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Peninver juniors recently won the youth section at the local drama festival. This is the first time Peninver Players have entered a junior team and were delighted to have won the youth section at the first attempt.

This Saturday they will perform in the Lochside Theatre in Castle Douglas against other youth teams from the south west of Scotland. Due to our technical rehearsal starting at 10am we have to leave Campbeltown on Friday afternoon and stay overnight in Castle Douglas returning through the night and ariving back in Campbeltown about 5 am on Sunday Morning.

While we are absolutely delighted at winning and going to the next round the cost of accomodation, transporting cast, crew and of course our staging and props is costing more than £1,500 and while we have been given some very generous donations of funding from local organisations and the Council the rest of the cost will have to come out of club funds which after paying hall charges for rehearsals during the winter and the cost of making and purchasing props and staging has left the club funds very low.

We wondered if there are any local businesses who would be willing to sponsor the club in some way. Any donation large or small would be very gratefully received and we would be happy to display your business logo on our bus en-route to Castle Douglas. If you feel you can help please PM me.

To try to raise some money we are holding concert on Saturday 27th March in Peniver hall when our play "Pig Tale" will be performed as well as other items of entertainment from our young performers everyone is most welcome to come along.

Peninver Juniors performed their play "Pig Tale" at the western divisional final in Castle Douglas yesterday and gave an excellent performance that had the audience cheering loudly at the end. Although not gaining 1st place (that went to Kirkintilloch) they picked up the only other trophy on offer for best set, costumes and make up, and the general opinion was that they were one of the top 3 performances at the competition.

This is a tremendous achievement for the talanted youngsters(with ages ranging from 6 -17 years old) as this is their first year competing in the SCDA competition and for half of the cast of 12 their first time on stage. Great credit must also go to director Anne Leith and her assistants Janette Hannah and Lesley Armour and of course stage manager Dougie Wylie.

It was a very happy but tired bus of cast, crew and Supporters that arived back in Campbeltown this morning at 3.30 and a huge thanks must go to bus driver John Brown for support, help and excellent driving on the trip.

Well done everyone.

Well done to all involved

Big CONGRATULATIONS to all the cast and to Anne Leith,Janette Hannah,Leslie Armour and Dougie Wylie for his stage work,all your hard work through the winter definately paid off.It was brilliant to see it in Campbeltown.

So anyone who hasnt seen it make their way to Peninver Village Hall this Saturday 27th March 7.30pm for a night off good entertainment

CONGRATULATIONS PENINVER PLAYERS (JUNIORS)