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The wild gorse is now in full bloom around the village and we
can see that summer is on the way, so I’ve featured a few
pictures in this issue of sunny views around Grantshouse and
Houndwood. It is a pity the newsletter is
printed in black and white as they look so much better in full
colour as they are on the Home page of this web site!
The Grantshouse Community Council’s
new committee will be elected at their meeting on June 10th
at 7.30pm. All are welcome to attend and there is still a little
time for nominations for election to the committee to be submitted
to Walter Wyse or Christopher Haywood.
The Police in Lothian
and the Borders are committed to keeping in touch with their Local
Communities. To enhance our opportunities to speak with a local
officer and discuss any police issues that may be affecting us, as
individuals or our community, it has been arranged for a Police
Community Contact Vehicle to attend Grantshouse on Wednesday 25th
June at 1.00pm.
The Outward Bound Centre
– A feasiblity study is now underway through a village company
limited by guarantee to look into the practicalities of a
community buy-out of the building and its future use. For more
information and to get involved please contact Walter or Meg Wyse.
(contact details are below).
The Grantshouse Community Trust’s
Committee and Trustees have decided to keep the Trust going after
all! The Trust is run for the benefit of all the residents in
Grantshouse and Houndwood but due to the many and varied
commitments of the committee members recently, resignations had to
be accepted. As no one else seemed inclined to take over, closing
the Trust seemed the best option a couple of months ago.
However, after careful thought and consideration we decided to
try to keep the Trust going. We are very pleased and grateful to
have been joined on the committee by John Prentice, Dawn Blackman,
Stephanie and Lexy Patterson and
After our AGM, which will be held in the near future, all the
Trustees and officers of the committee will be announced as well
as details of our proposed activities.
The SWRI -
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May a busy month this year! The Women’s Rural Eye Valley
Group held their AGM in Grantshouse last week but the week before
we entertained the members from all the other Rural groups in
the Eye Valley for the afternoon. Following the interesting annual
reports from the other Rural Groups, Margaret Fleming provided the
entertainment for everyone, introducing the ladies to ceildgh
dancing. However, they didn’t need very much coercion to take to
the floor and twirl around the hall dancing with glee!
All too soon it was time for tea and the Grantshouse Rural
ladies, as usual, excelled themselves in providing mountains of
fabulous home-made goodies! Including sandwiches, scones, quiche,
sausage rolls and cakes and biscuits of all kinds. Finally, the
raffle contained almost enough prizes to ensure everyone was a
winner when it was drawn at the end of the afternoon!
We all look forward to a peaceful evening this month when we
hold our own AGM in conjunction with a cheese and wine tasting!
The Horticultural Society
hope all your plans for your entries to their Annual Show on
Sunday 24th August 2008 are now underway. With new classes in the
Schedule they are hoping for a bumper entry for their
horticultural and industrial classes this year! Remember, there
are a variety of classes for fruit and flowers, plants and
photography, cakes and candy, pies and preserves and special
classes and prizes for children to enter too!
The Wednesday Club
– The
Wednesday Club enjoyed lovely weather for their summer trip to the
Coldstream Museum and the Hirsel in May. A leisurely drive through
the countryside still left time for some of us to wander around
the local shops in Coldstream. While others remained intrigued by
the exhibits in the museum before we were all driven on to the
Hirsel. The energetic among us were dropped off at the entrance to
a woodland pathway to enjoy a through the woods walk to the Hirsel.
The lazier ones among us, including me, stayed on the coach for
the drive past the golf course to the Hirsel. We all had the
chance wander around and admire the various crafts displayed at
the centre and make our purchases, before a delicious tea with
home-made scones and cakes was served. Many thanks to everyone
including Bill, our regular coach driver, who helped to make it
such a super day-out for us all!
The Alamo
continues to flourish on the last Friday every month and
the new program for the next three events can be found if you click
here!
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