25 YEARS AGO - FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8 1985
SIX of Kincardine and Deeside District Council's elected representatives are about to embark on a "cutback" programme- and, for once, it has nothing to do with economy directives from the Scottish Office!
It's purely a voluntary decision, and all in a good cause – to raise cash, through sponsorship, for the British Heart Foundation's annual "slim" to finance research into coronary diseases. The "slim" actually starts next Thursday and participants will continue to "prune" their previous weight until Tuesday April 30, by when – hopefully- they will have become a much slender version of their previous selves!
50 YEARS AGO
Friday February 12 1960
THE Recent spate on the Rover Cowie has taken toll of the concrete apron on the east side of the main road bridge. Already breached, the apron was in no fit state to withstand last week's heavy water, and a considerable portion in the centre has been swept away. It may, of course, be a blessing in disguise if the "powers that be" include in their repairs the much needed fish-ladder about which so much has been said in the past.
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THE sight of learner-drivers and motor-cyclists going through their paces before the critical eyes of the examiners is a normal one in Stonehaven on Tuesdays, but what is not so commonplace is the same sort of thing on Thursdays. That, however, is what happened last week when, in addition to the usual Tuesday session, five examiners were hard at work on Thursday afternoon. It looks as though we are to have a considerable increase in the number of road-users in Kincardineshire this summer!
100 YEARS AGO
Thursday February 10 1910
THE convener of the Stonehaven Cleansing Committee intimated that they had disposed of the "blue" horse which for many years did duty in the dust carts. It is understood that the Council has got 12 for the animal, which has been paralysed for some time. 3 of this money is from a party who is taking the animal over to Germany to make sausages and other tasty bits. As a matter of sentiment one would have thought that would have been content to take 1 for an old and faithful servant and sell the horse to the Aberdeen knackers, but the bigger price paid by the German agents carried the day.
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COUNCILLOR Greig did a good turn to the town in urging upon the council the necessity of taking action in regard to getting the North British trains, or some if them, to take on passengers for the south. A great many of our summer visitors come form Dundee and other parts traversed by this railway, and the want of railway facilities will keep business people from coming here in summer. Now that the holiday season is approaching interest in the matter has revived.
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