Kinross Newsletter Founded in 1977 by Mrs Nan Walker, MBE Published by Kinross Newsletter Limited, Company No. SC374361 Issue No 380 November 2010 www.kinrossnewsletter.org ISSN 1757-4781 DEADLINE CONTENTS for the December Issue 2.00 pm, Monday 15 November 2010 From the Editor ............................................................2 Letters ..........................................................................2 for publication on News and Articles .........................................................3 Saturday 27 November 2010 Police Box..................................................................13 Community Councils...................................................14 Contributions for inclusion in the Club & Community Group News .................................18 Newsletter Sport ..........................................................................30 The Newsletter welcomes items from clubs, News from the Rurals..................................................42 community organisations and individuals for Out & About...............................................................43 publication. 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Development Plan Main Issues Report exhibition and talk As Remembrance Sunday draws close, we think not only to Council officers. That’s on Saturday 6 November at the about those who fought so bravely in the last century, but community campus (see p. 3 for more details). Your views also the troops who are serving their country now, often in could help shape the area’s planning for the next twenty to difficult and challenging circumstances. thirty years. Whether the Council takes the views of local elected More than 330 British troops have lost their lives, and hundreds more have sustained life-changing injuries in members into account, let alone those of members of the public, has, however, been a topic of debate in the local Afghanistan since 2001, and it is not just those on the frontline who are affected. Conflict can also have a press as this Newsletter goes to print, and this is touched upon in articles on pages 3 and page 4. Why not write to the devastating impact on those left at home – the mums and dads, wives, partners, children, brothers and sisters. Newsletter and let us know what you think? Newsletter deadlines : Please note that the deadline in The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen & Families Association (SSAFA) – Forces Help has been providing vital support to November for the December issue may seem ‘early’ (the deadline is Monday 15 November ) but if we had it a week our servicemen and women and their families for 125 years. From the elderly World War II veteran with mobility later the Newsletter would not be out before the December meeting of Kinross CC, and one of the original aims of the problems, to the young soldier seriously wounded in Iraq, SSAFA’s ability to adapt to the changing needs of our Newsletter was to let people know what the CC was saying and doing. (Though unfortunately only three or so members service community means we will always be there when we are needed. of the public actually attend CC meetings, typically.) While on the subject of deadlines, things are always a bit The charity has two ‘homes-from-home’ allowing seriously injured troops to spend much-needed quality time with their different for the first issue of a new year. Regular readers will know that we don’t publish an issue at the start of families, and also runs family support groups for those coping with a sudden bereavement, or coming to terms with January, but instead publish a joint January & February issue. The deadline for that will be Monday 10 January life-changing injury to a loved one. Our nationwide network of 7,000 trained volunteers is on 2011 for publication on Saturday 22 January. So if your club is organising an event which takes place in the first hand to provide practical, financial and emotional support whenever anyone turns to us for help. In 2009, your local three weeks of January and you want to advertise it in the Newsletter, you will need to submit the information for the Perth and Kinross Branch assisted over 100 people and families, raising over £50,000 for their needs, and 2010, December issue. SSAFA’s 125th anniversary year, is already proving to be one of our busiest yet. Anyone who has served for just one day could be eligible Ladies Circle Comedy Night 9 Oct 2010 for SSAFA’s support, including past and present members As a former member, Secretary and Chairman of Kinross- of all three Armed Forces, members of the Territorial Army, shire Round Table (now retired), I would like to thank the our Reserve Forces and those who have done National Kinross-shire Ladies Circle for their third, and possibly Service. best-yet, comedy night last weekend at the Portmoak Hall. If you think SSAFA Forces Help can assist you, or someone Billy Kirkwood and his colleagues brought a taste of the you know, or if you are interested in volunteering, please professional comedy circuit to us in their own special way contact the Perth and Kinross Branch on 01738 625346, or and neither my wife nor I can remember laughing out loud [email protected], or look at http://www.ssafa.org.uk. quite as much. Well, not since the last one, anyway. Some “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old, of the language got a wee bit fruity, but I’ve heard worse in Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn several of the local pubs and even on the bus. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning The ladies are all volunteers, working so hard to raise We WILL remember them.” money for various charities and organisations throughout Thank you for reading this. our local area. They deserve a lot of credit for their efforts Lieutenant Colonel Andy Middlemiss at the comedy-nights and the other events that they Branch Chairman, SSAFA Forces Help organise. We’ll certainly be snapping up tickets for the next Perth and Kinross Branch, Queens Barracks event in February, and I’d urge everyone else to do the same Dunkeld Road, PERTH PH1 5BT because they sell out every time. Iain Macpherson 18 West Crook Way, Crook of Devon, Clocks go back one hour Kinross, KY13 0PH British Summer Time officially ends