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September 2009 Issue 10
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What is a community? Well ac-cording to my trusty dictionary - the paper one that is - a commu-nity is a collection of people with similar aims and rights in life. Thinking of our villages as com-munities, I am sure the residents of Tarves and Barthol Chapel have very similar aims in that they would like to live in a friend-ly, picturesque, well maintained and vibrant environment.
To achieve these aims the vast majority of our neighbours ad-here to certain standards and take their surroundings very seriously, making every effort to maintain the ambience around them. As a member of the community it is your right to expect every other member to support this ethos. Unfortunately there are always one or two, who through selfish-ness, ignorance or plain thought-lessness do not play the game. It is to those few that the article lat-er in the magazine entitled 'Village Moans' is directed. It is specific to Tarves, but unfortu-nately I am sure the same thing occurs in Barthol Chapel. To those folk, most definitely in the minority, I say please think about what you are doing and consider others, not just yourself.
When I came to Tarves the bak-er's shop was still operational. It has now, with the bakery, been converted into a superb looking one off dwelling. With the closure of the butcher's shop are we going to lose another commercial inter-est to residential? I would love to see the shop being sold and used for the benefit of the locals. What would you like to see there? We could maybe have a butcher again or if that is not viable what about a chemist or a local craft shop or a florist or a coffee shop- the list is endless. What we do not want is the shop sitting empty for endless months looking more and more run down. Hopefully something will happen sooner rather than later. Let us know your thoughts.
Finally on a very positive note, on your behalf, I should like to con-gratulate all those in our villages who spend time and effort mak-ing them look their best in the summer months with tremen-dous shows in private gardens and amenity areas - well done!
Moira Allan
EDITORIAL
THE NEXT PUBLICATION DEADLINE ISFRIDAY 13TH NOVEMBER 2009
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The Manse,8 Murray Avenue,
Tarves.Dear Friends,
It hardly seems any time since the schools were closing for the sum-mer holidays and the summer was all ahead. Now, we are looking at the start of the new term, and all the activities starting up again.
I hope you have all had a good summer, and have been refreshed by holidays, or breaks of one kind or another.
At the time of writing, the Showstoppers Summer Club has just fin-ished. Thank you all, from Barthol Chapel, Tarves and beyond for al-lowing us the pleasure of your children's company, their energy, their talents and their laughter over this past week. I hope they have en-joyed the week as much as we have all enjoyed their company.
It has been an exciting week, with games, songs, art, drama, music, digital photography and dance workshops. The setting for the week was been theatre-land, hence the title. However the theme has been 'God's Big Plan', from before time, through the formation of the uni-verse, the world, plants, animals, sea creatures, birds and, of course, humankind.
From there we looked at significant little events in the unveiling of God's Big Plan - like the story of David the Shepherd boy who slew Go-liath who was threatening the Israelites. David trusted God saying, 'If you stand up for God, he will stand up for you!' David was later to be-come King. Then we looked at Daniel in the Lion's Den and how, when Daniel called on God, God listened and answered his prayer.
Christmas came early on Thursday as we looked at God's unfolding plan in the birth of his Son, Jesus to show us God's love for us. On Fri-day, we looked at what Jesus did on the Cross and his rising to life again to open up the way to eternal life for us.
Built around this were games, songs, challenges, an episode of drama each day, the different workshops relating to the daily stories, exercis-
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Six motivated youths took part in a bag packing at Tesco Inverurie on 15 August. The funds this time will be going towards upgrading some of their facilities in the portable cabin, such as new chairs and re deco-rating! "The Hut" have yet again been very successful in receiving an-other grant from The Mary Sal-mond Trust of £460, the youths are delighted and this is going to-wards the maintenance and re-pairs to the youth group. So a very big thank you to the organisation.
The group is always looking for new ways to fundraise and keep their youth group open, so if any-one would like to donate or be a part of the youth group commit-tee and help this project, please contact youth worker Helen ([email protected])
Many thanks
Helen Maniukiewicz
TARVES YOUTH GROUP - THE HUT
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HANOVER COURT
"Race for Life" Sheila Downie, who participated in the 5K Run on 21 June, completed the course and managed to raise £412 for Cancer Research. This was also a tribute to celebrate the life of Lynn Bell who sadly passed away in November 2008.
"Summer Outing" Everyone who came on our summer outing thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The meal in Fraserburgh provided ample portions of good fare, filling the gap till our next stop at the coffee shop and garden centre at Christies in Fochabers. The route we took from Fraserburgh, through Sandhaven and Rosehearty and onto Macduff, Banff, Portsoy and then Fochabers was very enjoyable. it was a joy to see the beautiful countryside of Scotland.
F.R.O.M. (Famine Relief for Orphans in Malawi) Two representatives came to Hanover Court to speak about their projects and give a slide show as we had donated to this charity on Red Nose Day. It was most interesting and informative.
"Whist" will resume in the autumn on Mondays - exact date to be announced. "Computer Classes" will start on Monday 31 August at 9.45am. "Knitting Session" is as usual on Tiuesday at 2pm. All are welcome as we are knitting blankets, hats and scarves for Ekwendeni.
DATE FOR YOUR DIARY - Our annual Coffee Morning and Sale of Work will be on Saturday 26 September from 10am - 11.30am. There will be the usual stalls, bric a brac, cake and tombola. Everyone is welcome and all donations will be gratefully received.
Food for Thought "As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never face the wrong way!!"
Carol Smith
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es, and, of course, juice and eats! Much of the work will be used in church on Sunday for the special Showstoppers Service, which will be a joint service with Barthol Chapel, in Tarves.
It has been a busy and exciting summer in many ways this year. There has been the completion of the refurbishment of the Youth Hall and the wonderful response from the whole community on the special Opening Day on Saturday 8 August as well as the Rededication on Sunday 9 August. I think we are just beginning to realise the gift God has given us and the opportunities presented to us as a church and community with this refurbishment. No one could mistake the buzz of excitement, possibility and hope for renewal and new life in the hall. It is up to us to seize this and use it, with God's help for his glory and for our community.
Of course many went on from the Youth Hall to the Flower Show to admire all the efforts made by our gardeners, knitters and crafters.
As we approach a new session, let us take stock, renew our commit-ment to God and to each other and experience a re-igniting of our faith and the life of our communities, as we step out into the new session.
Sunday Club in Tarves starts again on Sunday 23 August, with a new programme, some new staff, and activities, stories, games and chal-lenges for the different age groups. There may even be a competition or two, and a new Christmas Nativity. Barthol Chapel Sunday School also starts after the school term begins.
We also hope, with the hall ready, that the youth group from both communities will be able to have more regular meetings, which will be a mix of fun, games, discussion, outreach, epilogues, speakers, outings etc., and, of course, eats! A place to 'Chill!'. Watch this space!
May I take this opportunity to wish you all well as we enter another autumn and winter programme, and to ask God's blessing on all our activities and outreach.
Isabel C. Buchan
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Summer Club.
As I write, we are in the middle of our Showstoppers produc-tion. So far it has gone very well with up to 40 children attending some days. The storytellers have inspired the children, the drama has entertained them, and the games and keep fit worked off the "tuck" supplied by the lady helpers. We are glad to see our numbers are up on last year.
Songs of Praise.
Our July service took the form of Songs of Praise, where we asked people for their favourite piece of Church music and an oppor-tunity to tell us why they chose it.
Susanna Bichard led the praise, with Linda and Wilma on the piano and organ. As it was so well enjoyed, we plan to have another in the near future.
Harvest Thanksgiving Service
The Harvest Thanksgiving Serv-ice will be on Sunday 4 October at 11.15am in Tarves Church. After the service, soup, bread, tea and coffee will be served so do come along.
R RothnieSession Clerk
TARVES KIRK SESSION NEWS
Due to family and work commit-ments I am struggling to carry out the above post and the Kirk Session are looking for my re-placement.
This is a voluntary post, which only involves, on average, a cou-ple of hours per week although more work is involved at the year-end. We use the Sage Ac-
counts package so some experi-ence using Sage would be advantageous.
If you are interested or know of anyone who would be interested please contact me on 07803 730439 for more details.
Jenny BeattieTreasurer
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TARVES GUILD
The 2009 Annual Social Meeting and Guild Rally held at the West-hill Inn on Thursday 4 June was well attended and we had an en-joyable high tea. The speaker for the evening was information of-ficer, Fiona Punton from 121 George Street, Edinburgh. THURSDAY 3 JUNE 2010 Evening - Annual Social Meeting and Guild RallyA date for your diary - venue to be decided
The CHURCH GUILD starts its new session on Sunday 27 Sep-tember when we will have our Dedication Service as part of the morning worship.Our first meeting is on Thursday 1 October when our guest speak-ers Rob & Liz Rothnie will tell us all about "Trotting around the World"The November meeting is on 5th November and our guest speaker then will be Mr Dave Thomson from Pitcaple and he will speak about "F R O M "(Fund Raising for Orphans in Malawi). There will also be a Bring & Buy sale that evening.
"GUILD WEEK" is from 22-29 November 2009.
Thursday 3 December - Christ-mas Evening. We look forward to bring entertained by Fyvie Church Choir.
If you would like to join in the fellowship of our Guild, please come along - we are a happy group and a very warm welcome awaits you.
Audrey Hepburn wrote when asked to share her 'beauty tips'(Read at her funeral)
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fin-gers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People even more than things, have to be restored, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out any-one. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.
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"I enjoyed Showstoppers be-cause there was lots to do and you weren't bored". Phoebe Lentell
"What I enjoyed at Showstop-pers was the drama, songs and games". Arlene Sleigh
"I really enjoyed Showstoppers. There wasn't one thing I disliked during the Club. I really liked the games and shows and would definitely come back and do more". Isla Middleston
"I enjoyed the drama perform-ances on Tuesday to Friday which I was in". Stuart Massie
"I enjoyed the drama". Alex Ry-an
I've been to all three Summer Clubs and they were all good but Showstoppers was the best be-cause we made lots of fun things and got fruit & biscuits and the drama and stories were better than last time". Nicole Work
"The thing I enjoyed the most was starring in the drama, which was brilliant fun for everyone". Grant Thomson
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in Meldrum Academy at 7 pm. Ad-mission will be free so come along and hear these talented youngsters who will be competing for the title of Young Musician of the Year. Posters will be around the town with final details, but the categories are Primary 1-3, Primary 4-7, Sec-
ondary 1-3 and Secondary 4-6. The stipulation is that the competitor has to live or attend school within the catchment area of Meldrum Academy.
Annette Ramsden
TARVES VILLAGE MOANSLots of dog walkers enjoy walking their dogs up Tree Road, down Ordhill Farm path and up Kirk Brae. Most of them are responsible dog owners and clean up after their dogs on the path and the cut grass area at the top of Tree Road.
However a small minority who either
a) cannot be botheredb) are too lazy orc) feel it is beneath them
fail to clean up after their dogs. If YOU fit into category a, b or c - then perhaps you should walk your dog somewhere else.
The flower tubs in the village are for growing flowers in - NOT for depositing bags of dog poo.
The dog walk at the top of the Glebe is NOT a dump for garden waste. There is an excellent facility for depositing garden waste at P.U.T. in Pitmedden. Please take it there.
Finally would the person or persons who this year AGAIN removed begonias from the tub at the cemetery gate care to make a donation to the Amenity Group who maintain the tubs?
From one who attempts to make the village a bit more attractive.
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June was a busy month for Oldmel-drum Rotarians, as we were in-volved with our stall at the Taste of Grampian and several members joined the Ellon Rotarian contin-gent to attend the Rotary Interna-tional Convention. This was held in Birmingham this year, where Ro-tarians from across the globe meet together and share humanitarian concerns during the daytime but also socialise in the evening . Thus some members attended a Kathryn Jenkins concert and visited War-wick Castle, then our contin-gent hosted International visitors at a meal one evening and a ceilidh the next evening , surprising the village of Meriden with a piper processing the contingent down the street! Something probably not seen every day of the week in Bir-mingham!
July is the handover month for the Rotary Club of Oldmeldrum, so President Anne Forster handed over to Hilary Gordon the incoming President for 2009-10. Each year the club spon-sors 2 candidates from Meldrum Academy to attend the RYLA (Rotary Young Leadership Awards) camps, which are held in July at Nethybridge. The Club was also represented at the annual award ceremony at Meldrum Academy in July. It is very encouraging to see
so many of the pupils achieving their potential and collecting the reward in front of a packed assem-bly hall. The Rotary played its part in sponsoring the Creative Writing prizes, the Young Chef prize, and the Head Boy and Head Girl Sal-vers.
As last years winners we hosted the District 1010 Rotary Gavel inter-club final in August, even though we didn't make the final this year. Teams from Dyce, Buckie and
Carse of Stirling Clubs were en-tertained by members at Lo-chter with a barbeque before the competition began. With teams com-peting at games such as golf-putting, laser-trap
shooting and jenga, Dyce were declared the overall victors.
The Rotary Club of Oldmeldrum is 10 years old this year and a 10th anniversary dinner is being held at Lochter on the 4 September 2009. Many Rotarians will be there cele-brating the achievements of our club as well as reminiscing over photographs and past events. A booklet has been produced to com-memorate the event.
Finally, the application forms for the Rotary Young Musician of the Year will be available on August 21 and the competition itself is to be held on Wednesday September 30
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MONTH FLOWER ROTA FLOWER DELIVERY
October 4th Molly Cockburn Molly Cockburn
11th Catherine Smith Catherine Smith
18th Fiona Sleigh Fiona Sleigh
25th Kathy Lawrie Kathy Lawrie
November 1st Moira Minty Moira Minty
8th Chris Watson Chris Watson
15th Kathleen Wares Kathleen Wares
22nd Ina Middleton Ina Middleton
29th Isobel Ling Isobel Laing
December 6th Andrena Davidson Rosie Perry
13th Kathy Morrison Rosie Leavett
20th Maureen Presly Maureen Presly
27th Alison Walker Alison Walker
TARVES FLOWER ROTA
Thank you to all who give flowers and deliver them week-by-week. This is very much appreciated by all who receive them. .
Kathy Lawrie
If you are out doing the shopping on a Tuesday morning, please come along to the Church for a cuppa & biscuits (tea or coffee) served between 10am and 11am. All ages are most welcome
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All Round Garden – Mr & Mrs S Davidson, 1 Bede WayPrivate House Garden Council House Garden1) Mr & Mrs J Finnie, 10 Mackie Av 1) Mrs J McAndie, 2 Mackie Av2) Mr & Mrs W Grant, 21 Pringle Av
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BARTHOL CHAPEL COMMUNITY SPORTSThe annual community sports were held at the school on Satur-day 27 June - a warm, sunny day and perfect for some gentle ex-ercise, barbecue and general so-cialising.
There were the usual teams comprising primary school, academy, Church, young mums and dads, community associa-tion and Sunday school The teams took part in a set of pro-gressive games which led for an entertaining competition which was won by the young mums and dads.
Thereafter everyone headed to the barbecue and the teas to re-cover from their exertions.
Soon, as ever, the football was out and it was great to see young and old having an impromptu kick-about.
Many thanks to all who partici-pated and helped, who contrib-uted generously to the raffle and stalls and who just came along for a good afternoon's entertain-ment.
Once again the forward plan-ning and hard work of a small number of people have brought a transformation in the Square and other parts of the village. I am sure we all appreciate the lovely flowers.
Mention should be made of the handsome wrought iron stand for hanging baskets. We are in-debted to the Tarves People's Party for this welcome addition to the Square's attractions.
Although the promised "barbecue summer" did not ex-actly happen, at least gardeners did not suffer from drought.
It seems that the standard of private gardens, window boxes and hanging baskets gets better each year - even if we do not always succeed in winning an award from the Formartine in Bloom competition. We keep trying.
In these days of Reduce, Re-use and Recycle, Tarves leads the way with some very imaginative (and cheap) containers, effective but always in good taste.
Mary BowenHon Secretary
TARVES AMENITY GROUP
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Challenge Cup – best all round garden Mr & Mrs S Davidson, 1 Bede Way, Tarves
Challenge Cup – best council house garden
Mrs J McAndie, 2 Mackie Av, Tarves
Perpetual Shield – best private house garden
Mr & Mrs J Finnie, 10 Mackie Av, Tarves
Challenge Shield – Most points fruit & veg open section
George Cummings, 4 Station Rd, Newmachar
Aberdeen Arms Trophy – most points children’s section
Rebecca Gammack, Methlick
W & L Thomson Trophy – best hang-ing basket
Sandy Davidson, 1 Bede Way, Tarves
G & J Simpson Trophy - best tub Sandy Davidson, 1 Bede Way, Tarves
Late Cliff Will Trophy – best exhibit pot plants open section
Alex & James Simpson, 28 Abbey St, New Deer
Late Cliff Will Trophy – best exhibit in veg open section
Sandy Davidson, 1 Bede Way, Tarves
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Challenge Cup - confined Section Sandy Davidson, 1 Bede Way, Tarves
Challenge Cup – best exhibit of Pot Plants
Sandy Davidson, 1 Bede Way, Tarves
Lillian Gill Trophy - best exhibit Pot Plants confined section
George Simpson, 18 Marquis Cotts, Tarves
William Gerrard Trophy – best Dahlia confined section
Sandy Davidson, 1 Bede Way, Tarves
Alex Keith Memorial Trophy – best exhibit confined section
Sandy Davidson, 1 Bede Way, Tarves
Gordon Philip Trophy – best exhibit cut flowers open section
Eddie Hay, 4 Maree Terr, Ellon
4 diplomas for vegetables, fruit, flow-ers and pot plants
Ann Henderson, Dumfries – Cut Flow-ers
Sandy Davidson – Pot Plants & Fruit
Jonathon Davidson, Duthie Rd, Tarves – Vegetables
Challenge Trophy - best exhibit roses Sandy Davidson, 1 Bede Way, Tarves
Silver Tray – most points in baking Elma Hay, 4 Maree Terr, Ellon
Challenge Cup under 18 – most points in Baking section
James Simpson, 28 Abbey St, New Deer
Challenge Cup – most points in Indus-trial section
Sheila Ewen, 21 Bede Way, Tarves
Challenge Cup – best exhibit in Indus-trial section
Ann Henderson, Dumfries
Challenge Cup – most points in Home Product section
Sheila Ewen, 21 Bede Way, Tarves
Challenge Cup – most points in Floral Art
Catherine Smith, Manse Walk, Tarves
Novice Trophy – floral Art Louise Grant, 21 Barratt Dr, Ellon
Perpetual Trophy - best exhibit in Flo-ral Art
Catherine Smith, Manse Walk, Tarves
Junior Floral Art Trophy Ashleigh Grant, 21 Barratt Drive, Ellon
Perpetual Challenge Trophy – best overall exhibit children’s section
Jodi Grant, Pringle Av, Tarves
Children’s Art Trophy – Tarves School Jorja Bradley, Craigdam, Tarves
Trophy Winners
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August 8th saw the official opening of the Youth Hall following the re-furbishment work, which was car-ried out over the past months.
We were very fortunate to have the company of Charlie Allan, Methlick and Maitland Mackie, Rothienor-man (who performed the opening ceremony) both grandsons of the late Dr Maitland Mackie, North Ythsie, Tarves who was the inspira-tion behind the hall back in 1958. Glorious weather was the order of the day and it was great to see so many folk of all ages enjoying themselves especially the children who had a whale of a time on the bouncy castles and also enjoying having their faces and arms paint-ed. We were also thoroughly enter-tained with music from Stuart &
George Davidson, Gregor Allan and Harry Bichard plus Jazzy the Clown was up to her usual "high jinks".
The Friends of the Youth Hall or-ganising committee are indebted to all who gave freely of their time, talents and donations in so many ways. To date over £700 has been raised for new equipment for the Hall for which we thank you most kindly. To those who could not make it on the day due to work commitments, holidays or other engagements, we are sorry you missed such a successful fun day.
Once again a big THANKYOU to everyone who made the re-opening go with a bang.
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On Saturday 8 August, we were blessed with sunshine for our Show. We had 556 entries, made up of flowers, vegetables, fruit, baking, handicrafts and floral art, all of which were of a very high standard. The children's section was slightly down on previous years but the entries that we did have were very good. Rev Isabel Buchan, our Minister, opened the show and Mr Danny Ross of Tolquhon Gallery judged the chil-dren's art.
The committee would like to thank everyone who helped with setting up of the tables, baking for & helping with the teas, doing the lovely posies for the tea tables and most importantly all the people who entered the competitions for without them, we would not have had a show.
Results are as follows:
Nursery - BUTTERFLY Primary 1 & 2 – IN THE GARDEN1) Jason DeSousa McInnes 1) Sarah-Ali Bremner
2) Ruaraidh Watson 2) Amy Penny
3) Lewis Milne 3) Fraser Bruce
4) Sophie Jackson 4) Leona Evans
5) Matthew Sim 5) Holly Watson
Primary 3 & 4 - WATER HERONS Primary 4, 5 & 6 - GUI TARS1) Caitlin Stone 1) Alasdair Glen
2) Georgina Green 2) Max McDonald
3) Jessica Sisley 3) Andrew Ferguson
4) Lauren Thomson 4) Hannah Gilmour
5) Ben Taylor 5) Alex Ryan
Primary 6 & 7 - PIRATES Overall Trophy Winner for 20 091) Jorja Bradley
2) Chris Barclay Jorja Bradley
3) Arlene Sleigh
4) Stuart Davidson
5) Isla Middleton
TARVES FLOWER SHOW 2009
Children’s Art from School
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No room left in your compost bin?Why not bring your garden waste to us and we’ll turn it in to compost.
What do we want?We are collecting GARDEN WASTE to turn into compost. We want your grass clippings and other plant waste that you might normally put in your wheelie bin or take to the tip.
If you already make compost at home, DON’T STOP… but DO give us anything that won’t fit in your compost bin.
Where do we want it?We are using the old Allathan Quarry just outside Pitmedden; there is a collection point at the end of the track.
When do we want it?NOW! You can take your GARDEN WASTE along and leave it in the contain-ers that we have provided. Gates are open at the weekends from 4th April 2009
Want to get involved?PUT is a voluntary organisation and we are dependent on goodwill all round. Membership of the Cooperative is open to anyone who lives in the Parishes of Udny or Tarves and shares the aims of the Cooperative. Our main aims are:
To promote reduction, re-use and recycling of waste within the Parishes of Udny and Tarves and in particular, the removal of compostable waste from the waste stream.To promote and support the sustainable development of the communities within the Parishes of Udny and Tarves.
If you don’t want to become a member, but still want to help out you can volunteer along with the rest of us, by helping to make the compost. To find out more you can contact:
Chris York on 01651 851553 or Bob McIntyre on 01651 842338
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After an inspirational talk and slide show by Mrs Helen Taylor from Woodhead of Fyvie, Bar-thol Chapel Guild decided to ask her for a guided tour of the Com-munity Trust Woodland to see for ourselves the wonder of the natural world on our doorstep.
We met for lunch at Fyvie Castle tearoom on Saturday 30 May 2009 and then proceeded to the old school car park at Woodhead which is now the community centre. Sturdy shoes were re-quired but not umbrellas! Care is needed on the pathways and dogs are welcome. Mrs.Taylor explained the flora, fauna and the unique geological features of
the area. For more information please check out the beautifully illustrated Woodhead and Windyhills Community Trust Website: www.windyhills.org
Our feelings were summed up in the hymn 'How Great Thou Art'. Any suggestions for next year's outing? Barthol Chapel Guild usually meets at 7:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month at 'Fuathcul' and we look forward to the new session start-ing in September. Old and new faces are all welcome, even men!
Alison Hepburn'Fuathcul'Barthol Chapel
BARTHOL CHAPEL CHURCH GUILD
TARVES YOUTH HALL - AVAILABLE TO HIRENow that the Hall has been refurbished and looking great, it is available to hire for children's parties, small functions, activities such as keep fit classes, dancing classes - the list is endless.
If you are looking for a venue, then why not call Margaret Barrack on 01651 851368 or Sandy Cockburn on 01651 851829 to see if the Hall is available, to discuss the Conditions of Hire and to make a booking.
The Committee Room is also a very suitable for meetings. The rates are as follows:
Hire of Hall £9.00 per hour Hire of Committee Room £5.00 per hour Hydro 16p per unit
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What a busy summer we have had. The demonstration events of corn dollies, lace making and woodturning brought many new visitors to the Centre. Our grate-ful thanks go to Elaine Lindsay, Sheila Joss and friends and Jack Massie for en-thusiastically giving of their time.
As I write, the photographic com-petition and exhibition is ongo-ing, themed around the history and heritage of Tarves. We were disappointed there were no pri-mary school entries but the stand-ard is high nonetheless. Many thanks go to Avril Hammond and Joan Ross for the difficult task of judging the varied exhibits.
Kirsty Lappin won the secondary school group with an artistic in-terpretation of the hanging bas-kets in the Square ("Flower Power"). The adult group was won by Bob Anderson with his photograph of "Ythsie Stones". Special award and commendation went to Lewis Bradley and Derek Ryan. The visitor selection was also won by Bob with an atmos-pheric winter dawn. To all who have contributed an interesting and varied photographic descrip-tion of the area, our thanks. Now get the camera out and start snap-
ping for next year's competition and exhibition!
The July draw of the100 club pro-duced the following winners.£100 Kathy Lawrie (39): £50 each to Eddie Morrison (179), Rob Ross (89), Jane Cattanach (181), Tamsin Morris (201): £25 each to Sarah Pumfrett (85), Mr and Mrs Forgie (140), Helen Jopp (153), George Hughes (186) £12 secures membership and the rewards are vast as you can see. Get in touch withFrances Donaldson to participate next year.
The mysterious 5000 year old stone balls on loan from Maris-chal Museum, University of Aber-deen have provided a lot of interest and discussion. They are on display in the Heritage Centre until the end of October. Now is the time to catch a glimpse of your history and ponder on the past.
THP was approached by Haddo estate regarding the offer of a static threshing mill found in a steading at Auchedly. The chal-lenge was to lift it off site and take to a place of safety for preserva-tion. No mean feat but what team work! Thanks must go to Ian Hamilton and
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Tarves Playgroup wishes to re-cruit a highly motivated, enthu-siastic and caring person as a Relief Playgroup Assistant to provide quality pre-school expe-rience for children and families who attend the group. Previous experience of working with young children and their fami-lies is preferred, but not essen-tial.
Hours of work: Monday, Wednes-day and Friday, with the group ex-tending the service to a Tuesday with effect from October 2009. The group meets at the Youth Hall, Tarves from 9.30 to 12 noon, with staff required to work from 9am until 1pm.
As a relief member of staff, you will provide cover for regular staff at times of holiday and sickness. Due to the nature of the position,
you may be required to work at short notice.
Rate of pay: £6.70 per hour.
The successful applicant will re-port to the Playgroup Manager, and must be prepared to apply for an Enhanced Disclosure Certifi-cate and a medical reference.
An induction process is in place, with staff members given opportu-nities to develop their knowledge and expertise through attendance at training courses during the year.
For more information and/or an application form, please contact Morag Brookhouse, Playgroup Manager 01771 644057 or Nikki Bird, Playgroup Line Manager - 01651 851158.
Closing date for applications: Ongoing
TARVES PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP
JOB VACANCY: RELIEF PLAYGROUP ASSISTANT/S
One for the ladies.......
One day my housework-challenged husband decided to wash his sweatshirt. Seconds after he stepped into the laundry room, he shouted to me, 'What setting do I use on the washing machine?' 'It depends,' I replied. 'What does it say on your shirt?'He yelled back, ' University of Oklahoma .'
OUR FIRST (FAMILY FRIENDLY) JOKE
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Betty Wright21 Mackie Avenue
Tarves01651 851722
Dressmaking - AlterationsCurtains - Bridal etc
Tom Smith from Haddo, Derek Davidson and Jim Young for the machinery and transport, Greig Henderson for his bogey and Ian Cook for storage at Little Mel-drum. They were joined by Tondy Davidson, Ian Massie and Mac Byiers. Grateful thanks to all for help in saving and storing a threshing mill built in 1951 by Jack Massie at E Edmonds of Udny.
Now a tradition, THP hosts a group of entertainers from the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. The standard was of the highest this year as described in the adjoining article.
The old traditions are the best!Come along and learn about tra-ditional rope making demonstrat-ed by Max Byiers and friends on 23rd August.
We welcome Robin Key of Clavis Jewellery to the Heritage Centre as part of the North East Open Studios. Robin, from Pitmedden, designs and fabricates individual pieces using precious metals and gem stones. He will be in resi-dence at the Centre throughout the NEOS period 12 - 21 Septem-ber. Further details are available from the Centre and NEOS cata-logue.
Frances Crichton
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I'd like to publicly thank every-one for their patience during the closure, but particular mention has to go to the staff. Without the flexibility and support that you provided during this time, the whole issue would have been considerably more difficult than it was - thank you.
The Future
We have for some years been encouraged by Aberdeenshire Council to increase the number of sessions that we are able to offer. It therefore seems some-how appropriate that in the 40th year of the Playgroup, we are in a position to increase service provision from 3 to 4 sessions per week with effect from Octo-ber 2009.
We plan to celebrate our 40th Birthday next term by way of a Mad Hatters Tea Party. A sub-committee has been set up to organise the celebrations, and
we look forward to more infor-mation over the coming weeks.
And finally..........
It would be fair to say, it has been quite a year! Many a time I've asked "why did this have to happen on my watch?" Howev-er, despite the various challeng-es we have faced, I think it has been a good year. We have been a small committee of just 4 this year (Judith Stephen, Maureen Richardson, David Watson and myself), but I believe that along with the staff we have worked effectively to improve the serv-ice provision. Thank you to you all for your support.
Our new Chairperson is Leanne Anderson who can be contacted on 01651 851885 for more infor-mation on the group.
Nikki BirdChairperson (Retired!)
Nothing is better for making you feel better than a good laugh - or even a broad smile!!!We would love to hear your favourite joke or piece of humour - family friendly of course!!Send it to [email protected] and we will print it in TBC.
To start the ball rolling... Our first one is over the page!
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(Due to a distinct lack of available space this edition, this is a shortened version of Nikki's article - Editor)August 2008 saw us starting with a new team. Morag Brook-house had joined us in February 2008 and her team was made complete in August by Pam Hughes and Morag Western. The team very quickly started to work together and become ef-fective.
Our unannounced Care Com-mission inspection took place on 3 September and the group was rated as "Very Good" in all class-es with 4's and 5's. We were delighted with this re-port, with the ratings reflecting not only the efforts and hard work of our current staff team, but also that of the previous committee. Thank you to every-one who contributed in helping us achieve this.
Our children attendance num-bers rose from 3 to 19 during the year and we expect 13 to start the new session. We had a successful year fund-raising with Soup and Sweet, an-
nual raffle and a bag pack at Tesco in Ellon. We also held a very successful Car Wash and Coffee morning on 20 June. In addition we received a cheque for £100 from Oldmeldrum Ro-tary, held a Pampered Chef fun-draising evening, had photographs taken by Paperdoll Photography, sold Spree Books and photo CDs to parents. Thankyou to all of those in-volved who have helped at the events or supported us in raising these funds which have been vi-tal in securing the future of the Playgroup.
We fully recognise and are grateful for the benefits from the improved facilities at the Youth Hall. Unfortunately, the works took considerably longer than originally planned. We were grateful to Methlick Under 5's for their support in offering places to children who wished to attend. The closure also had a financial implication to the group. We have lost about £2728 in fees during this time. This is a substantial sum for such a small group and it will take some time to raise the funds required to mitigate this loss.
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FRIENDSHIP CLUBPlans are underway for our new session starting in October, when we hope to have a short outing on the 21st. Then it will be back to the Queens Room in the Melvin Hall for our November meeting followed in December by our annual Christmas lunch.
Watch out for notices around the village giving more details of all our events and speakers.
Jean Jowett
TARVES WALKING CLUBI have been asked by a member of the public to publish the details of our remaining walks of the season, so here goes :-
Sunday 20 September - Ballochbuie Forest and Garbh Allt Waterfall
Sunday 18 October - Milltown of Killdrummy
Saturday 14 November - Meldrum area, with meal to follow as it is the final walk of the season.
For information on any of these walks please call Moira 851526 or John 851615.
Hope to see lots of you.
I went along to a Tarves Communi-ty Council meeting the other day and, maybe as a punishment, they asked me to see if there is any inter-est or demand for allotments in the village.
Aberdeenshire Council has done an audit of 'open spaces' and is consid-ering what to do with some areas of their property that are currently 'under-used'. An option for some areas could be allotments. So if you think it would be good to see allot-ments established in Tarves, please
get in touch (and if you don't think there should be any, please also let me know!).
The Channel 4 Landshare cam-paign has shown how much enthu-siasm there is for allotments at the moment and there are now over 60 allotments in Banchory, with plans for more...
Give me a call on 851553 or email [email protected] with your thoughts
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It is a very long time since the Melvin Hall stage has been graced by three such gorgeous and talented young men! It was an absolute treat to attend the Youth Festival concert in the Melvin Hall on Saturday 1 Au-gust, hosted by the Tarves Herit-age Project. (We expected to host an ensemble from a Dutch orchestra but when this was not possible at the last minute the programme was quickly altered thanks to the patience and per-severance ofDr Norman Cooper to whom we are extremely grateful.)
Instead, we were entertained by 3 lovely young men. Mikhail Pavlov is a 21 year old Russian baritone, who has been studying opera at the St Petersburg Con-servatoire for 5 years.Pavel Oboyantsev, also Russian, is 22 and an economics gradu-ate, but it was his accordion playing skills which he brought to the concert. They were joined by Ewan McCall, a 16 year old from Dumfries, who plays the piano and saxophone and who has won the National Final of the World Burns Federation competition on 3 occasions for both song and recitation.
I love a man in a kilt but I think it unlikely that any of us will ever see a young man in a kilt playing the saxophone again! Euan played a variety of different pieces on the saxophone, sang a selection of Scottish and modern songs and recited Burns poems. He was certainly multi-talented and it was easy to see why he had been so successful in the Burns competitions - his diction was perfect and he read with great expression and under-standing.
Mikhail's voice was truly amaz-ing. He skilfully performed a selection of operatic songs with powerful emotion and his voice filled the hall as it has never been filled before! Mikhail's multi-lingual talents were also apparent as he spoke very good English and sang to us in perfect Italian and French. He is also a very accomplished pianist.
The notes in the evening's pro-gramme described Pavel's ac-cordion playing skills as 'world class'. There was absolutely no doubt about this. He sat and danced as he played with great sensitivity and the multi-tasking skills needed to achieve the very
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BARTHOL CHAPEL NEWS
It is alarming how quickly the year passes and it seems ex-traordinary that as I write this, the summer holidays are over and we have enjoyed our annual summer events of the Commu-nity Sports, the Sunday school prize giving and picnic. All these events went very well and were much enjoyed due, in part, to the willing help of many and masterminding by a few. Spe-cial thanks are due to Helen Mennie for all she does throughout the year for the Sunday school and at this time particularly, for her quiet or-ganisation of the prize-giving and picnic and also to Peter Chalmers for co-ordinating the Sports. Thank you also to every-one who helped and to those who came along to take part and enjoy these events.
This summer, Barthol Chapel Church was the venue for its first wedding in some years. We all join in wishing William and Freya every happiness in their married life together. The wonderful flowers for the occa-sion were much enjoyed by the congregation for several weeks afterwards.
The change in the pattern for our summer services - which is in fact ‘no change’ - seems to have worked well as we have continued to hold services at the usual time of 9.45am throughout July and August, with good attendance. Perhaps the 9 o’clock start of summer services in previous years has been a little early!
high standard of playing were the equivalent of 'patting his head, rubbing his tummy and saying the alphabet backwards in a foreign language'!! He was stunning.
The Aberdeen International Youth Festival continues to at-tract young talent of a very high standard and I would recom-
mend their concerts to you all. I take this opportunity to thank all those who helped out with posters, fliers, catering, tickets and lighting.
Linda Mackie Note - I also attended the evening and can only concur with Linda - it was amazing! Editor
