Welcome to Menstrie
Gala Week: an Open Invitation
Les says ...
I know many of you are already involved in our Gala week and I hope will remains so, but we are desperately short of new members to help this wonderful village event carry on.
We have organised an informal meeting on Tuesday 31st August in the Dumyat Centre at 7.00pm to try and raise interest in helping us.
It will be informal. If you can't get a baby sitter, bring the kids - it will be fairly brief. If you now of anyone else who might be able to give us some input, please tell them - or even better, drag them along.
It's not about Committee work:
It's about community involvement, and it's our community.
Writers' Group (Note change of venue)
Meetings will take place in the small room at the Holly Tree,
Menstrie on the following Mondays, all at 7 pm:
• September 6th
• September 20th
Read more about the Writers' Group
Menstrie lass to attend 22nd World Scout Jamboree
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15-year old Jennie McRitchie is one of only two chosen from all of Clackmannanshire to attend the Jamboree in Sweden in 2011. She attended the Cubs and Scouts in Menstrie before moving up to the Sauchie Explorer group. A Ceilidh in Alva this October and other activities will raise funds for this trip. For tickets, apply to heldo63@aol.com or by phone to a number soon to be advertised in local shops.
Read Jennie's letter at this link.
Menstrie's Ochil Landscape Partnership project
Les says ...
After some 2½ years, Menstrie's project has been accepted as part of the overall funding proposal. We propose to:
• clear and clean up the lower reaches of the Glen, the Burn and surrounds;
• install a viewing platform at the old bridge adjacent to the Scout hall;
• create an avenue of walkable paths along the Burnside right through the village;
• install storyboards depicting life as it once was in Menstrie;
• describe the geography, archaeology, history and people of our village.
More can be found on the OLP website.
We need now to put together a group of people to take this project forward, helping to put together the stories and pictures, sorting out the logistics of path laying, wall building, tree planting and the many other tasks that will require doing.
Read the full text of Les' appeal at this link.
Bus service H1 to Falkirk Hospital
From 1st August 2010, the H1 service to Forth Valley Hospital, Falkirk, will leave Alva every 2 hours on Mondays to Saturdays calling at Menstrie, Tullibody, Alloa, Clackmannan and Kennet.
The buses will stop at two places on Tullibody Road, Menstrie at
06:41, 08:41, 10:41, 12:41, 14:41, 16:41, 18:41, 20:41.
The return services in the Alva direction will stop at 08:17, 10:17, 12:17, 14:17, 16:17, 18:17, 20:17, 22:17.
On Sundays, the services will run 2-hourly from 12:41 to 20:41 to Falkirk and from 14:17 to 22:17 to Alva. The services will not run on December 25 & 26 nor January 1 & 2.
This service uses low-floor buses accessible by wheelchair. Concessionary passes are accepted and either return tickets or singles may be purchased. No change will be given.
Summer contacts
The Community Council does not meet during the summer months. If anyone has anything urgent that needs dealt with, contact Les Sharp at 763549 or as on the 'Contacts' page.
Clackmannanshire Councillors Eddie Carrick and Janice Paterson can be contacted in the normal way.
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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August 2010