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Winning's just the ticket for football club's anniversary year
One of West Lothian's leading community football clubs is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
Murieston United has arranged a number of events to celebrate the milestone over the 2010/11 season.
The club is also holding a raffle to try and raise funds to provide a new set of strips across all its teams.
Raffle tickets cost £40 each and the winning business will become the club sponsor for both the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons. The winner's logo will feature on all of the home kits provided to the club's nine Soccer Seven and 14 11-a-side teams.
The winning ticket will be drawn on 12 June at the 25th anniversary celebration evening.
Further details about the raffle can be obtained from Simon Murphy on 07917 366035 or simurphy79@gmail.com
Pupils raise £150 from Fairtrade event
The proceeds will be shared between Fairtrade and Mid Calder's partner school, Lukalu Umea Primary, Uganda.
The event, to which parents and the local community were invited, took the form of a café, a presentation and a Fairtrade food stall.
The class researched Fairtrade and in particular Fairtrade Ugandan coffee. Pupils created presentations explaining how Fairtrade work and the returns it gives to the local growers and pickers. A group of pupils also spent a morning touring supermarkets finding out about the variety of Fairtrade produce.
On the morning of the event, the children put up bunting, posters and set up the tables to get ready for their visitors.
Fairtrade 2010 is all about the BIG SWAP and the children encouraged the adults to change at least one frequently bought item for a Fairtrade one.Extra day at the Green Gym
The Green Gym at the walled garden next to Howden House has started an extra day of activity on a Tuesday.
As well as a Thursday, the Green Gym will now meet on a Tuesday, from 10am to 1pm.
The Green Gym offers people an opportunity to improve their physical fitness by involvement in practical conservation activities such as woodland management, horticulture, tree planting, planting hedges, greenspace enhancement and improving footpaths.
Money for art project at burn
A West Lothian environmental group has been awarded £21,600 for a public art project.
The money, from the Grassroots Public Art Grant scheme, was granted to Dedridge Environmental Ecology Project (DEEP) in Partnership with West Lothian Council's Community Inclusion team.
The community works with a community artist to deliver a public art project that involves local people in the process and is located in an accessible public space.
The project will focus on the Dedridge Burn Plantation.
Learning at the Lanthorn
Adult Learners who attended courses at the Lanthorn community centre were presented with their certificates at a social evening.
"Everyone had a good evening," said Margaret Lothian, from the Adults and Communities Team.
There was a buffet and a bit of refreshment, future learning needs identified, and a bit of social networking."
The courses included Digital Photography and Artwork imaging, Basic IT, Intermediate IT and English as a Second Language.
More swanning around
Improvements include making the iris bed where the swans nest less accessible to children and foxes.
The bed will become an island again, after a build up of silt had joined it to the bank.
The swans are very popular with local residents and, as well as making it safer for the swans when they nest, it is hoped it will also increase the chances of having cygnets.
Footpath and car park to close for six months
A car park and footpath will be closed for a maximum of six months while work is carried out to demolish Cheviot House and Lammermuir House, Livingston.
The car park and footpaths extending east and west to Cheviot House and Lammermuir House will remain closed until Sunday 12 July.
Pedestrians will be diverted along a signposted route using adjacent footpaths. No alternative car parking will be provided.
Looking back at local history
A 10-week local history course on the Livingston area of Dedridge and Murieston has now started at the Lanthorn Community Centre, Dedridge.
It also takes in Bellsquarry and Mid Calder.
The course will run on Thursdays from 12.45pm to 2.45pm in room GP2 in the Lanthorn.
Improvement work to be carried out at pond
An improved bike track is included in work to be carried out to the pond at Staunton Rise, Dedridge.
BSkyB will provide volunteers to carry out the physical aspects of the improvements, which will also include enhancements to the paths, pond and planting.
Some of the materials required will be supplied by West Lothian Council.
