Jessie Gordon


Jessie Gordon has been a long standing competitor at Houston Show continuously since 1950. At 93 years of age, she is up and about in her kitchen baking scones and cakes from 6.30am every morning!


She likes to support the show every year as it encourages younger people to enter. She regularly wins Cups with her entries and is strongly supported by her family who cheer her every win!


She Houston Walking Group


Houston & Killellan church have two walks a month planned; one of these walks could involve some cross-country, but mainly on paths or tracks. Meet at the Kirk at 9.30am on Saturdays. Contact the organiser - Fergus Stewart. Tel. 01505 613083 marilyn.fergus@ btopenworld.com


Brookfield Yoga


In the Village Hall every Monday from 10-11am and every Tuesday evening from 8-9pm. Contact Janice on 01505 343480.


HOST- The Carrick Centre, Houston


What’s on in JULY Monday to Friday Houston Community Nursery 01505 615876 Monday to Friday Woodlands After School 01505 615438


MONDAY: Bokwa exercises (weekly) 6.30pm - Starting 9th - Angela Duffy 07976 250357


TUESDAY: Pilates (weekly) - 7.30/8.30pm J McKellar 01505612391. Yoga (weekly) - 7pm M/s Lawson 01505613690


WEDNESDAY: Melody Makers 4th/18th - 7pm. Kilmacolm Quilters11th /25th -10am-4pm


THURSDAY: Crafty Friends 5th /19th - 7.30pm SUNDAY: Baptist Church - 11am & 6pm


Booking enquiries to Ian Simpson 01505 612203 or Sandy Young 01505 613613 or The Coffee Shop


So You Think Church Is For Sunday Mornings?


Well you are wrong! Houston and Killellan Kirk held a 24 hour Hymnathon and Preachathon from noon on Saturday 9th June to the end of our regular service at 12 noon on Sunday 10th June.


Donald Campbell, our minister, divided the whole thing into short 30 minute “services”. He preached 47 sermons! Norrie Cochran accompanied around 160 hymns with a little support from 2 pianists, a violinist, a vocal soloist and two of our younger supporters who led some choruses with voice and guitar after midnight. He says his fi ngers are just recovering!


We had around 89 bible readings. And we listened to the whole of Psalm 119 – all 176 verses!


So did anyone come? Of course they did! Apart from two short spells around 7pm when there were 9 people, there were always around 70 - 80 in the congregation. At 2am, members of our congregation who had recently visited the Holy Land appeared with candles – a lovely surprise. Around 3.45am, the congregation felt a bit “munchy” so the urn was fi red up and we worshipped while we had a cuppa.


This amazing effort has raised almost £4000 to date, but we hope to do better. There are still hymns to sponsor, and of course, Donald’s preaching. The money is to support the building of our Church extension which is needed to let us provide decent toilet facilities including disabled facilities, decent kitchen facilities, a reasonable vestry for our minister, space for visiting artists to change/rest etc., because we hold lots of different musical and other events; and of course some additional space for organisations to meet - our existing halls which are a mile away from the Church are bursting at the seams with bookings.


If you would like to sponsor an “orphan” hymn or Donald’s preaching, please go to www.houstonkirk.org to see the list of hymns, and e-mail houstonmanse@btinternet.com to offer your sponsorship, including your phone number so we can get back to you to collect the money.


Can we turn £4000 into £5000? Thank you in advance for your generosity – we are waiting for Donald’s voice to recover to see if he is going to make this an annual event!


and has


grandchildren. Her


3


surviving children, 9


grandchildren 3


great main


interests are The Woman’s Rural, HandyWive s, and she still takes part in The Bowling Club at J G Fleming.


Jessie is an inspiration to us all.


“The Big Scottish Sing”


What’s better than singing? Why - more singing of course!


The second Houston Community Singing event will be “The Big Scottish Sing” on Friday 14th September at 7pm in Houston and Killellan Kirk. Donation £5 for adults and £1 for under 16s


(proceeds to Accord and St Vincent’s Hospices)


We hope Maw, Paw and the weans will all come along to waggle the wallies and tickle the tonsils.


There will be solos, contributions from local schools and a few wee surprises to entertain. But most of all we need the super sopranos the beautiful basses and the “can’t sing, won’t sings” of Houston to come along and join in the fun and sing all your favourite Scottish songs


See you there!


I would like to congratulate one of my Ward 9 colleagues, Councillor Anne Hall, who at the inaugural meeting of the Council was unanimously elected to the position of Provost of Renfrewshire.


I attended the Kirking of the Council service held in Paisley Abbey on Sunday June 10th. This traditional service marks the start of the new fi ve year term for Renfrewshire Council.


The full Local Government Election results have now been published and for anyone interested in the facts and fi gures for Ward 9 (Houston, Crosslee and Linwood) these can be found on the Renfrewshire Community Website under the three headings Council and Government, elections and preference votes by polling station.


At the recent meeting of the Local Area Committee a number of local organisations were successful in their applications for funding. £7000 was approved towards the refurbishment of Crosslee Play Park, £4000 towards the purchase and installation of play equipment in Brookfi eld Play Park. A further £2000 was approved as a contribution to the funding of the Brookfi eld Cycleway Link project. This project is one of only two Local Green Network projects in the area and will give access from the village to the cycle track adjacent to the village.


With the expected completion of the wall and footpath repairs on Houston Road, the completed resurfacing of parts of Barochan Road (heading towards Langbank), Magnus Road and Fulton Drive and the re-opening of the Georgetown Road it is hoped that the area will now be free from further traffi c disruption as well as the plethora of confusing diversion signs.


My surgeries are on the second Tuesday of the month and will be held in the Brookfi eld Village Hall from 6pm to 6.30pm and in the Houston Village Hall from 7pm to 7.45pm until further notice.


I can also be contacted by phone on 01505 610018 or by e-mail at cllr.allan. noon@renfrewshire.gov.uk


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