onnectNewton Mearns C Winter 2016 Newton Mearns Connect Welcome! Contacts HELLO and welcome to the latest Editorial edition of Newton Mearns Connect If you have a story you would like to be We’d like to kick start this magazine included in a future issue of Newton by saying thanks to everyone for their Mearns Connect contact: support following our first offering – it’s much appreciated. Nicola Brown Brought to you by the Herald and [email protected] Times Magazine Group, this small but 0141 302 7741 Top award for mighty magazine aims to celebrate the best Maxine McCreadie local park the area has to offer. [email protected] See page Packed with feel good news and features, 0141 302 7742 26 Connect prides itself on being a champion of the best things that happen in our Advertising community. 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Winter 2016 / 2017 3 Newton Mearns Connect Community contacts Police and Emergency Newton Mearns North: Mearns Castle High Services Councillor Tony Buchanan School: Police Scotland: (SNP): 0141 577 2300 101 (999 in emergency) 07976 360398 Eastwood High School: Councillor Charlie Gilbert 0141 577 2200 (Conservative): Isobel Mair School: Council contacts 0141 639 2948 0141 570 7600 East Renfrewshire Council Councillor Elaine Green Kirktonholme Nursery General Enquiries: (Labour): Mearnswood: 0141 577 3001 01505 850732 0141 639 5292 Council Tax Payment: Councillor Paul O’Kane 0141 577 3002 (Labour): Child Protection: Churches 07718697115 Pest Control: Newton Mearns Parish Church: 0141 577 3001 Community Housing Services: 0141 639 7373 Mearns Library: 0141 577 3714 Newton Mearns Baptist 0141 577 4979 Church: 28th Glasgow (Giffnock) 0141 616 2362 Councillors Scout Group: Mearns Kirk Church Hall: Newton Mearns South: 0141 638 0282 0141 639 6555 Councillor Barbara Grant East Renfrewshire Centre: St Cadoc R C Church: (Conservative): 0141 258 5959 0141 639 1073 0141 639 3809 Maxwell Mearns Castle Councillor Ian McAlpine Schools Parish Church: (Labour): Mearns Primary School: 0141 639 5169 07890592671 0141 570 7220 Councillor Jim Swift St Cadoc’s Primary School: (Conservative): 07534515159 0141 570 7340 4 Winter 2016 / 2017 Winter 2016 / 2017 5 Newton Mearns Connect Festive fun raises £70,000 for Quarriers CHRISTMAS has come short breaks for children and will benefit hugely from early for a social care young people with a complex everyone’s tremendously charity after it coined in disability. generous efforts and it’s £70,000 at its annual festive All funds raised at the festive humbling to see so much fundraiser. lunch will go towards helping support for a service that will Guests were at their establish and expand the make a real difference to the generous best at Quarriers’ charity’s Dementia Befriending lives of so many people with 23rd Noel Lunch, during Service, which was launched this condition. which they were treated to earlier this year. “A special thanks must go entertainment from the Secret The service aims to provide to our guests for coming along Opera Singers. companionship and meaningful to support the charity and a Comedian Fred MacAulay activities to people with particular thanks goes to Fred hosted the event and led the dementia, using befriending as for providing top entertainment live auction, which included a a means of reducing loneliness and Phil Genoe for his tireless Great Britain Davis Cup shirt and isolation and offering the commitment, along with the rest signed by tennis aces Andy opportunity to keep doing the of the Noel Lunch committee.” and Jamie Murray. activities they enjoy. Phil Genoe, chairman of It had been gifted by their Quarriers Dementia the Quarriers’ Noel Lunch mother – and Quarriers Befriending Service is currently Committee, added: “Once supporter – Judy. funded by the Life Changes again it’s been another Quarriers is based in Trust. Money raised at the lunch unforgettable afternoon and I’m Bridge of Weir and operates will secure the future of the overwhelmed by the generosity services across Scotland. service, allowing it to expand of our guests old and new who These include the Chavey into new areas. return every year to support Down Service, which is Alice Harper, Quarriers’ chief the charity and kick start based in Newton Mearns and executive, said: “Quarriers’ their festive celebrations with provides residential care and Dementia Befriending Service Quarriers.” 6 Winter 2016 / 2017 Winter 2016 / 2017 7 ADVERTISING FEATURE A service to smile about LOUIS Armstrong said it best or should we say, sang it best: ‘when you smilin’ the whole world smiles with you’. However, there can be little don’t just need to grin and bear and products on the market. to smile about if you don’t have their dental woes, they have Originally established in confidence in your teeth. proudly been at the forefront of Mount Stuart Street, things have Your smile plays a huge part producing high quality cosmetic grown from strength to strength in your personality and not dentures. for Glasgow Denture studio, with feeling like yours is at its best The experienced team three practices offering a first can play havoc with your self- understand that no two clients class service across the city. esteem. are the same and so are However, this July the team This is something the team committed to offering a truly were delighted to go back at the Glasgow Denture Studio personal service to ensure they to their roots and once again appreciate. create a stunning smile. moved back to Mount Stuart The friendly, family-run Not content with sticking Street again. business have been offering a with the status quo, staff are For full details of the warm and professional service delighted to continually keep services on offer, visit www. to all for more than 30 years. moving with the times to offer glasgowdenturestudio.co.uk or Dedicated to ensuring clients people the very best treatments call 0141 649 8377 8 Winter 2016 / 2017 Winter 2016 / 2017 9 Newton Mearns Connect Mearns drivers urged to be aware of smoking law NEWTON Mearns residents should be aware that from December 5 it will be against the law in Scotland to smoke in the car if there is a child present. A child is regarded as anyone under the age of 18 and the ban applies to private motor vehicles in public places. It does not apply if the vehicle is designed to be used as living accommodation, such as a mobile home, and the smoking takes place while the vehicle is parked and being local authority officer. if found guilty they could be used as living accommodation. If the penalty is paid within given a fine of up to £1,000. Anyone found to be smoking 29 days the person will not It has been against the in a car with a child present be prosecuted, however, law in England and Wales to could face a fixed penalty of failure to do so could lead to smoke in a car if a child is £100 by either the police or a prosecution and if someone present since October 2015. 10 Winter 2016 / 2017 Winter 2016 / 2017 11 Newton Mearns Connect Grant will help residents switch on to efficient heating TENANTS across East Government’s Capital this will help provide another Renfrewshire are set Acceleration Programme and step forward in continuing to benefit from major will be carried out between to deliver a high standard of upgrades to their central January and March 2017. housing. heating systems after Councillor Danny Devlin, “We had been planning the council secured a Convener for Housing and to commence these £318,000 grant to carry Maintenance Services, said: upgrades next year as part out the work. “We are delighted to have of the council’s longer term A total of 106 council secured this funding from the investment into council homes will have the most Scottish Government. It is the houses, but this funding energy efficient gas heating first time in many years that means work can start systems installed, helping to the grants have been offered immediately and we can save energy, reduce fuel bills to local authorities without make a big difference to and make it easier for tenants the requirement for match these households in a short to heat their home – keeping funding to be provided, so it’s space of time. It also releases themselves and their families a fantastic opportunity for the resources for other council warm council to capitalise on this. house projects, which will The work will be funded The welfare of our residents benefit other tenants across through the Scottish is our number one priority and East Renfrewshire.” 12 Winter 2016 / 2017 Newton Mearns Connect Quicker connection for locals SUPERFAST broadband rollout has said: "Every day our engineers are bringing A reached new East Renfrewshire fibre broadband to more Scottish homes and communities. businesses. Residents in certain areas of Clarkston, "It’s a massive civil engineering task which Giffnock, Thornliebank and Newton Mearns is benefiting the whole country, now and for can now access the £410 million Digital the long-term, and they’re doing a fantastic Scotland service.