EXTRA litter patrols are to be introduced along the Shorehead at Stonehaven harbour. Residents complained about the mess along the narrow strip of road.
There is very little litter during the week, when the sweeper goes along the Shorehead, but the situation is aggravated at the weekend. Therefore, it has been ordered that a trail period of one hour's sweeping and the emptying of litter bins takes pl
ace every Saturday and Sunday until the end of the summer season.
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WONDERFUL news this week is that the Scottish Sports Council has given a £500 grant to the Community Centre management committee to enable the purchase of a further 30 pairs of roller boots. This will allow smaller children and more older teenagers to try this energetic and skilful activity on the Saturday afternoon sessions in Mackie Academy Games Hall.
50 YEARS AGO
Friday July 22 1960
WHEN three children on holiday arrived at Stonehaven Police Station on Sunday with a blue budgerigar they had found in the grass on the Bervie Braes, an accommodation problem arose. Cages for budgies were not in the equipment list, but one was improvised from an upturned waste paper basket, a stick, thrust through each slats, providing a perch for the "detainee."
The budgie thrived in his new surroundings and, by Tuesday, had improved from a woebegone specimen into a real chirpy fellow. No one has come along to claim him (or her) and he (or she) is still "in custody"
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THE mystery of the "Matador" has been solved. Fishing off Carron Point recently, Skipper J Watt picked up the name plate of the "Matador" in his seine net. No one in Stonehaven knew anything about the "Matador" so skipper Watt handed it into HM coastguards who have now received a letter from Lloyds giving details of the hull-registered "Matador's" end.
She left Thurso for Methil on October 8 1924, when damage was taken and she was diverted to Aberdeen. Circumstances were against her and the "Matador" was abandoned on October 9 four miles off Stonehaven. The crew made the shore safely in their own boat, but the "Matador" found her last resting place in the depths of the sea off Carron Point.
100 YEARS AGO
Thursday July 21 1910
THE large number of visitors in town just now had a new attraction at the beach on Tuesday night in the shape of a troupe of performing dogs, which went through a very clever performance and proved a strong counter attraction to the pierrots, who are also doing well just now.
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THE state of the footpath of the Beach is, in the present dry weather, anything but creditable to the town. One cannot go any distance without being covered with powdry sand, ladies especially have much to complain of as regards soiled dresses. These little pinpricks to visitors tell in the long run, and they may choose a resort where the authorities are more up to date. What avails the work of our Advertising Committee if such a wretched walk is to be laid down.
