A gentle reminder!

On Friday I had the opportunity to visit the new Viridor recycling centre in Bargeddie, the set up there is absolutley fantastic, as are the new jobs they have brought to the area.

One thing was clear from the visit, however. Far too many householders, me included sometimes, are leaving their bottle tops on the plastic bottles that go in the recycling bins, this is causing no end of bother, so please remember to take the tops off in future!

2009 Garden Awards

The Council is looking for entries in categories including:

Best Kept Garden Award

Biodiversity Garden Award

Modern Living Garden Award

and

Recycling Award

for more information and entry forms email c&levents@northlan.gov.uk or call 01698 402104

entries must be returned by 19th June with the award being announced on 1st October.

You can enter your own project or nominate a friend or neighbour to have their hard work acknowledged.

Expenses

If anyone is interested my expenses for 2008/09 can be found here:

http://www.northlan.gov.uk/your+council/council/councillors/salary+and+expenses.html

Summer Reading Challenge

This year’s North Lanarkshire reading challenge, Read Around the World, began on Monday 20th April and will run until mid-September. Children and young people are invited to collect “Bookmiles”, complete reading passports and collect rewards as they go. Everyone who completes a passport will be awarded a certificate and medal which will be presented during the Words festival in October.

There will also be monthly prize draws and various activities to encourage our travellers in their local branches.

For more information, or to complete a boarding pass to register, visit your local library.

New developments.

Remind me not to try and start a blog before Christmas again!

I spent part of today at Braidhurst High School, one of the three high schools that children in Motherwell west are zoned to attend. I always enjoy visiting our schools, the kids are often the toughest questioners I have to face, and they're highly resistant to flannel too!

Today I had been asked to help launch the new school web-site

http://www.braidhurst.n-lanark.sch.uk/

Most of it designed and coded by the students themselves. Coding is a skill I wish I had, I remember plootering about on my old ZX Spectrum over 25 years ago using BASIC, but I never took the opportunity to develop it further. It's great to see what a group of motivated, well-supported youngster can achieve though.

If you go to Braidhurst, or care about this "Great Wee School" add it to your favourites and keep an eye out for news and developments.