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CHUG FRIDAY 20th MAY TRANQUILITY

Mike & Leonie Rees have left for Wales while
Malcolm & Kate Trott have settled in Broomfield.
Discussions have now reached the stage It is with regret that I will be closing Tranquility
where it is important that the village is made on 31st July 2011.
aware of the present situation regarding Would anyone wishing to redeem a voucher
negotiations with various authorities about please contact me on 01584 431755.
potential improvements to the harbour area, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all
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their move from Herisau but just as diverting for those who play chess. Vischer who with her husband, the Rev John Vischer and their family,
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with players from Machrihanish, Dunaverty, and Tarbert travelling to
take part in a most enjoyable competition.
As always, the match was played in an extremely friendly and
sociable manner and was concluded with a meal held in the Carradale
Hotel. The winners were Ann Gallagher (Machrihanish) and Margaret
Richardson (Carradale) with 37 points, pictured here with Carradale
Ladies Captain, Janice Hanning.
WINTER ECLECTIC
Carradale Ladies Section Winter Eclectic was won by Margaret
Richardson, Runner-Up was Margaret Campbell. Congratulations to
both players. M.C.
In days of yore men’s golf competition results were frequently featured
in the Antler; are the current male players shrinking violets or hiding
their highlights under a rhododendron bush(el)? Ed.

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Judge Meri Wrightson holding David Byford’s winning print.
Carradale Camera Club recently held its annual Print of the
Year Competition. Members can enter up to 4 prints in colour,
monochrome or infra red.
This year’s winner of the Print of the Year trophy, The
Duncan Ritchie Memorial Quaich, is David Byford.
Unfortunately David was unable to attend, and the
photograph below shows Christine Ritchie, Duncan’s daughter,
second from the right, holding the winning print.
The winning monochrome print was taken by Rachel Grant
who wins the Wallis Hunter Quaich, whilst the Runner-Up was
Steve Partridge winning the Carra Cup.
The judge for the competition, was local Art teacher and
keen amateur photographer, Ms Meri Wrightson. She was most
impressed with the standard of photographs, and her
constructive criticisms were much appreciated by club
members. Many congratulations to our winners.
For those who enjoy looking at the Club’s photographs,
the Annual Exhibition will be held in the Village Hall (12/13/14
August), with this year, photographs from some of Carradale
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THOSE WERE THE DAYS
THE FIRST WINTER IN TORONTO: ICE AND SNOW
My mother, brother and sisters arrived in Toronto early the next year after
crossing on the R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth to New York, then by train to Toronto.
They arrived with some personal luggage but the trunks and boxes containing
household items arrived by train several days later from Greenock, through the
port of Halifax.
By that time I was somewhat accustomed to the cold and snow having
purchased knee-high felt-lined winter boots. The snow started around the middle
of November and was piled about three feet high along the curbs when the
family arrived. Although we experienced some snow in Torrisdale it quickly
melted and seemed more granular than the flaky snow here. When it comes it
usually stays until spring with some occasional thawing but not enough to melt
it entirely.
Sometimes getting to the sidewalk requires crossing snow banks which can
be treacherous without winter boots that have ribbed soles. The low shoes with
smooth soles the family wore proved to be quite a challenge and with snow
melting inside became very uncomfortable.
Home owners, tenants and business owners, etc. with properties fronting
on sidewalks are responsible for keeping them free of ice and snow. Employees
of towns and municipalities plow and salt the streets and roads while the
Province contracts the work on highways. The salt used is mined at Windsor
Ontario and is very corrosive. When used on sidewalks it can etch the cement
surface and also garage floors when brought in on car wheels and in wheel
wells. Motor vehicles of all types experience extensive rusting particularly
around wheel wells and rocker panels if not protected with an undercoating of
oil or asphalt based materials. However today’s vehicles are built with
galvanized floor and rocker panels along with plastic wheel well inserts in an
effort to prevent premature rusting. Several times when going south for the
winter, our van on arrival changed colour from blue to white due to salt spray.
My uncle’s house was now very crowded with sleeping and eating space
at a premium. Two weeks before the family arrived my aunt and I moved the
furniture around to accommodate beds and mattresses we purchased.
Fortunately I was working at night and slept during the day except for my night
off work each week when I slept on the floor in a bedroom with one cousin and
my brother who both slept in beds. There was some confusion for a while as
the family experienced the same challenges as I faced earlier on.
Purchasing winter wear, getting used to winter conditions, enrolling in
schools, looking for work , riding street cars to get around mother became very
ill and was confined to bed for some time. I think she was exhausted from the
move. Discovering the shops with all the produce was an exciting time for my
sisters, particularly seeing all the bananas which due to the war some never
saw before.
My brother and two sisters soon started school and my two other sisters
started to work in the offices of Canadian General Electric. After mother fully
recovered she also started to work in the home of a family who owned a shop
not far from where we lived. Later on we purchased our first home; mother took
on a second job-cleaning the offices of the Philco Electric Co. during evenings.
We all pooled our money and during the first late summer we were able to buy
our first house with a down payment and taking on two mortgages. It was quite
a struggle for a while as paying down the second mortgage was our first priority
due to the high interest rate.
Then, there was furniture to buy and everything required to set up house
except bedding, a sewing machine and some dishes and personal items which
came from Torrisdale.
It now became my responsibility to look after the house which included the
furnace, purchasing coal, cutting grass, shovelling snow, etc.
John MacMillan.
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HOSPITAL REDESIGN
This is the 5th Newsletter detailing the
progress that is being made on the redesign
of inpatient services in Lorn & Islands Hospital.
In this issue we outline further decisions which
have been made around the reconfiguration of
wards in the hospital and detail some of the
action which is supporting this redesign.
The decision to merge Cruachan Ward and
Ward C resulted in the need to compile an
appropriate staffing establishment for the new
ward, then to manage the process of
organisational change which would bring the
ward into being.
Regrettably the consequence of this was
the need to formally displace staff throughout
the two wards then to go through the process
of matching and appointing staff to jobs within
the new ward.
No one underestimates the degree of
concern or anxiety that this uncomfortable
process has resulted in for staff in the two
wards.
Significant progress has now been made
in the matching process and managers, staff
representatives and representatives of Human
Resources are working extremely hard to
complete this part of the redesign and we are
grateful to everyone concerned for their
patience while the process is completed.
At a recent meeting of the Task Group a
number of options were considered for the
name of the new ward. In the end the group
decided that the ward should be called Ward I
so it is by this name that the ward will be known
once the merger has taken place.
The original intention was to reduce the
ward complement from four to three in the
Spring and we are on track to achieve this
major outcome of the process. In effect
because of the Health Environment
Inspectorate upgrading work that was
undertaken in Wards A, B and C the hospital
has already reduced its ward complement but
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the majority of April. For this reason we have
not set a deadline for the merging of wards but
we will confirm this date as soon as we are in
a position to do so.
The developments currently being
managed within the hospital have recently
been discussed both at the Locality Public
Partnership Forum and at the local Area
Community Planning Group. Both of these
groups were enthusiastic about the potential
benefits and it is good to know that the local
community supports the redesign in this way.
As ever I appreciate the continuing
patience of those for whom this is a time of
uncertainty and I am grateful to everyone for
their dedication in all matters regarding the
hospital’s redesign.
David Whiteoak,
Locality Manager, 18 April 2011
Beyond the decision to merge the two wards
an enormous amount of work has been going
on to underpin the hospital redesign and to THE KINTYRE MAGAZINE
improve both the effectiveness and efficiency The Spring issue contains some fascinating
with which we provide services to patients. articles on a wide range of subjects.
Many staff have been involved already in
Daryl Martin contributes a lengthy study on
compiling or reviewing patient pathways within
‘The Arrival of DNA Genealogy’ and Madeleine
Departments and within specific clinical
Slater follows with an inquiry into ‘The Hills of
settings. All of this work will ensure a
Skipness’ - not as one might suppose about
consistency in the quality of care and treatment
the landscape of Skipness but a study of a
provided to patients in future.
Renfrew family which came to live in Skipness
Work has been going on for some time to in the late 17th century. Clare Grant (nee
increase the proportion of surgical patients McNeil) is also on the ancestral trail trying to
treated as day cases. This represents a
trace her father’s family into the 1800s. Apart
challenge to those traveling from some from contributing another interesting ‘By Hill
distance or from the islands but there is clear
and Shore’ Angus Martin recounts his
opportunity to address this issue for a greater attendance at a Council for Scottish
number of patients from in and around Oban. Archaeology's Summer School in Kintyre in
We need to increase the proportion of 2009 entitled ‘Cnocan a’ Chluig’, and Per
patients undergoing pre-assessment prior to Kvaerne traces the visit to Kintyre in 1877 of
admission for surgery and progress is being the Norwegian painter Hans Gude (1825-
made in particular in ensuring patients from 1903).
Lochgilphead and Campbeltown are
The Raven on the cover of the magazine
undergoing this procedure. initiates a report on page 15 from The
The introduction of the Board Round Argyllshire Herald of the 19th of April 1913
concept on Ward B in January has been very suggesting that Ravens are traditionally
successful. The Board Round in Ward A was associated with the Campbell deaths and
established early in April and a similar process disasters, while James MacDonald and Neil
will be instigated in Ward I when it opens. Brown continue the avian theme with extended
studies of barn owls and ravens.
Editor’s note: The picture at the head of
column 1 was copied from the Lorn and Islands Finally Moira Burgess adds to her
Hospital web-site. It shows how the constantly renowned interest in Naomi Mitchison by
changing philosophy of National Health recounting the literary collaboration between
hospital care has an unsettling effect upon the Carradale grande dame and Denis
physical foundations; either that or the Macintosh (1899-1980). There are also
photographer has been enjoying the reviews of recent publications on pages 32-34,
generosity of NHS hospitality. and a meeting with otters on the inside cover.
The Magazine is available from local
bookshops. Ed.
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KINTYRE FORUM
ON COMMUNITY CARE
MINUTES OF AGM MEETING 28TH APRIL
2010 IN COMMUNITY EDUCATION
CENTRE, CAMPBELTOWN
PRESENT: Elaine Hemmings, Andrew
Williamson, Susan Paterson, Eva Macdonald,
Jackie Berryman, Tina Jordan, David Wright,
Linda Mcfadyen, Peter Harper, Val Cannell,
APOLOGIES: Maryanne Stewart, Jean Bell,
Alison Hunter, Alex Johnson, Lindsay Fox-
Denham, Alison McCrosson, Stephen Duffy,
Sandy McKendrick, John Dreghorn.
SPEAKERS: David Wright and Tina Jordan
gave a presentation of their work with
ACUMEN and its part in Mental Health
redesign in the last few years.
MINUTES: The minutes of the previous AGM
on the 29th April 2009 were approved by
Susan Paterson and seconded by Eva
Macdonald.
MATTERS ARISING: None
SECRETARY'S REPORT: Correspondence
was read out and was available for members
CHAIRS REPORT: Mary Margaret the Chair
was not in attendance and her report was not
available for the meeting. (Her report has since
been presented to the committee, this was due
to an error of the date of the AGM being sent
out with the previous minutes.).
TREASURER'S REPORT: Treasurers report
for the meeting was not available, this has now
been sent out with the mailing shot.
FUTURE PLANNING: The forum members at
the meeting were asked their views on future
planning; this was in consideration of the poor
attendance today in is what is seen as an
important meeting, the AGM. It was asked if
the forum was of any value. Andrew felt Susan
hadn't had the support of the committee and
the Forum should be giving Susan more
support for her work. One member felt that the
forum was important to pass on information but
at the moment it was depressing at the interest
in people attending the Forum. Another felt the
"turn-out was abysmal" as it was an AGM. She
felt we could cascade information and share
information. A Carradale resident felt someone
could come out to Carradale and share
information. The Link Club in Campbeltown felt
it was important to share information. It was
noted that no one from the NHS was present
at the AGM. One member was enthusiastic
about the Forum and it was "a fantastic way of
information gathering" and information could
be given out to other people.
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It was hoped that the meeting could be kept
to one and half-hours, as this was a more
useful use of people's time. It was requested
that any further views to improve the use of the
Forum could be sent to the secretary either by
email, phone or post. It was noted that some
information may not be of interest to other
organisations attending the Forum and that
some updates take too long, which is why
some members may not attend. It was hoped
that the Forum could receive any helpful ideas
from the members to make the meetings more
useful. There was a question of what should
be the future format of the speakers attending.
REPORT FROM DEVELOPMENT WORKER:
Susan Paterson the Development Worker
reported that we had been given £2800 from
the FAB grant, which is being used to update
the Directory. There is still £900 of the carer's
grant available. Susan suggested the mailing
list for the KCCF be expanded to encourage
people to attend. A comprehensive report was
read out by Susan regarding her work this year
as consultant worker for the Forum and a copy
is to be sent out to the mailing list.
ELECTION OF OFFICE BEARERS
Mary Margaret Hanna resigned as Chairman;
she was thanked for all her hard work on behalf
of the Committee. Andrew Williamson was
elected the new Chairman, proposed by Susan
and seconded by Eva. Jackie Berryman was
elected Vice Chairwoman, proposed by Susan
and seconded by Eva. Elaine Hemmings was
reelected as Secretary proposed by Susan and
seconded by Peter. Jean Bell was reelected
as Treasurer proposed by Susan and
seconded by Peter. It was agreed the
committee should if possible meet monthly.
AOCB: UPDATES FROM MEMBERS:
Val Canell: Carradale Seniors. Reported
that it had been helpful that the Red Cross bus
has been able to continue to help the residents
of Carradale. People who don't normally go out
had been able to have a Christmas meal and
a trip to Arran.
Peter Harper: British Red Cross. Reported
that the project had been successful in
securing funding. South Kintyre car scheme
has been running for 5 years and the aim is to
concentrate support in South Kintyre. There is
still ongoing work for the Respite Care Bureau
being planned by Social Services and Peter
will feed further information into the Forum
when available. The BRC are still helping out
the Ambulance Service. Linda, Home Care
Organiser, reported that decision regarding the
service redesign of older people's services
should be made in September, it is unclear at
the moment what will happen
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Eva Macdonald: Advocacy Service,
reported that Advocacy had been going into
the local; care centres to give information
about Advocacy to both staff and clients.
Jackie Berryman, Link Club, reported that
the club is trying to encourage members to do
activities that they wouldn't normally do e.g.
horse riding. They were also helping members
to eat healthy and to budget. They were also
helping set up a Link Club in Islay with input
from ACUMEN.
KINTYRE CRIME
PREVENTION PANEL
Kintyre Crime Prevention Panel recently held
its AGM within the Conference Room at
Campbeltown Police Station. Chair, William
Durance gave the annual report in which he
outlined projects undertaken throughout the
year. Projects included the fitting of Door
Viewers, which was a joint project with Argyll
& Bute Care & Repair, Domestic Abuse
Campaign, Bottle Marking Scheme, Poster
Competition involving Primary School children
in Kintyre with the project having a Crime
Prevention theme. Sheriff Ruth Anderson Q.C.
judged this competition, and also presented
the prizes.
During the past year, the Panel has
acquired Charity Status. Overall, it has been
a very busy year. Two Panel members
resigned, and three people were nominated
then ratified, and are now serving Panel
Members. A fourth nominee is presently
awaiting ratification The Panel expressed
gratitude to PC Lindsay Wallace for her sterling
work over recent years as Panel Secretary,
and gratitude was also expressed to Special
Constable Robert Westerman for all help and
technical skills given to the Panel when
carrying out projects. SC Westerman was
welcomed to the Panel as Secretary for the
next year.
Office Bearers elected for 2011-2012 are:
Chair, William Durance, Vice Chair, Eva
MacDonald MBE, Treasurer, Walter Bell.
Campbeltown Police were thanked for their
support readily given to the Panel over the
year. Applications have now been made to
various Agencies in order to hopefully secure
funding for future projects which are now being
spoken about. E.McD
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BLIND TO THE INTERESTS OF OTHERS
A POETIC PLEA BY BOBBY POHLER
As you walk along the pavements, do you ever give a thought
to the dangers in the things you see, to others who cannot.
Like the hole you walked around that wasn't previously there –
Do you think to phone the powers-that-be to make a quick repair?
Did you ever see a street-drain with its cover off, and cry
"they should do something about that"!, and then just pass on by?
Would you like it to be you the poorly-sighted have to thank when
they step on to the roadway and find they're doom in stank!?
When you work out in your garden and admire your lilac tree,
have you ever paused to ponder what a hazard that can be?
Though the overhanging branches may well ornament the place,
they could give a poor blind laddie a real smack across the face!
So why not take your pruning shears and go into the street -
remove that extra foliage and make your tree look neat!
And, as the branches drop away, don't say "now that'll do"!
If you've only cleared the passage for the under 5 foot 2!
Are you one of these nice people who, when at their own abode,
park their car upon the pavement (just to keep it off the road)?
So it will not be collided with – that's what it's all about –
there will be no nasty bumps or little scratches, I've no doubt!
But a lass with vision may just come along the street
and your car will be the obstacle that she's about to meet.
She'll be forced to step out into the busy carriageway
and, as like as not, there'll be a blinking lamp-post in the way!
When you've got your shopping trolley and you stop to have a chat
with a friend who's got a go-chair, or some other thing like that,
and discuss the awful weather or the price of stewing steak –
do you realise the obstacle the two of you must make?
To those of us who cannot see, it would mean such a lot,
if all these little things were given just a little thought.
Let us walk the streets in safety; let us hold our heads erect
yes, please give us back our pavements - is it too much to expect?
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ITS MAKE-OVER TIME
TWO REPORTS ON THE CARRADALE BAY BEACH CLEAN
ON SUNDAY 17TH APRIL
At 2.30 there were only half a dozen people, a small pony and trap and
a large dog and when 3 of the company said they weren't there for the
clean up my heart sank. However before I could mutter “Community
Spirit eh! " a positive hoard of volunteers arrived! By the time we were
equipped with pickers gloves and bags (provided by the GRAB Trust)
our number had grown to a very respectable twenty nine people. Young
and not so young alike, wandered happily along the beach filling bags
with all sorts of litter which were picked up by jeep and trailer. General
flotsam and jetsom filled 64 bin bags with, as expected, a high
proportion of plastic. We combed the beach for 3 hours - locals, holiday
home owners and a family of holiday makers too. Thanks go to everyone
who turned out to help with a special thank you to Elizabette, Jack and
Carlo who gave up an afternoon of their holiday to help clean the beach.
Shelagh Cameron, Convener of East Kintyre Community Council
A FEW REQUESTS:-
Don't flush anything with a plastic backing down the loo.
Take all your litter home with you when you go to the beach.
Clean up after your dog and don't leave bags of ‘poo’ for somebody
else to pick up.(yes dog owners - somebody IS doing that!)
Beach Cleaning - a perfectly pleasant way to spend a few hours on a
sunny Sunday afternoon (when you're in good company and don't need
to bend or actually touch the litter!)
AND A REPORT AND WARNING BY THE CARRADALE GOAT
WEB-SITE WEB-MASTER JOHNNY DURNAN
The beach clean on Sunday 17th April attracted a mixture of willing
helpers,around 29 locals of all ages and holiday makers/visitors giving
a bit of their time to help out also. An annual event organised by the
local community headed by Shelagh Cameron with thanks also to Grab
Trust for providing pickers,bags and gloves. Around 64 bin bags were
filled over a period of three hours and carted away by our local fire chief
Robert Strang.
On a safety issue, if anyone comes across a suspicious looking
object on any beach do not touch it, call the COASTGUARD 999, it does
not matter if it is not an ordnance (old war relics/bombs or modern
devices) or pyrotechnics (flares/phosphor or any other odd looking
things).
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