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Olympic Marathon Brothers Start<br />
Race To Sign Up For Paisley 10k<br />
OLYMPIC marathon runners Callum and Derek Hawkins have started the<br />
race to sign up for this year’s Paisley 10k and Fun Run.<br />
The popular event - sponsored by sports and outdoors retailer, Decathlon -<br />
takes place on Sunday August 20th.<br />
And now the starting gun has been fired for people to register for the<br />
10k race and shorter 3k Fun Run, organised by Renfrewshire Leisure in<br />
conjunction with Renfrewshire Council.<br />
Last year, almost 2,000 people raced<br />
around the streets of Paisley in the 10k<br />
and were quickly followed by hundreds<br />
of fun runners - many taking part to<br />
raise tens of thousands of pounds<br />
for their favourite charities and good<br />
causes.<br />
Macmillan Cancer Support is the<br />
Paisley 10k Race official charity partner<br />
for the third year.<br />
Brothers Callum and Derek, from<br />
Elderslie, Renfrewshire, were in Paisley<br />
to help launch this year’s Paisley 10k<br />
and Fun Run. They represented Great<br />
Britain in the 2016 Rio Olympics and<br />
both have previously won the Paisley<br />
10k race.<br />
This year’s race has £1,200 of prize<br />
money and trophies up for grabs and<br />
Derek and Callum Hawkins<br />
for the fun runners, there are prizes for<br />
the first three boys and girls from primary and secondary schools over the<br />
finishing line.<br />
Callum, who runs for Kilbarchan Amateur Athletic Club and has just won the<br />
National Cross Country Championships, said: “The Paisley 10k is a great<br />
race and I’d encourage everyone to sign up and take part. Derek and I<br />
have competed several times and we’ve really enjoyed it.”<br />
Brother Derek, also, a Kilbarchan AAC runner, added: “If you’re an aspiring<br />
athlete the Paisley 10k will be a good test for you. Taking part will definitely<br />
help your development as a runner as there’s always a quality field of<br />
athletes in the race.”<br />
Renfrewshire Leisure chief executive, Joyce McKellar said: “This is a<br />
fantastic event whether you are a serious athlete or someone who likes<br />
to keep fit and healthy by running. And then there’s the Fun Run, which is<br />
great for mums and dads and other family members to have a run with their<br />
kids on the shorter easier course around Paisley town centre. The whole<br />
day combines to create an event that everyone can enjoy and there’s a real<br />
carnival atmosphere in the town on race day with lots of street stalls and<br />
entertainment.”<br />
You can register for the race by logging on to renfrewshireleisure.com<br />
or by telephoning 0300 300 1362 or picking up an entry form from any<br />
Renfrewshire Leisure venue.<br />
Old Course Ranfurly Golf Club<br />
The Ladies section have had a busy winter calendar with social events which<br />
have helped raise money for this year’s charity Motor Neurone Scotland.<br />
In February Strictly Come Dancing came to Old Ranfurly. A thoroughly<br />
enjoyable evening was spent having demonstration dances and group<br />
lessons, which proved to be very entertaining. Clearly some ladies should<br />
stick to the golf!<br />
For our March social, we welcomed to Old Ranfurly, Eilidh Briggs, Curtis Cup<br />
team member. Eilidh gave the ladies a few coaching tips and shared some<br />
of her golfing experiences. Our evening was rounded off with cheese, wine<br />
and a very competitive putting competition. Everyone is looking forward to<br />
the season ahead.<br />
Coaching Sessions<br />
We are holding golf lessons for Junior beginners, aged between 5 and 17,<br />
from Monday 3rd <strong>April</strong> to Thursday 6th <strong>April</strong> .... Only £10 per person.<br />
As May is National Golf Month we’d love to encourage new lady members<br />
to come along to our taster session/beginner classes commencing Tuesday<br />
2nd May from 6.30pm to 7.30pm for 5 weeks. Nominal fee of £10 for the 5<br />
week course.<br />
Gents beginner/improver coaching will also be available from Thursday 4th<br />
May for 5 weeks. Basic areas to be covered will be grip, stance, ball position,<br />
alignment covering aspects of short game, iron play, woods and putting. Cost<br />
of 5 week course will be a nominal fee of £10, which will be used for Junior<br />
development at the Club.<br />
To register your interest for any of the coaching sessions please email<br />
admin@oldranfurly.com<br />
Bridge of Weir United<br />
Applications are welcome on a voluntary basis from members of the<br />
local community who are interested in assisting with the ongoing running<br />
of Bridge of Weir United, a local volunteer led football club with teams<br />
ranging from age group 2005 up to 2010. Accordingly, applications are<br />
invited for the following role:<br />
Chairperson<br />
• To be a facilitator, figure head and co-ordinator<br />
• Plan and organise committee meetings<br />
• Liaise with the Club Secretary and Treasurer in preparing agendas,<br />
making sure that all current issues are covered and documents are<br />
prepared for meetings<br />
• Ensure committee meetings are carried out in a fair and orderly<br />
manner and to act as a conduit between all age groups<br />
• Make sure that any necessary decisions are taken with a vote if<br />
needed. If votes are divided equally, the Chairperson may have the<br />
casting vote. Summarise decisions and action points at the end of the<br />
meeting<br />
Anyone interested in applying for the above role should contact Ronnie<br />
Palin on: 07584 275743.<br />
Ranfurly Castle Ladies<br />
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L-R - Joyce McKellar, chief executive of Renfrewshire Leisure, Callum<br />
Hawkins; Hector Fernandez, from Race sponsors Decathlon; Derek<br />
Hawkins and Councillor Jim Harte, chair of Renfrewshire Leisure<br />
board of trustees.<br />
The golfing season has begun for the Ladies of Ranfurly Castle Golf Club<br />
despite the weather doing its best to put us off! The first competition was<br />
held on Wednesday 8th March and was the12 hole, 5 Club Competition.<br />
Conditions were very windy but everyone completed the 12 holes with Mary<br />
Craig finishing the winner with 22 points (13) and Marion Munro the runnerup<br />
with 21 points (11).<br />
On Wednesday 15th March the Ladies Committee hosted the annual Bridge<br />
Night with 20 tables playing in the evening. A lovely supper was provided<br />
by the committee and £341 was raised for Alzheimer’s Scotland.<br />
Prize Winners :-<br />
Small Slam - Mike Holm and<br />
Gordon Adams<br />
1st Prize - Timothy Russell with<br />
4040 points<br />
2nd Prize - Peter Nicol with 3680<br />
points<br />
3rd Prize - Ken MacKenzie with<br />
2170 points<br />
A good evening was had by all.<br />
Small slam winners pictured with Lady Captain<br />
Pamela Mackenzie on the right hand side
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