THE ARRAN BANNER 20 YEARS AGO
Saturday September 30, 2000
Private purse
A better school hall has long been on the wish list for Arran High, although supposed lack of finance has always been given as the stumbling block. Now North Ayrshire Council sees a way round this and is proposing to raise money for such a development through private funding.
At a very early stage, all that is happening is that the administration is asking permission of the council to look into ways of this type of capital financing. Other local authorities have already used it successfully although this would be a first for North Ayrshire.
The purpose, should the funding be found, will be entirely for a new hall and PE facilities for the high school. It will not be connected to an earlier suggestion for a hall cum theatre cum community facility built behind the school, which was raised a few years ago.
Two rescues
The mountain rescue team was called out on Wednesday morning to seek a man who had been reported missing the evening before. A 29-year-old man on holiday from Ripon had left Rosaburn Lodge guest house on Tuesday morning but had failed to return. Soon after the mountain rescue team set out in search of him he appeared, apparently unharmed despite having been gone for 24 hours.
A 38-year-old Whiting Bay man was rescued from a ravine in Glenashdale last Saturday after he had fallen from a tree. Having been injured, the man was lucky that a local person, Eric Gregory, chanced to walk by and find him. Mr Gregory called the police, ambulance and the fire brigade and they were all soon on the scene. The man was taken to hospital and was later discharged.