“As well as raising money for our services, it’s a chance for the hotel staff to have some fun and use their skills in a completely different en-vironment.” The charity is hoping more ho
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to be ‘Apprentices’
Staff at two St Andrews ho-tels are competing in a char-ity challenge styled on the television programme The Apprentice
Run by homelessness or-ganisation Bethany Chris-tian Turst, teams from the Old Course Hotel and the Hotel du Vin are vying for the top spot in the battle to raise the most money for the Bethany’s charity shop
in Kirkcaldy
Staff are not told their challenges until their day
in the shop and could find themselves faced with
any-thing from creating enticing window displays to playing a wild card
Ann McLaughlan, from Bethany Christian Trust, who came up with the idea, said: “We are really delighted that both hotels are so enthu-siastic about taking part
“As well as raising money for our services, it’s a chance for the hotel staff to have some fun and use their skills
in a completely different en-vironment.”
The charity is hoping more hotels will sign up for the challenge next year
Watch your speed – new limits on A91
New speed limits are to be introduced on the A91 be-tween Guardbridge and St Andrews The new limits, agreed by Fife councillors this week, will see an exten-sion to the existing 40mph limit east of the Strathkin-ness junction, a 50mph speed limit east of Guard-bridge to 100m west of Bal-gove Larder junction and a 40mph limit from there to the 30mph limit.
Saving the planet one drink at a time
Join in with a ‘Green Drinks’ social evening on July 14, where those inter-ested in environmental issues meet to have a drink and a chat at the St An-drews Brewery Company from 5pm onwards.
The group – which is open
to anyone – will talk about environmental and social justice issues, and is an op-portunity to raise any ideas for future projects.
‘Where’s the Pride in Fife?’
A young Fife man is winning
thousands of followers for his
online series looking at the
LGBTI scene in the Kingdom
– or, more exactly, the lack of
one
Stuart Russell, moved
by the plight of LGBTI
peo-ple elsewhere in the world
who are tortured and killed,
pitched the idea to BBC
Scot-land of looking at the situation
closer to home
The 24-year-old has been
appointed a content
produc-er for the online platform The
Social and his first video –
en-titled ‘Hey, Fife why no pride?’
– went live last Sunday and within days had attracted more than 10,000 viewers
“The response surprised even me,” said Stuart, who has just completed studies in radio production at Fife Col-lege “But people are
interest-ed – it’s a subject that no one is talking about in Fife There are LBGTI organisations which
do great work but there is no sense of an LGBTI community
in Fife”
A Pride event would be one way to increase their
vis-ibility and he urged Fifers to unite and organise a march
Stuart hopes his videos will underline that LGBTI in Fife should have a voice but he said his main message was to “cel-ebrate differences and spread love not hate.”
His first film saw him taking to the Lomond Hills draped in a LGBTI Pride rain-bow flag to look out over the region and ask the question
of why Fife has no gay ‘Pride’
You can see his short films at www.facebook.com/
Over a thousand young artists
from Fife entered their
art-work into the University’s
an-nual competition – the largest
number in its 10 year history.
And Lawhead Primary’s Evie
Young took first prize in the
Primary 1 to Primary 3
cate-gory where she was one of 36
children who was presented
with a medal and certificate at
a special ceremony in
Parlia-ment Hall in St Andrews
During the ceremony Pro-fessor Derek Woollins, vice-principal for research at the University of St Andrews, congratulated the schools for the extraordinary quality and imagination of their pu-pils’ work
Susan Stewart,
headteach-er, praised the competition and Evie’s success She said:
“It’s about working with the community that you are part
of and engaging with the Uni-versity which helps the chil-dren to look at wider life as well as development of their
art skills
“And for Evie it is an oppor-tunity to be able to celebrate
a quiet wee girl and for her to
be recognised in this way is great.”
Taking third place in the same category was Roksana Wawer, P3, and second for Holly Bartlett, P7 both from Greyfriars R.C Primary School
The MUSA Young Artist Award aims to use the
histor-ic and artisthistor-ic collections in the care of the University of St Andrews to inspire creativity and boost confidence among
pupils
Matt Sheard, learning and access curator, said: “This is the tenth anniversary of the MUSA Young Artist Award and it’s been fantastic to see the competition grow We’ve worked with nearly 8000 children, received over 5400 competition entries and have awarded prizes to over 300 tal-ented young people
“The quality of the entries
we saw this year has been in-credible and it speaks volumes
of the talents of the winners that they stand out against over a thousand competitors.”
Art attack for record
number of pupils
The winning young artists gathered for a special ceremony in Parliament Hall Inset: Evie’s winning entry.
by Fiona Pringle
fiona.pringle@jpress.co.uk
Twitter: @Fi_Pringle
Treasures from around the world inspire Fife pupils
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War history and boating heritage at Fisheries Museum
Boats and boatbuilding com-bine with a look back at war-time in the Forth to provide the themes for this year’s summer programme at the Scottish Fisheries Museum
in Anstruther
Displays, open days and workshops , with an artistic flavour, are offering a look at fishing and boating heritage plus recollections of war on the water in the Forth
Today (Friday) and on July 15, there’s a chance to construct a fleet of model Dreadnaughts and Cruisers and recreate the only ma-jor naval battle of the First World War, the Battle of Jut-land
Tomorrow (Saturday) sees an open day aboard The Reaper vessel – with another
on August 11 – where visitors can find out what it was like
to be a fisherman in the past
There is a series of
wa-tercolour masterclasses for adults in July and August, with local artist Rebecca Prentice
The Young Boatbuilders Club is staging several ses-sions, looking at traditional boat construction, machines for heavy lifting, coracles and water engine-propelled fish-ing boats, with the chance to see the museum’s boatyard and to build some models There’s a chance to find out about dazzle camouflage used by the British Navy, to prevent warships being tor-pedoed by enemy subma-rines
‘The Forth at War’ exhi-bition features paintings by local artist Jim Stormonth, who’ll be giving a talk on
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Booking is essential for many events, call 01333
310628 or email charlie@ scotfishmuseum.org Workshops