Dalavich Community News

Dalavich Community Centre in the evening

(photograph courtesy of Robert Connor)

CHILDREN 1st Auction all set to go 

 The Charity Auction in aid of CHILDREN 1st will be held on Saturday the 19th June 2010.  Enquiries regarding the lots for auction have already started coming in.  The lots up for bid are items such as a brand new 19" television, family tents, signed CDs by the Corries, Status Quo and the Alexander Brothers, printers, photographs, a Singing Kettle pack for the young ones, family tickets for Inveraray Jail and much more.

A full list of the items up for auction will be published over the next week.

Put this event in your diary and help support a worth while cause for children who are in dire need of support:

CHILDREN 1st Auction

Dalavich Community Centre

19th June 2010

2pm

We look foward to seeing you there.

Rally of Argyll 

Mull Car Club will be holding the Rally of Argyll which is set to run on the 10th July 2010. The event will be based in Oban with scrutineering and documenttion taking place on Friday the 9th July. After a ceremonial send off from Oban on Saturday 11th July, the cars will travel the short distance to the forests around Loch Awe. John Clayton, Chief Marshall of the event has provided a timetable as follows:

The timescale for the competing cars coming through your area is

1st car into Loch Avich                 10am

1st car coming through Dalavich 10.30am

last car through Dalavich             11.45 am 

1st car back through Dalavich      14.15

last car back through Dalavich     15.45

Due to the nature of the Rally this timetablel is approximate.  Dalavich will be the resting point for the Rally teams and Marshalls and the village is all set to be quite busy on the day.  For further information please contact info@mullcarclub.co.uk .

Charity Dinner at the Kilchrenan Inn

 There will be a charity dinner held in the Kilchrenan in on Saturday 5th June, the price of the dinner is £15 per head with all proceeds being donated to the WalktheWalk charity.

The Menu

*******Starters*******

Served with warm crusty roll and butter

 Awesome Girls do the Moonwalk for charity

Jane Organ and Patricia Rawston are all set to enter the Edinburgh Half Marathon on June 19th in aid of WalktheWalk.  Walk the Walk is a grant making charity, which means that everybody taking part in their challenges is raising money for Walk the Walk. The charity then looks at various projects and campaigns that are involved with breast cancer and grants funds to where we know it will make the most difference. Our policy is to support research and also to support those that have cancer now with equipment and cash. to follow the progress of Jane and Patricia or to make a donation please visit: Awesome Girls Good luck ladies we wish  you well.

London to Brighton Cycle Ride for Charity

Dalavich resident Chris Keelan is preparing to enter the London to Brighton Cycle ride in aid of the British Heart foundation.  Chris who is the owner of the Old School holiday apartments in Dalavich Village is trying to raise sponsorship for the event. If you wish to donate to this worth while charity you can do so at the following link:. http://original.justgiving.com/velopitshanger.  The event will take place on the 20th June 2010 so there is plenty of time to make donations.

Provisional Dates of the Community Council Meetings 2010

7th July                    Dalavich                confirmed

18th August              Kilchrenan

29th September        Dalavich

10th November          Kilchrenan

15th December         Dalavich

Water Safety

Water Safety is an issue that is paramount to anyone on or near a body of water such as the Sea a Loch or a River.  The R.N.L.I give out free information on how to stay safe at Sea, but these rules can also apply to the Lochs.

Here are some rules of advice given by the R.N.L.I.

ITSWET

1.    Inform - Tell others where you are going

2.    Training - Knowledge of your activity is essential

3.    SOS device - Carry some means of calling for help

4.    Wear a life jacket - It's a life statment not a fashion

5.    Engine and fuel checks - Do you have enough fuel and spares?

6.    Tides and weather - Check conditions before you head out

These six peices of advice can make a difference to a life or death situation. For further details please visit the R.N.L.I. website at

www.rnli.org.uk/seasafety you can also obtain free information documents from the website.

Be sensible, stay safe out there!

The source of this information was provided by R.N.L.I courtesy of Micheal Avril, Divisional Sea Safety Manager, Scotland R.N.L.I.

Notes from the Forestry Commission

1.       Harvesting operations have now been completed at MacKenzies Road, bar some minor chainsaw works. Both the Timber Trail and the Kilmaha – New York Cycle Trail are open again. The “MacKenzies Road” will be re-erected once all timber has been dispatched from the site, and there is little danger of damage to the sign by lorry traffic.

2.       The Loch Avich Cycle Trail has a closure on the section running along the south side of Loch Avich, which will be in place until Easter 2010. This is necessary, as a result of  the cablecrane operations crossing the road itself, and unfortunately means that a complete circuit of the loch is not possible at present. Operations will however cease over the Christmas period, and the full circuit will be possible then.

3.       The bulk of harvesting operations in the area have moved to the North Loch Avich area at present, so there is a steady stream of timber wagons through Gleann Measham and Druimdarroch.

4.       Collaig is a busy place at the moment, with  various contractors to Greenpower busy with windfarm associated constructions, in addition to our own fleet of 2 excavator mounders. These 2 excavators will be moving to the Barnaline /Kilmun area for a few weeks in January, before going up to Fernoch.

5.       Restocking operations started at the beginning of December – so naturally the ground has immediately frozen solid! Weather conditions permitting however, restocking and beating-up (replacement of dead restock trees) operations will be our main focus for the next few months.

6.       Erection of the fence at the “campsite”  between Dalavich Cottage & New York should be commencing shortly……

Information provided courtesy of Rhod Watt of the Forestry Commission West Loch Awe.

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