Dunoon Dazzles Christmas event streamed LIVE from Dunoon, Argyll. With Soap, Ferdinand Rennie, Spice World – The Tribute, Andrew Grayson performs Olly Murs and more.
Dunoon Dazzles 2018 LIVE
Pathways to the Future – Cultural Heritage Trails Consultation
Benmore & Kilmun Community Trust hosted the first of several consultation events in Ardentinny on Saturday. Led by Robin Patel of Ergadia Museums & Heritage, it explored interest in and content suggestions for the creation of two cultural heritage trails in East Cowal, one for walkers and another for bikers and motorists. The trails would link local historical figures and events along with local attractions and amenities in the communities of Benmore, Loch Eck, Glen Massan, Strone, Blairmore, Ardentinny, Sandbank and Kilmun.
The Consultation was well attended by interested residents and visitors and a variety of names and events of note were elicited and plotted on the East Cowal map along with cultural heritage sites of interest, of which there are potentially 180.
If you were unable to attend, you are invited to participate in the project’s online survey, the results of which will feed into the Trails’ feasibility study which is funded by Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. A Pathways to the Future – East Cowal Conversation Facebook page is also available here.
Gardening Plans
At the April Community Council meeting representatives of the Ardentinny Conservation and Heritage Group outlined some of their future plans. One is to provide planters which will offer edible flowers and vegetables along with recipes, with a view to encouraging people to walk through the village, collect recipes and pick and eat. Another is to help older residents with certain garden maintenance tasks which they find difficult to manage, such as, hedge trimming, strimming etc.
There is also Glenfinart Walled Garden, run by Ardentinny Community Trust, which has reopened for its spring/summer/autumn season. It is open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays 12.00 – 16.00 hrs and on the first Friday of the month 11.00 – 14.00 hrs. Visitors are also welcome any day the gate is open or, by appointment. All enquiries, requests to visit the Garden and offers of help can be made to Jean on 01369 810075 or Anna on 01369 810238. 
Resident gardener, Franziska, will hold the garden’s latest Masterclass on Herbal First Aid and Healing Plants on 17 April, 12.00 – 15.00 hrs.
Superfast broadband coming to Ardentinny!
It looks like fibre broadband is finally on its way to Ardentinny. This week, BT Openreach posted the following information on the village notice board:
KN Networks Services on behalf of Openreach will be carrying out works to facilitate the installation of superfast fibre broadband. These works will involve excavating for the installation of a street cabinet and associated underground ducts. We will endeavour to keep walkways and pavements accessible at all times and to ensure the area is safe. The expected duration of works will be approximately ten working days. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause. Work will commence week beginning 14/9/15 to 28/9/15 in telephone exchange.
The street cabinet at the Ardentinny exchange has already been installed (see photo). To check when fibre broadband will be available, see www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/.
Community Council notice board ban on 38 Degrees refugee poster
The following has been posted on Ardentinny’s Community Notice Board:
“The notices about refugees produced by a political activist group “38 degrees” have been removed by members of the Ardentinny Community Council. This noticeboard belongs to and is administered by the community council, which, by the definition of Argyll and Bute Council, has to remain non-political in order to serve the interests of the whole community. Ardentinny Community Council would, of course, welcome any refugees who choose to come and live in this beautiful village.
Ardentinny Community Council”
The notice from Ardentinny notice board.
The offending 38degrees poster.