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Camp Notes Brigid O’ Connor Ciorcal Cómhrá Beidh an Ciorcal Cómhrá ar suil as seo amach ar an chéad Aoine sa Mhí i tigh tábhairne úi Neill, Railway Tavern sa Cham. Fáilte roimh cách ! Ranganna Gaeilge/Irish Classes Camp Community Childcare Centre are providing Irish Classes for children 5-12 years old, Tuesdays, starting 20th September. Improve their spoken Irish through conversation and crafts. Teagmháil/Contact Máire 086 8560961. Harvest Thanksgiving Harvest Thanksgiving Service will be held at Kilgobbin Church on Sunday, 25th September at 3.00 p.m. Afterwards teas and refreshments will be served at the Old School, Camp. Everybody welcome. Camp Junction Vintage Rally The annual Camp Junction Vintage Rally will be held on Sunday next September 18th at the rear of Camp Junction Bar. Enjoy a real authentic experience of a traditional working day on a farm with vintage tractors, cars, bikes, old machinery, sheep shearing, threshing machine and more. And childrens entertainment, Tugof-War, novelty side shows, ICA stall, Raffle. Teas, coffees, food and music in the bar. All proceeds go to the Kerry Branch of The Irish Kidney Association. Camp Fair And the following day, 19th. September is Camp Fair day and this year is promising to be bigger and better than ever. Pens of quality Scotch mountain sheep, rams, lambs, wethers and lowland breeds will be on sale at the Fair all day. The Sheep Show in Dalys yard starting at 1.00 p.m. is one of the highlights of the day with prizes for top quality sheep. Please return perpetual trophies to Dalys Bar before the fair ! The Pet show, all animals big and small is at O

Dwyers/Mace yard at 3.30 p.m. And the Fancy Dress Parade starts at the Old School at 4.30 around the village. The Childrens creative art wall display will on show at the Old school. Mutton pies and food all day in Ashes Bar and Restaurant, O Dwyers/Mace Café and Fitzgeralds, The Junction Bar and Restaurant. Music in the pubs in the evening and late into the night. Camp Fair is a great day out for all the family. ICA Camp ICA will once again provide teas and refreshments on Camp Fair Day at The Old School. The ladies are putting in a huge effort this year and will be participating in the fancy dress later in the day. They would appreciate home baking ! And all proceeds go towards the Kerry Hospice Association. NORA’S FAVOURITES Nora Rice, Cappaclough, Camp has released a music CD. Nora’s favourites is a collection of traditional songs and music, beautifully sung by Nora herself , Musical accompaniment by Kathleen Mulcahy/Rolands on Fiddle, Solar Systems Bernadette Hennessy/Slattery, Concertina and Hennessy on guitar. TomDonagh Kennedy Music wasoralways a tradition inWell Nora’s family. Solar..panels tubes, what's the difference? they both provide hot water when heated by the sun’s energy, thus saving you energy, Her Aunt Mary Rice/Knightly was a beautibe it oil, gas or electricity. ful singer and Uncle Joe Rice was musical A solar system will save up to 70% of your annual hot water bill. When it comes to tubes versusgrandmother panels, the tubes areNora marginally more eftoo. And Nora’s Spillane, ficient than panels, but realistically the difference is small, especially originally from The Maharees played the acwhen we have had such a great spell of sunshine. cordeon and"solar on system" her mothers side the famThere is another known in the tradeof as "Thermodynamic" this a solar panel that works in the dark. Yes with no sunshine, ily, theis Landers, Ballinahunt, Annascaul loved you ask how! music and dancing. Nora’s CD is available for Well the answer is simple really, it's not a solar panel it's a heat pump. sale in the local pubs and O Dwyers/Mace, The way it works is a panel is fitted to your roof which is connected to a unit and in your hot press. This isCastlegregory, a compressor similar Camp, Thecylinder Information Centre to what's found in a fridge, this unit pumps a refrigerant gas into the Castlegreggory Golf Club and in panel where it heats due to the fact that the gas Music has a veryshops low boiling of about -25 Celsius so this hot gas comes back into the unit, inpoint Dingle where the gas is compressed to make it hotter, the heat is then trans-

ferred to create heat. However, this unit is dependant on electricity Obituary to operate so while saving money on heating hot water it does so at a cost. The death of James Courtney, Main Street, Take for example a typical familymember home with 3 to occupants, costs Castlegregory, former of5 Kerry on average about €1,500 to €2,000 per year to heat, of which about a County Council occurred on Tuesday last. 1/4 to 1/3 of this is hot water, so a typical hot water bill for a family of 5 is somewhere in the of region €450 to €650serving a year. James was one theof longest public A solar system for a family of 5in canIreland. cost anything €4,000 to representatives ever Hefrom was first €5,500 supplied and fitted, giving them a yearly saving of approx elected in 1955 on behalf of The Kerry Farm€350 to €500 and when you take into account the rising cost of energy, a system can payand for itself 5 tosubsequent 10 years. ers Association ininall elections he succeeded in winning an Independ-

ent seat on Kerry Co. Council which he held up until his retirement in 1999. James saw many constituency boundary changes over the years which he took in his stride and he managed to build a strong support base in many places far away from home, his strength was very much in the personal touch approach in the old fashioned way he kept in touch, visiting people in their homes, hearing their problems and issues, he made many friends in this way. James was laid to rest on Friday at Killiney Cemetary following requiem Mass at St. Marys Church, Castlegregory. On Thursday evening friends, former supporters and public representatives formed a guard of honour outside St. Marys Church, Castlegregory as the cortege left Lynch’s funeral home. James is survived by his nieces, nephews, grand nieces and grand nephews, brother in law, relatives and many friends. His wife Rita predeceased him. Sympathy is extended to all. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

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