Cowal Community Hospital Cowal Community Hospital Cowal Community Hospital is a Community Hospital in Dunoon on the Cowal peninsula, Argyll and Bute in the West of Scotland. It is managed by NHS Highland. This hospital provides cover for the Cowal peninsula population, numbering some fifteen thousand people. Dunoon and District General Hospital opened in 1966 with 74 beds, mainly configured in four-bed wards. It has a GP-led Accident and Emergency Department, a Maternity Unit, Dental Surgery Suite, an eight bed General Ward and there is also numerous Consultant led Clinics held at the hospital. funded by NHS Highland, a four bed hospice and
Scottish Games in North Carolina Scotland. The MacRae family owned the land where the games were held at the foot of Grandfather Mountain in Linville, North Carolina. The MacRae family actually founded the town of Linville in 1892 and had always wanted to have a Highland gathering there, even if just a small event. In 1955, Mrs. Morton contacted Donald MacDonald, who at the time was working for "The Charlotte News" and had also founded the Clan Donald Society not long before that as well as helping establish a Robert Burns Society of Charlotte. Knowing his dedication to Scottish culture, Mrs. Morton set out to