25 YEARS AGO - FRIDAY JUNE 7 1985
INVERBERVIE Public Library's new extension, effectively doubling the existing building's size and book capacity, opened its doors to eager readers for the first time this week.
Since work on the 33,018 extension began, a service has been maintained from an "elderly" mobile library parked at the Burgh Hall.
Mr Gordon Johnson, deputy chief librarian of NESLS, forecast a rise in the number of local residents using the book service, which is now to be added to for the first time by a record-lending library which can be used at an annual cost of 4.
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FOUR expectant cadets from 865 (Portlethen) Squadron who travelled to HMS Condor, Arbroath, for air experience gliding, got a surprise bonus before leaving the ground.
For they discovered they were to be the last cadets ever to fly in the "Sedberg" glider, which- along with the "Kirby Cadet" model is being phased out of use by the corps.
To add to the honour of being the last to fly in the Sedberg, the sense of excitement felt by three of the Portlethen cadets was "heightened" because it was their first ever taste of gliding. The new Grob G103A Twin Aero Glider – to be known as the "Viking" - is to replace the two outdated types, and the cadets are looking forward to flying it later this year.
50 YEARS AGO - Friday June 10 1960
STONEHAVEN'S veteran walker, Gustave De Jonckheere stepped up his distance on Sunday with a walk from Stonehaven to Banchory, on to Aberdeen and back to Stonehaven- a total of 48 1/2 miles. His previous best, some weeks ago, was Stonehaven to Montrose and back again.
The seventy-two year old was on the road at 2.30am and made good time over the Slug to Banchory. He averaged a good 4mph and reached Banchory at 6.30 am to have breakfast with some friends.
His last lap, home by the main road to Stonehaven, was he confessed, his slowest, and his speed was reduced to 3mph. In spite of that he was back in Stonehaven by 6pm.
He told the Leader that despite the heat, he did not have a blister, but was beginning to feel a bit of discomfort from an old leg wound of the 1914-18 war, in which he served as an armourer sergeant in the Belgian Army.
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THERE has been considerable speculation in Stonehaven regarding the identity of the large bird which appeared over Dunnottar Woods last Thursday evening. It has been described by those who saw it as "as large as an eagle, dark, and with an easy gliding flight," and it has been suggested that it was a buzzard.
Whatever it was, it was not a welcome visitor and, as soon a it appeared, the local colony of rooks and crows "ganged up" on it and, with a loud clamour, "escorted" it rapidly out of the vicinity of their dwellings.
100 YEARS AGO - Thursday June 9 1910
STONEHAVEN proved quite a lively place on Saturday afternoon. Early in the afternoon a dress cycle parade of McKinnon's engineers from Aberdeen, numbering about 40, visited the town. A new feature was that the van was led by a mounted "policeman" and a "cowboy" both being well made up and sitting their horses well. Dinner was partaken of at the Mill Inn Temperance Hotel, and sports were afterwards held, the company leaving for Aberdeen shortly after seven.
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