1981 - Buckie and District Fishing Heritage

A poem is found on page 8 titled Robert Burns - This was written by Wallace G.Kerr, Toronto, Canada.6Feb 10 Ice-rink for Buckie - Moray District Council decided to have an artificial ice-rinkconstructed in the Fishermen’s Hall for a trial period from May through to August , atime when the hall was used less often for other things. The ice-rink costs £19,500.Playhouse – Keith Wednesday, Friday and Saturday – The Blues Brothers AA Fullprogramme 7.30pm. Next week The Big Brawl. ( I have many happy memories ofthe Keith Playhouse . I saw my first ever film there sometime in 1938, not longafter it was opened. Miss Gordon my teacher in Standard One at the Green’s Schoolsent stamps to the value of the entrance ticket to allow me to go to the Saturdaymatinee. I visited the cinema many times afterwards when I spent my schoolholidays at the Bush Farm or at weekends, and still later when I had the company ofa lady friend. I remember cycling all the way up the Enzie Braes from Clochan totake her to the pictures one Wednesday evening. It was sad to see it completelydemolished in 2002 and the ground cleared. )Bruce's Sports Outfitter and Fishing Tackle dealer – 61 West Church Street.now on.Cluny Fashions 7 High Street, were also having a sale.SaleFeb 17 At last The football report of both Buckie Thistle and Buckie Rovers at long last gavethe scores at the top so that you hadn’t to plough through the whole report to find outwho had won. Unfortunately it wasn’t yet thought to be the done thing to give theteams , which was a pity.Buckie beat Deveronvale by four goals to 1 while the Rovers drew two all withRosemount of Aberdeen in the Dryborough Cup. David Findlay (Parl) and Keith Sinclairwith a penalty were the Rovers’ goal scorers.Feb 24 Buckie Thistle now has a taxi business being run under the CommercialManager, James Slater as a money-raising ploy. The business is operating from thegarage on Colonsay Place.Who was he looking at ? Do you know the answer to this old chestnut? A chapgazing at a photograph says: “Sisters and brothers have I none, but that man’sfather is my father’s son.This week’s puzzler. If a clock on a steeple takes ten seconds to strike the hour often , how long will it take to strike 12. Think about it, the answer is not 12 seconds.Dodie A was amazed that some puzzlers cannot or will not admit that a rise of £50every half year is better than a rise of £200 ever year. Let Charlie be an Englishmanwho is employed at a salary of £5000 a year. He is told that he is due a £200 rise atthe end of the year. His pay will then be £5200. At the end of the second year it willbe £5400, rising by the same increments to £5600 in the third year and £5800 by theend of the fourth. His mate an Irishman called Paddy was stupid enough to accept arise of £50 every half year. For the first six months he took home £2500, the sameas his English partner., before his rise was due when his pay went up to £2550. Hewas thus £50 better off than the more clever English bloke; not only that but hewas due a rise of £50 for the first six months of his second year meaning that hewas now on £2600. For the second part of the second year he received another riseof fifty pounds so he now drew £2650 which meant he was again fifty pounds aheadof his partner. In fact he was always £50 per annum better off and they say thatthe Irish are thick – I ask you. (“I still dinna get it” - Allan)Advert - Robert McLaren, Painter and Decorator, Keith, Specialist in Ames Taping andTextured ceiling and wall finishes.