Scourie News Edition 123 September 2016 Dates for September SCOURIE CHURCH OF Fri 2nd/9th/16th/23rd/30th Christianity Explored Tues 6th & 20th Refuse bins SCOTLAND Sat 10th Charity fundraising dance & auction @ KLB Tues 13th & 27th Recycling bins Everyone is invited to attend the Wed 21st Mobile library CHRISTIANITY EXPLORED course Thurs 22nd & Fri 23rd In-service training; No pupils in school which is to be held in the village hall. This course has helped a great many to Road Safety understand what Christianity is really about. At All parents, guardians, staff & visitors to the primary school each of the 7 meetings we will watch a different are asked to use the parking spaces provided when they DVD presentation of some major aspect of the come to collect or drop off children at the school or Christian faith. People can then ask as many nursery. Recently there was a report in the press & online of a 2 year old child being hospitalised following a road questions as they like or just listen to the traffic incident occurring outside Brora Primary School. questions of others, as we discuss the subject in Nobody would like to see anything similar happening in our order to get a better understanding. village. Children are often running in and out of the gate at the start & end of their day, not fully concentrating on what The course is to be held in the village hall on the is happening around them. As motorists, it is our following Friday evenings at 7.30pm:- responsibility to park safely to ensure all children can arrive at & leave the building safely. 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th September In order to encourage safe parking, the pupils of the 7th October primary school worked together to design a banner for the Please feel free to attend on any individual school gate. Let’s hope people pay attention to it! evening, if you cannot attend the whole course. Missing Key Did you borrow the hall key from Scourie Stores recently? If so, did you return it? Youth Club The village hall key, which is normally High Life Highland is looking to provide a youth club in kept at the shop as a convenient the village of Scourie. As the youth development collection point for bookings, has officer based at Kinlochbervie High School I would be gone missing. If you know of its very keen to hear from parents in the area. Do you whereabouts, please return it ASAP. have any ideas or suggestions? Evenings we should avoid? We will also be offering paid positions and volunteer opportunities. The youth club would be aimed at 11 years - 25 years. Please feel free to email or call me. [email protected] or 07867 590454. Scourie Gala 2016 Bottle Stall Tombola This year’s organising committee met recently to discuss Scourie Primary School would like to sincerely thank last month’s gala weekend. Despite the unfortunate everyone who contributed items to the tombola stall which weather on both Friday evening & Saturday afternoon, it they had at the Scourie Gala. was agreed that the whole weekend was a great success. An amazing £197 was raised There has been lots of positive feedback received about all for school funds. parts of the weekend. Look out for details in next month’s Scourie News of the The committee are delighted to announce that the school’s annual Christmas Fayre. weekend produced a profit of £4133 to be spent within the local community. Everyone involved is delighted with Village Hall this total! It was agreed to spend the money as follows, leaving us with a healthy balance to work with: The refurbishment of the hall toilets is complete £500 to Reay Forest Gun Club to replace their marquee and they look very smart. There was a lot more which was damaged when it was blown down on the work (and expense) involved than we realised as the Thursday evening. floor around the gents toilet pan was completely rotten and needed replaced. We are still awaiting £500 to the village hall plus an additional £600 to pay for all the invoices for the work, but we are hoping to The Impact to play at a dance on Fri 30th Dec with all have a few pounds left over towards the rewiring, monies from the dance going to the hall. which is the next job. A big thank you to all who Transport to, lunch before & tickets for all the primary & have helped so far, and we look forward to your pre-school (4 year olds) children to attend the pantomime in continued support as we fundraise to Eden Court, Inverness in December. start the next phase. We would love to Christmas presents for all primary & younger children in the hear from anyone who catchment area to be given out at the community would like to sponsor a heater, a roll of Christmas party. cable or even a few light switches. We raised £167 at the gala! The pirate's treasure £500 towards the community fireworks display. was found by Donald Fisher, in amongst the sharks More Christmas light-up decorations for the village. at the south of the island. Donald has very kindly donated the prize money back to the village hall. All of this is only possible due to the generosity of the businesses who sponsored visiting attractions or gave us donations towards our expenses & raffle; the volunteers Kayla’s auction & raffle items who helped with all the preparation setting up marquees etc, working at the gala events and tidying up afterwards; The items so far for auction are: and finally everyone who joined in with our events from Signed Scotland top, near & far. 2 tickets to an SFPL Celtic home game, A tour of Celtic Park for 4 people, It is planned to have another gala in 2017. Do you have any 3KG box of frozen at sea X-large prawns, ideas or suggestions? Any attractions you would like to A butchered hind. see? Preferred date? Would you like to get involved in the organising? The next committee meeting will be held in Raffle prizes include: November. Look out for a date & time in the next Scourie £50 voucher for Old School Restaurant, Meal for 2 in the Ceilidh Place in Ullapool, News. Everyone is very welcome! Meal for 4 including bottle of wine in The Victoria Restaurant, Dingwall, Double load of logs (local delivery), Eden Court theatre voucher and various other prizes. (These lists of items are growing daily!) The chemotherapy lasted for 9 months, during which time I KAYLA’S FUNDRAISER wasn't allowed back home to Kinlochbervie at all. I lost all DANCE TO my hair including eyebrows and eyelashes and had numerous other side effects, including being unable to get out of bed for 14 days and being unable to walk, it was a very slow recovery to get me walking again, only being able CRASH to take 5 steps the first day and each day after that I managed another few steps. Blood transfusions became BANJOS quite normal and I had about 15 of them over the 9 months. I also went to theatre countless times for lumbar KINLOCHBERVIE VILLAGE punctures where chemotherapy drugs were injected into HALL my spinal fluid to stop the leukaemia spreading into my central nervous system. ON After spending 7 weeks in hospital where my Mum, Dad TH SAT 10 SEPT and Granny would take turns to stay with me, I eventually AT got out at the end of September but as I still had months of treatment to undergo we had to stay in Glasgow to be close 9PM to the hospital. We were given a room in a Clic Sargent house so we could try and live as normal a life as possible in £10 ENTRY between our daily visits to the hospital. Soon after that we LICENSED BAR were moved into a flat which meant that we now had room for my brothers and sister to visit as I hadn't seen them NO UNDER 16’S since I had been transferred to Glasgow. I really missed PHOTO BOOTH COURTESY OF them and loved when it was school holidays and they could JENN MACKAY PHOTOGRAPHY come and stay. The chemotherapy left me with little or no LIVE AUCTION & RAFFLE immune system and resulted in me having numerous (TO BE DRAWN ON THE NIGHT, TICKETS AVAILABLE TO infections/viruses which required a minimum of a 48 hour BUY LOCALLY & ON THE NIGHT) hospital stay to be treated with intravenous antibiotics. ALL PROCEEDS TO BE SPLIT BETWEEN THE VARIOUS On 3rd May this year, 9 months after being diagnosed and CHARITIES THAT KAYLA BENEFITED FROM. undergoing intensive chemotherapy, I was allowed home, I was so excited at this as I hadn't seen my friends since I had About Kayla-Jaid been admitted to hospital back in August 2015. I still My name is Kayla-Jaid and I am 4 years old. I have 3 older receive chemotherapy on a daily basis and will do so for brothers, Donald, Kian and Ronan, an older sister, Tyree, another 15 months. The chemotherapy I get now isn't as and a younger sister Mia. I live in Kinlochbervie and this is strong as the first 9 months but still requires monthly visits my journey so far........ to Raigmore Hospital and 3 monthly visits to hospital in I was a normal, healthy, 3 year old until July last year when Glasgow. I pretty much lead a normal life but I get tired I developed an ear infection.