Win Cash's 90th Birthday Party

Win Cash, second from left, celebrated her recent 90th birthday with a lunch party at Kilchoan Community Centre attended by some fifty guests, amongst whom were five others aged ninety-plus, from left to right, Bill Green, 91, Win, Noel Wallace, 95, Joey MacKenzie 96, and Maggie MacKinnon, 90; also at the party was Annie Wilkinson.

The guests sat down to a full three-course meal cooked by Win's daughter-in-law Stella who, with son Dave, runs Meall mo Chridhe, a local restaurant, followed by speeches from Win and Dave. A thoroughly good time was had by all.

There are now seven people within West Ardnamurchan who are over ninety, some 2.8% of the local population. This is a remarkable figure when put against the Scottish national average of 0.6%. The credit for the fact that we have so many fit and happy senior citizens out here goes at least in part to the community as a whole, which has traditionally been very caring of its older people, but it is also a reflection of the success of the local policy of keeping people in their homes, supported by a system of trained carers backed up by our District Nurses.