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ARMADALE GRACE HARRIS HARRISG14@GMAIL.COM MEMORY CAVE CAFÉ
The cafe which is normally held within Armadale Partnership Centre on the 3rd Friday of each month is postponed until further notice due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation. Volunteers Fay, Ann and Grace hope all the attendees at the café are keeping safe and well. The café is for people with dementia and their carers and is supported by Alzheimer Scotland and run by volunteers from the Armadale community. The cafe is a place where carers and family members can drop in at any time between 10am – 12 noon and provides a place to meet where people understand dementia, gain peer support and information. When the café resumes please drop in and enjoy a good blether with a varied programme each month which can include games, quizzes, music and crafts or sometimes just a good blether. Carers or family members with someone they are caring for with dementia are always made most welcome.
2ND ARMADALE RAINBOW GUIDES
meet on Tuesdays from 6.30pm-7.30 pm at Armadale Partnership Centre. Rainbows are a group of 5 and 6 year old girls, who have loads of fun doing crafts, playing games and doing activities and challenges.
They are now taking names for girls who will be five throughout 2020. If interested and would like more information, please contact Claire on 07719 465315 or visit girlguiding.org.uk as they are not meeting until further notice.
WATSON BOWLING CLUB
The club is closed until further notice due to the current virus situation.
ARMADALE PARISH CHURCH
As Worship and Sunday School at Armadale Parish Church is closed until the Scottish Government announces Phase Four of lifting lockdown due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation Rev. Julia Wiley is reaching out to everyone on the Armadale Parish Church Website. Rev. Wiley is sharing words of encouragement and Hymns of hope and inspiration to help everyone through this difficult time. On the website you will also find a Children’s section with Rev. Wiley. Please visit the Armadale Parish Church website as you will be uplifted by Rev. Wiley’s words and singing. The site also gives information about the Church and all the organisations including fund raising events which take place throughout the year. Unfortunately suspended until further notice are the Girls Brigade, Boys Brigade, GuiId, Fellowship Group, Thrift Shop, Friendship Group and other hall users groups.
ARMADALE BOWLING CLUB
The premises are closed until further notice.
OPAL
Older People Active Lives run a weekly activity group for anyone age 60+ on Thursdays from 2- 4pm in Colinshiel Court, McNeil Crescent, Armadale, EH48 2NB but has been cancelled indefinitely meantime. Activities vary week to week from games, quizzes, music, speakers etc and if interested in attending or for more information please contact OPAL directly on 01506 815815 or opal@cyrenians.scot
ARMADALE THISTLE
The lottery has been postponed until further notice.
WEST CALDER
LORNA GRAHAM CLOVENFORD YAHOO.CO.UK
WEST CALDER MEDICAL CENTRE
all doctors and staff would like to thank their patients for their continued support and understanding during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. As you will be aware we had to quickly implement significant changes to our service for the safety of patients and staff.
We have now reached a transitional phase, and are working hard to adapt our service so we can deal with nonurgent medical problems in a more coordinated way hopefully to the benefit of both doctors and patients.
From Monday 22nd June patients will be able to request a call-back from a particular doctor up to 2 weeks in advance. Depending on availability, patients will be able to specify the date and either a morning or afternoon callback. This will allow the GPs to plan their workload better, and provide patients with better continuity of care.
We will keep you informed of further changes as they occur.
Many thanks West Calder Medical Centre
LIMEFIELD CHURCH
All services, gatherings and activities are cancelled until further notice.
WEST KIRK OF CALDER & POLBETH HARWOOD CHURCH
Both these Churches are closed and all planned services and events within the church and grounds, are also suspended until further notice.
On a more positive note: Please check out our church website: west- kirkpolbeth-harwood.co.uk for our weekly Sunday video service for all ages including a message, music and a children’s slot
MID CALDER
YVONNE GREEN
01506 440881 /07504551881 YVONNEGREEN55@GMAIL.COM
MID CALDER BOWLING CLUB
has reopened the bowling green for limited non-competitive play conforming with Bowls Scotland guidance. Time on the green has to be booked in advance. The club is now preparing for the next phase in the easing of restrictions and we are hoping to have our outside area in use when it is decided that alcohol can be consumed in a beer garden. If and when this happens access will be restricted to members so anyone looking to renew should do so ASAP. We would like to record our appreciation to those bowling members who have paid their fees, indeed our membership has actually increased this season. The club will continue to make more facilities available as restrictions are lifted and ask members to bear with us through these unprecedented times. Anyone requiring information on what is happening at the club should call Brian on 07821 258737.
MID CALDER COMMUNITY COUNCIL AND KIRK OF CALDER
are working together to achieve positive outcomes during this difficult time and prior to lockdown a leaflet giving full details was delivered to every household in Mid Calder. There has been a great response to the request for volunteers with a lot of help given already with shopping, prescription collections and just general advice. The main contact is Eleanor Blair who can be contacted by email eblair892@btinternet.com or phone 07823328609
SERVICES IN KIRK OF CALDER
have been cancelled until further notice. However the Rev John Povey is giving a weekly Sunday morning service which can be viewed on the Kirk of Calder Facebook page and their web page http:// www.kirkofcalder.com. Please also check out these sites for any other special/ extra services being presented there. All other planned group activities and meetings are likewise postponed or cancelled; this includes Sunday School, the fortnightly Wednesday services in Pumpherston, the Vine Trust Fairtrade Tuesday morning Café and the Guild meetings.
Keep up to date with Mid Calder Community Council on their Facebook page.
MID CALDER GALA COMMITTEE
intend to hold a gathering of some sort later in the year when this year’s Gala Court children will be the stars of the show and to hopefully include them in Gala 2021. They are also looking to include the children who this year would have enjoyed their last Gala races. As all fundraising events have had to be cancelled they are looking to continue fundraising online and if you feel you can help, please go to their crowdfunding site at Wonderful and use the link https://wonderful.org/charity/ midcalderchildrensgala and follow the further links.
CUNNIGAR HOUSE
tenants are frail elderly who are currently like yourselves on lockdown. Most of them are unable to go outside and because of social distancing are also unable to use the communal dining room, lounge and conservatory. If you have any friends or relatives in Cunnigar House you can hand in cards or letters at the front door from 11am - 3pm, they will be taken from you safely or you can email messages to me at Lorraine.Walker@westlothian.gov.uk Thank you and keep safe
BELLSQUARRY AND MURIESTON COLUMN
YVONNE GREEN
01506 440881 YVONNEGREEN55@GMAIL.COM
COVER PHOTO COMPETITION
As we slowly emerge from lockdown, Murieston & Bankton Community News (online Facebook group) will be changing the cover photo for the news page. On this occasion, we’re inviting entries from local children to submit entries that reflect our world as we emerge from lockdown. There’s no lower age limit, upper age limit is 16 or still attending school. Entries can be a photo, painting, drawing, a piece of their own art, a collage of photos, positive words etc, etc. To submit entries, please photograph the entry in landscape format and submit it to the news page, by messenger, adding the name and age of the child. Only the child’s first name will be added to the photos put up for voting. The deadline for submission of entries is noon on Monday 20th of July 2020. Admin will then put up a pinned post with all the entries and the entry that receives the most likes by noon on Thursday 30th July 2020 will be our new cover photo.
MEMORIES & STORIES WITH STONES
Covid19 / Lockdown has been very strange times for everyone and the Girl Guides are not exempt from this. The girls in the 10th Livingston Girl Guide Group wanted to capture the different emotions, memories and stories they have encountered in 2020. They decided they wanted their experiences in lockdown to be recorded in history and have started to paint stones to create a memory of their time. The Livingston Cricket Club have agreed to participate in this project and welcome everyone in the community to lay their own stone with their own story. Let all your memories & stories with stones be part of history.
LIVINGSTON CRICKET CLUB
Livingston Cricket Club board members have agreed that this year’s gala day, which was due to be held in September, will be cancelled, as they need to make sure everyone stays safe during the Covid-19 times. Next year’s Gala is planned for September 4