Community News and Events: Inverness

Scarecrow Festival Winners Awarded Prizes!

Submitted on Thu, 15/07/2010 - 2:13pm
Central PS Nursery Comical Scarecrow, little miss muffetCongratulations to this year's Scarecrow Festival winners!  It has been a great Scarecrow Festival with over 848 people voting for their favourite scarecrows.  It was a very close finish in the Comical Category with Central Primary School Nursery receiving 374 votes with 1st Tain Guides right behind them with 371 votes! 
In the Traditional Category, Inshes Primary School After School Club was in the lead, but Millburn Academy pulled ahead in the last day of voting, finishing with 10 votes more than Inshes.  The Eco Crow Category winner was Dalneigh Primary Schoool with 111 votes.  The overall winner, with 374 votes is Central Primary School Nursery.
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Vote Now For Your Favourite Scarecrow! 26th June - 14th July

Submitted on Fri, 25/06/2010 - 11:28am

Bikini ScarecrowThe time has come for you to vote for your favourite scarecrow for each category.  So have a good look at the Scarecrow Photo Gallery and then vote for your choices by selecting it from the polls below.  Remember to tell your friends and families to visit our website and vote too!  Good luck to all of the Scarecrows!  Click here to visit the Scarecrow Photo Gallery. It will open in a new window. Voting runs from 26th June to 14th July.  Winners and prizes will be announced on 16th July.

Scarecrow Festival Photos, Remember to Vote 26th June-14th July

Submitted on Wed, 16/06/2010 - 2:32pm

Scarecrow SketchRoWAN's Scarecrow Festival has begun!  Thank you to all of the people who have taken part and made a scarecrow.  There are a lot of great scarecrows so please click here to see them.

Voting for the scarecrows will take place on our website from the 26th June to 14th July.  Have a look and remember to come back and vote for your favourites.  There will be a winner for each category (comical, eco-crow and traditional)  and an overall winner too!  Tell all of your friends and family to vote too. The winners will be announced on the 16th of July.  Good luck to all of our entrants! Read more

Let's Talk Rubbish

 

RoWAN are hosting a talk entitled “Archaeology is Rubbish” by local archaeologist Susan Kruse. Susan will be giving us food for thought with a talk entitled "Archaeology is Rubbish". She will explore the way people have treated rubbish through the ages, from the earliest Mesolithic times through to today. From this perspective she will suggest that there may be valuable lessons from the past, as well as sobering reflections on what archaeologists of the future may think about us today. Read more

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Where & When

Tue, 01/06/2010 - 7:30pm
Dingwall Community Centre

RoWAN's Scarecrow Festival 26th June to 16th July 2010

Golfer ScarecrowCalling all Scarecrows!  RoWAN is holding a Scarecrow Festival.  Scarecrows will beBikini Babe Scarecrow popping up all over the Inverness area as part of a new festival.  The RoWAN Scarecrow Festival is a fun way to get people thinking about food and packaging waste.  Scarecrow makers and voters will pledge to cut down on the food waste they create at home, work or school.  It is open to businesses, households, schools and community groups.  Entry is FREE and the Entry Deadline is now the 15th June.

 There are 3 categories: Read more

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Where & When

Sat, 26/06/2010 - 9:15am - Fri, 16/07/2010 - 9:15am
On-line at www.rowan.org.uk and all over Inverness

Congratulations to our Inverness Easter Party Contest Winners!

Submitted on Wed, 07/04/2010 - 3:14pm

Michael's Decorated Egg

At our Easter Eggstravaganza party, we had a colouring contest and a chalkboard-egg decorating competition.  There were a lot of entries for both.  Congratulations to Faith Elson and Niamh MacKenzie who won our colouring contest and to Michael Urquhart who won our egg decorating contest.

Click here to see their entries.  Prizes will be sent to the winners today!  Thank you to everyone for taking part.

Egg-citing Times at Inverness Easter Party!

Submitted on Mon, 29/03/2010 - 5:32pm

Egg DecoratingcONGRATULATIONS to our contest winners!  There were a lot of entries for both the colouring contest and the egg decorating contest. Faith Elson and Niamh MacKenzie were our colouring contest winners and Michael Urquhart won our decorated egg competition.  Click here to see their entries. Read more

Easter Egg Alternative Ideas

Submitted on Thu, 11/03/2010 - 3:54pm

Packaged Easter EggsEaster is another time of the year when a huge amount of waste packaging is produced.

Have you ever purchased an Easter egg, only to be disappointed by the amount of chocolate you actually get, once you have unwrapped it from all the packaging? Plastic, foil and cardboard often stand in the way of you and your hollow egg. ..or egg filled with a few individually packaged treats inside. The weight of all that packaging adds up quickly and often it outweighs the amount of chocolate you are getting. You end up paying for packaging rather than chocolate! Read more

LUSH improves their 3 R's with RoWAN

Submitted on Thu, 11/02/2010 - 7:08pm

Thanks to oLUSH storefrontne of our hardworking volunteers, Marianne, LUSH got in touch with Kate to find out ways they could cut down on the amount of waste they were sending to landfill. Read more