Muirhouse Centipede Project have kindly supplied a photograph of Gemma and Garry Pearson receiving their prizes from Muirhouse St Andrew’s locum minister (and lead Centipede!) Linda Dunbar.
There’s still time to see the exhibition before it finds a permanent home at Muirhouse St Andrew’s – check out previous 121212 post for details.
Dear Editor
Words, Words, Words
So many have been written, spoken, thought, agreed with, rejected, ignored.
Far too many for any individual to assess their value, opinion, fact or lies.
Words are an interpretation of events, of life that can be viewed from many angles.
Words can be a guide, this also viewed from many angles.
Words, then, are quite powerful in guiding events and influencing minds.
It follows in whose interest are events guided and minds influenced?
We, as individuals of the human race, have a limited span of time in which to grow up, live and love and create better conditions for the next generations.
Tremendous advances have been made worldwide, yet as you read these ‘words’ there is widespread poverty here in the UK but worse is happening in many countries: thousands of the next generation are dying of hunger and disease – why? Why, when the world has the resources and technology to prevent this happening, but does not or will not so so?
Is it that powerful people are operating a system that cannot so it; if so then the system must be changed. Do the powerful people want to change the system? – the answer is NO. They expend millions of words in support of the existing system; guiding events, influencing minds to ascertain their powerful positions of control.
Are they then evil? Some would say so. Are they indifferent to the results of the system they promote? Most likely, otherwise normal human concern and feelings would conclude this system of capitalism no longer has any place in this world.
A Delahoy, Silverknowes Gardens
A reminder about two forthcoming Forth Neighbourhood Partnership consultation events:
Help us make Forth a better place to live
Forth Neighbourhood Partnership would like to hear your views on what you think could improve your local area.
Neighbourhood Partnerships (NPs) are the City of Edinburgh Council ’s approach to delivering local community planning and they work to improve the quality of life in the area. The four councillors for the Forth Ward are all members of Forth NP along with City of Edinburgh Council , Lothian & Borders Police, Lothian NHS and local Community Councils.
The Partnership has recently been reviewing its work and we hope you can help shape our priorities by telling us what improvements you would like to see in your area. This can include planning issues, community safety, parks & green spaces, traffic issues or anything else you are concerned about.
We also want your suggestions for small to medium scale environmental improvement projects for funding through our Neighbourhood Environment Programme (NEP).
Muirhouse and Salvesen
North Edinburgh Arts Centre
(Behind Muirhouse Shopping Centre)
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Drop in anytime between 6pm and 8pm
Tea/Coffee and Sandwiches provided
Children welcome.
Granton and District
Royston Wardieburn Community Centre
(Pilton Drive North)
Saturday 16 March 2013
Drop in anytime between 10am and 12 Noon
Snacks and drinks provided – Children welcome.
How do Neighbourhood Partnerships Work?
They can:
•Bring decision making closer to the community
•Provide opportunities for communities to express their views
•Set out the priorities to improve quality of life in the communities
•Make recommendations to the Council and other partner organisations about the way services may be delivered in the local area
•Comment on strategic decisions that affect the local area
•Award small grants to community groups for local projects that can make a difference in the local area.
For further information contact Forth Neighbourhood Partnership Development Officer Jim Pattison:
Forth Neighbourhood Partnership
North Edinburgh Local Office,
8 West Pilton Gardens, EH4 4DP.
Telephone 0131 529 5082
Email jim.pattison@edinburgh.gov.uk
Muirhouse is … well, what?
See the poster below and find out how you can win cinema tickets!
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Are you paying too much for gas and electricity? Like to find out what you can do to change that? Then read on …
Scots Together offers householders and their communities the chance to save hundreds of pounds on energy bills as part of a collective buying initiative. Scots Together is currently the only Scottish pilot to be funded by the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Representatives from the Scots Together initative will be at Community Renewal’s office in Pennywell Court (i.e. the shops!) tomorrow (Tuesday) from 2 – 5pm to talk about collective switching.
Organisers explained: ‘Collective switching involves getting people together to sign up to reviewing their electricity and gas tariffs, making sure they are on the best deal that they can get. Many people continue paying expensive tariffs simply because they don’t realise they can switch their supplier for gas and electricity. Reviewing your energy tariffs should be something you do as simply and regularly as reviewing your home or car insurance.
There will be options provided to each customer including, the price obtained through the collective switch auction, a comparison of the whole market and a greener tariff.
There will be no obligation to switch suppliers and we’ll let you know if you are already on the best tariff for you’.
Interested? Call in at Community Renewal tomorrow afternoon or you can get more info online – check out www.ScotsTogether.com
Previously homeless households in Edinburgh will be able to access a new food pack service later this year thanks to the generosity of the Rotary Club of Edinburgh. A donation of £28,840 will enable Edinburgh’s re-homelessness charity Fresh Start to produce the packs for the next three years, helping an estimated 2,500 households as they move into a new tenancy after a period of homelessness.
The money was raised at a special Golf Day at Muirfield, organised as part of the Rotarian’s centenary year celebrations.
The contents of the food packs are still to be finalised, but will contain store cupboard essentials to make sure people can make a basic meal when they first move into their new home.
The new packs will be given out to homeless households referred to the Fresh Start project and will be part of its wider Starter Pack service, which already sees it providing recently resettled families and individuals with much needed items, like bedding, small electrical items and kitchen items.
Edinburgh’s Lord Provost, Rt Hon Cllr Donald Wilson, called in at Fresh Start’s Pilton offices recently to inspect the packs and hear more about the new service. He also presented Fresh Start’s Managing Director Keith Robertson with the money raised from the Golf Day, enabling the charity to start work on getting the new service up and running.
The Lord Provost said: “Rotary International is admired the world over for its selfless support of individuals, families and communities and the Rotary Club of Edinburgh has been at the forefront of this for the past 100 years. Fresh Start is the latest in a very long line of wonderful and worthwhile causes they have chosen to help and my congratulations go to those who have put in so much time and effort towards raising this fantastic sum of money. I have no doubt that it will be put to good use, allowing the charity to continue their valuable work in helping people who have been homeless to get established in their new home.”
President of the Rotary Club of Edinburgh Bob Hislop added: “The amount raised is a significant sum in these challenging economic times and is not only a considerable achievement but a worthy legacy for the Rotary Club of Edinburgh’s Centenary Year. Edinburgh is a beautiful city but behind it hides poverty and it was for this reason we decided to choose Fresh Start as our Centenary Charity. We are delighted the Golf Day was such a success and that we are able to tee off a service that will help many families put a hot meal on the table.”
Fresh Start exists to help people make a home for themselves. Managing Director Keith Robertson said: “We are delighted to be chosen as the Rotary Club of Edinburgh’s Centenary charity and even more so that the money has allowed us to put in place plans for a new service. Very often people move into not a new home but an empty shell. We already provide a range of Starter Packs to help people have essential goods like bedding and crockery when they first move into a new house. Our new Food Pack service will help them to have a hot meal too – for some it might be the only thing they have to eat.”
The new service will operate from new premises and will be part of a larger food venture – details of which will be revealed soon.
