District News
Kinross
Continued Time Exchange The annual general meeting is in St Paul’s Church meeting room, the Muirs, on Saturday, April 8, between 10.30am and noon. All welcome. RSPB Loch Leven Events begin with a family bush craft event on Saturday, April 8, from 10am to 12.30pm. Come along and learn simple outdoor skills, fire lighting, etc. The event costs £16 per member family and £20 for nonmember families. Individual tickets are also available; booking is essential. Nature Tots host ‘mud and mess’ on Wednesday, April 12, from 10am to noon. Entry costs £3 member family and £6 non–member families; booking is essential. Easter lapwing trail will be held on Friday, April 14 until Monday, April 17. Follow the trail, solve the puzzle and win a tasty treat. No need to book; drop in and take part; costs £2 per entry. For more information on any of the events and to book a place, call the reserve office on 01577 862355. Little Seedlings The group is hosting an “eggstra” special Easter session of the club at Dobbies Garden Centre, Kinross on Monday, April 10, from 2.30pm to 4pm with features on learning about growing, as well as games and crafts. All children aged four to 10 years are welcome, accompanied by an adult; free entry. Book in advance at www.dobbies.com. Tennis Club Easter camp with junior coaching will be held at the club from Monday, April 10 until Friday, April 14. It will be closely followed by the summer term block of coaching on Tuesdays and Fridays, starting on Friday, April 21. For more information, go to the club’s website www. kinrosstennisclub.org.uk or email Siobhan at kinrosstenniscoaching@ gmail.com. Cleish Guild The guild will host a daffodil tea in Cleish Village Hall on Wednesday, April 12, from 2.30pm to 4.30pm. Entry costs £4, and includes a sales table. All proceeds from the event will go to the Guild projects. Garden Group The group will hold a meeting in Millbridge Hall, Kinross on Thursday, April 13, at 2pm. The speaker will be Professor David Rankin, of Edinburgh University and he will talk on Kevock Garden ‘Poles apart, China and Chile’. All welcome. Parish Church The church is holding a ‘One Friday’ event at the church on Station Road, Kinross on Friday, April 14. It is aimed at children and their families and will begin at 10.30am until 12.30pm. A light lunch will also be included. Everyone is welcome to come along and enjoy this Good Friday experience. Orwell Bowling Club The opening of the green will take place at the club on Saturday, April 15, at 1.30pm for a 2pm start. The opening game is being held in aid of blind bowlers with a raffle; donations of prizes would be much appreciated. Kinross Bowling Club The opening of the green will take place on Saturday, April 15, at 2pm. Potential new members are welcome to go along and see what’s on offer. For more information, contact the club secretary on 01577 864727. SWI Group The Kinross SWI spring group meeting saw the Ramage Dawson trophy won by Glenfarg with the Erskine trophy for the runner-up awarded to Cleish. Maureen Lambie (Glenfarg) won the Jessie Smith salver for the best individual performance. The autumn group meeting will be held in Cleish Village Hall on Saturday, November 4, at 2pm.
Luncarty
Bowling Club Numbers in the lottery this week were 7, 15, 18 and 19. No Conservation volunteers were very egg-cited to note there is now a first egg in the osprey nest at Loch of the Lowes near Dunkeld.
On Tuesday, April 4, female osprey LF15 laid her first egg of the season at the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s reserve.
A camera trained on the nest revealed a mottled brown egg when the bird stood up at 7.10pm.
Male osprey LM12 returned to the
winning line; prize money next week will be £2000.
Meigle
Concert Scottish trad-rock band Skerryvore will be performing in Meigle’s Kinloch Memorial Hall on April 29. Tickets cost £16 and the evening is bring your own bottle (BYOB). For more information on this event, contact Elaine Sturrock on 01828 640312.
Methven
Church news The Palm Sunday service in Methven Church will be led by Rev Dr Rob Barlow on Sunday at 11.30am. The service on Sunday of last week was conducted by the Rev Iain Paton.
Newburgh
Bonus ball The winner of last week’s TICC bonus ball was JR on number 14. Coffee morning The Newburgh Nippers will hold their annual coffee morning tomorrow in the TICC at 10am. All welcome. NAG Newburgh action group The group would like to thank everyone involved with their recent coffee morning, whether working behind the stalls, serving coffee, raffles, on the door or helping in the kitchen. Thanks to everyone who donated baking, bric-a-brac, tombola and raffle prizes, and to Canatara, Scottish Deer Centre and KP for their donations. The sum of £600 was raised and this money will go towards the £8000 required each year to keep the Christmas lights shining and the flower tubs, boats and hanging baskets filled. Everyone will be most welcome to their annual general meeting, which will be held in the nest a few minutes later and after a brief squabble to decide who would incubate the egg, the female settled down for the night.
The date of the first egg to arrive equals the earliest recorded first laying at Loch of the Lowes, on April 4 2005.
Last year and the season before, LF15 reared three chicks in the same nest perched above the loch.
TiCC on Tuesday, April 25, at 7pm. Thursday Club Members enjoyed another enjoyable afternoon with the Disclaimers group. It made such a difference to their singing when the words of the songs were handed out to those present. The tea served by the committee afterwards was more than welcomed after all their strenuous singing. Next week’s entertainment will be provided by the Woodside Trio. Come and join in on any Thursday afternoon at 2pm. There are still a few seats available for the outing to the Fife coast on May 4. Whinnybank Cat Sanctuary Sue and Steven had great fun this week catching fish, which were no longer wanted, from a pond in Gauldry. They can now live out the rest of their lives happily swimming in the pond at Whinnybank. As the owners were filling in the pond, Sue also came away with plants, frogs, toads and spawn. Sue would like to thank Linda and Isabel for their hard work in dressing the Easter windows in the shops in Newburgh and Auchtermuchty respectively, which now look great. Sue has had a lot of calls from people wanting to donate bedding to the sanctuary. Unfortunately, she does not have time to pick it up and requests volunteers to drop this off at one of the shops. Thanks also go to everyone who donated cat food recently, and to the MS Society for their donation of bric-a-brac and books. Anyone who can offer a home to a cat, help at fundraising events, in the shops or at the sanctuary, should please call Sue on 01337 840414, or see visit their website at www.catchat. org and www.whinnybank.org.uk.
Pitlochry
Arthritis Awareness Members of Arthritis Awareness in Atholl were treated to a fascinating talk from
A camera trained on the nest revealed a mottled brown egg when the bird stood up at 7.10pm on Tuesday. Pic: SWT
All being well more eggs will be added over the next few days and this first egg could hatch in about six weeks time.
Charlotte Fleming, SWT’s Perthshire ranger said:“LF15 gave us a first glimpse of the egg just after 7pm yesterday evening and LM12 swooped in to investigate shortly afterwards. LF15 has settled down to begin incubating.”
Charlotte Flower, a chocolatier from Acharn. She has been making chocolate for eight years following a career in forestry. In great detail, she explained the complex process of making chocolate, from harvesting the pods from trees grown around the equator, to the production of superb top of the range chocolate. Chocolate was known to the Aztecs and Mayan people thousands of years ago and reached Europe in the late 18th century. Van Houten, Mr Nestle, Mr Fry and Mr Lindt all helped in perfecting the production of the brands that are now familiar. Members were then treated to a taste of Charlotte’s chocolate, made from cocoa beans from all over the world, with subtle differences in flavour depending on where the cocoa came from. Chairman Hugh Mackintosh asked Dr David Cruikshank to give the vote of thanks on behalf of a very appreciative audience. Their next meeting will be held in Moulin Hall on Monday, May 1, when the speaker will be Gordon Dilworth on the topic of ‘Rhyming for fun: a lifetime of verse’. All welcome. Church The Easter services will begin with a Walk with the Cross event on Friday, April 14, at 8am; meeting outside the church at 7.50am. There will also be a Good Friday service at 7pm on that day. The open air service is an ecumenical communion service on Sunday, April 16, in the Explorers Garden at Pitlochry Theatre at 7am. Easter morning all age worship will be held in the church at 10.30am and will include communion. Football The Vale of Atholl FC league match was sponsored by RW Bell Building Services. The score was Vale 0 - Kettins 3. The team were Walker, Henderson, Taylor, Simpson, Berry, Robinson, Houston, Young, Sheppard, Scrimgeour, McLauchlan, Barrie, Robertson, Clark, Smillie and Clark. Vale had to start the game without the experienced Darabus, Kennedy and Millar, who was injured and Chris Smillie, who was not deemed fit enough to start. Vale never really got to grips with the visitors, who were one of the best teams to visit them this year and looked to deserve being top of the league. However, the referee didn’t help the home cause. There was not a whole lot of difference early on, as Kettins played slick football only kept out by Vale’s defence. Neither side had a clear cut chance until Vale made a couple of defensive errors, which eventually led to the winger shooting through a number of players and into the net with Kyle Walker unsighted. Scrimgeour, McLauchlan, Robinson and Sheppard were prominent going forward for Vale, but again no clear cut chance was presented resulting in a half time score of 0-1. Vale pressed hard for the leveller at the start of the second half with some excellent play down the right. Steven Henderson came forward much more, but the visiting defence didn’t crack under the pressure. Kettins scored a second from a corner, with the centre half heading home when he found himself unmarked. Again, Walker was unsighted as the ball skipped past players in the box. Vale made some changes, with Sheppard and Houston taken off, replaced by Clark and Barrie. These changes allowed Henderson to get forward even more, but again his good work came to nothing as Kettins defended well. Robertson and Smillie went on for McLauchlan and Scrimgeour. Vale also made some positional changes and, although this allowed them more of the ball, they didn’t trouble the Kettins keeper too much. The Kettins centre then put the game beyond doubt when he gathered the ball with his hand. From 35 yards out, he strode forward and smashed an un-saveable shot into the roof of the net for a third goal. However, the referee dismissed all appeals for the handball. The game petered out after this as defences again handled things pretty comfortably. Vale supporters will not kid themselves that this was one of their better games, as they didn’t often get a foothold in the game. Defensively they did well, but still made errors with the first two goals. The midfield struggled during the game with the pace and passing of the opposition, as did the forwards against a really good defence. All of the Vale squad played well enough and never gave up. However, it just wasn’t good enough on the day and they never looked like getting the better of the unbeaten league leaders, whose team work, pace and passing was excellent. Walker in goal couldn’t be faulted. Henderson had a good game at the back, especially when he went forward. Robinson did most of his good work on the defensive side, both down the right and left side. The man of the match was Glenn Robinson. Tomorrow the club are away to the Pole team in Perth with a 2pm start. Flower Club The club will next meet at Scotland’s Hotel, Pitlochry on Wednesday, April 19, commencing at 2pm. This month’s demonstration will be given by Shamima Hassan on the topic of ‘Around the world’. There will be a competition for club members named ‘something exotic’. Winners of the raffle could also go home with a beautiful flower arrangement. Visitors are welcome; admission costs £5. For further info phone Linzee Linsay (chair) on 01738 710777 or Carol MacGill on 01796 473026. Community council Pitlochry and Moulin community council’s next monthly meeting will be held in Pitlochry High School on Wednesday, April 12, at 7.30pm.
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