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New unity slet mm te Co r GAU NO LDRY & BALMERI WINTER 2020 / 2021 Morison Duncan Hall Management Committee (Scottish Charity Number SCO35014) Welcome back to the newsletter ! This Issue It’s been a wee while since the last newsletter back in 2018, but hopefully it can once again keep us in touch with what’s been happening in and around Gauldry. Notice Board 2 And what a time it has been recently. I don’t think anyone can quite believe the change in our lives Community News 2,3,4,5,6 in such a short time. But we’ve all been adapting with new ways of keeping in touch, such as ‘Zoom’, for those lucky enough to have access to such computer platforms. Even without technology, I Arts Club 2 know the community has rallied round. There have been many acts of kindness which we’d love to hear about. Please send details by email or phone call or letter for inclusion in the next newsletter. Christmas will be a little different for most people this year but let us all try to make it a merry one Morison Duncan Hall for everyone in the community. Report 2 Stay safe everyone. Church of Scotland 3 Sheila Lindsay ––––––––––––––––––––S–––c––h–––o–––o––l–– –N–––e–––w––––s ––––––––––––––––––––– Obituaries 3 Gauldry in Bloom 4 Message from Mrs Jess (Headteacher) I am very pleased to have this opportunity to introduce myself to the wider community in and around Morison Duncan Hall Gauldry. I took up post as Headteacher of Balmerino Primary School in August of this year. You can imagine it has been a strange time to join a new staff team and to get to know my new school History 5,6 but I have been warmly welcomed. In both of my previous headships (at Crail and then Leuchars Primary Schools), it has always been my practice to get to know the wider local community and to attend Community Council Meetings so that the school can work in partnership with the village. For obvious reasons this isn’t possible yet but I look forward to the day when it will be. Newsletter Through this Christmas period, we are supporting the foodbank and Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper day. If anyone would like to join our charitable work, you can make a donation here: Contacts https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/cjd200016466 - we are encouraging small, anonymous Editor: donations. I am going to end by handing over to two of our P7s who will share some of the work they have been doing in school. Before I do that, I will take this opportunity to thank the whole Sheila Lindsay community for the warm welcome I have been given since coming to Balmerino PS in August and 52 Maryknowe, Gauldry. to thank the whole staff team for their hard work and commitment through these exceptional times. Tel: 330404 Lucy Jess Email: [email protected] [email protected] Advertising Manager: Messages from Primary 7 Jim Whittet One of the things we will be doing is writing to those in the village who are lonely. We got this idea 4 Hays Road, Gauldry. Tel: 330563 from writing letters in class and we all decided this would be a very fine and kind thing to do. Keep Email: [email protected] an eye out for a letter from me and the rest of p6/7 Tori Copy Dates for the One of the best times I have had at school is apple festival. It was so fun. We had to find as many Spring Issue: fruits as possible with the alphabet, like, for B I put banana. When we were at school, we got to Wednesday 3rd March – have a little tub of our own apple crumble, but we had to make it our self. It was so good when I Publication Wednesday 31st March had it at home, so good. We also did science with apples. We had to put vinegar on a slice of apple, lemon juice on an apple, water on an apple and we just left an apple. We had to see which apple Morison Duncan Hall would rot first and last. That was a good experiment. One of my favorite times on apple festival was when we had to draw some apples inspired by Paul Cezanne. It was a competition, and the Management Committee: new amazing head teacher, Mrs. Jess, of Balmerino Primary School was judging. It was the best. Chair: Jeremy Wickens The school would say that was a fun day. Secretary: Sue Gray By Cameron B Treasurer: Bill Anderson 2 Community News Art Club MD Hall Newsletter Report, Nov 2020 We started at the beginning of February with more members than we had, a It is really good to be writing for the newsletter again! Many thanks to Sheila few new members that brought our numbers to ten. We hoped to continue for volunteering to produce what has always been a very useful and to the end of May but events took over and we ended our club in March. We interesting means of keeping in touch with our community. still keep in touch over Zoom and have a blether and show what we have Morison Duncan Hall Management Committee had its AGM at the end of been up to with our art. October, gaining six new members! The new committee is now: When will we start our club again, who knows, this will depend on how safe Jeremy Wickins (Chair) Sue Gray (Secretary) we all feel about going out again. Bill Anderson (Treasurer) Xin Shen (Treasurer Depute) Hope you are all well and keeping safe. Scott Graham (Bookings Secretary) David Cole (Media Officer) Senga Young, Chairperson Zena Ali (Member) Stewart Fyffe (Member) ––––––––––––––––––––– ––––––––––––––––––– Ewan McKay (Member) Indira Pintak (Member) Maggie Wilkins (Member) Susan Barratt (Representing Gauldry in Bloom) Sheila Lindsay/Vicky Kendrick (Representing Thursday Café) Christine Mulherron (Representing Dancing and Art Clubs) Knut Radmer (Representing Table Tennis and Cinema) It feels really good to have a full committee that represents more of the The 4th season of the Jack Cockin Gauldry & Balmerino Community community we serve. Thank you to everyone for taking time to do this. Cinema was not a good season at all! It was like Murphy’s Law: if there's Rob Gray is still missed by all who worked with him on the committee. The anything that can go wrong, it will..” village does not feel the same without him. Our love and thoughts are still with First of all, in the beginning of the season in September during the screening Sue. of the film ‘A star is Born’ (2018) the projector broke down and we had to You may have noticed that we now have a Media Officer - David Cole. He has send everyone home. Luckily, there was enough money in the kitty to get a taken on the responsibility of increasing our social media presence so that we new projector installed for the next screening. Then in January the have better communications with the community. Over the next few weeks you videoplayer broke down and we were obliged to use a laptop, with no sound! should see the website and Facebook pages having more activity, so please Fortunately, a member of the audience was able to get the laptop connected keep an eye out. to the speakers, so we were able to show the film ‘Toto le Heros’ (1991) a I am delighted to say that Barbara Watson is still our caretaker. She has taken European movie, in the end. advantage of the enforced closure of the Hall to do a lot of sprucing up - when We had rescheduled the screening of ‘A star is Born’ in January with free you finally get back in, you’ll be really impressed. I’m not going to tell you what entree, which was well visited. Also, the February screening ‘Three Billboards she has done - maybe we’ll have a competition to see who can spot the most! Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ (2017) was received well, not knowing that this Due to the restrictions placed on us as a result of Covid precautions imposed would be our last one for the season. The COVID-19 pandemic and the by the government, we have not managed to put on our major events this year. Lockdown subsequently caused the season to end prematurely; we still had The Easter Egg Hunt, Fife Open Studios, the Gala and the firework display two more screenings on our programme. Unfortunately for the annual would all have helped to raise spirits, but it was impossible to plan with any members, they didn’t receive value for their money this season. Hopefully certainty. The same fate has befallen the usual fundraiser for Gauldry in Bloom we can make it up for them next year? at the lighting up of the Christmas tree: there will be a tree (thank you again, Normally, the new season would have started in September 2020 but Barbara!), but no organised lighting-up event. However, donations to Gauldry COVID-19 denies us to gather in Gauldry’s Village Hall. When this will be in Bloom are always gratefully received, especially as their work around the possible again -hopefully soon in the new year- we will start the Community village really helped to make it a beautiful place to walk around throughout the Cinema again, with renewed enthusiasm. last nine months. We are looking for some new committee members, since Susan Barrett, Fran We put the Hall on Fife Council’s emergency preparedness list back in March, Westland and Sue Gray have decided to stop their commitment to the in case it was needed to assist the community.