AN ARRAY of silverware was won by Kintyre’s talented dancers at Cowal Highland Gathering.
A group from James McCorkindale’s School of Dance took part in the various competitions at Cowal Highland Gathering,winning different age categories.
With competition fierce the girls did themselves and the town proud and brought home some top awards.
Iona MacKinlay won the Newbury Shield for beginners;Linzi Cameron won the Gerald and Mary Simmons Memorial Trophy for winner of the intermediate section;Emma Bannatyne lifted the Rita Ford trophy for runner up Argyll Champion,under 13 years;and Eilidh Anderson won the John Brown Memorial Trophy for the intermediate runner up.
Rachael O’May brought the JC Forrest Challenge Trophy back to Kintyre after being crowned Argyll Champion for under 16s.
The trophy has been won seven times since 1926 by a Kintyre dancer and was last won in 2005 by Jennifer Mcmillan.
For more stories from Kintyre see this week’s Campeltown Courier,September 9 2011 or on line at http://www.campbeltowncourier.co.uk/digital