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Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 4 April, 2014
Bonmahon BONMAHON COMMUNITY SOCIETY LOTTO Last week’s numbers drawn were 4-7-9-13. We had one Match 3 winner, Joanne Crowley but the jackpot remains un-cracked – Join us this Thursday when we play for €6,150. COPPER COAST GEOPARK Bookings are now being taken for our next Music night at the Copper Coast Geopark Centre on 10th April at 8 p.m. Liam Merriman will perform along with the other Katakana band members Eoin Maher and Nick Banks.Tickets are €15 each.
Contact Paula on 087 9148 100 or call into the centre in Bonmahon. The Deise Link Bus runs every Thursday and Saturday. Travel from Tramore to Dungarvan at reasonable rates. For Time table and more information contact (058) 20845. www.deiselink.ie The Geopark Centre is open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 11am to 5pm and on Sundays 12 to 4.30pm. School tours, field trips and Guided tours (groups of 10+) can be arranged on request by contacting 051 292828 or email to info@coppercoastgeopark.com
Stella Maris School visit the Copper Coast Geopark after their Guided Walk of Tankardstown and the Geological Garden.
Touraneena SLIABH gCUA LOTTO Week Ending 30th March, 2014. Lotto Jackpot €500. Winning numbers drawn were 12, 13, 23. No winner. New jackpot for next week is €600. 5 x €20 winners were Nora King, John Boyle, Sean Dalton, Seamus Whelan, Mick O'Mahoney. Promoter's Prize €20, Thomas Keane. Tickets are €2 each and can be purchased from committee members, designated promoters and all the local retail outlets.
Next draw is in Hanrahan's Bar, Ballinamult on Sunday, 6th April, 2014. TODAY FM SHAVE OR DYE CAMPAIGN Margaret Coffey, Knockmeal, Ballinamult, will be doing a head shave event on Holy Thursday, 17th April at New Images Hair Salon, Dungarvan. Margaret's event is part of the Today FM Shave or Dye campaign in aid of the Irish Cancer Society. If anybody would like to be associated with the event, there are sponsorship
cards available at Beary's Cross Stores and at Joe Coffey's Blinds and Curtain Shop, Dungarvan. All support greatly appreciated. LOST PROPERTY A ladies purse, dark in colour, was mislaid last Saturday in Garvey's Supervalu, Dungarvan. If anybody should return the purse to either Garvey's shop or the Garda station, Dungarvan, reward will be offered. ST. MARY’S CHURCH Family Mass this Sunday, 6th April at 11.15 a.m.
Deise Singers - Movies & Musicals Back in January when we announced details of our end of season concert on Thursday, 22nd May and Friday, May 23rd, we were saying ‘sure that’s months away’. But lo and behold its just seven weeks away now when you read this. How quickly time flies. We have been on a journey of the ‘Movies and Musical’s and we have dipped into ‘Evita’, ‘Working Girl’ ‘The King and I’, ‘Blood Brothers’, ‘West Side Story’ and ‘The Sound of Music’ to name
but a few. Everyone is working really hard to perfect our programme, so note the dates and don’t miss out. Congrats to Elaine, our accompanist on the birth of her first baby, Allison last week. Dungarvan Dramatic Society staged ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ’ last week. It was, yet again, an outstanding success. Congrats to the wonderful cast and everyone else involved. Coming up this week is ‘All Shook Up’, the stage production of the new
Dungarvan and West Waterford Theatre Group. We extend our congratulations and best wishes to this new group. The Deise Singers follow on with our end of season concert ‘Movies and Musicals’ for two nights only, Thursday, May 22nd and Friday, May 23rd. So you can see music and theatre is alive and well in Dungarvan. Rehearsal space has been at a premium in the theatre and elsewhere in the town since last September. Long may it continue. Keep tuned.
Youghal4All Updates . . . ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE Youghal celebrated St. Patrick’s Day in style this year with the largest and most colourful parade seen in the town in years. With 45 different groups participating from local sports clubs and businesses, to jugglers and musicians as well as groups from the hinterland of Inch, Killeagh and Ardmore (to mention but a few), the spectacle was something to behold. The Yougha4All organising committee were really on top of their game for this event. For the first time the parade order was pretty much decided in advance (and numbers issued to each participant) and thanks to the co-operation of most groups the parade was var-
ied well to keep everyone interested. It was such a success that at a post event debriefing plans were put in place to make next year’s parade one of the leading parades in the county. I’M A CELEB A unique event is coming to Youghal shortly. Yougha4All are organising an “I’m a Celebrity” event where locals heroes will be pitied against each other, the winner claiming King/Queen of the town. The event will see contestants in teams of two put through their paces in 5 rounds with titles such as “Death by Chocolate, Buzz Off, Cannibal carvery, Disgusting ducking and Dip and a Nip” Brave souls willing to participate for a cash prize and the coveted
crown should contact Youghal4all by facebook, email (youghalcc@gmail.com) or telephone 086 3252278. It promises to be a great night of fun and music (Disco to follow competition) and tickets are just €5. MOBY DICK FESTIVAL The first festival this year will be the 60th anniversary celebration of the Moby Dick filming in Youghal. Arrangements for the festival are well underway with old highlights such as the Teddy Bears picnic, showing of the film on the clock gate, street music and entertainment, writing competitions, a meet the extras segment and lots children’s fun being supplemented with a ball race down windmill hill, a live twinning with New
Bedford schools, a fun street Ceilí in Browne’s Street, acrobats and pirate shows and an Ocean parade. A mighty programme indeed! The official launch of the festival will take place at Easter but in the meantime be sure to start inviting friends and family home for the event. As always new members are welcome to join any of the sub committees involved with Youghal4All. So if you are feeling a bit inspired we need you. Alternatively or as well please support our fund raising efforts so we can make each festival bigger than the one before. Contact Ruth on 086-3252278.
Irish Red Cross Dungarvan WE had a great night at the Blue Light Fight Night last weekend, providing medical cover along with our Portlaw colleagues for this worthwhile fundraising event.Well done to all our members who gave their time for this
and the many other events we have been involved in. Attending events with the ambulance vehicles of the Portlaw unit, we are gaining invaluable experience for the future – many thanks for the great co-operation!
Our weekly training is progressing very well, it is great to see so much enthusiasm and willingness to learn. This week’s theme will be all about fractures – how to recognise and manage a potential fracture.
Abbeyside Scout Group WE started as normal with the Scout prayer and subs. We then started packing for the first camp this year at Glenshelane, from which we will have pictures next week, and we hope the weather is good! The scouts had to decide on a crucial issue ahead of camp – what to have for dinner on Saturday night. They voted for a choice of either a curry, a stew or barbeque, perhaps not surprisingly barbeque won hands down. They are like locusts, the food won’t stand a chance. We also had another session on Street Smarts and Self-Defence, amazing what a small scout can do to an adult, if he knows how!
We issued stage 2 camping and hillwalking badges, with stage 3 to follow for those scouts who recently did the Coumshingaun mountain hike, and backwoods badges are following also. And now, the first mention of annual camp dates, please put 13th-19th July on diaries, wall calendars, phones and wherever else it is sure to be saved. We are not announcing the venue or programme for another while, but it is an Irish camp and relatively close to Dungarvan. Guesses can be written in pencil on a €10 note (non-refundable) and given to any leader. Winner gets a fiver.The meeting on the 2nd will be Mufti.
Picture shows Irish Red Cross members from the Waterford branches in Waterford City, Dungarvan and Portlaw following the recent completion of the Therapeutic Handcare Course in the Dr Martin Day Centre in Portlaw.