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P-pick a p-penguin THE Penguin is FIVE this year and it doesn’t seem like that long that he was but a chick and Helensburgh Winter Festival just an idea. This year the festival will be another two days of family fun and festivity with something for all ages and purses. The festival will, once again, be centred in Colquhoun Square with a Festive Market offering a wonderful range of gifts and goodies to make your Christmas special and an international menu of street food to tantalise your tastebuds. For the daring and energetic there will be a skating rink which will offer a flock of support penguins for the beginners and very small and there will also be special skating chairs designed for wheelchair
users who fancy a sleigh ride. Santa will be in his specially constructed grotto in the Parish Church Hall and Peninsula Trikes will be offering motorbike trike rides around the town. There will be a bouncy castle and a Victorian chair o’plane for the kiddies and some fascinating techy stuff for the grown ups (and the children) provided by the Navy bomb squad, Motorheads will be able to see some full-on horse-power in a display of top of the range classic cars on Sunday while four legged power will be in evidence with the Ayrshire Reindeer who will also be visiting on the Sunday. SO: the Penguin Crew would like to welcome you to join us at Helensburgh Winter Festival and make your Christmas Shopping outing 2017 one to remember for a long, long time.
James is back for another year We are pleased to announce that James Smart will be back on stage for this year’s Winter Festival, as host and provider of the professional entertainment programme.
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James, from Best Acts who provide quality entertainment and shows for events throughout Scotland and the UK.
This is Best Acts second year running the live stage at the Winter Festival, and they are looking forward to entertaining the masses and showcasing some of their fantastic acts once again.
Best known for his Freddie Mercury tribute, ‘Hypnosong’ hypnotist show and for TV appearances over the years including Viva Variety, BBC Newsnight and his recent success with ScotSoul on BBC1’s Saturday night entertainment show ‘Pitch Battle’, James’ wealth of experience means he
James is also looking 3 forward to performing the songs from his new EP, ‘Scotland Forever’ including a brand new 2017 version of Loch Lomond.
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Festival stage will be belting out the tunes WINTER Festival 2017 offers a full programme of fantastic entertainment including a number of top class tribute acts.
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In another part of the square on Saturday the musicians of the HMS Neptune Volunteer Band (see pg 11) will be playing two hour long stints of amazing entertainment.
The fun starts on the stage at 10am on the Saturday with music to get the atmosphere going and at 11am members of the Lomond and Clyde Community orchestra will perform a programme of Festive Favourites.
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The Sunday programme includes James Smart (see pg 2) of ScotSoul performing songs from his album Scotland Forever at 2pm, and Richie Hagan bringing his Forever Young Rod, Rod Stewart tribute show to the stage at 2.45pm Other slots will be confirmed.
Singer Sophie Davies will take the stage at noon with a selection of everyone’s favourite Disney songs and she will be followed by the children of the Performance Theatre School. Another local musician Lewis Scobie will have a slot starting at 2pm and at 3pm James McCracken will be bringing Michael Bublé to Helensburgh with his fantastic tribute act.
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Throughout the weekend there will be music, games and competitions running between the acts.
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Santa’s Grotto visit a must Nothing says Christmas like a visit to Santa in his Grotto. Give your little ones an experience to remember by meeting Father Christmas himself. Santa’s Grotto will be in Helensburgh Parish Church, Colquhoun Square, during the Winter Festival weekend.
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The Grotto will be organized by Helensburgh Garelochside Rotary, on behalf of Santa, and all the money raised will be used by the Rotary Club to fund their local work, which this year will include: • To support internet safety training in all our local primary schools. • To help fund local Heartstart training to bring immediate help to people suffering heart attacks and Cardiac Failure in Helensburgh and surrounding areas. • To help fund activities for local young people. • A ‘Know your Blood Pressure Day’ in Helensburgh to reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack in our local population. • ‌and many other local projects.
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We’ve lost our penguins A number of paper penguins brought to Helensburgh to help Santa at the Winter Festival have escaped! We have been told that they are hiding out in a number of shops around the town and we need some help to round them up. Look out for the special Winter Festival flyer with the Penguin Competition on the back and then use it to record the names of any penguins you find in town centre shops or businesses. If you can find 10 of them take your completed form to The Pet Shop on Sinclair Street or Grasshopper Toys on West Princes Street and receive a small reward for your efforts.
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Santa Dash run always a favourite ONE of the highlights of the Winter Festival is the Santa Dash run on the Sunday and attracting up to 300 enthusiastic Santas! This is an event for all ages and there are even four legged Santas spotted in the melée! The event is organised by Helensburgh Round Table as one of their main charity fund raisers of the year and this year the beneficiary is the Helensburgh and Lomond Food Bank. A spokesman for the organising team said: “Helensburgh & District Round Table want to make this year’s Santa Dash more affordable, for everyone and particularly for families. Therefore, we have reduced the cost to register to take part.
“Adult registration for 2017’s Santa Dash is only £6 and children under 16 can take part for £4. Instead of a full Santa Suit participants will receive a Santa Hat and a wristband that will entitle them to a goodie bag at the finish line. “The Santa Dash route is the same as last year; the full Dash is approximately 4km however there is Santa’s Secret Short Cut for younger Dashers and those who want to reduce the distance by half!” Registration for the event is online at www.santadash2017.eventzilla.net Hat & Wristband Collection Times at Helensburgh Swimming Pool are: Friday, December 1 from 6.30pm to 8pm, Saturday, December 2 from 11am to 1pm and Sunday, December 3 from 9.30am to 11am. FREE QUOTES
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Come visit our friendly reindeer POPULAR annual visitors to the Winter Festival are the friendly reindeer from Ayrshire Reindeer. This year their schedule with Santa is so busy that they can only come to Helensburgh on the Sunday but they will be delighted to meet all the visitors and have their photos taken then!
Volunteer Band to wow the crowds The HMS Neptune Volunteer Band, with their talented singer Phil Gambon, will perform two ‘sets’ starting at the Winter Festival on the Saturday. The band, which proved a huge hit at the Summer Festival, is based on Her Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde at Faslane and originally formed as Clyde Submarine Base Brass Band but has since evolved into a military band. Interestingly, this is the only Royal Navy Volunteer Band in Scotland and members range from 15 years-old up into their 80s. They are currently under the direction of Bd Sgt Annabelinda Hardy who is supported by Volunteer Band Officer, Lt Cdr Julian Rogers RN and Drum Major James Dalgleish.
Ice rink returns The main attraction for many visitors to Helensburgh Winter festival is the skating rink and it will be making a return this year. The rink is suitable for all with special support penguins for those who needs something to hold on to! There is also a special chair for youngsters with disabilities who want the thrill of whooshing around on the rink!
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A dose of delight for “petrol heads” of all ages The now annual visit of the 75 and ZT Owners Club provides an opportunity to see close up some of the finest classic Rovers still on the road and this year a fine line-up of vehicles will grace the square on Sunday, December 3. Fourteen cars are confirmed with members travelling up from as far as Essex to attend. Tim Burgess of Scratch-2-Shine, who organises the annual visit said: “The 75 and ZT Owners Club is now international and has over 35,000 members, this year we have invited friends from the MG Car Club Caledonian Centre to join us at the Winter Festival.
“I will again be bringing along my very early Japanese specification Rover 75 V6, believed to be one of only seven in the special order colours of Dorchester Red, with Aubergine leather interior. “Our award for furthest travelled will be going to Bob from Essex who is attending again (after getting very wet in 2015) in his Sunspot Yellow MG ZT Turbo.” He added: “MG ZT V8 models should be attending, only 700 of these cars were built using 4.6 litre Ford Mustang V8 engines. “I also hope to have an 80th Anniversary MG TF and one of the latest MG GS SUVs attending too.” CA
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WE ARNAE FEART AE NAE GHOST! The Ghostbusters are coming to the Winter Festival and they are bringing lots of slime and other fun things to keep their young fans amused. The Ghostbusters of North Lanarkshire are a non profit charitable organisation who will be running a wee stall with slime testing, Ghostbusters colouring pages for kids and also posing for pictures with their fabulous ghostbusting kit.
Trikes delight! THE lovely people at Peninsula Trikes will be at the Winter Festival offering trike rides around the town. Here is your chance to see a bit of Helensburgh while you relax on the back of these luxury motorcycle trikes normally used for taking visitors on road trips around Scotland. Give yourself an early Christmas present and try the trike experience for yourself!
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Penguin Crew says thanks to... THE Penguin Crew would like to thank everyone who has helped us make the 2017 Helensburgh Winter Festival a reality. They have helped in many ways from making donations and providing prizes, organising elements of the festival, helping out on the day fetching and carrying, gathering litter and
just being there to assist and we are very grateful for their efforts. Without those willing volunteers and supporters Helensburgh Winter Festival would not happen. We would also like to thank all of the advertisers in our official programme for their support.
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