Community Owned. Working Together: Cha sheas coimhearsnachd air a lèth-chois.
Upgrade and improvement works to the moor access track have now begun. The work is being carried out by AMK.
This will hopefully allow greater use of the land for crofting, development and other social and recreational activities.
We also hope to develop turning and parking areas to encourage this use, and to make vehicular access easier.
Following on from our successful Estate launch day (when the sun was shining), and our remembrance of the original families who settled here back in the 1930’s, it has been suggested that it might be an idea to formally record the names of these initial crofters and their wives in relation to currently unnamed landscape features.
While it is likely that every spot on the Glebe was named and known at one time, most of these placenames have now been forgotten, but there are a number of hills, valleys, lochans, pools and other locations that could be ‘re-dedicated’ where the original name is lost…perhaps in a similar style to the ‘Gleann Tharmoid’ (named after Norman Munro who lived there and worked on the estate back in the 19th Century)
Obviously local knowledge of names and places is vital here, and perhaps there are already certain places associated with the people in question. Your thoughts, comments and ideas here would be welcome, as always.
Following our positive meeting with crofters and residents held on the 6th of July, Marine Harvest have now obtained planning permission for the project, and are currently finalising the specification and ordering of the required pipes and equipment.
We are also looking to finalise the financial settlement for the water and pipeline for the benefit of the estate and crofters.
The installation works should begin shortly, and Marine Harvest are keen that it ties in with the restocking of the Erisort cages due to take place this month.
Continue reading “Marine Harvest – Water Extraction Update”
As part of creating a masterplan for the estates development, we have arranged to meet Peter Middleton from Comhairle nan Eilean Siar to discuss funding opportunities available through the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF).
He will be in the village on Tuesday, 26th July at 7pm – firstly for a walk around the harbour area, and then Peter will join us in te Estate Office for further discussion.
Please come along if you would like to meet Peter, or if you have ideas for developing the harbour area.
A Community meeting will be held in the Keose Meeting House on Wednesday, 6th July at 7pm.
An update on the buyout will be provided, there will be discussion regarding the development plans of the estate, and also some news about new projects that will need community and crofter consideration.
The Muaitheabhal Trust are organising a Safe Use of Pesticide course (PA1) and associated supporting courses in using Hand Held Applicator (PA2) and Ground Crop Sprayer (PA6) and a Sheep Shearing course.
We are keen to assist anyone who wants to take part in these courses in any way we can, and to hopefully get some Keose Glebe people onto the courses ourselves.
The Muaitheabhal information is as follows:
Continue reading “‘Safe Use of Pesticide’ and Sheep Sheering Training”
The new community newsletter is being circulated to all members and associate members.
We hope you enjoy.
Please feed back any thoughts or comments to any of the Directors.
As you may have noticed, we a new piece of roadside furniture as you drive into Keose (opposite the Kennedy residence at 11a).
This is the new Openreach Street Cabinet which will bring improved internet connectivity to the area.
A Fibre Optic cable to this cabinet will be laid in the next few months, and then the existing copper telephone wiring will bring the internet down the last leg to our homes and businesses.
As with the current ADSL services we currently receive, and which provides an internet speed of between 1-3mb/s on average, the further you are away from this cabinet, the slower your internet will be.
However, it is expected that the average speed will increase to between 15-20mb/s even at the furthest property on the Glebe – which is a significant and welcome improvement.
In the future too, there are technologies coming along which will extend the range and even upgrade the current planned maximum.
There may also be opportunities, on the back of this new development, for some community wide schemes to aid tourism and mobile working.
Orders for these new services are not currently being taken, but we will keep you informed as we hear more.
On Saturday 4th Jun, 5 members of the Keose/Keose Glebe Community attended CPR and Defibrillator training in Balallan.
This was a required condition of the villages here obtaining an AED (Automated External Defibrillator) device.
The importance of early response and intervention in heart attack incidents was starkly highlighted by the quoted survival rates—7% without timely aid,…rising to 74% if CPR, Defibrillation, Paramedics and appropriate post incident care are applied quickly and correctly.
This is all the more important for us here in rural communities, when even the fastest ambulance might be just too many vital minutes away.
Continue reading “Lucky2BHere/Every Minute Counts”
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