MURIESTON COLUMN
LIVINGSTON CRICKET CLUB
to our members, we miss you and hope you are all keeping well. It’s been a long time since we have been able to get together and whilst restrictions are easing it is not yet possible for us to re-open the Kingfisher Bar.
We are closely monitoring the regulations issued by the Scottish government and obviously want to ensure any return to the club is safe for our members.
The regulations at present though are such that we are not able to re-open without making a substantial investment and alterations to the premises which would then only allow us to have a limited number of people on site. We have therefore taken the decision to defer opening until restrictions reduce further.
This will unfortunately mean that all events remain cancelled until further notice including this year’s gala day. We will open again as soon as we deem it is safe to do so and we are already planning events for next year, which will be our 40th anniversary. Dates to mark in your diary are:
2nd to 4th April 2021 Beer festival 30th May 2021 Garden party
4th September 2021 Gala day We have managed to start some limited cricket activity with heavily restricted training, in the hope that we will have some sport on our wonderfully maintained ground this year.
We hope to see you all as soon as it is safe for us to open, in the meantime look after yourselves and stay safe.
Livingston Cricket Club would like to remind people that the club is private property and although they don’t stop people walking their dogs, dog walkers should take their dog poo bags home to dispose of, or place them in the appropriate public waste bins provided by West Lothian Council.
Please do leave dog poo bags in or beside the Cricket Club waste bins as due to the club currently being closed, the waste bins on site are not being emptied.
Please respect our community club facilities and allow everyone to stay safe
MEMORIES AND STORIES WITH STONES
The Covid19
Lockdown has been a very strange time for everyone. The girls in the 10th Livingston Girl Guide Group wanted to capture the different emotions, memories and stories they have encountered in 2020 and decided to create a memorial to provide something in history, representing what lockdown was like locally and what the Guides themselves had been through.
They have created a rainbow out of coloured stones, which can be seen at Livingston Cricket Club and are now hoping that everyone in the community join in by laying their own stone, with their own story, to describe how they too felt and what they went through or to remember people that they lost during the pandemic. When the memorial was highlighted in the Courier’s ‘Kindness in the Community’ feature, Guide leader Vicky Walker said, “It would be nice to have a memorial that our children and grandchildren can see,”
LIVINGSTON SOUTH COMMUNITY CHURCH
have taken the decision to suspend all church services at Murieston Village Hall and The Lanthorn until further notice in light of current health issues.
THE BELLSQUARRY VILLAGE HALL DEFIBRILLATOR
(AED) is now in its new outdoor locked cabinet. To access dial 999 or 112 and tell operator the location code. You will then be given a code to unlock the box. Turn handle down and it will open.