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We are very sad to announce the passing last Friday night of Maria Paterson of Elphin. Maria was a much valued Ullapool News team member for over three years. Lively and fun to be with, we all enjoyed working with her.
Her husband Steve, who also worked at the Ullapool News as our printer, will post details of the funeral arrangements online as soon as they become available and there will be an update in next Friday’s paper (29 July).
Our sincere condolences go to Steve and all Maria’s family at this very difficult time.
Ullapool News Team

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Rhueart Gallery
“From The Seahouse”
an exhibition of prints, poems and a book by Linda Lashford
Opening 23 July 2-4pm All welcome
What happens when a landscape photographer shrinks down her spatial boundaries? Takes refuge in a single shoreline and measures her time there in years rather than in days. ‘From The Seahouse’ is a collection of images and words that has arisen out of one such period of retreat, and spans four winters living, writing, and photographing from a small Scottish beach. Winters in which the large, fixed surface details of the landscape recede and, in their place, have come fleeting images of light, wind and water. These pictures emerge unbidden and follow the flow of weed, or a skirl of wind, as it fractures light, cascading shadows.
From rare, frozen days come fugitive images of ice fast rocks and imprisoned weed, and when the wind is low, no more than a breath upon the water, there are submerged, tumbled stones that photographed against a swirl of sand evolve into a universe of planets.
At night I write, drawing words from the same physical and emotional landscape as the photographs. And while the images have a stillness that belies the tumult of the winter shoreline the words explore that tumult; the raw physical power and fugacity of the winter environment and my internal world, where unsettling memories are unlocked by a drift of scent or a turn of a stone.
A stunning exhibition by Linda Lashford who is based in Mellon Udrigle
23 July -31 Oct 2022

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Three-year funding success for North West Highlands Geopark Charity
A three-year programme of activities to inspire and help people to Access, Connect and Take part in the heritage of the North West Highlands Geopark is set to go ahead after securing £234,405 in funding.  Community led charity North West Highlands Geopark Ltd has announced the two funding awards to support their ACT Geopark project.
Activities will begin with the recruitment of a full time Education and Engagement Officer for three years, funded by the SSE Renewables Sustainable Development Fund grant, The National Lottery Community Fund and The National Lottery Heritage Fund grant, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
This will allow the Charity to work more closely with schools, supporting the curriculum and embedding local examples into history, art, geography, and science teaching. It will also develop an out of school ‘Young Geologists Club’, engaging and upskilling young people in their world-class landscape.Commenting on the award, Geopark Chair Dr Iain Young said: “We are thrilled to have received this support from all of our funders. This is a great vote of confidence in our plans which has only been made possible by all of the people who have supported the Geopark over many years.”
Geopark Manager, Dr Laura Hamlet said: “We are of course thrilled that the programme we’ve been developing together for quite a long time has attracted so much support from funders. It’s quite humbling in fact, and now comes the hard work in delivering it all, but I’m really looking forward to getting involved in Sense of Place events and seeing the Young Geologist’s Club get up and running.