2005

December 2005

Dennistoun Christmas Lights
Dennistoun's very own Christmas Festival Lights were officially switched on at 6pm Wednesday 21st December 2005. Displayed at Alexandra Park gates, the lights were switched on by local Councillor Elaine McDougall on behalf of the Glasgow East (Centre) Area Committee. Councillor McDougall said "It's a beginning and we will be adding to this initial Christmas light display in years to come." The Committee are also responsible for new festival lights being switched on at Parkhead Cross, Shettleston and Bridgton Cross in the East End of Glasgow.

Exhibition, Competitions & Prizes at Dennistoun Library
Dennistoun Library have organised competitions for all age groups to celebrate 100 years of service. There is a local history quiz for people who may know the answer to "Who funded the building of Dennistoun Library?" and there is an art & design competition for children to describe how they see Dennistoun Library in 100 years time.

The library is also looking for photographs, art work or poems that tells what Dennistoun means to you. Your entry may be included in an exhibition and added to the local history collection. You can find out if you have won a prize or view their brand new local history exhibition by joining them for tea and cake on Thursday 29 December at 2.00pm in Dennistoun Library.

Check out the Community Pages on this website for further information and entry forms.

November 2005

• Whitehill Former Pupils Football Club
  The club would like to welcome anyone interested in joining an East-End football club playing at amateur level. Iain Weir the club manager said: "We play on a Saturday afternoon and train at Whitehill Secondary on a Tuesday evening at 7 pm. Players are welcome to come along and train alongside us either for getting fit or to play."
  Contact Iain by email: iainweir0312@hotmail.com
  
  
• Dennistoun's Library Celebrates 100th Anniversary
  The Dennistoun Library and Learning Centre has re-opened following recent refurbishment. As well as books, music and movies, the library also provides photocopying, fax and free Internet access. The Real Learning centre offers adult & family learning, homework clubs and computer courses. The library runs regular after school clubs and organises events and activities throughout the year to cater for all ages. Local Councillor, Frank Docherty said: "The recent refurbishment at Dennistoun Library and Learning Centre is a fantastic way to celebrate the upcoming 100th Anniversary and is a great benefit to the community."
  
  

July 2005

• A new John Wheatley College campus is being built in Haghill to replace existing campuses at Shettleston and Queenslie. The new campus is expected to open next year for 800 students at a cost of £12million. It will feature innovative design, alternative power sources, energy efficiency and recycling facilities. Courses available include the sciences, Information Communication Technology, hair and beauty, childcare and the Arts. A proposed new railway station will be within a minutes walking distance from the college.

June 2005

• Impact Arts presents "exhibit AMP", an exhibition by Glasgow's up and coming artists and will show a range of exciting work which represents the diversity and quality of the artists involved. Developed by Impact Arts, funded by Glasgow City Council, Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Enterprise and supported by the Cultural Enterprise Office, the Artists' Mentoring Programme (AMP) is a 9 month professional development programme for professional artists and designers. The programme aims to equip qualified artists with the combination of skills they require to make a career or part career in the arts, with a particular focus on social inclusion and community based projects. AMP has fast become an established part of an artists' development in Glasgow and looks to expand further in 2005/06. For further information about the Artists' Mentoring Programme or the forthcoming exhibition, please contact Gwen Mackey on 0141 575 3001 or email gwen@impactarts.co.uk . "exhibit AMP" @ Impact Arts - The Factory, 319 Craigpark Drive, Dennistoun, Glasgow. 27th June - 1st July (12noon-5pm).
  
  
• Information and fun all rolled into one! Find out what is on in your area and what's happening over the Summer Holidays for young people. There is an Open Day being held at Whitehill Secondary School on Saturday 11th June between 12.00-4.00pm. Community Clubs, Youth Services and Dennistoun Youth Project are just some of the projects that will be there. There will be lots to see and do including a Bouncy Castle, Bungee Run, Diddymen Football, Eliminator, Velcro Olympics, Climbing Wall, Face Painting, Music Workshops, Badge Making, Disco Dancing Displays, D.J'S, Fire Brigade, Community Police, U.G.C.Cinemas, and "Kids and Co" providing fruit and drinks as well as the various stalls from the many projects in the Area.

May 2005

• Jamie Brown from Dennistoun and 6th year pupil at Whitehill Secondary will help chair and co-host the youths equivalent of the G8 Summit in July. Jamie as youth representative for the United Nations Children's Fund has recently returned from Ethiopia and has been involved in a variety of Unicef events. The latest event organised by Unicef is the International C8 Summit and will run for 5 days in Dunblane. It will involve young delegates from more than 15 countries discussing the challenges of providing education in underdeveloped countries and a report of the outcome will hopefully be delivered to the G8 world leaders at Gleneagles. Jamie said "Young people in less developed nations aren't really given the chance to voice their opinion in matters that affect them. If there should be any adult that should listen to children it should be the G8 leaders." Jamie has a busy schedule ahead as the Unicef youth representative for Scotland. He will be addressing a press conference at his school on Wednesday 18th May and then flying off to Cambridge at the end of the month to attend a Unicef meeting to finalise the C8 program. Jamie has been accepted at Glasgow University to study Geography and Business Management and will start in September. His ambition is to work in some capacity for the United Nations.
  
  
• Kennyhill School Board is holding a public consultation meeting on the change of the school name. The meeting will be held at the Cumbernauld Road school at 7pm on monday May 23rd.
  
  
• The Clydesdale Bank is to close its branch in Duke Street. The Clydesdale, owned by the National Australia Bank since 1987, will close 60 of its Scottish branches by 2006. Staff will be given the opportunity to relocate to other areas while customers will have access to services using their local Post Office. Dennistoun still has four bank branches in the area, the Lloyds TSB and Bank of Scotland on Duke Street and The Royal Bank of Scotland on both Duke Street and Alexandra Parade.
  

April 2005

• An ongoing pilot project by Reidvale Housing Association in Dennistoun has resulted in a dramatic fall in crime. By hiring police officers to provide high profile policing in the area, incidents such as fighting in the streets have almost halved.
  

• Revisions in Relative Time - Will Duke's animations alongside Elin Jakobsdottirs' silent 16mm film Models. 26Apr-21May (12-6pm) Market Gallery 334 Duke Street t:0141-556 7276
  
  
• The Last Chickens of Sainsbury - A WASPS exhibit where contributors challenge the premise that the quality of information available today in the information age can seem as rare as it is plentiful. 23Apr-2May (10am-5pm) WASPS, 77 Hanson Street t:0141-554 8299
  
  
• An exhibition of artwork by children from ten Glasgow primary schools will take place at Impact Arts head office in Dennistoun. The project funded by the Better Neighbourhood Services Fund took its inspiration from the 'Just Another Day' exhibition at St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and the 'One Million Days in China' exhibition at the Burrell Collection. Art, dance, music and drama were used to interpret themes from Divali, Hanukah, Ramadan and the Chinese New Year. The exhibition will show snapshots of the work produced, with drama and music represented through video and photography projections. Other World Religions Project from 25th to 29th April. Impact Arts, The Factory, 319 Craigpark Drive. 0141 575 3001 gwen@impactarts.co.uk
  
  
• The MARY MARY gallery that relocated from the city centre to Dennistoun earlier this year uses a converted tenement flat to provide a platform for young artists. The forthcoming exhibit by Buche and Evans is part of the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art. Tobias Buche who lives and works in Berlin sees his work as being part of an anti commercial aesthetic. Nick Evans who lives and works in Glasgow pares down complex social and cultural representations into group and parts that are singularly metaphorical. From 23d to 29th April 12-5pm. Mary Mary, Flat 2/1 45 Alexandra Park Street t:0141-550 8097

March 2005

• Dennistoun Community Youth Project Annual Report : Through talking to the young people on the streets of Dennistoun and then working in partnership with Glasgow City Council Youth Services, Community Clubs and Community Action Teams as well as the Health Board and other projects in the area there is now a wide range of activities on all over Dennistoun for young people of all ages. It is up to this project to let the young people on the streets of Dennistoun know what is on in the area. The mantra of "there's nothing to do" is no longer valid!! A Guide To What's On In The Dennistoun Area For Young People
  
  
• Work is well under way to alleviate the risk of flooding in Dennistoun that caused so much misery for many in the summer of 2002. At a cost of £1.2 Million parts of the 100 year old Victorian brick sewer system is being upgraded and new overflow tanks are being constructed underground. Steve Pitt, General Foreman for Mowlem the Scottish Water contractors explained that positioning the tanks requires the re-routing of pipework carrying the Molendinar Burn at Armadale Path and the sinking of a shaft with tunneling at Duke Street. There will be some restrictions on parking on the west side of Meadowpark Street (Alexandra Parade - Roebank Street 09:00-17:00) to allow access for heavy construction plant. The tanks are combined sewer overflow (CSO) chambers measuring 17x8x6 metres that will screed and filter the sewage allowing clean water to enter the burn. The work which will remove properties in Roebank Street from the Flooding Register is expected to take 4 months.

February 2005

• Salvador Dali's "Christ of St John of The Cross" will be removed from the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art in the east end of Glasgow. It will be relocated to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in 2006 after renovations. The decision to move the painting to the west end was taken by Bridget McConnell, Cultural and Leisure Services (GCC) Director and wife of Jack McConnell, the First Minister.
  
  
• Glasgow Emergency Medical Service (GEMS) is relocating the NHS GP out-of-hours centre for Dennistoun from its existing base in Lightburn Hospital to the newly refurbished Easterhouse Community Health Centre on Wednesday, 23rd February. The move is part of a wider plan to develop and improve out-of-hours care across the city.
  
  
• Dell is setting up their new call centre at City Park on Alexandra Parade after receiving a £7.5m government grant. The direct-selling US computer company is expected to create 400 jobs at the centre by next year. This could rise to 850 by 2008 if future growth in the UK is realised.
  
  
• Glasgow band Franz Ferdinand, with lead singer Alex Kapranos from Dennistoun, has won best British Rock Act and best British Group in the 2005 Brit Awards.

January 2005

• The General George Carpet warehouse site on Alexandra Parade is be redeveloped into 48 flats and 6 ground floor retail units. Sovereign House Developments based in Edinburgh have acquired the 20,000 sq ft site and have submitted a planning application.
  
  
• A Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes To You
  Works by 6 artists until 5th Feb. (Mon-Sun 12md-5pm)
  Market Gallery, 334 Duke Street 556 7276
  
  
• Demolition work has started on the derelict abattoir in Duke street. The site is expected to be cleared this year for new residential and business developments.
  
  
• A 23 year-old man was seriously assaulted in an unprovoked attack by three young men aged 17 to 18 while walking near the Swallow Cafe on Alexandra Parade at 01:45am on Saturday 8 January.

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