by Skibbereen Tidy Towns
As the summer draws to a close Skibbereen Tidy Towns volunteers are still making the most of the weekly Tuesday work evenings. The committee is delighted to welcome a number of new volunteers in recent months and this means we can get more work done around the town. Soon it will be too dark for our Tuesday work evenings and the committee shifts its focus to plan for the year ahead. Please watch our social media channels (Facebook and Twitter) for volunteering events as they are planned over the winter months.
In this month’s newsletter we are delighted to share the results of two key projects that were recently completed.
August saw the unveiling of the original anvil used on the site of the McCarthy foundry going back to the 1800s. The anvil has pride of place in a newly created garden designed, planted and maintained by Tidy Towns volunteers located at Upper Bridge Street. Feel free to stop by and have a look.
The unveiling took place with four generations of the McCarthy family in attendance along with many locals. It was lovely to hear Hannah O’Driscoll, Mary Brown and Donie Davis speaking about the history of the foundry here in Skibbereen.
They say a picture tells a thousand words and in this case a video, so we are delighted to have permission from Donie Davis to share with us all his memories of working in the foundry in this 2 minute video clip:
September is a month when the Tidy Towns judging year comes together. On 24th we will be advised of the results for the Supervalu Tidy Towns competition and will share those in next month’s newsletter.
In the meantime we are delighted to advise that Skibbereen has been awarded third place in our category of the annual Cork County Council Anti-Litter Challenge for 2018. Representing Skibbereen at the event at county hall on 6th September were Mary O’Shea and Sandra Flynn, pictured below with Mayor of Cork County, Councillor Patrick Gerard Murphy and Tim Lucey, Chief Executive of Cork County Council.
The challenge takes place in May and June annually and aims to raise awareness of litter pollution and encourage communities to reduce litter. We look forward to increased support from the Skibbereen community to improve this position in 2019.
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Featured image courtesy of Pixabay
Tidy Towns logo courtesy of SustainableSkibbereen
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