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Founding editor, Mrs Nan Walker, MBE Kinross Newsletter Founded in 1977 by Kinross Community Council ISSN 1757-4781 Published by Kinross Newsletter Limited, Company No. SC374361 Issue No 464 All profits given away to local good causes by The Kinross Community Council Newsletter, Charitable Company No. SC040913 www.kinrossnewsletter.org www.facebook.com/kinrossnewsletter July 2018 DEADLINE CONTENTS for the August Issue From the Editor ........................................................................... 2 5pm, Scottish Women’s Institutes. ....................................................... 2 Friday 13 July 2018 News and Articles ........................................................................ 3 Police Box .................................................................................. 17 for publication on Community Councils ................................................................. 18 Saturday 28 July 2018 Club & Community Group News ............................................... 27 Sport .......................................................................................... 43 Out & About. ............................................................................. 52 Contributions for inclusion in the Congratulations. ........................................................................ 54 Newsletter Church Information ................................................................... 55 The Newsletter welcomes items from community Playgroups and Toddlers............................................................ 58 organisations and individuals for publication. This Notices ...................................................................................... 59 is free of charge. (We only charge for business Day Centre & Chemists .............................................................. 66 advertising – see below right.) All items may be Classified Adverts, Situations Vacant ......................................... 67 subject to editing and we reserve the right not to Diary .......................................................................................... 68 publish an item. Please also see our Letters Policy and Notes on page 2. Submit your item (except adverts) in one of the following ways: Cover: Kinross Show photograph by Gareth Thomas. Design by Lee at Cree8. Email: [email protected] (all emails will be acknowledged) Commercial Advertising in the Newsletter Post or hand in to: These prices are with effect from the October 2017 issue Eileen Thomas, Editor Display Adverts 50 Muirs Eighth Page Quarter Page Half Page Kinross KY13 8AU Black & White £14.70 £29.40 £58.80 Colour (internal) £25.50 £51.00 £102.00 The above prices are per issue, based on a six-month run of advertising being Editor placed. One-off adverts are charged at a higher rate. The Newsletter welcomes Eileen Thomas advertising enquiries. We do not have a waiting list for adverts. 50 Muirs Typed Adverts Kinross, KY13 8AU .....................01577 863714 These adverts are text only. The price is the same per insertion whether the [email protected] advert is placed for one issue or several issues. Up to NINE lines (including blank lines) £8.60 per insertion Advertising Manager TEN to FIFTEEN lines (including blank lines) £14.35 per insertion Julia Fulton As a guide, eight words is the maximum that can be fitted on a line. To place a 10 Gowan Lea Typed Advert, contact our Advertising Manager, Julia Fulton (see left for contact Dollar, FK14 7FA .........................07936 151223 details). You will need to send her: • Your name, address, telephone number and, optionally, email address. [email protected] • The wording of your advert. Treasurer • A note of the number of insertions required. Ross McConnell • Your remittance – cheques payable to “Kinross Newsletter Ltd”. Send all this to the Advertising Manager by the normal monthly Newsletter 3 High Street deadline (see top of left-hand column for date). Kinross KY13 8AW......................01577 865885 The Newsletter reserves the right to vary the physical size of these adverts from [email protected] issue to issue according to the space available. If you wish to place a Typed Advert on a permanent or semi-permanent basis, Subscriptions contact the Advertising Manager to see if you can go on to our billing list. Ross McConnell (address as above) For full information on advertising in the Newsletter, including terms and [email protected] conditions, please go to our website www.kinrossnewsletter.org and click on Distribution ‘Advertising’. David Anderson .........................07747 890375 The Newsletter reserves the right to refuse or amend any advertisement or submission and accepts no liability for any omission or inaccuracy. [email protected] No part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any form without the express written permission of the publishers. Editor Eileen Thomas Typesetting and Layout Tony Dyson Distribution David Anderson Advertising Julia Fulton Treasurer and Subscriptions Ross McConnell Assistant Editor Joyce Horsman Editor’s Page Editorial Scottish Women’s Institutes The Newsletter is always happy to share any good news POWMILL – The new committee is such as graduation announcements, engagements, Fiona Buchanan (President), Wilma Sim weddings and other happy events in the Newsletter. (Vice President), Maz Thorn (Secretary), Social media may be the favoured way for passing on such Anne McKay (Treasurer), Gillian Taylor (Competitions), Sharon news nowadays but, as the shelves of past issues of the Buchanan (Press Secretary), Fiona Black (Raffle Convenor) Newsletter in the Kinross Museum study room testify, the and Trish Greer (Tea Convenor). printed word can speak across decades. So if you want to Seven cars carrying 26 ladies set off from Moubray Hall for have a place in Kinross-shire history, make sure your news our joint Treasure Hunt with Blairingone Institute. The 14- is in the Newsletter! mile course over rural roads was extremely well organised Our publication celebrates is 41st birthday this month. by Fiona Turnbull and Fiona Blake. Despite the wet weather, As the school holidays begin, we wish everyone a happy teams enthusiastically solved clues, including anagrams, and and safe summer. collected daisies to make the required daisy chain. After a frantic phone call to check that one team had not been lost Advertising Terms and Conditions forever in the forest of Arndean, everyone enjoyed the pot Our advertising Terms and Conditions have been updated luck supper back in the warmth of the hall. The winning team slightly. Please see our website for the revised version. were Starbursts. New President Fiona Buchanan thanked the two Fionas for their hard work. There will be a Kinross Show set-up meeting on Wednesday Note to Contributors 18 July at 7.30pm. A great deal of the Newsletter comprises reports supplied by local clubs and other organisations. These reports are accepted CARNBO – On 18 June President Jay Hutchison welcomed in good faith. Clubs etc should ensure that reports are factually 30 members and four visitors to our meeting. accurate and do not contain material which could cause legal After business we were impressed by the skills of our own proceedings to be taken against the Newsletter. members who gave demonstrations on various aspects Letters Policy of cake decorating. Frances Drysdale introduced us to the Senders must supply their name and address, which will be technique of ribbon work in cakes and the intricacies of royal published with the letter. Letters should be truthful and not contain matter which could cause legal proceedings to be taken icing. Christine Allan amazed us with how to make fondant against the Newsletter. The Newsletter does not necessarily roses and shared a recipe for making apple roses in pastry, agree with any of the views expressed on the Letters or indeed which she assured us all was simple yet impressive. Margaret other pages. In special circumstances addresses may be withheld Greener taught us how to decorate cupcakes with different from publication on request (but must still be supplied to the icings and piping techniques which resulted in beautiful, editor). flower-like toppings. Members had the opportunity to try Note to Readers: Advertising their hands at all the techniques and everyone went home Inclusion of advertisements in the Newsletter does not imply any with lovely fondant icing roses and beautifully decorated particular endorsement or recommendation of services or cupcakes. companies by Kinross CC or Kinross Newsletter Ltd. We all enjoyed a lovely supper then the raffle and the sharing Abbreviations plate were drawn. PKC: Perth & Kinross Council Cllr: Councillor The Ann Bernard Trophy was presented to Mary Lapsley for CC: Community Council CCllr: Community Councillor her winning quiche (any pastry). The runner up was Josephine Paterson. The flower of the month was won by Jessie Stirling About the Kinross Newsletter and the runner up was Frances Drysdale. The Newsletter has been informing and supporting the The next meeting is 17 September with a speaker from the community for 41 years. Scottish Genealogy Society. Jay wished everyone a great summer and hoped to see as It began as a way of letting residents know what Kinross many members as possible at the Kinross Show. Community Council was saying and doing, but soon expanded to be so much more. JOE BURNS Readers use the Newsletter