Energy Group
Event: Sharing our Experiences: This is on Thursday 2nd May at 7.30pm in the Friendship Room at Kemnay Village Hall. Come a long and talk to people who; have had really life experience of retro-fitting their homes to make them more energy efficient, how to get your home assessed for its energy loses, find out what is involved in the assessment and then explore the next steps. This is your chance to hear of some of the gains and pitfalls.
Community Garden
May Event: We would like to welcome you all on 11th May to the Kemnay Community Gardens for our annual open event on the theme of birds, from 10 to 2pm.
We have invited the; Wildlife Explorers, Bee Group and the Worm Man (Scot Baxter), Heidi Neal from Owls (Outdoor Woodland Learning) will be showing off her activities and you will also learn how things fly, make your own fatballs. Along with all this you can have a go on Kemnay’s Trishaw and Ukulele group will be entertaining us over the period,
Come and try your hand in playing Boules on our Boules piste with Derek on hand to give you expert advice from 10 until 1 and then you can watch the Kemnay teams warming up for the Monymusk Boules competition later on in the month.
BBQ will be lit and available for use, if you like to take advantage of this please Bring Your Own Lunch. There will also be hot and cold drinks and soup.
If you have time on the day, please come and help us with the running of this event we would love to hear from you. Please contact Richard 07967439109.
There will be a Seeds Swap and Share running, please bring any unwanted seed to the event and you can either donate them or swap for seeds that you might like.
Activity Day: This is to be held on 13th April from 10 till 2pm, there are a few tasks we hope to achieve; take snowman down and brighten up sunflower, plant onions, break up polling booths to be use for BBQ and weed the site ready for the open day.
Book Corner: This was discussed at the Community Garden meeting, this came out of an idea which has been used elsewhere and there was a thought of trying it in the gardens. We were thinking that the shed that was formally the “Youth Shed” would be a good place to put it, with the books coming from Lorna Bell who has offered them from “Books Abroad”. We thought we might discussed this at this month’s Activity meeting. If any of you have a suitable book case to offer please let us know.
Boules: Boules are back on Tuesday at 7pm at the Communities Garden, no experience needed and tuition given by Kemnay’s representative on the Scotland team Derek. You can sign up to the Boules WhatsApp group to get games outside of Tuesday evening.
Paths Group
Meeting: The group are planning a meeting to see the way forward for the path group, please watch this space for more information.
Balance Posts: Hilda Hart (Co-ordinator, Positive Steps) told the Community Council about their latest project, which is also supported also by Paths for All. They are raising fund to install strength and balance exercise posts on the Village Green near the ‘chatty bench, this will see 6-8 specially designed oak posts being erected there by the council. These will cost about £5000-£6000, which £2000 of this is coming from developer obligation funds and the rest the will need to be raised.
General Information
Keep Scotland Beautiful: Sue has been approached by John Glover of Inverurie Environmental Improvement Group, to see if Kemnay would like to be involved with Scotland Beautiful (KSB) It’s Your Neighbourhood (IYN) non-competitive competition this year. She is looking to set up a group of people who could help with this, if you are interested please contact her (at Greener Kemnay) as it would be a nice thing to get involved with.
Green Waste: Just remind you that the green waste is being received at the Council Depot at Birley Bush on Saturdays from 8 until 11am