MAYBOLE Town Hall was the venue Friday evening for a very special ceremony to honour 29 residents for their contribution to life in the town. Maybole Community Council chairman David Kiltie welcomed an audience of well over 100 people and said: "There have been many occasions when I have been proud of what we have done and tonight is just such an occasion. "Tonight, in fact, is a very special occasion for Maybole Community Council when it pays tribute to a number of very special people." The community council invited nominations for consideration in August and the closing date had been the end of October. 

Mr Kiltie said: "Everyone being presented with a Scroll of Appreciation has been nominated by others in the community and we are delighted to acknowledge the contribution they have made to the quality of life in Maybole. "Some are very well-known locally and other perhaps not so well known ; others are known further afield; all have helped make Maybole a better place or better known. " Maybole's last Provost William Cuthbert presented the scrolls and many years ago was also the first person the community council presented with a special medallion embossed with the town's coat of arms. 
(Ayrshire Post, December 17, 1999)

The largest section was one where awards were
   presented for specific reasons and these went to: 

• Jim Sym (Maybole Pipe Band)
• Mrs Frances Strachan (Girl Guide movement)
• Mrs Nell Samson (Senior Citizens)
• Alex Meek (Maybole Junior Football Club)
• Mrs Margaret McGawn (Maybole Amateur Swimming Club)
• Mrs Ria McCulloch (Maybole Ladies' Golf Club)
• Mrs Jean Laidlaw (Girl Guide movement)
• Alex Kelly (Carrick Crime Prevention Panel)
• Cooper Hay (Lodge St John May bole No 11)
• William J. Grant (Maybole Twinning Association)
• James Drennan Snr (Maybole Amateur Swimming Club)
• Mrs Margaret Davidson (Maybole Town Twinning Association)
• Jack Conkie (Maybole Bowling Club)
• John Campbell (Scout movement) 
• Mrs Jean Boyd (Maybole Ladies' Golf Club)
• William Boyce (Boys' Brigade)
• Leonard Boughen (Maybole Angling Club)
• Mrs Pearl Barton (senior citizens) 
• Mrs Mary Anderson (Girl Guide movement)

When the presentation was completed, Mr Kiltie thanked South Ayrshire Council members and officials for their support and assistance; everyone who put forward names; florist June Dunlop and those on the independent panel who gave a great deal of consideration to all the names. Panel members were Danny MacNeill, former Provost of Kyle and Carrick District Council; the Rev Tom Bogle of the West Church and pharmacist Martin Lindsay. Mr Kiltie added: "I would especially thank the community councillors who put so much effort into this evening and everything leading to it, especially Jim McDermott, Peter Mason, Marianne McCreadie and Anne Walker." He also thanked James Brown of Baltersan who designed the scrolls and Mr Cuthbert for presenting them. Mrs Cuthbert received a basket of flowers. The Rev Bogle commented on the range of work done by so many in the community. And he presented the final scroll as a surprise to community council secretary Anne Walker.

Click here to view the scroll awards given in December 2000 and  2005