page 32 Issue No 50, June 2015 a huge thank you delivered free to every address in Kilmallie
to our sponsors A huge thank you to the businesses below who have sponsored the newsle er this year. Our newsle er costs have been met by dona ons from all the businesses below, from KCC’s limited funds and in
kind from all our many volunteers. in this issue KCC from the chair – p2 KCC meetings – p3
last post - p4 community policing – p4 planning applications - p4 slower safer smilier - p5 councillors’ corner - p6 carbon challenge – p7 Banavie War Memorial - p7 Corpach Marine - p8-9 Banavie Play Park - p10 more Moorings - p10 Banavie Floral - p11 Corpach in Colour - p11 towpath troubles - p11 Produce Show - p12-13
let us know via our suggestion boxes Kilmallie Playgroup - p14-16 Locheilnet - p16 Banavie School - p17 Heather’s Walk - p18-19 High Notes - p20
Canal News - p21 Waterloo Walk - p22 Christmas Lights - p22 Green Fingers - p23 Community Centre - p23 Music for All - p24 Music Shed - p24 Wilson Corpach - p24 BOYD BROTHERS CLYDEBoyd Rugby Club - p25 Fort William Ltd Shinty Club – p25 (HAULAGE) LTD geocaching - p26 dancing divas – p26 poem from Ruth - p26 wild about Kilmallie - p27 heather’s huge happy walk dog club - p28 The sun shone for the 180 people When Sarah Walker and Margaret raising money for a very worthy bowel cancer - p28 that did Heather's Walk on 31st Simpson started the walk in 2008 cause. You have been Lochaber Beekeepers - p29 May. The hall was busy with all in memory of their friend Heather inspira onal. Huge cheers too to FOCAL - p30 the lovely stalls, many raffles and it was to be for one year. Heather everyone else who has worked so letters & feedback - p30 auc on. The ladies/two lovely girls had been in the Highland Hospice hard to make it such a success kept us all well fed. The fun went for care so they decided to hold year on year, and to the hundreds crofting townships - p31 on to Tradewinds in the evening the walk to raise money for the of people of all ages who have museum needs you - p31 with great music, raffles and the Hospice. It was so successful they taken part. would you like to become a sponsor too? history snippets - p32 auc on. It stayed dry for the carried on ‐ this was their eighth We rely on the contribu ons from our business community spotlight - p33 annual Strip the Willow out on the year! Sadly we hear it will also be More pictures Corpach for the cost of producing and distribu ng this free newsle er to every address in our area. focus on business - p33 road with tourists joining in. the last. Huge cheers for in centre in Colour We welcome sponsorship from all businesses located in Kilmallie, or with principal key personnel resident in Kilmallie. If you focus on folk - p34 what should KCC’s priorities be? Sarah, myself and all the Margaret and Sarah for a truly pages. would you like to see your name or logo in print suppor ng your community newsle er, please join with our current sponsors. message from puzzles from pithean - p35 volunteers thank you for helping fantas c fundraising effort, raising All dona ons, big or small, are hugely appreciated. the two sponsors - p36 us to raise the great amount of about £70,000 in total, that has Please contact us at [email protected] for details. Margarets, £6000 (and s ll coun ng). provided so much fun, fresh air Margaret and community spirit, as well as page 11
page 2 Is KCC worth keeping? page 35 kilmallie We hope you think we’ve served a useful purpose over the
last four years, but would you no ce, or mind, if KCC ceased community to exist? Would it ma er if Kilmallie lost the most local level of representa on? Only Kilmallie residents can answer that.
If the answer from everyone is ‘No’ then KCC will cease to council exist in November (and this will be your last‐but‐one Delighted to welcome Gerry Hallas and LBS to our slowly newsle er!). But if the answer from even a few people is picture quiz no 7 growing list of sponsors (see back page). The newsle er ‘Yes’ then the next ques on must be ‘Wha’ll gie it a blaw?’ These creatures (but not the specific simply couldn’t happen without the generous help of local Journalist and broadcaster Lesley Riddoch gave a s mula ng ones in the photos) have all been business people. spotted in Kilmallie in the last few talk in Kilmallie at the end of March. A turnout of about 100 people gave her a long loud round of applause at the end. weeks. Can you name them, and Her topic was essen ally community empowerment ‐ what guess which feature in the Thinking ahead impedes it and what encourages it to blossom. If we wait for landscape is common to where they were all seen? Come November 2015, just five months away, you will no empowerment to be bestowed on us, we’ll probably be a
longer have a Community Council. long me wai ng.*** Lesley illustrated, by many inspiring examples, that empowerment comes from within, especially Answer to Picture Quiz No 6: This isn’t because your exis ng Community Councillors have when people come together in common cause. The cupola, or rooflight, over the had enough, are too exhausted to carry on, have too many foyer of the Health Centre at
independent countries! independent other commitments, or are just throwing in the towel. All Camaghael. Community Councils throughout Scotland are elected for a Be the change you want to see The Health Centre was officially four year fixed term, and for us that term ends in November. Where community councils are concerned, it can be a case opened in May 2007 so the cupola must have been there since early At that point all exis ng Community Councillors must stand of ‘use us or lose us’. And the best way to use a community 2007 or maybe late 2006. down, and the Community Council is dissolved. council ‐ to have a really effec ve community council ‐ is for as many people as possible to get ac vely involved, either as
full members or associate members. What happens next? Answers to these puzzles are on the website www.kilmallie.org.uk Across Highland Council haven’t yet published a detailed metable (follow the link on the RHS of the homepage) There is no guarantee that any of our exis ng Community for the CC elec ons, but we expect nomina ons to be called and will also be published in the next issue of the newsletter for people 1 One of three (7) Councillors will stand for re‐elec on. We’ve enjoyed the for in September. More details in our next newsle er. without access to the internet 4 This girl is mean with a good centre (5) last four years, and we like to think we’ve made a li le 7 The prayer asks for this daily (5) difference, but some of us will be considering whether we Hopefully enough people will want to see KCC re‐established 9 Can be haute (7) “some straight, some cryptic, some easy, some not so easy” can manage a second term ‐ many of us work full me, or for a further term, with lots of ideas for protec ng, 10 This officer sounds like a bit of a nut (7) have onerous family commitments, or other voluntary improving and enhancing the place where we live. Could 1 2 3 4 5 6 11 It has landed! (5) involvements, some even have all three! one of them be you? No experience necessary, just a 12 Kirkwall is here (6) bigger than six than six bigger smidge of idealism. 14 Mixed as nose. Salt would do it (6) Highland Council sets the rules for how many people can be *** Holyrood’s Community Empowerment Bill, if passed later this month, 18 Charlo e’s uncle (5) on a Community Council. For Kilmallie, the minimum is 4. 7 8 9 will be welcome but it’s only one very small step in the right direc on. 20 Sail man confused these beasts (7) So if more than 3 of the present 7 don’t stand for re‐elec on, 22 Denver’s equestrian NFL team (7) there will be no more Community Council unless some new As well as our normal mee ngs and correspondence over the last 23 The Rolling Stones sang about her (5) people have come forward too. In any case it is always good three months, KCC members have: 24 The short foot robbery (5) to keep new faces coming aboard ‐ CCs that have the same 10 11 established a Community Fund 25 Aural stopper (7) few members for years on end can easily get stuck in a rut. become much more ac ve on Facebook (thanks Carol Anne!)
joint‐hosted a community hus ngs in the general elec on Down
Think global, act local had talks from Ci zens’ Advice Bureau, Corpach Marina (see 12 13 14 15 16 1 Put that in your pipe and smoke it! (7) Across Scotland a number of Community Councils are in page 8 and Locheil Estates (see page 21) 2 Perfect. Inside always (5) a ended mee ngs of the Partnership of Fort William Area CCs crisis, and have either had to fold because their numbers 17 3 This Mr Man might make you giggle (6) on top of Cnoc nam Faobh? any history of the ruined stone enclosure have dropped below the minimum, or are struggling to keep raised concerns about the surface of the canal towpath and 4 Jerry is one (5) the pavement outside the Co‐op going with minimum numbers. It’s a sad irony, given the 18 19 20 21 5 Some people hold these (7) surge of involvement in poli cs. But poli cal issues don’t con nued considera on of the Local Development Plan 6 She sounds like she’s in the south of France (5) considered SEPA’s flood management plan for the area just relate to Holyrood, Inverness, Westminster or Brussels. 8 Prom (5) And poli cal views aren’t just about whether you’re SNP, a ended Transport Forum and District Partnership mee ngs 13 Singing fun (7) Labour, Green, Lib Dem, Tory, UKIP or whatever. Poli cs is taken part in a Rural Parliament Twi er debate on the 22 23 15 Heather girl (5) about everything around us every day, and some mes it’s Community Empowerment Bill 16 Does the bird have this saved up? (7) the li le local things that really make a no ceable difference a ended the Ward Forum in Invermoriston on wind farm 17 Was this dog Sco sh? (6) planning guidance to our lives. 18 Monk’s clothes (5) con nued to raise issues about li er outside the Co‐op 24 25 19 Sailboat in Germany ‐ Achtung! (5) Kilmallie itself was without a Community Council for about and con nued to promote our Slower Safer Smilier campaign. 21 Does she have a heavenly body? (5) three years un l 2011. Caol too was without one for many As ever, do email any of us, or come along to mee ngs, if you years, but is now re‐established and thriving. Some mes it have concerns or ideas for Kilmallie. Or use the sugges on boxes Thank you to Tony Whitelocke for another great crossword.
takes a threat to sound a wake‐up call ‐ some of the at Corpach and Banavie. anyone know communi es in the Central Belt are really energised and Answers to last issue’s puzzle:
at 165.5 sq km, Kilmallieat 165.5 sq Community Council area is effec ve just now because of the serious threat they’re Mandy Ketchin, Chair Across: 1 TRANSIT, 4 MEGAN, 7 MAGIC, 9 RETRAIN, 10 ECLIPSE, 11 RIOJA, 12 TABLET, 14 TREATS, 18 ABBEY, facing from fracking. [email protected] 20 OCTAGON, 22 COLONEL, 23 OFFAL, 24 TENDS, 25 REVISES Down: 1 TEMPEST, 2 ANGEL, 3 TARGET, 4 METER, 5 GRANOLA, 6 NINJA, 8 COPSE, 13 BABYLON, 15 RATIO, 16 SINGLES 17 BOWLER, 18 ASCOT, 19 YANKS, 21 GIFTS page 34 love the hot tub pics on itsmosblog.tumblr.com on 6 June, perfect for Kilmallie summer weather
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100 tartan search results... for Cameron of Erracht on Ebay In 1848 the Lochiel Arms (or Banavie Hotel) was built by Lochiel, page 32 across the road from where the Moorings Hotel now is. It was "3 page 5 history snippets - storeys high and 7 bedrooms wide" (14 bedrooms?). In 1853 it was slower safer smilier slightly enlarged but the Steamship Company complained that it did Lower speed limits coming soon Council and Police Scotland has hopefully been successful in not have enough accommoda on for growing canal traffic. By encouraging drivers to change their behaviour when in and around If like us you’ve been wondering when the new lower speed limit 1880 it had accommoda on for 100 guests. The hotel had its own the village. It is an excellent example of a community recognising Banavie signs were ever going to be fixed, we had word on 5th June from dairy herd and Ford agency. an issue and working together with police to help keep everyone Bear Scotland, via Cllr Ben Thompson that they’re programmed to This second article about Banavie is the final piece that we safe." On the 3rd June 1899 the first Ben Race was started from the hotel. start on Wednesday 10th of June to carry out the remainder of the bring you from Hugh Muir, who died two years ago. KCC are There were 10 runners and the first home was Hugh Kennedy, an works. Apparently they then have to wait for an order for the KCC liked this story because it shows how a small community can so grateful to Hugh for sending us his ’snippets’ before he under‐stalker from Torcastle. His me was 2 hours, 41 minutes and speed limit reduc on to be granted and they will remove the covers empower itself to make a difference, without always having to rely died - it is such a special historical archive of Kilmallie, and 2 seconds. During the 1st WW the Hotel was used as an Officers’ on the signs when this comes into effect. on ac on from Highland Council or Transport Scotland. If YOU are we’ve enjoyed reading them all in his memory. With thanks Convalescent Home. On 10th May 1924 the Hotel was destroyed concerned about traffic speed anywhere in Kilmallie, would you like as ever to Hugh’s family for permission to publish. by fire. The only part remaining is the Chase the Wild Goose Hostel Potholes to help KCC with a similar ini a ve? Below, Hugh’s wife Elizabeth remembers him. which had been the servants’ quarters. It is said that the stone
A number of our bad potholes have Thank you again Hugh. from the ruin was used to build St Marys Church in Fort William. been filled thanks to Bear and Highland Shared space ‐ a simple superb solu on There has been a shop or shops at Banavie for many years. Those The pillars from the main hotel entrance can be seen at a house on Council. We like the solu on used in This is a really radical approach ‐ giving priority to the most known: Cameron Road, Fort William. Edinburgh for drawing a en on to vulnerable road users! In a completed project on a really busy
c 1860 Donald McPhee The modern Moorings Hotel was a ‘large extension’ from a basic them and brightening up the street at junc on, this works superbly, with fewer accidents, be er traffic 1901 Duncan McGregor house called Ben View. It was built by the Sinclair family ‐ from the same me. flow and all round a much nicer village. Even the scep cs have 1920s John McKinnon & Ronald Johnston changed their minds a er seeing it in prac ce. To see this amazing Orkney ‐ star ng about 1970. c1925 ‐ 1942 Peter Finlayson A sorry state SLOWER SAFER SMILIER transforma on watch the youtube video: The first Banavie and Corpach Scout Troop was formed in Nov A number of residents have drawn our a en on to the poor state www.youtube.com/watch?v=‐vzDDMzq7d0 It is interes ng to note that Corpach had a church but Banavie has 1911. that SSE le the main road in a er all their recent works. This was Let’s make this our vision for Corpach! not had a known church or cemetery, while Banavie has had a discussed at the last KCC mee ng, and Cllr Allan Henderson has number of schools but Corpach has no known school sites. The Banavie to Gairlochy road was built 1804‐1812. agreed to pursue it for us. It’s not just a ques on of looking bad, it’s However the names of a number of ‘Kilmallie’ teachers have been a safety issue, since the 30mph signs on the road surface have been noted since 1710. The oldest known building is now Chevalier With the opening of the Glasgow to Fort William railway in 1894, it was extended to Banavie Canal in 1895. The sta on building is obliterated, and the chevron slow down signs have been removed. Co age and was opened in 1832. It had two teachers with accommoda on for 60 and a roll of 78 but a regular a endance of below the top lock on the east side. The sta on had 2 pla orms 60. The next building, about 200 yards west of the Masonic and 3 sidings. In addi on, goods trains could go up a fairly steep New approaches Lodge, opened, at a cost of £1400, in 1875. Its ini al gradient and reverse to the top basin. Passengers had a steep Two approaches to the management of traffic and speed have been accommoda on was for 96 but over the years it expanded. One climb up to the top basin if they wished to join a steamer! This brought to our a en on recently, both involving community extension was 2 annexes on a site across the road from Banavie car sta on was closed to passengers in 1939 but the line remained in support. They slow traffic down and generally make life for park. A er this school closed those buildings were used by use un l 1951. When the Mallaig line opened it was called Banavie everyone much more pleasant...
a) The Red Cross Pier Sta on. Community takes control of the wheels b) upholsterers When the new Mallaig Extension line opened in 1901 there was Chris ne drew our a en on to this story from another Highland c) plumbers also a signal box on the Tomonie side of the canal bridge but it was community (taken from BBC News, Highlands and Islands, 12 May d) a nursery run by nuns removed in 1912. The next Banavie school is the present one opened in 1965. 2015): Along the Old Banavie road to west of the Masonic Lodge there
Did you know that Lochaber High School was built on ground called Using a lamppost‐mounted speed monitor, volunteers in Culbokie
Alyson’s reminiscences Kilmallie of was, up to the 1940s, a PO (who also sold milk) in a house called on the Black Isle note the registra ons of vehicles breaking the the Auc oneers Fields? This was the site of the first modern Mart Cuillins. Also in this area had been a change‐house and a limit. Le ers from the police are then sent to the motorists warning (believed pens only) opened by Angus Cameron, formerly of Annat blacksmith. Farm. them of their driving behaviour. Since the 12‐week trial started, 1% Hugh Muir instead of 10% of drivers have broken the speed limit. Neptune’s Inn is the first recorded inn at Banavie. Thoughts are that it is/was the building just to the west side of the top lock. Built by The residents‐run scheme is the first of its kind in Scotland, Lochiel the story goes that the occupier, in 1830, was a James Two years have passed since Hugh died and the family and I according to Police Scotland. The trial ends in June. Ferintosh Rhodes. He was a senior lockkeeper and ran the Inn. A few years are so pleased his last “snippets“ have con nued un l now. Community Council chairman Bruce Morrison said: "The volunteers later he lost his job because he was delaying and harassing passing We hope you’ve enjoyed them. are doing a great job, commi ng themselves to two hours a week boats because they were not using his Inn! The second innkeeper of observa ons over each of the past 8 weeks. As the weeks go by, was John Robertson. Even when walking with me or his friends we had to the friendlier the drivers become with waves, smiles and very with a new crossing place for pedestrians at the canal bridge inves gate anything that seemed of interest: old cro s ‐ how suppor ve comments. Less than 1% of vehicles are triggering the did the people live, feed, travel etc? From 1996 to 2010 he sign compared with the norm of well over 10%. Only in June had a small history group, held in Kilmallie Church, and though will we find out whether our slower driving behaviour has between it and talking to people, he gathered a great deal of become normal behaviour. For the peace of minds of all residents, informa on. The church itself was opened in 1783 and had let's hope so." Insp Nicola MacKenzie, of Police Scotland, added: sea ng for 666 – the balcony was removed around 1900. The "The Culbokie speedwatch ini a ve between Ferintosh Community area covered was from Kinlocharkaig to Locheilside.
coming next time: next time: coming Thank you to everyone who gave Hugh all the informa on and old photos of the area.
Elizabeth Muir and all the Muir Family slightly safer Thanks too to Chris ne Falconer who has told us:
“the last shop in Banavie was run by the Docherty’s… and he then converted the building into apartments.
“The post office was in a shed next door, in what was once my grandparents’ house.
Photo John King, 1970
Lochiel, grandson of Lochiel of the ’45, had his estate page 6 page 31 a little history of restored to him in 1784 but he had huge debts and had to our Highland councillors’ corner pay a fine of £3433 9s 1d to the government for his grandad’s misdemeanours. As he was a child of eight years This time we asked our three councillors to tell us about ‘A Week in the Life of a councillor for Kilmallie’. Banavie and other of age, the estate was administered by trustees, notably This can best be answered as a no onal (Small Isles to Tomdoun) and centralisa on, proposals impinge on our communi es, Ewan Cameron of Fassiefern. They began to raise rent and week in the life of Kilmallie. This would then even although we are a mul member ward, such as Kilmallie. Evening sees a joint forum crofting townships evict the peasantry in order to create large scale sheep include a planning mee ng about wind much as it would be enjoyable, it is not in Glenmoriston. (Oh! it is my 65th birthday farms. turbines on Drumfada, and the Blar Mor possible to be Kilmallie centric. The reality today but hopefully there will be me for Thanks to Ron for the following translation of the Tesco site. Schools would feature is, this week (beginning May 11th) will the 66th). Thursday is an early rise, for full Gaelic article that he wrote for us last time. Banavie, Corpach and Muirshearlich were not nearly as prominently with refurbishing of Lochaber commence on Monday with a Lochaber Highland Council in Inverness all day, while valuable as farms a er the construc on of the canal so High School and work with Caledonian wards business mee ng, followed by Friday morning will be email, local problems My paternal grandmother’s family came to Banavie from the Lochiel resolved to split these areas up into cro s for people Economics on primary schools through interviews for a head teacher at Ballachulish and le ers catch up. The a ernoon will see being displaced from the head of Loch Arkaig. My father community consulta on. Mee ngs for the primary school and back to Caol to hear me at Castle Stuart represen ng councillors head of Loch Arkaig at the start of the nineteenth century. believed that his folk had come from Glen Dessary, at the inter modal freight facility at Corpach, about the district hea ng scheme proposal (as a procurement course, in Inverness, has Harbour Orders for Loch Linnhe including for Caol, finishing with Caol community been cancelled) if the legs hold up. This is all The Bri sh government had taken over the Lochiel Estate head of the loch, about 1840. They got a cro in Banavie and Clydeboyd port, Sco sh Waterways and the council monthly mee ng. without an island visit this week. I am just a er the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The Commissioners of work on the reconstruc on of the canal, which was going ahead at that me, as the original version of the canal was proposed marina facility for Corpach basin explaining, not complaining, as I the Forfeited Estates created large‐scale farms out of Tuesday is an early start, to be in Inverness would follow. Possible graveyard extension volunteered, you kindly elected me, and I falling apart. He said that many of them went to Victoria in for Highland Licensing Board and Banavie, Corpach, Lochyside and Muirshearlich. I understand into the Corpach woodlands, road mee ngs love it. Australia when this work came to an end in 1848 as there Commi ee, returning to Caol firstly, for the that these places had been tacks, like lowland ferm touns, about speed limits and crossings through Gaelic school and then, the joint campus This doesn’t leave a lot of me for really let out for rent to rela ves of the chief: the tackmen. Large wasn’t enough land to go round and the potato famine was Corpach and Banavie with a mee ng with stakeholders mee ngs, before Caol local items. I hope to have this numbers of poor peasants would have cul vated strips of in full swing. Sco sh Waterways over opening and Regenera on. Wednesday morning is for addressed in the area review, closing mes for the road swing bridge on land, or feannagan, following the old runrig system under emails and le ers, before returning to with even community council I am not en rely certain of all the details of this account. the canal. All this would be fed back to the the supervision of the tacksman. Inverness for an Independent group chairs involved in planning! Kilmallie community council mee ng. According to The Rev Somerled MacMillan, Glen Dessary mee ng to scru nise the Highland Council Henry Bu er, the local head of the Forfeited Estates was cleared in 1804 and it is recorded in the Parish Records Unfortunately with the size of our ward 12 papers (checking how administra on Cllr Allan Henderson Commission, helped himself to the tenancy of Corpach while of Kilmallie that Lochiel said in 1810 that he intended to give a lawyer, Charles Stewart, rented Banavie. A er a while, the farms beside the canal over to cro ers. We also know A week in the life of a Kilmallie Councillor commi ees (eg Audit & Scru ny). These mee ngs are held in Lochaber. When Bu er ‐ a greedy, corrupt man ‐ was able to get Banavie and that John Cameron, Coirechoile, took over all the grazings of varies from week to week. I came into local mee ngs and full Highland Council required, training sessions have also to be the grazing land on Loch Arkaigside. Loch Arkaigside from Alexander MacDonald of Glen Coe and government to represent my community. mee ngs are all held in Headquarters. a ended. There are daily telephone calls, John Campbell of Glen Uir in 1834 and that the land was It is not a 9.00am to 5.00pm job. Poli cs is When required, site mee ngs are held in emails and general mail to deal with on top According to the report wri en for the Commission by already under sheep. One thing, however, is certain. Banavie the science of how who gets what, when advance of Planning commi ee mee ngs. of me spent with Officers discussing William Morrison in 1775 Bu er built himself a large and was full of people in the old days who bore the names and why. The fact is if you are true to Pre‐commi ee and Group mee ngs are enquiries on behalf of residents. Achieving impressive dwelling in Corpach and enclosed the fields with Cameron, MacMillan and Macphee that had been yourself in poli cs, you are going to make also held in Inverness. Some weeks, a successful conclusion means as much to
stone dykes. In this way the agricultural revolu on reached commonplace in Loch Arkaigside before the clearances. to the third Lochy Bridge enemies along the way. However, I am Councillors may be required to travel to those residents who are looking for help as pleased to say that while there have Inverness three or four mes for mee ngs any of the major proposals that come up at Kilmallie. Ronald Cameron
certainly been differences of opinion in the (with an 8.30am or 9.00am start for pre‐ any of our mee ngs. When a Councillor is
past, indeed deep‐rooted conflict on mee ngs). Each week, hours are spent in a posi on to help a resident, it is a bit occasion, it would only be fair to confirm reading reports for those commi ees. like scoring a goal and it makes you feel that I have never known Lochaber Also, every month there are seven good. Over the years, I have received Councillors to be as united on the way Community Council mee ngs to a end numerous thank you le ers and cards from forward as we are now ‐ irrespec ve of our throughout the Ward and as some are held residents who have appreciated half a poli cal allegiance. on the same evening, it is necessary for my assistance in resolving their Local Councillors to divide their a endance. issues. Their acknowledgement Councillors are required to a end strategic Ward Forums and fortnightly Ward of my support is rewarding. commi ee mee ngs (eg Community century of Business mee ngs along with Area Services), regulatory commi ee mee ngs Commi ee mee ngs and Partnership Cllr Bill Clark (eg Planning applica ons) and other newsletters A typical day for a Lochaber Councillor: 08:45 Reading Accounts Commission report 12:32 Email to local resident regarding not 50 years (yet!) but 50 issues on Sco sh council’s debt levels (part of a phone call above about parking I visit Highland Council HQ in Inverness report to Resources Commi ee ‐ the 12:50 Email to landowner on road of Kilmallie Community News
approximately twice a week. Those trips are strategic commi ee I sit on that covers maintenance either for 1‐1 mee ngs with officials to everything from council tax collec on to 13:15 Reading Resources Commi ee papers 41 issues in our online archive happy 50th birthday address issues raised by cons tuents or they human resources to capital investment to ‐ each mee ng of that commi ee is 200 ‐ (please let us know are for the strategic commi ees ‐ those are welfare reform) 450 pages of reading to get through! It’s one if you have any of the missing ones?) the commi ees of councillors that scru nise 10:17 Phone call with landowner regarding of three commi ees I sit on and it meets road signs and speed limit signs still all a-kilter still all a-kilter limit signs and speed road signs and make decisions on council business. To land ownership boundary on behalf of every six weeks. The others meet quarterly. too many contributors to men on give you an insight into just one regular day, cons tuent 14:40 Visit to council tenant in Caol a er I picked at random a day that had no 10:33 Phone call with pa ent advocate complaint about house repairs. (or to count!) Inverness trips: this is what I had to get regarding local NHS facility 16:04 Email back to cons tuent about but a HUGE thank you to everyone through that day: 10:45 Reading through papers for Monday’s planning applica on submission who’s contributed in so many ways ward business mee ng 18:30 Set off to a end Community Council (I 06:30 Kids are up ‐ nappies to change! 10:51 Phone call with another landowner on could easily be at public over the years
07:15 Catching up on the news and email road maintenance mee ngs every night of the inbox over breakfast. I answered a couple of 10:54 Phone call with commercial forester week but limit myself to 2 nearly 16 years since the first one... queries on my Facebook page. regarding private road maintenance evenings out per week) ... don’t let the next be the last one 08:21 Email back to cons tuent regarding 12:17 Phone call with sheltered 21:00 home from Community (see page 2) private road access and maintenance ‐ this accommoda on provider regarding Council
ended up taking up most of my morning. neighbour's parking complaint Cllr Ben Thompson going to be a useful opportunity for groups the community groups and ra teams who page 30 like FOCAL and the community councils to must have put in a lot of prepara on ‐ page 7 keep in touch with Sco sh Canals’ plans, hopefully not all wasted if it can be carbon challenge and would have done much to improve rescheduled for later in the year. energy use; these have proved very popular in the past and help (Friends of Caledonian Canal Lochaber) community rela ons with head office. Are we the only ones who preferred the Lochaber Environmental Group new As far as we know, plans for pods and a lockkeepers in their boiler suits to the residents be er understand their energy consump on, work Great news about the Clyde Cruiser running ‘makeover’ at Banavie are not shelved, but smart new uniforms? project launched – get involved! towards reducing their carbon emissions and also save money. cruises from Banavie to Gairlochy, it seems like nothing is likely to happen this There was an amazing race held at April saw the start of Lochaber Environmental Group’s ‘Lochaber These visits can be combined with thermal imaging surveys, a process of iden fying key areas of cold infiltra on and provision of Bunarkaig and Laggan. A great experience year. We s ll think the pods are a mistake, Neptune’s Steps (our li le brother on the Carbon Reduc on project’ which runs through to the end of March cost effec ve prac cal advice to improve the heat reten on of your for visitors and local community alike ‐ we and a lost opportunity to provide Forth and Clyde canal at Maryhill in 2016. The project is funded by the Sco sh Government’s Climate home. hope it is a commercial success so please accommoda on directly on the water, like Glasgow) back in March. Compe tors Challenge Fund and will expand on our previous work aimed at So please do get involved, whether you are interested in the support it. a smaller simpler version of the pontoon swam 420 metres through the locks, with a reducing the carbon footprint of Lochaber residents and summer Travel Challenge or you are a household or business Pleased too that KCC has taken up the tents in the photo? climb over each of the eight lock gates. businesses. The main aim of LEG’s Carbon Reduc on Project is to improve wan ng to reduce your energy bills. Don’t hesitate to get in touch. complaints from a number of people about Each gate was a different test, with cargo
energy knowledge and efficiency across Lochaber through a range the condi on of the new towpath. Its nets, rope ladders or ropes to ascend. For Charlo e Ha o of prac cal ac vi es. rough surface was making it really difficult 100 elite athletes with experience in Project Manager, Lochaber Carbon Reduc on Project Our team of Energy Advisers will be running numerous events for lots of folk so thanks to Sco sh Canals adventure swimming or endurance, Lochaber Environmental Group throughout the course of the project, including school visits, for pursuing it with the contractors. military and mul events, it was a s ff test An Drochaid, Claggan Road, Fort William, renewable energy sessions and local informa on events. A Travel Hopefully before too long everyone will be of their speed and strength. Red Bull PH33 6PH Challenge is running during July to encourage Lochaber residents to able to enjoy a stroll along the canal again. sponsored it ‐ how about one at Banavie Tel: 01397 700090 Mob: 07467 159534 understand the carbon impact of their travel and consider more Website: www.lochaberenviro.org.uk Great work too by Sco sh Canals to next year? carbon efficient travel methods. Entries will be entered into a prize Email: [email protected] sort the emergency repairs at Cullochy No further news about the Scenic draw, with a variety of prizes (including a first prize of £100).
Weir. Events like this must cause major Viewpoint proposals ‐ but we are expec ng FOCAL is a subgroup of Contact [email protected] or telephone 01397 700090
headaches for them, not just challenging it to turn up again in another guise and the Kilmallie Community Company for entry forms. engineering but also the knock‐on effect of another loca on at a Neptune’s Staircase (en rely independent from From September onwards, once the outside temperatures fall, having to close the canal. We missed the near you. Kilmallie Community Council) we will be resuming our free home visits to measure domes c sight of the boats coming through every What a pity the Go Wild event had to For more info, or to be added to our day. be cancelled ‐ we felt sorry for Stephen mailing list, please contact Sorry though to hear via KCC that SC Wiseman of the Waterways Trust and John Jan MacLugash, 01397 772383, seem to have abandoned their plans for a and our local canal team who had put so email: [email protected] community stakeholders’ forum. It was much effort into organising it, and for all Banavie War Memorial Project Christine is leading KCC’s project to make improvements to The Banavie (some mes referred to as Kilmallie) War Memorial, We love to receive letters & feedback. Please let us know what you think about the access to the War Memorial, hopefully with the help of which dates from the 1920s, sits impressively on the lower the newsletter, and write to us with your news, views, questions and answers. reaches of Drumfada Hill above the Old Banavie Road. It is a
is same our wheelie bins! colours as a grant from the Centenary Memorials Restoration Fund. letters handsome and robust cairn of coursed granite blocks topped by a Chris Strong and Ken Johnston have very kindly agreed to 11th May 2015 help us. Many thanks to Chris for sending us this carved cel c cross. It commemorates the loss and sacrifice of 50 servicemen (43 from WW1 and 7 from WW2) from a huge rural description of the work that we hope to carry out. More KCC replies: area on the fringes of Fort William town. Dear Kilmallie Community Council details in a future newsletter about the outcome of the
In 2012, Scotland’s canals were transferred from application and when work might start. While the memorial itself and its immediate environs are It is said locally that Bri sh Waterways Board aim to charge for parking in the British Waterways Board to Scottish Canals, a a rac ve, the footpath access to it is excessively steep, awkward the car park adjacent to The Moorings Hotel. It is also being said locally public body wholly accountable to Scottish and hazardous ‐ par cularly for the elderly, disabled and others that BWB intend to erect a barrier at the entrance to the car park. Ministers. KCC wrote to them in 2014 to object with mobility impairments. It has very li le protec on provided by Locals have parked their cars in that car park day‐in and day‐out for forty to their proposals to charge for parking and erect a single railing on the steeper flight of steps, and its pathways are
years without any restric on on parking and with no restric on on a barrier to the car park. (See KCC newsletter of poured concrete and set at an incline. This can be dangerous in access. March 2014). frosty weather and when moss intrudes in the early Spring.
Our applica on will be for funding to upgrade the path, address Sco sh law now provides that a legal right of parking can be established KCC object to car park charges at Neptune’s the hazards inherent in its current condi on, provide essen al by use for a twenty year minimum period. The local community has Staircase for a number of reasons including: safety features and undertake some environmental enhancement been using the car park for forty years and that has never been charged a penalty on many existing users works. We recognise that it is financially and physically difficult to for nor challenged. a deterrent to visit the canal, achieve an all‐abili es access but we have devised a project that There is an established right of free parking in the car park. The car park, a deterrent to visit the play park will go someway to address these issues. the swing park and the canal bank towpath are, by their nature, public. cars clogging up nearby streets and roads on Our project hopes to include the following, being dependent upon The through road at Banavie is public. All parts of the car park have been both sides of the canal (neither do people want how much funding we are able to secure: used by locals for over forty years, to park and to take unrestricted to see double yellow lines all over the area) access, for vehicles and pedestrians, to different des na ons of a public having a ticket barrier will make the area look Clearing the excessive side‐cast tree cu ngs that line the nature (eg the canal bank towpath, the swing park). very urban and unwelcoming. path, improving the side drainage and turfing/reinsta ng the path edges There can be no restric on nor any charge for parking or use of the car park. There can be no restric ons on access through the car park. We understand no changes are planned for this Upgrading the immediate environs of the memorial with Please, as Community Council, take steps to ensure that the car park is year. granite chippings and upgraded railings
le ‘as is’. Providing safety rails or 2” tubular galvanised steel on both We hope Scottish Canals have had a change of There is no benefit to children, or public health, by charging parents to heart. But if not, we will continue to oppose the sides of the path and flights of steps along its en re length park their cars to take children to a swing park or to take children proposal, not just on Kilmallie’s behalf but the Providing rest areas (3 of) with benches or perch stools at walking on part of the Great Glen Way. wider population of Lochaber who use and enjoy regular intervals over the length of the steep access. only 5 months to go till Community Council elections Scottish Rural Parliament logo logo Rural Parliament Scottish the canal. KCC supports proper public funding for Installing a low stone cairn with an interpre ve panel, to Name withheld the Caledonian Canal, raised through taxation. include a photograph and the names commemorated on the main memorial, at the foot of the steps to enable disabled persons and others to a end the Remembrance Service and to remember loved ones – to ensure they are not “excluded” I really appreciate the newsle er as it enlightens us members of because of the physical barriers. the community that are interested in what’s happening around us. feedback Keep up the good work. (KM) Chris Strong u lising the narrow strip alongside the railway track as a boat and trailer park has page 8 page 29 Thomas Telford been superseded, the inten on now is to Lochaber Beekeepers Association reserve this for access and maintenance only. What will our honeybees at When bees swarm, the old queen is chased from the hive along Corpach Marina with a large propor on of the worker bees. The cloud of bees Project Organisa on the Training Apiary be doing se les ini ally close to its original home, so that the bees have a management, however this applica on was chance to make sure that they s ll have a queen with them and At KCC’s meeting in April, the Caol A company limited by guarantee is being unsuccessful due to compe on for funds at in the Summer? that she has not been lost. If all is well, they will fly, o en several Regeneration Company gave us a formed, known as Thomas Telford Corpach
that me. Since then, Highlands and Islands Marina Ltd. However, during this early miles, in search of a site for a new home such as in a hollow tree or presentation about progress with Enterprise (HIE) have provided financial Summer is the me when the bee colony will o en try to split into phase, and un l the final decision is taken to dry hole in an earth bank, or even the chimney of a disused their proposals for a new marina in support towards a preliminary package of two. The only way that this can be done is by raising new queens. invest in construc on, a small working building. Loch Eil at the foot of the canal. works, and this has allowed momentum to How are new queens raised? Queen bees are raised in special cells group has been formed under the aegis of In the picture below, the swarm has se led in typical fashion in be maintained. It is intended to apply for (see picture below). For full details, visit their website CRC. The group was formed and ini ally an apple tree about two metres off the ground, and about 25 LEADER funding once again under the new www.corpachmarina.co.uk, which chaired by Dr Su Sen, un l his re rement metres from the hive from which it emerged. It contains a queen programme currently being established. from public life earlier this year. His and about four pounds ‐ several thousand ‐ worker bees. The will be updated with significant worker bees are carrying a lot of honey with them, each one with a developments from time to time. It Project Concept contribu on and inspira on are recognised by all. Members of the group today are: full stomach. This food will keep them alive un l they establish a has an enquiries email link so that The 2011 report developed the present Douglas MacDiarmid (Chair) new home. your specific questions can receive concept of a marina of just over 80 berths, Donald Corbe (Chair of CRC) an individual response. capable of hos ng a range of boat and yacht Robert Mathers (member, CRC) sizes on pontoons arranged in the shelter of But KCC are also interested in Duncan McPhee floa ng breakwaters. Shore facili es hearing your views, so here we bring Chris Strong normally associated with a marina were also you an extract from the marina Roddy Campbell envisaged, including a service building to website info, and we welcome your Robby Robertson house recep on, toilets and showers, as emails, or notes via the suggestion Andrew McKenna well as a fuelling point and effluent boxes, or come along to a meeting management. A car and boat park is Partnership to talk about it in person. incorporated in the plan, as is a slipway for Effec ve partnership is seen as key to a the launching and recovery of day boats, successful outcome. As well as the wider trailer sailers and the like. A preliminary community, and in par cular as represented Introduc on es mate puts the cost of the development by Kilmallie and Caol Community Councils at around £3 million. The Caol Regenera on Company (CRC) was and the local members of the Highland formed in 2005 as a charitable company The report however makes it very clear that Council, The Crown Estate and Sco sh limited by guarantee, with the object of further detailed engineering studies are Canals are cri cal partners. We have contribu ng to the social and economic required to determine issues such as entered into a five year Local Management regenera on of Caol. As part of its remit, hydrographic and geological condi ons, Agreement (LMA) with The Crown Estate CRC proposes to establish a community‐ since only once these are known can the securing our rights to the seabed subject to These special cells, which hang ver cally with the opening at owned marina adjacent to the Southern the bo om, each contain one larva which is fed throughout its life final project design to be drawn up. The certain condi ons, and they have been at Lochaber Agricultural Show, Sat 22nd August?
outlet of the Caledonian Canal. This would exis ng design . . . must therefore be highly suppor ve in other ways. Sco sh on a special rich food, called royal jelly, which is secreted by the
offer much‐needed marine services such as viewed as conceptual at this stage, and Canals have the poten al to be our principal worker bees. On this rich diet the larvae grows rapidly and in a li le slipway, moorings and related services to subject to significant poten al changes in opera ng partners, and we are exploring over two weeks a er the egg is laid, the young queen emerges visi ng yachts and boats as well as local scale and/or layout. integrated ways of working. Both of these from the wax cell. boat owners. The poten al for berthing organisa ons are also landowners within How long does it take to raise a queen, compared to a worker An example of the evolu on of project cruise liner tenders is being explored, as the site required, as are Lochiel Estates who and a drone? design is that Sco sh Canals have in well as collabora on with the School of have similarly expressed support for our Queens take 16 days to emerge a er the egg is laid. Workers principle offered the use of their exis ng Adventure Management at West Highland aims. take 21 days, and drones 24. See the different shapes in the photo College UHI. The marina would contribute to buildings for recep on and facili es. These below. During the summer the beekeeper will also have a number of the tourism infrastructure required by the buildings will in effect be restored to be er To be successful, the project is dependent opportuni es to harvest the honey which we’ll talk about in the Outdoor Capital of the UK, resul ng in than exis ng condi on, and importantly on the support and coopera on of all these next issue of the Newsle er! increased marine visitors. It is intended that there will be no requirement for new partners, and especially that of the local Please do contact our Secretary on the number below should the Centre would operate as a social buildings on the seaward side of the railway communi es. you see a swarm so we can collect it and make sure it is safe! enterprise. track. Similarly the original concept of Next Events CRC works in partnership with a number of The Training Apiary inspec ons have begun at 2pm on the agencies such as Highland Council and inspec on dates as scheduled on the Training Apiary page of our Highland and Islands Enterprise, website – do contact our Secretary if you would like to a end. contribu ng to community planning and Beginners Course other areas of community development. Its We were very pleased to run the Beekeeping Beginners Course directors come from all areas of local life – funded by Highlife Highland at West Highland College UHI during business, Highland Council, private March which covered all aspects of beekeeping. Our thanks to individuals, agency advisers and local Kevin Lane for the herculean effort of preparing the course notes, chari es. CRC has consulted widely on its arranging the sessions and delivering the course together with the plans for a marine centre, including a well‐ support of Marion Affleck, John Jamieson and Sarah Kennedy. The In the top photograph, there are two queen cells on the comb. a ended public mee ng in August 2011 students were all very pleased with what they had learned and we One of them is an acorn cup shape and contains a larva. The other, when a professionally developed Business now have more enthusias c beginner beekeepers ready to take up which is sealed, could be removed by the beekeeper. By removing Plan and Technical Study was presented for the cra ! the old queen, and all except one queen cell, the beekeeper hopes scru ny. The project enjoys wide support to prevent the colony from swarming. Alterna vely, we could use and CRC is therefore moving forward from If you would like us to bring the bees along and give a talk to your this queen to make up a small colony called a nucleus and pass it on the feasibility stage to a pre‐construc on group or if you would like more informa on about what we do then to a new beekeeper as their first colony. decision point. please do call me on 07768 805040 or email When the new queens (several are usually raised at once) Dave Thompson, our MSP, standing down at next election election down at next standing our MSP, Thompson, Dave An applica on was made in late 2011 to [email protected].
emerge into the colony, the worker bees ini ate a special type of will there be beekeepers & honey
LEADER to secure funding for engineering behaviour called swarming. What happens in a swarm? studies and legal costs plus project Sarah Kennedy (Secretary)
Environment and Heritage businesses and we would hope to be able to between the communi es of Caol and replicate this in the Caol and Corpach areas. Corpach as the best loca on is on the page 28 We are mindful of the se ng of the marina, page 9 Provision of marina facili es is also border between the two. iconic both in terms of landscape and highlighted as a priority in the Lochaber heritage, and it is our objec ve to deliver a Conclusion Community Development Plan, par cularly project which will as far as possible be fit for recognising the significant impact they have There is an opportunity to add to the marine that se ng and wherever possible enhance on small, fragile communi es. infrastructure of Lochaber, offering valuable it – such as our proposal to collaborate with new facili es for locals and visitors alike, Sco sh Canals on the refurbishment of During 2009 and early 2010, Sco sh and complemen ng exis ng businesses. This their exis ng buildings, rather than Enterprise commissioned a report by the has the poten al to create employment, construc ng new. This will be Tourism Resources Company en tled and to link with Sco sh Canals and other complemented by our vision of how the “Sailing Tourism in Scotland”. The report marinas down the West Coast in mee ng marina should operate in prac ce – as a concluded there is a short fall in berth the exci ng challenge of Scotland’s new centre for the enjoyment of the water, with facili es going forward over the next 10 Marine Tourism Strategy. workshop ac vi es in the main being years. For the West coast in par cular that conducted elsewhere. short fall equates to 617 Annual berths and The aims of the project group are to achieve
343 Visitor berths. Another report detailed design and full consents by the end As regards the wildlife in the environs of the ‘Overview of Marine Leisure Tourism of this year; to secure construc on funds bay, we shall be guided by the formal views Sector in Lochaber’ (Sept. 2006) by Stewart and progress contract procurement during of Sco sh Natural Heritage as we progress Millar Associates, has clearly established the 2016; and to commission the marina during our planning applica on. It is our inten on local need. The recently launched Marine 2017. There will be many hurdles to to set the highest environmental standards Tourism Strategy for Scotland, “Awakening overcome if these ambi ous targets are to in the development and opera on of the the Giant“, is an excellent fit with the aims be achieved, but the group is commi ed to marina, to that end we shall shortly be of Corpach Marina. A link to this working towards these with the support of joining the Bri sh Marine Federa on important new strategy document can be local communi es. Scotland and pursuing their structured found here. approach to this subject via “The Green Blue”. The proposed facility will meet the needs of the marine leisure sector which are Benefits inadequately catered for at present in upper As a future player in the Outdoor Capital of Loch Linnhe. There are limited places to land the UK (OCUK), we intend to develop access or launch small cra which is a major to the local lochs, rivers and canals. For constraint on the development of marine visitors these offer recrea on, relaxa on, tourism in Loch Linnhe, and none of the
challenge and environmental educa on and, ‘walk ashore’ convenience within the safe Top: showing loca on at foot of canal Blackford, our new MP? to Ian in doing so, provide an a rac on to visitors haven offered by a marina. Finally, the Middle: layout of marina and parking to spend more me in the area. For locals, centre will involve collabora ve working Bo om: ar st’s impression the water offers the same appeal and can form an important part of an ac ve and healthy lifestyle. In addi on, we would expect this project to
offer opportuni es for employment, training and volunteering as it moves towards comple on. Un l recently, Caol was within the 15% most deprived areas in Scotland (per the Sco sh Index of Mul ple depriva on) and s ll suffers from rela vely high unemployment and limited
Guisach (as in Terrace) Guisach the is Gaelic for pinewood opportuni es for job crea on. The experience already discovered by both Mallaig and Lochaline marinas was that the direct spend from visi ng yachts was making a material posi ve impact on local
Anne Marie Donohue Who is eligible for the bowel screening programme? Men from High Life and women aged 50‐74 years are invited to take part every Highland has asked us two years by comple ng a home screening kit. street names... street to draw a en on to the availability of In Highland during the 2 year period 1st November 2011 ‐
screening for bowel 31st October 2013, 60.7% of eligible people took part – this what questions should we put cancer. means 39.3% did not... There are varia ons in uptake: for example, fewer men than women par cipate, and fewer Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in people from more deprived communi es and groups Scotland. If it’s detected early enough there’s a 9 out of 10 par cipate. chance of bea ng it: the sooner it’s found the easier it is to treat. The screening test is to find bowel cancer early – even For more informa on please check out the website: if you have no obvious symptoms and feel fine. h p://www.getcheckedearly.org/bowel‐cancer The Go Wild event will also serve as our If you would like to get in touch you can branches of the rhododendrons and copper We took a journalist out for an a ernoon’s page 10 first fund raising event as the face contact us via the KCC le er boxes, on beech to reach the box. As well as the usual press trip to promote the fes val, once page 27 friends of pain ng providers! We will also have a our facebook page: h ps:// fare of peanut bu er bu es she was also again amongst the pouring rain. We s ll wild taking nestlings back to her kits, and even managed to see a feeding squirrel, a great story corner so come and visit and www.facebook.com/pages/Friends‐Of‐ while we have been watching has appeared northern diver, large numbers of seals, red share your ideas for the Park’s future. Banavie‐Park or by email: to clear out two blackbird nests. deer, buzzard, greenshank and whinchat. Banavie We require volunteer face painters so [email protected] Unfortunately the kits were moved back out Not bad for a wet a ernoon, but not sure please get in touch if you are able to about of the box that night – I suspect that they how much some of the more esoteric help, it would be much appreciated. Vicky Dodman might already be too large for it. She is also species meant to our friendly journalist. Park The Friends of Banavie Park Team s ll defending her feed source against all Other events taking place during the Watch this space (and our facebook comers, and the fur literally flew when she fortnight included ‘Big Five’ safaris, looking We have had our first designs drawn for kilmallie page) for details of a children’s saw off her brother (in front of guests). for o ers, eagles, seal, squirrels and deer, a Banavie Park! We were hoping to entertainment a ernoon later in the Earlier this week she appeared on the sun number of kayaking safaris and boat trips. present them publicly at the Go Wild on Wild Lochaber lounge roof and a empted to drag a kit All of the ‘big five’ were spo ed during the summer in the park itself, more details the Canal Open Day so when this is to follow. In the mean me check out down onto the ground via the drainpipe, fes val, as well as sea eagles and a pod of
rescheduled we should have a few the new play park facili es in the Fes val 2015 much to its disgust and the cause of much bo lenose dolphins from the Knoydart squeaking. Angela managed to get a wee ferry! more designs completed to get your Planta on to get a flavour of what Well, that’s the Wild Lochaber Fes val over video of the two once they were down, views. for another year, although we will con nue The last event of the fes val was a joint community ac on can create! which can be viewed on the Glenloy Wildlife to plug the area and its li le‐known wildlife event between FCS and Bu erfly YouTube channel. gems. Conserva on at the Allt Mhuic reserve at Despite the generally foul weather we had a Loch Arkaig on Saturday. Typically, it had The Seashore Fes val at Glenuig was very If you’ve been on the canal recently, you will have noticed the building work reasonable turnout for the Lochaber Natural been so cold that no less than four moth more successful. A mural was produced by local going on at the Moorings Hotel. Catriona Jackson, their Assistant Manager, History Society fes val ou ng to Cuil Bay. traps did not yield a single moth, although primary schools, including Banavie, explains for us what it’s all about. The drawings show what it will look like Li le chance of bu erflies (we did see some day‐flying ones were caught. We had illustra ng the theme of Summit to the Sea, when it’s finished, taken from Highland Council’s e-planning website. orange p and speckled wood), but it an elephant hawk moth the night before at which included elements of collage, pain ng managed to stay fine and even partly sunny Glenloy, so should have kept this to bring and ceramics, with some very impressive Moorings at mes for most of the day. Bu erwort along. Remarkably the sun shone a li le and artwork on show. This will be on display at The Moorings Hotel are delighted to already in flower there. This was jointly led the first chequered skipper of the season the West Highland Museum over the announce the opening of Banavie’s first Café by Jim Blair, doubling up to also act for the from the site was caught and duly displayed summer. Angela is busy organising a further Bistro set to open its doors to the public Lochaber Geopark. We inves gated the to all and sundry. The RSPB stall notched up event in Fort William for later on in the from the end of July 2015. fascina ng and convoluted geology of the an early view of sea eagle at the nest site summer. peninsula including outcrops of ger rock (from a great distance), and the hairy coos and many different volcanic intrusions. Each were, well hairy coos. S ll this was another The new café bistro, s ll to be named, will The rock‐pooling and beachcombing in this then we’re in for a very wet year twice daily now due to popular demand now due to popular twice daily provide a further 90 seats to the hotel’s area is first rate, as evidenced by our haul of spur of the point has a different basal rock well‐a ended event, given the remoteness dining capacity and feature floor to ceiling fish from the lower shore at Glenuig. We and even the experts do not seem to have of the site, and everyone seemed happy windows offering panoramic views of the have never seen such big blennies, or quite worked out how they got there. The with the day. All we have to do now is Caledonian Canal and across to Ben Nevis. bu erfish, and other species actually very wet hazel wood included a small patch organise next year’s fes val. Hope we have Set to open breakfast through to late included eels and a scorpion fish. These of sanicle, which is rare in these parts, with whet your appe tes for this – you will be evening the café bistro will be fully How it will look straight on from the towpath and from the other side of the canal were complemented by sea anemones, the spring plants at their best – bluebells very welcome to come along – the Fes val is accessible from the Caledonian Canal and starfish, crabs and a host of other creatures. fully out, interspersed with primroses and not just for visitors. In the mean me bring
exis ng main bar entrance, and provide No wonder the o ers are happy hereabouts. s tchwort. Birdlife included a good view of a on the sunshine and the bu erflies! locals and visitors with freshly prepared It was a great pity that the ‘Go Wild on the cuckoo, a couple of feeding blackcock, tree Jon Mercer meals, a selec on of hot and cold drinks as Canal’ day was called off because of the pipits and a summer plumage late great well as scrump ous home baking to sit in or weather, but an alterna ve event, including northern diver. The snow goose, which we Glenloy Wildlife take away. Its fantas c canalside loca on an evening cruise along the canal is being had failed to see last week, was showing means it is the perfect place to relax and organised for the end of the school holidays well amongst the Canadas. enjoy the tranquil surroundings. in August.
Glenloy Wildlife also hosted a couple of The new extension started in November events. A blackcock trip at 5am produced 2014 will not only provide Banavie’s first How it will look as you’re walking down the canal towpath some of the fiercest ac on I have seen this café bistro but it will also provide the hotel year, with a flurry of ac vity early on from with a further 5 execu ve bedrooms, three the eight males on the lek. Birds were of which will benefit from spacious chasing each other in flight across the balconies overlooking the Caledonian Canal, display grounds, as well as squaring up to Aonach Mor and Ben Nevis. Each room will each other in the usual fashion. Possibly a be tastefully decorated and appointed with
the Jacobite train running again, steam last final fling, as it is very late in the season furnishings and finishings to a very high for breeding (although given our cold and standard. miserable spring the greyhens could be
forgiven for showing a deal of reluctance so Once completed an open day will be far). The o ers were not playing ball, arranged and all local businesses and How it will look as you’re walking up the canal towpath however, but we did see seal, roe deer, residents invited along. For more goosander and a variety of small birds informa on and further updates on the including a nice pair of twite – right in the build please visit our facebook page: middle of Fort William. www.facebook.com/mooringshotel Pine martens stole the show, however, with Catriona Jackson a full house watching the an cs of our
01397 772797 resident mother whilst enjoying tea and if May really is our driest month manager@moorings‐fortwilliam.co.uk cakes during the ‘Tea me with the Martens’
nice to hear nice to www.moorings‐fortwilliam.co.uk event. She had moved her kits into one of our purposely‐built pine marten boxes the previous night, and so could be seen How it will look from the road hoovering up food and running through the on the Blar; and there's a lovely trail transi on from cold barren winter with a geraniums. The village is much enhanced by page 26 around Spean Bridge at the old railway magnificent display of daffodils just as you these displays throughout the year and the page 11 line. Banavie Floral enter the village. Supported by a dedicated residents are known to greatly appreciate So, if any or all of this interests you, team of local enthusiasts the plan ng is the efforts of the few, but commi ed Geocaching you can get started too by signing up to Improvements completed in late autumn and everyone volunteers who year in, year out put in such Real life treasure even join in while on holiday. They o en one of the websites such as looks forward to the cheerful results from sterling effort to beau fy the community. encompass favourite spots or areas of www.geocaching.com which has a step by Yellow is truly the colour of Spring, from February to April. The show lasts un l May Everyone would always be welcome to hun ng! significant interest (historical/ step guide, and/or by downloading the early daffodils, to tulips and then to li le when the barrels are replanted for summer come and help. archaeological/geological) and you could apps (for example c:geo) to your phone. downy chicks in the run up to Easter. with warm coloured begonias and Banavie for many years has marked this Joanne, Sheena and Ron Remember treasure hunts as a child? All find yourself somewhere you would never And next me your are out on a walk, that excitement as you worked out the have discovered if you hadn't been have a look at your local area to see what
clues to get your prize. Did you realise that following your coordinates. pops up. The ways they are hidden, and the there is a real life treasure hunt going on Carol Anne Campbell right now all over the world? containers they are hidden in are also very Corpach in inven ve. For instance, I have found: a Well, geocaching IS that real‐world, cache up a tree disguised as a branch; one outdoor treasure hunt ‐ where you use GPS‐enabled devices (smartphones etc) to in a sign disguised as a bolt; and my parents told me of finding one on a string Colour navigate to a specific set of GPS suspended in a burn. I have friends who On August 16th 2005, 10 half barrels were coordinates and then a empt to find the have found many, many more caches than placed and planted, between Drumfada and geocache (container) hidden at that I have, who have also hidden some, such Banavie School. It was thanks to Highland loca on. as the one in the Monster book of Council and in par cular Cllr Bill Clark, that Originally started in May 2000, in Monsters (the one you have to stroke) we achieved this: HC awarded us £300 and Oregon, it was set up to test GPS Bill paved the way for us to con nue. Mr Associa on for recent awards, to all the Part of the machinery from the old Pulp Mill at from the Harry Po er films. capabili es a er an upgrade to the Vic MacPherson made a concrete pedestal local folk who gave us regular dona ons Annat has been imagina vely recycled 1st August, start of harvest There are also different types of cache. system. What started off as a single stash, to stand outside the cemetery, a name was (you know who you are), to all the The first and most basic is called a and called 'The Great American GPS Stash chosen for the project and Corpach in volunteers who have helped us in any way, 'tradi onal' cache, and is a container to be Hunt' – grew exponen ally to become Colour was born! our own family members and to John and found at a set of co‐ordinates. There are what we know today as geocaching. Now we have 41 tubs and Jeane e Mooney who allowed us to use garden A geocache – which is generally over a dozen different types, including containers plus a boat (aptly named their garden when the summer bedding shortened to cache – is a container varying Mystery or Puzzle caches where you have Maggie) a shrub garden at Farrow Drive, arrived. in shape and size and containing at the to solve a puzzle before being given the daffodils planted at Annat View and also Now is the me for Margaret and me to competition correct co‐ordinates – and earthcaches – very least a piece of paper to write your outside the cemetery. In 2012 we became stand down from running the show and we Categories: handle and date on (don't forget your which can teach you about a unique ‘sta on adopters’ and, while wri ng this in have handed over to Nicola Muir and Louise Large All Year Round pencil!) ‐ but usually a logbook, pencil, and feature of the area you are in: the first week of May, Corpach Sta on is a Pescod who have been volunteers for a few varying bits and pieces le and swapped www.earthcache.org. riot of colour and is easily the most years. We shall s ll be volunteers helping Small All Year Round In Lochaber there are more being with plan ng, watering etc. by other seekers. The general rule is if you a rac ve sta on between here and Summer Bedding placed all the me: when I first started Mallaig. I can vouch for this having travelled take something, leave something. They To thank you all for your help and support there were only a few. Some I have done by train from Mallaig this week. Fruit and Vegetable can also contain 'trackables' (travel bugs/ over 10 years we invite you to a geocoins) – which you can take from that and/or know of are along the Caledonian As the years went on we placed three Low Maintenance cache, to another, in the hope they travel Canal at Torcastle tunnels, Neptunes seats in the village, gave picnic tables and COMMUNITY AFTERNOON staircase and Corpach basin; Annat; benches to Kilmallie Hall Toddlers' Group Container/ Hanging Baskets nt of Lammas or Loaf Mass) or Loaf Mass) nt of Lammas far and wide. TEA PARTY Inverlochy Castle; the old Fort; the curling and gave dona ons to several local causes. Water Feature The loca ons can vary greatly, and are in Kilmallie Community Centre ponds in Glen Nevis; the new roundabout We also inaugurated the annual Flower and situated all over the world, so you can on June 20th, 2:00 ‐ 4:00pm Business Produce Show (August 29th this year). Highland Council con nued to support Please do come along to see us... Best Overall we will be delighted to see you.
us, as did Corpach Boatbuilders and BSW THE GREAT GLEN We will be around looking at the Sawmills. Thanks also to the Co‐op With best wishes to Nicola and Louise By Neptune’s staircase you should go (especially Ka e in the Post Office), Harbro and to you all gardens in July and early August. Dancing Divas and Treasures of the Earth for having our
To see the Highland countryside, Scottish Parliament votes on Community Empowerment Bill My most frequently asked ques on is “What is Zumba?” quickly followed collec ng cans, to Lochaber Housing from the two Margarets Margaret Simpson by “Oh, I have two le feet!” Instead of bus or train or car This Great Glen route can take you far ‐ Zumba is a La n‐inspired cardio dance workout that uses music and Sailing, sailing all the way Waterway Area Manager. Sco sh Canals inspec ng the towpath surfacing work and choreographed steps to give you a selec on of dance rou nes. It From Banavie to Inverness, assured us that they too are concerned that highligh ng the issues of concern. Andrew incorporates elements of Salsa, Merengue, Jazz, Cumbia, Reggaeton and Free to watch the world go by, towpath the standard of work that the contractors also passed on to MacKenzies the wri en any others you care to imagine! Gliding along in peacefulness. have produced is unacceptable, and they comments they had received from KCC and recognise that the current condi on of the others. The contractor took the concerns It's not just about the workout, it's also a place to make new friends, get The seven locks will raise you soon towpaths in the canal’s middle and west very seriously and they have agreed to Where snowy mountains reach so high troubles that bit fi er, feel good about yourself and generally have fun. You may districts is causing real accessibility prepare a programme of remedial ac on to for Lughnasadh (Gaelic equivale for Lughnasadh Their summits soar above the clouds, KCC are grateful to a number of residents difficul es for many users, including bring the towpath surface to the standard have two le feet but you can s ll use them! Op ons are given who alerted us to the poor condi on of the throughout the rou ne, so everyone can go at their own pace whether So far they seem to reach the sky, walkers, cyclists, disability scooter drivers, which had originally been specified. The canal towpath north of Banavie. In spite of people with pushchairs and even dogs. contractors have also been reminded of the they're 16 or 60! Canal will widen into lochs, being newly re‐laid, the surface was much urgency, as we are now entering the busiest Loch Lochy, Oich and Loch Ness, worse than before: loose, rough, Sco sh Canals’ engineers have been me of year for towpath usage. KCC are 17th June -
The instructor, Fiona Currie presents Zumba every Thursday in Kilmallie Through wooded slopes and ferns you sail, uncomfortable for many users, and understandably preoccupied with the wai ng to hear details of the metable for Hall between 10.45 and 11.30am and also between 5.45 and 6.30pm. A water world of loveliness. poten ally even dangerous for some. cri cal urgent repairs needed a er the the work, and we hope that by the me it’s
So choose the way the fishes go embankment was breached further north at finished it will provide a surface that is So come along and enjoy We contacted Sco sh Canals about it and And see the o ers at their play, Cullochy a er severe weather back in comfortable for all users. the party. received a very helpful response. The March. But Andrew Ross was able to meet The way of swans and mountain deer, ma er had been discussed with Andrew MacKenzie Construc on on site at the Many thanks to Ailsa Andrews of Sco sh Of sun and sand and wind and spray. Ross, their project engineer for the towpath beginning of May, and they travelled the Canals for her help with this so far. Kshama Wilmington
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On Wednesday 6th May 2015 Lochaber Rugby Club hosted their Annual Inter School Tag Rugby Tournament, which is run in partnership with Highlife Highland’s Ac ve School Co‐Ordinators.
The morning started off with the Primary School Compe on seeing over 200 boys and girls take part. The standard of rugby played was really excellent, considering it was a first me for many of the pupils. The winners of the P4‐5 Trophy was Upper Achintore Primary School and the P6‐7 Tournament was won by Mallaig Primary School.
In the a ernoon it was the turn of the Secondary School pupils, seeing all four schools in the Lochaber area entering two teams. This made for a really exci ng tournament with all schools showing great rugby skills. Our coaches also no ced a number of good players that they would love to see at our Banavie training sessions. The winner of the S1‐2 Tournament was Mallaig High School.
The event was sponsored again this year by Corpach‐based business Sportsafe UK Ltd. Their Manager Charlie Donaldson was present to hand out the trophies and each winning team was also presented with an extra prize, which was a set of Tag Belts and two rugby balls. We hope they will get put to good use in their schools.
We would like to thank all the schools for a ending the tournament, the pupils for being very well behaved, Highlife Highland for their fantas c organisa onal skills and last by not least Sportsafe UK for their con nued support to our club.
Our Youth Sec on Annual Awards Ceremony will be taking place at Banavie on Saturday 13th June which will be the last day of rugby for our players for this season. We will start back again a er the School Summer Holidays. Keep an eye on our Facebook page or website for our start back date. for the Ben Race, Saturday 5th September? Pauline Donaldson www.lochaberrfc.co.uk Kilmallie Shinty Club Kilmallie teams have had a good start to the season. Here are the 6th June Kilmallie Vs Skye fixtures (subject to change): there are some Saturdays with no Lochaber Vs Kilmallie @ 12 noon fixture as it may be a cup game. 13th June To be announced 20th June To be announced We have constructed a wooden fence around the playing area of 27th June Kilmallie Vs Caberfeidh the shinty pitch and are selling adver sing boards – if you would 4th July Kilmallie Vs Caberfeidh @ 3pm like to adver se with us please contact Linda on 01397 700800. Aberdeen University Vs Kilmallie 11th July To be announced We are constantly fundraising, and lo o ckets can be bought in 18th July Kilmallie Vs Glengarry Corpach Hotel and Tradewinds. We are going to have a bo le stall 25th July Boleskin Vs Kilmallie at the Sheep races in Fort William High Street on Saturday 27th 1st August Ballachulish Vs Kilmallie –
June so any bo les would be gratefully received – they can be A new cup has been presented to Kilmallie in are you in training yet handed in to Linda at Caol Community Centre or given to Nicola memory of Ian Aitchison who was team manager MacIsaac. We are having a family quiz night on Friday 28th August and Secretary with Kilmallie. Ian played shinty for in Caol Community Centre so get teams of 4 together – this should both Ballachulish and Kilmallie and this cup will be th be good fun. Other dates for your diary: Saturday 26 September played for each year. this is probably the last issue before the referendum – Horse Race night in Tradewinds (horses can be bought from Ann 22nd August Inverness Vs Kilmallie MacDougall or Cath MacKay) and the annual Dinner Dance is on Kilmallie Vs Inverness Saturday 21st November in Caol Community Centre. 29th August Kilmallie Vs GMA
Linda Campbell Making a return visit to Scotland, the expressive cello and delicate 1st violin. page 24 Kammer‐philharmonie Europa (an Sublime! acclaimed European orchestra with musicians from eighteen na ons who Served at the interval was a home baked were currently touring the UK) cream tea by members of the commi ee entertained an almost full hall. which was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
The orchestra played a varied programme Next season’s concerts star ng in October of works by Vivaldi, Hummel, Bach, will include a wide mix of musical styles Back at the end of March, Lochaber Music Mozart, Borodin and Holst. Highlights of including a jazz evening, a string quartet, for All held their last of the season’s the concert included Hummel’s Concerto a trio from the USA with trumpet, cello concerts in Kilmallie Community Centre. for Trumpet and Orchestra in E flat major and marimba, a club evening with ‘home with soloist Kirill Gusarov. The second grown’ talent amongst others. Lochaber movement (andante) was especially Music for All really hopes to see you enchan ng. Violinist Andrej Sur’s there! exquisite interpreta on of Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A David M Hayes minor was also very moving. This was topped by the “Nocturno” from Borodin’s For more informa on about the Quartet No 2 in D major with its famous 2015/2016 concerts see our website: melody beau fully rendered by the lochabermusicforall.weebly.com The Music Shed Community Choir The Music Shed Community Choir is easy listening and much more! Hall off Fort William High Street on about to recommence rehearsals for Many of us don’t read music, so we Tuesdays at 7:30pm followed by a cup their Spring session. The Music Shed is a learn by ear, led by our musical of tea and chat. All musical abili es sing‐for‐pleasure adult choir and was directors Clare Brewer and Valerie welcome. formed in 2011. We are a group of Rose. We do sing some music in parts longest day, summerlongest day, solstice, 21st June! people in Fort William and Lochaber but also enjoy singing together in Contact Michael who come together to sing a wide unison. We perform two or three mes (Chairman) on 07831 range of musical styles – Sco sh songs, a year in relaxed se ngs for family and 685 966 for more songs from Musicals, pop, rounds, friends and at local charity events. Our informa on. seasonal songs (Christmas etc), jazz, rehearsals are at the St Andrews Church
Wilson Corpach visits Corpach! Thanks to Mar n Briscoe for no cing the aptly‐named vessel Corpach to the paper mill at Follafoss, which is the largest Wilson Corpach docked at Corpach sawmill on 28 May, and employer in the area. for sending us these pictures You can see more of Mar n’s pictures on h ps://www.flickr.com/photos/doffcocker/ Can’t help wondering why it’s viable to have a paper mill sets/72157651267036133. there but not here... Corpach’s pulp and paper mill started produc on 50 years ago, employing 1000 people at its peak, WILSON CORPACH is a general cargo ship, currently sailing but closed 10 years ago. under the flag of An gua & Barbuda. She was built in 1997. Last me we looked (on the fascina ng website There is a reunion buffet dance for pulp and paper mill www.vesselfinder.com, on 30 May) she was east of Shetland workers on Saturday Sept 26 in the Nevis Centre. Tickets £20 heading for Follafoss, deep inland on the banks of from the Nevis Centre. For details email Trondheims ord, half way up the coast of Norway. We corpachmillreunion@b nternet.com or visit Corpach Paper they made Fathers’they made same as the Day the guess the ship was delivering her cargo of wood chips from Mill on Facebook. clever dads... clever
exciting as a number of us had Our parents were picking us up sneak in another two or three clema s... these have been page 14 never been on a bus before. from here and before we left we all green planted deep and had manure in the bo om of the hole. I have, page 23 Everyone was extremely careful got presented with a lovely bag of course, lost the labels, so it will be a nice surprise when they flower. and fastened their seat belts sitting containing books, puzzles and pens. The autumn raspberries seem to be doing quite well apart nicely in the ‘big/tall seats’. We What lucky children we were! This fingers from a small forest of rogues popping up all over the place, as I gazed out the window and chatted really was a busy week with Easter By now all the vegetables, apart from understand the best way to deal with them is simply to pull about familiar landmarks as they crafts, baking, and Easter songs courge es, should be sown and them up. This is not easy with the bigger ones as they seem passed by. “Look it’s the green culminating in the ever popular growing. The potatoes have been nipped by very happy where they are and most reluctant to move. shop, the Co-op. My Mummy Easter Egg hunt up in the woods. frost but earthing them up will sort Hanging baskets need to be kept well watered and fed works there. That’s my big school What excitement as we threaded that. We have tried sowing some of the regularly. If a basket gets very dry, water tends to just run and I live in Caol” were some of our way up Pobs Drive. As we long carrots in a trug and hope they won’t through it. The best way to tell if it is wet enough is to feel the the resounding comments. neared the wooden gate we caught 'fork'. Same thing with parsnips. Neil made weight. I remember pu ng water retaining granules in one Our final term began with old and a glimmer of a ‘little rabbit’ dibble holes which he filled with compost, year, overdoing it, and ending up with a slimy mess that looked As we reached our stop the new faces spilling enthusiastically waiting at the gate. “Look the hopefully this will stop them looking like the horrible. children tentatively waited before We are s ll feeding the wild birds: as a result we have had to through the playgroup doors. Easter bunny’s been” exclaimed a Beast with 5 fingers! The carrots in the unclipping their seat belts and cover the cabbages to protect them from the family of collared Enrolment week had passed and number of children. We spilled ground will be protected with a fleece ll what excitement. As they stepped doves. numbers are indeed very healthy through the gate running excitedly they germinate, and then have Enviromesh off the bus one of our children’s put over them: this is the only way we have It’s a good idea to plant a pinch of le uce about every 10 for the 2015-2016 intake. around the woods searching high family were waving out the found to protect against carrot fly. days or so to keep them going all summer. We have found the and low for glittering chocolate Before the Easter break we had a window at us. Listening and The bedding plants will be going out in best way for basil is to have it on the kitchen windowsill, same eggs. with chillis. In fact all the herbs are best near the house so that very busy few weeks exploring our watching we carefully crossed the the next week or two a er frost is past. The they get used regularly. local area and further afield road and headed to Nevis Nippers We were all very good and placed sweet peas are growing in trugs, trained up If the rain stops we will get the grass cut, edges trimmed, initially with a visit to our friends for a little play. We really had our collections in a central spot at 6 foot canes: we put them near the house so we can get the scent and remind ourselves weeds a ended to and start ge ng plants in. Love it whatever. at Nevis Nippers. We travelled great fun playing and observing the base of the massive knobbly to keep picking them. I have managed to there by bus which was very the big machines and diggers on tree before playing in the fallen Morag Mackell the construction site, sharing snack leaves and clambering along our with our friends before heading favourite climbing tree. Some of us into the Caol Library. What a cosy were a little more tentative and as good as dockleaves for nettle stings welcoming library so many books chose to crawl like ‘caterpillars’ Kilmallie Community Centre and cushions to choose from. We while others walked and balanced What an excellent Donal Ring Junior and Terry MacCartney We are planning an Open Day later this year to show off the made ourselves comfortable and confidently like ‘gymnasts’. concert we had on Saturday 25th April 2015! It was great to see Centre and all that we can offer our community so more will be snuggled on the carpet and soft Children worked collaboratively the large hall full of folk tapping their feet and clapping along or announced nearer the me. Meanwhile ‐ do come along and see cushions before listening to a collecting and redesigning the singing songs they know the words to. We raised £566.81 which (or use!) the new look Kilmallie Community Centre comfort number of exciting stories. outdoor dens before adopting them will be put towards hopefully ge ng the car park re‐surfaced. A facili es! as hide outs when participating in huge thank you to Bobby and Jessie Henderson for all their hard Customers who have used the Centre over the past few weeks hide and seek. Shrills of laughter work with taking all the bookings for ckets and arranging are: Cra Group run by Sue Chadney, Commando Speed March echoed all around as they took it in everything for the night. (you may see the lovely plaque that they gave us – it is in pride of You may have no ced the lovely vinyl flooring that we had place in the glass cabinet as you come into the Centre), George turn to count while others ran and installed in the small hall in December – what a difference to keep Rodger Band, Lillian Macdonald ‐ Strings classes compe on, hid. It was time for us to return to clean! A great job done by Neil Henderson and his team! Lochaber Music Fes val ‐ piano compe on, 40th birthday party, playgroup for our ‘delicious’ Easter We are delighted to announce that the Zoll AED plus Community Wind Band, Chamber of Commerce ‐ Photo shoot, snack and dividing up of all our defibrillator is now in its special cabinet (delivered from France First aid ‐ Defibrillator training, Kilmallie Singers, Highland Council, goodies. Our ‘teachers’ were really and paid for from our own funds!) on the outside of the Kilmallie Sail Caledonia ‐ Norna Hall, Heather’s Walk. proud as we shared our eggs with Community Centre entrance and is available to be used should Our thanks go to our regular customers for suppor ng the each other very well and kept anyone suffer a heart a ack nearby. A training session was held Centre: The Mustardseed Fellowship, Mums & Toddlers, Zumba them in a bag until home time on Friday 01/05/15 so a number of the commi ee, the Centre Class, Lochaber Beekeepers Associa on, Sco sh Country Dancing, Manager and other interested par es are now trained in how to Kilmallie Community Council, Olde Tyme Dancing. which was no mean feat! use it. We would be very happy to arrange further training Please can you all remember to refer to the Centre as Kilmallie We continue to develop our sessions should anyone else be interested in a ending CPR and Community Centre instead of Kilmallie Hall when adver sing your understanding of the seasons and defibrillator training. The tutor asked us to make it clear that event? It changed names around 5 years ago and it is very anyone can use the defibrillator as it will tell you exactly what to confusing for folk when searching for the Centre on the internet! the environment and within the the common garden weed plantain is just do but it does help to have a bit of training to give you confidence Also, please note that the contact details for making bookings is confines of our own garden a should the situa on require it. The Bri sh Heart Founda on our Centre Manager (Jimmy Milne) on E‐mail: number of children, assisted by subsidised the cost of the defibrillator and around half of the rest [email protected], Mobile: (07787) 866813, Tel (01397) some Dads, have been repairing of the cost was provided by Lochaber Housing Associa on so our 712663. benches, re-siting equipment and thanks go again to them both for allowing us to purchase the We look forward to con nuing to serve the community over creating raised beds. contd defibrillator. We have no doubt that this addi onal facility for the the next few months! community will help save lives in our area.
why not join our growing band on Facebook! growing join our why not The refurbishment of our toilets has been completed so thank Sarah Kennedy you to everyone for your pa ence while the work was being carried out. The commi ee are very pleased with the Kilmallie Community Centre transforma on that has been carried out by Kenny Campbell and Sta on Road, Corpach, Fort William PH33 7JH Michael Kennedy and their teams. A big thank you to the Sco sh Charity SC000604 Highland Council for funding around half the cost of the work. CHAIRMAN post vacant at present The rest was paid from our own funds that has been generated by SECRETARY Mrs Norma MacLellan, events we’ve held and the Comfort Scheme payments that we 12 Hillview Drive, Corpach, Fort William 01397 772597 receive. A fantas c result and we will certainly be looking to TREASURER Mrs Sarah Kennedy 0776 880 5040 apply for the Awards for the best loos in 2015! did you know
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This is not easy with the bigger ones as they seem passed by. “Look it’s the green culminating in the ever popular growing. The potatoes have been nipped by very happy where they are and most reluctant to move. shop, the Co-op. My Mummy Easter Egg hunt up in the woods. frost but earthing them up will sort Hanging baskets need to be kept well watered and fed works there. That’s my big school What excitement as we threaded that. We have tried sowing some of the regularly. If a basket gets very dry, water tends to just run and I live in Caol” were some of our way up Pobs Drive. As we long carrots in a trug and hope they won’t through it. The best way to tell if it is wet enough is to feel the the resounding comments. neared the wooden gate we caught 'fork'. Same thing with parsnips. Neil made weight. I remember pu ng water retaining granules in one Our final term began with old and a glimmer of a ‘little rabbit’ dibble holes which he filled with compost, year, overdoing it, and ending up with a slimy mess that looked As we reached our stop the new faces spilling enthusiastically waiting at the gate. “Look the hopefully this will stop them looking like the horrible. children tentatively waited before We are s ll feeding the wild birds: as a result we have had to through the playgroup doors. Easter bunny’s been” exclaimed a Beast with 5 fingers! The carrots in the unclipping their seat belts and cover the cabbages to protect them from the family of collared Enrolment week had passed and number of children. We spilled ground will be protected with a fleece ll what excitement. As they stepped doves. numbers are indeed very healthy through the gate running excitedly they germinate, and then have Enviromesh off the bus one of our children’s put over them: this is the only way we have It’s a good idea to plant a pinch of le uce about every 10 for the 2015-2016 intake. around the woods searching high family were waving out the found to protect against carrot fly. days or so to keep them going all summer. We have found the and low for glittering chocolate Before the Easter break we had a window at us. Listening and The bedding plants will be going out in best way for basil is to have it on the kitchen windowsill, same eggs. with chillis. In fact all the herbs are best near the house so that very busy few weeks exploring our watching we carefully crossed the the next week or two a er frost is past. The they get used regularly. local area and further afield road and headed to Nevis Nippers We were all very good and placed sweet peas are growing in trugs, trained up If the rain stops we will get the grass cut, edges trimmed, initially with a visit to our friends for a little play. We really had our collections in a central spot at 6 foot canes: we put them near the house so we can get the scent and remind ourselves weeds a ended to and start ge ng plants in. Love it whatever. at Nevis Nippers. We travelled great fun playing and observing the base of the massive knobbly to keep picking them. I have managed to there by bus which was very the big machines and diggers on tree before playing in the fallen Morag Mackell the construction site, sharing snack leaves and clambering along our with our friends before heading favourite climbing tree. Some of us into the Caol Library. What a cosy were a little more tentative and as good as dockleaves for nettle stings welcoming library so many books chose to crawl like ‘caterpillars’ Kilmallie Community Centre and cushions to choose from. We while others walked and balanced What an excellent Donal Ring Junior and Terry MacCartney We are planning an Open Day later this year to show off the made ourselves comfortable and confidently like ‘gymnasts’. concert we had on Saturday 25th April 2015! It was great to see Centre and all that we can offer our community so more will be snuggled on the carpet and soft Children worked collaboratively the large hall full of folk tapping their feet and clapping along or announced nearer the me. Meanwhile ‐ do come along and see cushions before listening to a collecting and redesigning the singing songs they know the words to. We raised £566.81 which (or use!) the new look Kilmallie Community Centre comfort number of exciting stories. outdoor dens before adopting them will be put towards hopefully ge ng the car park re‐surfaced. A facili es! as hide outs when participating in huge thank you to Bobby and Jessie Henderson for all their hard Customers who have used the Centre over the past few weeks hide and seek. Shrills of laughter work with taking all the bookings for ckets and arranging are: Cra Group run by Sue Chadney, Commando Speed March echoed all around as they took it in everything for the night. (you may see the lovely plaque that they gave us – it is in pride of You may have no ced the lovely vinyl flooring that we had place in the glass cabinet as you come into the Centre), George turn to count while others ran and installed in the small hall in December – what a difference to keep Rodger Band, Lillian Macdonald ‐ Strings classes compe on, hid. It was time for us to return to clean! A great job done by Neil Henderson and his team! Lochaber Music Fes val ‐ piano compe on, 40th birthday party, playgroup for our ‘delicious’ Easter We are delighted to announce that the Zoll AED plus Community Wind Band, Chamber of Commerce ‐ Photo shoot, snack and dividing up of all our defibrillator is now in its special cabinet (delivered from France First aid ‐ Defibrillator training, Kilmallie Singers, Highland Council, goodies. Our ‘teachers’ were really and paid for from our own funds!) on the outside of the Kilmallie Sail Caledonia ‐ Norna Hall, Heather’s Walk. proud as we shared our eggs with Community Centre entrance and is available to be used should Our thanks go to our regular customers for suppor ng the each other very well and kept anyone suffer a heart a ack nearby. A training session was held Centre: The Mustardseed Fellowship, Mums & Toddlers, Zumba them in a bag until home time on Friday 01/05/15 so a number of the commi ee, the Centre Class, Lochaber Beekeepers Associa on, Sco sh Country Dancing, Manager and other interested par es are now trained in how to Kilmallie Community Council, Olde Tyme Dancing. which was no mean feat! use it. We would be very happy to arrange further training Please can you all remember to refer to the Centre as Kilmallie We continue to develop our sessions should anyone else be interested in a ending CPR and Community Centre instead of Kilmallie Hall when adver sing your understanding of the seasons and defibrillator training. The tutor asked us to make it clear that event? It changed names around 5 years ago and it is very anyone can use the defibrillator as it will tell you exactly what to confusing for folk when searching for the Centre on the internet! the environment and within the the common garden weed plantain is just do but it does help to have a bit of training to give you confidence Also, please note that the contact details for making bookings is confines of our own garden a should the situa on require it. The Bri sh Heart Founda on our Centre Manager (Jimmy Milne) on E‐mail: number of children, assisted by subsidised the cost of the defibrillator and around half of the rest [email protected], Mobile: (07787) 866813, Tel (01397) some Dads, have been repairing of the cost was provided by Lochaber Housing Associa on so our 712663. benches, re-siting equipment and thanks go again to them both for allowing us to purchase the We look forward to con nuing to serve the community over creating raised beds. contd defibrillator. We have no doubt that this addi onal facility for the the next few months! community will help save lives in our area.
why not join our growing band on Facebook! growing join our why not The refurbishment of our toilets has been completed so thank Sarah Kennedy you to everyone for your pa ence while the work was being carried out. The commi ee are very pleased with the Kilmallie Community Centre transforma on that has been carried out by Kenny Campbell and Sta on Road, Corpach, Fort William PH33 7JH Michael Kennedy and their teams. A big thank you to the Sco sh Charity SC000604 Highland Council for funding around half the cost of the work. CHAIRMAN post vacant at present The rest was paid from our own funds that has been generated by SECRETARY Mrs Norma MacLellan, events we’ve held and the Comfort Scheme payments that we 12 Hillview Drive, Corpach, Fort William 01397 772597 receive. A fantas c result and we will certainly be looking to TREASURER Mrs Sarah Kennedy 0776 880 5040 apply for the Awards for the best loos in 2015! did you know Making a return visit to Scotland, the expressive cello and delicate 1st violin. page 24 Kammer‐philharmonie Europa (an Sublime! acclaimed European orchestra with musicians from eighteen na ons who Served at the interval was a home baked were currently touring the UK) cream tea by members of the commi ee entertained an almost full hall. which was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
The orchestra played a varied programme Next season’s concerts star ng in October of works by Vivaldi, Hummel, Bach, will include a wide mix of musical styles Back at the end of March, Lochaber Music Mozart, Borodin and Holst. Highlights of including a jazz evening, a string quartet, for All held their last of the season’s the concert included Hummel’s Concerto a trio from the USA with trumpet, cello concerts in Kilmallie Community Centre. for Trumpet and Orchestra in E flat major and marimba, a club evening with ‘home with soloist Kirill Gusarov. The second grown’ talent amongst others. Lochaber movement (andante) was especially Music for All really hopes to see you enchan ng. Violinist Andrej Sur’s there! exquisite interpreta on of Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A David M Hayes minor was also very moving. This was topped by the “Nocturno” from Borodin’s For more informa on about the Quartet No 2 in D major with its famous 2015/2016 concerts see our website: melody beau fully rendered by the lochabermusicforall.weebly.com The Music Shed Community Choir The Music Shed Community Choir is easy listening and much more! Hall off Fort William High Street on about to recommence rehearsals for Many of us don’t read music, so we Tuesdays at 7:30pm followed by a cup their Spring session. The Music Shed is a learn by ear, led by our musical of tea and chat. All musical abili es sing‐for‐pleasure adult choir and was directors Clare Brewer and Valerie welcome. formed in 2011. We are a group of Rose. We do sing some music in parts longest day, summerlongest day, solstice, 21st June! people in Fort William and Lochaber but also enjoy singing together in Contact Michael who come together to sing a wide unison. We perform two or three mes (Chairman) on 07831 range of musical styles – Sco sh songs, a year in relaxed se ngs for family and 685 966 for more songs from Musicals, pop, rounds, friends and at local charity events. Our informa on. seasonal songs (Christmas etc), jazz, rehearsals are at the St Andrews Church
Wilson Corpach visits Corpach! Thanks to Mar n Briscoe for no cing the aptly‐named vessel Corpach to the paper mill at Follafoss, which is the largest Wilson Corpach docked at Corpach sawmill on 28 May, and employer in the area. for sending us these pictures You can see more of Mar n’s pictures on h ps://www.flickr.com/photos/doffcocker/ Can’t help wondering why it’s viable to have a paper mill sets/72157651267036133. there but not here... Corpach’s pulp and paper mill started produc on 50 years ago, employing 1000 people at its peak, WILSON CORPACH is a general cargo ship, currently sailing but closed 10 years ago. under the flag of An gua & Barbuda. She was built in 1997. Last me we looked (on the fascina ng website There is a reunion buffet dance for pulp and paper mill www.vesselfinder.com, on 30 May) she was east of Shetland workers on Saturday Sept 26 in the Nevis Centre. Tickets £20 heading for Follafoss, deep inland on the banks of from the Nevis Centre. For details email Trondheims ord, half way up the coast of Norway. We corpachmillreunion@b nternet.com or visit Corpach Paper they made Fathers’they made same as the Day the guess the ship was delivering her cargo of wood chips from Mill on Facebook. clever dads... clever page 23 page 25
On Wednesday 6th May 2015 Lochaber Rugby Club hosted their Annual Inter School Tag Rugby Tournament, which is run in partnership with Highlife Highland’s Ac ve School Co‐Ordinators.
The morning started off with the Primary School Compe on seeing over 200 boys and girls take part. The standard of rugby played was really excellent, considering it was a first me for many of the pupils. The winners of the P4‐5 Trophy was Upper Achintore Primary School and the P6‐7 Tournament was won by Mallaig Primary School.
In the a ernoon it was the turn of the Secondary School pupils, seeing all four schools in the Lochaber area entering two teams. This made for a really exci ng tournament with all schools showing great rugby skills. Our coaches also no ced a number of good players that they would love to see at our Banavie training sessions. The winner of the S1‐2 Tournament was Mallaig High School.
The event was sponsored again this year by Corpach‐based business Sportsafe UK Ltd. Their Manager Charlie Donaldson was present to hand out the trophies and each winning team was also presented with an extra prize, which was a set of Tag Belts and two rugby balls. We hope they will get put to good use in their schools.
We would like to thank all the schools for a ending the tournament, the pupils for being very well behaved, Highlife Highland for their fantas c organisa onal skills and last by not least Sportsafe UK for their con nued support to our club.
Our Youth Sec on Annual Awards Ceremony will be taking place at Banavie on Saturday 13th June which will be the last day of rugby for our players for this season. We will start back again a er the School Summer Holidays. Keep an eye on our Facebook page or website for our start back date. for the Ben Race, Saturday 5th September? Pauline Donaldson www.lochaberrfc.co.uk Kilmallie Shinty Club Kilmallie teams have had a good start to the season. Here are the 6th June Kilmallie Vs Skye fixtures (subject to change): there are some Saturdays with no Lochaber Vs Kilmallie @ 12 noon fixture as it may be a cup game. 13th June To be announced 20th June To be announced We have constructed a wooden fence around the playing area of 27th June Kilmallie Vs Caberfeidh the shinty pitch and are selling adver sing boards – if you would 4th July Kilmallie Vs Caberfeidh @ 3pm like to adver se with us please contact Linda on 01397 700800. Aberdeen University Vs Kilmallie 11th July To be announced We are constantly fundraising, and lo o ckets can be bought in 18th July Kilmallie Vs Glengarry Corpach Hotel and Tradewinds. We are going to have a bo le stall 25th July Boleskin Vs Kilmallie at the Sheep races in Fort William High Street on Saturday 27th 1st August Ballachulish Vs Kilmallie –
June so any bo les would be gratefully received – they can be A new cup has been presented to Kilmallie in are you in training yet handed in to Linda at Caol Community Centre or given to Nicola memory of Ian Aitchison who was team manager MacIsaac. We are having a family quiz night on Friday 28th August and Secretary with Kilmallie. Ian played shinty for in Caol Community Centre so get teams of 4 together – this should both Ballachulish and Kilmallie and this cup will be th be good fun. Other dates for your diary: Saturday 26 September played for each year. this is probably the last issue before the referendum – Horse Race night in Tradewinds (horses can be bought from Ann 22nd August Inverness Vs Kilmallie MacDougall or Cath MacKay) and the annual Dinner Dance is on Kilmallie Vs Inverness Saturday 21st November in Caol Community Centre. 29th August Kilmallie Vs GMA
Linda Campbell on the Blar; and there's a lovely trail transi on from cold barren winter with a geraniums. The village is much enhanced by page 26 around Spean Bridge at the old railway magnificent display of daffodils just as you these displays throughout the year and the page 11 line. Banavie Floral enter the village. Supported by a dedicated residents are known to greatly appreciate So, if any or all of this interests you, team of local enthusiasts the plan ng is the efforts of the few, but commi ed Geocaching you can get started too by signing up to Improvements completed in late autumn and everyone volunteers who year in, year out put in such Real life treasure even join in while on holiday. They o en one of the websites such as looks forward to the cheerful results from sterling effort to beau fy the community. encompass favourite spots or areas of www.geocaching.com which has a step by Yellow is truly the colour of Spring, from February to April. The show lasts un l May Everyone would always be welcome to hun ng! significant interest (historical/ step guide, and/or by downloading the early daffodils, to tulips and then to li le when the barrels are replanted for summer come and help. archaeological/geological) and you could apps (for example c:geo) to your phone. downy chicks in the run up to Easter. with warm coloured begonias and Banavie for many years has marked this Joanne, Sheena and Ron Remember treasure hunts as a child? All find yourself somewhere you would never And next me your are out on a walk, that excitement as you worked out the have discovered if you hadn't been have a look at your local area to see what
clues to get your prize. Did you realise that following your coordinates. pops up. The ways they are hidden, and the there is a real life treasure hunt going on Carol Anne Campbell right now all over the world? containers they are hidden in are also very Corpach in inven ve. For instance, I have found: a Well, geocaching IS that real‐world, cache up a tree disguised as a branch; one outdoor treasure hunt ‐ where you use GPS‐enabled devices (smartphones etc) to in a sign disguised as a bolt; and my parents told me of finding one on a string Colour navigate to a specific set of GPS suspended in a burn. I have friends who On August 16th 2005, 10 half barrels were coordinates and then a empt to find the have found many, many more caches than placed and planted, between Drumfada and geocache (container) hidden at that I have, who have also hidden some, such Banavie School. It was thanks to Highland loca on. as the one in the Monster book of Council and in par cular Cllr Bill Clark, that Originally started in May 2000, in Monsters (the one you have to stroke) we achieved this: HC awarded us £300 and Oregon, it was set up to test GPS Bill paved the way for us to con nue. Mr Associa on for recent awards, to all the Part of the machinery from the old Pulp Mill at from the Harry Po er films. capabili es a er an upgrade to the Vic MacPherson made a concrete pedestal local folk who gave us regular dona ons Annat has been imagina vely recycled 1st August, start of harvest There are also different types of cache. system. What started off as a single stash, to stand outside the cemetery, a name was (you know who you are), to all the The first and most basic is called a and called 'The Great American GPS Stash chosen for the project and Corpach in volunteers who have helped us in any way, 'tradi onal' cache, and is a container to be Hunt' – grew exponen ally to become Colour was born! our own family members and to John and found at a set of co‐ordinates. There are what we know today as geocaching. Now we have 41 tubs and Jeane e Mooney who allowed us to use garden A geocache – which is generally over a dozen different types, including containers plus a boat (aptly named their garden when the summer bedding shortened to cache – is a container varying Mystery or Puzzle caches where you have Maggie) a shrub garden at Farrow Drive, arrived. in shape and size and containing at the to solve a puzzle before being given the daffodils planted at Annat View and also Now is the me for Margaret and me to competition correct co‐ordinates – and earthcaches – very least a piece of paper to write your outside the cemetery. In 2012 we became stand down from running the show and we Categories: handle and date on (don't forget your which can teach you about a unique ‘sta on adopters’ and, while wri ng this in have handed over to Nicola Muir and Louise Large All Year Round pencil!) ‐ but usually a logbook, pencil, and feature of the area you are in: the first week of May, Corpach Sta on is a Pescod who have been volunteers for a few varying bits and pieces le and swapped www.earthcache.org. riot of colour and is easily the most years. We shall s ll be volunteers helping Small All Year Round In Lochaber there are more being with plan ng, watering etc. by other seekers. The general rule is if you a rac ve sta on between here and Summer Bedding placed all the me: when I first started Mallaig. I can vouch for this having travelled take something, leave something. They To thank you all for your help and support there were only a few. Some I have done by train from Mallaig this week. Fruit and Vegetable can also contain 'trackables' (travel bugs/ over 10 years we invite you to a geocoins) – which you can take from that and/or know of are along the Caledonian As the years went on we placed three Low Maintenance cache, to another, in the hope they travel Canal at Torcastle tunnels, Neptunes seats in the village, gave picnic tables and COMMUNITY AFTERNOON staircase and Corpach basin; Annat; benches to Kilmallie Hall Toddlers' Group Container/ Hanging Baskets nt of Lammas or Loaf Mass) or Loaf Mass) nt of Lammas far and wide. TEA PARTY Inverlochy Castle; the old Fort; the curling and gave dona ons to several local causes. Water Feature The loca ons can vary greatly, and are in Kilmallie Community Centre ponds in Glen Nevis; the new roundabout We also inaugurated the annual Flower and situated all over the world, so you can on June 20th, 2:00 ‐ 4:00pm Business Produce Show (August 29th this year). Highland Council con nued to support Please do come along to see us... Best Overall we will be delighted to see you.
us, as did Corpach Boatbuilders and BSW THE GREAT GLEN We will be around looking at the Sawmills. Thanks also to the Co‐op With best wishes to Nicola and Louise By Neptune’s staircase you should go (especially Ka e in the Post Office), Harbro and to you all gardens in July and early August. Dancing Divas and Treasures of the Earth for having our
To see the Highland countryside, Scottish Parliament votes on Community Empowerment Bill My most frequently asked ques on is “What is Zumba?” quickly followed collec ng cans, to Lochaber Housing from the two Margarets Margaret Simpson by “Oh, I have two le feet!” Instead of bus or train or car This Great Glen route can take you far ‐ Zumba is a La n‐inspired cardio dance workout that uses music and Sailing, sailing all the way Waterway Area Manager. Sco sh Canals inspec ng the towpath surfacing work and choreographed steps to give you a selec on of dance rou nes. It From Banavie to Inverness, assured us that they too are concerned that highligh ng the issues of concern. Andrew incorporates elements of Salsa, Merengue, Jazz, Cumbia, Reggaeton and Free to watch the world go by, towpath the standard of work that the contractors also passed on to MacKenzies the wri en any others you care to imagine! Gliding along in peacefulness. have produced is unacceptable, and they comments they had received from KCC and recognise that the current condi on of the others. The contractor took the concerns It's not just about the workout, it's also a place to make new friends, get The seven locks will raise you soon towpaths in the canal’s middle and west very seriously and they have agreed to Where snowy mountains reach so high troubles that bit fi er, feel good about yourself and generally have fun. You may districts is causing real accessibility prepare a programme of remedial ac on to for Lughnasadh (Gaelic equivale for Lughnasadh Their summits soar above the clouds, KCC are grateful to a number of residents difficul es for many users, including bring the towpath surface to the standard have two le feet but you can s ll use them! Op ons are given who alerted us to the poor condi on of the throughout the rou ne, so everyone can go at their own pace whether So far they seem to reach the sky, walkers, cyclists, disability scooter drivers, which had originally been specified. The canal towpath north of Banavie. In spite of people with pushchairs and even dogs. contractors have also been reminded of the they're 16 or 60! Canal will widen into lochs, being newly re‐laid, the surface was much urgency, as we are now entering the busiest Loch Lochy, Oich and Loch Ness, worse than before: loose, rough, Sco sh Canals’ engineers have been me of year for towpath usage. KCC are 17th June -
The instructor, Fiona Currie presents Zumba every Thursday in Kilmallie Through wooded slopes and ferns you sail, uncomfortable for many users, and understandably preoccupied with the wai ng to hear details of the metable for Hall between 10.45 and 11.30am and also between 5.45 and 6.30pm. A water world of loveliness. poten ally even dangerous for some. cri cal urgent repairs needed a er the the work, and we hope that by the me it’s
So choose the way the fishes go embankment was breached further north at finished it will provide a surface that is So come along and enjoy We contacted Sco sh Canals about it and And see the o ers at their play, Cullochy a er severe weather back in comfortable for all users. the party. received a very helpful response. The March. But Andrew Ross was able to meet The way of swans and mountain deer, ma er had been discussed with Andrew MacKenzie Construc on on site at the Many thanks to Ailsa Andrews of Sco sh Of sun and sand and wind and spray. Ross, their project engineer for the towpath beginning of May, and they travelled the Canals for her help with this so far. Kshama Wilmington
bake a loaf bake upgrades, and with Russell Thomson, their Ruth Miller whole route from Banavie to Fort Augustus, The Go Wild event will also serve as our If you would like to get in touch you can branches of the rhododendrons and copper We took a journalist out for an a ernoon’s page 10 first fund raising event as the face contact us via the KCC le er boxes, on beech to reach the box. As well as the usual press trip to promote the fes val, once page 27 friends of pain ng providers! We will also have a our facebook page: h ps:// fare of peanut bu er bu es she was also again amongst the pouring rain. We s ll wild taking nestlings back to her kits, and even managed to see a feeding squirrel, a great story corner so come and visit and www.facebook.com/pages/Friends‐Of‐ while we have been watching has appeared northern diver, large numbers of seals, red share your ideas for the Park’s future. Banavie‐Park or by email: to clear out two blackbird nests. deer, buzzard, greenshank and whinchat. Banavie We require volunteer face painters so [email protected] Unfortunately the kits were moved back out Not bad for a wet a ernoon, but not sure please get in touch if you are able to about of the box that night – I suspect that they how much some of the more esoteric help, it would be much appreciated. Vicky Dodman might already be too large for it. She is also species meant to our friendly journalist. Park The Friends of Banavie Park Team s ll defending her feed source against all Other events taking place during the Watch this space (and our facebook comers, and the fur literally flew when she fortnight included ‘Big Five’ safaris, looking We have had our first designs drawn for kilmallie page) for details of a children’s saw off her brother (in front of guests). for o ers, eagles, seal, squirrels and deer, a Banavie Park! We were hoping to entertainment a ernoon later in the Earlier this week she appeared on the sun number of kayaking safaris and boat trips. present them publicly at the Go Wild on Wild Lochaber lounge roof and a empted to drag a kit All of the ‘big five’ were spo ed during the summer in the park itself, more details the Canal Open Day so when this is to follow. In the mean me check out down onto the ground via the drainpipe, fes val, as well as sea eagles and a pod of
rescheduled we should have a few the new play park facili es in the Fes val 2015 much to its disgust and the cause of much bo lenose dolphins from the Knoydart squeaking. Angela managed to get a wee ferry! more designs completed to get your Planta on to get a flavour of what Well, that’s the Wild Lochaber Fes val over video of the two once they were down, views. for another year, although we will con nue The last event of the fes val was a joint community ac on can create! which can be viewed on the Glenloy Wildlife to plug the area and its li le‐known wildlife event between FCS and Bu erfly YouTube channel. gems. Conserva on at the Allt Mhuic reserve at Despite the generally foul weather we had a Loch Arkaig on Saturday. Typically, it had The Seashore Fes val at Glenuig was very If you’ve been on the canal recently, you will have noticed the building work reasonable turnout for the Lochaber Natural been so cold that no less than four moth more successful. A mural was produced by local going on at the Moorings Hotel. Catriona Jackson, their Assistant Manager, History Society fes val ou ng to Cuil Bay. traps did not yield a single moth, although primary schools, including Banavie, explains for us what it’s all about. The drawings show what it will look like Li le chance of bu erflies (we did see some day‐flying ones were caught. We had illustra ng the theme of Summit to the Sea, when it’s finished, taken from Highland Council’s e-planning website. orange p and speckled wood), but it an elephant hawk moth the night before at which included elements of collage, pain ng managed to stay fine and even partly sunny Glenloy, so should have kept this to bring and ceramics, with some very impressive Moorings at mes for most of the day. Bu erwort along. Remarkably the sun shone a li le and artwork on show. This will be on display at The Moorings Hotel are delighted to already in flower there. This was jointly led the first chequered skipper of the season the West Highland Museum over the announce the opening of Banavie’s first Café by Jim Blair, doubling up to also act for the from the site was caught and duly displayed summer. Angela is busy organising a further Bistro set to open its doors to the public Lochaber Geopark. We inves gated the to all and sundry. The RSPB stall notched up event in Fort William for later on in the from the end of July 2015. fascina ng and convoluted geology of the an early view of sea eagle at the nest site summer. peninsula including outcrops of ger rock (from a great distance), and the hairy coos and many different volcanic intrusions. Each were, well hairy coos. S ll this was another The new café bistro, s ll to be named, will The rock‐pooling and beachcombing in this then we’re in for a very wet year twice daily now due to popular demand now due to popular twice daily provide a further 90 seats to the hotel’s area is first rate, as evidenced by our haul of spur of the point has a different basal rock well‐a ended event, given the remoteness dining capacity and feature floor to ceiling fish from the lower shore at Glenuig. We and even the experts do not seem to have of the site, and everyone seemed happy windows offering panoramic views of the have never seen such big blennies, or quite worked out how they got there. The with the day. All we have to do now is Caledonian Canal and across to Ben Nevis. bu erfish, and other species actually very wet hazel wood included a small patch organise next year’s fes val. Hope we have Set to open breakfast through to late included eels and a scorpion fish. These of sanicle, which is rare in these parts, with whet your appe tes for this – you will be evening the café bistro will be fully How it will look straight on from the towpath and from the other side of the canal were complemented by sea anemones, the spring plants at their best – bluebells very welcome to come along – the Fes val is accessible from the Caledonian Canal and starfish, crabs and a host of other creatures. fully out, interspersed with primroses and not just for visitors. In the mean me bring
exis ng main bar entrance, and provide No wonder the o ers are happy hereabouts. s tchwort. Birdlife included a good view of a on the sunshine and the bu erflies! locals and visitors with freshly prepared It was a great pity that the ‘Go Wild on the cuckoo, a couple of feeding blackcock, tree Jon Mercer meals, a selec on of hot and cold drinks as Canal’ day was called off because of the pipits and a summer plumage late great well as scrump ous home baking to sit in or weather, but an alterna ve event, including northern diver. The snow goose, which we Glenloy Wildlife take away. Its fantas c canalside loca on an evening cruise along the canal is being had failed to see last week, was showing means it is the perfect place to relax and organised for the end of the school holidays well amongst the Canadas. enjoy the tranquil surroundings. in August.
Glenloy Wildlife also hosted a couple of The new extension started in November events. A blackcock trip at 5am produced 2014 will not only provide Banavie’s first How it will look as you’re walking down the canal towpath some of the fiercest ac on I have seen this café bistro but it will also provide the hotel year, with a flurry of ac vity early on from with a further 5 execu ve bedrooms, three the eight males on the lek. Birds were of which will benefit from spacious chasing each other in flight across the balconies overlooking the Caledonian Canal, display grounds, as well as squaring up to Aonach Mor and Ben Nevis. Each room will each other in the usual fashion. Possibly a be tastefully decorated and appointed with
the Jacobite train running again, steam last final fling, as it is very late in the season furnishings and finishings to a very high for breeding (although given our cold and standard. miserable spring the greyhens could be
forgiven for showing a deal of reluctance so Once completed an open day will be far). The o ers were not playing ball, arranged and all local businesses and How it will look as you’re walking up the canal towpath however, but we did see seal, roe deer, residents invited along. For more goosander and a variety of small birds informa on and further updates on the including a nice pair of twite – right in the build please visit our facebook page: middle of Fort William. www.facebook.com/mooringshotel Pine martens stole the show, however, with Catriona Jackson a full house watching the an cs of our
01397 772797 resident mother whilst enjoying tea and if May really is our driest month manager@moorings‐fortwilliam.co.uk cakes during the ‘Tea me with the Martens’
nice to hear nice to www.moorings‐fortwilliam.co.uk event. She had moved her kits into one of our purposely‐built pine marten boxes the previous night, and so could be seen How it will look from the road hoovering up food and running through the
Environment and Heritage businesses and we would hope to be able to between the communi es of Caol and replicate this in the Caol and Corpach areas. Corpach as the best loca on is on the page 28 We are mindful of the se ng of the marina, page 9 Provision of marina facili es is also border between the two. iconic both in terms of landscape and highlighted as a priority in the Lochaber heritage, and it is our objec ve to deliver a Conclusion Community Development Plan, par cularly project which will as far as possible be fit for recognising the significant impact they have There is an opportunity to add to the marine that se ng and wherever possible enhance on small, fragile communi es. infrastructure of Lochaber, offering valuable it – such as our proposal to collaborate with new facili es for locals and visitors alike, Sco sh Canals on the refurbishment of During 2009 and early 2010, Sco sh and complemen ng exis ng businesses. This their exis ng buildings, rather than Enterprise commissioned a report by the has the poten al to create employment, construc ng new. This will be Tourism Resources Company en tled and to link with Sco sh Canals and other complemented by our vision of how the “Sailing Tourism in Scotland”. The report marinas down the West Coast in mee ng marina should operate in prac ce – as a concluded there is a short fall in berth the exci ng challenge of Scotland’s new centre for the enjoyment of the water, with facili es going forward over the next 10 Marine Tourism Strategy. workshop ac vi es in the main being years. For the West coast in par cular that conducted elsewhere. short fall equates to 617 Annual berths and The aims of the project group are to achieve
343 Visitor berths. Another report detailed design and full consents by the end As regards the wildlife in the environs of the ‘Overview of Marine Leisure Tourism of this year; to secure construc on funds bay, we shall be guided by the formal views Sector in Lochaber’ (Sept. 2006) by Stewart and progress contract procurement during of Sco sh Natural Heritage as we progress Millar Associates, has clearly established the 2016; and to commission the marina during our planning applica on. It is our inten on local need. The recently launched Marine 2017. There will be many hurdles to to set the highest environmental standards Tourism Strategy for Scotland, “Awakening overcome if these ambi ous targets are to in the development and opera on of the the Giant“, is an excellent fit with the aims be achieved, but the group is commi ed to marina, to that end we shall shortly be of Corpach Marina. A link to this working towards these with the support of joining the Bri sh Marine Federa on important new strategy document can be local communi es. Scotland and pursuing their structured found here. approach to this subject via “The Green Blue”. The proposed facility will meet the needs of the marine leisure sector which are Benefits inadequately catered for at present in upper As a future player in the Outdoor Capital of Loch Linnhe. There are limited places to land the UK (OCUK), we intend to develop access or launch small cra which is a major to the local lochs, rivers and canals. For constraint on the development of marine visitors these offer recrea on, relaxa on, tourism in Loch Linnhe, and none of the
challenge and environmental educa on and, ‘walk ashore’ convenience within the safe Top: showing loca on at foot of canal Blackford, our new MP? to Ian in doing so, provide an a rac on to visitors haven offered by a marina. Finally, the Middle: layout of marina and parking to spend more me in the area. For locals, centre will involve collabora ve working Bo om: ar st’s impression the water offers the same appeal and can form an important part of an ac ve and healthy lifestyle. In addi on, we would expect this project to
offer opportuni es for employment, training and volunteering as it moves towards comple on. Un l recently, Caol was within the 15% most deprived areas in Scotland (per the Sco sh Index of Mul ple depriva on) and s ll suffers from rela vely high unemployment and limited
Guisach (as in Terrace) Guisach the is Gaelic for pinewood opportuni es for job crea on. The experience already discovered by both Mallaig and Lochaline marinas was that the direct spend from visi ng yachts was making a material posi ve impact on local
Anne Marie Donohue Who is eligible for the bowel screening programme? Men from High Life and women aged 50‐74 years are invited to take part every Highland has asked us two years by comple ng a home screening kit. street names... street to draw a en on to the availability of In Highland during the 2 year period 1st November 2011 ‐
screening for bowel 31st October 2013, 60.7% of eligible people took part – this what questions should we put cancer. means 39.3% did not... There are varia ons in uptake: for example, fewer men than women par cipate, and fewer Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in people from more deprived communi es and groups Scotland. If it’s detected early enough there’s a 9 out of 10 par cipate. chance of bea ng it: the sooner it’s found the easier it is to treat. The screening test is to find bowel cancer early – even For more informa on please check out the website: if you have no obvious symptoms and feel fine. h p://www.getcheckedearly.org/bowel‐cancer u lising the narrow strip alongside the railway track as a boat and trailer park has page 8 page 29 Thomas Telford been superseded, the inten on now is to Lochaber Beekeepers Association reserve this for access and maintenance only. What will our honeybees at When bees swarm, the old queen is chased from the hive along Corpach Marina with a large propor on of the worker bees. The cloud of bees Project Organisa on the Training Apiary be doing se les ini ally close to its original home, so that the bees have a management, however this applica on was chance to make sure that they s ll have a queen with them and At KCC’s meeting in April, the Caol A company limited by guarantee is being unsuccessful due to compe on for funds at in the Summer? that she has not been lost. If all is well, they will fly, o en several Regeneration Company gave us a formed, known as Thomas Telford Corpach
that me. Since then, Highlands and Islands Marina Ltd. However, during this early miles, in search of a site for a new home such as in a hollow tree or presentation about progress with Enterprise (HIE) have provided financial Summer is the me when the bee colony will o en try to split into phase, and un l the final decision is taken to dry hole in an earth bank, or even the chimney of a disused their proposals for a new marina in support towards a preliminary package of two. The only way that this can be done is by raising new queens. invest in construc on, a small working building. Loch Eil at the foot of the canal. works, and this has allowed momentum to How are new queens raised? Queen bees are raised in special cells group has been formed under the aegis of In the picture below, the swarm has se led in typical fashion in be maintained. It is intended to apply for (see picture below). For full details, visit their website CRC. The group was formed and ini ally an apple tree about two metres off the ground, and about 25 LEADER funding once again under the new www.corpachmarina.co.uk, which chaired by Dr Su Sen, un l his re rement metres from the hive from which it emerged. It contains a queen programme currently being established. from public life earlier this year. His and about four pounds ‐ several thousand ‐ worker bees. The will be updated with significant worker bees are carrying a lot of honey with them, each one with a developments from time to time. It Project Concept contribu on and inspira on are recognised by all. Members of the group today are: full stomach. This food will keep them alive un l they establish a has an enquiries email link so that The 2011 report developed the present Douglas MacDiarmid (Chair) new home. your specific questions can receive concept of a marina of just over 80 berths, Donald Corbe (Chair of CRC) an individual response. capable of hos ng a range of boat and yacht Robert Mathers (member, CRC) sizes on pontoons arranged in the shelter of But KCC are also interested in Duncan McPhee floa ng breakwaters. Shore facili es hearing your views, so here we bring Chris Strong normally associated with a marina were also you an extract from the marina Roddy Campbell envisaged, including a service building to website info, and we welcome your Robby Robertson house recep on, toilets and showers, as emails, or notes via the suggestion Andrew McKenna well as a fuelling point and effluent boxes, or come along to a meeting management. A car and boat park is Partnership to talk about it in person. incorporated in the plan, as is a slipway for Effec ve partnership is seen as key to a the launching and recovery of day boats, successful outcome. As well as the wider trailer sailers and the like. A preliminary community, and in par cular as represented Introduc on es mate puts the cost of the development by Kilmallie and Caol Community Councils at around £3 million. The Caol Regenera on Company (CRC) was and the local members of the Highland formed in 2005 as a charitable company The report however makes it very clear that Council, The Crown Estate and Sco sh limited by guarantee, with the object of further detailed engineering studies are Canals are cri cal partners. We have contribu ng to the social and economic required to determine issues such as entered into a five year Local Management regenera on of Caol. As part of its remit, hydrographic and geological condi ons, Agreement (LMA) with The Crown Estate CRC proposes to establish a community‐ since only once these are known can the securing our rights to the seabed subject to These special cells, which hang ver cally with the opening at owned marina adjacent to the Southern the bo om, each contain one larva which is fed throughout its life final project design to be drawn up. The certain condi ons, and they have been at Lochaber Agricultural Show, Sat 22nd August?
outlet of the Caledonian Canal. This would exis ng design . . . must therefore be highly suppor ve in other ways. Sco sh on a special rich food, called royal jelly, which is secreted by the
offer much‐needed marine services such as viewed as conceptual at this stage, and Canals have the poten al to be our principal worker bees. On this rich diet the larvae grows rapidly and in a li le slipway, moorings and related services to subject to significant poten al changes in opera ng partners, and we are exploring over two weeks a er the egg is laid, the young queen emerges visi ng yachts and boats as well as local scale and/or layout. integrated ways of working. Both of these from the wax cell. boat owners. The poten al for berthing organisa ons are also landowners within How long does it take to raise a queen, compared to a worker An example of the evolu on of project cruise liner tenders is being explored, as the site required, as are Lochiel Estates who and a drone? design is that Sco sh Canals have in well as collabora on with the School of have similarly expressed support for our Queens take 16 days to emerge a er the egg is laid. Workers principle offered the use of their exis ng Adventure Management at West Highland aims. take 21 days, and drones 24. See the different shapes in the photo College UHI. The marina would contribute to buildings for recep on and facili es. These below. During the summer the beekeeper will also have a number of the tourism infrastructure required by the buildings will in effect be restored to be er To be successful, the project is dependent opportuni es to harvest the honey which we’ll talk about in the Outdoor Capital of the UK, resul ng in than exis ng condi on, and importantly on the support and coopera on of all these next issue of the Newsle er! increased marine visitors. It is intended that there will be no requirement for new partners, and especially that of the local Please do contact our Secretary on the number below should the Centre would operate as a social buildings on the seaward side of the railway communi es. you see a swarm so we can collect it and make sure it is safe! enterprise. track. Similarly the original concept of Next Events CRC works in partnership with a number of The Training Apiary inspec ons have begun at 2pm on the agencies such as Highland Council and inspec on dates as scheduled on the Training Apiary page of our Highland and Islands Enterprise, website – do contact our Secretary if you would like to a end. contribu ng to community planning and Beginners Course other areas of community development. Its We were very pleased to run the Beekeeping Beginners Course directors come from all areas of local life – funded by Highlife Highland at West Highland College UHI during business, Highland Council, private March which covered all aspects of beekeeping. Our thanks to individuals, agency advisers and local Kevin Lane for the herculean effort of preparing the course notes, chari es. CRC has consulted widely on its arranging the sessions and delivering the course together with the plans for a marine centre, including a well‐ support of Marion Affleck, John Jamieson and Sarah Kennedy. The In the top photograph, there are two queen cells on the comb. a ended public mee ng in August 2011 students were all very pleased with what they had learned and we One of them is an acorn cup shape and contains a larva. The other, when a professionally developed Business now have more enthusias c beginner beekeepers ready to take up which is sealed, could be removed by the beekeeper. By removing Plan and Technical Study was presented for the cra ! the old queen, and all except one queen cell, the beekeeper hopes scru ny. The project enjoys wide support to prevent the colony from swarming. Alterna vely, we could use and CRC is therefore moving forward from If you would like us to bring the bees along and give a talk to your this queen to make up a small colony called a nucleus and pass it on the feasibility stage to a pre‐construc on group or if you would like more informa on about what we do then to a new beekeeper as their first colony. decision point. please do call me on 07768 805040 or email When the new queens (several are usually raised at once) Dave Thompson, our MSP, standing down at next election election down at next standing our MSP, Thompson, Dave An applica on was made in late 2011 to [email protected].
emerge into the colony, the worker bees ini ate a special type of will there be beekeepers & honey
LEADER to secure funding for engineering behaviour called swarming. What happens in a swarm? studies and legal costs plus project Sarah Kennedy (Secretary) going to be a useful opportunity for groups the community groups and ra teams who page 30 like FOCAL and the community councils to must have put in a lot of prepara on ‐ page 7 keep in touch with Sco sh Canals’ plans, hopefully not all wasted if it can be carbon challenge and would have done much to improve rescheduled for later in the year. energy use; these have proved very popular in the past and help (Friends of Caledonian Canal Lochaber) community rela ons with head office. Are we the only ones who preferred the Lochaber Environmental Group new As far as we know, plans for pods and a lockkeepers in their boiler suits to the residents be er understand their energy consump on, work Great news about the Clyde Cruiser running ‘makeover’ at Banavie are not shelved, but smart new uniforms? project launched – get involved! towards reducing their carbon emissions and also save money. cruises from Banavie to Gairlochy, it seems like nothing is likely to happen this There was an amazing race held at April saw the start of Lochaber Environmental Group’s ‘Lochaber These visits can be combined with thermal imaging surveys, a process of iden fying key areas of cold infiltra on and provision of Bunarkaig and Laggan. A great experience year. We s ll think the pods are a mistake, Neptune’s Steps (our li le brother on the Carbon Reduc on project’ which runs through to the end of March cost effec ve prac cal advice to improve the heat reten on of your for visitors and local community alike ‐ we and a lost opportunity to provide Forth and Clyde canal at Maryhill in 2016. The project is funded by the Sco sh Government’s Climate home. hope it is a commercial success so please accommoda on directly on the water, like Glasgow) back in March. Compe tors Challenge Fund and will expand on our previous work aimed at So please do get involved, whether you are interested in the support it. a smaller simpler version of the pontoon swam 420 metres through the locks, with a reducing the carbon footprint of Lochaber residents and summer Travel Challenge or you are a household or business Pleased too that KCC has taken up the tents in the photo? climb over each of the eight lock gates. businesses. The main aim of LEG’s Carbon Reduc on Project is to improve wan ng to reduce your energy bills. Don’t hesitate to get in touch. complaints from a number of people about Each gate was a different test, with cargo
energy knowledge and efficiency across Lochaber through a range the condi on of the new towpath. Its nets, rope ladders or ropes to ascend. For Charlo e Ha o of prac cal ac vi es. rough surface was making it really difficult 100 elite athletes with experience in Project Manager, Lochaber Carbon Reduc on Project Our team of Energy Advisers will be running numerous events for lots of folk so thanks to Sco sh Canals adventure swimming or endurance, Lochaber Environmental Group throughout the course of the project, including school visits, for pursuing it with the contractors. military and mul events, it was a s ff test An Drochaid, Claggan Road, Fort William, renewable energy sessions and local informa on events. A Travel Hopefully before too long everyone will be of their speed and strength. Red Bull PH33 6PH Challenge is running during July to encourage Lochaber residents to able to enjoy a stroll along the canal again. sponsored it ‐ how about one at Banavie Tel: 01397 700090 Mob: 07467 159534 understand the carbon impact of their travel and consider more Website: www.lochaberenviro.org.uk Great work too by Sco sh Canals to next year? carbon efficient travel methods. Entries will be entered into a prize Email: [email protected] sort the emergency repairs at Cullochy No further news about the Scenic draw, with a variety of prizes (including a first prize of £100).
Weir. Events like this must cause major Viewpoint proposals ‐ but we are expec ng FOCAL is a subgroup of Contact [email protected] or telephone 01397 700090
headaches for them, not just challenging it to turn up again in another guise and the Kilmallie Community Company for entry forms. engineering but also the knock‐on effect of another loca on at a Neptune’s Staircase (en rely independent from From September onwards, once the outside temperatures fall, having to close the canal. We missed the near you. Kilmallie Community Council) we will be resuming our free home visits to measure domes c sight of the boats coming through every What a pity the Go Wild event had to For more info, or to be added to our day. be cancelled ‐ we felt sorry for Stephen mailing list, please contact Sorry though to hear via KCC that SC Wiseman of the Waterways Trust and John Jan MacLugash, 01397 772383, seem to have abandoned their plans for a and our local canal team who had put so email: [email protected] community stakeholders’ forum. It was much effort into organising it, and for all Banavie War Memorial Project Christine is leading KCC’s project to make improvements to The Banavie (some mes referred to as Kilmallie) War Memorial, We love to receive letters & feedback. Please let us know what you think about the access to the War Memorial, hopefully with the help of which dates from the 1920s, sits impressively on the lower the newsletter, and write to us with your news, views, questions and answers. reaches of Drumfada Hill above the Old Banavie Road. It is a
is same our wheelie bins! colours as a grant from the Centenary Memorials Restoration Fund. letters handsome and robust cairn of coursed granite blocks topped by a Chris Strong and Ken Johnston have very kindly agreed to 11th May 2015 help us. Many thanks to Chris for sending us this carved cel c cross. It commemorates the loss and sacrifice of 50 servicemen (43 from WW1 and 7 from WW2) from a huge rural description of the work that we hope to carry out. More KCC replies: area on the fringes of Fort William town. Dear Kilmallie Community Council details in a future newsletter about the outcome of the
In 2012, Scotland’s canals were transferred from application and when work might start. While the memorial itself and its immediate environs are It is said locally that Bri sh Waterways Board aim to charge for parking in the British Waterways Board to Scottish Canals, a a rac ve, the footpath access to it is excessively steep, awkward the car park adjacent to The Moorings Hotel. It is also being said locally public body wholly accountable to Scottish and hazardous ‐ par cularly for the elderly, disabled and others that BWB intend to erect a barrier at the entrance to the car park. Ministers. KCC wrote to them in 2014 to object with mobility impairments. It has very li le protec on provided by Locals have parked their cars in that car park day‐in and day‐out for forty to their proposals to charge for parking and erect a single railing on the steeper flight of steps, and its pathways are
years without any restric on on parking and with no restric on on a barrier to the car park. (See KCC newsletter of poured concrete and set at an incline. This can be dangerous in access. March 2014). frosty weather and when moss intrudes in the early Spring.
Our applica on will be for funding to upgrade the path, address Sco sh law now provides that a legal right of parking can be established KCC object to car park charges at Neptune’s the hazards inherent in its current condi on, provide essen al by use for a twenty year minimum period. The local community has Staircase for a number of reasons including: safety features and undertake some environmental enhancement been using the car park for forty years and that has never been charged a penalty on many existing users works. We recognise that it is financially and physically difficult to for nor challenged. a deterrent to visit the canal, achieve an all‐abili es access but we have devised a project that There is an established right of free parking in the car park. The car park, a deterrent to visit the play park will go someway to address these issues. the swing park and the canal bank towpath are, by their nature, public. cars clogging up nearby streets and roads on Our project hopes to include the following, being dependent upon The through road at Banavie is public. All parts of the car park have been both sides of the canal (neither do people want how much funding we are able to secure: used by locals for over forty years, to park and to take unrestricted to see double yellow lines all over the area) access, for vehicles and pedestrians, to different des na ons of a public having a ticket barrier will make the area look Clearing the excessive side‐cast tree cu ngs that line the nature (eg the canal bank towpath, the swing park). very urban and unwelcoming. path, improving the side drainage and turfing/reinsta ng the path edges There can be no restric on nor any charge for parking or use of the car park. There can be no restric ons on access through the car park. We understand no changes are planned for this Upgrading the immediate environs of the memorial with Please, as Community Council, take steps to ensure that the car park is year. granite chippings and upgraded railings
le ‘as is’. Providing safety rails or 2” tubular galvanised steel on both We hope Scottish Canals have had a change of There is no benefit to children, or public health, by charging parents to heart. But if not, we will continue to oppose the sides of the path and flights of steps along its en re length park their cars to take children to a swing park or to take children proposal, not just on Kilmallie’s behalf but the Providing rest areas (3 of) with benches or perch stools at walking on part of the Great Glen Way. wider population of Lochaber who use and enjoy regular intervals over the length of the steep access. only 5 months to go till Community Council elections Scottish Rural Parliament logo logo Rural Parliament Scottish the canal. KCC supports proper public funding for Installing a low stone cairn with an interpre ve panel, to Name withheld the Caledonian Canal, raised through taxation. include a photograph and the names commemorated on the main memorial, at the foot of the steps to enable disabled persons and others to a end the Remembrance Service and to remember loved ones – to ensure they are not “excluded” I really appreciate the newsle er as it enlightens us members of because of the physical barriers. the community that are interested in what’s happening around us. feedback Keep up the good work. (KM) Chris Strong
Lochiel, grandson of Lochiel of the ’45, had his estate page 6 page 31 a little history of restored to him in 1784 but he had huge debts and had to our Highland councillors’ corner pay a fine of £3433 9s 1d to the government for his grandad’s misdemeanours. As he was a child of eight years This time we asked our three councillors to tell us about ‘A Week in the Life of a councillor for Kilmallie’. Banavie and other of age, the estate was administered by trustees, notably This can best be answered as a no onal (Small Isles to Tomdoun) and centralisa on, proposals impinge on our communi es, Ewan Cameron of Fassiefern. They began to raise rent and week in the life of Kilmallie. This would then even although we are a mul member ward, such as Kilmallie. Evening sees a joint forum crofting townships evict the peasantry in order to create large scale sheep include a planning mee ng about wind much as it would be enjoyable, it is not in Glenmoriston. (Oh! it is my 65th birthday farms. turbines on Drumfada, and the Blar Mor possible to be Kilmallie centric. The reality today but hopefully there will be me for Thanks to Ron for the following translation of the Tesco site. Schools would feature is, this week (beginning May 11th) will the 66th). Thursday is an early rise, for full Gaelic article that he wrote for us last time. Banavie, Corpach and Muirshearlich were not nearly as prominently with refurbishing of Lochaber commence on Monday with a Lochaber Highland Council in Inverness all day, while valuable as farms a er the construc on of the canal so High School and work with Caledonian wards business mee ng, followed by Friday morning will be email, local problems My paternal grandmother’s family came to Banavie from the Lochiel resolved to split these areas up into cro s for people Economics on primary schools through interviews for a head teacher at Ballachulish and le ers catch up. The a ernoon will see being displaced from the head of Loch Arkaig. My father community consulta on. Mee ngs for the primary school and back to Caol to hear me at Castle Stuart represen ng councillors head of Loch Arkaig at the start of the nineteenth century. believed that his folk had come from Glen Dessary, at the inter modal freight facility at Corpach, about the district hea ng scheme proposal (as a procurement course, in Inverness, has Harbour Orders for Loch Linnhe including for Caol, finishing with Caol community been cancelled) if the legs hold up. This is all The Bri sh government had taken over the Lochiel Estate head of the loch, about 1840. They got a cro in Banavie and Clydeboyd port, Sco sh Waterways and the council monthly mee ng. without an island visit this week. I am just a er the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The Commissioners of work on the reconstruc on of the canal, which was going ahead at that me, as the original version of the canal was proposed marina facility for Corpach basin explaining, not complaining, as I the Forfeited Estates created large‐scale farms out of Tuesday is an early start, to be in Inverness would follow. Possible graveyard extension volunteered, you kindly elected me, and I falling apart. He said that many of them went to Victoria in for Highland Licensing Board and Banavie, Corpach, Lochyside and Muirshearlich. I understand into the Corpach woodlands, road mee ngs love it. Australia when this work came to an end in 1848 as there Commi ee, returning to Caol firstly, for the that these places had been tacks, like lowland ferm touns, about speed limits and crossings through Gaelic school and then, the joint campus This doesn’t leave a lot of me for really let out for rent to rela ves of the chief: the tackmen. Large wasn’t enough land to go round and the potato famine was Corpach and Banavie with a mee ng with stakeholders mee ngs, before Caol local items. I hope to have this numbers of poor peasants would have cul vated strips of in full swing. Sco sh Waterways over opening and Regenera on. Wednesday morning is for addressed in the area review, closing mes for the road swing bridge on land, or feannagan, following the old runrig system under emails and le ers, before returning to with even community council I am not en rely certain of all the details of this account. the canal. All this would be fed back to the the supervision of the tacksman. Inverness for an Independent group chairs involved in planning! Kilmallie community council mee ng. According to The Rev Somerled MacMillan, Glen Dessary mee ng to scru nise the Highland Council Henry Bu er, the local head of the Forfeited Estates was cleared in 1804 and it is recorded in the Parish Records Unfortunately with the size of our ward 12 papers (checking how administra on Cllr Allan Henderson Commission, helped himself to the tenancy of Corpach while of Kilmallie that Lochiel said in 1810 that he intended to give a lawyer, Charles Stewart, rented Banavie. A er a while, the farms beside the canal over to cro ers. We also know A week in the life of a Kilmallie Councillor commi ees (eg Audit & Scru ny). These mee ngs are held in Lochaber. When Bu er ‐ a greedy, corrupt man ‐ was able to get Banavie and that John Cameron, Coirechoile, took over all the grazings of varies from week to week. I came into local mee ngs and full Highland Council required, training sessions have also to be the grazing land on Loch Arkaigside. Loch Arkaigside from Alexander MacDonald of Glen Coe and government to represent my community. mee ngs are all held in Headquarters. a ended. There are daily telephone calls, John Campbell of Glen Uir in 1834 and that the land was It is not a 9.00am to 5.00pm job. Poli cs is When required, site mee ngs are held in emails and general mail to deal with on top According to the report wri en for the Commission by already under sheep. One thing, however, is certain. Banavie the science of how who gets what, when advance of Planning commi ee mee ngs. of me spent with Officers discussing William Morrison in 1775 Bu er built himself a large and was full of people in the old days who bore the names and why. The fact is if you are true to Pre‐commi ee and Group mee ngs are enquiries on behalf of residents. Achieving impressive dwelling in Corpach and enclosed the fields with Cameron, MacMillan and Macphee that had been yourself in poli cs, you are going to make also held in Inverness. Some weeks, a successful conclusion means as much to
stone dykes. In this way the agricultural revolu on reached commonplace in Loch Arkaigside before the clearances. to the third Lochy Bridge enemies along the way. However, I am Councillors may be required to travel to those residents who are looking for help as pleased to say that while there have Inverness three or four mes for mee ngs any of the major proposals that come up at Kilmallie. Ronald Cameron
certainly been differences of opinion in the (with an 8.30am or 9.00am start for pre‐ any of our mee ngs. When a Councillor is
past, indeed deep‐rooted conflict on mee ngs). Each week, hours are spent in a posi on to help a resident, it is a bit occasion, it would only be fair to confirm reading reports for those commi ees. like scoring a goal and it makes you feel that I have never known Lochaber Also, every month there are seven good. Over the years, I have received Councillors to be as united on the way Community Council mee ngs to a end numerous thank you le ers and cards from forward as we are now ‐ irrespec ve of our throughout the Ward and as some are held residents who have appreciated half a poli cal allegiance. on the same evening, it is necessary for my assistance in resolving their Local Councillors to divide their a endance. issues. Their acknowledgement Councillors are required to a end strategic Ward Forums and fortnightly Ward of my support is rewarding. commi ee mee ngs (eg Community century of Business mee ngs along with Area Services), regulatory commi ee mee ngs Commi ee mee ngs and Partnership Cllr Bill Clark (eg Planning applica ons) and other newsletters A typical day for a Lochaber Councillor: 08:45 Reading Accounts Commission report 12:32 Email to local resident regarding not 50 years (yet!) but 50 issues on Sco sh council’s debt levels (part of a phone call above about parking I visit Highland Council HQ in Inverness report to Resources Commi ee ‐ the 12:50 Email to landowner on road of Kilmallie Community News
approximately twice a week. Those trips are strategic commi ee I sit on that covers maintenance either for 1‐1 mee ngs with officials to everything from council tax collec on to 13:15 Reading Resources Commi ee papers 41 issues in our online archive happy 50th birthday address issues raised by cons tuents or they human resources to capital investment to ‐ each mee ng of that commi ee is 200 ‐ (please let us know are for the strategic commi ees ‐ those are welfare reform) 450 pages of reading to get through! It’s one if you have any of the missing ones?) the commi ees of councillors that scru nise 10:17 Phone call with landowner regarding of three commi ees I sit on and it meets road signs and speed limit signs still all a-kilter still all a-kilter limit signs and speed road signs and make decisions on council business. To land ownership boundary on behalf of every six weeks. The others meet quarterly. too many contributors to men on give you an insight into just one regular day, cons tuent 14:40 Visit to council tenant in Caol a er I picked at random a day that had no 10:33 Phone call with pa ent advocate complaint about house repairs. (or to count!) Inverness trips: this is what I had to get regarding local NHS facility 16:04 Email back to cons tuent about but a HUGE thank you to everyone through that day: 10:45 Reading through papers for Monday’s planning applica on submission who’s contributed in so many ways ward business mee ng 18:30 Set off to a end Community Council (I 06:30 Kids are up ‐ nappies to change! 10:51 Phone call with another landowner on could easily be at public over the years
07:15 Catching up on the news and email road maintenance mee ngs every night of the inbox over breakfast. I answered a couple of 10:54 Phone call with commercial forester week but limit myself to 2 nearly 16 years since the first one... queries on my Facebook page. regarding private road maintenance evenings out per week) ... don’t let the next be the last one 08:21 Email back to cons tuent regarding 12:17 Phone call with sheltered 21:00 home from Community (see page 2) private road access and maintenance ‐ this accommoda on provider regarding Council
ended up taking up most of my morning. neighbour's parking complaint Cllr Ben Thompson In 1848 the Lochiel Arms (or Banavie Hotel) was built by Lochiel, page 32 across the road from where the Moorings Hotel now is. It was "3 page 5 history snippets - storeys high and 7 bedrooms wide" (14 bedrooms?). In 1853 it was slower safer smilier slightly enlarged but the Steamship Company complained that it did Lower speed limits coming soon Council and Police Scotland has hopefully been successful in not have enough accommoda on for growing canal traffic. By encouraging drivers to change their behaviour when in and around If like us you’ve been wondering when the new lower speed limit 1880 it had accommoda on for 100 guests. The hotel had its own the village. It is an excellent example of a community recognising Banavie signs were ever going to be fixed, we had word on 5th June from dairy herd and Ford agency. an issue and working together with police to help keep everyone Bear Scotland, via Cllr Ben Thompson that they’re programmed to This second article about Banavie is the final piece that we safe." On the 3rd June 1899 the first Ben Race was started from the hotel. start on Wednesday 10th of June to carry out the remainder of the bring you from Hugh Muir, who died two years ago. KCC are There were 10 runners and the first home was Hugh Kennedy, an works. Apparently they then have to wait for an order for the KCC liked this story because it shows how a small community can so grateful to Hugh for sending us his ’snippets’ before he under‐stalker from Torcastle. His me was 2 hours, 41 minutes and speed limit reduc on to be granted and they will remove the covers empower itself to make a difference, without always having to rely died - it is such a special historical archive of Kilmallie, and 2 seconds. During the 1st WW the Hotel was used as an Officers’ on the signs when this comes into effect. on ac on from Highland Council or Transport Scotland. If YOU are we’ve enjoyed reading them all in his memory. With thanks Convalescent Home. On 10th May 1924 the Hotel was destroyed concerned about traffic speed anywhere in Kilmallie, would you like as ever to Hugh’s family for permission to publish. by fire. The only part remaining is the Chase the Wild Goose Hostel Potholes to help KCC with a similar ini a ve? Below, Hugh’s wife Elizabeth remembers him. which had been the servants’ quarters. It is said that the stone
A number of our bad potholes have Thank you again Hugh. from the ruin was used to build St Marys Church in Fort William. been filled thanks to Bear and Highland Shared space ‐ a simple superb solu on There has been a shop or shops at Banavie for many years. Those The pillars from the main hotel entrance can be seen at a house on Council. We like the solu on used in This is a really radical approach ‐ giving priority to the most known: Cameron Road, Fort William. Edinburgh for drawing a en on to vulnerable road users! In a completed project on a really busy
c 1860 Donald McPhee The modern Moorings Hotel was a ‘large extension’ from a basic them and brightening up the street at junc on, this works superbly, with fewer accidents, be er traffic 1901 Duncan McGregor house called Ben View. It was built by the Sinclair family ‐ from the same me. flow and all round a much nicer village. Even the scep cs have 1920s John McKinnon & Ronald Johnston changed their minds a er seeing it in prac ce. To see this amazing Orkney ‐ star ng about 1970. c1925 ‐ 1942 Peter Finlayson A sorry state SLOWER SAFER SMILIER transforma on watch the youtube video: The first Banavie and Corpach Scout Troop was formed in Nov A number of residents have drawn our a en on to the poor state www.youtube.com/watch?v=‐vzDDMzq7d0 It is interes ng to note that Corpach had a church but Banavie has 1911. that SSE le the main road in a er all their recent works. This was Let’s make this our vision for Corpach! not had a known church or cemetery, while Banavie has had a discussed at the last KCC mee ng, and Cllr Allan Henderson has number of schools but Corpach has no known school sites. The Banavie to Gairlochy road was built 1804‐1812. agreed to pursue it for us. It’s not just a ques on of looking bad, it’s However the names of a number of ‘Kilmallie’ teachers have been a safety issue, since the 30mph signs on the road surface have been noted since 1710. The oldest known building is now Chevalier With the opening of the Glasgow to Fort William railway in 1894, it was extended to Banavie Canal in 1895. The sta on building is obliterated, and the chevron slow down signs have been removed. Co age and was opened in 1832. It had two teachers with accommoda on for 60 and a roll of 78 but a regular a endance of below the top lock on the east side. The sta on had 2 pla orms 60. The next building, about 200 yards west of the Masonic and 3 sidings. In addi on, goods trains could go up a fairly steep New approaches Lodge, opened, at a cost of £1400, in 1875. Its ini al gradient and reverse to the top basin. Passengers had a steep Two approaches to the management of traffic and speed have been accommoda on was for 96 but over the years it expanded. One climb up to the top basin if they wished to join a steamer! This brought to our a en on recently, both involving community extension was 2 annexes on a site across the road from Banavie car sta on was closed to passengers in 1939 but the line remained in support. They slow traffic down and generally make life for park. A er this school closed those buildings were used by use un l 1951. When the Mallaig line opened it was called Banavie everyone much more pleasant...
a) The Red Cross Pier Sta on. Community takes control of the wheels b) upholsterers When the new Mallaig Extension line opened in 1901 there was Chris ne drew our a en on to this story from another Highland c) plumbers also a signal box on the Tomonie side of the canal bridge but it was community (taken from BBC News, Highlands and Islands, 12 May d) a nursery run by nuns removed in 1912. The next Banavie school is the present one opened in 1965. 2015): Along the Old Banavie road to west of the Masonic Lodge there
Did you know that Lochaber High School was built on ground called Using a lamppost‐mounted speed monitor, volunteers in Culbokie
Alyson’s reminiscences Kilmallie of was, up to the 1940s, a PO (who also sold milk) in a house called on the Black Isle note the registra ons of vehicles breaking the the Auc oneers Fields? This was the site of the first modern Mart Cuillins. Also in this area had been a change‐house and a limit. Le ers from the police are then sent to the motorists warning (believed pens only) opened by Angus Cameron, formerly of Annat blacksmith. Farm. them of their driving behaviour. Since the 12‐week trial started, 1% Hugh Muir instead of 10% of drivers have broken the speed limit. Neptune’s Inn is the first recorded inn at Banavie. Thoughts are that it is/was the building just to the west side of the top lock. Built by The residents‐run scheme is the first of its kind in Scotland, Lochiel the story goes that the occupier, in 1830, was a James Two years have passed since Hugh died and the family and I according to Police Scotland. The trial ends in June. Ferintosh Rhodes. He was a senior lockkeeper and ran the Inn. A few years are so pleased his last “snippets“ have con nued un l now. Community Council chairman Bruce Morrison said: "The volunteers later he lost his job because he was delaying and harassing passing We hope you’ve enjoyed them. are doing a great job, commi ng themselves to two hours a week boats because they were not using his Inn! The second innkeeper of observa ons over each of the past 8 weeks. As the weeks go by, was John Robertson. Even when walking with me or his friends we had to the friendlier the drivers become with waves, smiles and very with a new crossing place for pedestrians at the canal bridge inves gate anything that seemed of interest: old cro s ‐ how suppor ve comments. Less than 1% of vehicles are triggering the did the people live, feed, travel etc? From 1996 to 2010 he sign compared with the norm of well over 10%. Only in June had a small history group, held in Kilmallie Church, and though will we find out whether our slower driving behaviour has between it and talking to people, he gathered a great deal of become normal behaviour. For the peace of minds of all residents, informa on. The church itself was opened in 1783 and had let's hope so." Insp Nicola MacKenzie, of Police Scotland, added: sea ng for 666 – the balcony was removed around 1900. The "The Culbokie speedwatch ini a ve between Ferintosh Community area covered was from Kinlocharkaig to Locheilside.
coming next time: next time: coming Thank you to everyone who gave Hugh all the informa on and old photos of the area.
Elizabeth Muir and all the Muir Family slightly safer Thanks too to Chris ne Falconer who has told us:
“the last shop in Banavie was run by the Docherty’s… and he then converted the building into apartments.
“The post office was in a shed next door, in what was once my grandparents’ house.
Photo John King, 1970 page 4 UK post office sell off - will it mean higher costs for relatively remote areas like ours? services most School was summer local was Constabulary have due go! Well Sunday. race
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page 2 Is KCC worth keeping? page 35 kilmallie We hope you think we’ve served a useful purpose over the
last four years, but would you no ce, or mind, if KCC ceased community to exist? Would it ma er if Kilmallie lost the most local level of representa on? Only Kilmallie residents can answer that.
If the answer from everyone is ‘No’ then KCC will cease to council exist in November (and this will be your last‐but‐one Delighted to welcome Gerry Hallas and LBS to our slowly newsle er!). But if the answer from even a few people is picture quiz no 7 growing list of sponsors (see back page). The newsle er ‘Yes’ then the next ques on must be ‘Wha’ll gie it a blaw?’ These creatures (but not the specific simply couldn’t happen without the generous help of local Journalist and broadcaster Lesley Riddoch gave a s mula ng ones in the photos) have all been business people. spotted in Kilmallie in the last few talk in Kilmallie at the end of March. A turnout of about 100 people gave her a long loud round of applause at the end. weeks. Can you name them, and Her topic was essen ally community empowerment ‐ what guess which feature in the Thinking ahead impedes it and what encourages it to blossom. If we wait for landscape is common to where they were all seen? Come November 2015, just five months away, you will no empowerment to be bestowed on us, we’ll probably be a
longer have a Community Council. long me wai ng.*** Lesley illustrated, by many inspiring examples, that empowerment comes from within, especially Answer to Picture Quiz No 6: This isn’t because your exis ng Community Councillors have when people come together in common cause. The cupola, or rooflight, over the had enough, are too exhausted to carry on, have too many foyer of the Health Centre at
independent countries! independent other commitments, or are just throwing in the towel. All Camaghael. Community Councils throughout Scotland are elected for a Be the change you want to see The Health Centre was officially four year fixed term, and for us that term ends in November. Where community councils are concerned, it can be a case opened in May 2007 so the cupola must have been there since early At that point all exis ng Community Councillors must stand of ‘use us or lose us’. And the best way to use a community 2007 or maybe late 2006. down, and the Community Council is dissolved. council ‐ to have a really effec ve community council ‐ is for as many people as possible to get ac vely involved, either as
full members or associate members. What happens next? Answers to these puzzles are on the website www.kilmallie.org.uk Across Highland Council haven’t yet published a detailed metable (follow the link on the RHS of the homepage) There is no guarantee that any of our exis ng Community for the CC elec ons, but we expect nomina ons to be called and will also be published in the next issue of the newsletter for people 1 One of three (7) Councillors will stand for re‐elec on. We’ve enjoyed the for in September. More details in our next newsle er. without access to the internet 4 This girl is mean with a good centre (5) last four years, and we like to think we’ve made a li le 7 The prayer asks for this daily (5) difference, but some of us will be considering whether we Hopefully enough people will want to see KCC re‐established 9 Can be haute (7) “some straight, some cryptic, some easy, some not so easy” can manage a second term ‐ many of us work full me, or for a further term, with lots of ideas for protec ng, 10 This officer sounds like a bit of a nut (7) have onerous family commitments, or other voluntary improving and enhancing the place where we live. Could 1 2 3 4 5 6 11 It has landed! (5) involvements, some even have all three! one of them be you? No experience necessary, just a 12 Kirkwall is here (6) bigger than six than six bigger smidge of idealism. 14 Mixed as nose. Salt would do it (6) Highland Council sets the rules for how many people can be *** Holyrood’s Community Empowerment Bill, if passed later this month, 18 Charlo e’s uncle (5) on a Community Council. For Kilmallie, the minimum is 4. 7 8 9 will be welcome but it’s only one very small step in the right direc on. 20 Sail man confused these beasts (7) So if more than 3 of the present 7 don’t stand for re‐elec on, 22 Denver’s equestrian NFL team (7) there will be no more Community Council unless some new As well as our normal mee ngs and correspondence over the last 23 The Rolling Stones sang about her (5) people have come forward too. In any case it is always good three months, KCC members have: 24 The short foot robbery (5) to keep new faces coming aboard ‐ CCs that have the same 10 11 established a Community Fund 25 Aural stopper (7) few members for years on end can easily get stuck in a rut. become much more ac ve on Facebook (thanks Carol Anne!)
joint‐hosted a community hus ngs in the general elec on Down
Think global, act local had talks from Ci zens’ Advice Bureau, Corpach Marina (see 12 13 14 15 16 1 Put that in your pipe and smoke it! (7) Across Scotland a number of Community Councils are in page 8 and Locheil Estates (see page 21) 2 Perfect. Inside always (5) a ended mee ngs of the Partnership of Fort William Area CCs crisis, and have either had to fold because their numbers 17 3 This Mr Man might make you giggle (6) on top of Cnoc nam Faobh? any history of the ruined stone enclosure have dropped below the minimum, or are struggling to keep raised concerns about the surface of the canal towpath and 4 Jerry is one (5) the pavement outside the Co‐op going with minimum numbers. It’s a sad irony, given the 18 19 20 21 5 Some people hold these (7) surge of involvement in poli cs. But poli cal issues don’t con nued considera on of the Local Development Plan 6 She sounds like she’s in the south of France (5) considered SEPA’s flood management plan for the area just relate to Holyrood, Inverness, Westminster or Brussels. 8 Prom (5) And poli cal views aren’t just about whether you’re SNP, a ended Transport Forum and District Partnership mee ngs 13 Singing fun (7) Labour, Green, Lib Dem, Tory, UKIP or whatever. Poli cs is taken part in a Rural Parliament Twi er debate on the 22 23 15 Heather girl (5) about everything around us every day, and some mes it’s Community Empowerment Bill 16 Does the bird have this saved up? (7) the li le local things that really make a no ceable difference a ended the Ward Forum in Invermoriston on wind farm 17 Was this dog Sco sh? (6) planning guidance to our lives. 18 Monk’s clothes (5) con nued to raise issues about li er outside the Co‐op 24 25 19 Sailboat in Germany ‐ Achtung! (5) Kilmallie itself was without a Community Council for about and con nued to promote our Slower Safer Smilier campaign. 21 Does she have a heavenly body? (5) three years un l 2011. Caol too was without one for many As ever, do email any of us, or come along to mee ngs, if you years, but is now re‐established and thriving. Some mes it have concerns or ideas for Kilmallie. Or use the sugges on boxes Thank you to Tony Whitelocke for another great crossword.
takes a threat to sound a wake‐up call ‐ some of the at Corpach and Banavie. anyone know communi es in the Central Belt are really energised and Answers to last issue’s puzzle:
at 165.5 sq km, Kilmallieat 165.5 sq Community Council area is effec ve just now because of the serious threat they’re Mandy Ketchin, Chair Across: 1 TRANSIT, 4 MEGAN, 7 MAGIC, 9 RETRAIN, 10 ECLIPSE, 11 RIOJA, 12 TABLET, 14 TREATS, 18 ABBEY, facing from fracking. [email protected] 20 OCTAGON, 22 COLONEL, 23 OFFAL, 24 TENDS, 25 REVISES Down: 1 TEMPEST, 2 ANGEL, 3 TARGET, 4 METER, 5 GRANOLA, 6 NINJA, 8 COPSE, 13 BABYLON, 15 RATIO, 16 SINGLES 17 BOWLER, 18 ASCOT, 19 YANKS, 21 GIFTS
page 32 Issue No 50, June 2015 a huge thank you delivered free to every address in Kilmallie
to our sponsors A huge thank you to the businesses below who have sponsored the newsle er this year. Our newsle er costs have been met by dona ons from all the businesses below, from KCC’s limited funds and in
kind from all our many volunteers. in this issue KCC from the chair – p2 KCC meetings – p3
last post - p4 community policing – p4 planning applications - p4 slower safer smilier - p5 councillors’ corner - p6 carbon challenge – p7 Banavie War Memorial - p7 Corpach Marine - p8-9 Banavie Play Park - p10 more Moorings - p10 Banavie Floral - p11 Corpach in Colour - p11 towpath troubles - p11 Produce Show - p12-13
let us know via our suggestion boxes Kilmallie Playgroup - p14-16 Locheilnet - p16 Banavie School - p17 Heather’s Walk - p18-19 High Notes - p20
Canal News - p21 Waterloo Walk - p22 Christmas Lights - p22 Green Fingers - p23 Community Centre - p23 Music for All - p24 Music Shed - p24 Wilson Corpach - p24 BOYD BROTHERS CLYDEBoyd Rugby Club - p25 Fort William Ltd Shinty Club – p25 (HAULAGE) LTD geocaching - p26 dancing divas – p26 poem from Ruth - p26 wild about Kilmallie - p27 heather’s huge happy walk dog club - p28 The sun shone for the 180 people When Sarah Walker and Margaret raising money for a very worthy bowel cancer - p28 that did Heather's Walk on 31st Simpson started the walk in 2008 cause. You have been Lochaber Beekeepers - p29 May. The hall was busy with all in memory of their friend Heather inspira onal. Huge cheers too to FOCAL - p30 the lovely stalls, many raffles and it was to be for one year. Heather everyone else who has worked so letters & feedback - p30 auc on. The ladies/two lovely girls had been in the Highland Hospice hard to make it such a success kept us all well fed. The fun went for care so they decided to hold year on year, and to the hundreds crofting townships - p31 on to Tradewinds in the evening the walk to raise money for the of people of all ages who have museum needs you - p31 with great music, raffles and the Hospice. It was so successful they taken part. would you like to become a sponsor too? history snippets - p32 auc on. It stayed dry for the carried on ‐ this was their eighth We rely on the contribu ons from our business community spotlight - p33 annual Strip the Willow out on the year! Sadly we hear it will also be More pictures Corpach for the cost of producing and distribu ng this free newsle er to every address in our area. focus on business - p33 road with tourists joining in. the last. Huge cheers for in centre in Colour We welcome sponsorship from all businesses located in Kilmallie, or with principal key personnel resident in Kilmallie. If you focus on folk - p34 what should KCC’s priorities be? Sarah, myself and all the Margaret and Sarah for a truly pages. would you like to see your name or logo in print suppor ng your community newsle er, please join with our current sponsors. message from puzzles from pithean - p35 volunteers thank you for helping fantas c fundraising effort, raising All dona ons, big or small, are hugely appreciated. the two sponsors - p36 us to raise the great amount of about £70,000 in total, that has Please contact us at [email protected] for details. Margarets, £6000 (and s ll coun ng). provided so much fun, fresh air Margaret and community spirit, as well as page 11