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Another 50 Jobs For Wick As CASE Signs
New Call Centre Deal
 Caithness and
Sutherland Enterprise (CASE) has successfully clinched a deal to create
up to 50 jobs in Wick. A development grant of �487,900 will enable
ViewPoint Systems (Scotland) Ltd to establish a contact centre in
premises on Wick Business Park.
Caithness Businesses
Increasing Profiles On The Web With Caithness.org And Overord Media
Caithness.org has entered a new era with a special relationship with
anew company aiming to give businesses a much higher profile on the web
delivering more information to customers about what they have to offer.
Overord Media - A Caithness Based Company Working With
Caithness.org
 Overord
Media based in Caithness launch not only their own business
today but a number of features to coincide with the preparation of new
materials from leaflets to brochures and advice on how to get noticed.
Caithness.org via the Business Index will be giving more attention to
increasing the profiles of businesses locally with the increased quality
of graphic design that Overord Media can deliver.
Contact them on
their New Web Site
New Features Today In The Business Section
Jims
Carpets
Riverside Replicas Sutherlands Photo Lab
These new features will appear regularly for Caithness Businesses and
can be tailored to suit business needs running for periods of 1
week, 2 weeks or 4 weeks for maximum coverage at extremely competitive
prices. Apart from running for periods in the Business Index with
the business banner and links to the individual business page coverage
will be increased by small links and mentions in other parts of the site
including this page from time to time.
Overord & Caithness.org - Changing Your Business Corporate Identity
From Today
Overord the new Caithness media business launched today will be
working with businesses to increase their profile and improve all
aspects of their presentations to customers, suppliers and other
important contacts. By improving the design and look of everything from
leaflets, brochures and web sites a better image can be advantageous.
To mark the launch of the new business Caithness.org will be adding more
new looks from Overord Media to the web site pages.. Her are the
first with more to come..........
Headlines Hair Studio
A & D
Sutherland
If your business advertising materials need a makeover then get in touch
with Overord Media or with Caithness.org. More new ideas on the
way.....just watch this space.
Thurso High Group Receive
Princess Diana Memorial
Awards
 Thurso High School�s S6 Pupil Support Group were presented with Princess
Diana Memorial Awards for Anti-Bullying activities and M.V. Awards at
Gold, Silver and Bronze. They were presented with their awards in North
Highland College by Dr F. Grant, Thurso High School�s Rector, and Mrs
Catherine Paterson, M.V. Awards Development Officer for Caithness. Also present were Mrs H. McLean, Deputy
Head, who worked with the Group and nominated them for the Awards, and
members of the Caithness People First Group. The Group have been extremely
successful in all of their activities. The 25-strong group received weekly
anti-bullying and child protection training, to help them in their work
around the school.
Wildlife Encounters
 For two weeks at the
end of May (20th May- 4th June 2006), Highland Council Rangers and
RSPB staff will provide unique opportunities to observe Highland
Wildlife in Caithness and Sutherland. "Highland Wild
Encounters" will offer guided walks, minibus tours and boat trips to
enable people to get close to some of our rare, beautiful and unique
wildlife. This will be the fifth
year of the Highland Wild Encounters in Caithness and Sutherland and
the programme is as promising as ever. Andy Summers, Highland
Council's Senior Sutherland Ranger said: "Caithness and Sutherland
boasts some of the best wildlife viewing opportunities anywhere in the
United Kingdom: from the dazzling Black-throated Divers and soaring
Golden Eagles to the frantic Puffin colonies and the extraordinary
lekking Black grouse.
Little Ship Club heads Round Scotland for
RNLI Lifeboat Funds - Into Wick On Thursday 4 May
Members of The Little Ship club will left Ardrossan on 22 April bound for
Banff to celebrate the Club�s 80th anniversary this year and raise money
for a new RNLI lifeboat. A specially made teak baton is being carried on
board a chartered Beneteau 38, �Christina�, by Raymond Gregory and his
crew. The baton set off from The Little Ship Club on the Thames in London
on Tuesday 19 April 2005 and is being carried in 48 relay legs clockwise
around the coast of Britain and Ireland � arriving back in London in time
for the anniversary celebrations of the Club in November, a total of 2,500
nautical miles. The crew will cover more than 750 miles heading north from
Ardrossan to Banff taking in the Western Isles and Orkney before leaving
the baton for its onward journey and returning through the Caledonian
Canal. The �Christina� will be leaving Stromness on Thursday 4 May,
heading for Wick, weather permitting. The date is also dependent on how
long the first two legs from Ardrossan take.
Castletown Heritage Society Quiz And Stovies
Night
 On
Friday 28th April, Castletown Heritage
Society held a fund raising Quiz and Stovies
Night in the Drill Hall, Castletown. Sandy
McWhirter, Socio-Economic Development
Manager, UKAEA, Dounreay acted as compere
for the evening, keeping everyone
entertained while he put eight teams through
their paces on subjects as diverse as Sport,
Geography, Entertainment, Words & Language,
Local History and General Knowledge.
In what proved to be a closely fought but
thoroughly enjoyable evening, the local team
from the Highlander Cafe just managed to
scrape victory by half a point over the 'Tattie
Howkers' from Thurso. Each member of the
winning team received a unique trophy - a
replica ceramic model of the Wind Pump tower
at Castlehill mounted on a flagstone base.
The highly detailed and original trophies
were hand made by Mrs Elizabeth Moar and her
son John.
NDA Directors
See Clean-up Of Fast Reactor Legacy
 The
board of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority got a close-up look at the
progress being made to decommission Britain's fast reactor legacy when it
visited Dounreay on 27 April 2006. The NDA is
responsible for the clean-up of 20 civil nuclear sites in the UK, with
Dounreay being the second largest of them. UKAEA, working with AMEC and
CH2MHILL through their recently-announced alliance, now decommissions the
site under a contract with the NDA.
Dounreay
Safety Training Course At Wick For Canoists
and Kayakers For New Coaches
 Kayakers
from the Pentland Canoe and Caithness Kayak
Clubs attended a one day training course for
the Scottish Canoe Association Canoeing
Safety Test in Wick. The award is a
pre-requisite for those wishing to become a
kayak coach. During the course, the students
were trained kayak safety features; hazards
which maybe encountered on the water; life
saving techniques and kayak rescue skills.
O'Neill Open Surfers Signing Session At
Tempest Surf Thurso
For many more photos head over to
John Baikie's Image Bank and type
the pass word "Surf"
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