Monday 6th October sees the start of the 2008 - 09 table bowls season. The Furnace Club wll have two club practice nights in the Hall, at 8.00pm on Monday 6th and Monday 13th October. The first match will be away to Cairndow on the following Monday 20th October. This year\s Club Captain is Alastair [...]
Lots of may have bottled out of the Farida Dance weekend at the Argyll Hotel in Inveraray, promoted by Kerry McKay Hubbard. We could regret that. It was a great success, attracting dancers from Islay, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Haddington. Kay Taylor taught this choreography to a high tempo version of Enta Omri at the Saturday [...]
The shore road through Furnace Quarry between Furnace and the Caravan Park has been closed at two points by padlocked gates. Residents living between the two points and essential services can access the area - which remains open to walkers and cyclists.
The restriction removes the nuisance of weekend visitors diving and camping and leaving huge [...]
Winners of last night’s quiz in The Furnace Inn were: The Whitebridge Quartet. Eddie McCallum claims responsbility for the win since he only decided to come with the others at the last minute.
Questions we all learned from asked for the names of the designer/architects of the Wallace Memorial in Stirling (Answer: J T Rockhead); and [...]
The 200 Club masterminded and organised - driven - by Eva Paterson to raise funds for the Hall, had its first draw tonight.
First Prize of £50: Alma Smyllie
Second Prize of £25: Louis Forsyth
Third Prize of £10: Lynda Henderson
Eva handed over £600 for Hall Funds and was hugely congratulated for her hard-earned success in getting 200 [...]
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Table Tennis Club kicks off this season on Wednesday 1st October at 8.00pm. Unfortunately, because of Child Protection laws, the club now has to be restricted to adults - but arrangements have been made with the Youth Project to have Table Tennis as one of the available indoor activities from time to time.
New members are [...]
John Gillies, Secretary of Furnace Table Bowls Team, is taking a team of four athletes from Mid Argyll to next year’s Great Britain Special Olympics. He and Karen Heafey, a colleague from Lochgilphead Resource Centre, have been coaching Flora Currie, Campbell Ferguson, Iain MacDougall and Sandy MacKellar in Boccia and will go with them to [...]
You don’t have t remember it now. Here are some great shots taken by Lynda Syed on the day.
Sarah shelters Abbie (left). Iain can take whatever comes at him (centre). Mike ‘ducks’ under Callum’s umbrella. Photos: Copyright: Lynda Syed
Syb and Edith (left) think ‘This is a laugh’. Pearl and Linda (right) reserve judgement. Photo: [...]
The Furnace Press (FP) team has what may have been its first full editorial meeting - in the pub on Monday night (24th September). Loads of ideas and lots of practical plans for how the FP can be run more easily. Decisions taken were:
Publish the FP in the first week of each month
Identify individual people [...]
