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ARDGAY & DISTRICT Community Council newsletter Price: £1.00 ISSN 2514-8400 = Issue No. 45 = AUTUMN 2019 = Schools of past times At the end of the 19th centu- ry, there were four newly built public schools in Kincardine Parish: Achnahannet, Croick, Culrain and Gledfield. THEY PROVIDED accommodation for 40, 35, 50, and 110 children respectively and they had in 1881 an average attendance of 25, 17, 27, and 67. Today, only Gledfield is still open with 27 pupils on the roll last year. (Page 18) Aerial view of Gledfield School, taken around 1950. / © DONALD BROWN Kyle Chronicle, new magazine for the Kyle of Sutherland area Page 4 Kyle of Sutherland Communities Day at The Hub Find out what support groups and services are available in your area Page 9 Planet Sutherland, encouraging KoS Gala Week 2019 Page 17 changes to help save the planet Page 12 Waste management Trees for Life a and what red squirrel 36 pages featuring to put in the translocation Opening times, Telephone guide, blue bin programme Bus & Train timetable, Page 5 Page 23 Sudokus & Crossword MENU SAMPLE MENU 11.30am until 2pm Bonar Bridge Community Hall Apple and Parsnip Soup —00— Roast Chicken with Stuffing, Dauphinoise Potatoes, Yorkshire Pudding and Green Beans —00— Swiss Roll and Strawberry Ice Cream —00— Rolls, Sandwiches/Toasties - Prawn Mayo/Cheese/Ham —00— Children's’ Snack Boxes (sandwich, yoghurt, raisins and fresh fruit juice) —00— Cappuccino, Mocha, Latte or Hot Chocolate Tea/Coffee Fruit Juice, Bottled Water—Still or Sparkling —00— Takeaways must be ordered before 11.30am and collected by 1pm. Please phone 0798 5626340/01863 766190 to order. ARDGAY & DISTRICT Community Council newsletter AUTUMN 2019 = Page 3 Contents 12 15 27 29 ARDGAY NEWS =The Bradbury Centre has a new GEARRCHOILLE WOOD ��������������������27 =”This is not the end”, letter from the extension ������������������������������������������������������15 Editor presenting the new quarterly =New energy advice service at your WHAt’S ON IN THE AREA magazine Kyle Chronicle �������������������������4 local Citizens Advice Bureau ��������������16 =Christmas Fairs �����������������������������������28 =Waste management & recycling ���5 =Images from this year’s Kyle of =Highland Archaeology Festival ����29 =Message from the Chairperson ������6 Sutherland Gala Week ������������������������17 =Ardgay Christmas Lights �������������������6 =Schools of bygone times ������������������18 ADULT CLUBS & SOCIETIES �������������28 =CC elections and contact details ����8 =Excercise for over 60s at your =Communities Day at The Hub ������ 9 community Gym �����������������������������������������22 CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE ���������31 =The importance of the Kyle of =Red squirrels back at Ledmore & Sutherland Trust’s social projects ������� 11 Migdale Woods ���������������������������������������������23 CHURCHES ������������������������������������������������32 =Planet Sutherland, encouraging =Obituary: Leila Wood ������������������������24 changes to fight climate change ������ 12 =Sutherland Care Forum ��������������������25 LOCAL SERVICES A-Z ��������������������������33 =Banking in Bonar Bridge ����������������� 13 =How to apply for Community =Ardgay Public Hall auction ����������� 14 Benefit Awards �����������������������������������������26 PUZZLES ������������������������������������������������������ 35 Ardgay & District photographs The changing light at Loch Craggie by Donald Bain. Within the North-West boundaries of Ardgay & District Com- munity Council area, on the road to Lochinver, is this fishing loch from where we can admire Suilven’s majestic silhouette� Page 4 = AUTUMN 2019 ARDGAY & DISTRICT Community Council newsletter Ardgay & District News Front pages of the 22 newsletters I have had the pleasure to produce for the community, since my first issue in Summer 2014. EDITOR’S LETTER This is not the end This edition of Ardgay & District CC newsletter will be my last, but it will mark a beginning rather than an end. From this winter I will be leading the exciting project KYLE CHRONICLE, a quarterly news magazine whose first edition will be delivered to you in early-mid December. IRST OF ALL I would like to and casual contributors. Each Ardgay, Culrain, Bonar Bridge, thank all who have support- time someone new approached Invershin, Rosehall, Spinningda- Fed in any way the newsletter me to submit a contribution, I le, Migdale, Strath Oykel, Strath- -and me personally- throughout was happy to see that the goal of carron and Glen Cassley. these past five years. A special achieving some sort of community mention goes to Marion Turner, dialogue within the pages of the The news magazine will be volunteer proof-reader, and to newsletter was a little bit closer. produced by Carn Bren Publish- Phil Olson, who has consistently ing Ltd. Thanks to the generous taken care of the digital ver- It’s with that same goal in mind support of the Kyle of Sutherland sion. Thanks also to my fellow that the first independent quar- Development Trust it will be Community Council members, terly news magazine for the com- possible to deliver a free copy to Betty & Andy Wright, Rob & munities of the Kyle of Suther- every household in the Kyle of Leslie Pope, Buster Crabb, Mary land, Kyle Chronicle, is born. Sutherland area. The Trust will Goulder, David Hannah -who also provide Kyle Chronicle with handed over the task of editing n Independent: striving for important updates and vital info the newsletter-, Alan Lawrence, objectivity and openness, it will such as local emergency plans. Sheila Lall, Teresa Langley, and be a member of the Independent Another aspect of the partnership Bob Sendall. They have all been Press Standards Organisation. with the Trust is that it will enable so kind as to participate in the n Quarterly: there will be four Kyle Chronicle to offer very attrac- project as contributors or distrib- editions per year: December, tive advertising rates to local busi- utors or both! March, June and September. nesses and -crucially- concession n News magazine: featuring prices for charities and communi- A big thank you to our volunteer quality in-depth exclusive con- ty groups operating locally. So, no distributors (Jeannie Sparling, tent, genuinely local news, up- matter the size of your group, you David Knight, Jockie Hewitt, to-date relevant info... with the will be able to share your event, Brigitte Geddes, Rhonwen Copley, useful pages you like to find in course or activity with the wider Anna Sutherland, Iain & Louise this newsletter plus some excit- community for a very small price. Worthy, David Mackay, David ing surprises! Ross and Vicky Whittock); to our n For the communities of the Kyle Chronicle will also be an readers and of course to regular Kyle of Sutherland: it will cover intergenerational project. I’m ARDGAY & DISTRICT Community Council newsletter AUTUMN 2019 = Page 5 Ardgay & District News working with local schools to en- How much are we recycling? gage with young people, who will be creating the content for their of Highland’s waste is recycled at present own pages. 43% From which: 80% comes from the blue bin collection and 20% from recycling centres One of the first challenges we such as the one in Bonar Bridge. will have to face is the creation of distribution routes in the Cre- HIGHLAND REGION WASTE: Tonnes ich CC area. We are looking for per is still going to landfill 83,000 year volunteers so, if you or someone 57% you know would like to hand out is the deadline given by the Scottish Government to about 20 copies once every three stop using landfills. It is also when the ban on single months (the perfect excuse for a 2021 use plastics will take effect. cuppa and a catch up with your neighbours) please get in touch. I Blue bin - RECYCLING ENERGY FROM YOUR WASTE would also like to hear from you 3 2 From 2021 all Highland refuse will be if you have suggestions, letters 1 ABERDEENSHIRE transported to the Longman to the editor, contributions, or BRORA OR Materials Recovery Facility rather YOUR Transfer Station NORTHUMBERLAND than being landfilled. The refuse if you are running a local group HOME Processing Plants will be shredded, screened and sorted and you’d like its contact details Black bin - REFUSE to produce Refuse Derived Fuel, that listed. You’ll find my email and will be compacted and baled for telephone number on the advert 1 2 3 transportation. The bales will be used on page 7. I will also be at the YOUR BRORA CAITHNESS by Energy from Waste plants elsewhere HOME Transfer Station Landfill in Scotland, UK or Europe. Communities Day on the 22nd September at The Hub, please WHAT SHOULD WE PUT IN THE BLUE BIN? come along for a chat. Items in the blue bin should be clean, dry and loose. Remember to remove lids. Caring for the environment? Our printers use certified FSC MIXED PAPER AND paper and a plate technology CARDBOARD PLASTIC BOTTLES, that allows them to save 95% POTS, TUBS AND TRAYS on their water consumption in comparison to conventional systems. There will also be an FOOD TINS, online version available. I would N C FOOD & DRINK like to think that you’d want to DRINK CANS AND AEROSOLS CARTONS keep past magazines but, if that’s /A&DC not the case, please remember to S URA recycle. M A I NO Plastic bags and wrapping. Black plastic trays. Polystyrene LV SI I look forward to a long and © fruitful collaboration between the current Ardgay & District CC and the Kyle Chronicle. I will always Recycling locally be very fond of this newsletter. I hope you will like my last edition HIGHLAND COUNCIL Officer Imogen cussion on what can/cannot be re- and that we will resume our con- Percy-Bell attended the August cycled and why. There is more info versation on the pages of the Kyle CC meeting to give a presentation available online at https://www. Chronicle very soon. < on waste management. Here is zerowastescotland.org.uk/, or you some of the data we gathered at could send your questions directly Silvia Muras Editor the meeting.
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