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Local Carrick MSP Cathy Jamieson recently met with Alan Martin, Chair of Maybole and District Business Association, to discuss issues raised by local businesses in the town. more |
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Carrick Chess Club won the 3rd third division of the Ayrshire league (4 boards) and has won promotion to the 2nd division (6 boards). Siegrun Macgilchrist is now encouraging more people to join. more |
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Maybole Historical Society starts its 2004-05 session on Monday September 6 at 7.30pm in a new venue. The society will now meet in Maybole Castle and the first speaker is David Hunter FSA Scot who will speak on “Our Carrick VCs”. |
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Last week vandals broke into Maybole Scot headquarters in Whitehall Court causing a lot of damage and stealing equipment. They gained access through a window and flooded parts of the building as well as covering walls and equipment with paint and scattering food over tents and canoes. more |
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Stuc a Chroin was the destination for some Tackety Bit Club members last week. Starting from Ardvorlich, up the glen and to the bealach between Ben Vorlich and Stuc a Chroin, it was a beautiful day. The scramble up and the views from the top made it a great day. more |
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Maybole Opportunities in Retirement group is about to restart for the new session. The first meeting will be held on Monday September 6 in the Town Hall at 2pm. |
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The Maybole branch of the Arthritis Research Campaign is holing its annual Afternoon Tea in Maybole Town Hall next Wednesday September 1 from 2 – 4pm. In addition four members will be awarded with long service badges. |
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An Indoor Boot Sale is planned for Saturday September 18 in Maybole Town Hall from 10am to 2pm. Stalls cost £12 and anyone who would like to book a stall should contact Gillian Durrant on 883054. |
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Alex Kelly chair Carrick Crime Prevention Panel Lesley Lambert, Community Safety Officer South Ayrshire Council Sean Murdoch, 16 Stan Bone Cathy Jamieson MSP Sgt Carmen Harper more |
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Last weekend some members of the Tackety Bit Club went down south of Carsphairn and from Forest Lodge climbed up under Polmaddy Gairy onto Corserine.more | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Councillor Alan Murray convener of South Ayrshire Council’s Lifelong Learning Committee, presented Groundforce trainees with copies of the Silver Award from the Ayr Flower Show 2004. Groundforces@ May-Tag won a silver award for their patio garden at Ayr Flower Show with the theme Recycling from the Past. The garden was created from recycled materials, and was built and managed at the show by the trainees who are on various government training schemes. more | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Those of our readers who take an interest in www.maybole.org will know that the town’s webmaster Rich Pettit lives in Florida. Two hurricanes Bonnie and Charley were scheduled to hit the Sunshine State and David Kiltie contacted Rich on 12th August to ask if he was in any danger. more |
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Prayer group met with Miss Caroline Boyd who returned to Sudan to work
with Medair, a Christian medical charity, on Thursday 12th August after a
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Maybole Access Point in the town’s High Street is the venue for a new photographic display being organised by the local Historical Society. The display will include some of Gordon Cockburn's boot and shoemaking photographs and another selection of old photographs from Isabel Seymour, some of which even Murray Cook had never seen before. more |
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Maybole Golf Club’s Gents Section is going from strength to strength with the membership now over 50 in stark contrast to previous years. Recent results are: more | |||
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August 20th 2004 |
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Holiday club. Around thirty children attended the ecumenical Holiday Club organised by local churches in Maybole last week. The club met in the Old Church's hall and everyone had a great time, The theme was Pirates and there were stories, quizes. games. crafts, art and drama. The winning team was the Wooden Legs and the team with the best decorated wall was the crew from The Black Pig."Mrs Whiteman added, "St Oswald's. St. Cuthbert's and Maybole Parish church worked together to make the week a great success. A big thank you to all who helped. The club rounded the week off with a service and BBQ on Friday night which was well attended by friends and families.
Alex Kelly chair Carrick Crime Prevention Panel Lesley Lambert, Community Safety Officer South Ayrshire Council Sean Murdoch, 16 Stan Bone Cathy Jamieson MSP Sgt Carmen Harper Cathy Jamieson presents a Ping putter to young Maybole golfer Sean Murdoch in Maybole Resource Centre last week. Sean was delighted to receive the putter which he had won in a competition organised by Carrick Crime Prevention Panel at the Open at Troon
Last weekend some members of the Tackety Bit Club went down south of Carsphairn and from Forest Lodge climbed up under Polmaddy Gairy onto Corserine. It was a wet and windy day with no views and they returned over North Gairy Top. Other members were in Glen Lochay at Killin, and started on the track to Lubchurran. From therethey went up and over Maell a` Churain to Sgiath Chuil. It was a warm and sunny day giving good views.
Councillor Alan Murray convener of South Ayrshire Council’s Lifelong Learning Committee, presented Groundforce trainees with copies of the Silver Award from the Ayr Flower Show 2004. Groundforces@ May-Tag won a silver award for their patio garden at Ayr Flower Show with the theme Recycling from the Past. The garden was created from recycled materials, and was built and managed at the show by the trainees who are on various government training schemes. The project was helped by funding from Awards for All, South Ayrshire Council as well as local donations and assistance and the trainees now plan to recreate the garden in the community by offering it to local community organisations working with children, elderly, or disadvantaged groups. Councillor Murray said, "I think that idea of the trainees re creating the garden in a local community facility will be good use of their skills and use of recycled materials.”
Those of our readers who take an interest in www.maybole.org will know that the town’s webmaster Rich Pettit lives in Florida. Two hurricanes Bonnie and Charley were scheduled to hit the Sunshine State and David Kiltie contacted Rich on 12th August to ask if he was in any danger.
Rich replied, “Hurricane Bonnie is not a problem but the other one, Charley, is now heading directly for us and may be a problem. It depends on how strong it is. I am backing up my hard drive to take with me. I'm assuming that we will be getting an order to leave the area later tonight and may go to my brother's house in Tampa. So you may not hear from me for a few days!” Later he emailed to say, “Will be leaving here in a few hours to go to some friends’ house on higher ground. You remember that there is a street in Tampa named Maybole. So I guess we can say that Maybole (Tampa) will also be in for some very bad weather!”
On Friday 13th Rich was back in touch to say, “As you may have seen we have been very fortunate in that the storm passed to the south of Tampa Bay. We are staying with friends in their home in a safe area and enjoying a few days off at this point. We spent about a day preparing the house for the storm, putting every thing up as high as we could and taking what we could in our vehicles. It will take a few days to undo all this! But a much easier task than cleaning up after a direct hit. So far, we have seen only some heavy rain and a little bit of wind. Orlando on the other hand is going to be hit with a category two hurricane and where many others from the area went. Will be back in touch once we are back home and have our computers set up again.”
On 15th August Rich e-mailed, “We enjoyed our visit at our friends’ home so much that we stayed another day! Just back home today putting the computers and a few other things back together.”
On Tuesday 10th August the Maybole Prayer group met with Miss Caroline Boyd who returned to Sudan to work with Medair, a Christian medical charity, on Thursday 12th August after a month's stay with her parents in Maidens. Caroline outlined her work with Medair in the south of Sudan which is mainly Christian but which has been devastated by war for the last twenty years. There are signs that a peace treaty may be near and the USA has promised a lot of financial support if both North and South sign. Caroline is a fully qualified nurse and works as manager of the project which supports better hygiene practices, medical supplies and provides basic medical care and treatment, and training of the local community to carry on when Medair staff leave. Funding for current relief work in the Sudan is available but for longer term devlopment is harder to find but Medair's policy is to make the people more self supporting and aware of basic health care. They have been working in the Sudan for some six years with about sixty staff and are trusted by the local community.
However due to very poor basic education, especially among women, it is difficult to find sufficient numbers to train. There are primary schools but the education is very basic at best. The better off are able to attend school in Kenya, Uganda or Ethiopia but they represent less than a few percent of the young people. Often when they leave the country they do not wish to return. Medair offer training in basic hygiene awareness, clean water preservation and more intense medical care but trainees are hard to find. There is a proposal to start up a basic literacy year to encourage further training to be achieved. Living conditions are basic. Caroline lives in a mud hut which leaks in the rainy season and has no air conditioning in the very hot and humid summer. Mosquitos are a constant pest and it is advisable to take a stick to ward off snakes when visiting the latrine!
The area is not rich in resources. The main farming is cow farming and it is prestigious to own cows. Some grain is grown and stored for future use. There are still refugee camps where about 100,000 people remain as they are homeless driven from the land by war or by the government for the oil discovered in the south. Many children still suffer from malnutrition. Yet Caroline is anxious to get back though it will take her time to get used to the living conditions again. She does not regret her decision to work in Sudan. She spent three and a half years before working with Rumanian orphans, many of whom were HIV positive. The Group expressed their thanks and good wishes to Caroline who will be well remembered until she comes back for her next well earned rest. |
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May-Tag trainees have won a
silver medal at
Ayr Flower Show Cathy Jamieson MSP commented: "The Flower Show is once
again absolutely magnificent. I have enjoyed seeing displays from local
companies and organisations, as well as those from further a field. I was
particularly delighted to see May-tag awarded a Silver Medal. This
organisation has done some tremendous work in the Maybole area and once
again they have come up trumps with their display. It is a real credit to
the trainees and staff. The Ayr Flower Show draws a huge range of visitors
into Ayr, bringing real economic benefits. I have been delighted to give
the Flower Show my support again this year as a patron." Groundforces@ May-Tag won a silver award for their patio garden at Ayr Flower show at the weekend. This follows their bronze award at Gardening Scotland in Edinburgh earlier in the year and once again the theme was Recycling from the Past. The garden was created from recycled materials, the walls from old discarded paving slabs, the slate path from dumped slate, the fence from old pallets and timber, the water feature from an old copper cylinder, even the bark was from old trees shredded, and the grass circle was from a cut out flower bed. The garden was built and managed at the show by the trainees who are on various government training schemes. During the course of the show one trainee was offered a full time job and others were offered placement opportunities with local employers. Groundforces has received offers of future training opportunities at local estates and commercial sites. Funding from Awards for All, South Ayrshire Council as well as local donations and assistance enabled Groundforces to enter both competitions. The aim now is recreate the garden in the community and is being offered to local community organisations working with children, elderly, or disadvantaged groups. The award winning garden is being offered as a prize to a Children's home, hospice, senior citizens’ or care homes, or a community centre. The garden must be sited were it can benefit all the residents of the facility where it will be rebuilt. If you want to win it for your local organisation you must write in no more than 30 (thirty) words why your nominated organisation should win this garden. All entries will be judged by the Groundforces trainees and the manager’s decision will be final. In order to recreate the garden as shown at both shows any additional walls or hard landscaping required will have to be met by the winner. Closing date for entry is by first post on the 20th August and applications should be sent to Groundforces@May-Tag Ltd, 48/50 High Street Maybole KA19 7BZ. Entries must include the name and address of the organisation were the garden is proposed. Only one application per organisation will be accepted. The 30 words should be on a single piece of paper with a covering letter. A bench at Maybole erected in memory of one of the “Shore Boys” has been attacked by vandals. For over a hundred years men from Maybole have been gathering at Maybole shore every week in a club known locally as the Shore Boys, although there is a school of thought that calls them the Shore Buoys. One of the stalwarts of the group for many years was the late Jimmy Fergusson, probably better known as Fergie. When he died a bench was erected in his memory but now it has attracted the attention of vandals who seem to want to desecrate everything. A current member commented, “This is the end result of some moron’s work, this was placed at the Maybole shore as to give people a seat where they could look at the world going by. Then this is what happened, broken by a mindless ferret.” |