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Fifty Years at RSPB Scotland Loch Leven 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 456 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 October 2017 DEADLINE CONTENTS for the November Issue From the Editor ........................................................................... 2 5pm, Letters ......................................................................................... 2 Friday 13 October 2017 Congratulations & Thanks. .......................................................... 3 for publication on News and Articles ........................................................................ 4 Saturday 28 October 2017 Police Box .................................................................................. 18 Community Councils ................................................................. 19 Club & Community Group News ............................................... 29 Contributions for inclusion in the Sport .......................................................................................... 45 Newsletter Scottish Women’s Institutes. ..................................................... 51 The Newsletter welcomes items from community Out & About. ............................................................................. 52 organisations and individuals for publication. This Church Information ................................................................... 54 is free of charge. (We only charge for business Playgroups and Toddlers............................................................ 57 advertising – see below right.) All items may be subject to editing and we reserve the right not to Notices ...................................................................................... 58 publish an item. Please also see our Letters Policy Day Centre & Chemists .............................................................. 66 and Notes on page 2. Submit your item (except Classified Adverts, Situations Vacant ......................................... 67 adverts) in one of the following ways: Diary .......................................................................................... 68 Email: [email protected] (all emails will be acknowledged) Commercial Advertising in the Newsletter Post or hand in to: These prices are with effect from the October 2017 issue Eileen Thomas, Editor Display Adverts 50 Muirs Eighth Page Quarter Page Half Page Kinross KY13 8AU Black & White £14.70 £29.40 £58.80 Colour (internal) £25.50 £51.00 £102.00 The above prices are per issue, based on a six-month run of advertising being Editor placed. One-off adverts are charged at a higher rate. The Newsletter welcomes Eileen Thomas advertising enquiries. We do not have a waiting list for adverts. 50 Muirs Typed Adverts Kinross, KY13 8AU .....................01577 863714 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. Up to NINE lines (including blank lines) £8.60 per insertion Advertising Manager TEN to FIFTEEN lines (including blank lines) £14.35 per insertion Julia Fulton As a guide, eight words is the maximum that can be fitted on a line. To place a 10 Gowan Lea Typed Advert, contact our Advertising Manager, Julia Fulton (see left for contact Dollar, FK14 7FA .........................07936 151223 details). You will need to send her: [email protected] • Your name, address, telephone number and, optionally, email address. • The wording of your advert. Treasurer • A note of the number of insertions required. Ross McConnell • Your remittance – cheques payable to “Kinross Newsletter Ltd”. 3 High Street Send all this to the Advertising Manager by the normal monthly Newsletter Kinross KY13 8AW......................01577 865885 deadline (see top of left-hand column for date). The Newsletter reserves the right to vary the physical size of these adverts from [email protected] issue to issue according to the space available. Subscriptions If you wish to place a Typed Advert on a permanent or semi-permanent basis, Ross McConnell (address as above) 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, including terms and conditions, please go to our website www.kinrossnewsletter.org and click on Distribution '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 Letters Editorial From the Old Travelling to the New Readers, if you are employing a tradesman or using a Are you an ex-pupil of Kinross Primary? Do you know any service that you have found in the Newsletter, please let staff members who have retired or moved away? that business know that you found them in the Newsletter. We are holding an ‘Open Doors’ event for any ex staff and In these straightened times, businesses need to know their pupils to visit, before we move to the new build. Visitors are advertising is working for them. The Newsletter could asked to get in touch with the school to sign up for an hour not exist without the support of the local businesses that slot. You will then be taken on a tour of the school and get a advertise with us. chance to look at some of the memorabilia we have gathered to share. Following on from last month’s celebration of 50 years of The date is Thursday 26 October and tours will be at 4pm, the Art Club, this month we are celebrating 50 years of the 5pm and 6pm. RSPB at Loch Leven. Congratulations to them. If you would like to sign up please contact the email address Congratulations, also, to local bloom groups on their below so that we can confirm a place re email. excellent achievements this year, and for making such a School Office: [email protected] difference to the places we live. If you have some old photos or memorabilia please hand into Time is running out to comment on the NHS Tayside plan the main office and we will display it on the day. Please make to remove unscheduled surgery from Perth Royal Infirmary. sure it is clearly marked with your name and phone number There were no consultation events about this in Kinross. so that we can return it after the event. Some were arranged for other locations, mid to late Kinross Primary School September (even though the consultation supposedly Station Road, Kinross began in early July), with a closing date for comments of Christmas tree clarification 3 October. See the contact details in Cllr Watters’ report if Light Up Kinross charity committee would like to clarify a few you want to make your voice heard. comments made by Mr Miles in last month’s Newsletter. The contribution from Persimmons Homes was not given for the Note to Contributors purchase of a Christmas tree, it was donated to assist with A great deal of the Newsletter comprises reports supplied by and enhance this year’s display. The grant has been used to local clubs and other organisations. These reports are accepted replace some faulty lights and the purchase some extra lights in good faith. Clubs etc should ensure that reports are factually to enhance the town display. accurate and do not contain material which could cause legal Persimmon Homes’ Community Champions scheme is set up proceedings to be taken against the Newsletter. to help local community groups and charities; any local group Letters Policy can apply. Senders must supply their name and address, which will be The implication that this was a deal done between published with the letter. Letters should be truthful and not contain matter which could cause legal proceedings to be taken Persimmons and LUK as a bribe for a tree is completely against the Newsletter. The Newsletter does not necessarily inaccurate. LUK have never purchased a Christmas tree for agree with any of the views expressed on the Letters or indeed the town; in the early years the tree was donated by Douglas other pages. In special circumstances addresses may be withheld Alexander and for the past few years has been donated by from publication on request (but must still be supplied to the the Kilted Christmas Tree Company. editor). Light Up Kinross was set up in 1999 by Kinross Community Note to Readers: Advertising Council and given its own identity in 2009 so that we can Inclusion of advertisements in the Newsletter does not imply any apply for funding. particular endorsement or recommendation of services or We are now a local charity who rely 100% on support from companies by Kinross CC or Kinross Newsletter Ltd. the local community and need to be transparent in all our Abbreviations transactions. PKC: Perth & Kinross Council Cllr: Councillor We hope this explains that we are not involved in any CC: Community Council CCllr: Community Councillor underhand tactics. David Colliar (Vice Chairman)
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