Dear All
Please find my latest Councillor’s Report attached.
The Fire and Rescue Service continue to have concerns about fire safety in tenement stairs and have the advice in a leaflet you can access here: https://twitter.com/scotfire_Edin/status/536869394350370817/photo/1
Local resident and writer Douglas Johnstone, author of ‘Gone Again’ and ‘Dead Beat’ will be at Portobello Library tomorrow. Details here: will be at Portobello Library tomorrow ow.ly/EAxFF
I have recently written a blog for Compact 10 – our 10 years of partnership with the Voluntary/Third Sector. See "Getting it right for every citizen" new read more buff.ly/1F7cJEE Want to know more about Compact and contribute? We are all part of it in some way. Want to add to the word cloud? Want to add to it? Come to the Insight Sessions! More info: buff.ly/1xtqcUZ pic.twitter.com/FK9mL1PJVm
Gica Loening has asked me to give another plug for their Ceildh: Calling Fun Fiddle friends, fiddlers, families, and all! Come and celebrate St Andrews Day with Fun Fiddle and the Belle Star Band and an afternoon of live music and dance Sunday 30th November 3.30 to 5.30pm at The Wash House, Adelphi Grove. Tickets for sale at The Wild Flower Shop, 90 Porty High St, and also from Jenny and Gica at Fun Fiddle (£6 adults, and £4 children, under 5’s free). Check out last year’s St Andrews’s Ceilidh at The Wash House on youtube:
Best wishes
Maureen
Councillor Maureen Child | Labour Elected Member | Portobello/Craigmillar (Ward 17) | City of Edinburgh Council | City Chambers | High Street | Edinburgh | EH1 1YJ | Tel 0131 529 3268 | Mobile 07718 666 481
You can follow me on Twitter @MaureenChild1
p.s. My face-to-face Councillor Advice Sessions, or ‘Surgeries’, are usually every Monday at 5.30 pm in Castleview Community Centre, 76 Craigmillar Castle Avenue (Phone 661 4064) and then at 7 pm in Portobello Library, 14 Rosefield Avenue (Phone 529 5558). Now also at Craigmillar Library, 101 Niddrie Mains Road, EH16 4DT, 1st Wednesday of the month, drop-in session 5pm-5.30pm, thereafter by appointment only up until 7.30pm. Please phone me on Direct Line 0131 529 3268 or Mobile 07718 666 481, or email maureen.child@edinburgh.gov.uk to check availability, make an appointment or request a home visit.
Councillors-Report-November-2014.docx