FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2nd 1984
DUNNOTTAR Kirk Young Women's Group and social committee staged their own version of "Blankety Blank" based on the popular TV game, to a large audience in St Bridget's Hall.
It was a thoroughly amusing and entertaining evening, compered by John Edgar, the panellists being Roz Marshall (Dame Edna Everidge), Eileen Sim (Jimmy Cricket), Lynn Singer (Wee Jimmy Krankie), Ian Andrew (Lenny Henry) and George Laird (Boy George).
Competitors were Frank Fullerton/ Allison Brunker; Rosemary Fullerton/ Andrew Rankin; Fred Patterson/ Ina Moncrieff; and Jennifer Fraser/Ian Grant.
The questions were composed by Jennifer MacDonald and winning contestants received "Blankety Blank" cheque-book covers and pens donated by four Stonehaven banks.
Alicia Stewart was in charge of the catering arrangements; Anne Ferguson was the hostess; and J.W. Greenwood gave the vote of thanks.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 30st 1959
LAST Thursday is a day a number of Stonehaven school-boys will remember. Still on tattie holidays, they were kicking a football about on Cowie Park when a car stopped on the Aberdeen-Stonehaven road and a man got out. He came over to them an introduced himself by first name only, which was "George". He joined in their game and thoroughly enjoyed himself. The boys are now able to boast that they have played football with a man who, not so very long ago, was leading Scotland's forward line! A great day indeed, thanks to George Hamilton.
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A LOUDSPEAKER van toured villages in the north of Kincardineshire on Sunday warning house-holders that their water supplies would be cut of at 2am on Monday morning.
This was due to a break in the main pipe from the Clochan Dichter tank, a mile or two south of Aberdeen, which is supplied with 150,000 gallons of water a day from Aberdeen's Kincorth water scheme.
Shifts of men worked in relays from Friday to locate the breach, and on Sunday night they had dug 16 feet under the tank to the affected area.
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DURING the storm Stonehaven's Market square was not a very pleasant place- winter has set in with a vengeance. But, on Wednesday afternoon, when the sun shone again, back came the open-air draught players to enjoy their favourite pastime. Maybe they were just a bit more muffled up than in the summer, but every bit as enthusiastic!
THURSDAY OCTOBER 28th 1909
IT WOULD be interesting to know if any of our old inhabitants can recall a time when there was no business at the Licensing Court. It has certainly not been within the last twenty-four or twenty-five years. The Court should have been held the other day, but as there was no business the Justices were not convened. It would thus appear that there have been no deaths of licence-holders causing transfers, and in spite of Mr Lloyd- George's spirit duties that publicans are content to hold on to the business, or it may be that because of the duties they cannot find purchasers for their premises.
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