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SHARK In June 2006 SHARK (Safe Habitat Alliance for Rural Kincardineshire) became a properly constituted environmental group and, now with a community composting site at Wairds Park, carry out an invaluable door-to-door collection of garden waste every second Saturday from April to November.
When this service began in 2007 it was supported by the environmental charity, Aberdeen Forward, who provided both funding and a vehicle.
However, in a compliment to its success , Aberdeen Forward was able to withdraw its backing last year allowing the group to control its own affairs and, in order to compensate for the loss of this support, SHARK applied to the Climate Challenge Fund for a grant of 25,000 towards the purchase of a lorry.
Disappointingly, the application was unsuccessful and, although just recently a second-hand truck has been bought and there are high hopes that a grant of 5,000 will be provided by another funder., more cash will be needed to buy a trailer. To help achieve this, SHARK are having a strawberry stall at the Fish Festival on Saturday, August 7 and volunteers will be needed to staff this.
At the moment 103 households are registered with SHARK and, more immediately, local organiser Rebecca Chambers would welcome more volunteers to help with the uplift of the now familiar green bags.
There is a rota for this task and, as she says: "The more people we have, the fewer calls that are made on their time." It should also be remembered that the bags have to be lifted on to either a lorry or trailer and care should, therefore, be taken not to overfill them and a second bag costs only 5.
The annual fee for 18 collections is 10 and for further information on this or on any of SHARK's many other environmental activities Rebecca may be contacted on 01561 362120.
Mearns Coastal Parish
In Johnshaven Church on Sunday morning, the minister, the Rev Colin Dempster, again referred to the story of Jonah and, in considering why in times of despair prayers are answered, said that Jesus is the lifeline connecting God to his people.
Earlier, the Rev Dempster, reminded the congregation that this Monday, July 12 he will be available in the vestry of Johnshaven Church between 6 and 7 p.m. to discuss in confidence matters which may be concerning anyone, whether they be Church members or not.
He also drew their attention to the anagram quiz which is now on sale to help cover the cost of replacing the old CH3 hymnbook with copies of the new CH4. The organist was Robin Beattie.
This Sunday's services will be held at the usual times of 10 a.m. in St Cyrus Church and 11.30 a.m. in Johnshaven Church.
Bowling Club
It was a busy week-end for the Bowling Club which began disappointingly on Thursday with defeat by Edzell in the Kincardineshire League but ended on a happier note after Sunday's successful outing to Bervie .
At the Wairds on Thursday Fiona Dundas, Bill Inglis, Bett Beedie and Alan Robbie never got to grips with
Edzell's E. Forbes, G. Healey, W. Perie and G. Barclay who found the new and stiffer carpet very much to their liking. By winning only two ends in the first half and trailing 3-16 they gave themselves a mountain to climb. They did make a brave effort to scale the heights by winning five of the last seven ends and were lying six shots at the twelfth only for the Edzell skip to dash their hopes by drawing a beautifully judged second shot. It was too late by the fifteenth end when the home side finally did manage to record a count, of four shots, and so it was the visitors, never behind all night, who won the race to the top by a comfortable 18 shots to 12.
The away rink of Meggie Hann, Roy Mowatt, Bill Webster and Bryan Duff were only five shots, 7-12, adrift against I. Collie, J. Ruxton, E. Spark and J. Smith after eleven ends but they never recovered from the loss of six shots at the twelfth and finished the match well beaten, 20-12.
So, a really dispiriting evening for the Club who had been picking up points on a regular basis over the past few weeks.
On Sunday Bervie was the venue for the first leg of the annual match for the TSB Trophy and what a weird and, for Johnshaven at least, wonderful day it turned out to be.
The start of the match was delayed for twenty minutes to allow the heavy rain to ease off but soon after proceedings did get under way around 2.30 p.m. the sun came out and for the next hour and a half shone warm and brightly providing conditions which were fine for bowling, until once again the heavens opened forcing everybody back inside on the completion of the fourteenth end..
On rink two the Johnshaven ladies, Meggie Hann, Twig O'Brien, Fiona Dundas and Bett Beedie played exceptionally well against Jean Rowan, Anne Galloway, Pat Wisbey and Betty Abernethy. Never behind, apart from losing three shots at the third end, they restricted their opponents to three singles and finished comfortable winners by 14 shots to 6.
On rink four Brian Hann, Roy Mowatt, Bryan Duff and Donald Dundas were in even more devastating form against John Peter, Derek Morrison, Alex Milton and John Eddie.
Losing only three ends all afternoon, a count of five at what turned out to be the last end, confirmed their superiority in a 28-4 victory.
The only Johnshaven rink to lose was that of Bill Webster, Clark Simpson, Jim McCallum and Alan Robbie who were soundly beaten, 21-7, by Peter McKenzie, Ernie Auld, Bobby Gowans and Doug Galloway.
Seven one down after a faltering start, they staged a mini-recovery to come within one shot of their opponents., 6-7, after eight ends but then after another serious stumble they fell eight in arrears, 6-14 after eleven. Singles were then exchanged before Bervie put an end to any possible Johnshaven challenge by counting six shots before everyone scurried to the clubhouse to avoid a drenching as the darkening clouds gathered and the thunder rumbled ever closer.
After a most enjoyable tea, Bervie President, Betty Abernethy, congratulated Johnshaven, on their 18 shot victory and said that Bervie would have to be at their best in the second leg to retrieve the situation. In reply, Johnshaven's President, Alan Robbie, thanked Bervie both for the very sporting manner in which the match had been played and the excellent hospitality which they had provided, adding that the empty place in Bervie's cabinet might well remain bare for another year yet!
Friday's hat night was won by Twig O'Brien and Donald Dundas by nine shots. Points and hat nights continue on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. and all are welcome.
"Rocky's Plaice"
Thirty seven children from the coastal communities enrolled in "Rocky's Plaice" on Monday morning for Mearns Coastal's twelfth summer mission.
The holiday club ends tonight, Friday, when everyone is welcome to come along to the "Church Caf" in the Village Hall at 7 p.m. when there will be a presentation of the activities undertaken by the children during the week.
Putting
In the final of the weekly putting competition for the Barclay Harvey Shield Michael Craig Snr defeated Alison Beedie 2 and 1 in the final. In the semi-finals Michael defeated Graeme Anderson at the 21st while Alison defeated Liam Beedie by one hole. Liam won the consolation competition by defeating Jean Stephen 2 and 1 in the final.
Shaun Anderson won the competition for primary school pupils by defeating Murray Dunbar 3 and 2 in the final and the losing semi-finalists were Gavin Brown and Max McBay. The consolation winner was Max McBay who defeated Erin Beedie 3 and 2 in the final.
This Monday the family foursomes competition for the Thistle Trophy takes place at 7 p.m. At least one member of each foursome must be a resident of Benholm or Johnshaven.
Answers to World Cup Trivia
Scotland qualified for the 1950 World Cup finals having finished second in the British Home Championships. However, the SFA had previously announced that Scotland would enter only if the team won the British Home Championships and they stuck to their word.
Andy Beattie was the manager of the Scottish team in the 1954 World Cup finals. He lasted one game, resigning after a 1-0 defeat to Austria. In their next game Scotland were due to play the reigning champions Uruguay who had never lost a World Cup match. Scotland were beaten 7-0.
Scotland's first-ever goal in the World Cup finals was scored by Jimmy Murray of Hearts in a 1-1 draw against Yugoslavia in 1958. Their last goal was scored by Craig Burley in a 2-1 defeat by Norway in 1998.
The youngest player to take part in the World Cup finals is Pele of Brazil, aged 17 years and 249 days and the oldest is Roger Milla of Cameroon aged 42 years and 39 days.
The English commentator who described David Narey's stunning goal against Brazil in the World Cup finals of 1982 was Jimmy Hill.
Thirteen national associations entered the first World Cup in Uruguay in 1930 and 204 entered in 2010. South Africa received automatic entry.
Tovik Bakrahamov and Maurico Espinosa have gained World Cup notoriety because as linesman/assistant referee the former allowed Geoff Hurst's goal against Germany in 1966 and the former disallowed Frank Lampard's effort in 2010.
The dubious record for the fastest sending off in the finals of the World Cup is held by Jose Batista of Uruguay in 56 seconds against Scotland in 1986.
Substitutes were first allowed in the finals of the World Cup at Mexico in 1976.
The only sportsman to have played World Cup football and World Cup cricket is Sir Vivian Richards, football for Antigua and cricket for the West Indies.
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