Kinross Newsletter Founded in 1977 by Kinross Community Council. Founding Editor: Mrs Nan Walker, MBE Published by Kinross Newsletter Limited, Company No. SC374361 Issue No 410 August 2013 www.kinrossnewsletter.org ISSN 1757-4781 DEADLINE CONTENTS for the September Issue From the Editor ............................................................ 2 5.00 pm, Friday Letters ......................................................................... 2 16 August 2013 News and Articles ........................................................ 4 Police Box...................................................................20 for publication on Community Councils....................................................21 Saturday 31 August 2013 Club & Community Group News .................................27 News from the Rurals ..................................................38 Contributions for inclusion in the Sport ..........................................................................39 Newsletter Out & About................................................................44 Gardens Open. .............................................................47 The Newsletter welcomes items from community organisations and individuals for publication. Congratulations & Thanks. ...........................................48 This is free of charge (we only charge for Kinross High School Awards. .......................................49 business advertising – see below right). All items Church Information & Obituaries..................................50 may be subject to editing and we reserve the right Playgroups and Toddlers ..............................................53 not to publish an item. Please also see our Letters Policy and Notes on page 2. Submit your item Notices........................................................................54 (except adverts) in one of the following ways: Day Centre & Chemists ................................................60 Email : [email protected] Classified Adverts, Situations Vacant ............................61 (all emails will be acknowledged) Diary...........................................................................62 Post : Eileen Thomas, Editor (see address below) Front Cover : Mary Queen of Scots photographs courtesy of Kinross Museum. Kinross Show ground at RSPB Loch Leven courtesy of Gavin Hand in : 50 Muirs, Kinross Anderson Photography. or : 24 Victoria Avenue, Milnathort Commercial Advertising in the Newsletter Do NOT send adverts to the Editor. Adverts Display Adverts should be sent to the Advertising Manager. For information on placing a Display Advert, please see our website www.kinrossnewsletter.org or contact our Advertising Manager. Editor Typed Adverts Eileen Thomas A typed advert may be placed for one or more months. These adverts are 50 Muirs text only (no graphics allowed). There are two rates: Kinross, KY13 8AU...............01577 863714 Up to NINE lines (including blank lines) £7.50 per insertion [email protected] TEN to FIFTEEN lines (including blank lines) £13.00 per insertion Advertising Manager As a guide, eight words is the maximum that can be fitted on a line. To place Ann Harley a Typed Advert, contact our Advertising Manager, Ann Harley (see left for 2 Hatchbank Road, contact details). You will need to send her: Kinross KY13 9JY.................01577 864512 • Your name, address, telephone number and, optionally, email address. [email protected] • The wording of your advert. • Treasurer A note of the number of insertions required. • Ross McConnell Your remittance – cheques payable to “Kinross Newsletter Ltd”. 3 High Street Send all this to the Advertising Manager by the normal monthly Newsletter Kinross KY13 8AW ...............01577 865885 deadline (see top of left-hand column for date). [email protected] The Newsletter reserves the right to vary the physical size of these adverts from issue to issue according to the space available. Subscriptions Ross McConnell (address as above) If you wish to place a Typed Advert on a permanent or semi-permanent basis, contact the Advertising Manager to see if you can go on to our billing [email protected] list. Distribution For full information on advertising in the Newsletter, please go to our Lee Scammacca (Cree8) website www.kinrossnewsletter.org and click on 'Advertising'. 62 Muirs, Kinross KY13 8AU ..01577 863186 [email protected] The Newsletter reserves the right to refuse or amend any advertisement or submission and accepts no liability for any omission or inaccuracy. Editor Eileen Thomas Typesetting and Layout Tony Dyson Distribution Lee Scammacca Advertising Ann Harley Treasurer and Subscriptions Ross McConnell Word Processing Julia Fulton 2 Letters Editorial Broadband Welcome to another packed issue of the Kinross I have been reading in the Newsletter about the complaints Newsletter. It may be the summer holidays, but residents of with BT broadband. the county have been as busy as ever, and there is plenty I'm not an expert, but I do have experience of BT and lined up for August as a glance at the Diary will tell you. Openreach, having dealt with them for over 30 years in The second Saturday in August means, of course, the house building. Kinross Show , which, following last year’s success, will Regardless of what server you go with, the speed you will take place again at RSPB Loch Leven at Vane Farm. achieve is always determined by the BT cable serving your Another major event taking place in August is Mary house and the distance you are from an exchange. Queen of Scots ‘Escape to Kirkgate Park’ . This should The chances of any upgrades in this area I would say are be an entertaining, educational, fun day with something for extremely low and probably not in our lifetime. everyone. I stay at Glenvale, which is slightly north of Glenlomond – Parking probably as far from an exchange as you can get. The BT Concerns are being raised over whether Kinross will have cable coming along Dryside Road is not even buried in the sufficient parking once the County Buildings and former ground. My broadband speed is awful: if I am lucky, maybe Kinross High School sites are developed. Mr Jaffrey Weir, 1.5Mb/s – OK for emailing and surfing the web. Session Clerk of Kinross Parish Church, addressed Kinross What I do have, though, is satellite broadband. I really think and Milnathort Community Councils in the past month on this is going to become more and more popular. this matter (pages 41 and 45). Kinross CC has asked for Bentley Walker supply all the communications and volunteers to carry out a parking survey (see Letters, p. 5.) broadband from Afghanistan and Iraq. I get 14Mb/s and up The Newsletter would also welcome letters from residents to 20Gb download. A 10Gb download package costs on this topic. between £24 and £50 per month. Not the cheapest, but at Register of Local Organisations least it works. You should receive with this Newsletter a loose ‘Yellow It is sometimes affected by severe weather but not by the Pages’ insert, with contact details of organisations and number of people using it. services in Kinross-shire. Sincere thanks to Pauline 10Gb download is not huge. If you were to download a film Watson, administrator of the kinross.cc community or watch a lot on BBCi, it would soon be used up. website, and Dave Cuthbert of Nimble Pages for all their I'm not an agent for Bentley Walker but it’s a good work in producing this very useful register. alternative. Just google Bentley-Walker and have a look. The register is created from details held on the kinross.cc David Gray website. If you wish to amend any of the contact details, or Glenvale, Dryside Road, request an inclusion, please contact Pauline Watson by Kinross, KY13 9HG emailing [email protected] or by telephoning (01577) 862685. T in the Park Drop in Centre Last year, Kinross-shire Day Centre took over the Drop-in Centre for T in the Park and we raised a total of £710. This year we really went way beyond any expectations we may Note to Contributors A great deal of the Newsletter comprises reports supplied by local have had and raised a remarkable £1,274, which is just clubs and other organisations. These reports are accepted in good unbelievable. faith. Clubs etc should ensure that reports are factually accurate This is all thanks to the generosity of our wonderful and do not contain material which could cause legal proceedings community, with special thanks to the staff and volunteers to be taken against the Newsletter. that gave up their time on Saturday and Sunday, and the Letters Policy individuals who handed in groceries and money to buy Senders must supply their name and address, which will be provisions; this is what made the weekend such a fantastic published with the letter. Letters should be truthful and not success. contain matter which could cause legal proceedings to be taken It is also fair to say that that the T in The Park revellers are against the Newsletter. The Newsletter does not necessarily agree the best in the world; they were very friendly and extremely with any of the views expressed on the Letters pages. In special grateful for the service that we provided, which makes all circumstances addresses may be withheld from publication on request (but must still be supplied to the editor). the hard work worthwhile. We would really like to thank everyone who not only Note to Readers: Advertising supported the Day Centre with T in The Park but supports Inclusion