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June 2010

Maybole celebrated its annual gala day in brilliant sunshine on Sunday, June 20. Maybole Pipe Band led the traditional parade from Carrick Academy to Glebe Park. They were followed by members of the Maybole Branch of the Royal British Legion Scotland, the royal party, VIPs and several very colourful walking groups from schools and organisations in the town. photos and events

The Peas 25th anniversary night was a fantastic success in Maybole Town Hall. The present line up of Davie Anderson, Jimmy Murdoch and Gavin Loch were joined during the evening by former band members such as Michael Andrew, Robbie Kidd and Alan Johnstone to bring their own style to old time rock and roll which had their audience bopping away. Maybole Pipe Band made a guest appearance and DJDK played during the band breaks. He brought the night to a close by playing Tina Turner’s “Simply the Best” as a tribute to the band. Proceeds from the dance mean that £1,000 will be going to charity. photos

A working group established by Maybole Community Council hopes to contact owners and tenants of shops in the High Street to ask them if they would like to take part in a project to refurbish and paint shop facades. Contact will be made explaining the project and where shopkeepers or owners express an interest, an experienced firm of decorators will prepare estimates for the required work. Funding applications will then be submitted to relevant bodies and planning consent applied for. This work will then be carried out by local firms experienced in this kind of work. A spokesman for the Community Council said, “It is felt that many premises in Maybole High Street would benefit from a facelift and the Community Council hopes that by working together, ...more

On Wednesday, June 23, a double award ceremony wad held in Maybole Town Hall. Provost Winifred Sloan attended the ceremony to present awards to the winners of the 2010 Jean Falconer Literary Competition and to present Scrolls of Appreciation to local citizens. Photos by Tony Kerrigan. more

Presenting Linda with the trophy are Chief Constable Mick Creedon and former Chief Constable David Coleman

A former pupil of Carrick Academy has recently been presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Derbyshire Police and she now goes forward to the National Awards in London on November 4. Linda Sturgeon lived in Maybole as a child, attending Carrick Academy Primary School, then Gardenrose Primary when that was built, then Carrick Academy Secondary School. She left Carrick in 1979 to start working in Derbyshire and is now retired from the force and enjoying life doing all the things she never had time to do because of shift work and other work commitments. more

Recently, former Carrick Academy pupil Jack McLeish invited anyone who was at school with him, Ian Corbett or Margaret Miller nee Sturgeon to school reunion in the Ivy Rooms, Miller Road, Ayr. From left to right, our photo shows the men John Kean, Sandy Nicolson, Sandy Wyllie, Jack McLeish and Ian Corbett. The women, from left to right, are Maureen McCrindle, Helen Reid, Pat Miller, Nancy Houston (nee Campbell), Margaret Miller (nee Sturgeon) and Nan Paterson. John Harris went along as well, but had to leave before the photo was taken as he had another engagement. However, he hopes to attend other meetings in the future.

The 2010 Winner of Retail Trust Search For A Star, Nicola Cassells, was the main judge at a talent contest organised by the young people of Our Lady & St Cuthbert’s Church last Saturday, June 12. The lovely young singer with a beautiful voice entertained the audience before the competition started and was assisted in judging the winners by Councillor Brian Connolly and Fr Martin Chambers, Galloway Diocese’s Youth Officer and Chaplain. The young people had called the competition "The C Factor" - C for Church. With everyone performing so well, the judges needed time for deliberation before the winners were announced by Fr Martin as Zak Roy and Ronan McDowall. They had sung old favourite “Me and my Shadow”. Runner up was Josh Malone and Caoimhe Hunter Blair was third.

	Maybole O A P Trip. June 5th 2020 Maybole seniors got a grrreat send off last Saturday when the Lion King arrived to give them a cheque for £400 to cover some of the expenses of their annual trip. Ayr & Prestwick Lions Club were again able to provide funding which had been raised during their recent week in the Maybole Charity Shop. Stuart Hudson, PR Officer for the Lions, said, “This is just one of many ways that these funds are put back into the community; we thank the people for their great support, which enables us to help many local causes.”
Photographs taken on the day show The Lion King presenting Cheque for £400 to Chairperson Pearl Barton, with members of the Lions Club and local trippers in attendance This year they were headed for Callander but a serious accident en route meant they diverted to Stirling. Pearl, her committee and members would like to thank Ayr & Prestwick Lions Club for their generous gesture.

Steven and Elaine McDowall recently celebrated their Silver Wedding in Maybole Town Hall. The couple held a party to mark the occasion but did not want any gifts so instead suggested that guests may like to make a donation to Cancer Research UK. Our photo shows Steven and Elaine with family and friends and the bucket load of envelopes which they later handed over to Councillor Brian Connolly. The collection totalled £1,000!

Mrs Ann Girvan with her teddy bear which is over 100 years old.

Children who went down to the Town Hall on Sunday May 30 received a big surprise. For every bear that ever there was went along to the Teddy Bears Picnic where they enjoyed music, games, face painting, a teddy bears’ parade, dancing and of course a picnic in the walled garden of Maybole Town Hall. Event organisers Save the Children Maybole said the children thought the event the best picnic they had been to. Chair Becky Fleming said: ”The children had a lovely afternoon in the sunshine. It was great fun for them.” She thanked special guest and judge of the Teddy Bears’ Parade Anne Girvan for bringing along her collection of bears to show people, including a 100 year old bear, and local businesses who donated the contents of the picnic.

Anne Girvan, Maybole with one of her 50 plus bears-Boyd Bear

Save the Children Maybole Chair Becky Fleming, in the green cardigan on the steps of Maybole Town Hall garden with children, Anne Girvan-seated and bears

Winner of Best Dressed Teddy Cailan Hart, 4, Maybole with her rabbit Minnie dressed as a wee ballet dancer

Katie Boyd , 4, won a Winnie the Poo Bear in the raffle and has a bear dressed as a nurse which won second prize in the Teddy Bears parade

Archie Clark, aged 1, of Dailly who won a giant teddy bigger than himself in the raffle

Carrick Academy football prize winners are; Michael Kirk – services to football Kyle Cook – senior player of the year Jordan McCulloch – most improved senior player Marc Nisbet – collected U15 Ayrshire cup on behalf of the team Carly Brown and Sarah Marshall – shared female player of the year Ryan Nisbet – Junior player of the year Jamie Millar – most improved junior player Cumbrae house – S1 Inter house cup winners Thanks were offered to the staff, pupils and parents who all help and support the Football Section at Carrick Academy by Mr Dunsmuir.

Wednesday 16th June saw the Summer Concert showcasing talent from Carrick Academy in the Maybole Town Hall. The evening's entertainment highlighted the school Wind Band, Jazz Band, Choir, Pipers, soloists, and the recently formed Guitar Club which is led by our senior pupils. The performance of "The Snob Cross Incident" - a play centred around a gang of misunderstood youths causing trouble in a Glasgow town, also featured in the evening. This was performed by the pupils of an interdisciplinary S2 Elective Music and Drama class. Carrick are very proud of the diverse display of talent showcased on the evening!

Pupils at St Cuthbert’s Primary in Maybole welcomed John Sharp of international aid agency SCIAF to their school last week. They had raised a fantastic £571.23 from their Lenten fundraising and Mr Sharp was delighted to accept their marvellous donation.

Eleven-year old Jason Tomlinson had some great news to tell his fellow pupils at St Cuthbert’s Primary, Maybole last week. Jason had been playing the main part in Peter Pan this year’s production by the Janice Marshall Stage School at the Magnum in Irvine and afterwards had bee presented with the Senior Drama Award.

Primary 1 and Primary 2/3 at Cairn Primary had a great day out at Ayr Farm Park recently. The sun shone, the animals (and the teachers) smiled, and the children had lots of fun playing together on all the activities. What a GREAT day!

Fun At Playtime at Cairn. The infants at Cairn Primary are delighted with their new painted ground games in the playground.

Primary 2/3 had a try out of some of the new designs, and thoroughly enjoyed playing ‘chases’ and being safe in the bee ‘den’, jumping on the number snake and playing the hopscotch ladybird. Lots of fierce pirates invaded Treasure Island too! There are still more designs to be done, and the middle and upper school areas will get new games painted as well. The pupils hope that the new P1s will love it all in August too!

Parents of pupils at Cairn Primary organised a Fun Night at the school last Friday night, June 11 these photos will let you see some of the pupils enjoying the night The face paint theme was flags of World Cup teams – bit of wishful thinking with the saltire J Music was supplied by Rewind.

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At the Glebe Park, David Kiltie introduced the dignitaries and the gala was officially opened by Councillor Marie Low then Robert McEwan crowned King of Carrick by Cathy Jamieson MSP and Alix Anderson was crowned Queen by Adam Ingram MSP. The young king and queen are both pupils of Cairn Primary, and their attendants were Chris Parkin and Rebecca McBride of Gardenrose Primary, and Zak Roy and Ciera Campbell of St Cuthbert’s Primary.

Sandra Osborne MP presented gifts to all of them to mark their special day. Also attending the event were Councillors Ann Galbraith and Sandra Goldie and all of the VIPs had a difficult choice in judging the best walking group and the various fancy dress competitions.

Magic Malky then took over as master of ceremonies and soon had the young people joining in the fun with the older folks sitting enjoying the sun and smiling along with Malky’s individual humour.

Musical entertainment was provided by Maybole Pipe Band, the Tuesday Night Girls and dancing by pupils of the Chi-Kaz School of Dance, Maybole Majorettes and Dance School, the Aileen Robertson School of Highland Dancing, and the Y Group.

With more stalls than in some previous years, the organising committee of Maybole Community Association were extremely pleased with how the day had gone. With almost a brand new committee having to be formed they felt that all their hard work was worthwhile. They would like to thank everyone who took part in making sure the gala ran so well. photos and events

Group Working to Improve the High Street

Funding applications will then be submitted to relevant bodies and planning consent applied for. This work will then be carried out by local firms experienced in this kind of work. A spokesman for the Community Council said, “It is felt that many premises in Maybole High Street would benefit from a facelift and the Community Council hopes that by working together, effective action can be taken to improve the look of the High Street.

“Maybole High Street, of course suffers in many ways from the heavy traffic and one of the effects is wear and tear on shop front premises. We hope that this initiative will improve the situation. “We are also working with South Ayrshire Council to look at some vacant premises to see if their owners can be traced and persuaded” to take action to improve the condition of these premises.

When this is done, some empty premises will be identified where decorative vinyls can be applied commemorating the Year of Homecoming to take the empty look away from those premises and provide a colourful display in their windows. The Community Council has been working with an organisation which successfully did this in empty premises in Glasgow City Centre.”

Although letters will go out in the next few weeks, any owners or tenants of shop premises in the High Street who wish to be involved in this initiative can email the Community Council at alan.murray49@btinternet.com and a representative of the working group will arrange to meet and discuss participation in this project.

David Kiltie, chairman of Maybole Community Council, congratulated all of this year's prize winners and also everyone who entered the Jean Falconer Literary Competition. “The competition has been held annually since 1988,” he said, “and our judges have consistently praised the high standard of writing - even if this has made their decisions very difficult! “We are grateful for the continued support of our local schools and we thank all teachers who assist with this. “Special thanks are offered to our judges for their time and expertise.”

Prizewinners:

Primary School Award

1st Zak Roy St Cuthbert's Primary

2nd Chris Parkin Gardenrose Primary

3rd Caitlin McGawn Gardenrose Primary

Highlv Commended

Kayleigh Haggo Gardenrose Primary

Kirsty McCahill Gardenrose Primary

Andrew McColm Gardenrose Primary

Marisha Wood Gardenrose Primary

Rebecca Campbell St Cuthbert's Primary

Emily Kiltie St Cuthbert's Primary

Secondary School Award

1st Hazel McDowall Carrick Academy

2nd Katie Forson Carrick Academy

3rd Mark Graham Carrick Academy

Elizabeth McCrindle, judge of the primary section, commented on how she had arrived at her decisions and applauded the young pupils for their hard work and research. Peter Lynn, chairman of the community council’s General Purposes Committee, read out the comments from the judge of the Senior section.

Mr Kiltie then moved on to introduce the “Scrolls of Appreciation” Awards, explaining that those receiving an award had been has been nominated by others in the community and Maybole Community Council was delighted to acknowledge the contribution they have made to the quality of life in the town.

Provost Sloan then presented scrolls to Sally Anderson, Lesley Grant, Craig McNair, Alex Gemmell, Alex Lothian, Elizabeth McCrindle, Fr Stephen McGrattan, William Milligan, Ian Paterson, and Hugh Simpson. As well as scrolls there were special awards presented to Billy Torbett, and Jim McDermott for their service to Maybole Community Council.

After a comprehensive vote of thanks to everyone involved in the ceremony including the panel who had scrutinised the nominations, Mr Kiltie said, “I think that leaves just one person to thank – Provost Winifred Sloan.” He invited Mark Fletcher, vice chairman of the community council, to present Provost Sloan with some flowers and added, “Provost Sloan is a former resident of Maybole and was herself involved with local voluntary effort such as the swimming club. “She has given Maybole tremendous assistance with many projects which local groups have been involved with. Last year especially with the Year of Homecoming and our Robert Burns… where it began project in 2007 as well as the Carrick Academy…it’s Royal Roots project. She never fails to talk up Maybole and is a great ambassador for us. She, too, is well worthy of a Scroll of Appreciation and I’m delighted to present one to her.”

For the third year running members of the Maybole Men's Health Forum took part in the Men’s Health Forum Scotland 10k event at Bellahouston Park June 20, Father's Day. Four members, Tom Cuthill, Derek Robb, Michael McDermott and Brian Robertson took part this year, completing the 10k again with very respectable results. The Maybole Men's Health Forum have had a very successful season, completing the 5K at Blairquhan and maintaining its regular Thursday fitness sessions at Carrick Academy for circuit training and yoga. The Forum is due to begin its summer events shortly and the new session for will begin again on Thursday August 19 in Carrick Academy at 7:30pm. If you would like to improve your fitness, why not make contact with the group and go along. The Forum is open to men of all ages, working at their own pace and ability. Details of the summer events’ schedule, photos, information and contact information is available on the Maybole Men's Health Forum website http://www.maybolehealthforum.org

The citation read out when Linda received her award said, “Linda joined Derbyshire Constabulary as a Police Cadet in 1979 and for the whole of her service as a Police Constable has been deployed in the frontline of policing in Derby City. “Personal testimonies from members of the public and colleagues reflect the same constant message - dedicated, sincere, reliable, conscientious, diligent and positive. “Linda's brilliant and distinguished career was brought to a premature end through injury in the course of her duties - such a cruel blow for Linda just short of completing 30 years.

“Linda was always a 24 hours a day, seven days a week police officer at the sharp end of policing - arresting villains and putting them behind bars. She had an outstanding arrest record, a tremendous work ethic and put a lot of hours into her role, never quibbling about working shifts, weekends or covering for other colleagues. “Linda's off duty arrest of a burglar is just one example of the high standards she set for herself. And her heroics in rescuing a man standing perilously on a bridge in danger of falling into the river beneath them earned recognition with an award from the Royal Humane Society.

“Linda has been an inspiration to junior officers and is valued for tutoring many officers who put their success down to Linda's guidance in their early years. “Linda's police work has been a genuine vocation for her and she always carried out the job with the greatest of pride. She is the epitome of what the public want and expect from a police officer. Her passion and commitment to frontline policing is legendary.”

Duke of Edinburgh Award – Skills Development – Canoe Building Carrick Design & Technology department has run a very successful canoe building project funded and accredited by the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme. Six S3 year pupils worked for one hour a week for six months and learned a number of boat building skills before putting the canoe through its ‘sea trials’ at Maybole Swimming Pool. As well as building and testing the canoe the pupils produced a DVD showing the project unfolding right from the flat sheets of ply up to the finished product. As you can see all the pupils had a great time. Staff Niall McGinnis Faculty Head of Art, Computing, Design & Technology Brian Auld Design & Technology Technician

2010 MAYBOLE OPEN GOLF COMPETITION.