Author Archives: Admin

ELC Star Awards 2017

East Lothian Council’s Star Awards 2017 will take place in December this year. The awards identify and reward excellence, inspiring practitioners and benefiting the public. Every year the number of nominations for each category from council staff and members of the public has grown. There are two constants – the pride and sense of achievement felt by the winners and shortlisted entrants and the rigour with which the entries are judged. Our awards reward effectiveness and excellence across all areas of our business and celebrate high quality service, creativity and innovation.
 
If any of East Lothian Council’s employees are stars in your eyes, why not nominate them.  It’s your way, and ours, of saying thank you for a job well done.
 
 
Closing date is Friday 20 October
 

Garvald website hosting

Just to let you know that we will be switching to a new website hosting company in the near future. Please bear with us if there are any teething problems but hopefully it will all go smoothly and you won’t even notice.

Village Hall AGM

The Garvald Village Hall Trust AGM is on Wednesday 11 October 2017 at 7pm in Village Hall.

Come and join us for some cheese and wine and see a slide show of Village Events over the past year along with some historical images of the village.

We look forward to seeing you all.

GVHT

Lammermuir Festival Concert Sunday 17th September

The Lammermuir Festival concert (at the village hall this Sunday 17th from 3-5pm) is sold out. This is great news and we are looking forward to hosting this fantastic music festival.

Please be aware that there will be a lot of additional cars in the village looking for parking spaces during this period on Sunday afternoon. Thank you in advance for your patience and support.

Children’s Halloween and Christmas parties

Do you have young children in the village? In true Garvald style, Jo (and helpers) are looking to hand over the job of arranging the Halloween children’s party and guising and the Christmas children’s party. There really isn’t much to it (especially if a few pitch in).

Please get in touch via the contact form (or call Jo 830685) if interested. Thanks!

 

Raffle Tickets

Raffle prizes to collect from the Village Show…

Ooops! – we’ve just found left over prizes from the village show raffle. If you still have tickets (and you haven’t washed last Saturday’s trousers!) please check – you could be the lucky winner of fig chutney, bag of smarties or a bottle of Seven Giraffes beer.

Here are the prize winning numbers…
Pink 32
Pink 189
Blue 417

If not collected they will be recycled into next village raffle. Contact Jo on 830685 or via the contact form.

Garvald Village Show 2017 – The Sun Shone!

What a great afternoon – thanks to all our volunteer helpers and to everyone who came along and enjoyed the show and brought along their competition entries – 283 in total this year! Full results are available on the GHS page.

Here is a photo of the very well behaved and under control four-footed members of our community (and handlers).

Congratulations to all our trophy winners:

  • GHS Industrial Trophy for most points in Industrial sections – Hazel
  • GHS Cookery Challenge Cup for most outstanding exhibit – Hazel
  • GHS Ladies Challenge Trophy for most outstanding exhibit in Handicraft section – KH
  • Audrey Mae Traynor Cup for the best hand-knitted exhibit – Helen T
  • Sancta Maria Abbey Cup for best photograph – Lee
  • GHS Challenge Cup for the most outstanding veg/fruit exhibit – Dougie
  • J.K.Webster Rose Shield for the best rose exhibit – John S
  • James Hardie Cup for the best Gladioli exhibit – John S
  • Smithy Shield for the best sweet pea exhibit – John S
  • J.K.Webster Shield for best beetroot – Dougie
  • Cardinal Gordon Gray salver for best entry for Basket of Vegetables – Dougie
  • Village Show Cup (Pre School Children) for most points – Archie
  • Village Show Trophy (Pre School Children) for most outstanding exhibit – Archie
  • Garvald & Morham Community Council Cup (Ages 5 to 8) – Evie
  • The Bette Pratt Memorial Quaich (Ages 5 to 8) for the most outstanding exhibit – Katie F
  • Tanderlane Cup (Ages 9 to 12) for the most points – Libby
  • Alice Lawrie Trophy (Ages 9 to 12) for the most outstanding exhibit – Euan
  • Floral Art Trophy For the most points – Fiona S
  • Cameron Cup for Best Floral Art exhibit – Fiona S
  • GHS Salver for most points in show – Hazel
  • NOVELTY “Perfectly imperfect” vegetable – John S

Village Show helpers

LAST CALL FOR HELPERS

Just a reminder that we need some help on Thursday 24th at 7pm to set up the tables and again at the end of the show (many hands make light work). Thank you!

Friday staging is 7-9pm and Saturday 8-10am (not 7.30am as before). Entries must be in by 10am sharp! The schedule is on the GHS page.