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Beware cash-card skimmers
Police have issued a warning after card-skimming devices were found on three cash machines in Central Scotland. One was in Tullibody.
Skimming machines read the details on bank cards and mini-cameras are used to capture the customers' PINs as they type them in.
Here's a link to a web site showing some pictures of skimming machines showing just how cunningly unobtrusive these devices can be. View images of a skimming device. (This is a USA website: Images of the devices found in Central Scotland have not been published).
Police advise anyone who notices anything suspicious at any cash dispenser, or people loitering in the area, to contact the bank.
Read the text of the Police advice and the news item on the BBC website.
Changed opening times for Community Access Point (CAP) and Library
| Monday - Friday | Library & leisure | 09.00 am - 10.00 pm |
| Cash collection | 09.00 am - 12:30 pm | |
| 01.30 pm - 04.30 pm | ||
| Saturday | Library & leisure | 09.00 am - 12:30 pm |
Chairman welcomes Dumyat Centre improvements
With encouragement from the Community Council, Clackmannanshire Council have given the Dumyat Centre a make-over. Improvements to the internal paintwork, to the library and computer area, and to the signage make it a more welcoming and pleasant place to use. Funding for further improvements will become available in April 2012.
Les urges all in the village to go along and see the improvements at first hand.
Read Les' message in full at this link.
The shape of things to come
We invite organisations in Menstrie to use this web site to advertise, to the village, the dates of their planned events and to help other organisations avoid clashes of timing.
This is the link to the calendar.
Please email information and updates or corrections about your planned events to:
• contact@menstrie.org
• secretary@menstrie.org
You'll be needing one of these ...
Photo calendars for 2012 from Ochil Writers are now for sale at £4.99.
They can be obtained from Mary:
30, Holly Grove, Menstrie
Tel. 01259 769110
They can also be delivered.
Dates for your diary
The Gala Committee says "Watch out for these events in 2012!"
| • Jan 27 | Bingo Tea |
| • Feb 23 | Bingo Tea |
| • Mar 2 | Holly Tree Race Night: Watch out for the posters |
| • Mar 29 | Bingo Tea |
| • Apr 8 | Duck Race |
| • Apr 26 | Bingo Tea |
H1 Bus Service: Menstrie to Forth Valley Royal Hospital
USE IT OR LOSE IT!
I have asked the Transport Manager for FVR Hospital if there is any difference in the usage of the H1 bus now that it comes through the village. I am pleased to report that there is a 56% increase in people using the bus. Probably not all coming from Menstrie but it makes it a much more viable route for them.
When the route was surveyed from April 18th to 24th, 379 people used the service. When the survey was repeated from October 3rd to 9th, after the bus was coming into the village, 619 used the service.
The revenue to the company has nearly doubled in the second period. If this continues and we are able to build on it, it is looking more positive that we will retain this service in the future.
It runs every 2 hours. The first bus at is at 06.40am at Windsor Street and thereafter every two (even) hours and will pick up through the village. The journey to Alloa takes 15 minutes and you can be at the hospital in 38 minutes. The last bus from the hospital is 19.35pm arriving in Alloa at 20.03 and back to the village by 20.18.
A FULL COPY OF THE TIMETABLE IS ON DISPLAY
ON THE COMMUNITY NOTICE BOARD
AND ON THE NOTICE BOARD IN THE LIBRARY.
Public Partnership Forum: Your voice in the NHS
The next meeting of the PPF will be on February 14th 2012 in the Whins Resource Centre, Alloa, at 7pm till 9pm. Refreshments will be served from 6.30pm.
The main topic for debate at this meeting is "The Scottish Ambulance Service".
Their Representatives will be there to discuss the changes that will take place at the beginning of 2012 in the Ambulance and Patient Transport Service covering Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire.
There have been a lot of requests from the public for this topic so it is hoped there will be a good response from the people of Clackmannanshire.
More minutes in Menstrie
To find out what concerns Menstrie-dwellers, and what's happening about it, take a look at the minutes of the Community Council.
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January 2012