News Archive - August 2015
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23 August 2015
Mini-ship 'Green Isle' Begins Work In Pentland Firth
The most modern vessel in the
Far
North of Scotland's 'marine renewables' fleet is conducting debut
operations in the Pentland Firth's Inner Sound this week. (commences
24.08.15).
The brand-new many-purpose mini-ship Green Isle is being accompanied on
her mission off Canisbay by the survey vessel Lodesman, that has been a
regular visitor to Gills Harbour this year.
The 27.7-metre long Green Isle was delivered 'in record time' earlier
this summer to her owners Green Marine UK Ltd, of Stromness, Orkney
from the Damen Shipyards, in the Netherlands.Caithness Horizons Secures Funding For Viking Festival 2016
Northern Scotland despite its
Viking heritage does not have a modern Viking Festival. However,
Caithness Horizons Museum in Thurso is currently trying to secure the
funding required to establish one, similar to, but unique from those
that exist already. Caithness Horizons is delighted to announce that in
order to develop the interpretative content of the Viking Festival,
that the Museum will be working with renowned Viking experts based at
the Centre for Nordic Studies, UHI in order to ensure that the
Caithness Viking Festival meets the highest levels of scholarship. Thurso Heritage Quiz In Aid Of Kaydenswish2walk Fund
The quiz will be held next
Thursday, 27th August, 7:30 start at the Royal British Legion Thurso,
£10 per team – 4 person’s maximum. If anyone wishes to donate raffle
prizes for the evening all is welcome. For more information and to
donate to Kayden: Donate to Sarah's
JustGiving page22 August 2015
Bower Gala 2015
18 August 2015
Back to school: 11 fascinating kid's dental health facts you really need to know
It
may be the school holidays at the moment and we all remember those
halcyon days of never ending summers but the new term is closer than
you think. The constant reminders are everywhere with displays selling
pristine white shirts and pencil cases taking pride of place in the
nations supermarkets.
For parents across Britain this may be comforting news, as around about
now your children will have destroyed almost every part of your once
tidy house. Countless toy parts will have been lost or broken and if
you suffer the unparalleled pain of stepping on a building block again
while hearing "I'm bored" repeated for the 526th time, you may just
crack.
Summer Pool League Final
Suzanne Carter's Camps "1" have
won the Wick & District Summer Pool League for the second year
in a row after a 12-8 victory against Camps "2" in this years final.
After a 7-4 first leg victory, Camps "1" needed five frames to win the
title, and produced an outstanding performance to become the first team
to win back to back summer league championships. The first frame of the
second leg saw Camps "2" captain Bruce Honeyman play well to put his
side 1-0 up, but David McGillivray battled hard to level the match at
1-1. moreChildminders Qualification SVQ3
HiMATS have developed a programme of SVQ delivery specifically for Childminders. This qualification is tailored from the SVQ 3 Social Services Children and Young People at SCQF Level 7 qualification and is FREE subject to meeting funding requirements. Community Index
Highland Doors Open Day 2015
The Highland Doors Open Days
programme for 2015 has been launched, with a total of 47 North
buildings - new and old - opening their doors in September this year to
allow the public to see inside them and find out about their stories.
Participating buildings will be opening in different Highland Council
areas over the four weekends in September, with free admission to all
venues and many offering special events and activities. Programme Booklet (Pdf)
Schools in Caithness urged to join up to protect UK's declining bee population
The Polli:Nation project -
developed by the national school grounds
charity, Learning through Landscapes (LTL)- will encourage school
children and volunteers in 260 schools across the UK to transform their
outdoor spaces into pollinator-friendly habitats. The three-year
project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), will also reach out
to communities and families that have an interest in getting involved.
As from January 2016, each school involved will be supported by a
Polli:Nation facilitator from LTL, enabling them to grow pollinator
friendly plants and meadow areas, to develop areas that encourage
habitats (such as bee houses, bug hotels, and bee-hives), whilst
letting areas of the school grounds become wild. The project will also
help schools and communities to learn more about reducing pesticides.
In Caithness, schools will have the opportunity to put these skills
into practice to conserve one of the UK’s rarest bumblebees, the great
yellow bumblebee, linking to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust’s
existing project in the county.
17 August 2015
Kites at Seadrift
The breezy conditions at Dunnet
Beach provided excellent flying conditions for the kites made during
the children's countryside Ranger craft event at the Seadrift Centre in
Caithness. Thirteen children from five families assembled their very
own kites using plastic bags and garden canes in the Seadrift Centre
then went out on the beach to fly them. Community Index
16 August 2015
Academy storm Fort with eight-goals blitz -
Wick Academy 8 Ft William 1 - Reporter Noel Donaldson
THE
Fort must have been dying to hear the ref whistle time-up before
Academy made a humiliating defeat even more embarrassing by taking
their score into double figures.
The Scorries put down a marker when Gary Manson open their account in
no less that three minutes and Danny Mackay and Steven Anderson made it
3-0 before the break.
The second period brought more misery for the visitors who had no
answer to Academy's goal machine, churning out a further five, Steven
Anderson clinching a hat-trick in the dying minutes after an Ian
Maclennan strike gave the luckless Aberdeenshire side, a consolation
crumb of comfort.
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Gallery
Local Crews Motor Rally Reports
Mach 1 Solway Rally
Would You Like To Support Adult Learners?
A new course starts in
September leading to a qualification.FREE English Classes For Speakers Of Other Languages
Thurso Wick
Starts Monday 17th August Starts Tuesday 18th August
15 August 2015
Lyth Arts Centre Puts On A Great Programme In SeptemberThe line up of
performances in music and drama including comedy goes on at Lyth
Arts Centre. Despite recently almost going
under as their grant from Creative Scotland being under threat they
have bounced back with a great programme including one double bill
evening with buffet for you to pick and choose from. After every Edinburgh
festival a few performances make their way to Lyth so this is great
chance to catch a great night out and get a flavour of the festival
right here in Caithness and support a great little theatre. Book
early.
Black Is The Colour Of My VoiceTINA MAY AND NIKKI ILES IN CONCERT
THE BEN COX BAND IN CONCERT
Lyth Arts Centre Double Bill - JAZZ EXTEMPORE plus EVERY BRILLIANT THING - Buffet - Go to one or all.
Nuclear Archive Photo Gallery
As the new Nuclear Archive at
Wick gets going we have started another gallery to bring photos of
progressover the coming 18 months.Gospel Tent - Riverside Wick
13 August 2015
Caithness Horizons Museum welcomes half a million visitors
Tuesday 11th August saw local
group
No Limits Caithness visit the Museum for a morning packed with Viking
activities with Curator Joanne Howdle, or Thordis Eiríksdóttir as she
is fondly known to local groups and schools. The group helped the
Museum to hit the half million visitors mark and to celebrate they were
presented with a special cake made in the Museum's cafe.
The 2015 summer season has been excellent for the Museum, welcoming
visitors from all over the world to experience all that Caithness has
to offer. A passenger from the Saga Pearl 2 cruise ship who visited
Caithness Horizons last weekend remarked that it was the best Museum
that she had visited. 10,000 Caithness homes and businesses have access to new broadband networks
More than 10,000 homes and businesses in Caithness can now access next generation fibre broadband through the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband (DSSB) roll-out. Work is to start during the next six months to make fibre broadband available to nearly 900 more premises in the far north as building work on the roll-out continues. In addition, following a re-modelling of the roll-out plans, Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) is confirming that the village of John O'Groats, which had been under evaluation, will see some fibre broadband installed in the 2016 programme.
11 August 2015
Hidden Bronze Age Landscape at Castlehill Heritage Centre, Castletown
Join Melissa and Romain of the
School of Ancient Crafts on 15th August as we explore how plants and
herbs were used
in the past. This workshop will include a spot of foraging as well as
making soap with native herbs, using pot-boilers (hot stones) to heat
milk and make a soft cheese, baking bread next to an open fire, and
much more!
Join us again on Sunday 16th August to learn how to build a prehistoric oven in which we will bake fish and bread.
Free for the whole family.
See poster for full details and to book.
10 August 2015
David Stewart MSP Visits Gills Harbour
Scotland's Shadow Minister for
Transport Mr David Stewart, Labour MSP for the Highlands &
Islands constituency, has made a fact-finding visit to community-owned
Gills Harbour on the shores of the Pentland Firth's Inner Sound.
There he was shown around by three officers of Gills Harbour Ltd (GHL),
the Canisbay company that owns and operates the Scottish Mainland's
most Northerly port.
The Shadow Minister promised 'to do anything that I can' to assist 'the
people's port' that belongs to 600 electors in Canisbay, with its
upgrading plans aimed at ensuring that it plays an integral role in key
aspects of Pentland Firth tidal-stream electricity generation in the
future.
Employability Fund Programme - Work Placement Scheme
Pulteneytown People’s Project
is contracted to deliver The Employability Fund Programme for Skills
Development Scotland (SDS). The purpose of the programme is to prepare
people for employment or further training opportunities in their chosen
work interest area, by supporting them to improve their knowledge and
basic skills required for their chosen sector.
Next start date 31st August 2015 -
Open to anyone aged 16
or over who is unemployed.
Child care costs available.9 August 2015
Halkirk United Play Inverness Caley Thistle In North Of Scotland CupTuesday 11th August.
8 August 2015
Wick Girl Is Golden Dancer On Holiday
Local girl uses dance skills
learnt
at Rush.dance and wins Golden ticket to perform main stage with her
dance idols Diversity. Beth Mackay 12 years old (Wick).
Beth Mackay went to Butlin's Holiday Camp, Skegness from July 24th to
31st.
She was there for a granny (Sandra Jones) / grand-daughter holiday and
had chosen this site because we had seen Diversity Dance Academies
advertised on television earlier in the year.
7 August 2015
Great Yellow Week - JOIN THE HUNT TO FIND SCOTLAND'S RAREST BUMBLEBEE!.This August 21st is the start
of Great Yellow Week in Caithness, a chance to search for one of
Scotland's rarest bees and discover why bumblebees are so important.
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust is hosting events at The Park Hotel,
Thurso, where the charity is encouraging volunteers from the area to
get involved and help spot this rare bumblebee.
The event will kick start on Friday 21st August with two bee
identification training sessions run by Katy Malone (Conservation
Officer Scotland) and Dr. Richard Comont (Data Monitoring Officer)
before volunteers head out in small groups on the 22nd August to walk
designated transects across the county.
6 August 2015
From Caithness to the World - Nuclear Archive Centre Construction Underway
A ceremonial turf cutting
ceremony
marked the official start of building work on the new archive that will
store nuclear records from across the UK.
David Flear, chairman of the Dounreay Stakeholder Group, dug into the
ground at the Wick site where the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's
Nuclear Archive will start to take shape over the next 12 months. He
welcomed the step forward saying: "The NDA Archive brings a lasting
legacy to the area, and I am delighted it is progressing so well. The
Dounreay Stakeholder Group has been involved with the NDA on this
project for some time now and everything we hoped for appears to be
taking shape."2 August 2015
Wick Academy 2 Nairn County 1 - Academy leave it late to break the deadlock
Reporter Noel Donaldson.
WICK ACADEMY bounced back from their opening Clach wobble to get their
league challenge back on track.
However, it was a hard-earned victory in a game which saw both sides up
for the points before a good crowd at rain-swept Harmsworth park,
yesterday.
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Duke Of Rothesay Visits Annual Caithness Art Exhibition
The duke of Rothesay
visited the annual art exhibition from the society of
Caithness Artists. He was shown round by member Ian Pearson
and met some of the members of the society. For more photos see photgrapher Angus Mackays web site.
1 August 2015
Golspie Gala 2015
Golspie Gala
FacebookKids Seashore Art At Lybster
This past week kids have been
learning how to make their own pigments from items found on the seashore
and making their own
creations. The project by Northlands Creative
Glass has been running for the past few days at the
harbour.
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