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 475 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 2019 DEADLINE CONTENTS for the August Issue From the Editor, Letters ............................................................... 2 5pm, News and Articles ........................................................................ 3 Friday 12 July 2019 Congratulations ........................................................................... 9 Police Box .................................................................................. 16 for publication on Health & Wellbeing ................................................................... 17 Saturday 27 July 2019 Community Councils ................................................................. 19 Club & Community Group News ............................................... 29 Contributions for inclusion Sport. ......................................................................................... 47 Scottish Women’s Institutes. ..................................................... 54 in the Newsletter Out & About. ............................................................................. 55 The Newsletter welcomes items from community Church Information ................................................................... 58 organisations and individuals for publication. 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As I look out of my window, there is no doubt that summer is Single houses in the countryside are a bone of contention almost here. Despite what feels like weeks of rain, I can’t with many, but since we built our house and turned two acres help but be optimistic about the possibilities that summer of farm land into a garden the wildlife has thrived. Every day may bring: long lazy days at the beach; barbecues with is like an episode of Springwatch. friends; camping trips; and a plan (as yet unfulfilled) to Initially we had very few garden birds but plenty of deer, actually walk all the way round the loch in one go. Every pheasants, rabbits and hares nipping the tops off young summer, I tell myself, I will have time… plants as fast as I planted them. Ten years on both the garden, My summers as a child seemed to go on forever. Then, the birds and the wildlife are thriving. we made ice-cream floats to drink sitting on a rug in the We planted hedges of mixed native species which are now garden, dipped freshly-picked sticks of rhubarb into an well established, and attract wild birds providing places to egg-cup of sugar (before we knew, or cared, how bad nest and hips and berries to feed on in the autumn. A bank sugar was for us) and spent hours jumping across the of Cotoneaster horizontalis literally hums with bees and the burn, trying not to get our clothes too wet; a tell-tale sign dark and damp space beneath is a haven for toads. Birds of what we had been up to. are stacked up on the fruit trees waiting for their turn at Summer now always seems to be over in a flash. While the feeders and the buddleia, when in flower, are thick with work doesn’t stop in the summer, we prioritise life. We butterflies. take to the grassy outdoors, we relax our schedules, and we fall into a vitamin D-induced happiness. Like summer, this Editor’s Letter is brief– a reminder to take a breath, get some sunshine and peel away the layers of what makes you tick, before you have to cover up again. Hannah Phillips Note to Contributors A great deal of the Newsletter comprises reports supplied by local clubs and other organisations. These reports are accepted in good faith. Clubs etc should ensure that reports are factually accurate and do not contain material which could cause legal proceedings to be taken against the Newsletter. Letters Policy Senders must supply their name and address, which will be Where have all the hedgehogs gone? published with the letter. Letters should be truthful and not Voles tunnel under the hedges and red squirrels are welcome contain matter which could cause legal proceedings to be taken visitors. Stoats think nothing of coming right up to the house against the Newsletter. The Newsletter does not necessarily agree and peering in through the patio doors and we often see signs with any of the views expressed on the letters or indeed other of foxes though only occasionally do we get to see them. pages. In special circumstances addresses may be withheld from Rabbits graze contentedly on the lawns and we have a large publication on request (but must still be supplied to the editor). resident population of hares which live in scrapes or shelter Note to Readers: Advertising from the wind behind tussocks of grass. Living in a rural Inclusion of advertisements in the Newsletter does not imply any particular endorsement or recommendation of services or location we do see a large number of raptors, but our hare companies by Kinross CC or Kinross Newsletter Ltd. population seems to have expanded with this year being Abbreviations particularly healthy. PKC: Perth & Kinross Council Cllr: Councillor By planting bee-friendly flowers, we have swarms of bees CC: Community Council CCllr: Community Councillor busily harvesting pollen and playing a vital role in our ecosystem. Perhaps because of the mild winter we have seen About the Kinross Newsletter a huge increase in the ladybird population this year. Sadly, The Newsletter has been informing and