Bow of Fife, Collessie & Letham News December 2008

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A reminder that surgeries will be closed for 4 days over Christmas & New Year from December 25-28 and again from January 1-4.

Congrats to Alfred Malocco who's winter art exhibition has raised £300 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

The Rotary Cub of the Howe of Fife presented two awards at its annual Christmas party at the Village Inn, Pitlessie, on Tuesday.

Start 2009 by enrolling on a course at the wonderful new Howe of Fife Learning Centre, by the primary school, in Auchtermuchty.

Around 100 people packed the hall to listen and dance to the music of a varied line-up of performers.

Congrats to the Howe of Fife Parish which has just launched its own website: www.howekirk.co.uk

Details of Christmas Services in Howe Churches

In a survey of almost 500 FSB members whose businesses are based in rural areas, nearly 60 per cent said they were expecting their Christmas trade to be down on this time last year.

Community representatives from across Fife attended a civic reception in the Rothes Halls, Glenrothes to recognise their tremendous success this year in the Beautiful Scotland Awards and Britain in Bloom.

The project has been now offered funding, been used as a best-practice prototype and has seen Mike and his family - wife Karen and children Sorely (4) and Alex (1), splashed across local and national media for their innovative thinking when it comes to food.

The Rotary Club of the Howe of Fife recently handed over a cheque for £500 to six former Newburgh Primary School pupils. This will help them to participate in a trip to Italy in January, at the invitation of the Italian Star Association.

The north east Fife area committee meeting at Cupar agreed unanimously to support an application by the council's education service for a synthetic pitch measuring about 37 metres by 77 metres in the school grounds.

Fife-based fresh produce company Kettle Produce Ltd announced details this week of a restructuring exercise which is expected to result in the net loss of 100 jobs.

Update from the Fife Diet - an experiment with local food

The two performances will take place at the Auchtermuchty Church Hall on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th December with a start time of 6.30pm.

The reservations are coming in fast for the inaugural 'Letham Nights' and it looks like we are going to get a good crowd. As well as the Moonzie Allstars, we now have 3 other acts to entertain you for the evening:

Iain Smith MSP has reacted to the announcement that a restructuring exercise at Kettle Produce is expected to result in the loss of 100 jobs.

Nearly two-thirds of Scotland's village halls need improvements or repair, according to a study. Scottish Government-commissioned research also found that the same proportion were more than 50 years old.

Bird Counts on the Loch in November 08

Fife Council is determined to make Fife a great place to live, work and visit. And local people can now see how well the council is succeeding in its aims as it has just published its first Annual Performance report since the new Council was elected in May 2007.

Tickets for the finale performance of Dick Whittington have been sold out for weeks. However, there are two available on EBAY!

Pupils from P5-7 have been enjoying cookery lessons at Elmwood College as an After School Activity over the past 4 weeks.