10 Questions with Louise Pearson

For this issue we lead with an interview with the new GALE CEO, Louise Pearson.

The new Chief Executive Officer at GALE Action Forum talks to us about her winding route to the role, her hopes for GALE, and how themes of people, power and belonging unite her art and community development work.

See pages 14-15.

Also in this issue:

• 6 weeks of overnight road closures end
• Locals thanked for supporting new WW2 memorial
• Letters: Vandalism at Community Hall
• MSPs to consider NC500 petition for ban on informal motorhome camping
• Heating oil help continued
• Gaelic in Gairloch and Wester Ross
• Local radio presenter in running for national award
• Astronomy: October Skies
• Wester Ross Biosphere’s Dark Skies Fest
• Bluetongue Restricted Zone extended
• Peter Cunningham’s Nature Diary
• LATEST: Jobs, Directory and What’s On

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Correction Notice: After we went to print with this issue we realised that we had got the dates about a planned road closure in Torridon Glen wrong. In the print issue we said the road closure would take place on November 5. In fact, it will take place from November 9 - 12. The digital version available for download here includes the correct dates. We regret the error.