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The St Cyrus Newsletter Volume 5 Issue 6 February/March 2008 Also at www.stcyrusnewsletter.org.uk Inside this issue: Letter to editor 2 Editorial 2 Church meetings 3 New Hope Trust 4 Donating Blood 5 Book reviews 5 Gardening Club 6 SNH Reserve 7 Spaceship Clouds 7 Website 8 Gala Day 8 Benholm Mill 8 Have a say in the future development of Mearns FM 8 Hill walking 9 YOUR VILLAGE WRI 9 • Sponsored slim 10 Planning for Real Aberdeenshire council listening to YOU History Society 10 • Future housing development, where, when and how much? Photography 11 • The Playing field more facilities for example goalposts, floodlights? Health Centre 11 • The old railway cutting ?? Christmas Lights 11 CC page 12 • Measures to control speeding traffic ! Public Hall page 13 • The coastal footpath WRI 13 • Adopted roads, Overhead electric lines, Parking, Dog fouling, Farming 14 th Bird & Bat boxes 14 The AGM is 12 February 7pm Public Hall Business 14 We need a committee of twelve and many more regular attendees. Directory th Postman Pat 15 St Cyrus Public Hall AGM 7pm on Tuesday 4 March th lights & brakes 15 The Annual General Meeting of the Management Committee will be held at 7pm on Tuesday 4 March at the hall. Meetings are open to the public and are usually held on the first Tuesday of each month to discuss Youth Club 15 matters relating to the running and maintenance of the hall. St Cyrus School 15 The Committee is made up of representatives from hall user groups and volunteers from the community. This is an opportunity for anyone interested in helping to run this community facility to come forward and Postman Pat 15 form the new committee at the AGM. New members are always welcome. PfR 16 To find out more attend the meeting or you can contact the Secretary Newsletter AGM 16 Page 2 The St Cyrus Newsletter The St Cyrus newsletter is made possible by your donations, sponsorship and the business directory advertisements and is issued: April/May, June/July, August/September, October/November, December/January, February/March. Editorial Policy Statement Editorial The St Cyrus Newsletter is a free community newsletter We printed the following on page 9 in the December 2007- produced and distributed every two months by volunteers January 2008 issue: to households and businesses in St Cyrus and district. The “All of the cost of the improvements to the bowling club has been aim of those involved is to produce an informative, paid for by the hard work of the club members, some of whom accurate and entertaining journal for those who live, work also put in lots of effort to obtain various grants. None of it was and visit in this area. We are supporting an integrated handed out by the council as was implied in a letter to the editor and inclusive community with information, entertain- in an earlier newsletter”. ment and discussion. Letters and articles published in However we must thank Councillor Howatson for bringing the the newsletter do not necessarily reflect the views of the following to our attention: Production Committee and they reserve the right to “since September 2005, I am pleased to say that St Cyrus Bowling shorten, edit or not publish any item. Contributions will Club has been granted £9,762.50 by Aberdeenshire Council. be attributed to the author. Vested interests will be £7,580 was awarded by the Education Committee Grants Sub declared where applicable. Articles should be between Committee (25% of the cost of the new surface and the purchase 200 and 300 words and the content should be original of a surface cleaning machine) and following that two awards work relevant to St Cyrus and the environs. The St Cyrus were made from the Kincardine and Mearns Area Top Up budget Newsletter Group obtains written parental permission - £1,147.50 and £1,035.” before including any photographs of children in the news- Cllr Howatson added: “I wholeheartedly supported all three letter. When photographs of children are included they awards which I believe to be a good use of public money and a will not be given a full name and will not relate to an recognition not only of the importance of the club, but of the hard individual. The principal reason for this policy is because work done by club members in raising funds”. the newsletter is made available on the Internet as a downloadable PDF file. This policy is standard practice The accuracy of the information we publish is important to the in all schools in Scotland. Photographic resources Newsletter Group which is why committees should ensure the donated to and collected on behalf of The Newsletter exactness of the facts they provide. The editor is responsible for truthful content, the quality of English and presentation and we do Group remain the property of the group to illustrate the have several persons proof reading which helps with regard to newsletter and may also be used to support village local knowledge but we cannot be expected to verify every detail charitable fund raising. Entries for the Business especially when it is supplied by a committee. directory are charged at £5 per issue for the single Editor line entry of name, service and telephone contact number. Production Committee DEADLINE !!! Maurice Forsyth-Grant: Chairman Articles and information for the next issue th Pam Harrison: Treasurer should arrive at the latest March 24 Mike Burleigh: Editor Write to us at: Email: [email protected] Lyn Hunt: Secretary Distribution Team: 13 Scotston Place, St Cyrus DD10 0BZ Mary Singleton Organiser John Barrie Bernard Tuck supported by: Bob Flann, Robert Flann Andrew Hamilton, Mike Letters to the Editor Greetings to St.Cyrus from Elizabeth Leslie Burleigh, Robert Smith, Brisbane, Australia. I'm a writer Richard Leiper Heather Jenkins, Bev Rae originally from New Zealand and very proud of my Scottish Tom Dalziel Bert Skinner and Liz Leslie. ancestry, but know very little about it. I have an ancestral record of my father's line (surname Grieve) that traces back to the 1701 Website Team: Frances Johnson and Bernard Tuck birth of a James Grieve recorded at Montrose. St. Cyrus then shows up for 5 subsequent generations; from his wife Marjory Creig or Greig (b.1702) through to a William Grieve (b.1834) Contributors to this edition who then moved on. Other contributing St. Cyrus surnames Tom Dalziel Pam Harrison Andy Turner (the various wives) were Brown, Grant, Bran or Brau, Smith, Wilma Jobson George Hastie Linda Babbs Brown again, and Ferrier; all becoming Grieve. Their husbands Julie Kelly Cathy Gillies Lorna Grubb were all agricultural labourers of one kind or another. Mary Singleton Donald Gillies Ian Hunter To complete the story my grandfather, Peter Sidney Grieve, Wendy Sparrow Andy Vinten Mike Burleigh emigrated to New Zealand from Aberdeen(?) about a century Alison Couch Wilma Jobson Michelle Fraser ago, while another branch of the family moved to Canada. Liz Leslie Frances Johnson Yvonne Buck I'd be delighted to hear from any of you who can trace a com- Allan Robertson Harry Bickerstaff mon ancestry or can offer me any insights into the life and times David Smith Lina Forsyth Grant of these historical characters who have contributed to my David Robertson Ged Maybury story. Thank you. Sincerely Ged Maybury Contact me at: Dorothy Tuck Bernard Tuck [email protected] or 3 Glenn Street, Slacks Creek, Bob Flann Bert Skinner MAC Logan, Queensland 4127, Australia. Neil Thomson Bill Howatson Lindsay Kerr Durward Tavendale The St Cyrus Newsletter Group complies with the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 by providing copies of each issue for the National Library of Scotland. The St Cyrus Newsletter Page 3 St Cyrus Church of Scotland Services are at 10:00am Sundays. Services at 11.30am in Johnshaven. There are family services on the first Sunday of each month. Last December we said farewell to Dawn Sherman our church organist for 19 years making a great contribution to worship, weddings and funerals. She and Jack, now January 2008 issue: both 70, are retiring to Laxfield in Suffolk. We will probably no longer have a permanent organist but will be on a rota with other churches. In the Cottar’s Saturday night, Burns comments on a family reading Scottish Episcopal Church their bible and taking their faith seriously and says, “From scenes like St Mary’s + St Peter’s Montrose these, auld Scotia’s grandeur springs.” Though Burns had an ambivalent 8am Sunday Said Eucharist relationship with the unco guid and Holy Wullies of his day, he knew 11am Sung Eucharist the value of faith. At the beginning of the new year we like to have an Wednesday 10:15 Said Eucharist aim or watch word to guide and lead us. I suggest Psalm 31.24 Be Inverbervie: St David’s strong and let your heart take courage, all who wait on the Lord. Sung Eucharist 9:30am Sunday Parish Register: Funeral; Betty Blease. Baptisms; Amy, Jessica and Douglas Barr The Free Church in St. Cyrus The Good Friday service is at Bervie Church George Hastie Quotation from the Bible: Proverbs 3: 34 The Living Rooms “[The Lord] .. mocks proud mockers, but gives grace to the humble. " Christian Centre and Coffee Shop ...the dictionary definition of humble is someone who Prayer requests welcome does not think that he or she is better or more Services of worship Sundays at 7:30pm important than others, Grace is God's undeserved Also SALT ( Seeking And Learning Together) Men’s Group favour. Why not look into this? It's better than "mock the 2nd and 4 th Saturdays of the month from 8-10am weak"! with breakfast.