H.M.Queen Royal visit to Food Town

Castle Douglas Food Town are pleased to announce the Royal Visit of H.M. Queen on Wednesday 14th July.
H.M. Queen will be arriving in the town approx 2:30pm by car at Wallets Mart by Market Hill, Members of the public will be able to see her visit to the livestock market by viewing near Haugh's garage and near Market Hill car park.

The Food Town Initiative are very please to have been invited to introduce representatives of the independent businesses in the town and this will be done in a marquee within the Wallets Mart car park facing Haugh's garage.

The Initiative welcome the Queen to our wonderful Market town with it's host of independent shops and look forward to good crowds coming to see Her Majesty on a historic day for the town.

Please let us know if you need more info concerning The Queens visit to Castle Douglas.

Welcome to the Food Town Initiative Blog site in conjunction with the Food Town's web site http://www.cd-foodtown.org/.

The initiative would like to use this opportunity to communicate with Businesses, Community Groups and Town Folk concerning Castle Douglas and how the town is branded as a Food Town.

Please feel free to make suggestions or comments on how you feel this wonderful town of ours, with it's Independent shops and Unique Shopping Experience, could be improved to help create that special visitor experience. This is very important for the economic stability to the Town as it needs visitor income all year round.

The image above is one of the activities organised by the Initiative in 2009 when we held, in Partnership with schools, a Local & Healthy Food Menu to be created and cooked by young pupils from Primary and the first year High School. A newsletter will also be available to view on our web site that highlights some of the activities the Initiative has been involved in during 2009 so far.

Hope to receive many interesting items from you all.

Steve.