WELCOME to the August edition of West Coast Review.


This month’s Review has more than a touch of glamour, with pictures from the successful Girls’ Night Out in Oban. And we meet Broadway sensation Jo Service, from Taynuilt, who recently attended the New York Drama Desk Awards following her highly acclaimed one-woman play, The Promise. We also explore Argyll’s ‘green’ credentials with a look at how you can receive incentives to scrap your heating boiler and we learn more about Local Origins Rural Network (LORN) and its enterprising Pasture to Plate project.


This month, we also lift the lid on the charity, Argyll Beats Cardiovascular Disease (ABCD), which has raised an astonishing amount of money since its inception in 2000. And in our Life Through the Lens you’ll see a few familiar faces as we take the short trip back in time to 1996.


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Morar Sands, Mallaig - Courtesy of The Oban Times


6 Celebrations 10 Green Review 14 From the bay to the Big Apple 16 Holistic Healing 18 You are what you eat 20 Critical Gamer 22 Only girls aloud 24 From pasture to plate 26 Gardening tips 30 Action required on pension problem 32 Life through the lens 36 And the beat goes on 39 What’s on 40 Dear Jen


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