October/November 2013 ISSUE 78 FREE
GLENKENS GAZETTE
News from Balmaclellan, Carsphairn, Mossdale, New Galloway and St John’s Town of Dalry
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CARSPHAIRN SHOP RE-OPENS
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October/November 2013 ISSUE 78 FREE
GLENKENS GAZETTE
News from Balmaclellan, Carsphairn, Mossdale, New Galloway and St John’s Town of Dalry
A Glenkens Community & Arts Trust (GCAT) ini�a�ve www.
glenkensgaze�e.
co.
uk
CARSPHAIRN SHOP RE-OPENS
Dumfries & Galloway
Council has withdrawn
funding support
for the Glenkens
Community Centre in
Dalry from 2014.
The decision is the result of an
ongoing review of leisure services
in Dumfries and Galloway.
The
council needs to save £200,000
from its leisure services budget
and is doing this by closing
a number of town halls and
community centres across the
region.
The council’s aim is to
have ‘fewer but better’ services of
this kind.
Local groups, however,
feel that having a ‘better’ facility
somewhere else will, given the
limited public transport links
available, have no positive impact
on their way of life.
Glenkens Community
Centre is currently home
to Brownies, Guides, an
art group, a craft group,
a karate club, the Good
Neighbours club a
Less
