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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Sunday working

Good to see that the Sunday (non-)working policy of the Council has been abandoned again.

Martins Memorial Church are meeting in Stornoway Primary this week (and last?) and presumably the building will open itself and there will be no need for a caretaker to work on Sunday moving chairs and then moving them back before the kids arrive on Sunday Monday morning*.

No doubt this fits perfectly with the definition of "essential" or as "an act of mercy".

However, as a debate on the opening of the Sports Centre on a Sunday is banned by those who want consultation on everything but that which they want to prevent, it seems more an "act of hypocrisy".

Perhaps someone can tell me where and when the Council sanctioned the employment of staff at the Primary on a Sunday?

Update 19/7: * Yes, I know that the kids are on holiday, but the use of the Primary by the Church is going to continue well into the new school year.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The precedent was set by the Free Church Continuing using the town hall

Goatee said...

Set up for the children on Sunday?

I don't think the children go to school on Sundays - anyway is it not the school holidays?

However, I agree that the concept of letting public and school buildings on a Sunday is hypocritical. If the user groups can set up chairs without a caretaker then the games hall could be open - I know Bronze medalion lifeguards are rquired to oversee the swimming pool.