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Loch Leven Community Campus Tel: 01577 867306 Or 867310 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 404 January/February 2013 www.kinrossnewsletter.org ISSN 1757-4781 DEADLINE CONTENTS for the March Issue From the Editor ............................................................ 2 5.00 pm, Friday Letters ......................................................................... 2 15 February 2013 News and Articles ........................................................ 3 for publication on Police Box...................................................................10 Saturday 2 March 2013 Community Councils....................................................11 Memory Lane ..............................................................21 Club & Community Group News .................................22 Contributions for inclusion in the Sport ..........................................................................38 Newsletter News from the Rurals ..................................................44 The Newsletter welcomes items fro m community Out & About................................................................45 organisations and individuals for publication. Congratulations & Thanks ............................................47 This is free of charge (we only charge for Church Information & Obituaries..................................48 business advertising – see below right). All items may be subject to editing and we reserve the right Playgroups & Nurseries................................................51 not to publish an item. Please also see our Letters Notices........................................................................52 Policy and Notes on page 2. Submit your item Day Centre & Chemists ................................................58 (except adverts) in one of the following ways: Classified Adverts, Situations Vacant ............................59 Email : [email protected] Diary...........................................................................60 (all emails will be acknowledged) Post : Eileen Thomas, Editor Front Cover : County Buildings photograph by Gareth Thomas (see address below) Co-operative store photograph courtesy of Jim Payne Photos Hand in : 50 Muirs, Kinross or : 24 Victoria Avenue, Milnathort Commercial Advertising in the Newsletter Display Adverts Do NOT send adverts to the Editor. Adverts There is currently high demand for Display Adverts and a waiting list may should be sent to the Advertising Manager. be in operation. Please see our website www.kinrossnewsletter.org for more details or contact our Advertising Manager. Editor Typed Adv erts Eileen Thomas A typed advert may be placed for one or more months. These adverts are 50 Muirs text only (no graphics allowed). There are two rates: Kinross, KY13 8AU...............01577 863714 Up to NINE lines (including blank lines) £7.50 per insertion [email protected] TEN to FIFTEEN lines (including blank lines) £13.00 per insertion Advertising Manager As a guide, eight words is the maximum that can be fitted on a line. To place Ann Harley a Typed Advert, contact our Advertising Manager, Ann Harley (see left for 2 Hatchbank Road, contact details). You will need to send her: Kinross KY13 9JY.................01577 864512 • Your name, address, telephone number and, optionally, email address. [email protected] • 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). [email protected] The Newsletter reserves the right to vary the physical size of these adverts Subscriptions from 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 [email protected] basis, contact the Advertising Manager to see if you can go on to our billing list. Distribution Lee Scammacca (Cree8) For full information on advertising in the Newsletter, please go to our 62 Muirs, Kinross KY13 8AU ..01577 863186 website www.kinrossnewsletter.org and click on 'Advertising'. [email protected] The Newsletter reserves the right to refuse or amend any advertisement or submission and accepts no liability for any omission or inaccuracy. 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 Mislaid Family Photographs A new year is a good time to get organised, so with that in I bought a book at the Kinross Day Centre Book Sale on mind, we’d like to mention that there is a list of Newsletter Saturday 5 January 2013 called “Rikki Fulton’s The deadlines for the whole year on our website. Contributors to Reverend I. M. Jolly” and there were nine photographs in it the Newsletter might also find it useful to read the of a wee boy in an outdoor play area, at his birthday party ‘Submissions’ page of the website, which has been updated wearing a green Hibernian T shirt, a Halloween one, and recently. one with (probably) grandparents. New year also brings resolutions! If yours is to take up a If they belong to you, call me on 01577 864487. new hobby or acquire a skill, or to get fitter, we hope you Mrs Greer bought a copy of the December Newsletter! The Kinross Learning Centre listed all their classes in that (most started The Kinross Hub - A Café For Carers in mid-January, but it might still be possible to sign up) and We would like to thank the carers and their families who, Loch Leven Leisure had a two-page list of activities in that despite the bad weather, attended the Christmas Carers’ issue too. Also, there are many adverts throughout every Café on Monday 3 December 2012. Newsletter for classes in yoga, pilates, dancing etc. A big thank you must go to Kinross High School and Ms Thanks to everyone who sent the Newsletter team good Stella Hardy “ head of music” who brought along four of her wishes for the New Year. A Happy New Year to all! most talented senior pupils who entertained the carers and families with a musical extravaganza, after which they Note to Contributors enjoyed a cuppa and a blether with carers. A great deal of the Newsletter comprises reports supplied by local Thanks also to Pauline Watson. clubs and other organisations. These reports are accepted in good A number of local businesses were very generous, donating faith. Clubs etc should ensure that reports are factually accurate a range of gifts and vouchers as prizes in our free Christmas and do not contain material which could cause legal proceedings to be taken against the Newsletter. Raffle. Thanks must go to following: Country Affair, Hunter’s the Butcher, The Gallery (gift Letters Policy Senders must supply their name and address, which will be shop), The Hair Studio, The Complete Look, Sands the published with the letter. Letters should be truthful and not Ironmonger, The Co-operative, Williamson Florists, contain matter which could cause legal proceedings to be taken Bowers, Baynes, The Beauty Spot, Kirklands Hotel, The against the Newsletter. The Newsletter does not necessarily agree Shop at the Green, Milnathort Post Office, The Zen Zone, with any of the views expressed on the Letters pages. In special Robertson’s of Milnathort, Enable (Loch Leven Health circumstances addresses may be withheld from publication on Centre) and Little Hair Company, Bridge of Earn. request (but must still be supplied to the editor). Christmas would not be complete without a visit from the Note to Readers: Advertising man in the bright red suit – Santa did not let us down, Inclusion of advertisements in the Newsletter does not imply any arriving with a large bag of gifts to the delight of all the particular endorsement or recommendation of services or carers; hearty thanks to Sandy Smith for donating his time. companies by Kinross CC or Kinross Newsletter Ltd. The next Carers’ Café will be held on Monday 4 February, Abbreviations : 10am - 12 noon at St Paul’s Church Hall, Kinross. PKC: Perth & Kinross Council Elaine Kincaid and Gail Boath CC: Community Council Housing and Community Care Cllr: Councillor CCllr: Community Councillor Loch Leven Community Campus Tel: 01577 867306 or 867310 Dance Connect Dance School A Royal Academy Dance school now teaching locally from Tripudio Dance Studio at Kinross Services Classes on a Wednesday and Thursday in tap, ballet, jazz and street dance Excellent and experienced teachers RAD and ISTD qualified. Age 4 to adult Current spaces for children in ballet age 4-6 and 8-10, and new street dance class on a Wednesday for ages 12-15 New junior tap and ballet on Wednesday at 4.15pm for ages 4-5 RAD exams optional and annual show For further class information please see our new web site at www.danceconnect.co.uk or contact Rachel Webb RAD RTS on 07557 361832 3 News & Articles ‘Kinross-shire - just neglected Kinross County Buildings by Perth Council’ by Councillor Willie Robertson The decision was taken by Perth & Kinross Council’s by Councillor Joe Giacopazzi Property Sub Committee to put the Kinross County While not an actual quote, this sentiment will resonate with Buildings up for sale when it met on 9 January.
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