page 32 Issue No 54, September 2016 a huge thank you to our sponsors delivered free to every address in Kilmallie We welcome Archie Paterson and Nevis Bakery as our latest new sponsor, with grateful thanks. A huge thank you to all the businesses below who are sponsoring the newsletter this year. Our newsletter costs have been met by their sponsorship donations, from KCC’s limited funds, from donations from the community and in kind from all our many volunteers. help make the biggest ever in this issue KCC from the chair – p2 Scottish community land buy-out wrong turnings- p2 KCC meetings – p3 happen... right here slower safer stalemate - p4 slower safer smilier - p5 community policing – p6 on our doorstep Corpach Marina - p6 planning applications - p6 nearly 120,000 acres owned by Rio Tinto ELLCT - p7 could be transferred Councillors’ Corner - p8 to community ownership missives from MSPs – p9 High Notes - p10 Kilmallie Playgroup - p11 Lochaber School Bank - p11 Banavie School News - p12 Community Centre- p12 Locheilnet- p13 it just needs 1 minute of your time Banavie Park - p13 and £0 none of your money Canal News - p14 Banavie Floral - p15 1000 local people have already supported the idea and feedback... and and pictures...andarticles...and stories Corpach on Colour - p15 Produce Show - p16-17 simply by becoming members BOYD BROTHERS CLYDEBoyd focus on business - p18 of East Lochaber and Laggan Community Trust, congratulations - p18 but another 1000 members would be really great (HAULAGE) LTD Fort William Ltd HM Coastguard - p18 to help make a really strong case to the Scottish Land Fund home made hydro - p19 for the funding to make it a reality. beekeepers - p20 FORT Corpach Woods - p20 Loch Treig, on the eastern boundary of the Rio Tinto estate. see page 7 for more info Wildings gig - p21 WILLIAM Picture by Richard Webb and PLEASE JOIN NOW! see application forms enclosed Music For All - p22 TYRE Shinty Club - p22 Rugby Club - p23 SERVICES Art Lochaber - p23 Keystone award for Kilmallie Community Centre FOCAL- p24 see page 12 wild about Kilmallie - p25 Rwanda - p26 step it up - p27 Focus on Folk – p28 friends together - p28 charabanc - p29 Green fingers - p29 bygone scholars - p30 ten years ago - p30 would you like to become a sponsor too? W Highland Colosseum - p30 We rely on the contributions from our business community for the cost of producing and distributing this free newsletter to every address in our Puzzles from Pithean - p31 area. We welcome sponsorship from all businesses located in Kilmallie, or with principal key personnel resident in Kilmallie. If you would like to see your name or logo in print supporting your community newsletter, please join with our current sponsors. All donations,bi g or small, are Sponsors - p32 hugely appreciated. Please contact us at [email protected] for details. please sendletters...please us YOUR issues while her husband Ian was terminally ill. I am very page 2 grateful to you Mandy and I know that you will give me page 31 kilmallie helpful advice when I ask for it. The other members of KCC are helping me to get my head community round the topics and causes we are given to consider. Thank you to you all. The range of skills in KCC is very comforting to “some straight, some cryptic, some easy, some not so easy” me. You know that KCC had 5 members – we could have Across 1 2 3 4 5 6 had 8 if residents had come forward last November, but we council 1 Old scouts did this for a week (3,1,3) were where we were. But we are now up to 6, as we have Comfortable to uncomfortable co-opted Jim Ramsay on to our membership, who will give 4 The cat got it (5) extra energy to KCC. Welcome Jim and thank you! 7 Accommodation from the cab inside (5) 7 8 9 Well, how did I get into this position? 9 Status Quo did this all over the world (7) 10 Let go or let again (7) Our newsletter continues to be full of interesting articles and When I first volunteered to become a member of KCC, I was if you have topics close to your heart, memories of Kilmallie 11 A mind is short for management (5) happy that I wasn’t an office bearer. I have always been or photographs you want to share, then please let us know – 12 Force upon (6) 10 11 comfortable being ‘an Indian’ rather than ‘a Chief’! get in touch or send them in to us. The more contributors 14 Miss and Ed were off target (6) This ‘comfortable’ situation has lasted for 5 years and now 18 Scruffy coats at racecourse (5) we have the more diverse and stimulating the articles will circumstances have changed and I find myself as Chair of be! 20 It’s same Ian, forget it (7) 22 Umpire (7) KCC! 12 13 14 15 16 23 Uncontrolled anger to some extent (5) I thank you for your support of KCC and I look forward to 24 Recess (5) Comfortable to uncomfortable – but I promise to try to welcoming you when you come along to our meetings and I 17 25 Plays at chess to deliver small parcels (7) become more comfortable as time goes on! will try to become more ‘comfortable’ in the chair. 18 19 20 21 Down A huge thank you to Mandy Ketchin for continuing as Chair Christine Hutchison, Chair as long as she did while she was coping with severe family 1 Raid cab mixed with type of white rum (7) 2 This fish translated in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (5) 22 23 3 You might be over this (6) 4 Hot drink for the pops that get an A (5) wrong 5 A gas mine confuses or puzzles (7) 6 Nag me confused her (5) 24 25 8 Comes close when ear bookended by 2 points (5) turnings 13 Ocean (7) 15 Endless dinners inside (5) Thank you to Tony Whitelocke From cold calls to junk mail it is often hard 16 US nappies from despair (7) to get away from being bombarded by for another great crossword. 17 Unsavoury character with mixed set for these Above: poor priorities... the future for our trainees (6) advertising for products that we have no roundabouts if Highland Council obtain planning interest in. So far we have been largely permission...? Answers to last issue’s crossword: 18 Isle in car rank (5) spared the road-side hoardings that Across: 19 Confused there after two (5) continually compete for our attention by Left: great priorities by contrast... trees and 1 NO DOUBT, 4 MOUSE, 7 THREE, 9 ANGELIC, 10 AMMONIA, 21 One of the five (5) wildflowers giving genuine added value to 11 NIECE, 12 LADDER, 14 DENTED, 18 AISLE, 20 NARRATE, trying to be bigger, brighter and more roundabouts in other local authority areas conspicuous than the one next to them. In 22 GOULASH, 23 REPEL, 24 EBBED, 25 MERMAID this regard, the planning system has Down: served us well. Council officials also used Is the income that may be generated for 1 NETBALL, 2 DURUM, 3 TEABAG, 4 MEGAN, 5 UGLIEST, 6 EMCEE Answers to these puzzles are on the website to take action against unauthorised signs Highland Council worth the higher risk of 8 ERNIE, 13 DISTURB, 15 ERROR, 16 DWELLED, 17 ANTHEM, www.kilmallie.org.uk and even carried wire cutters in order to accidents and impact on the landscape? 18 ANGLE, 19 ELAND, 21 ALPHA. (follow the link on the RHS of the homepage) remove them. These signs are a bit like We think not, which is why Kilmallie and will also be published in the next issue of the a Kilmallie alphabet... alphabet... a Kilmallie litter in that once some appear then Community Council has objected to the Answer to last issue’s Picture Quiz No 10: Fassfern lochans newsletter for people without access to the internet. others soon follow. proposed signs. Not only will the amount of revenue generated be minimal but will Unfortunately Highland Council now wish also probably come from local businesses to change this and have themselves who currently advertise in positive ways picture applied for planning permission to place such as sponsorship of community advertising signs on trunk road activities and events. Highland Council roundabouts from the Blar to may argue that the proposed signs are quiz Ballachulish. The only purpose of such small but they set a dangerous precedent. signs is to attract the attention of no 11 motorists and any distraction puts safety If you are also concerned then please at risk. With the recent spate of tragic make your views known by commenting where in Kilmallie? accidents on our trunk roads and on the planning applications. Comments particularly the A82, we would hope that can be made on the ePlanning website and can anyone tell us the story Transport Scotland and Highland Council http://wam.highland.gov.uk/wam/ (old or new) behind it? falling of a Z is think forZ asleep trying tozzzzzzz would be doing all they can to improve application number 16/03894/ADV for safety rather than doing things that they the Blar roundabout. know will make things worse. and who is Russell Leaper, Secretary the mysterious Mr E? page 30 bygone banavie scholars page 3 Thanks to Neil MacBride for these photos. They look like they were all taken the West kilmallie on the same day, but what year was it? And who are they all? Neil’s given us a few names..