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WHAT’S
HAPPENING
THIS MONTH
Monday Bridge Club
Cargill Community Centre 7pm.
For information contact the
Club Secretary, Sheena Clayton,
on 01505 873802.
Local Police Surgeries
4th Monday - local
neighbourhood officer surgery
in the Community Centre
10.30am - 11.30am.
Tuesday Crafty Play Café
Quarriers Village Café, Faith
Avenue 10am-12noon; 12noon
-2pm; 2pm - 4pm. £2 for kids
craft materials (optional)
Wednesday Knitting Group
Three Sisters Bake, Quarriers
10am - 12noon.
Babies, Bumps and Boobs
St. Columba’s Church Lesser
Hall, Duchal Road (term-time).
1st Wednesday in the
month. Contact playgroup
membership@gmail.com
Inverclyde Carers Outreach
Cargill Centre, 11am - 2pm. 2nd
Wednesday in the month.
Email: enquiries@inverclyde
carerscentre.org.uk or call:
01475 735180.
‘Outlook’
Kidston Hall, 2pm - 4pm. 1st
& 3rd Thursday in the month.
Guest speakers, afternoon tea,
local issues. All welcome.
Sòlas Bereavement Support
Group
Kidston Hall, 2pm - 4pm. 2nd
Thursday in the month.
Movie Night
Old Kirk, 7pm for 7.30pm. Last
Thursday in the month.
Saturday Volunteer Group
Greenock Cut Visitor Centre
10.30am - 2.30pm
Conservation Volunteers, adult
group. Newcomers always
welcome.
Guide Hut to Hire
Main hall, kitchen facilities
and outdoor area. Perfect for
children’s parties, weekly classes
and one off special occasions.
Contact Julie: 07967 371595 or
e: guidehutbookings@gmail.
com.
Annual Shrove
Tuesday Coffee
Morning
Tuesday 25th February from
10am - 12noon
St Fillan’s Church Hall, Moss
Road, Kilmacolm.
With lovely freshly made
pancakes, home baking, raffle
and various stalls. Tickets £3.
Kilmacolm | Quarriers
Kilmacolm Dramatic
Society
Professional director Alison Holliman faced a
difficult task in casting Kilmacolm Dramatic
Society’s next production, thanks to the large
number of interested people who auditioned for
parts.
Judging by the amount of laughter at the
audition, our chosen play looks sure to provide
an excellent evening’s entertainment.
It’s Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus, a farcical
comedy of ill manners set in the 1960s. It
features classic farce fare of dropped trousers,
mismanaged lust and a veritable merry-goround
of mistaken identities, all in the home of
the apparently respectable Wicksteed family.
There will be three performances in the Kidston
Hall - on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
22nd - 24th April.
With all the roles cast, rehearsals are now in full
swing, with the enthusiastic cast including both
well known and new faces.
If you’re interested in being involved backstage,
we’re always delighted to welcome new members
- to help with costumes, make-up, lighting, set
design and building, stage management, or
publicity. If you’d like to know more about our
activities, just contact President Claire Fraser on
claire.fraser@scotech.ltd.uk or Rosie Thirde on
rosiethirde33@gmail.com
Daffodil Spring Fayre -
SAVE THE DATE
Kilmacolm Girl Guides would love
you to save the date for their Daffodil
Spring Fayre on Saturday the 21st
March.
It will take place at St Columba
Church Hall, Kilmacolm from 2pm - 4pm.
There will be crafts, tombola, Easter eggs,
home baking, Mother’s Day gifts and much
more. Afternoon tea is included in the price.
Adults £3 and children £1.50.
MND Coffee Morning
Saturday 7th March 10am - 12noon.
2nd Floor New Community Centre, Kilmacolm.
Tickets £3.
Churches in Kilmacolm & Quarriers
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It is widely recognised by those who
know more about these matters than
me that Kilmacolm has one of the best
village centres and civic space. This
praise is due to the foresight of Jim
Wood who unfortunately passed away
last month. His ideas and concept
for the village centre caught the
imagination of others. Helen and Alex Calvert and
Rosemary Hammond spring to mind. Jim badgered
architects, town planners, the council, civic trust,
community council and councillors (messrs Fyfe,
McCabe and myself).
The plan was to refurbish the two elderly and
redundant primary schools and have a village
piazza. Messrs Sandy Fyfe and Graham Peacock,
trustees of the Cargill fund came up with £1m and
Councillor Stephen McCabe and I were charged
with obtaining a further £1m from the Council.
The community centre has been an overwhelming
success with between 2 and 3 thousand users per
month. We will always be indebted to Jim Wood
and his vision.
The comprehensive consultation on a site for extra
long term parking in the village, eliminated the
suggestion of a multi storey car park in the area at
the Cargill. This left a close result between a site
in Gillburn Road and the area behind the old Police
Station. Officers will further investigate costs and
feasibility of both and will report in due course to
the Environment and Regeneration Committee, of
which I am not a member.
A consultation has been held with regard to
village schools in Kilmacolm, Inverkip and Wemyss
Bay. There was no desire by parents of the three
primaries to have a denominational school in
any of the villages. Nobody attended the public
meetings for Kilmacolm Primary and St Stephens.
Parents in the village are obviously happy with the
excellent education available at KPS and make a
denominational choice at P7.
The prepared plots at Leperstone Avenue were
originally designated for people from outside
Inverclyde. I disagreed at the time with this
stricture and was even more annoyed when the
ground works made life intolerable for neighbours
beside the building site. We sold one plot and now
have decided to make the remainder available to
Inverclyde folk who wish to build their own house.
Long overdue.
My surgeries are 12th February Cargill centre 10am
- 11am, 22nd February St Mary’s Episcopal Port
Glasgow.
I can be contacted at: david.wilson@inverclyde.
gov.uk 07766 992294 , 01474 741969 and 712975.
KILMACOLM OLD KIRK: Church of Scotland (Charity no. SC009291). www.kilmacolmoldkirk.org.uk. Morning worship: Sundays
at 11am. Sòlas Drop-in Bereavement Group is held in Kidston Hall on the 2nd Thursday each month at 2pm. Outlook on the 1st &
3rd Thursdays at 2pm. Tea and coffee served after every service.
ST COLUMBA CHURCH OF SCOTLAND: (Charity no. SC007992) Morning Worship Sundays at 11am. All welcome.
GRACE CHURCH KILMACOLM: in association with Downavale Free Church of Scotland. Sunday Service at 10.30am in Kilmacolm
Guide Hut, Woodrow Avenue, PA13 4QF.
ST COLM’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, Smithy Brae Kilmacolm. Rev. Vincent Byrne. Family mass Sundays 10am with children’s liturgy.
Eucharistic service Thursdays 11am. Rosary Tuesdays 6.30pm. Prayer group meets Thursdays 7.30pm. Further information and
contact details www.stcolmsparish.co.uk
BUDDHIST MEETINGS: Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin. Call Margaret on 01505 871343.
ST FILLAN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Moss Road, Kilmacolm, PA13 4DL. Service of Eucharist on Sundays at 11.30am except
the first Sunday of the month at 11.30am is the Service of Matins: Wednesday 10.30am Holy Communion: On last Sunday of
the month 6pm (Said) Evensong: Clergy: The Revd Heller Gonzalez (01505-2961); Pastoral Assistant Maureen Russell (01505-
872905). Find us on www.heartlandsec/org/KLM/index.html
MOUNT ZION CHURCH: Rev. Andy Lunn BSc, (01475 791282) Mount Zion Church, Law View Road, Quarriers Village, PA11 3FD.
Sunday Worship: 10.30am, Bible Study and Prayer Meetings: Wednesday at 7pm and Friday at 10am.