298 JULY 19 - Gryffe Advertizer
The Advertizer - Your local community magazine to the Gryffe area. The Advertizer is a local business directory including a what's on guide and other local information and an interesting mix of articles.
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. . . KILMACOLM & QUARRIERS . . .<br />
22<br />
Next deadline - Friday <strong>19</strong>th July<br />
Local people: Guy Clark has stood down as Lord Lieutenant<br />
for Renfrewshire and been replaced by Colonel Peter T.<br />
McCarthy. Guy and his wife Brighid were wonderful servants<br />
to the County. Peter has been a Deputy and will not need<br />
to be shown the ropes. Good luck to both the McCarthys<br />
in this important and prestigious role representing Her<br />
Majesty.<br />
Reverend Doctor Peter McEnhill is leaving the village to<br />
become the Minister of St Andrews Scots Kirk in Rome.<br />
He will be sadly missed in the village and by the members of the Old Kirk.<br />
His preaching is renowned and his sermon is delivered without any aide<br />
memoir. We really do wish him God’s speed as he continues his service to<br />
the Church. Two Church of Scotland’s in the village is not sustainable and<br />
I am quite sure we can move forward together in harmony with our good<br />
friends at St Columba’s.<br />
Correction: I made a mistake in the June edition when I identified the<br />
battle, so wonderfully portrayed as an Opera by Scottish Opera and KPS as<br />
Sherriffmuir. An alert reader has pointed out that the Jacobean/ Hanoverian<br />
battle in 17<strong>19</strong> was at the River Shiel. Who says nobody reads my monthly<br />
epistle!<br />
Planning: The pre determination hearing of the Gladman Housing<br />
application at North Dennistoun was held in St Columba’s Church Hall<br />
by the Inverclyde Planning Board. The Hall was packed and it allowed<br />
villagers to witness democracy in action. In front of me I had a document<br />
of 720 pages which contained the 584 representations received, all had<br />
been read by planning officers and analysed in the report. I felt that the<br />
most original evidence presented was by Sir Donald Miller on flooding. His<br />
engineering qualifi cations and memberships of official bodies is exemplar.<br />
Having heard the presentations my colleagues voted unanimously to refuse<br />
the application. I will now present the findings to a full Inverclyde Council<br />
meeting in the Chambers on the 27th of June for a final determination.<br />
The Hearing for the Application by Taylor Wimpey for 100 houses at<br />
Planetreeyetts Kilmacolm will be heard on 21st August by Inverclyde<br />
Planning Board courtesy of the Session at St Columba’s Church Hall.<br />
Events: I attended St Stephen’s presentation of Grease. This was a superb<br />
concert and had the audience enthralled by the musical and dancing skills<br />
of the youngsters. This is the fifth show by the school and by far the best.<br />
The St Columba’s spring concert was quite excellent and featured solos,<br />
duets, trios, quartets, ensembles and bands. Great evening and I was quite<br />
taken by the numbers attending the Royal Conservatoire.<br />
Car charging points: We will be adding 4 electric car charging spaces<br />
which will give us 6 in the village. I am uncomfortable with the 4 new<br />
charging places at Barrs Brae as we are short of parking places in the<br />
village. I think two more would have been enough. We sometimes carry the<br />
green agenda a bit too far for me.<br />
Surgeries: My surgery is on 13th<br />
July at the Cargill 10am - 11am. I<br />
can be contacted at: david.wilson@<br />
inverclyde.gov.uk” or 01475 74<strong>19</strong>69,<br />
712975 and 07766 992294.<br />
Your Ward 1 Councillors<br />
David Wilson, Stephen McCabe,<br />
Christopher Curley | Advice<br />
Surgeries: http://www.inverclyde.<br />
gov.uk/meetings/councillors/<br />
Community Council<br />
Visitors are welcome at these<br />
monthly meetings.<br />
KILMACOLM & QUARRIERS: Last<br />
Tuesday at 7.30pm, Kilmacolm<br />
Cargill Centre<br />
(NB: No meetings: July or Dec) |<br />
www.kilmacolmcc.co.uk<br />
Community Halls to Let<br />
Kilmacolm, Cargill Centre. Tel:<br />
873994<br />
Kilmacolm, Brownie/Guide Hut. Tel:<br />
07584 359007<br />
Kilmacolm, Masonic Hall. Tel:<br />
873059<br />
Guide Hut to Hire<br />
A great venue with easy access<br />
near to the village centre. Main<br />
hall, additional reburbished kitchen<br />
facilities and outdoor area... Perfect<br />
for children’s parties, weekly classes<br />
and one off special occasions.<br />
Anyone wanting to hire the Guide<br />
Hut please contact Julie on 07967<br />
371595 or e: guidehutbooking@<br />
gmail.com.<br />
in Kilmacolm – Holiday Club<br />
August 5th to August 7th from 10am<br />
– 12.30pm<br />
St Fillan’s Church Hall, Moss Road,<br />
Kilmacolm<br />
The Holiday Club will be packed full<br />
of games, activities, puppets and<br />
lots of fun things to do for children<br />
in Primary 1 to Primary 7<br />
Contact Angela by email: ang_<br />
blair@yahoo.co.uk<br />
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Lochwinnoch International Aid<br />
(LIA) News<br />
Before we start on the news, we’d like to give you advance notice of our<br />
- fast becoming- annual yard sale. This year it’s on Saturday 3rd August,<br />
at 79 High Street as usual. We’ll have household items, clothes, books,<br />
surprises. Tea, coffee and cakes will be available so you can have a wee<br />
seat and relax after shopping with us. All monies raised will go to the good<br />
causes that LIA supports. If you would like to donate an item(s) please call<br />
by the house on the evening of 2nd August. But no large items please.<br />
Many thanks to the organisers of the gala day and thanks, too, to the many<br />
people who came and bought the African jewellery, Fair Trade hamper raffle<br />
tickets and had a go at the guess-the-weight of the Fair Trade cake. We<br />
raised £200 in total! The winners were Karen Sillars (pictured, with Mary<br />
Alice) and Stuart McClymont (we hope you enjoyed Mary Alice’s baking).<br />
The hamper comprised of lots of goodies from the Rainbow Turtle fair trade<br />
shop in Paisley. Do go along and have a look. They also stock fair trade<br />
gifts.<br />
In other plans for the future, the Tea and Therapies day we had in April<br />
last year was such a success and so enjoyable we thought we might hold<br />
another one, perhaps in October. We’ll let you know nearer the time. Watch<br />
this space (or our Facebook page, or our webpage)!<br />
After our AGM in February we can report that we made donations of £4640<br />
to various projects, including Hope Hospital, Aleppo and Freedom from<br />
Torture. Included in that amount are the regular monthly donations from<br />
supporters, which means we in turn can donate regularly to particular<br />
organisations who can come to rely on this money. These include a fi stula<br />
hospital in Ethiopia, Dabane Water Trust, Zimbabwe and Acid Survivors<br />
Trust International among others.<br />
So, please do come and support our yard sale and chat to us. If you’d<br />
like to support LIA in some way - by joining the group or making regular<br />
donations - we’d love to hear from you.<br />
Lesley Scott, chair, LIA<br />
Churches in Kilmacolm & Quarriers<br />
KILMACOLM OLD KIRK: Church of Scotland (Charity no. SC009291). www.kilmacolmoldkirk.<br />
org.uk. Minister Rev. Dr. Peter McEnhill (01505 873174). Joint services during July at St<br />
Columba’s on Sundays at 11am. Sòlas Bereavement Group is held in Kidston Hall on the<br />
2nd Thursday each month at 2pm.<br />
ST COLUMBA CHURCH OF SCOTLAND: (Charity no. SC007992) Morning Worship Sundays<br />
at 11am. All welcome. Coffee/tea served in the hall after the service.<br />
GRACE CHURCH KILMACOLM: in association with Downavale Free Church of Scotland (Charity<br />
No: SCO38274) - Sunday Service at 10.30am in Kilmacolm Guide Hut, Woodrow Avenue,<br />
PA13 4QF - all welcome.<br />
ST COLM’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, Smithy Brae Kilmacolm. Rev. Vincent Byrne. Family mass<br />
Sundays 10am with children’s liturgy, followed by tea and coffee. Eucharistic service Thursdays<br />
11am. Rosary Tuesdays 6.30pm. Prayer group meets Thursdays 7.30pm. Further information<br />
and contact details www.stcolmsparish.co.uk. All welcome.<br />
BUDDHIST MEETINGS: Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin. Phone Margaret on 01505<br />
871343.<br />
ST FILLAN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Moss Road, Kilmacolm, PA13 4DL. Services on Sunday<br />
at 11.30am. Wednesday: 10.30am Holy Communion. On the last Sunday of the month at<br />
11.30am we welcome families to come and join us for our monthly Family Service. We are<br />
united by our belief in Jesus, who sustains and encourages us in all the ups and downs of life.<br />
Everyone is welcome to join us! www.heartlandsec.org/KLM/index.html Contacts: Revd. Heller<br />
G.P 01505 872961 / Maureen Russell (Pastoral Assistant) 01505 872905.<br />
MOUNT ZION CHURCH: Rev. Andy Lunn BSc, (01475 791282) Mount Zion Church, Law View<br />
Road, Quarriers Village, PA11 3FD. Sunday Worship: 10.30am, Bible Study and Prayer<br />
Meetings: Wednesday at 7pm and Friday at 10 am. Please come and invite others: all<br />
welcome.
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