Culachy Wind Farm Community Update

We hope to submit our application to the Scottish Government to develop Culachy Wind Farm, located on the Culachy Estate near Fort Augustus in the summer. We will let the community know when this happens, and the plans will also be available on our website www.culachywind. co.uk.

In the meantime, we are continuing our engagement locally. We have committed to supporting Glengarry Shinty Club in 2023 and look forward to seeing the players in action soon. Our team will also be back at the Glengarry Produce Show. We hope to see you there.

In the meantime, if you have any questions, please do get in touch communities@fredolsen.com / 07435 763 900.

You can view the plans at www.culachywind.co.uk

“My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky: So it was when my life began, So it is now I am a man So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die!

The child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.”

William Wordsworth’s poem came to mind when I saw half a rainbow this morning.

(Half is better than all grey skies!). I’ve been thinking about the influences which make “the child the father of the man”. Moving to Fort William 55 years ago my husband did not expect to meet anyone who remembered his father.

He was one of the new “railway families” born 1901 in a cottage on the Old Fort, (now demolished). Baptised in the Duncansburgh church across the road, he was taught in Sunday School by a Miss Robertson (whose family sold hardware in the High Street.)

When an elderly lady living in Claggan showed my husband her school photo, he was able to pick out his 10 year old father! Sadly, I never met my late father in law. In his short life he went on to serve God as a Church of Scotland Minister in Glasgow, but did not live to see his son do likewise in the town of his birth.

However summer Beach Missions for children run by my father and mother in law, had similarity to those run by Scripture Union- which introduced me to reading the Bible as a child. This influences us both in our old age, so we support SUScotland which “encourages children and young people to explore the Bible and respond to the significance of Jesus”, in schools (some inLochaber) and on holidays.

Perhaps Wordsworth was influenced by the Bible verse “Teach a child how he should live and he will remember it all his life”. (Proverbs 22.6)

A few more images created by members of the Fort William Photographic Society showing great imagination and skill. The Society meets on the second Tuesday of every month in the Salvation Army Hall and also organises regular outings. All are welcome and no-one needs to be an expert to join. To find out more about the Society go to their social media page.