Twin Town Diary

A record of visits and other events arising from the twinning of Oban and Laurinburg.

1994

March 94	Oban High School teacher Tom Laurenson plus OHS students, Lisa MacKinnon and Nicola Meekin, visit Laurinburg, and are granted honorary citizenship of Scotland County. Lisa utters the first Gaelic words to be heard in Old Laurel Hill Church for over a century
May 94	First issue of 'Laurinburg News', an occasional Newsletter for OHS
July 94	Mr and Mrs Doug Stack pay a private visit
October 94	OHS teacher Miss Loiuse Meehan visits Laurinburg with 15 students. They are: Eilidh Clark Lesley Collings Lesley Dawson Emily Firth Jodie Heenan Michael MacDougall Elaine MacGillivray Peter MacQueen Ruth Miller Gillies Pagan Emma Parry Susan Pollock Sarah Seaton Gillian Watson Tamara Weir The groups goes to the State Fair and are interviewed by a North Carolina tv crew from WRAL, Raleigh
November 94	SHS teacher Mrs M Wright and 12 students visit Oban Beacham MacDougald (Laurinburg) and Johnnie Robertson (Red Spings) visit Oban Laurinburg restaurateur Colin MacArthur arrives with his wife and son, and provides a US style pig picking' (barbecue) at Oban's November 5th fireworks display. Brett MacArthur celebrates his 21st birthday in Oban.
December 94	Oban Old Parish Church and Old Laurel Hill Church (Laurinburg) share a watchnight service, courtesy of Oban FM personnel and equipment

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