News October 2009

The next Giffordtown & District Community Council Meeting is on Mon 2 Nov 09. It will commence with the AGM at 7.00pm, followed by our ordinary meeting at 7.30pm. Download agendas here.

The popular Black Cat Jook Band is appearing at Steeple Arts on Friday, November 6, as the headline act of an evening of country blues, ragtime and skiffle.

North Howe Transition Toun are looking for local people who are interested in being trained as Energy Advisors as part of NHTT's Energy efficiency drive, the CaRB Project.

Five talented artists from north east Fife have been selected to show their work at one of Scotland's most prestigious contemporary art exhibitions, the annual spectacular hosted by the Royal Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI).

Ladybank Development Trust held a successful sponsored cycle followed by a barbecue earlier this month.

Included in this weeks packed bulletin: The Age of Stupid Film Screening dates announced Green Library Opening Date Survey Update Food Group Latest Events Group News Energy Advisor Opportunities Heart and Soul Group News MTP Apple Day Letham Nights Transition Cupar The Wave, Scotland Other Climate Change news...

Hill of Tarvit Mansionhouse near Cupar could open its doors to the public again after the National Trust for Scotland confirmed that a working group has been set up to reconsider its fate.

With golf back on the Olympic Games agenda, albeit not until 2016, it has been suggested that the flame kindled in Olympia should burn in the sport's home, St Andrews, in the run-up to the 2012 games in London.

The survey is progressing really well. Surveyors have covered Monimail, Bow of Fife, Collessie, Kinloch, Giffordtown, Edentown, Fernie and Cunnoquhie. We will be moving onto Letham in the next couple of days.

With Guy Fawkes night fast approaching people planning to celebrate with a bonfire are being urged to watch out for hedgehogs.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched a partnership between Adam Smith College and the Open University (OU) to improve further education opportunities in Fife.

On a wet miserable afternoon Strath travelled along the Hillfoots to the Scottish Cup tie that might just have been finished the previous week.

Spooky new residents at Fife Animal Park are to be unmasked on the scariest day of the year. Hallowe’en will see the opening of a bat cave at the centre near Collessie—populated by a colony of 30 Egyptian bats.

There is now a lot less of ‘Muchty woman Liz Slattery thanks to Slimming World's fantastic Healthy Eating Plan.

Auchtermuchty Parish Church: Nov 09 Newsletter

One of Scotland’s best known artists was so impressed with Cupar Arts Festival he reckons the event could help Fife rival the Edinburgh Festival.

The former paper mill at Guardbridge has been put up for sale as a waterfront development opportunity with an asking price of £3 million.

The approved minutes of the 13 Oct 09 Burgh of Falkland and Newton of Falkland Community Council meeting are now available for you to read.

Rainbows starts back after the October break, on Thursday 5th November from 5 - 6pm. We are looking forward to seeing all the girls again.

Fife's Maggie's annual day-long fundraiser, Maggie's Friday, is set to take place on 4 December.

Strugglnig to play all that fiddly stuff? Want to better your practical and theory skills?

Observations made by a St Andrews University physics team could influence the future of electronic technology.

More people across Tayside and Fife have been accepted on to a course at university or college this year, writes Grant Smith, education reporter.

Fans of T in the Park are being urged to help the event achieve glory in the festival industry 'Oscars'.

The Big Tent festival is being awarded the 'Greener Festival Award 2009'.

Kettle yoga resumes on Wednesday 28 October. Come along to the Memorial Hall, Kingskettle at 7.30pm.

An amateur radio station was set up in Kettle Scout Hall last Saturday as part of the Jamboree on the Air (JOTA).

Bookings are now being taken for the next block of Wee Fit for Wee Folk active play sessions.

Lomond United drew a blank in their Scottish Cup second round tie against Tynecastle Star at Edinburgh University last Saturday.

They say the truth is out there, and a new book promises to lift the lid on north east Fife's most incredible UFO sighting.

A local artist has spoken out against the organisers of Cupar Arts Festival.

The protest group set up to oppose increases in home care charges is waging a fresh battle with Fife Council, which it has accused of being 'mean-spirited' by considering scrapping rail concessions for the elderly and disabled.

Local members of the Fife Federation of Scottish Women's Rural Institute (SWRI) have lent their knitting skills to an innovative project that has been taking pride of place at the heart of Edinburgh as the city's latest temporary tourist attraction.

It has been a busy period recently for Kingskettle composer, Bruce Fraser.

The row over funding cuts to the Territorial Army has intensified amid accusations that the Government is putting 'money before morale.'

Postal services in Fife will grind to a halt today as delivery staff stage their walkout.

The curtain will come down on Cupar Arts Festival this weekend after two weeks showcasing the best in contemporary art, music, film and more.

The amateur football club at the centre of a planning row has called a public meeting to clarify the situation.

North east Fife mansion with the dubious honour of being named as Britain's most expensive repossession has been sold for a knockdown price.

Fife's chief fire officer Jimmy Campbell has denied reports claiming the Kingdom's fire service will merge with Tayside and Central Scotland.

Auchtermuchty Health Centre will be holding their annual seasonal flu imunisation programme on Sat 31 October 0900-1230 - no appointment necessary. Ladybank Health Centre will be holding their seasonal flu catch-up cinic on Wed 28 Oct 1330 - 1520.

The Strathmiglo surgery will be closed due to annual leave on Fri 23 and Mon 26 Oct & Fri 4, Mon 7 and Tue 8 Dec 2009.

On Friday 9th October 2009, Donald Dallas gave a really interesting talk in Letham Village Hall on the history of Letham.

Councillors at today’s Social Work and Health Committee were briefed on the achievements in dementia care led by Fife Council’s Social Work Services.

Saturday night (17 Oct) was a another stunner musically with great sets from Mr Gavin McGinty and Lefty supporting Spanky's Heroes.

Members of Fife Council's Social Work and Health Committee were updated on progress to manage fire safety for the protection of services users and staff.

Auchtermuchty Community Centre is running a "Being Active in Your Community" course beginning Wed 4th November, 6:30-8:30pm

The DRAFT minutes of the 28 Sep 09 Kettle Community Council meeting are now available for all to read.

Fife residents expecting to receive a new or replacement myfife card this week or early next week can collect their card from their nearest Local Services Centres to minimise any delays to delivery caused if the planned postal strike on October 22 and 23 goes ahead.

Future activity and training at Cupar’s Yeomanry House Territorial Army centre remains unclear.

Ladybank based artist Kirsty Lorenz is one of the exhibitors at the latest display in the Pitlochry Festival Theatre's art gallery.

Howe of Fife and Tay Coast councillor, Donald Lothian, has again pressed the case for the creation of a new path between Auchtermuchty and Gateside.

The very popular knitting group will start up again in the Craig Room of Falkland Parish Church on Tuesday evenings at 7.30pm from 20 October.

The Blythswood Care Christmas shoebox appeal needs your help.

An introductory block of eight Tai Chi classes are being held in Gateside Memorial Hall starting on Monday 26 October.

The service last Sunday was conducted by Mr. Iain Mitchell, QC, a reader in Dunfermline Presbytery.

It was two much changed teams contesting this Glendale Plastics League fixture.

Tis the season to scare, so Kettle artist and professional face-painter, Mary Fairgrieve, invites you to head over to the Chicken Shop, 263 High Street, Kirkcaldy to be transformed, using the halloween/fantasy make-up of your choice.

Find out what's on offer at Blacketyside Farm Shop, plus how to encourage bees to your garden and much more in this month's newsletter.

This second round Scottish Amateur Cup tie was a cracker of a contest.

Fife is becoming an even safer place to live, work and visit.

Pupils at Strathmiglo Primary School have been doing their bit towards recycling.

The widow of the man described as the 'lynchpin' of the victorious Falkland in Bloom campaign was honoured at the organisation's annual community awards ceremony last Thursday evening.

The big attraction at the end of Sept was, of course, the pair of recently released sea eagles that circled over the loch...

Fife Council would like your feedback on the Fife Council budget for 2010 -11 and the following years.

Staff at the SPAR store in Ladybank presented a cheque to the local community on Tuesday.

The toddlers meet in Letham Village Hall on Wednesdays from 1-3pm and Fridays from 9.30 - 11am (during term time). Please come along for some friendly chat and fun for your little one!

The Tai Chi class in Kingskettle has started up again after a summer break and will be on a Tuesday evening at 7pm in Kingskettle Village Hall.

Fife Community Safety Partnership would like your views on how you feel about crime, antisocial behaviour and other community safety issues.

Fife Safety Camera Partnership is providing copies of the newly revised Official Highway Code interactive cd-rom to all community and school libraries as part of the 2009 winter driving campaign.

Fife's economy should be well placed to prosper in the years ahead as the country comes out of recession, councillors have been assured.

The North Howe Transition Toun (NHTT) group is running a survey in Collessie relating to climate change.

The service last Sunday was conducted by Rev. George Nicol, and scripture readings were given by Mrs. Elaine Nicol. Sunday was Harvest Thanksgiving Sunday and the church was tastefully decorated with a variety of vegetables and fruit.

Find out the prize winners of the September draw.

Strath's interest in this season's Scottish Brewers Cup came to an end last Saturday.

Tens of thousands of pink-footed geese are expected to fly “home” to Scotland from Iceland this month, with many already arriving at the RSPB Vane Farm Nature Reserve on Loch Leven.

Men are being urged to join forces and take part in a service to raise awareness of prostate cancer, which is to be launched on the east coast of Scotland.

After months of hard graft and meticulous planning, the Cupar Arts Festival finally gets under way this weekend.

Included in this issue: LFG Green Library, Apple Press News, NHTT Website, Heart and Soul News, Transition Scotland Events and Letham Nights.

Student leaders have welcomed the Scottish Government’s decision to increase grants and loans by £30 million.

St Andrews is to be the venue for the World Deaf Golf Championships next year.

Schools across Fife are sowing the seeds for pupils’ future health and wellbeing.

A Fife town could become the model used for future planning for the whole of Scotland, it emerged yesterday.

A Fife man will be tested to the limit on what has been billed as perhaps the most dangerous race in the world.

Giffordtownians congratulate Laura Munro, or Laura Ferguson as she was when she lived at Charlottetown, for winning first prize in the Shell-sponsored painting exhibition at Kirkcaldy Art Gallery.

‘Buddha Da’ was always going to be a hard act to follow for Anne Donovan; it did, after all, feature on both the Whitbread First Novel and the Orange Prize shortlists.

The Rotary Club of the Howe of Fife last week welcomed – with some trepidation – Dr. Beverly Roberts, from Edinburgh University’s Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology.

Our last session before the October break was spent at Muddy Boots. Bambi and Otter met the girls there and a fun time was had by all. We will meet up again on November 5th in the hall at 5 - 6 pm.

Freuchie's real-ale local, the Albert Tavern, has scooped the top spot in a national competition to find the campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Scottish & Northern Ireland Pub of the Year 2009!

There was applause in Cupar's County Hall on Wednesday after the NE Fife Area Committee refused to give Angle Sand & Gravel Company permission to extend its site at Melville Gates.

Thank you to all who helped at the Ruff Diamonds night on 19 Sep 09. We're delighted to announce we raised £500 and had a fantastic time.

Volunteers are sought to help plant bulbs in Gateside and Burnside on Sun 04 Oct 09.

Congrats to Pamela Brunt of St Andrews who won the grand prize in Alfred Malocco's annual exhibition fundraising raffle.

A brave group of Kettle ladies have stripped off for a cheeky calendar in a bid to raise money for charity.

At 9.00 am on Friday 2nd October, all four Arts and Theatres Trust venues will open their doors for a massive twelve hour Box Office spectacular where you can buy tickets to a variety of shows and films for only £5!