Last night, I attended a really productive and positive committee meeting of the West End Sports and Heritage Association (WESHA) that is doing great work to improve sport facilities and the environment across the West End. It was great to welcome new groups to the latest meeting – Hillcrest Bowling Club and Dundee City Aquatics [...]
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West End Sports and Heritage Association – and WestFest update!
Posted: May 18, 2012 in WESHA, WestFest 2012This evening, I attended the latest Committee Meeting of the West End Sports and Heritage Association (WESHA) at the Vine in Magdalen Yard Road. As the Chair and Vice Chair were unable to attend, as Secretary, I (sort of!) chaired the meeting! WESHA is going from strength to strength in terms of moving forward sport [...]
WESHA meeting – and an update on the Riverside pitches stones problem
Posted: March 21, 2012 in Riverside Drive, WESHARiverside pitches Following concerns about the unplayable football pitches at Riverside after seven players sustained injuries because of stones hidden in the soil (as I reported earlier this month), at the West End Sports and Heritage Association (WESHA) committee meeting last night, I was pleased to indicate that, after extensive work by Dundee City Council’s [...]
Earlier tonight, after my ward surgeries at Harris Academy and the Mitchell Street Centre, I attended the West End Sports and Heritage Association (WESHA) committee meeting at the West End Community Base in the Vine in Magdalen Yard Road. WESHA is making great progress and we are planning an Open Event later in the spring [...]
Tuesday activities
Posted: January 18, 2012 in Park Place Nursery School, Park Place Primary School, Pennycook Lane, Sinderins Court, St Joseph's Primary School, WESHAYesterday : * I attended the latest meeting of the West End Schools’ Project Board, the group overseeing the construction of the new facilities for Park Place Primary School, St Joseph’s Primary School and Park Place Nursery School, currently being built on the former Logie Secondary School site. It was good to hear of [...]
After my surgeries late this afternoon at the Mitchell Street Centre and at Harris Academy, I attended tonight’s City Council meetings. * At the Environment Committee, I welcomed proposed playground improvements across the City, including at Lochee Park, Milnbank and the Roseangle car park. I sought and received assurances that the City Council will [...]
Last night, I attended the West End Sports and Heritage Association (WESHA) committee meeting at the West End Community Base in the Vine in Magdalen Yard Road. There was a useful update on the Sports Facility Payback Fund application that WESHA and other sports community hubs in the city have applied to – in our [...]
Back in June, the West End Sports and Heritage Association (WESHA) was formed, to progress sports and environment improvements at Riverside and at Magdalen Green. Its a great, dynamic group that will make a real difference towards improved sporting provision at Riverside and facilities at Magdalen Green. Last night, I took part in a “visioning [...]
Further to my recent update about progress with sports improvements for the West End, I attended a very useful meeting of the West End Sports and Heritage Association committee last night at the Vine in Magdalen Yard Road. We discussed the first WESHA funding bid. It is looking good (thanks particularly to Steve McSwiggan and [...]
Following the launch of the West End Sports and Heritage Association back in June, WESHA has hit the ground running and, last night, I had the pleasure of attending a meeting at the Riverside Sports Pavilion (see right), to discuss a possible funding bid – along with Dundee’s other sports hubs and with assistance from [...]
Today, immediately before my weekly surgeries at Harris Academy and the Mitchell Street Centre, I took part in a very productive meeting with the Western Cemetery Association and the City Council’s Environment Department to move forward the decision of the City Council from May to create a new cremated remains section in Western Cemetery. It is [...]
Residents will recall that, back in June, we had a successful launch of the West End Sports and Heritage Association (WESHA), aimed at achieving environmental and sports improvements in the West End in the months and years ahead. Last night, along with representatives of the Riverside Community Sports Club, Friends of Magdalen Green and City Council [...]
The newly-launched West End Sports and Heritage Association will be represented at the Friends of Magdalen Green stall at WestFest Big Sunday. With thanks to Angela Mehlert, Chair of Friends of Magdalen Green and the newly appointed Minutes Secretary of WESHA, the flyer above will be available on Sunday. Full details of Big Sunday [...]
It was a very interesting and enjoyable evening at DCA tonight where the West End Sports and Heritage Association was formally launched. Matthew Miller was elected Chair (I’ve agreed to be Secretary) and Matt did a great job in chairing the evening and covering the sports aspects of what WESHA hopes to achieve for the West End community. [...]
I spent part of Monday in Glasgow with the “day job” – a dreich day if ever there was one as this photo of Argyle Street (above) shows! On return, and after my ward surgeries at Harris Academy and the Mitchell Street Centre, I attended the last planning meeting for the West End Sports and Heritage [...]
Tonight, the steering group for the West End Sports and Heritage Association that has been working over the past year towards finalising its constitution and a public launch will hold the last of its planning meetings before the launch of the Association on the 15th. Here’s details of the launch event! WESHA, the Dundee West End Sports [...]
