STONEHAVEN and District Community Council this week launched its competition to find a slogan and logo to promote the amenities of the town now that the bypass has come into operation.
Entry is open to all and prizes of £25 will be awarded to the winning entries.
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Kincardine and Deeside recreation committee has agreed to give £1,000 to the North East Arts Co-ordinating Committee which was recently formed following an ini
tiative by the Scottish Arts Council. The co-ordinating committee hopes to receive sufficient financial support from the five district councils in the region to set up a pilot series of drama tours and events.
50 YEARS AGO
Friday January 8 1960
DR Richard L M Synge, his wife, Dr Ann Synge and their seven children are back home to Muchalls after a year packed with exciting experiences. Dr Synge, who was a Nobel Prize winner some years ago, spent a year in New Zealand trying to isolate a poisonous fungus which was affected pastures and sheep.
Their return has solved a mystery which puzzled the folk of Kincardineshire some months ago. When the will of Bernard Berenson, the famous art critic, was published, it was disclosed that he had left 10,000 dollars (£3,500) to each of his four grandchildren, one of whom was named as Ann Stephen of Muchalls.
No one in the district could trace an Ann Stephen, but Dr Ann Synge has now disclosed that she is the beneficiary concerned.
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INTRODUCED as an attraction for the summer days, the open-air draught board at Stonehaven market square has developed into an all-the-year-round amenity, During 1959 there were very few days on which it was unused, and over the Christmas and New Year period it was in great demand. In spite of the wintry weather, most of the patrons are up in years!
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WITH the Christmas and New Year holidays, folk were apt to become a bit confused regarding the days of the week. There was an illustration of this at Stonehaven on Saturday when, at noon, the fire siren was given its usual routine test. Not realising that it was Saturday and a test, two firemen and a reporter raced for the firestation! Their chagrin when they realised their mistake can well be imagined!
100 YEARS AGO
Thursday January 6 1910
PROBABLY owing to the previous day being a Sunday the streets presented a very quiet appearance at midnight when the New Year was ushered in. The Market Square was quite deserted. The bustle and stir which were wont to hail the birth of the year seem to have transferred themselves to the neighbourhood of the Market Cross in the Old Town. In that part a considerable number of first-footers assembled to celebrate Hogmanay.
