After many years of delays the development of the old distillery site is beginning to move on – a Public Consultation for Dumbarton Harbour Planning Application will be held in our Main Hall on Thursday 9th June from 2pm. All are welcome to come and view the plans as well as provide any comments to the developers about the plans.

There is a Facebook page for more information:
Dumbarton Harbour Planning Application
https://www.facebook.com/DumbartonHarbour/
or search for Dumbarton Harbour Planning Application on Facebook.

The developers, Culross, have some information at:
http://cullross.com/portfolio_item/former-distillery-dumbarton/

Dunbritton Housing Association Ltd. are also involved in the project.
https://www.facebook.com/Dunbritton-Housing-Association-Ltd-119433388231980/

That’s our church & halls complex to the right of the event picture, so it is important that members of Dumbarton Riverside Parish Church take a particular interest in this development!

Dumbarton Harbour

Sunday

Sunday School

11.30am September – December

10.00am January – April

Contact Margaret Auld

Resumed

Monday

Zumba

10.30am – 11.30am & 1.30pm – 2.30pm

Contact Denise Lovell

Carpet Bowls

1.00pm- 3.30pm/4.00pm

Rear Hall & Crèche

Contact Charlotte Simpson

Resume 05/10/15

Ladies Keep Fit

2.00pm – 3.30pm

Main Hall

Contact Joy Howatt

Resume 6/10/15

Rainbows

6.00pm – 7.00pm

Main Hall

Contact Norma Douglas

Anchor Boys’

6.15pm – 7.15pm

Rear & Games Hall & Choir Room

Contact Fraser/Rebecca Lyall dumbartonbb@hotmail.com

Resumed

BB Junior Section

7.15pm – 8.45pm

Rear, Games, Main Hall & Creche

Contact Elaine King dumbartonbb@hotmail.com

Resumed

BB Coy Section

7.15p m – 9.30pm

All Halls

Contact Alan Prior dumbartonbb@hotmail.co.uk

Resumed

Tuesday

Ladies Badminton

9.30am – 11.30am

Games & Rear Hall

Contact Jacqueline Fortune

Resumed

Tuesday Lunch Club

12.00pm – 1.30pm

Main Hall & Kitchen

Contact Sheila Rennie

Resume 6/10/15

Beavers

6.00pm 7.00pm

Games Hall

Contact Moira McQuade

Resumed

Cubs

6.00pm – 7.30pm

Rear Hall

Contact Jacqueline Farquhar

Resumed

Wednesday

Mothers & Toddlers

9.30am – 11.30am

Contact Ann Maciver

Rear Hall & Games Hall

Resumed

Playgroup

9.30am –2.00pm

Main Hall

Contact Pauline Butchart

Resumed

Zumba

10.30am

Contact Denise Lovell

Taekwondo–Do

5.00pm – 7.00pm

Contact Stephen Rooney or Michelle Haining

Resumed

1^st Brownies

6.30pm – 7.45pm

Games Hall

Contact Fiona Ballantyne

Resumed

1^st Guides

7.45pm – 9.30pm

Games Hall

Contact Susan Reid

Resume 16 September

Evening Guild

7.30pm – 9.30pm

Main Hall

Contact Celia Massicks

Resume 7/10/15

After Eights

7.45pm – 10.00pm

Rear Hall or Lounge

Contact Catherine Barry

Resume 7/10/15

Thursday

Ladies Badminton

9.30am – 11.30am

Games & Rear Hall

Contact Jacqueline Fortune

Resumed

Afternoon Guild

1.00pm – 4.00pm

Main Hall

Contact Jean Ballantyne

Resume 8/10/15

Funky Wee Monkeys

1.30pm – 2.30pm

Contact Julie Smith

Resumed

2^nd Brownies

6.00pm – 7.45pm

Rear Hall

Contact Vicky Farrell

Resumed

2^nd Guides

7.30pm – 9.45pm

Main Hall

Contact Anne Monaghan

Resumed

Scouts

7.45pm – 9.45pm

Rear Hall

Games Hall from 9.00pm

Contact Ian McQuade

Resume 3/9/15

Choir

7.15pm – 9.15pm

Choir Room & Church

Anne Mackay or Ian Logan

Resumed

Friday

Playgroup

9.30am – 11.45am

Main Hall

Contact Pauline Butchart

Mothers & Toddlers

9.30am – 11.30am

Contact Ann Maciver

Rear Hall & Games Hall

Resumed

Zumba

10.30am

Contact Denise Lovell

Good Companions

12.30pm – 3.30pm

Main Hall

Sheila Cowan or Eliz. (Betty) Hartley

Resumed

A couple of times a year we run a discussion group where people can explore the Christian Faith and consider whether they are interested in becoming members of the Church of Scotland. It is also an opportunity for those who are members to think about what the church believes and what they believe.

Another class is starting soon, and all are welcome to come. There is no compulsion to join at the end of it – though we hope you will.

• Dates: Sundays 26 April and 10 May Time: 7.00pm (for about 45minutes – 1 hour)
• Venue: Riverside Church Lounge (enter by the Castle Street door, turn right and it’s the first door on the left)

If you are interested but cannot make the day/time suggested, please contact the church office.

* Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Hallelujah!
* If the women and the disciples who went to the empty tomb and met the Risen Jesus struggled to understand what they had experienced, maybe we have an excuse, Lord, help us to try to get our heads around what happened that day
* Thank you for the new hope that Easter gives us: the hope that cruelty, indifference, abuse and hatred will not have the last word; the hope that it is worth investing time, effort and suffering into seeking healing and wholeness for the world; the hope that life does not end with death
* Encountering the risen Jesus transformed the lives of those who met him. Help us to open our hearts and lives that we may be transformed
* Help your whole church to live out the hope, the message of Easter

Pupils at six Dumbarton primary schools all took part in a quiz organised by Dumbarton Churches Together to help them learn more about sectarianism and its effects on people. The ecumenical event was attended by Reverend Ian Johnson, of Dumbarton: Riverside linked with The West Kirk, Reverend Liz O’Ryan from St Augustine’s Scottish Episcopal Church and Canon Gerry Conroy, of St Patrick’s.

Local press covered the story… click to read more: Lennox Herald Article

At Riverside Main Hall, 12:00-13:30, every Thursday all through Lent until 26th March. All are welcome.

Thanks to everyone who supported the Sponsored Sports/Lunch on 6th October.  The fantastic sum of £610 has been raised so far, with some sponsor money still to come in.

Worshipers at Riverside this Sunday will be impressed by the new front doors which have been installed at the main entrance.  More in keeping with the character of the historic 1811 building, the new doors have been installed after consultation with Historic Scotland, replacing the previous doors which were beyond repair.