Grants Awarded Feb 2013
In the last round of grant applications there were 3 applicants . Stow Community Trust were awarded £1,740. Sound Out were awarded £1,900. Stow Sports Committee were awarded £476.
Update on Stow Park
Councillor Sandy Aitchison has held discussions with Council officials and it is apparent that there is no one solution that can improve the park and that a number of measures will have to be taken to get it back to its old glory. The first step is to look at drainage and investigations will be […]
Campaign for Borders Rail Feb Update
As anticipated in the previous newsletter, responsibility for progressing the railway was handed over to Network Rail with much fanfare at the Mining Museum in Newtongrange early last November. Just over a month later Network Rail announced that it had appointed BAM Nuttall as main contractor for the actual delivery of the railway in a […]
Into Africa
For several years, Stow & Heriot Church have been linked with a partner church in Malawi, in a small village called Luwatala. Luwatala is in a rural area quite close to Lake Malawi (or Lake Nyasa). Last year, members of the church took the opportunity provided by Presbytery’s sending of a container, and sent out […]
Fresh Start Borders
We recently had a presentation from Fresh Start Borders who came to talk to us about homelessness in the Scottish Borders. Fresh Start is a local charity based in Selkirk which co-ordinates donations of household goods from the public and distributes these as packs to people who are moving into their first permanent home. Set […]
Snow School
During the recent fall of heavy snow we were able to keep Stow Primary open for the pupils. However there was one big difference, the teachers. Our school was staffed by teachers who lived in Stow! Other than that it was business as usual! The pupils all enjoyed learning from Grace Frew, Janet Cass , […]
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