Showcase will be a team effort
BRCC meeting Picnic by cook school kids
The next meeting of Blairgowrie and Rattray Community Council takes place on Thursday this week, at 7pm in the small hall at Rattray Hall on Balmoral Road.
Items on the agenda include updates on various issues that the community council is currently involved in on behalf of the local community, including speed limits, the future of the police station in Blairgowrie, allotments, cycle paths and parking at Piggy Lane.
Members of the public also have a chance to raise any issues that affect them that the community council may be able to help with. All welcome. The Town Team, an organisation in Coupar Angus which aims to improve communication between the various voluntary groups in the town, is holding an ‘action picnic’ on Friday this week.
The event, which is being organised in partnership with Coupar Angus and Bendochy Council, will take place in the Town Hall from 3-8pm.
It will feature a range of stalls from various groups and organisations in the town who will be showcasing the work they do, encouraging new members, and consulting with the wider community on any issues of interest to them.
And in the evening, visitors to the event will be able to enjoy a picnic with lots of local fare, which will have been prepared and cooked by youngsters from the town who all took part in Coupar Angus Youth Action Group’s hugely successful summer cooking school this year.
The group ran five oneweek-long courses for youngsters over the school holidays, with around 20 children taking part each week, learning new cooking skills.
The winners of the Coupar Angus and Bendochy Council garden competition will also be presented with their trophies at the picnic at 6pm.
Among the groups who will have a stall at the event are award-winning environmental group Pride of Place (PoP).
As well as trying to encourage people to join PoP, the group will be displaying updated plans for the work due to be carried out along the Coupar Angus burn this autumn.
The plans will highlight the detail of the path and seating at the west end of the town as well as the locations of the three interpretation panels that pupils at Coupar Angus Primary School will be involved in gathering the information for and designing.
The action picnic is being organised as part of the Great Perthshire Picnic, a month-long food and drink festival taking place across Perthshire celebrating the best local produce and home-grown talent and the brainchild of Gareth Ruddock from Perth’s leading social enterprise, Giraffe Trading.