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Latest News...The Bute Community Land Company's project to buy the Rhubodach Forest for community use is now in the middle of the community ballot and time is getting short. If you live on the island and haven't yet voted then it is very important that you should vote as soon as possible. If insufficient votes are received then the buy-out project could collapse.
Ballot papers, it appears, have been accidentally thrown out because they might be mistaken for junk mail. If you have done that then you can request a replacement ballot paper using the contact form on their website.
Please vote urgently.
The Rotary Club of Rothesay has just launched their new website. For the first time they have their own Internet domain rather than using a little bit of space on this website. Good luck to them and thanks for all their good work on the island.
The Friends of Wemyss Bay Station have taken delivery of their very first publication about the station and pier, a handsome booklet full of photos taken during the construction of the station in 1903. It has been written and compiled for us by Jim MacIntosh, chairman of the Caledonian Railway Association, and produced jointly by the Association and ourselves. It is an interesting and readable account of the early days of the station's history, available for the bargain price of £5.
To celebrate this occasion, we are having a book launch at the station on Saturday, 26th September, from 10.30 -12.00 a.m., when Jim MacIntosh will be present to sign copies of the book. We plan to have live music on the concourse. There will be an opportunity to see our current exhibition of display boards featuring the Adopt a Station campaign of which we ourselves are a part. There will also be a display of photos of the station, submitted as entries for our Photocall competition. Choose two from the 40 entries, and help us select the images for our next postcards.
Do come and join us.
Nancy Cameron, Chairman, FoWBS.
The 18th Annual Linedance Festival takes place from 25th to the 28th September 2009. Only a couple of weeks away now. Full details on the Festival website:
The Friends of Wemyss Bay Station are asked frequently for postcards of the station, a request we would like to fulfill, so we invite all interested photographers to submit a digital photo of the station, the pier, or a particular aspect of the structure, to be included in a display of images in our gallery at the station. We shall then invite visitors and Friends to vote for their choice, and so select four views to print as postcards, to be sold at our shop. Each postcard will record the name of the photographer, but copyright of the image would belong to the Friends of Wemyss Bay Station.
If you would be interested in this proposal, please hand in your photo to the bookshop at the station, open 10.00 - 16.00, Mondays to Saturdays, or post to:
Friends of Wemyss Bay Station,
The Station,
Wemyss Bay PA18 6AR.
Each photo should be A6 size, and should be at least 300dpi. It should be labelled with the name and contact details of the photographer.
Final date for receiving entries is Saturday, 22nd August.
One Day Like This is Eric & Emma's 5 minute 37 seconds video about walking the West Island Way in June 2009. They obviously got got weather and had a great time. How many of you living on the island have never done this walk, eh?
Sunday 10th May 2009 is the date for this year's triathlon events. Hurry up and get your entry in as there's not long to go!
Sprint (750m pool/20km road/5km).
Novice (400m pool/5km MTB/3km).
SPACES LEFT FOR SPRINT & NOVICE 2009 EVENTS.
More information on the Bute Wheelers Website.
2009 is the year of Homecoming. The 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns has been chosen as the time for inviting all the sons and daughters of Scotland to return home. And the sons and daughters of Bute are being invitied home too, see the Homecoming Bute 2009 website for details of all the events planned for this year.
Bute Digital Camera Club. First meeting Friday 6th February 2009 at 7.30 pm in the 292 Club, Rothesay.
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