to be taken Fossoway Garage. against the Newsletter. The Newsletter does not necessarily We would like to thank the very many club secretaries and agree with any of the views expressed on the Letters or indeed representatives of organisations as well as individuals who other pages. In special circumstances addresses may be withheld send contributions to the Newsletter. Special thanks go to our from publication on request (but must still be supplied to the farming correspondents, Fiona Turnbull and John Buchanan, editor). and Rita Wilson who supplies the weather report. Note to Readers: Advertising The Newsletter truly is a community effort. All profits are Inclusion of advertisements in the Newsletter does not imply any given away to local good causes and for the year ending particular endorsement or recommendation of services or March 2016 this amount is £6,700. companies by Kinross CC or Kinross Newsletter Ltd. Abbreviations PKC: Perth & Kinross Council Cllr: Councillor CC: Community Council CCllr: Community Councillor About the Kinross Newsletter The Newsletter has been informing and supporting the community for 39 years. It began as a way of letting residents know what Kinross Community Council was saying and doing, but soon expanded to be so much more. Readers use the Newsletter to find local trades and services, and our loyal advertisers support the community by enabling us to publish local