Harbour Day 2003

Visitors and villagers alike flocked down to the harbour on Saturday 2nd August to greet and look over the Wick Lifeboat Roy Barker II, on its annual visit to Helmsdale.
The lifeboat’s arrival at 12.30pm was followed by a sale of work at 2.30pm which raised around £484 before deduction of expenses for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
There was the usual baking table, bric-a-brac stall and a stall selling RNLI memorabilia, with the ever-popular beefburger stall run by David Booth. Raffle tickets were being sold for the “springer spaniel” being carved by Brice Richardson which will be drawn at the St Nicholas Fair in Timespan in December.
The Bonar Bridge-Ardgay Pipe Band paraded round the harbour prior to a ceremony at which a cheque for £2000 was presented to the acting coxswain, Jocky Miller, by Natalie Sutherland.
Natalie was chosen because she was overall winner of a painting competition organised by Timespan. In turn Natalie was presented with a plaque and a surprise gift by secretary of the Helmsdale branch, Ronald MacDonald. Other winners in the painting competition were Kathryn and Alasdair Martin and Hannah Mitchell, who also received plaques and surprise gifts.
A further £80 was raised in a raffle organised by Ian and Janice Sinclair in the Bannockburn Inn on the Saturday evening.
At a special ceremony in Timespan Heritage Centre on Monday of this week Mabel Cowie presented the now engraved plaques to the prizewinners in the painting competition, which was judged by Sarah Egan and Penny Woodley.