Coffee adds to Cancer Research coffers
The usual selfless volunteers manned stalls and served tea, coffee, juice and biscuits to visitors of all ages.
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Young footballers saddled up for funds
CDJFA, supported by quiz queen Helen Gilchrist, will hold a Big Quiz Night on March 2.
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Drama-free coffee morning
Organisers’ roles included providing for and manning baking, raffle and bottle stalls at the Campbeltown Town Hall event last Saturday.
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Quiz helps Machrihanish Golf Club staff
The winning team was Pan’s People including Don McLean and Alison Brown.
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Dippers’ refreshing New Year plunge
It was the first time in more than 30 years that sand was added to the beach which once received yearly deposits.
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Daring New Year’s Day dippers
More dippers than ever before took part in the sixth annual Dalintober Dip For Dosh.
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Loony dookers dip for dosh
The event was well supported, with hundreds of spectators lining the pier and North Shore Street offering encouragement.
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Warm welcome on dismal day
A warm hall, hot refreshments and jolly volunteers awaited those who ventured out.
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Coffee and carols bring Christmas cheer
Choristers, in fine festive dress, doubled up as sales people, taking it in turns to fill the stage and man the stalls.
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Brass boost for Christmas customers
The Campbeltown Brass instrumentalists squeezed into Tesco’s foyer on Saturday afternoon and blasted out festive carols.
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American wall hanging with Jaegar style
Pocket linings preserved from Campbeltown’s former Jaegar factory have found a new lease of life in a wall hanging.
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Town hall art show canvassed many visitors
Staff at Campbeltown Town Hall hung paintings not stockings at its first ever art show in the week before Christmas.
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Grogport features in Lochgilphead’s Jolomo show
His work has been purchased by celebrities including Madonna, Sting, Simon Le Bon and Gregor Fisher.
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Glasgow festival promotes Argyll and Bute
Wild About Argyll is the face of Argyll and the Isles Tourism Co-operative Ltd (AITC), which works at a local and national level promoting Argyll and the Isles as a must-visit destination.
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Clachan seeks art show exhibits
Photography, craftwork, sculpture and floral art is welcome, as well as drawings and collage.
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Peploe painting loaned to Campbeltown
Frank Chinn the museum’s temporary curator said: ‘The painting is deceptively simple but it is the simplicity of a master who can reduce a complex living subject to a few brush strokes.’
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Designer pens plans for art shows
Mr Russell said: ‘There used to be a vibrant art scene in Campbeltown with shows in the town hall and work by artists such as Rosslyn Oman.’
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Young folk night’s pipes, dance, strings and brass
Claire McFadzean, provided a constant flow of information as she introduced the 15 acts with notes about their musical achievements.
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Bute benefits from Bluebird banshee
Speed seeker Donald Campbell, used his jet-engined hydroplane, Bluebird K7 to become, in 1964, the only man to hold land and water speed records in the same year.
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Brass player is a solo Scottish champion
Amy Paterson described as a ‘tenor horn ace’ was crowned Scottish Intermediate Champion.
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Double bassist’s name error
Mr Johnson travelled back to the 1930s to play double bass with the band supporting the Ensemble Choir.
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Ensemble Choir’s 1930s programme was a Sunday sell-out
A singing event two years in the making brought a touch of 1930s depression era glamour to Campbeltown Town Hall.
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The Sinopia Quartet – a review by David McEwan
The Sinopia Quartet – two violins, viola and cello – delighted its audience with the works of just three composers – Bartók, Borodin and Dvořák.
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Bubbly bonus at 1930s’ style choir café
‘Talkies and musicals created movie stars and glamour that people could easily dream about. And they did…
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Two Burns concerts for U3A choir
It was almost exclusively Burns songs which were performed, except for specific requests including ‘Zip-a-dee-doo-dah’ which brought everyone alive and got everyone involved.
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A Kintyre Music Club review
The G minor cello sonata by Beethoven revealed the assured technical and expressive abilities of both performers.
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Kintyre Songwriters Festival call-out
Songwriters should contact info@kintyresongwritersfestival.co. uk before Friday February 1.
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MOK Fest finance
The grant was part of a total of £113,000 awarded to 12 events and festivals which are seen as helping to boost tourism.
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Senior citizens concert
The free mixed programme of entertainment is in Victoria Hall on Saturday February 2.
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Down memory lane, February 15 2019
‘My ancestors were tenant farmers at Glencraigs, then called Craigs in the early to mid 1700s.’
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Down Memory Lane, February 8 2019
A children’s thriller, titled Satellite 7, by a former Courier editor predicted Kintyre’s space race back in 1958.
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FROM OUR FILES, February 8 2019
The Campbeltown Grammar School pupil, aged 14, beat off stiff competition to win a place in the Springboard FutureChef 2009 cookery competition.
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Down memory lane, January 25 2019
I worked among coos wi’ dangerous looking horns and large Clydesdales with floundering feet.’
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From our files, January 25 2019
A look back in the Courier archives for 10, 25, 50 and 100 years ago.
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Town’s top football club’s centenary celebrations
The club is the longest surviving and most successful football organisation in Kintyre.
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Hotel promises a night Burns would like
‘Celebrate like Burns, Robert Burns knew how to party and we aim to create a night he might have attended himself with music and whisky.’
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Down Memory Lane, January 18 2018
A Courier ‘From our Files’ tale of an adder bite prompted Sandy McMillan to write: ‘An Encounter with an Adder.’
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Bus book author’s offer
Dr Sinclair told the Courier on Monday that he retains a soft spot for Campbeltown where he used to consult every three months before retiring in 2005.
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PHOTOGRAPH OF THE WEEK, February 15 2019
‘After the first snowfall in Campbeltown this year I took a walk round the town first thing in the morning to take a few pictures.’
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Dinosaur Dippy on tour at Kelvingrove
Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is displaying Dippy the Diplodocus (carnegii).
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Kintyre’s EOTW promoted at Glasgow show
Entries are due to open soon for the End of the World (EOTW) cycling event.
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Ice, ice baby
Although they may not win ITV’s Dancing on Ice any time soon, they had no trouble gliding from one side of the ice to the other.
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Photograph of the Week, February 1, 2019
‘I couldn’t see it but scanned with an extended lens where I thought it had landed and luckily struck gold.’
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Snow is no problem in Kintyre
Despite carnage caused by snow on roads across Argyll and Bute this week, most of Kintyre had only a light dusting on the hills.
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Photo of the week, January 18 2019
This view of sun rays on ridges of the Mull of Kintyre hills used a telephoto lens.
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PHOTOGRAPH OF THE WEEK, January 11 2019
‘I was blown away by them and amazed that I hadn’t heard more about them.’
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Argyll housing apprentices team-up outdoors
When the going gets tough the tough head for Outward Bound Loch Eil at Fort William.
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Take a trip down memory lane – on Kintyre buses of old
John created a technique of low-cost travel and accommodation which would allow him to travel to different areas and photograph the local buses operating in their habitat.
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