{"id":48,"date":"2017-03-25T14:05:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T14:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmonae.wpengine.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2017-04-15T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T09:11:10","slug":"group-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skelmonaewindfarm.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/25\/group-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/skelmonae.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Home-Start-group-outing-to-SWF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>A group of local parents and children from Home-Start (a charity that supports families) visited in April 2011, to give the children a fun and educational day out.\u00a0 We first showed them around Skelmonae Farm and allowed\u00a0the children to climb onboard some of the big machinery that we used during construction of the windfarm, before taking everyone on a tour in and around the wind turbines and the viewpoint at the top of the hill.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/skelmonae.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Home-Start-group-at-Skelmonae-Farm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/skelmonae.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Home-Start-group-inspects-wind-turbine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"164\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/skelmonae.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Beaver-Scouts_medium-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>A group of Methlick Beaver Cubs came to visit Skelmonae Windfarm in May 2010 and had a guided tour to look around the site and inside the towers. They learned how electricity can be generated by using just the power of the wind. The children were very interested to get close to the turbines and many commented on how quietly the blades turned. Methlick Beaver Cubs wrote in our visitors\u2019 book: \u201cThank you for our visit to see the fantastic quiet windmills.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/skelmonae.wpengine.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/25\/beaver-cubs-thank-you-drawings-may-2010\/\">Please click here to see the lovely drawings and Thank You notes that they also sent to us after their tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One 10-year old schoolchild who attended a guided tour of the windfarm sent us a Thank You card saying: \u201cIt was really amazing and I couldn\u2019t believe how tall they were and how quiet they were.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of local parents and children from Home-Start (a charity that supports families) visited in April 2011, to give the children a fun and educational day out.\u00a0 We first showed them around Skelmonae Farm and allowed\u00a0the children to climb onboard some of the big machinery that we used during construction of the windfarm, before &hellip; <\/p>\n<p 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