18 Global Recycling Day In 2018 the UN Industrial Development Organisation and the Bureau for International Recycling got the UN to recognise 18 March as an official UN Global Recycling Day. We’ve seen the David Attenborough television pictures, we’ve walked along the shore, we’ve seen what goes into some people’s black bins, and what just […]
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17 St Patrick’s Day Celebration of St Patrick’s Day is usually associated with Ireland and the Irish diaspora. However for many centuries West Dunbartonshire has claimed him (along with some other places) as their own. In recent years the Christian Heritage of Dumbarton project has organised a fun afternoon for P5 children from both streams
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Welcome
Ordinarily around this date the Christian Heritage of Dumbarton project (part of Dumbarton Churches Together) would have arranged for P5 children from all Primary Schools in Dumbarton, plus representatives of Kilpatrick School, to come together to play a Yes/No answer game relating to characters (vaguely to very vaguely) linked to St Patrick. It is partly to help them to learn a bit about his links with this area, but mainly to bring together children in the two streams of education as part of an anti-sectarian initiative.
It usually happens on or near 17 March, traditionally marked as the Feast of St Patrick. He is patron saint of Ireland, but today we are going to focus on his links (or reputed links) with Dumbarton and Dunbartonshire, and think about this town and area.
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The Sunday Schools invite members of the congregations who will not be attending the church service, to join them on Zoom on Sunday 28th March (Palm Sunday) from 10-11am. They are planning an Easter celebration and would like everyone to bring a hardboiled egg to be decorated on Zoom. There will be prizes for the
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16 Young Carers Action Day A Young Carer is someone under 18 who cares for another person – picks up mum’s prescription, dresses dad, takes their little sister to school. That is in addition to studying for exams, looking after themselves, and not losing sight of their dreams – and they have had to live
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15 52 weeks ago today the Prime Minister announced restrictions urging over-70s to shield. Little did we realise at that stage what lay ahead. It’s probably as well that we didn’t. If we had known that we’ve have nearly 12 months of severe restrictions on our movement (and the balance made up of not-quite-so-severe
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You may recall that in August last year there was a massive explosion in the port of Beirut. 80,000 children lost their homes. 700,000 homes were damaged. All this while Covid-19 was rampant. Unemployment and inflation soared. Over 75% of the country’s grain reserves were lost. Embrace the Middle East (www.embraceme.org), has been supporting
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Mother’s Day.
Welcome:
Send out your light and your truth to be my guide;
Let them lead me to your holy hill, to your dwelling place,
Psalm 43: 3
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13 This weekend marks the 80th anniversary of the Clydebank Blitz, which also affected neighbouring towns like Dumbarton. As the years go by, there are fewer and fewer people who were present when the devastation was wrought upon the town. In due course it was rebuilt – but was the rebuilt town the same as
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12 Yesterday we reflected on what a ‘new normal’ might be like. In recent days we have heard many women express their concerns about safety when out on their own, and the need to address ‘chauvinist’ attitudes to women’s appearance, clothing and what is regarded as appropriate language and behaviour. This comes on top of
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