www.hasteltd.co.uk THE WEE GOIL Loch Goil Community Newspaper £1 April 2012 Issue no. 12 £1 IN THIS ISSUE Now it’s a Bench P2 Dates for your Diary P3 What’s on at the Lochgoilhead Hotel P4 Surgery News Burns Club AGM Action Plan Update Badminton Success! P5 Women’s Rural Gala Day New Yoga Class P6 Haste Ye Back - from Mongolia P7 Golf Club News P8 Recipe of the Month Carrick Castle Boat Following fund raising at the successful 2011 rally of the Club News Clyde Valley Harley Owners Group, a generous donation was Loch Goil Clean Up made by the Group to the village of the Lochgoil community. P9 Intoducing...Mr Iain There was enough money to make a contribution to the senior Jamieson citizen Christmas party and to purchase not one, but two new 50-50 Club benches. One of these was placed in the Bowling Club to P11 Lochgoilhead Darts provide very welcome seating for spectators. The other, League Finals entirely unique bench, pictured above, was constructed from P12 Local Walks Series the wood of the Old School tree which blew down in May just P13 Church News before the rally. Crafted, or sculpted, by local man, Graham P16 The River Goil - Jones, it is protected by a coating of special varnish which Part Three penetrates into the wood, it will remain a fine focal point at P17 A83 Landslip the centre of our village for many years to come. More than Problem Update forty Harley-Davidson motorcycles made an impressive P18 Regular Events story continued on page 3 P19 Church Services 1 LETTER FROM THE EDITORS DATES for your DIARY Dear Readers, APRIL 2012 This issue marks the first anniversary of The Sunday 1st Wee Goil. So, Happy Birthday to us! We Lochgoilhead Burns Club AGM look forward to reporting another year of Village Hall 12.30pm news and views in the Loch Goil area. Subscribers and non-subscribers alike are Tuesday 3rd invited to take out a subscription for another Gala Day 2012 meeting twelve issues. The cost is £12 for a Village Hall 6.30pm subscription which includes delivery to your Friday 6th door. Alternatively, if you would prefer an Good Friday electronic copy sent to your email address, the cost for twelve issues is just £6. Please Saturday 7th see details on page 19 on how to subscribe. Church Coffee Morning Village Hall 10.30am - 12.00 noon At our March Community Council meeting Monday 9th last night, Iain MacInnes thanked the Easter Monday community for their support in turning out to express appreciation of the generosity of Wednesday 11th the Clyde Valley Harley Owners Group at Women’s Rural the unveiling of our new Old School tree Fyne Preserves & AGM bench. It could not have been a more Village Hall 7.30pm glorious Spring day. Saturday 14th Cabaret with ‘The Legends’ The Wee Goil would like to thank everyone Village Hall 7.30pm who has contributed articles, club news, recipes, photographs over the last year and Sunday 15th very importantly, to everyone for buying a Lochgoilhead Village Tidy Up copy of your local newspaper; with your Lochgoilhead Car Park 12.30pm support we look forward to making The Friday 20th Wee Goil as permanent a feature of our Carrick Castle Boat Club AGM community as our new bench! Lochgoilhead Village Hall 6pm Lindy Thomson & Duncan Findlay Saturday 21st Opening Day Lochgoilhead Bowling Green 2pm Photographs of the bench made out of the Old School Tree are courtesy of Derek Sunday 22nd Prescott. Lochgoilhead Primary School Gardening Day 11am Corrections to last month’s issue Regrettably there were notable errors in last Monday 30th month’s issue, for which we apologize. Community Council Meeting Most crucially, the prize in the fishing Village Hall Library 7.30pm competition was not stated as a half day’s fishing tuition in the Lochgoil area. To err is human, but to really The cost of membership of the Bowling mess things up requires a computer. Club for seniors is £17, not £20 as stated. 2 Continued from front page What’s on entrance at noon on Sunday 25th June and at the the unveiling of the two benches was performed after speeches from Community Lochgoilhead Hotel Couuncil Chairman, Iain MacInnes and ‘Big Willie C’. Willie Corson is the Quiz nights Director of the Clyde Valley chapter. every second Wednesday from 9pm. April 11th and 25th Still £2 per person and winner takes all! From 9pm in the bar. ***** Acoustic nights are going well and April dates are Saturday 14th and 28th starting any time after 9 pm in the bar and everyone is welcome, instrument or not!! Ride out ****** Rob Emery, Assistant Director, explained Friday Night Live that the morning’s travel from Hillington We also have entertainment every Friday had a misty start but the weather steadily night in April 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th improved giving a magnificent ride into the Starts at 9.30pm until 12pm. village from the Rest and be Thankful. To cope with the single track road, rally ****** organiser, Head Road Captain, Ross Munro, led the Clyde Valley Chapter along Craft Fayre the route while the Advance Marshalls Saturday 14th April politely asked traffic coming the other way 10.00am till 4.00pm to pull over for a short while to allow the spectacle of fine machinery to pass. After ****** the ceremonies, tea and biscuits gave the Menu opportunity for the riders to socialise with villagers. Please keep your eye on the boards More to Come within the hotel, post office or shop for There was a great turnout for this village any specials throughout the month and for event and there will be another rally later the year’s charity events and theme nights this year. On Saturday June 16th it is which are currently being planned. expected that 150 bikes will ride out from the centre of the village at 10.30 am on their way for a day out in Dunoon. There will be a bike show and other events See you at THE GOIL! happening over the weekend to which we are all invited to join in and enjoy. 3 Lochgoilhead Surgery The Burns Club AGM Public Holidays April - June 2012 Lochgoilhead Burns Club AGM will be held on the Sunday, 1st April at 12.30pm in the Village Hall. This AGM is more Please note that the Surgery will be important than previous ones as it will closed on the following dates: discuss the way forward for the club and a proposed major constitutional change. All Friday 6th April (Good Friday) members are urged to make the effort to Monday 9th April (Easter Monday) attend. Ÿ Monday 7th May Ÿ Monday 4th June Lochgoil Action Plan Update Tuesday 5th June (Queen's Diamond Jubilee) You may think that it has all gone a bit quiet since the 'Drop In' session on Please bear this in mind if you are needing Saturday, February 25th in the Village Hall. to order repeat prescriptions. Well, the steering group and our community If you need the services of a doctor agent Anne Masimo have been working on these days please call with Loch Lomond and the Trossachs NHS24 on 08454 242424. National Park Community Partnership and Small Town and Rural Development News from the Surgery Group's community futures Programme We are delighted to say that Lorna (STAR) to produce the Action Plan booklet. Alexander is now the Practice Manager. So lots of people are beavering away, We also welcome Catherine Lyle who joins analysing the red dots and comments from us occasionally to work in reception. the 80 or so people who attended the Drop In. Look out for the booklet and if it doesn't NHS Out of Hours Update: Your find it’s way to you, go looking for it. It Views will outline the future that we all want for Lochgoil. Representatives of the NHS Out of Hours Review team made a short presentation to Badminton Success! the public at the Lochgoil Community Council meetings on Monday 26th. There was an opportunity to record experiences and concerns on video. A paper outlining the options was handed out together with a comments form. Copies of these “Long List of Options” forms and comments sheets are available at the Lochgoilhead surgery or online at www.nhshighland.scot.nhs.uk/CHP/Arg yllandBute/PPF/Pages/CowalGPServices On Saturday March 25th, George Thomson .aspx The comments sheets can be returned won the 14 and under Boys Singles trophy by Freepost and should be returned by the at the Cowal Badminton Association juniors 6th of April. competition at Queens Hall, Dunoon. 4 Women’s Rural Report Introducing a New Yoga Class March Meeting starting in Lochgoilhead Mrs Jean Campbell, president, welcomed Jaya Yoga members and introduced the speaker for the evening, Jackie McBurnie from Yoga is not just a physical workout, it is Dunoon along with her friend and helper about working on the Inner Self. Dorothy. Jackie has many interests, Our workshop will provide an introductory environmental, natural, animal and plant understanding to the various different styles life, to name but a few. Her topic for the of Yoga. Kundalini Yoga, Vinyasa flow, evening was "using natural resources". She general Hatha Yoga, Yin Yoga and finally demonstrated how to preserve a variety of finishing with relaxation and meditation. all types of leaves with their different Om Shanti shapes and colours, which were then used to make cards and mobiles. All members then tried their hand at making cards or mobiles, which they thoroughly enjoyed.