THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK, April 19, 2019
On Sunday morning, as we see once again those footprints in the dew, we rejoice that our Lord is risen.
Columnists
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A fix of faith as Easter approaches
Campbeltown Community Church has a new pastor and surely Reverend Mark Jasper has made a bold ‘leap of faith’.
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Thought for the week, April 5 2019
Two processions entered Jerusalem on that first Palm Sunday around 2000 years ago.
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Readers respond to dirty road signs
Roads and amenities really should get on top of this problem before the summer.
Columnists
Letter: Winter ferry service a detriment to Kintyre?
It is to be hoped that improvements for his community will not be achieved at the cost of such massive detriment to another.
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Thought for the week, March 29 2019
We know too that God calls us by our name, and we know that call to be different from any other, for God’s voice is also unique.
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Thought For The Week, March 22, 2019
Why pay a lot of money for a top class lens, and then put a cheap filter on it?
Columnists
CalMac’s Lochranza bonanza
A year round Cloanaig to Lochranza service may reinvigorate trade between one of Arran’s iconic villages, Skipness, Tarbert, Kintyre and Islay.
Columnists
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK, March 15 2019
For centuries, Christians have chosen to deny themselves things they enjoy on their journey during Lent.
Letters
Letters: NHS an absurdity
What an absurdity the Scottish National Health Service has become during the last 10 plus years.
Letters
Letter: Council chief’s remuneration package
I think that, if the chief executive is to retain any credibility, he has face the public in open forum and answer this question.
Letters
Letter: Machrihanish golf clubhouse
That is what visitors and guests want to see, a clubhouse in keeping with ‘Old Tom Morris’.
Letters
Letter: Remote fuel pump prices unfair
High pump prices and disproportionate levels of fuel poverty are yet more examples of how we in rural Scotland are getting a raw deal.
Letters
Letters: Plea for lorry hoarding to be moved
Are we the only people in Campbeltown who take exception to the almost permanently parked advertising hoarding, masquerading as a lorry?
Letters
Letters: Life after stroke awards
Every year, The Stroke Association hosts the UK Life After Stroke Awards to recognise and celebrate the lives of all those affected by stroke.
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Letter: Dialysis group’s thanks
Kintyre Dialysis Support Group would like to thank all those who gave prizes for the recent bingo evening.
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Letter: Kilberry road complaints
I have heard once again about the need to repair the road to Kilberry.
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Letter: Rest work has kept the A83 open
More than £12millon has been spent so far on the RABT.
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Letter: Why can’t road signs be cleaned?
‘It’s not about prioritising between potholes and clean signs, it’s about maintaining services and providing those to the citizens.’
Obits
OBITUARY: Rev Catriona Anne Hood – ‘Gracious and gentle, funny and faithful’
Occasionally in life, if we are fortunate, we meet someone who makes a difference.
Obits
Obituary: Regius professor and Scottish law commissioner
Many former students have tweeted their sadness at the news of his death. One wrote: ‘Who could ever forget the lesson from a tale that began: ‘Imagine I wished to enter into a contract to purchase some black silk sheets…’
Campbeltown
Crafting group’s tribute to a ‘brave’ member
Not only did Mary benefit from the recreational event, the group was also greatly inspired by her positive manner, and her wish to help others by giving something back.
Campbeltown
Maurice McMillan Duncan: August 29, 1954 – August 11, 2017
Obituary for musician, composer, adjudicator and tutor
Campbeltown
Farming pillar was was a truly good man
The farming community in Kintyre has lost one of its best-known figures.
Obits
Adam Bergius 1925-2017
A NAVY man who feared battleships and volunteered for ‘special service of a hazardous nature’, surviving the Second World War, was laid to rest in Kintyre last weekend.