My Community News
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
South Dunfermline Community Council Newsletter my community news AbbeyviewIssue No. 135Calais Autumn Muir 2020 Bruceeld Wood Masterton Lea Duloch Hospital Hill Pitcorthie Masterton Park Masterton Park Pitreavie Middlebank Playing Fields Rise Middlebank Rise Masterton Lea Pitreavie Pitcorthie Pitreavie Camdean Rosyth Hello! Well, how did it get to be September....it newsletter. If you have an article that you seems like two minutes since New Year and think may be of interest, or an event or already we are 3/4 of the way through the club to promote, please get in touch either year. In some respects, the quicker we can via Facebook or email and one of us will get get through 2020 the better - I think we back to you. should just cancel this year and forget about it! I noticed last week that the tubs of chocolates were in Tesco, this can only mean I hope that everybody has been keeping one thing, it’s almost Christmas!! Is it too well and life is getting back to some sort of early to mention that? In the meantime, normal, whatever that may be. 15 August please stay safe and take care. should have been the South Dunfermline Gala which we sadly had to cancel earlier this year. Let’s keep our fingers crossed Alasdair Kay that we can go ahead with all our events SDCC Chairman next year and hopefully be in a position to announce the date of the 2021 Gala in the next edition of the newsletter. In this edition... Did you manage to read our first bumper online edition in June? Unfortunately, it • DUNFERMLINE SUPERHEROES just wasn’t possible at that time to deliver it. Hopefully this is the beginning of normal • CALAIS WOODS UPDATE service resuming. We are always looking for local news and information for the • PLASTIC FREE DUNFERMLINE South Dunfermline Community Council [email protected] www.southdunfermlinecommunitycouncil.com South Dunfermline Local Councillors Conservative - David J Ross (01383 418570) Labour - Ross Paterson (07515 290182) Lib Dem - James Calder South Dunfermline Community Council (07825 604016) meets on the 1st Tuesday of every month, apart from July and August, at 7.45pm in the SNP - Fay Sinclair (07885 447252) King Malcolm Hotel. NEWSLETTER South Dunfermline Community Council Editor - Thana Mitchell (07427 695323) Chairman - Alasdair Kay (07756 813766) Treasurer - Mhairi Divertie Advertising - Thana Mitchell Vice Chairman - Alan Henderson (727259) Design - Dave Rodger (07971 939259) Communications - Thana Mitchell Treasurer - Mhairi Divertie OUR NEWSLETTER DEPENDS ON Secretary - Vacant ADVERTISING. PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU WISH TO PLACE AN ADVERT: Members: Marion Knapman; Sharon Waugh; Nancy Porteous; John Ure; Morag Ure; newsletter@ Grace MacLachlan; Dave Rodger; southdunfermlinecommunitycouncil.com Thana Mitchell Advertising Costs: Pitcorthie & District Events Committee (PADEC) 1/4 page advert - £23 per quarterly publication Chairman - Alasdair Kay (07756 813766) 68mm (W) x 97.5mm (H) Treasurer - Mhairi Divertie 1/2 page advert - £40 per quarterly publication Secretary - Morag Ure (736651) 138mm (W) x 97.5mm (H) Communications - Thana Mitchell Full page advert - £65 per quarterly publication 138mm (W) x 197mm (H) PERMISSION SHOULD BE SOUGHT FROM THE EDITOR BEFORE REPRODUCING ANY ARTICLE FROM THIS NEWSLETTER. ALL ADVERTISEMENTS ARE PRINTED IN GOOD FAITH AND SDCC NEWSLETTER CANNOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONTENT. 2 my community news - autumn 2020 3 C P A R D C M L I H T E M E L B B D O R E L I U S O Puzzle Corner L O D H E O O E L A R G O 3 6 5 L G I S N R O W I P O S N 5 6 4 7 A I E I P A D N L C T C Z 4 2 3 8 R E L F T C U O I L H S I 6 4 8 9 2 7 D Y R A T S N C U N E I E 1 8 2 6 Y A H T A E B C U R U W B 5 7 1 K E L T Y M O B E P F D C 2 3 E L O G I E G C E L A O R 7 5 6 2 S S Y M E W D A I I P R A 1. Sudoku 3. How many triangles in this pentagon? 2. Can you beat the maze? 4. Brainteasers: W O R M I T W S S A L T I A) A man stands on one side of a river, his D U L O C H K E N E V E L dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without Find the Fife based words: getting wet and without using a bridge or a Competition! boat. How did the dog do it? ABDIE FISH B) There is a word in the English language ABERDOUR FLISK Can you spot the 27 Fife based words in which the first two letters signify a male, BEATH KELT Y listed opposite in the wordsearch? the first three letters signify a female, the CELLARDYKES LARGO first four signify a great man, and the whole Once you have completed that there CERES LEVEN word, a great woman. What is the word? is another Fife placename to be COAL LINO found! C) In a game of cards, GEORGE partnered CULTS LOGIE We are offering a £20 Amazon Gift with MARY, while TED had to choose a CRAIL METHIL partner. He could have chosen ANN, EDNA, Voucher to the first correct answer JOAN or ANGELA. Whom did he choose and CREICH MOONZIE drawn on 30 September. why? CUPAR SALT Email your answers to: DULOCH WELLWOOD D) I come in different shapes and sizes. [email protected] Parts of me are curved, other parts are DUNBOG WEMYSS straight. You can put me anywhere you like, DUNINO WORMIT Answers on Page 38 but there is only one right place for me. ELIE 4 my community news - autumn 2020 5 Dunfermline Superheroes Duloch Spiderman and his team of superheroes We posed a couple of questions to Duloch a 49 mile ultramarathon from Edinburgh Sick I’ve met the best group of people, and I am celebrated the reopening of schools by Spiderman and here’s what he had to say: Children’s Hospital to Glasgow Children’s gutted that a lot of the team are hanging presenting a huge cheque of £12,200 to Hospital! up their suits, but it does show that life is Calaiswood School on 14 August. What motivates you to keep running each day? returning to some form of normality. What inspired you to start fundraising? What initially started out as a simple gesture This has fundamentally always been about Just wanted to add that Spidey’s going nowhere to bring some cheer and put a smile on kids’ spreading a little happiness. Getting round to I have done fundraising for years, but this for the time being. I’ll be out 3/4 times a week faces during lockdown, turned out to be the see as many kids as possible is my motivation. was never initially going to be to raise money. in the evenings/weekends and I’m planning on teaming up of Dunfermline Superheroes and Seeing their faces when they meet Spidey is After my first run back in March, I instantly keeping some fundraising going for the school, their massive fundraising efforts! absolutely magical. I still enjoy running my gained a large social media following and so and other local projects. local streets today as much as I did at the start many people asked if they could donate to The team participated in the ‘Lap the Map’ of lockdown. “a cause”. My son attends Calaiswood School Photo credits: Duloch Spiderman’s Facebook page challenge, a charity competition between which works with children with additional Edinburgh and Glasgow Children’s Hospital I’m so proud to be a part of this fantastic team. needs. I set a £100 target and thought it would Charities and ran 22 miles from Duloch to We’ve achieved so much more than I ever be great to hit that. Almost six months later, Edinburgh Sick Children’s Hospital in July. expected and the support from everyone has I handed over a cheque for £12,200 to the been second to none. On a personal level, my school…it’s an incredible amount of money The Dunfermline Superheroes have also fitness is better than it’s been in years. Never raised for our little school and I’m absolutely been nominated for a Pride of Britain Award did I ever think I would run almost 900 miles in thrilled! On top of this, we have raised £18,000 which celebrates the achievements of truly 6 months, nor did I ever expect to complete for Edinburgh Sick Kids and Glasgow Children’s remarkable people who make our world a Hospital. better place. 6 my community news - autumn 2020 7 This Dave Rodger illustration was commissioned for a home in Pitcorthie -Illustrator- Reduce Your Single Use Plastic Have you ever thought of creating a unique personal gift The plastic pollution crisis has been headline Refuse: Straws in restaurants and bars. When for someone? An illustration of news for several years thanks to Sir David ordering, ask for your drink to be brought a special place, or even your own Attenborough and films such as ‘A Plastic without a straw. Many restaurants and pubs home to celebrate a birthday or Ocean’. Plastic is a highly durable material have now stopped using straws, but it is special occasion? that lasts forever, breaking up into small always worth checking.