| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Helen M MacLeod | I would like to decide whether or not I go for a swim on a Sunday. Why should the council members ban me from doing so? Every individual is free to use their own free time as they see fit (as long as they abide by the law!) How can the council deny thousands of people such a simple pleasure as swimming when they have allowed the folk of uist and Barra the same privilege for so long? Are we not the same people? Everyone should contact their own councillor and urge them to raise this at the next council meeting. Good luck!! |
| 2 | George MacLeod | It is an absolute disgrace that such a petition is needed.
I often feel that the day of rest has come to mean a day of sloth.
For a municipal sport centre to be shut for half the weekend is appalling.
Council members should be ashamed for banning sport and recreation during the weekend. For some people the only day they could use a sport centre is a Sunday. |
| 3 | Paul Murray | |
| 4 | Alexander D Murray | |
| 5 | Alexander M Murray | |
| 6 | Morag Murray | |
| 7 | Sarah Mackenzie | |
| 8 | george campbell | |
| 9 | murray macleod | |
| 10 | calum morrison | |
| 11 | Murdo MacAulay | |
| 12 | catherine Morrison | |
| 13 | Catherine Steele | |
| 14 | Uisdean Macleod | |
| 15 | Alastair Ian Macarthur | All sports and swimming clubs should be open seven days a week so that so that folks can use the facilities as and when they like.Also for the added health benifits. |
| 16 | Roddy Murray | |
| 17 | Anonymous | It is important that families have the opportunity to engage in sport activities over the full weekend. |
| 18 | Catriona MacAulay | |
| 19 | Catherine Kennedy | |
| 20 | Beth MacArthur | People should have a choice to be healthy, even on a Sunday!!! |
| 21 | SHIRLEY PEARSON | Providing staffing wouldn't be a problem, I strongly support the opening of the Sports Centre in Stornoway for 7 days a week. |
| 22 | Ann Morrison | |
| 23 | Susan Buchanan | It's an outrage that our children only have two days a week when the're not in full time education . When they should have the pleaseure of getting fit and doing family activities, that they are unable to because of a extrememly small number of small minded religious biggats. There are numerous religions and people who abide by the sabbath on the mainland , however , they do not imposed there practices on the rest of the population. So please allow those who want to use the fabulous facilities provided to do so. |
| 24 | Bill Morrison | |
| 25 | Finlay MacLeod | Civic life is not held in check in this way by a sect or self-interest faction anywhere else in developed countries. |
| 26 | iain macleod | We who live on these islands have denied ourselves this kind of service for too long.
If not now when?? |
| 27 | Mairi Smith | |
| 28 | James Smith | I have to work 6 days a week to make a living from my business, my only opportunity to use the sports centre on a regular basis would be on a Sunday. It is crazy that I can swim in Castlebay on a Sunday but not in Stornoway |
| 29 | Ellis Macleod | Children and adults in Lewis and Harris must have the same opportunities to live healthy active lives as those living elsewhere in the islands and the rest of Scotland. |
| 30 | Ramie Duncan | |
| 31 | Donald Macleod | |
| 32 | Evelyn Coull | |
| 33 | Melissa Thompson | |
| 34 | Christine Mackay | |
| 35 | Catriona Macleod | |
| 36 | Susan Morrison | |
| 37 | Diane Macleod | |
| 38 | Isla MacDiarmid | It would be excellent to have the swimming pool open on a sunday, something for kids to do as well give them more time to enjoy the pool, rather than trying to cram all activities into a saturday! |
| 39 | M C Macritchie | |
| 40 | Andrew Dunn | Its well over due! |
| 41 | ANN-MARIE HENDERSON | Childhood obesity is fast becoming a problem - even here in the Hebrides, it is important that all generations can access fun, safe activities that the sports centre provides 7 days a week. Sometimes this is the only day of the week that families can spend together, and having this facility available on a Sunday, at least provides people with an opportunity to do something fun. The weather here does not always allow families etc to go for a walk or to the beach on a Sunday. |
| 42 | Anonymous | As long as it was staffed through choice and they were not made to work, then why not? |
| 43 | Anonymous | freed of choice |
| 44 | Erica Macleod | |
| 45 | G McArthur | Dont get healthy, get drunk seems to be the message from the local council |
| 46 | Val Maclennan | Please overturn this decision & have the Lewis & Harris sports centres opened on Sundays :) |
| 47 | Chris Gillies | |
| 48 | Fiona Smith | |
| 49 | Cat Morrison | |
| 50 | Murdo Macleod | The above named Council are happy to grant licenses for premises to sell alcohol an a Sunday so it is a paradox that the are unwilling to allow the people of Lewis & Harris an opportunity to go swimming, etc, particularly when they open similar facilities in Uist & Barra. A simply discriminatory example of double standards! |