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The Lybster Beacon Community Design House The Lybster Beacon Community Design House A Very Highland Our House is Fling North Lands Creative are hosting a free community festival over the 10 &11th August 2019, (10AM - 5PM), through‐ Your House out Lybster. here will be glass blowing demonstrations, crat tables, perfor‐ mance tent, workshops and food ven‐ dors. Down at the knotty pitch there will By Merran Gunn be a pop up printing studio where you can print your own lags, as well as a Community Design House is a brand bouncy castle and R.N.L.I & Family trea‐ new project for NorthLands Creative, sure hunt. Waterlines hosts a children's that was launched at the beginning of exhibition, along with lame working this year. Based in the Alaistair Pilking‐ demonstrations from glass artists. he ton glass studio, in Lybster, CDH is a harbour also has a seek and peek tank In this Issue: community-led social enterprise, aimed for children to get up close and personal at providing the local community with to some of the creatures found in the sea transferable glass making and business around Lybster. he Highland Fling is Going green; horrors of plastic, off grid skills, that can be used in the creation of especially excited to welcome the Isabel‐ living and Lybster allotments community projects. la Fortuna; sailing into our harbour ater 1.30pm on Saturday under the watchful A very Highland Fling he popular Ambassador training pro‐ eye of Wick Harbour master Malcolm gramme, provided 16 weeks of glass Bremner and the Wick Boat Section.It's Runaway success of River Bothy in working training, that have already re‐ going to be an action packed weekend so Berriedale sulted in the ledgling CDH jewellery en‐ make sure you take part in everything terprise, as seen recently at the Latheron the Fling has to offer. A year of Glass at CDH Show. Local stories and club news Other project strands include communi‐ ty outreach days and CDH Ambassadors Coming Home WW1 travelling exhibi‐ have also been a strong part of this pro‐ tion gramme. More recently, CDH hosted the Youth 'Glas' week; a fun illed 6 day week Days Gone By; refections of childhood in mid July that offered 20 places a day days to the next generation of Lybster glass makers! he action packed week worked puzzles and brain teaser toward creating a magical glass sea gar‐ den, complete with Garden Guardians Summer Raspberry jam and beremeal and glass mobiles. scones recipe So come and get involved…our next project is to create a glass themed garden at North Lands Creative and those inter‐ ested should pop in and get in touch with Julie or Merran. RED NOSE GOES GREEN save the world by making alternatives to plastic noses. Some other schools have By Saffiya Amin (P6) Lybster banned red noses but are painting their Primary School noses red instead. Our woollen noses, are made from recycled and donated If we stop using plastic this world would wool and all of the money raised goes to be much cleaner. Comic Relief is helping the charity. Comic Relief is a wonderful lots of people but maybe we could help charity, next time could they make red noses environmentally friendly! 2 he Lybster Beacon Turn on the griddle and heat up but not too hot. Cook for 3 minutes on each side and serve with fresh jam! Runaway Success at Raspberry Jam Nothing beats Caithness rasps, when they are in season. Shelia use a recipe that comes from an early copy of the River Bothy Scottish Women's Rural Institute. Measure 1 lB ( pound) of raspberries and get the tattle masher and " bang it about" (Quotes from; Kirsty Gunn: A kind of in the mixture- to crush up the raspber‐ quiet foodie revolution has been go‐ Beremeal ries by Kirsty Gunn ing on up in the north Bannocks and Add 1lB of sugar into a pan. Slowly bring Fiona Polsen has been in kitchens ever to the boil for 5-10 minutes, cover but since she can remember. Daughter of Scotsman Monday 21 August 2017) Caithness occasionally stir to keep the sugar from legendary Caithnessian hoteliers Col and burning. Nancy Sutherland ( he Blends, Suther‐ Raspberry Jam land Arms ), she grew up understanding Pour into sterilised jars. what makes home cooking great. Scot‐ By Shelia Macleod man columnist Kirsty Gunn described her as "the super efficient power-baker" who wakes up super early every morning to start baking at 3.30AM to make her delicious menus and sold out cakes, and catering fare. he menu is always a favourite with lo‐ cals and tourists alike; with standing favourites alongside an ever changing menu "We do everything ourselves and most of our ingredients from around here - a fabulous butcher in Latheron‐ wheel, the Caithness smokehouse for all our salmon and duck and Wilsons of Westray cheeses from Orkney…" From Shelia has shared these old time home made breads, chutneys, soups and favourites, enjoyed by generations of salad sandwiches to savouries and divine Caithness Folk. hey originate from the sweet cakes of every mouth warring Marion McNeill classic cookbook called ' kind, A Scot's Kitchen' which is an amazing record of the traditions and recipes from he River Bothy is, according to the days gone by. hey are also recipes she Scotsman, " a haven of good taste and learnt as a child in Swiney, and remem‐ tastiness". he Scotsman continue their bers that " growing up we didn't have a rave review "he River Bothy is tucked range, my mother cooked over the open away into the Braes next to Patricia Nie‐ ire on a sway…" man's jeweller's studio and between Helmsdale - with its own terriic water‐ Beremeal Bannocks front cafe as part of the TimeSpan Cen‐ tre". to make 4 rounds Exclusively for this irst issue of he Lyb‐ into a bowl put: ster Beacon, Fiona shares one of her Lilac recipes 2 cups of Beremeal by Jim Stewart 2 cups Self Raising Flour No tap root,then. We'd thought 2 teaspoons cream of tarter an aternoon and evening not enough 1/2 teaspoon baking soda to bare that tale, no gut it's imagined cable.Our hearts' sank, Rub in 1 1/2 ounces of butter and then pitted against a dream rod's add 1 beaten egg and 1 teaspoon of trea‐ wish gripping too deep cle. - this brush or us You then add a little milk to mix it into a Taken from 'his'; Voyage Out Press dough. Turn dough out onto a loured boards. Divide the dough into 4 rounds and latten them down and cut in quar‐ ters. he Lybster Beacon 3 LYBSTER GOLF You Reap What CLUB By Lorna MacMillan You Sow here has been a golf course at Lybster since the 1900's and it has been in its present location since 1926. Lybster Golf Club is a community golf club with a se‐ nior section, ladies section, mens section and a junior section providing a well presented 9 hole course which is open to Coming Home: all members of the community. It also at‐ tracts a number of visitors to the area, WW1 in the both locally and nationally. It is a great asset for Lybster and provides its mem‐ Highlands bers of all ages, the beneits from exer‐ cise and the social aspect of the game. By Meg Sinclair As well as club competitions for mem‐ Dunbeath Heritage Museum is to host a bers, it also holds open competitions very interesting exhibition during June which attract players from other clubs. and July. We welcome everyone to come Some of our members hold their coach‐ and see it as well as add their own family ing certiicates and regular lessons are memories. by Tom Briscoe given to our juniors and new members. Senior 9-hole competitions are held Coming Home was developed by High In 2018, LLCCDC secured £10,000 from twice per week, enabling a number of Life Highland in collaboration with the the resilience fund (Scottish Council for golfers to participate in the sport who Highland Museums Forum to commem‐ Voluntary Organisations (SCVO))to in‐ would not otherwise be able to do so as orate the end of the First World War in stall two fruit cages at the site of the old they are not physically able to complete the Highlands. allotment. an 18-hole course. his also gives them an opportunity to socialise with other se‐ At the heart of the Coming Home exhi‐ Currently we have erected both cages nior members of the community. Fun bition are poignant individual experi‐ and have now planted a range of 'hardy' nights are held regularly for all members, ences explored through documents, ob‐ fruit trees and bushes enabling all ages to play together and en‐ jects and photographs held in Highland courage the juniors and beginners to be‐ museums, libraries and archives. From he development of the site will contin‐ come familiar with the rules of golf. Highland women who broke the mould ue for quite some time with plans for a as doctors, nurses and dispatch riders to sheltered area/building, tables and he club has a part time green keeper the international legacy of Norwegian benches areas and paths to be construct‐ but much of the work on the course is loggers, prisoners of war and the Ameri‐ ed. A composting area has also to be de‐ carried out by volunteers. his enables can Navy, the exhibition relects the veloped. the club to be able to keep fees to a mini‐ wider social and economic changes tak‐ mum to ensure the facility is available to ing place at the time.
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