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The club was buzzing on Tuesday evening when our guest speaker was Phil McAnespie. Phil, a locally well-known and respected beekeeper had previously talked to the club some four years ago and had come to update us on how bee populations were faring in the present day environment. He considered that the greatest threat to ...
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Yolanda and Peter McCall gave a thoroughly interesting, joint presentation to the club on the story of St John’s Tower (Ayr’s oldest building) and the efforts being made to promote interest in the heritage of the site.
Yolanda began with a potted history, describing the origins of the original Ayr Parish Church, ...
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Club members excelled themselves on Tuesday evening by exhibiting their pumpkin lantern efforts whilst hiding behind a variety of Halloween masks. One member was heard to remark that the scariness level of the pumpkin table was closely matched by some of the other tables where members were wearing no masks.
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One of our most recent members, Doug Wilson, was quick off the mark to deliver his “jobtalk”. Although a trained electrical engineer, Doug’s real vocation was in the Boys’ Brigade and it was his long, and continuing, service to the BB (60 remarkable years from early boyhood) that Doug chose to tell us all about.
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Bob Gibson, a master mariner and this week’s guest speaker, spent 15 years in the Merchant Navy before transferring to the North Sea at the height of the oil boom. The subject of Bob’s talk was his experiences on FPSOs which he explained was an acronym for Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading facilities. In ...
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Bill Rogers gave a hugely entertaining and amusing talk along with a virtual tour of Culzean Castle, now owned by the National Trust for Scotland. Culzean had been built by the Kennedy family in the late 1500's, and was already nearly 200 years old when Sir Thomas Kennedy succeeded to the title Earl of Cassilis in 1762. He ...
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Ron Ireland made a formal presentation of a £200 Treasure Chest cheque to Angela McNay, founder of Unity Grill. Craig had been instrumental in encouraging Angela to make an application to help provide a baby changing facility within the soon-to-be opened social enterprise restaurant on the corner ...
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The Police Scotland Youth Volunteers (PSYV) are groups of up to twenty-four young people based across Scotland. Supported by adult volunteers and led by a police constable the PSYV volunteer at community and national events across Scotland.
One of the first PSYV groups was set up in Cumnock four years ago and PC Tom ...
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Our club has recruited an amazing six new members, two of whom are women. This is particularly satisfying to the club which is keen to increase female numbers.
Euan and Katie Nicol have recently moved to Ayr from Blairgowrie and are enjoying life here. The seaside was an attraction to them after their spell in the ...
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Gillian Craig, creator of the “Gillian’s Walks” blog ( https://gillianswalks.com/ ) , and the Ayrshire Coastal Path’s very first female pathminder, was our guest speaker on a special pathminders’ evening. Three other pathminder guests (Bob Gibson, Peter Galloway and Bill Mullin) joined us to listen to Gillian’s ...
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