DECEMBER

• Jack and the Beanstalk
  Fair Isle Primary School Christmas Pantomime

NOVEMBER

• Fair Isle Bird Observatory
  Activity Holidays
  Through the Northern Periphery Programme, Fair Isle Bird Observatory have teamed up with a local eco-tourism company and are now offering Activity Holidays to Fair Isle for 2002:
  
  Spring Migration Holiday: 18^th 24^th May
  
  Island Insights Holiday:  29^th June 6^th July
  
  Autumn Migration Holiday: 28^th September 5^th October
  
  The Spring and Autumn Migration holidays are a perfect way to see the magic of migration on Fair Isle, with the reassurance of a experienced guide to help with those tricky identifications!
  
  The Island Insights holiday is a unique holiday experience, combing, history, culture, crafts and wildlife.  Spend a week on Fair Isle learning all about island life (guided by Islanders) and witnessing the work of the Bird Observatory first hand.
  
  For more details, please contact Hollie Shaw at Fair Isle Bird Observatory:
  
  Tel:     01595 760 258
  E-mail: fairisle.birdobs@zetnet.co.uk
  Web: http://www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk
  
  ALSO
  SPECIAL AUGUST OFFER
  BETWEEN 5^TH AUGUST  AND 23^rd  AUGUST  2002 (inclusive),
  FAIR ISLE BIRD OBSERVATORY
  ARE OFFERING:
  50 % OFF ALL ACCOMMODATION

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OCTOBER

• The latest funding for Classic Fair Isle

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SEPTEMBER

• We are very pleased to report that Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has kindly agreed to be Patron of Classic Fair Isle. He hopes to visit Fair Isle for the premier performance next August.
  To date 470 has so far been raised by the Isle, and we should hear by December if we have been successful in securing a grant of 5000 for the project.
  
  Writing in the Fair Isle Times of 22nd September, Cara says that Garage coffee for Classic Fair Isle has raised 31.83 this week!
   

• A few Fair Isle Times updates reflecting the summer on Fair Isle,  including the Viking Invasion!
   

• Fair Isle School receives excellent report
  from HM Inspectors
  In a report published early in September HM Inspectors gave the Fair Isle Primary School a 'glowing' report with six indicators of quality described as very good, 12 as good and just two as fair.  No aspects were reported as unsatisfactory.
  Inspectors found a welcoming atmosphere with the pupils polite, friendly and very well-behaved.
  This report (as well as ones for other Shetland primary schools) is available for download at the HM Inspectorate of Education page -
  http://www.scotland.gov.uk/hmie/reportsshetlandprimary.htm

AUGUST

• More Work Camp pictures

• Letter from 1971 IVS volunteer
  

JULY

• Thistle 1 pictures
  NTS Thistle Camp 1 3rd - 17th July
   

• The year 2001 so far has seen a disappointing and saddening turn of events for the breeding seabirds on Fair Isle, especially the Arctic Terns.

JUNE

• 26th May, Fishing boat rescue - described by the children

MARCH

Chiropodist gets the foot treatment!
	Chris Hamer on one of his regular visits - like all travellers arriving at Fair Isle airstrip - steps into a disinfectant footbath as a precaution against bringing foot and mouth disease to the island.  Supervising is airstrip fireman and island postmistress/shopkeeper Fiona Mitchell.
	Even the pilot, Captain  Eddie Watt - assisted by islander John Best - steps through the footbath as he gets out of the Loganair Islander aircraft.

FEBRUARY

• Sauciness, Seduction, Sacrilege and Sex!
  - the Opera visits Fair Isle
  
  

• Fair Isle Silver Company wins gift industry's top prize!
  
  

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