FOLLOWING the decision by the Scottish Education Department to exclude the application for a capital grant from the Portlethen Jubilee Hall committee from its approvals in the 1983/1984 financial year due to a lack of funds, it is pleasing to see that Kincardine and Deeside District Council and Grampian Regional Council seem prepared to "bale out" the project and save it from falling through.
With the S.E.D. pulling out the two local authorities seem set to show their faith in the project by "digging deep" and meeting the £8,747 shortfall on a 50-50 basis.
This is just reward for Portlethen residents who were said by their local council
lor to have done a "superb job" in raising their own share of the funds, and might otherwise have seen their hopes dashed by the financial restraints of central Government.
50 YEARS AGO
Friday September 19 1958
TRIBUTES were paid to Stonehaven firemen on Tuesday evening when an extension of the fire station was formally opened by Viscount Arbuthnott, chairman of the North-Eastern Fire Area Joint Board.
Viscount Arbuthnott said that the alterations to the station entitled re-designing the rear part of the building to provide a muster room, watch room, toilet facilities, drying room, store and lecture room. On the first floor the firemen had made themselves an excellent recreation room, with facilities for billiards, table tennis, darts and other games.
In the new lecture room, the Viscount presented Sub-Officer Gregor Fyfe with a long service medal. Sub-Officer Fyfe, who joined the service as a part-time fireman in May 1938, has been in charge of the station as sub-officer since 1948.
In a brief speech, Provost Christie said that Stonehaven Fire Service was acknowledged to be a very efficient one indeed, and the town was proud of it.
100 YEARS AGO
Thursday September 17 1908
A NEW football club, to take the place of the Artillery, has been formed in Stonehaven.
It is composed of members of our local Territorial company, but whether confined to volunteers remains to be seen.
The new club has already joined the Kincardineshire League, which indicates they mean business. It may be mentioned that they are to get the free use of a park from Sir Alexander Baird, the president of the Territorial Association.
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ABOUT 7.30pm on Saturday night, a fire which, but for the promptitude of those on the spot, might have had serious consequences, broke out in the farm of Stoneydale, Laurencekirk, tenanted by Mr Alexander Murray.
At the hour named the grieve and foreman proceeded to the bothy, and on opening the door they were astonished to see flames leap up inside the building.
The flames were soon got under control, but not before a bed and a quantity of bedding had been burned, and a wheel next the granary badly scorched. The damage is estimated between £15 and £20.
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