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CRAIL MATTERSW/C 09 September 2019. No 123 Free - donations welcome

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Crail: The Jewel of the East Neuk.We’re back - hope you too had a good holiday!

Keep sending in your news, your views .... we are anxious to hear from you, and to make Crail Matters even more of a com-munity newsletter.

Crail Folk Club8pm Thursday, 12th September in Crail Town Hall BYOB £8 when our guests arethe JOHN WARD TRIO

The Trio’s brand of folk music has been born from John’s experience of life in atough and gritty East Anglian fishing port that has seen more than its fair share ofsocial change and decline. After a life travelling on the road and making music, LesWoodley settled in the port to make wooden boats. Now John and Les togetherbring an honesty and authenticity to their performances that is home-spun and fromthe heart. Add in harmonies from Scots girl, Lynne, who hails from Clydeside, andthe sound is complete.The Trio’s powerful 3-part harmonies give a rich life to John’s songs and to their

traditional repertoire. Accompanied by guitar, double bass, mandolin, accordion, harmonica, whistles and bodhran, and withthe familiar, relaxed banter and humour that they have become known for, the Trio delights folk club and festival audiencesaround the country.

‘Great entertainers – gave us a brilliant night to remember … requests for a return visit as soon as possible” Waltham AbbeyFolk Club

‘We were fortunate to have the John Ward Trio … their use of harmonies was spot on … but when John went off on a bodhransolo it was spectacular. I never knew you could achieve that with a bodhran!’ Steve Primarolo, Organiser – Bracknell FolkClub

East Neuk Participatory Budget Scheme - CRAIL PROJECTS

Fife Council have launched an East Neuk Participatory Budget scheme whereby a pot of £20,000 is available for appropriateprojects, with a maximum of £5,000 for any one project. The public are invited to vote for any 3 projects between 6th and20th September. These votes will be added to a public vote at a final presentation on 30th September.

Crail Community Partnership has backed 2 bids that meet targets identified in the recent Crail Charrette, namely help for ouroldest and youngest citizens. In addition a further bid for funds from Crail based East Neuk Community Emergency PlanningTeam has been made.

- Crail Community Partnership have submitted a bid on behalf of Crail Monday Club. That organisation, which provides aweekly afternoon Club for our senior citizens, recently folded. The application seeks funding to reinstate and reinvigorate thisvery important Club that is very much a focal point and meeting place for our oldest citizens.

- At the other end of the spectrum, ‘Wee Crailers’ has recently been formed as a successor to ‘Wee Tots.’ This is a proposedmonthly lunch and activity club for children up to primary school age and would provide an essential meeting facility. Thereis no such group in Crail at present.

- East Neuk Community Emergency Planning Team’s purpose is to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies.

Please vote for these 3 projects at https://fif.communitychoices.scot/ Encourage your friends and neighbours to do so as well

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Crail Festival Putting Green 2019Can you imagine my surprise when I received a phone call to say that a visitor to Crail had taken upon herself to orderand gift Crail Putting Green with 50 personalised pencils for the starting hut?We also had a Crail couple, decluttering before moving closer to family, donating 11 quality putters, including two withhickory shafts that belonged to ’Mum’ .On seeing that the children’s treats had run low, an anonymous volunteer replenished the goody tub.Once again, a frequent visitor to Ashburn painted the starting hut, two picnic benches and the bridge.You may have noticed 50 rustic paving slabs propped against the surrounding putting green wall. These have also beendonated and will be used to make a ramp to provide easy access for prams and wheel chairs and a solid base around thestarting hut. These are but a few of the many wonderful gestures we experienced at our award winning putting green in2019, it warms the heart.Crail Putting Green would not run like a well oiled machine without all the volunteers. Our committed team consists ofCGS green keepers, 49 volunteers who man the starting hut, the 8 skilled mowing team and Jean and Randall who allowus to use their garage to store the ride on mower. Thank you all, you are wonderful.I shall leave you with a few rewarding comments.“We come from Dunkeld every year to play. There is nothing like it in Scotland.” A group of four before heading to playKingsbarns’ Golf Course, “Can I have a personalised pencil as a momento? I would like to show my buddies in theStates.” “This putting green is better than some of the greens on well known golf courses andgets better with each year.”The burning question every year is now answered. We had 4,735 rounds played over the season. This is an all timerecord and extraordinary considering some of the rubbish, rainy days in the summer of 2019. Well done team, see younext year.

Anyone who would like to join the team please contact Jenny Gowans Tel: 01333 450108/ Email: jennigowans@btinternet.com

David Snodgrass (centre) with CGS Junior Golfers at their annual putting coaching event

Ian Mooney presents The Helen Main MemorialTrophy to Todd Strite from Arizona USA

Graham Cox Memorial Trophy From l—r 1st, Noa , 2nd, Jack ,3rd, Naimh

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WILD CRAIL Will Cresswell,

with Photographs by John Anderson

After a week away there is no denying that autumn has slipped in. The swifts seem long gone, although I had a single migrantbird low over the heronry trees at Cambo on the 2nd, feeding away from the wind. The warm spell of the last two months alsoseems to have gone and the wind is that bit keener. It’s still keenly from the west thoughso no sign of any significant migration of scarcer birds yet. But things are moving.

Seawatching on the 1st for anhour turned up a lot of sandwichterns passing west into the Forth– I counted over 200 in a steadystream; the day before it was asteady stream of common ternsand the arctic terns seem to havemoved on from the rocks at Bal-comie. Other passage seabirdswere less common: two red

throated divers, two manx shearwaters and two bonxies passed in the hour. I did seemy first two juvenile gannets of the year (everything in twos apparently), looking darkand ungainly compared to the adults they were following. Gannets will be fledging allmonth now, but these two are quite early. There were 18 northern wheatears – mostlyjuveniles – on the rocky shore along Balcomie golf course. This is a good number for any day around Crail. Balcomie Beach hastens of ringed plovers, dunlin and still good numbers of knot – about 25 on the 1st at least. There were also three bar-tailed god-wits. It is turning into a good year for them after their absence during the last two.I was out again at Balcomie Beach again, twice on the 5th. The first, a late lunch break to take the dog out and see somethingother than my computer screen, was fairly relaxed. I checked out the 75 or so dunlin on the beach looking for curlew sandpipersand little stints, and the 50 ringed plover for little ringed plover. No luck but pleasant enough. The three bar-tailed godwits were

still on the beach too. My second visit wasn’t so relaxing. A text camethrough at 5 pm – a curlew sandpiper on Balcomie Beach. Not a majorrarity, but a once every two year bird for Crail so well worth seeing. I hadto do some family things so didn’t get cycling down there until after 6.There were still dunlins and ringed plovers on the beach, but I had justmissed the curlew sandpiper. I spent an hour in the deepening gloamingand increasing wind scanning the line of small waders all along the beach,with only the occasional sanderling among the dunlin to get me brieflyexcited. A wader flewin last thing with awhite rump, but itturned into one of thestill lingering knots asit landed. It was ashame – it wasn’t a badbit of birding thisevening, but it was

coloured by the disappointment of not finding the curlew sandpiper. Therewere goosanders, house martins at touching distance over the beach and thenthe same for a swift that came in off the sea and started hawking very low infront of me, apparently very hungry. As I headed back to Crail I watched akestrel hovering very high above the golf course. They are almost owls withtheir love of dusk and dawn and voles.

Wheatear

Gooseanders

Kestrel

Denburn ParkDenburn Park is the field to the south of Denburn Wood going down to Triangle Park and Roome Bay. It’s the field that oftenhas sheep in it, with a small orchard in the corner. As part of the Charette consultation involving over 500 of us, over the lastyear and a half, the field was identified as a natural place where we could enhance the environment and biodiversity of Crail,by making it part of the new wooded corridor and path network, through Denburn North, the existing bits of Denburn Woodand then continuing right through to the shore.

The plan is to turn the pasture field into an accessible, lightly wooded or orchard parkland transition between Denburn Wood

Great Skua (Bonxie)

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Crail Parish Church of Scotland (Char-ity registered in Scotland SC 001601)

Linked with St AyleIntimations

Stepping Stone coffee morning every Tuesday10.00 - 11.30 at St Ayles@Anstruther

Items for the next edition of Karail should be sentto Heather by 16th September, you can email toheatheraird@btinternet.com

Blythswood Shoe Box Appeal leaflets are nowavailable both in church and at Chatbite. Please re-turn the filled boxes by Sunday the 3rd of Novem-ber.

Pastoral visits: As we now have no locum pleaselet the elders or myself (Helen) know if anyone re-quires a visit especially where people have been ad-mitted to hospital.

Next Sunday the service will be conducted by theRevd I Hamilton

Intimations to be in by Thursday noon to Lisa450035, or email(intimations@crailchurch.co.uk)Session Clerk: Helen Armitage 450516

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and Triangle Park. The field has been previously usedfor keeping the donkeys used for beach rides at RoomeBay, and well before that, as the town rubbish dump:using the field for sheep is a relatively recent tradition.Crail Preservation Trust manages the field and havetaken the lead to make the changes. The National Trustfor Scotland, who maintain the terms and conditions ofthe land as specified by the donor, Professor DavidRutherford Dow (who gave the land to Crail) have ap-proved the change of use from the sheep field. Thebinding conditions are that nothing must ever be builton the land, but there are no further conditions for how

the people of Crail can use the land: the National Trust wish us well with the idea. As yet, there are no definite plans. So this article is here to ask for some ideas. We would like to get some more definite plansafter further consultation with Crailers over the next few months, ideally to have a clear plan for the December meeting of theCrail Preservation Society. The Crail Community Partnership (the steering group that evolved from the Charette) has obtainedcostings to provide gates and a pathway through the field. The exact location, design, entry and exit points are open for dis-cussion. Other suggested plans for the field include expansion of the orchard, a wildflower meadow, increased tree planting(with the caveat that this might sensibly be smaller trees transitioning from Denburn Wood to Triangle Park), opening up theburn and even creating a pond. But nothing has been decided yet – what do you think?So please become involved and let us know what could be done to make the field a wildlife rich, accessible park that forms anatural connection between Denburn and Roome Bay. Please send your suggestions, drawings, plans or whatever to me atwrlc@st-and.ac.uk or drop them in to my house at 8, High Street South (opposite the Co-op, behind the hedge). If you want todo more, join the Crail Environment Committee volunteers as well and become part of the team improving Crail for biodiver-sity as we take the Local Action Plan we all developed during the Charette forward.

Will Cresswell on behalf of the Crail Community Partnership

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Police ScotlandCrail Crime Report

In the month of July, police received 1466 calls in NorthEast Fife.25 calls related to the Crail area.Of these, 1 crime was recorded which was a theft.Other calls were in relation to assist members of the pub-lic, concern for person, missing persons and road trafficincidents, the remainder miscellaneous.

COMMUNITY SPEEDWATCH COMING SOONPC Stecka would like to know if members of the commu-nity are interested in becoming a part of CommunitySpeedwatch, 3x members of the public required minimum.

LOCAL INITIATIVESThere have been some speed sites carried out in Crail to-wards the end of August and no particular persons werefound to be speeding at that time.

Crail Matters - the Future?The Editorial Board have been considering how best to manage the future development of Crail Matters. A little backgroundinformation - today’s issue is no. 123 and we currently distribute over 550 digital copies, and 120 hard copies each week,with an astonishing 85%+ opening rate of the digital copies within 2 hours of our Monday morning distribution. Over thepast 2 years, we have donated through Crab Publishing, the non-profit parent company of Crail Matters, over £2,000 to Crailorganisations and individuals involved in community activities, and we are very proud that we continue to offer advertisingfree for all community groups. This has been possible through the very generous cash donations we receive, and the commit-ment of time and energy of the Editorial team.

To continue, and to grow our activities, we need your help! We will need to incur expenditure to replace software systemsand to upgrade printers. We also need copy - if you run a local event, send us an account with pictures; if you have an interestin sport, send us your views; do you read a lot? Then send us book reviews of what you have enjoyed. We really want CrailMatters to be your newsletter, and to reflect your interests, but we can only do that with your help.

Local journalism is growing in significance, and we are very proud to be part of that trend - if you would like to be involvedin the weekly production of Crail Matters, please contact us.

Notice From The Ministry Of Defence

A three week Military exercise will take place in the Fifearea from 1st to 20th September 2019.During this period there will be a substantial increase inlow level and night time flying in the Fife area, particularlyin the vicinity of Leuchars, from both fixed wing and ro-tary aircraft.The rolling programme will commence with five days offlying from 0900 to 2359 hrs, followed by four days where24 hour flight operations have been authorised. This rou-tine exercise provides vital training opportunities for allthose involved.Any local enquiries (within 5 mile radius of Leuchars) toAir Traffic Control on 01334 857282.Enquiries from areas outside the 5 mile radius should bedirected to: SWK-lowflying@mod.gov.uk or by phone to01780 417 558 (Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm (excludingbank holidays).

Crail Rowing Club win Gold and Bronze atNorth Berwick

A group of eight from Crail Rowing Club attended the NorthBerwick Regatta on Saturday 24th August, competing in fourout of the ten categories. In bright sunshine and calm waters,rowing conditions were unusually benign with a breeze onlypicking up later in the afternoon. With the familiar start, skiffsraced hard to Craigleith Island in an effort to gain the insidelane advantage around the island before the final kilometrehome stretch.In the club’s first race of the day, the Mixed Open crew, whichincluded two novice rowers, fought relentlessly around the is-land. Despite being pushed out by near-by skiffs and forced totake a wide course to prevent oars clashing, they held on androwed hard, finally breaking away in the home stretch to takea well deserved 4th position.The Mixed 240+ team, (whose combined ages of the rowershad to add up to a minimum 240 years), came off the start lineat a terrific rate of knots to firmly hold second position in thefield of 13 skiffs. Biding their time until the final 500 metres,the “Crail Magic” kicked in and they powered past the leadingskiff to win a superb and very decisive gold medal.By the final race of the day a broadside easterly had picked up,which made it dif-ficult for crews tohold the start line.After a protracteddelay, as the um-pire herded skiffsinto line, theLadies Open fi-nally got under-way. In a tightlypacked field of 11skiffs Crail heldfirm throughout thethree kilometrecourse, to take awell earnedbronze, just 12 sec-onds behind thewinning skiff.

Mixed 240+ gold team comingashore

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Letters to the Editor

All letters to Crail Matters must supply names and addresses.If requested we will withhold names. Letters are published asreceived, and reflect or represent the views of the author, notthe Editors.

Green SpaceSirsAfter having read Crail Matters this morning, I should like tosay that I thoroughly agree with the comments made in the Let-ters to the Editor regarding the change planned to Denburn Park(the Sheep Field). Such a decision should not be made by themembers of the Preservation Society alone, despite the fact thatthe CPS owns the land. Information or leaflets outlining theplanned details of the proposal should be made widely availableto the community and opportunity be given to all residents togive their opinion and agreement/disagreement on any futurechanges. Further information is required regarding the plans,dates, time frame, finances, the type of paths, plants, trees etc,the number of people who would use the field (woodland park),maintenance, insurance etc etc. Are plans being made to involvethe citizens of Crail in any project plans? And why the urgency?In an earlier edition of Crail Matters, I read that these paths areplanned for both pedestrians and cyclists. Might this not beinviting accidents and disputes as to who has priority. Whowould be responsible in these cases?As I have read elsewhere, many residents and visitors come tosee the sheep but not so many to visit Denburn Wood. Largeopen spaces with farm animals and some wildlife are particu-larly educational for children from the village as well as thosevisiting from larger towns and cities, not to mention the impor-tant role played by the sheep in maintaining the field on a nat-ural basis - no fossil fuel energy is required here. Who wouldbe responsible for the maintenance of a future Denburn Park?At present Denburn Wood is looked after by volunteers doingthe best they can, but would they be available and able to takeover another responsibility? I look forward to further informa-tion being made available to all.

Rachel Schreitter (Wood), Crail

SeagullSirs,I have recently had a visitor to my garden. On several occasionsa ringed herring gull has swooped in to steal the food put outfor the garden birds, a bit annoying, but I noticed he or she isringed and was wondering how and why this is so. Maybe it isour resident “ Seagull.” Seriously I wonder if there was some-one who might be able to shed a light on this for me”

Barbara Mathieson

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Mural Monuments

Of Crail

churchyard

Talk by Dr Kelsey Williams

Kirk Hall

Friday 20th September

7pm

Tickets £8

(including refreshments)

Crail Museum and Heritage Centre

01333 450869

Scottish Charity Sc023505

office@crailmuseum.org.uk

NOTICE TO FISHERMEN No. 021 – 30/08/19OFFSHORE SITE INVESTIGATION WORKS

Gardline have been performing site investigation works on behalf Inch Cape Offshore Limited (ICOL). The site investigationworks consist of an Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) survey. This survey activity is now completed, and the survey vessel is nolonger active in the survey area (shown in Figure 1).The works were undertaken using the vessel Titan Endeavour which is in the process of demobilising from Port Edgar.

ARE YOU LOOKING TO COMPLETE YOUR FOOD HYGIENECOURSE?

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EMAIL SONJA AT SPOTJEWIJD@GMAIL.COM OR CALL

079 39147150

AFTER SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE COURSE YOU WILL RECEIVE A RECOGNISEDFOOD HYGIENE CERTIFICATE.

ElementaryFood

HygieneCourse

FREE

12 September | 9:15am - 4:45pm

St Monans Town Hall

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Crail CommunityChoir

Schedule to Christmas

The Choir starts at7.30pm

September 9 Town HallSeptember 16 Town HallSeptember 23 Town HallSeptember 30 Church HallOctober 14 Town HallOctober 21 Town HallOctober 28 Church HallNovember 4 Town HallNovember 11 Town HallNovember 18 Town Hall

November 25 Community HallNovember 27 Concert

Pop Up Bob reportedmissing!!

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Skeith SurgeryRoutine GP appointments - appointments re-leased Monday at 2pm for Monday, Tuesday,and Wednesday morning for the following week.Appointments released Wednesday at 2 pm forWednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday thefollowing week.Nurse appointments can be booked approx 1

month in advance.

Mobile Library

The mobile library calls at Marketgate from10:00 to 11:00 every 2nd Thursday.

Next Date: 12th September

Greens of Crail - reusing plasticThe scallop tubs which are quite well made andare ideal for salmon are available if anyone wouldprefer a reusable tub instead of a plastic bag -please ask. Also if anyone wishes to bring in theirown plastic tubs for haddock there is no issue asit can simply be tared on the scales.

thanks Clem at Greens`

The Children’s Panel.This year’s recruitment campaign for membership of TheChildren’s Panel will open on Wednesday 21st August andrun for four weeks ending on Tuesday 17th September2019. .Please email directly at kerry.elliott@fife.gov.uk or con-

tact me by phone on 03451 55 55 55 EXT441381 to ar-range for further information.

School Holidays, Term, and Closure Dates

For all parents and carers, please take note. There will betwo extra, in-service days during the coming school year.On Monday 21st October 2019 and Monday 6th January2020, all schools will be closed to pupils to allow for extrastaff training.In-service days are vital to make sure your children are get-ting the very best learning and teaching possible. It’s im-portant that our staff keep up to date with any changes inthe curriculum as well as any new policies or practiceswhich have come into place. These days allow teachers totake time to reflect on their own work and to share best prac-tice with other members of staff.The additional in-service days were agreed nationally, at the

end of April, with the Scottish Negotiating Committee forTeachers (SNCT).For a full list of term times, holidays and in-service daysclick here: http://bit.ly/2GInTZ8

Seagull Proof SacksSeagull proof sacks are available through Envi-ronment and Building Services of Fife Council.There is no cost associated with them and can beordered by calling the environment helpline on03451 550022. At the end of the month whenFifedirect is replaced by the new Fife.gov websitethen there will hopefully be the facility to orderthese online.

East Neuk Book Group

We meet in the Cocoa Tree Pittenweem.

Come along and join us!All welcome!

We will be discussing the following books on the firstThursday of every month. Discussion starts at 6pm butpop in from 5.30pm and have a chat with us over coffee

or hot chocolate. £1 payable on the night.Thursday 3rd OctoberDanny Scheinmann

Random Acts of Heroic LoveIf you would like further information or would like to

join our mailing list, please contact Coralcoralnapier@yahoo.co.uk

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R.B.S. Mobile Branch TimetableTuesdays St. Andrews Road Car Park, Anstruther –2.15pm -3.00pm; Thursdays North Marketgate, Crail –10.20am 10.50am

Crail Mobile Post Office ServiceLocation - Along High Street opposite the BeehiveOpening times:Monday: 1400-1600Tuesday: 1400-1600Wednesday: 1400-1600

Contact your Fife Councillor?Cllr.Linda.Holt@fife.gov.uk 07725 223773.

cllr.bill.porteous@fife.gov.uk 01333 730837 or07753982311

cllr.john.docherty@fife.gov.uk 07718 66 89 96

Useful Emergency NumbersSamaritans 116 123Breathing Space 0800 838587Social Work Out Of Hours Emergencies03451 55 00 99Adult Protection Phone Line 01383 602200Child Protection or Social Work 03451 551503NHS24 111Police 101CARF (Citizen’s Advice & Rights) 0345 1400 095Homeless Emergency Number 0800 028 6231

Crail Hospital Car Service

Crail is full of good neighbours and it is they who providethe Hospital Car Service. It’s only when you can’t drivebecause you or the car is sick, or it is too daunting to thinkof standing in the cold, waiting for a return bus from thehealth centre or the dentist, or you need to get to Kirkcaldyhospital that you wish for a bit of help. Maybe you’re newto Crail and don’t know many people yet. That bit of helpis there and has been for 54 years in Crail. It’s the HospitalCar Service If you could do with that bit of help, ring.01333 450096.

Singing for the Memory and Music and Movement

for people with Dementia and their Carers atKilrenny Parish Church Hall

1.30pm-4.00pm WednesdaysSinging for Memory Music and Movement25 September 11 September30 October 13 November27 November 11 December

CRAIL MUSEUM AND HERITAGE

CENTREMUSEUM OPENING TIMES1st June - 27th October: Daily Guided Walks: Wednesdays and Sundays Monday - Saturdays: 11am - 4pmSundays: 1.30pm - 4pm Admission to the Museum is FREE but donations are alwaysgratefully received.Guided WalksIt is not a difficult walk but there is a steep hill down to andup from the harbour.Meet at the Museum 2.15pm for 2.30pm start, walks usuallylasts 1.5 - 2 hours. Adults £3.00 Children (10 - 17) £1.00

Community TransportTransport service for people with visual im-

pairments in the East Fife area.

Royal Voluntary Service volunteers provide CommunityTransport for trips where mobility issues can make it diffi-cult, if not impossible, for you to use public transport or ifyou live in rural areas with limited transport. Trips usuallyinclude getting to or from hospital or to a GP appointmentbut can also include trips to the shops or into town or to so-cial activities.Telephone: 0330 555 0310Email: fifegnhs@royalvoluntaryservice.org.ukOr have someone do it on your behalf:https://www.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk/ourservices/ser-vice-enquiry?serviceid=884

Crail Matters

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The Crail Seagull

Good holiday? Did you get away? Not the best of weather to be sure, but it’s alwaysnice to have a break. But where’s Pop-Up Bob? How can a policeman go missing?Surely Police Scotland didn’t leave him somewhere and forgot where? Maybe he’staken his holidays.

I feel very cross. Here I am, back from my holidays, only to find that they are goingto install seagull proof bins in Crail! What’s a gull to do when he can’t get a bit offood? Seagull proof sacks, and now bins! But never mind - I can rely on the peoplewho just dump rubbish on the street especially around the chippy.

Now you see me, now you don't! What about all this long grass, it's everywhere. Atthe football pitch at Beechwalk Park and at Roome Bay too. I'm having to bop up anddown to see what's going on, not easy keeping an eye on Fife Council etc these days- you don't think it's a deliberate attempt to sabotage my views, do you?

Well, I hope you've all been making good use of the lovely smooth road at BowlingGreen Place since it was resurfaced at the end of May. It's not looking very promisingnow...

Material for inclusion in Crail Matters should be sent to crailmatters@gmail.com and received on Friday middaybefore publication. Any views expressed in Letters to the Editor are those of the author, and not of Crail Matters. Wereserve the right to edit copy for length and style. Submission does not guarantee inclusion. © Crab Publishing 2019:Editorial Team this week: Helen Byres, Julie Middleton, Isla Reid, Valencia Sowry, Max Taylor, John Wilson

Crail Community Partnership and Crail Charrette

Crail Community Partnership invite all members of the Crail Community to join. An application form can be found here:https://crailmatterscom.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/membership-form-short.pdf

Community Council Notes

Our new website is https://crailcc.com/

Next Community Council Meeting 7.15pm 30th September in the Town Hall

Seagull Proof BinsThe Community Council have received funding from the Crail Common Good Fund, supplemented by a donation from CrailMatters, to purchase 4 Seagull Proof bins. These will be located in the vicinity of the Chip Shop. Water Seepage Bankhead Brae and Bow ButtsScottish Water have agreed to undertake another inspection at Bankhead Brae. However, responsibility for the leak was in ques-tion. Scottish Water planned for their Sub-Contractor to investigate further the Bow Butts leakage week commencing 3rd Septem-ber to try to fix the Trap. A previous attempt had been made to gain access to the sewer for further work but rubble/debris in thetrap was restricting flows. A tree might also have to be removed.Largo LeisureConcerns had been raised regarding notice given to regular visitors to Sauchope Caravan Park that touring pitches would nolonger be available from 2020.Along with the Community Council, Fife Council have concerns, and a consultation will be held.Clarification on the terms of the 100 year lease would be sought. A letter from Crail Community Council would be written toLargo Leisure expressing concerns.Roome Bay Play AreaThe Roome Bay Play area has still not been completed. An inspection is required to confirm that the equipment and build are ofan acceptable standard.Parking IssuesNumerous complaints had been received about inconsiderate/illegal parking on Shoregate and outside the Co-op. These issueshave been raised with Fife Council and Police Scotland, and the Community Council will seek to develop a Traffic Plan toaddress these problems. The Community Council will also seek clarity on provision of Electic Vehicle Charging Points.