February march
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Clackmannanshire Online Feb-March 2015 Issue 1 Junior Section - Winners: Alloa Academy.Runners up: Dynamics, Lornshill Academy.Senior Section – Winners: Senior Team,AlloaAcademy.Runners up: Thistle, Lornshill Academy & Etoile Noir, Lornshill Academy Clackmannanshire Citizen of the Year will be announced at a ceremony at the Speirs Centre on March 5th. The finalists are Vicky Brown, Christine Calder, Richard Donaldson, Florence MacKenzie, Maureen Pearson, Johanna Wilkinson, Resonate Arts House and Sauchie Activ8. Clackmannanshire Citizen of the Year Clackmannanshire against unconventional gas extraction CAUGE held a meeting on Wednesday the 18th February at the Thistle Lounge in Alloa Town Centre. The main focus of the meeting was to look at drawing up a community charter to protect the local environment and what can be done to influence current planning proposals for underground coal gasification on the river Forth. County School dance competition winners Alloa mum's three year old nomination for little hero 2015 EILIDH DUNCAN has been nominated as a Little Hero for The Daily Record and Lidl Our Heroes Awards .Eilidh was diagnosed with chronic intestinal pseudo obstruction. Rhona,her mother from Alloa said: “It was really hard to accept at first and I could not imagine how she would cope.”Eilidh's chronic intestinal pseudo obstruction is a life-limiting illness and there is currently no cure. A portrait of two boys by David Allan Clackmannan council have an exhibition running at the Speirs Centre until April 25 th .Items from antiquity will be on display including a David Allen painting,a 19 th century soup toureen and items from Kilncraigs mill. Access Forum AGM The Clacks Access Forum held their AGM ON Feb 24 th .Their primary aim is to advise the Council on access rights, rights of way and core path plans. They also offer assistance to other parties on disputes about access rights, rights of way, core path plans and the use of core paths. The groups is made up of community groups, user groups, agencies, and land managers. National Wildlife Rescue Centre A baby Otter found at the start of February in Methven,Perthshire is being reared at the rescue centre in Fishcross. SSPCA staff have named it Dipper.All going well the little chap will be returned to the wild at around the year old mark. Ochil and South Perthshire election Campaigning definitely under way for the constituency of Ochil and South Perthshire.For SNP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh,Labour Gordon Banks and for Conservatives,Luke Graham.National elections will be on May 7 th . Ryanair Fine Flight Delay Ryanair have been ordered to pay £600 to Mr Donald Cowan by Alloa Sheriff Court after he was subjected to an eighteen hour flight delay and hotel costs.Mr Cowan initially asked Ryanair for compensation but they claimed they were not liable and refused AGM Alloa Co-Operative bowling club agm held on February 23 rd Dollar bowling club's agm was on the 17 th Sauchie bowling club 28 th Feb. Macmillan fund raiser Dollar Episcopal church raised over £100 during a collection for Macmillan nurses Craigbank piper Craigbank primary school celebrated Robert Burns and Scottish poets in general with their very own P.E. Teacher and piper Mr Ward View of Mars and Venus in the South- West.Photo taken in Alva by B Crossley. Body found A 50 year old man has been found dead at Mercat Wynd in Alloa.No further details at present. Low level crime Clackmannanshire had it's regular drink and drug induced crime this month but among the more unusual crimes was the theft of a litter of piglets near Menstrie Brae. Devon flooding The end of February saw some minor flooding at several points along the River Devon which is carrying on into March. Joyce Lockie Kennetpans distillery Preparations are under way for the clearance of vegetation from the Kennetpans distillery ruins.This has been made possible by a grant for £60,000 from the Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic Scotland.Next stage will be stabilising the existing brickwork. Kennetpans is the sight of the oldest industrial whisky distillery in the world. Indoor bowls DOUBLE Commonwealth gold medal winning bowler Alex “Tattie” Marshall was at the leisure bowl indoor green this February to advertise their rinks Coalfields The coalfields regeneration trust held a meeting at Clackmannan town hall this feb. So far the trust has spent over £260 million on community projects Designer jewellery Jewellery designer Ellis Mhairi Cameron exhibited here wares this month at the Maker’s Gallery & Bistro in Alloa Young citizen of the year The finalists for Clackmannanshire Young Citizen of the Year are as follows Rebecca Gray,Jessica Gray, Brendan Iliff, Chloe Lemaitre and Cross Skills. The winner will be announced at the Speirs Centre on 5th March. Trial by mobile phone Council worker in vehicle 114 has been publicly outed as using a mobile phone while driving in Tullibody.As more people become citizen journalists,good or bad we expect to see more of this. Further reading can be found at our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/clack mannanshireonlinenews/ can also be found on Twitter https://twitter.com/clacksonline want to see your own article or photo published then e-mail [email protected]
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first issue of the online newspaper.more at https://www.facebook.com/groups/clackmannanshireonlinenews/
Transcript of February march
Clackmannanshire Online Feb-March 2015 Issue 1
Junior Section - Winners: Alloa Academy.Runners up: Dynamics, Lornshill Academy.Senior Section – Winners: Senior Team,AlloaAcademy.Runners up: Thistle, Lornshill Academy & Etoile Noir, Lornshill Academy
Clackmannanshire Citizen of the Year will be announced at a ceremony at the Speirs Centre on March 5th. The finalists are Vicky Brown, Christine Calder, Richard Donaldson, Florence MacKenzie, Maureen Pearson, Johanna Wilkinson, Resonate Arts House and Sauchie Activ8.
Clackmannanshire Citizen of the Year
Clackmannanshire against unconventional gas extraction
CAUGE held a meeting on Wednesday the 18th February at the Thistle Lounge in Alloa Town Centre. The main focus of the meeting was to look at drawing up a community charter to protect the local environment and what can be done to influence current planning proposals for underground coal gasification on the river Forth.
County School dance
competition winners
Alloa mum's three year old nomination for little hero 2015
EILIDH DUNCAN has been nominated as a Little Hero for The Daily Record and Lidl Our Heroes Awards .Eilidh was diagnosed with chronic intestinal pseudo obstruction.
Rhona,her mother from Alloa said: “It was really hard to accept at first and I could not imagine how she would cope.”Eilidh's chronic intestinal pseudo obstruction is a life-limiting illness and there is currently no cure.
A portrait of two boysby David Allan
Clackmannan council have an exhibition running at the Speirs Centre until April 25th .Items from antiquity will be on display including a David Allen painting,a 19th century soup toureen and items from Kilncraigs mill.
Access Forum AGM
The Clacks Access Forum held their AGM ON Feb 24th.Their primary aim is to advise the Council on access rights, rights of way and core path plans. They also offer assistance to other parties on disputes about access rights, rights of way, core path plans and the use of core paths.The groups is made up of community groups, user groups, agencies, and land managers.
National Wildlife Rescue Centre
A baby Otter found at the start of February in Methven,Perthshire is being reared at the rescue centre in Fishcross. SSPCA staff have named it Dipper.All going well the little chap will be returned to the wild at around the year old mark.
Ochil and South Perthshire election
Campaigning definitely under way for the constituency of Ochil and South Perthshire.For SNP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh,Labour Gordon Banks and for Conservatives,Luke Graham.National elections will be on May 7th.
Ryanair Fine
Flight Delay
Ryanair have been ordered to pay £600 to Mr Donald Cowan by Alloa Sheriff Court after he was subjected to an eighteen hour flight delay and hotel costs.Mr Cowan initially asked Ryanair for compensation but they claimed they were not liable and refused
AGM
Alloa Co-Operative bowling club agm held on February 23rd
Dollar bowling club's agm was on the 17th
Sauchie bowling club 28th Feb.
Macmillan fund raiser
Dollar Episcopal church raised over £100 during a collection for Macmillan nurses
Craigbank piper
Craigbank primary school celebrated Robert Burns and Scottish poets in general with their very own P.E. Teacher and piper Mr Ward
View of Mars and Venus in the South-West.Photo taken in Alva by B Crossley.
Body found
A 50 year old man has been found dead at Mercat Wynd in Alloa.No further details at present.
Low level crime
Clackmannanshire had it's regular drink and drug induced crime this month but among the more unusual crimes was the theft of a litter of piglets near Menstrie Brae.
Devon flooding
The end of February saw some minor flooding at several points along the River Devon which is carrying on into March.
Joyce Lockie
Kennetpans distillery
Preparations are under way for the clearance of vegetation from the Kennetpans distillery ruins.This has been made possible by a grant for £60,000 from the Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic Scotland.Next stage will be stabilising the existing brickwork.Kennetpans is the sight of the oldest industrial whisky distillery in the world.
Indoor bowls
DOUBLE Commonwealth gold medal winning bowler Alex “Tattie” Marshall was at the leisure bowl indoor green this February to advertise their rinks
Coalfields
The coalfields regeneration trust held a meeting at Clackmannan town hall this feb.
So far the trust has spent over £260 million on community projects
Designer jewellery
Jewellery designer Ellis Mhairi Cameron exhibited here wares this month at the Maker’s Gallery & Bistro in Alloa
Young citizen of the year
The finalists for Clackmannanshire Young Citizen of the Year are as follows Rebecca Gray,Jessica Gray, Brendan Iliff, Chloe Lemaitre and Cross Skills. The winner will be announced at the Speirs Centre on 5th March.
Trial by mobile phone
Council worker in vehicle 114 has been publicly outed as using a mobile phone while driving in Tullibody.As more people become citizen journalists,good or bad we expect to see more of this.
Further reading can be found at our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/clackmannanshireonlinenews/
can also be found on Twitter https://twitter.com/clacksonline
want to see your own article or photo published then e-mail [email protected]
February snaps
A Marshall
I Walker
A Marshall
J Lockie
H McGregor
R Yule
Old ClackmannanshireRiot at the kirk
Riot at the kirk: News from Alloa 1750.On the 16th of september there took place a riot during the sermon at the kirk by the new and unpopular Mr Syme.Locals were so angry with him they locked the church,raised a flag and rang the bells all day.In November,four companies of Soldiers were sent to Alloa to quell further disturbances from colliers.It is believed the unrest is due to the parishioners assumption that ministers have been picked more for their family ties than for their religeous worthynessjan 1751. Church rioters(ring-leaders) have been sentenced to seven years in the colonies.By April 1751 as a gesture of reconciliationi t had been decided that the rioters should be released with a caution.
Coronation tree 1902
In 1902 coronation trees were planted in Tullibody and Alloa for Eward VII.The Alloa one was ripped out the ground by a vandal the same evening.
Great War medal found in Tullibody
This is a victory medal from the first world war.It was found in the eighties in Tullibody and the person who found it would like to return if possible to the family of the recipient.It was awarded to Private J Hunter 3817 .Some further research came up with Private James Hunter.was first an Argyll & Sutherland Highlander No 3817 then Machine Gun Corps No 139683.He enlisted 22-02-16.Discharged 14-12-18 aged 23 yrs 6 months.so born around june 1895.he was discharged due to illness. Unfortunately this is where the trail goes cold.Was private Hunter a local as we said the current owner of the medal would like to return it to the family.
Covenanters put to death
In 1879 Rober Louis Stevenson published Edinburgh:picturesque notes.In it he added a letter about the execution of five covenanters in 1681.If the witness is to be believed all five men were decapitated by the hand of Alloa man Patrick Foreman.Patrick was a follower of Donald Cargill who would preach illegally in fields to congregations around Scotland.After preaching in fife several Alloa men were rounded up by the authorities.When Patrick was captured he had a knife on him inscribed "for cutting tyrants throats".He was to be released for lack of evidence if he swore to behave himself but he was having none of it.In October 1681 five men including Patrick Foreman were hanged in Edinburgh.Patrick's right hand was used to cut off all five men's heads and these were put on show.They were secretly gathered up one evening and buried.Forty-five years later they were rediscovered and publicly reburied.There is a possibility that Patrick and other Alloa men were captured by Lord Mar and held at Alloa tower before being sent to Edinburgh.
Throsk Island
We have all heard of Alloa and Tullibody Inch but at one time there was a third Island as can be seen on this old map from 1681.Also notice the spelling for Alloa.
From Alloa to JapanOriginal spot,Boer war memorial
In each issue we would like to feature an Alloa built boat.Hopefully this will be the first of many.This is the Sunpath built in Alloa 1919 and renamed the Taikai Maru by the Japanese in ww2.it was sunk by US submarine Raton in 1944. 445 troops and 101 crewmen and gunners were killed.
Gymnastic team 1955
Alloa gymnastics club with Tommy Speirs
Clacks WildlifeAre you interested in local wildlife?Would you like to write an
article and have it published here.Just message me on facebook.George Alloa
A Marshall
Whats On-March
St. Mungo's Parish Church, Bedford Place, Alloa proudly presents
The Falkirk Caledonia Choir , on Wednesday,
11th March, 2015.
Concert will begin at 7.30p.m. in the Church and will contain a programme of Songs to suit
ALL tastes - songs from shows, folk, sacred and popular.
Tickets £5 available from church members or pay at door.includes tea/coffee.
All welcome.
Glasgow Phoenix ChoirSaturday 14th march
TILLICOULTRY - Devonvale
Hall, Moss Road,
Tillicoultry FK13 6NS
The Ladykillers
presented by The Alman Dramatic Club
Alman Theatre -
Tuesday 17th March to Saturday 28th March
The Derek Acorah Psychic Ether
Tour 2015Alloa Town Hall Friday
13th March
Tickets £18.50 01259 213131
St. Mungo's Parish Church is having a Spring Mini-
Market - new crafts, dvd's, books and jigsaws etc at affordable prices +
teas/coffee and home baking. 10 - 12noon on
14th March in the Session House of
Church, Bedford Place, Alloa. £2.
33rd Alloa Half Marathon
Alloa - Sunday 15th March 2015
Alloa Round Table
Give Blood - Alloa
Tuesday 10th March to Thursday 12th March
Alloa Town Hall
Give Blood - Tullibody
Tuesday 17th March
Tullibody Civic Centre
Gordon R McFarlane
Jewellers and Gallery -
open exhibition
Saturday 14th February 2015 to Saturday 25th
April 2015
Linocut workshops by Natty Maid
Saturday 21st February 2015 to Saturday 18th April 2015Make your
The Makers Gallery & Bistro,workshop dates:
Saturday, 21st FebruarySaturday, 21st MarchSaturday,18th
AprilTime10am – 4pm£50 pp per workshop. Price includes materials, lunch,morning/afternoon
tea
Contact informationTo book, email [email protected]
Computer drop-in sessions
If you have any questions about your computer or tablet there will be drop-in
sessions as listed below.
Half hour time slots are bookable by contacting the venue.Friday, 6th March,Time: 9.30 am - 12.30 pm
Venue: Speirs Centre,call 01259 452262
Friday, 20th March,Time: 9.30 am - 12.30 pm,Venue: Menstrie Library,To book, call 01259 769439,Friday, 27th
March,Time: 9.30 am – 12.30,pm,Venue: Speirs Centre,To
book, call 01259 452262
Do our communities need a new kind of democracy?Alloa - Thursday 19th March 2015
Representatives of the Commission for Strengthening Local Democracy will be in Clackmannanshire to set out the debate on what it would take for communities to be at the heart of the evolution of our
democracy.
This informal event is a chance to hear the Commission's recommendations and to add your own voice to the conversation.
Venue: Forth Valley College, Alloa
This event has been arranged for all local community and voluntary organisations by Clackmannanshire's Joint Community Council
Forum.
Registration is essential. 7.00 pm
Contact information
To register to attend, please contact your community council or email [email protected]
Introduction to Jewellery Making workshop
Alloa - Saturday 14th March 2015
Venue: Makers Gallery & Bistro
Time 10am-12 noon
Charge £10 including tea & coffee
Sports and Social
Alloa Athletic
Scottish Championship
Alloa 0-1 Hibernian Sat 28 Feb
Cowdenbeath 0-2 Alloa Sat 21 Feb
Queen of Sth 1-0 Alloa Sat 14 Feb
Livingston 0-0 Alloa Tue 3 Feb
Four points from four games leaves Alloa third bottom at the end of February
Midland Bowl Final
Alloa 39-30 Stirling uni sat 21 Feb
Division two midlandsAlloa 67-24 Stirling uni Sat 14 FebCarnoustie 27-14 Alloa Sat 07 Feb
Alloa Rugby Club
Sauchie juniors
East superleague
Musselburgh Athletic 2-2 Sauchie Juniors Sat 28 Feb
East of Scotland Cup
Sauchie Juniors 0-1 Broxburn Ath Sat 14 Feb
Hillfoots rfc
Ellon 17_43 Hillfoots Sat 14 Feb
Hibs scoring from a free kick
Hibee view from the gazebo
Two nil up but it wasn't to last
Better chances but wasn't to be this time
darts
The winners of Division 'A' Wee County News Cup - Abercromby 'A'
