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Black Mount Bugle

November 2018 Issue 118

In this Edition

Dates for your Diary

Note from our Councillor

Black Mount Social Group

Dolphinton WI Talks and Events

Black Mount Sports Night

New School Building Community Project

Walston School News

Dolphinton & Blackmount Bulk Oil Buying Group

Puzzle Corner

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Black Mount Community Online

Visit the Black Mount Community website: www.blackmount.org

https://www.facebook.com/groups/bmccouncil

Dates for your Diary

Date Event Location Time

5 Nov Fireworks Blackmount Church Hall

19:00

6 Nov BMCC Meeting Elsrickle Village Hall 19:30

11 Nov Annual Wreath Laying Service

Elsrickle Small Memorial

10:55

21 Nov WI Talk: Healthy Eating Dolphinton Village Hall 19:30

7 Dec Senior Citizens Christmas Dinner

Elsrickle Village Hall 19:00

22 Dec Children’s Xmas Party Dolphinton Village Hall TBC

16 Jan WI Talk: New Year Pampering

Dolphinton Village Hall 19:30

Contact the Bugle

Please send any articles, events, photographs, puzzles to:

Bugle@blackmount.org

Welcome to the November edition of the Black Mount Bugle.

Thank you to all the people who have contributed to this

edition. We would love to hear from you and welcome new

contributors as well as regulars. The deadline for contributions

to the February 2019 edition of the Bugle is 19th January.

Note from the Editor

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Note from our Councillor

With a new community council elected this month it is time to thank

those who have served on the community council for the last three

years. They have been excellent at raising local issues and pursuing

them to get better services for the local community. It is also

important to recognise the work the various groups do in creating a

community spirit, such as the Christmas dinner, sports day, and

Fireworks display, and would ask everyone to do all they can to

support the new team in the next four years.

With us heading into the winter period it seems like a good time to

outline the council’s policy on gritting etc.

There is a set procedure for gritting, with the primary routes being

first. These are:

1. Routes to hospitals, schools, ambulance depots, fire stations

and police stations

2. Class A and B roads

3. Roads in Clydesdale that are the only way in and out of

towns and villages

4. District and local roads in urban areas.

As we do not have the resources we cannot priorities residential

areas and often by the time we have finished the primary routes we

need to start treating again. This program as stated does not cover

all roads but will cover 52% and this is more than most councils

manage, with the Scottish average 47%.

It does seem very early but as this will be the last newsletter before

Christmas I would like to wish everyone, on behalf of myself and my

two colleagues, a merry Christmas and a good new year.

Cllr Allison

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Black Mount Social Group

Sponsored Walk

The Sponsored Walk in September this year had three different routes organised by Andrew Highton, all starting and finishing at Elsrickle Hall, when the most energetic reached the summit of The Black Mount!

£500 was raised towards our funds, and thanks go to all walkers and particularly to all sponsors!

Harris on the Sponsored Walk. Photograph by N Levy

Next Event: Senior Citizens Christmas Dinner

The Fireworks night will have taken place before you read this and the next event on our calendar will be the Senior Citizens Xmas dinner.

This year festivities will commence at Elsrickle Hall at 7pm on Friday 7th December.

If you, or anyone you know, have reached the magic age of 60, please let me know so that you can receive an invitation.

Anne Hutchison - Telephone: 01968 682256

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Dolphinton WI

The speaker at the first meeting of the new season was Yvonne Foley. She gave us a very interesting talk about her life and the time she spent in Taiwan.

The October meeting was Rhona Dodds of Quercus Plants telling us how to have colour in our gardens into and through the winter.

Calendar of Talks:

21st November – Healthy Eating

16th January – New Year Pampering

20th February – Stained Glass Demonstration

All meetings start at 7.30pm at Dolphinton Hall and last for approximately two hours. We would welcome anyone who would like to attend a particular meeting, or become a member of the WI.

For further information call Pam Taylor on 01968 682203.

Children’s Christmas Party

The Children’s Christmas Party will be held on Saturday 22nd December in Dolphinton village hall. All children of primary school age and under, who live in Dolphinton, will be invited.

Any families new to the village should get in touch with Anne Hutchison so that they are not left out. Anne can be contacted on 01968 682256.

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Black Mount Sports Night

This year the Annual Sports Night took place on Friday 8th June at Newbigging playing fields. It was held slightly later than the normal date and as a result we enjoyed a lovely summer evening with a great turnout of competitors and spectators.

The primary and secondary school children compete for the

Agnes Allison shields and points are awarded for places in the sprints, egg and spoon, sack, bean bag and obstacle races. The preschool children also take part in all the races and this year we had a great turnout of little ones. There were some very competitive races to watch, with lots of cheering from the sidelines. The ladies opted to run an egg and spoon race and the men competed in a sprint race.

The preschool winner in the boys group was Struan Malone and joint girl’s winners were Isla Malone and Eva Ward.

Primary school winner was Harris Cairns and runner up was Autumn McDougall.

Secondary school winner was Charlotte Campbell and runner up was Niamh Cairns.

The winner of the Ladies race was Corrie Ward and the Gents winner was Paul Woodhall Novak.

Well done to all the winners.

Thank you to all the volunteers who assisted on the evening with starting, scoring, tape holding and tuck shop. Special thanks to Mrs Hamilton who allowed us to use her toilet. The final event of the evening was the charity fun run and this raised £18 for the Quarriers charity.

Mara Orr

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New School Building Community Project

As many of you are aware, the construction of the new school building at Elsrickle has started.

We would like to undertake a project to mark the building of and the move to a new school building. We would like this to be a project that includes the wider community. We are therefore looking for

ideas of projects that our wider community would be interested in participating in. Some projects other schools have completed are stained glass windows; mosaic tiles and willow weaving.

We would really like to use local expertise in this project and are looking for willing/enthusiastic volunteers to take a leading role. If you or anyone you know fits the bill, we would very much appreciate it if you could let us know. Once the project/s have been decided, we will inform every one of the next steps.

At this moment in time we are thinking that the basis of any project will be around the environment, history and community of the local area which makes up the catchment of the school. However we are open to ideas.

If you have any suggestions or ideas for projects or would like to

be involved please contact the school office either on 01899 810234 or email the office on: office@walston-pri.s-lanark.sch.uk

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Walston School News

New P1 Children

Welcome to Lyra, Isla, Struan, Peter and Eva who have settled in well and are enjoying school life at Walston.

New Lanark Book Festival

On Wednesday 12th September the whole school went to New Lanark to see an author. He was called David Goutcher and he wrote a book called Spy Quest, The Cursed Diamond. He told us about the book and it was about a jewel thief called Franco and he stole a diamond that cost millions of pounds. He also told us about his life and that he wanted to be a policeman when he was 16 but then he couldn’t until he was 22. I really liked listening to him. After Harris and David went to get the book signed for the school. After we went to the Ice Cream Factory. We learnt all about how ice cream was made and the Health and Safety rules.

After we went for a walk beside the River Clyde.

By Jill, P7

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Walston School News

Biggar Science Festival Thursday 20 September

P6 went to the Science Festival in Biggar. The first thing we did was watch a science show, it was my

favourite thing. I enjoyed taking part in the experiments. I would like to go again, it was fun.

By James P6

Zoolab Thursday 27 September

Zoolab came to the school. He brought in a millipede. It felt tickly. Then he took a cockroach and it felt like a little massage. Next was a big snail. I did not touch the snail. Then he brought a snake and it felt smooth. There was a scorpion and a tarantula. We did not get to touch them or the toad. My favourite was the hedgehog.

By Imogen, P3

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Dolphinton & Blackmount

Bulk Oil Buying Groups

Our last order was placed mid-August with Bryce Oil at the price of 47.5ppl (ex VAT). We ordered a total of 44,300 litres over 57 households within the Dolphinton and Blackmount areas.

Seven other oil companies were phoned for quotes – Bilsland, Certas Energy, Chrystal Petroleum, Oil Fast, Highland Fuels, Johnston Oils and RIX. Their quotes ranged from 47.75ppl to 49.95ppl. Bryce Oil confirmed by ordering via a bulk buying group we had all personally saved 4.5ppl on 500 litre orders (£22.50) and 3.5ppl on 1000 litre orders (£35). The next order is planned for w/c 5th November and anyone who wishes to order oil through the bulk buy scheme can email Tricia or Catriona using the emails below. The minimum order is 500 litres and suppliers may surcharge or refuse to deliver smaller amounts.

Our sincere thanks to everyone who has placed an order with the groups to date and we welcome new members. If you’d like to join us or to discuss how this free money-saving scheme works, then please contact:-

Catriona BlackmountFuelGroup@gmail.com

Tel: 01555 841107

Tricia DolphintonBulkOil@gmail.com

Tel: 01968 682319

Tricia and Catriona

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Source: Creative Teaching Press

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Source: Creative Teaching Press

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Source: Study Ladder

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Puzzle Corner

Can you make a word using all the letters

B I L

I I E

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Answers to the August puzzle corner

Nine letter word - community

Did you solve the equation puzzle from the August edition?

There are multiple answers:

1. Take the yellow stick from the addition sign and move it to the left, so the six becomes an eight (8-4=4).

2. Move the horizontal green stick in the six to turn the number into zero (0+4=4).

3. Move the blue stick in the six and place it so the answer to the equation becomes nine (5+4=9).

The Bugle is published by the Black Mount Community Council but views expressed therein are not necessarily those of the committee.

The Community Council cannot accept responsibility for any errors printed in the Bugle.