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CONCERN over the future of Cockenzie and Port Seton Gala was raised at a meeting of its community council after the committee revealed it had to delay its traditional picking ceremony. The annual gala, which includes a boat trip between the communities two harbours by the gala court, was cancelled last year due to the pandemic. And at a meeting of Cockenzie and Port Seton Community Council last week Pamela Fraser, from the gala committee said it was unlikely things would return to normal this year. She said the committee had been unable to pick this year s court because the traditional process required three people all in the same place to oversee it.
CONSTRUCTION of a controversial substation at the former Cockenzie Power Station site could get under way next year. Representatives of Inch Cape, which is building the substation to bring energy onshore from its planned offshore wind farm, told a meeting of Cockenzie and Port Seton Community Council that work was expected to begin later next year or early in 2023. And they said that the company was encouraging contractors to use East Lothian firms where possible. Speaking to the virtual meeting, they said that using local suppliers was part of their ongoing discussions. They said: “We are saying to larger contractors where we know there is a supply chain locally we want them to use them as much as is practically possible.”
Three members of the Prince George Blizzard Speed Skating Club will get their first taste of national competition a week from today at the National Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Ottawa.
The trio of Sarah Pousette, Alexis Gaudet and Tim Hempsall qualified at the B.C. Provincial Championship which were held in Kelowna earlier this month.
“It went well [at provincials],” said Hempsall. “I got third and the second race I got a DQ and I had to come back from that and in the third race it looked like a tie and we had the same time but the race judges put me in first.”