SEPTEMBER OCTOBER The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning is Macmillan Cancer Support’s biggest fundraising event. There are currently 2 million people living with cancer in the UK. Sarah Beth Briggs Piano Sat 12th Oct 7:45pm The Institute, New Lanark Carluke Jam Festival 5th October Carluke Lifestyles Centre
Kirtsy Evans Beauty Success
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PARKING in LANARK With thanks to our Delivery partners www.directleaflets.com
Puzzles, Clubs & Movie
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F.Y.I - for your information
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usefull telephone numbers can be found in their new position, inside the back cover
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hair & beauty To Celebrate our 5th birthday raffine is offering clients
all hair & beauty treatments from 24th September to the end of October. Why not drop into the salon and celebrate with us
Pictured above: Chris Casey - Artistic Designer & Salon Director, Sinead McQuade- Senior Beauty Therapist, -Sandra Casey - Front of House Manager
about us... about him...
Artisitic Designer & Salon Director Chris Casey Chris started his training over ten years ago, at the tender age of fifteen. Now after many years perfecting his craft, Chris has his own L’Oreal professional salon based in Carluke. Chris has gained many awards and certificates in his career including being nominated as the regional finalist for the L’Oreal professional colour trophy in 2010, 2011 & 2012. He was also the regional finalist for the “Mens Image Award” in 2011 & 2012. He is also a qualified bridal hair specialist. Chris would like to thank all the loyal customers over the years, and a special thanks to all the staff for all their hard work.
Local Carluke Boy Chris Casey opened the doors to his own salon in Carluke town centre on the 24th September 2008. Chris can’t believe it’s already their 5th birthday. The salon is very much a family affair, with Chris’ mum Sandra taking the role of front of house manager ensuring everything runs smoothly and you are guaranteed a family friendly welcome. The team ensures you are looked after as soon as you step into the salon. Chris says “it’s very important to us to give all our clients an enjoyable experience making sure we tend to all of their needs.” Chis is very passionate about his role as Artistic Designer and keeps himself up-to-date with all the latest techniques and trends in the hairdressing world. His hard earned awards and the salon’s repeated success in national competitions shows that Raffine is the cream of the crop in Lanarkshire for hairdressing and customer service. Raffine is a great place to go to prepare for that special occassion. Chris specialises in hair up including bridal. raffine also offers a full range of beauty treatments, under the watchful eyes of Sinead Mcquade. Sinead specailises in massage and other services including aromatherapy, reflexology, indian head massage, facials, waxing, spray tans, eyelash extensions and full make-up including bridal. Find Raffine at
2 Kirton St, Carluke T: 01555 777 082
www.raffinehairandbeauty.co.uk
CARLUKE JAM FESTIVAL OFFERS UP A SWEET WEEKEND Primary School will perform a school showcase about the history of jam making. The primary school’s performances will take place in the Lifestyle Centre with a performance especially for senior citizens, where all the weekend’s events will be taking place.
By Connor McCann
The Carluke Jam Festival, taking place on the
4th and 5th of October is combining age old tradition with local talent to celebrate the town’s rich Jam making heritage and music.
The idea to celebrate Carluke’s long standing heritage in the Jam making industry was conceived by Thomas Cross who wanted the community to recognise the town’s proud tradition of manufacturing the sweet treat and combine it with the sounds and enjoyment of live local music. Friday will see nursery live music taking place in every single pub on Carluke’s high street from 9pm ‘til late. During the day, Carluke
Every pub; the Crown Inn, The Gallery, the Kirkton Inn, The Wee Thackit, the Railway Inn will be hosting live musicians on Friday night. Acts like Soul Circus and The Gnomes will be playing soulful rhythms at the Crown Inn and The Railway will host Jane Cleland and Bottle of Steven to play a selection of original ambient, acoustic numbers. There is a pub for every musical mood! Young bands from Carluke High School will be playing from 6pm at Street Level. Saturday morning kicks off at 9am in the Lifestyle Centre with a jam making competition judged by a senior employee from R & W Scott, the biggest local jam manufacturer. Expert jam makers from the listed Real Good Food Group company will
then be offering jam making master classes to the willing in order to perfect their recipes. Organisers will also be showing a DVD on the history of Carluke jam making in the Lifestyle Centre. There will also be cake stalls, children’s entertainment and musicians keeping the energy levels high by busking on the high street and performing in the Centre until the evening’s events. The festival will come to a magnificent end as Clyde 1 radio DJ David Gellatly hosts Jam Festival Live; a night of music with a selection of great bands playing familiar covers to fantastic folk. Headlining the night will be Idlewilds’ Roddie Woomble, playing at 10:15pm, will be supported by Ukele ensemble, The Dukes of Yuke, energetic TeenCanteen and cover band Carbon Copy. It all promises to be a weekend that the whole community can participate in and enjoy. Tickets for the Carluke Jam Festival Live are available from all South Lanarkshire Leisure Community Halls (including Carluke Lifestyle Centre). Adult tickets are available from participating pubs and are also available online at www.sllcboxoffice.co.uk.
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hen we see the word addiction we automatically think Drugs or alcohol in this article I am going look at an addiction that is fast sweeping our nation. Technology - things which come under the banner of technological advancements. As the connection to broadband and optical connections to the World Wide Web become faster and faster, so do our response needs and addiction to them escalates.
By Ross Hyslop
a nice meal or say enough is enough after a few glasses of wine. Addiction means you never feel satisfied, and want to just keep going.
Smart phones, I pads, game consoles, and even cars have adopted this technology like a member of the family. We have invited them into to our homes like a long lost relative, and it comes with the guise that it is a necessity that we fear we cannot live without. The things we think we own actually now own us. I got my first computer/ games machine back in the early 80s and it is frightening the developments and advancements that have been made in such a short space of time. The graphics and speed these games now possess, has created a cyber-world almost so life like it is like watching T.V, as you control games of war and violence, being chased by zombies or racing the latest supercar down the street. It’s on tap; the neurotransmitters start firing up as we eagerly await the machine loading up our evening’s
entertainment. Some time ago I started noticing that when walking from the cinema, on a dark night all the people making there way to the cars I used to notice the amount of flames from within the car lighting up cigarettes. In the last decade I have noticed a shift going from an orange light emanating from the vehicles in the car park to a blue/white light as everyone enters their vehicle and start the tweeting, face book-ing, texting about the movie they have just watched or simply to reconnect to the messages flashing in their inbox. I’m sure each one of you reading this article has been out at a social event, even out for a meal, and noticed those doing an activity to bring each one present closer together are sat on their smart phone. One of my hobbies is going to watch bands and hear live music. My experience of such is now bombarded with those beside, in front or behind me on the phone(talking), recording or taking pictures. We are in sensory overload. Some of these gigs can be upwards to £50 or so, and I personally go to enjoy the experience of the event and those I have chosen to share it with. That does not mean for me at least that I spend half the night on the phone. It is our brain which makes us susceptible to addiction, and the reward pathways in the brain. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays a major role in reward-motivated behaviour. The more we release the more we need the more we want. A relationship between certain neurotransmitters make us feel satiated, allows us to feel full up after
As human beings, we evolved to care about our reputation. In today’s world, one way we’re able to manage our reputation is by using social media websites like Facebook. Facebook, with over 1 billion monthly active users, consists of users “liking” posted information. This approval is positive social feedback, and can be related to their reputation. Those who receive positive feedback about themselves produce stronger activation of certain regions within the brain. And the cooler or more predominate figure of the person liking it, increases these feelings
Tell-tale Signs of Facebook Addiction Facebook has become so much a part of our life now that it’s so prevalent across the world. Given the accessibility and ease of use of Facebook whenever and wherever you are, it’s no wonder
more and more people are addicted to the popular social networking site. When Facebook activities start interfering with your everyday life and become detrimental to your daily functioning at work or in school, you might have a problem.
1. Over-Sharing
Sharing our deepest most personal things, increasing the stakes about what you like just to get a few extra people liking your post.
2. Checking Your Facebook Whenever Possible
Checking your Facebook whenever possible, switching between work and Facebook, causes us to be distracted and unable to focus on the jobs at hand.
3. Overly Concerned With Facebook Image
Have you ever spent more than ten minutes of your time contemplating what you ought to type for your status update? After you’ve posted it, do you eagerly anticipate how others will respond to it? This is what it means when I mention your ‘Facebook image’. To some extent, we are all concerned over how we project ourselves to the rest of the world, be it the clothes we wear the car we drive even when it comes to our online presence.
4. Reporting On Facebook
There are those who never fail to appear on our newsfeed each time we log on to Facebook. It could be some status update, check-in, posting of their photos. Their posts tend to be on very mundane
matters. It appears to be an attempt to remind others that they exist. If you are one of these people, I think it’s good to ask yourself the reason behind such ‘reporting’. To me, it seems to be a sign of obsession, a need to post something, no matter how ordinary or unimaginative, in order to relieve your anxiety of not doing so.
5. Spending Hours Browsing Through Facebook Every Day
Spending up to an hour or so daily looking through your newsfeeds and checking out profiles of your friends is okay, but if it starts going beyond that, it’s an indicator of a problem, it’s time to re-examine your lifestyle. I challenge you to start to time how long you spend cruising in and out of cyber world each day!
6. Rush to Add More Friends
There is a perceived ‘arms race’ between you and your other friends to see who has the highest number of friends on their network. The keyword here is ‘perceived’, because you may think there’s a competition but in fact there might be none The contention on who has more friends may just be your personal quest to be seen as more ‘popular’. Interestingly, a research done by psychologists from Edinburgh Napier University found that Facebook users with more friends on their network tend to be more stressed up when using Facebook. The more friends you have, the more you feel pressured to maintain appropriate etiquette for different types of friends while remaining entertaining. In other words, the competition in adding friends may result in a vicious cycle of increasing Facebook-related tensions, resulting in worse addiction outcomes.
7. Compromising Offline Social Life
As you get used to communicating on Facebook via messaging, sharing photos and posts, commenting and ‘liking’ others etc., it may come to a point when you get more comfortable socializing online than offline. You become over-reliant on Facebook to fulfil your social needs and may start sacrificing the time spent on real-life meet-ups for coffee with your friends.
Overcoming Facebook Addiction
I realize I am by no means immune to it. Over-sharing? Check. Refreshing my Facebook newsfeed whenever I have the chance? Check. The only consolation I have for myself is that I don’t do that on a regular basis; I simply fall in to the trap every once in a while. That’s not considered an addiction… I hope (?). Like any addiction, the first step is acceptance, and accepting the fact that you are being pulled into a set of behaviours which serve no benefit. If you or someone you know, becomes moody, intolerable, or in denial to the amount of time spent with technology, maybe it’s time you sought help or gave guidance to those actively involved with the cyber world. Contact Ross at www.synaptein.com
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COUNCIL AND BUSINESS GROUP DRIVING FOR LANARK PARKING SOLUTIONS
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By Connor McCann
he available car parking spaces has been stated as the bug bear of Lanark Town centre for a number of years. For six months members of the Lanark Business Group, composed of business owners in and around the town centre, have expressed their views on the parking issue which is claimed to have a negative effect on local business. Alastair Brooks, owner of Brooks Menswear said, “Poor parking is the feedback I regularly hear from customers.” Being a member of the Lanark Business Group who brought the issue forward to the local council, he added, “Lanark Business Group had a meeting with the council regarding parking and we discussed the plan to introduce a time restriction on the Bells Wynd car park behind the old Woolworths. The thinking behind this was by not allowing people to park there all day it will free up spaces for the town which is what we all need.” Ed Archer, Councillor for Lanark, says South Lanarkshire Council “are on the case and are doing something.” Mr Archer along with other Lanark Councillors, Catherine McClymont and Vivienne Shaw are “working closely with the Business Group” to think of viable solutions. Mr Archer stated that he doesn’t think there is necessarily a problem with car parking spaces but visitors to the town do not know where the parking spaces are. He said, “The Council have been on about the car parking issue and are open to some new signage towards the end of the year. I think this would be an important move so that people actually know where the car parks are, which is half the battle.” The councillors along with the business group have also seriously discussed time restricted parking at the Bell Wynd
car park as it is said that employees are taking full advantage of the free parking, leaving their cars there all day and consequently using up available car parking spaces for potential customers to the high street’s stores. Jim McCreadie, member of Lanark Business Group said, “The parking situation is a real thorn in the side for the town centre’s businesses. I think time limiting parking is a very viable option.” Mr Archer also added that the car park time restriction on Hope Street should be increased to two hours so that visitors and members of the community could spend more time enjoying the restaruants and cafes in the town. Alastair Brooks also raised the point of constructing more car parking areas around the town centre. He said, “We need additional car parking for the town and we identified a number of areas that would be ideal for turning into car parking.” It is a subject that will take its time to progress. Lanark Business Group and the local councillors are working closely together in order to come up with agreeable solutions to the car parking issue with the aim to help boost local business in the process.
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CURRENT VACANCY CCI are currently looking for a new team member to join them 2 days a week (for 12 hours) to support the Sales and Landscaping Teams as a Sales Admin Officer. Offering a competitive salary and package to the right candidate, the role is initially required to cover a 9 month fixed term period. Please visit CCI’s website www.cciweb.org.uk or like our Facebook page for full details of the role, salary info and deadline for applications.
By Nikki Lambie
Many Thanks from Clydesdale Community Initiatives It’s been another successful year for CCI, for
which we want to thank the local community for all their support. Right back in first issue of Vision magazine we decided to take a full page advert to explain who we were, what we did, and why we did it. The response we received was fantastic and our work in the Lanark and Carluke area increased dramatically. Team that with the great exposure the Totally Locally Lanark campaign being run by Jim McCreadie and the Lanark Business Group has created, we have seen a surge of Lanarkians and others in the surrounding areas looking to support CCI as their local Landscapers. From the most basic of garden tidies to the complex job of levelling off many of the new build property gardens in Lanark, we have been hard at it. We have also been responsible for (to name a few) the planting of over 7,000 trees at the new Carbans Highwood in Wishaw, the mile of new pathways in the Nethan Gorge and the reinvigoration of Rigside Primary’s school playground, which is now a leading educational space that not only promotes creative play but also active learning. It was a real shame that we had to cancel our Community Fun Day planned for last month up at the Lanark Moor Sensory Garden. The event was to mark the opening of a new path linking the Garden to the Lanark Loch Park, but due to horrendous weather we had to make the difficult decision to call it off, it just wouldn’t have been very enjoyable for the children or parents taking part. The new path has certainly raised the profile of the Sensory Garden and the numbers of people now visiting this fabulous resource have increased dramatically. We hope to reschedule this event to take place next spring - so what this space! We of course could not have made any of this
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Clydesdale Colts Youth Cycling Club
01555 895 616
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4 Vere Rd Blackwood Kirkmuirhill Lanark ML11 9RS www.clydesdalecolts.com
Coal Miners Welfare Bowling Club
01555 820676
42 Coalburn Rd, Coalburn, Lanark ML11 0LH
Carluke Rovers F.C.
01555 772116
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John Cumming Stadium
135 Carnwath Rd, Carluke ML8 4EA www.clubwebsite.co.uk/carlukeroversfc/128510/Home
Allanton Miners Welfare Social Club
01501 821811
Allanton Rd, Shotts ML7 5AX
Universal Connections
01555 666091
13 St Vincent Place Lanark ML11 7LA
Lanark Guide Association
01555 663756
Jerviswood Rd, Lanark ML11 7PB
Captain Phillips
UK Cinema Release Date Friday 18th October 2013 The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. Starring: Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, David Warshofsky, John Magaro, Mark Holden and Phyllis Lynn
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Kirsty’s Beauty Success
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irsty Evans, who is in 4th year at Carluke high school was South Lanarkshire finalist in the Miss Teen Galaxy pageant. Kirsty who is only fourteen was supported at the final by her gran, granddad, sister Rhian and best friend Clare. Being in the final was an amazing
experience for Kirsty. Even more thrilling was that she was crowned Miss Teen South Lanarkshire photogenic in the pageant. Kirsty works on a Saturday in Lush Nail bar in Lanark. This is where her journey into the fashion world began, when Maggie a client who runs Hush Modelling in Livingston spotted her. Following her success in the pageant Kristy has been taking part in fashion shows for I-Kandi in Lanark and Urban Togz in Coatbridge. She also modelled at a Ladies day at the Bothwell Bridge Hotel for St Andrews Hospice.
Kirsty on the left receiving her award
Carleen, Louise, Lisa, Jenn, Kirsty
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