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We Art Our Heroes: Artist Mel Shand calls on public to nominate their lockdown hero
Updated: 24/02/2021, 10:10 am
Artist Mel Shand, pictured in Finzean
Accomplished artist and playwright Mel Shand is calling on north-east residents to nominate their own lockdown hero.
Launched by the Evening Express and Press and Journal, the major art project is aiming to create a lasting legacy to all frontline workers.
Readers are being asked to use their creativity to draw pictures of some of the lockdown workers who have helped us and made a difference over the past 12 months.
With the initiative now in full swing, Mel, who holds an instrumental role in Finzean and the surrounding communities, is backing the call for We Art Our Heroes pictures.
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The future of a pair of rural Aberdeenshire schools will be decided a council meeting next week.
The local authority’s education committee will meet to discuss the fates of mothballed Strachan School near Banchory and Gartly School south of Huntly.
Councillors have been urged to recommend the full council move to close Strachan’s school, and reassign its catchment area to create a new “dual zone” between Banchory Primary and Finzean School.
The primary, which had a capacity for 50 pupils and had a wide catchment area including Feughside, Glen Dye and Blackness, was originally opened in 1877, but over its more than a century of existence it struggled to retain enough pupils to justify being open.