ROTARY   CLUB   OF   BURNTISLAND   AND   KINGHORN

ROTARY CLUB DIARY

AUGUST: Warm welcomes to new members Elaine Bowie (club's first lady member) and Colin McPherson, another Lochgelly lad. Splendid Jazz Evening at Rossland Bar, Kinghorn; Talks on Drugs and young families; Starley Hall and Museum Service. Narrow defeat in inter-club indoor sports by Kinross, but retaining McPherson Quaich by overpowering Kirriemuir at golf.

SEPTEMBER:   Bounteous Golf Club buffet, superb Hamish Brown slides and magnificent Jim Murphy music launch Phase 2 of Rotary Rambles. Winding along Scotland's Inland Waterways; to Citizen's Advice Bureau.   Bill Kirkhope beats Kevin Mitchell in hard-fought final of summer golf, then scoops autumn trophy at Dunnikier.

OCTOBER:   38 senior citizens enjoy Magical Mystery Tour through Perthshire scenery then afternoon tea at Amulree.   Sporty times with Computerisation of Golf and Bog Trotting.   Club defeat St Andrews Kilrymont at indoor sports, and Hackers top curling league with victories over Loofies and Birlers.

NOVEMBER:   Visit from District 1010 Governor Erik Simpson with District objectives and applause for club's Rotary Rambles project.  

Branching into Bonsai. Icy times at curling as Westenders (Bill Davidson, Lenni Wahlroos, Jim Hutt and Bill Kirkhope) and Ladies (Elaine Ritchie, Kathleen Street, Cath Johnston and Rosemarie Wahlroos) fight through to final of Bill Coull Memorial Quaich. Donations:- £500 for family-shelter for earthquake victims in Kashmir, and £100 to Burntisland Community Council for Fireworks display;

DECEMBER: Christmas Dinner on Tuesday 13 December, with Archie McGlynn on Hong Kong.

JANUARY 2006: Burns Night on Friday 20 January with Bruce Davis on Immortal Memory. Tickets in great demand.

GEORGE   FOSTER                  01592 - 890244

ROTARY   RAMBLES

The Burntisland and Kinghorn Rotary Club's "Rotary Rambles" project is encouraging Burntisland and Kinghorn folk to take a bit more exercise through walking.   It's been very successful in its first year, notching up the following achievements:-

      Community Consultation

Sponsorship, and assistance with organisation and delivery of community consultation on "Burntisland's Paths and Tracks" - see separate report on following page.

Sunday Strolls and Wednesday Wanders

A regular programme of monthly and weekly walks, with the walks now organised and led by "the community" within the well-established "Rotary Rambles" framework.

     Rotary Rambles Award Scheme

A tremendous success. Excellent cooperation between Rotary and Primary schools. Now a fixture at Burntisland and Kinghorn Primary Schools:   thoroughly enjoyed by our eager-beaver youngsters.   Auchtertool, Kirkcaldy or Aberdour next??  

     Rotary Rambles Route Descriptions

" Rotary Rambles" route descriptions for local walks in The Burgh Buzz - see Kinghorn Loch routeplan on page 18.

       Rotary Rambles Laminated Cards

Route plans for local walks available free to local folks and visitors - from the Library, Dickson's Newsagents and the Primary School in Burntisland and from the Community Centre, McWhinnies, and Primary School in Kinghorn.

Work continues on:-

  "Rotary Rambles" leaflets for Burntisland's Country Walks and Town Walks.

  Specification to Fife Council (Transportation) for action to make Town Walks accessible to disabled.

    Signposting; Waymarkers; Pathcards; Rotary Club benches; Repair to Rotary Club viewfinder on Binn; and Route Register (67 local paths and tracks) on Burntisland & Kinghorn Rotary Club website.

BURNTISLAND   PUBLIC   ACCESS   COMMITTEE

BURNTISLAND'S   PATHS   AND   TRACKS

Lost in the mists of time?   No chance!

Do you remember we had a community consultation exercise on "Burntisland's Paths and Tracks" in summer 2004?   Well, there were 132 responses registering 503 points to be considered. We had a report by Fife Council Community Services Countryside Rangers in December 2004 and Burntisland Public Access Committee did a summary report in February 2005. Both were available for comment in the Library, and the proposals in the BPAC summary report were accepted by BCC on 14 April 2005.   BCC agreed that the proposed "Burntisland Paths Package" would be the way forward for outdoor activity routes in the Burntisland area - the first such initiative by a Scottish Community Council.

In line with BCC agreement, a full list of local outdoor activity routes has been drawn up; details of Key Routes have been passed to Fife Council for consideration in Fife's Core Path Plan; and the representations about Fife Coastal Path and local access problems are being raised (by BCC) with Fife Coast and Countryside Trust and Fife Council respectively.

Activities within the "The Burntisland Paths Package" will be the subject of a future report.

BILL   DAVIDSON

BURNTISLAND   PUBLIC   ACCESS   COMMITTEE   (BPAC)

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