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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. . . KILBARCHAN, HOWWOOD, LOCHWINNOCH, ELDERSLIE . . .<br />
24<br />
Next deadline - Friday <strong>19</strong>th July<br />
Art Off the Square<br />
This very popular art exhibition and<br />
sale takes place from 22nd - 24th<br />
August in Kilbarchan Parish Church<br />
halls.<br />
Positive Thinking<br />
The past is history, the future is<br />
mystery, NOW is a gift, which is why<br />
we call it the PRESENT! The only<br />
thing in your life you can control is<br />
your thoughts, the only thought you<br />
have power over is the present one.<br />
Learn how to think positively, and<br />
thus CONTROL your life. Email<br />
avril.forbes2015@outlook.com or<br />
text 07463 570464.<br />
Kilbarchan National<br />
Women’s Register<br />
The group has a break in July and<br />
will be resuming mid-August. We<br />
shall be pleased to welcome new<br />
members then - please contact<br />
703786 or the website:www.nwr.<br />
org.uk<br />
Kilbarchan Parish<br />
Church Tots’ Club<br />
The club had a very successful<br />
summer party at the end of June and<br />
will resume on 2nd September.<br />
Your Ward 9 Councillors<br />
Andy Doig, Derek Bibby, Bill<br />
Binks, Emma Rodden | Advice<br />
Surgeries: http://www.<br />
renfrewshire.gov.uk/councillors<br />
Community Council<br />
Visitors are welcome at these<br />
monthly meetings.<br />
Howwood: Village Hall: 2nd Tues at<br />
7.30pm. | www.howwood.com/<br />
community-council.php<br />
Kilbarchan: Steeple Hall: monthly<br />
at 7.30pm. | www.kilbarchan.<br />
info/community_council.html<br />
Lochwinnoch: Bowling Club: 1st<br />
Tues at 7.30pm<br />
Community Halls to Let<br />
Kilbarchan, Guide Centre. Tel:<br />
702758.<br />
Kilbarchan, Old Library Centre. Tel:<br />
706070<br />
Community Spirit<br />
After Elderslie Community Council (ECC) shared<br />
their plans to resurrect the Queens Road Playpark in<br />
Elderslie the kids were delighted that finally they would<br />
have a local safe space to play. The park is currently in<br />
a terrible state and only has a few swings in it.<br />
Upon attending the ECC family Quiz Night to help raise<br />
funds for the park, the girls were disheartened by the<br />
turn out and the fact that so much money still needed to<br />
be raised for the swing park. They decided they needed<br />
to do something to help. The target for the park is to<br />
raise £94,000 with the fund sitting at just under £7,000.<br />
It started with the girls having the idea they could sell<br />
some of their things and donate the money to the swing<br />
park fund. After clearing out Teaghan, Sophia and<br />
Ruaridh’s room (Sophia’s brother), the idea grew arms<br />
and legs and we decided to ask the local residents for<br />
donations to sell at the local Jack & Jill Market. We were<br />
overwhelmed by the response of our local community<br />
and the donated items sold raised £580, which was<br />
amazing. The girls presented a cheque to ECC at their<br />
monthly meeting, wearing the T-shirts produced by<br />
local business “Ferry Unique”.<br />
The girls are really motivated and are helping to<br />
organise a teddy tombola for the ECC Summer Fayre<br />
on Saturday 22nd June.<br />
This is just the start of their plans - we have helped<br />
them organise a bag pack at B&M in Paisley on the 18th<br />
August and they are hoping to help organise a disco for<br />
the local children. ECC have been a great support as<br />
has everyone who has donated to our Jack & Jill sale<br />
or the Teddy tombola. I think this proves that community<br />
spirit still exists and that no matter your age everyone<br />
can play a part.<br />
The girls presented a cheque to Anne-Marie Balfour from<br />
Elderslie Community Council for £580.<br />
Christian Aid<br />
Lochwinnoch<br />
This year’s<br />
door to door<br />
collection<br />
raised the<br />
fantastic sum<br />
of £2,188.38 before gift aid.<br />
Thanks to the collectors and all that<br />
donated!<br />
It’s wonderful that the village of<br />
Lochwinnoch is still able to raise<br />
this amount when there are so many<br />
charities looking for donations!<br />
Thank you<br />
<strong>Gryffe</strong> <strong>Advertizer</strong> | www.advertizer.co.uk<br />
Catchment area: Following a sustained<br />
campaign by myself, Renfrewshire<br />
Council is launching a school catchment<br />
review into the zoning for Kilbarchan<br />
Primary and East Fulton Primary<br />
in Linwood. This follows on from illadvised<br />
proposals from the Education<br />
Department to zone both the new<br />
Weirs Wynd development, and the new<br />
development at the former Johnstone<br />
ID hospital, both to Kilbarchan Primary, which could put<br />
school places for the village under pressure.<br />
Given that the Weirs Wynd development has a safe<br />
walking route to East Fulton Primary, and the former<br />
Johnstone ID development would have a safe walking<br />
route to Woodlands Primary in Linwood, this is now<br />
what the Council is proposing. If you agree with these<br />
changes please take part in the consultation to keep<br />
Kilbarchan Primary spaces open for village children.<br />
Roads: Since 2016 I have been involved, with<br />
other ward Cllrs, in the campaign to get the Scottish<br />
Government and Transport Scotland to upgrade the<br />
A737 to dual carriageway between the Roadhead<br />
Roundabout, outside Lochwinnoch, and Kilbarchan. I<br />
was pleased to attend recently a further meeting about<br />
this issue in Howwood which had over twenty people<br />
in attendance, including four Renfrewshire Cllrs, and<br />
one Cllr from North Ayrshire, two MSP’s, and one MP. I<br />
am convinced there is both a compelling economic and<br />
health and safety reason for this upgrade, especially<br />
now that the Dalry by pass has been dualled.<br />
Funding: During the Council’s budget meeting in<br />
February I was one of the two ward Cllrs for Lochwinnoch<br />
that voted for monies to upgrade the McKillop Institute.<br />
While this has been warmly welcomed by the wider<br />
community the leading lights in the Lochwinnoch Arts<br />
Festival have been rightly concerned about the precise<br />
timescale of the upgrade as they need to start booking<br />
artists and musicians now for the McKillop for the next<br />
Festival in March 2020. In order to ensure that both the<br />
Festival proceeds and the Institute gets restored I have<br />
arranged contacts at senior officer level to contact the<br />
Festival team, so that there is the closest communication<br />
between them so that all goes smoothly.<br />
Surgeries: My advice surgery in Kilbarchan is on<br />
the 2nd Wednesday of the month in the Steeple Hall<br />
at 7.30pm, and my advice surgery in Howwood is on<br />
the 4th Wednesday of the month in Howwood Village<br />
Hall at 6.30pm, then at Lochwinnoch also on the 4th<br />
Wednesday of the month in the McKillop at 7.30pm,<br />
excluding July and December. But I am also always<br />
available to constituents who can call me on 07534<br />
148224, tweet me on CllrAndy4Ward8, facebook me<br />
on Independent Voice/Ward9JohnstoneAndVillages, or<br />
e-mail me at cllr.andy.doig@renfrewshire.gov.uk<br />
Community Coffee Shop<br />
First Friday monthly<br />
Howwood Parish Church: 10am - 12noon<br />
“In the community, for the community”<br />
Adults £2 | Children free. All welcome.<br />
Churches in Kilbarchan, Howwood, Lochwinnoch & Elderslie<br />
KILBARCHAN PARISH CHURCH: Services continue at 11am on Sundays throughout the<br />
summer with the crèche and Summer Junior Church meeting in the halls from 10.45am.<br />
HOWWOOD PARISH CHURCH: Minister Rev May Bell. Sunday Service and Sunday<br />
School. 10am each Sunday. Prayer meeting held at 3 Bowfi eld Way, Howwood, 7.30pm<br />
on Tuesdays.<br />
LOCHWINNOCH PARISH CHURCH: Mary Jane Bird. Sunday 11am: Morning Worship and<br />
Sunday School. All welcome.<br />
CALDER UNITED FREE CHURCH: (Church Street, Lochwinnoch) Sunday: 11am Morning<br />
worship with Sunday School and Crèche. 6.30pm Evening Fellowship group, 7.30pm ABC’s<br />
Teen group. Wed 6.30pm - 7.30pm.<br />
SPIRITUALIST CHURCH, Lochlip Rd. All services commence 7.30pm.<br />
ELDERSLIE KIRK: Sunday service every week at 11am. Minister - Rev. Robin Allison. All<br />
welcome. Weekly meetings:- Monday Club every week from 12noon - 2.30pm. Light lunch<br />
and a varied activity programme. Midweek Fellowship will meet every Wed from 10.30am for<br />
Tea/Coffee followed by a short Service of Worship at 11am.
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