Aug 062010
 

As the construction of the Menie golf course and infrastructure begins, Voice reader Debra Storr highlights a continuing personal struggle for long-standing residents of the area.

From 28 July, Michael and Sheila Forbes and Michael’s mother Molly were without water for seven days as construction work on the Trump Organisation’s Menie resort cut off their supply. It was restored on Tuesday August 3.
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Jul 162010
 

By Sue Edwards.

A one day site-specific art event was held on Sunday 4th July, 2010, at Mill of Menie near Balmedie – the home of Michael and Sheila Forbes.

The exhibition took place in the granite steading of the Forbes’s farm, watched over by a magnificent Highland pony stallion and a white goose nested on top of a hay bale.  Despite stormy weather and rain before the event, visitor numbers to the exhibition were impressive from noon until sunset. Continue reading »