Community spirit
It is heartening to learn that St Kiaran’s Scottish Episcopal Church has been saved thanks to the support of the community.
Groups and individuals – some of them Courier readers – rallied to help the church pay for essential roof repairs that prevented the congregation from entering the Argyll Street building.
And despite being of a different denomination, the nearby St Kieran’s RC Church showed the St Kiaran’s parishioners nothing but kindness and hospitality during their time of need.
Now the roof repairs have been completed, members of the Episcopalian congregation, which was formally constituted in the town in 1848, are able to return to their building.
We hope the church is still going strong in another 175 years’ time.
It was also nice to see the community coming together last Saturday to celebrate the official naming of Campbeltown Lifeboat Station’s new D-class lifeboat Leonard Mills.
If not for legacies like the one left by Leonard’s wife Dorothy Mills, some lifeboat stations may struggle to fund these essential vessels.
Of course, fundraising branches do sterling work throughout the year to keep stations running and coastal communities respond generously, all too aware how much we depend on the RNLI’s lifesaving work.
Thank you to all involved.