KDBM wins Gold.

What a couple of days it’s been. Yesterday was a full turn out for garden duties and we cracked on tidying up Rotary, Castle St, Clouds, Veg boxes, traffic lights boxes and a bit of Potentilla Patch, whew. Two trips to the recycling to top up the compost bin, which heads off to Caledonian Horticulture to be properly composted. Coincidentally, yesterday I took delivery of three large dumpy bags of gorgeous compost from CH which we will use around town. Community groups get this at a hugely discounted cost, which is such a help and completes the cycle.

Then today, another major event …..drum roll …….six of us from the group made the journey up to Stirling to attend the Keep Scotland Beautiful award event. Remember way back early August when we were working even harder? Well, we are so pleased to report Duns was awarded a GOLD!!!! We are so proud of our little town and the feedback we got from the judges was amazing. To top that, if it’s possible!, we received the Discretionary Award for Sustainability and the most beautiful wooden bowl. What a wonderful day.

Hope to have our awards on show at the Volunteer Hall in due course.

For Remembrance Day

11th November approaching and our thoughts go out to all service men and women and their families affected by conflicts all over the world. Armistice Sunday is 8th November this year and we have put together a variety of displays throughout town to commemorate all who never came home including one for all the horses and other animals sacrificed through war.

Tonight, our own Duns Players start a four night run of their Theatre performance ‘WAUR’ which is made up of a number of short stories telling tales of many conflicts throughout history. I hope you can still get tickets at Nairn’s and come along to the Volunteer Hall and support these amazing performers.