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Ors New Life for Community Gardens page 24 Issue No 57, June 2017 a huge thank you to our sponsors delivered free to every address in Kilmallie A huge thank you to all the businesses below who have sponsored the newsletter this past year. Our newsletter costs have been met by their sponsorship donations, from KCC’s limited funds, from donations from the community and in kind from all our many volunteers. in this issue KCC from the chair – p2 whose problem? - p2 KCC meetings – p3 WestPlan consultation - p4 plans afoot- p4 Councillors’ Corner - p5 missives from MSPs - p6-7 noise at Annat - p7 community policing - p7 ELLCT - p8 Christmas Lights - p8 HillBurnBig on the buses - p8 High Notes – p9 Friends of Banavie Park - p10 Corpach Marina - p10 BOYD BROTHERS CLYDEBoyd Banavie School News - p10 Corpach in Colour - p11 (HAULAGE) LTD Fort William Ltd Banavie Floral - p11 Community Centre - p12-13 FORT Canal News - p14 WILLIAM Community Company - p15 TYRE Rugby Club - p16 Shinty Club - p16 SERVICES wild about Kilmallie - p17 Allt an Torr Mhoir Allt an CREEL - p18 collected works of burns- p18 Green Fingers - p19 wikipedia on kilmallie - p19 We rely on the contributions from our business community for the cost of producing and distributing this carbon papers - p20 free newsletter to every address in our area. We welcome sponsorship from all businesses located in Kilmallie, or letters - p21 with principal key personnel resident in Kilmallie. If you would like to see your name or logo in print supporting spotlight - p22 your community newsletter, please join with our current Puzzles from Pithean - p23 sponsors. Kshama Wilmington All donations, big or small, are hugely appreciated. would you like to become 07557 051205 Sponsors - p24 Please contact us at [email protected] for details. a sponsor too? 01397 772499. new life for community gardens see centre pages days’ notice and has been re-scheduled for Monday 12th June, too page 2 late for this newsletter. Having kept the May date clear, I now find page 23 kilmallie that I am unable to attend on the 12th June, but we will have a pre- meeting to prepare. I do hope those who can attend will voice the frustration felt with the lack of progress. community At our last meeting, 22nd May, Graeme Corner attended. Graeme is the Senior Environmental Health Officer, Community Services, “some straight, some cryptic, some easy, some not so easy” Across The Highland Council. He came to hear the concerns of Kilmallie 1 Parliament House (7) residents about noise nuisance from Annat Industrial Estate. 1 2 3 4 5 6 council 4 Is she an aunt? 5) Any resident who has concerns about the noise can contact I hope you have recovered from the tension of the two elections. 7 Angela loses a letter to become a higher being KCC congratulates the three councillors elected by Ward 11, Graeme and he will give you a diary to keep, you will then return it (5) namely Allan Henderson, Billy MacLachlan and Ben Thompson and to Graeme and he will decide what the problem is and will organise 9 Stringed guitar-like instrument (7) 7 8 9 we will welcome them and you to our meetings throughout the recording the noise and taking action if it is above the acceptable 10 Greedy birds (7) year. At the same time we also thank Bill Clark for the support and level. By being involved you will be backing up the representations 11 The doctor, me and Ed worked together to get advice he has given us over many years. we have been making and I would urge you to do so. His contact rid of the water (5) details are: 12 The other half (6) Sitting here in this ‘chair’ I feel that I am writing a serial - the topics Graeme Corner, Senior Environmental Health Officer, Community 10 11 14 The legman was all over the place when are the same as last time- one has moved on a bit, one is moving Services, Fulton House, Gordon Square, Fort William. PH33 6XY. forward and one feels as though it has stalled. The biggest squashing things (6) Phone: 01397707014 Email: [email protected] frustration concerns the lack of progress made by the Steering 18 Saint Pan (5) Group on the New Belford. I appreciate that an ‘uncomfortable chair’ is minor discomfort 20 Sole cat makes sugar (7) compared to endless sleepless nights due to noise, more so when 12 13 14 15 16 22 Colourful arch (7) OK - are you sitting comfortably? Slower, Safer, Smilier Campaign - the weather is ‘warm to hot’ and the bedroom windows need to be 23 Diluted ether makes a number (5) David Devine of Transport Scotland came to our KCC meeting on open to keep cool. 17 27th March 2017 and after a good discussion he announced that 24 This Bridge is nearby(5) Transport Scotland would hold feasibility studies at Banavie Swing I hope you have a good summer and the next newsletter will be 25 Come again (7) 18 19 20 21 Bridge and near the Co-op at Corpach. This involves speaking to with you in September. Down members of the community and businesses near these locations - I 1 Rushes on for fees (7) Best wishes, hope you will participate if you are asked. 2 She’s an endless French car (5) Christine Hutchison, Chair 3 Dilute this to taste and crush it (6) There have been no further meetings of the New Belford Steering [email protected] 22 23 Group - the proposed meeting of 18th May was postponed with 7 4 Solid noise (5) 5 Smirking (7) Croft Fern Burn 6 Give way (5) 8 This castle isn’t there (5) 24 25 13 Out out ides not in (7) whose 15 Headless talisman ends up at the racecourse (5) Thank as always to Tony Whitelocke 16 Appears periodically in the table (7) 17 Bloom river (6) for giving us this crossword. problem? 18 Pa begins, sir comes up to the capital city (5) Black Water (Torrent) At KCC’s April meeting, we were pleased to 19 Garden bird or up, bin down (5) hear from one of our local Community 21 Monsters (5) Wardens. One of the warden’s responsibilities is litter, and this got us thinking about this problem in general: what is classed as litter, and whose responsibility picture quiz no 14 is it to clear it up? Where in Kilmallie? Some types of litter are obvious: the crisp and what was it before? packets in the park, the drinks bottles in the Answers to these puzzles are on the website gutter. Some are less clear-cut: is an advertising trailer dumped at a roundabout www.kilmallie.org.uk litter? It certainly degrades the area and We realised how unusual it is for people to made. Whilst those of us currently treading (follow the link on the RHS of the homepage) and will also be would put me off buying anything from that voluntarily pick up others’ litter when we did the earth do bear responsibility for published in the next issue of the newsletter for people Dubh Lighe company; is a dog-poo back left tied to the a bit of it ourselves a couple of months ago. contributing to climate change, much of the without access to the internet. fence actually worse than just leaving the There’s a real litter problem around the damage was done by people who are no poo where your dog first deposited it? bench on the footpath by the Lochy Bridge longer alive to sort it out (or at least say roundabout. We collected six black bags of sorry!). Answers to last issue’s crossword: Then whose problem is it? The most obvious litter- mostly beer cans and food wrappers. Across: Croit Allt na Rainich What do we do? Avert our eyes, and carry point to make is that nobody should drop The reactions of people walking past as we 1 ARMBAND, 4 HEART, 7 ALGAE, 9 PORTENT on walking? Expect the council (or litter or fly-tip in the first place. But if they did this were very interesting: they actively 10 AT NIGHT, 11 YODEL, 12 ADMITS, 14 BUNSEN government) to fix things? Or get out our do, is it the council’s job to clear it up, or avoided looking at us or making eye-contact, 18 MADAM, 20 OAK TREE, 22 CASCADE, 23 TIBET climate change bin bags and accept that, should we as individuals get on and do it and some gave us quite disapproving looks. even though we didn’t make the problem, 24 EVADE, 25 EXACTLY 1 ALABAMA ourselves? Most of us probably don’t drop Far from being pleased to see us tidying the we still have to solve it. Like leaving 2 MEGAN litter. But we probably don’t expect to pick place up, people seemed suspicious of what someone else’s litter on the pavement, Down: up other people’s either, however much we we were doing. It seems like it’s so unusual we’re only making thing worse for ourselves 3 DEPOTS, 4 HARRY, 5 AGENDAS, 6 TOTAL dislike seeing it in our environment. Why is to see members of the public picking up this? other people’s litter that they assumed we if we don’t clear it up. 8 EIGHT, 13 MADONNA, 15 UPSET, 16 NO ENTRY 17 ICE AGE, 18 MAPLE, 19 MOOSE, 21 ABBOT The extremely good work done by must be up to something. Russell Leaper, Secretary volunteers in Corpach, who litter pick But we are going to have to get used to regularly and efficiently is very much the clearing up the mess that other people have Answer to last issue’s Picture Quiz No 13 exception.
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