259 April 2016 - Gryffe Advertizer

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local news..........................8-13
dental blog.............................11
what’s on.............................14-23
business news...................25-30
financial blog.........................25
it blog..................................25
local history...........................35
on the road...........................24
village news....................36-45
opticians blog .........................41
pets...............................46-47
pet blog ............................46
outdoors..........................48-53
photography hints & tips ............53
schools news.....................54-58
sports & clubs news.............59-63
sporting blog..........................60
advertiser directory................67
business classified...........64-65
church listings....................65
deadlines dates...................65
property classified.................65
sales & wants......................66
Spring Cleaning: Howwood villagers are organising their annual Spring Clean
on 16/17 April - details on p43. And Brighter Bridge of Weir will be doing the
same on 14/15 May - details on p51. Houston Community Council plan to
hold regular clear-ups around the village and details are available on their
Facebook page. Or, if you haven’t time to help out in a group, why not just keep
around your own home clear, imagine if everybody did that! And to save your
hands getting too dirty, Gibb Stuart’s sell litter-pickers, gloves and bin bags.
These litter picks are hugely successful, with Brighter Bridge of Weir
volunteers telling me they collected 16 large bags of litter in one afternoon,
and that’s just along one stretch of road in Bridge of Weir. Similarly, Houston
CC organised a general litter-pick day recently and picked up a similar quantity
from a relatively small area. A great achievement, but it’s sad that it has to be
done at all; there seems to be an attitude prevailing nowadays that someone
else will attend to it. And to continue the rant, it’s great to see dog owners now
bagging it, but if that bag doesn’t make it to a bin, there seems little point in
the exercise (excuse the pun!).
Bull’s Garage: There has recently been some ground work investigations at
the former Bull’s Garage site. Apparently a potential purchaser had requested
a ground contamination report, and the sellers have decided to have this
carried out as it’s likely that any purchaser will require such a report.
Kilmacolm Co-op: There is now lots of activity at the former Institute site in
the centre of Kilmacolm. The hold-up was due to the fact that the building plot
has no other land associated with it and therefore the developer had nowhere
to site their utility cabin and equipment. This has now been resolved utilising
some land, for the duration of the build, slightly further down Smithy Brae.
Hopefully progress will now accelerate.
Brookfield 30mph: A few weeks ago the Traffic Police had a field-day in
Brookfield, with a speed trap at the Merchiston entrance, catching motorists
as they came into Brookfield from the roundabout. The trouble with this
stretch of road is that it had been 40mph for such a long time. Even though
it changed to 30mph a couple of years ago, the speed limit signs are sparse.
Perhaps a few more signs and the speed painted on the road would help?
Plant Theft: Margaret, of the BoW Brighters, told me that the group had spent
a great deal of time tidying up the embankment opposite the Gibb Stuart car
park in Bridge of Weir, laying boulders and red stone chips, and putting in a
number of plants. Only to find a day or
so later that some devious scoundrel
(I’m being polite here!) had decided to
help themselves to a large quantity of
said stones and plants. Shocking!
Save a hedgehog: And finally, elastic
bands. Now I know with so many
letters and parcels to carry our
Posties, who do a sterling job, find it
difficult to keep track of flying lackybands.
What I hadn’t realised was
that hedgehogs are picking these up
and eating them, thinking they are
worms. They then get stuck in their
gut causing a painful death. So,
finishing as I started, please pick it
up and pop it in the bin.
Rona