In remembrance: postie Gill Beamer, who used to drive the postbus from Torridon to Achnasheen (in all weathers!) for almost 20 years, sadly passed away in May after only a few weeks of illness, and doubly sad is that she had only recently retired from the rigours of her demanding round. Love and best wishes go to Gill’s family from the whole community - a lady we all greatly miss.
With thanks: Debbie and Barry Peters would like to say thanks to everyone in the community, for the condolence cards and kind wishes, after the loss of Debbie’s dad earlier this month.
Birthday girl: Achnasheen’s Jessie McIver recently celebrated her 90th birthday - three generations of Jessie’s family helped her celebrate this wonderful milestone. Those of you who know Jessie will agree that she’s probably the best cook in the whole of Wester Ross - her Clootie dumplings are the best! Lots of love to our favourite neighbour from Jackie and Jim, and very best wishes from everyone in the community. Thank you: Hilda Ross would like to thank all family and friends for all their kind wishes, and visits, during her long stay in hospital. Thanks also to the Community for their kind gift of flowers.
Christmas is coming!
Friday 4th Dec: Garve Village Hall - Turning on the Christmas Tree Lights, and Christmas Carols by children of Garve school. Refreshments of hot dogs and mulled wine. Arrive 6-30 for 7pm. Contact Helen Grainge (01997 455238)
Sat 5th Dec: Christmas Fair, Garve Village Hall. Stalls, teas with mince pies etc, etc. Santa arrives at mid-day and will stay until 1pm with bags of gifts. Santa tokens available in advance. Donations for bottle and gift stall welcomed. Contact Helen Grainge (01997 455238)
More details on the above events in next issue of the newsletter - out on the 20 November (Deadline for submissions for this issue, editorial and advertising, must be with the editor by 6 November).
Ladies, take the stress out of the festive season: Laura of Laura’s Cottage Kitchen reminds us of the headache of catering during the festive season, she says "once again it is that time of the year, when you start thinking about Christmas. And, once again you are determined to have everything sorted and organised. I can help preparing dishes for your freezers for those unexpected guests. Things like meat or vegetable terrine, pates, stuffing, pasta sauces, puddings and so on". For more information, call Laura or visit her new website www.laurascottagekitchen.com
News from Achnasheen Amenities: Gill Ross would like to thank everyone who visited ‘Gill's Emporium' at the fair at the Ledgowan Lodge Hotel on the 29 August. Thanks to everyone who dug deep into their pockets and bought homemade preserves, and the great (donated) bric a brac. A grand total of £140 was raised on the day, and this will go towards the cost of the current refurbishments being undertaken in the village hall. Thanks to you all, for buying, donating and helping out on the day - we had lots of fun as well which made it even better! Bargain of the day had to be the TV (in good working order!) which Ken Duffield bought - Gill even threw in the remote control for free!
'Gill's Emporium' will be open once again for 'business', at the Ledgowan Mind, Body and Spirit fair on the 17 October, and the Christmas Fair on the 27 November.
And there’s more hall news….once the refurbished kitchen has been completed, it will be put to good use over the winter months, to raise more funds to continue the refurbishment, supplementing the small grant from the authorities. They will be providing hot drinks, soup and rolls for weary travellers - watch this space for more details of the opening times (hours will be limited to a few hours each week). More news next newsletter.
If you would like to donate any item (bric a brac, etc) for ‘Gill’s Emporium’, or make a donation, or even help raise further funds for the village hall refurbishment, please contact Gill Ross at Achnasheen Post Office (open 11am to 1pm weekdays) 01445 720241.
War Memorial: a big thank you to John Ross for all his help at the War Memorial this year, when I was taken ill. Uisdean Menzies.
Garve & Lochluichart WRI: first meeting of new season on Thursday, 24 September, in Garve Village Hall. October meeting 29th, and November 26th, all start at 7.30pm. Come and join us - interesting talks and demonstrations of things to do. Have a cup of tea and see what we are about! Contact Helen Grainge (01997 455238)
Have your say on Beinn Eighe: Scottish Natural Heritage are inviting comments on management proposals for Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve for the next six years. Full proposals on: www.nnr-scotland.org.uk Call SNH Kinlochewe 01445 760254 - F:01445 760301 E: beinneighe@snh.gov.uk The consultation runs for 12 weeks, from 21 August to 13 November.
Thanks from the otters: there are 13 baby otters tucking into lots of lovely extra fish and special otter milk formula, thanks to the generosity of everyone who made donations at the recent Otter Talk, at the Ledgowan Lodge Hotel. The talk was given by Paul and Grace Yoxon of the Skye-based International Otter Survival Fund (www.otter.org). Paul and Grace gave an interesting insight into the life of this elusive and endangered creature, and explained their work introducing otters back into the wild (did YOU know there are only around 700 otters in Scotland?).
Over 50 people attended, a brilliant turn-out considering we were competing with the Scotland/Holland game! Thank you for coming along to make this such a success! More wildlife talks, by recognised experts are planned, and all ideas are welcome on subject matters. Jackie
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