Ballycanew

COUNTRY MUSIC NIGHT

Ballycanew Tidy Towns presents a Country Music Extravaganza on Saturday, April 15, in the Ashdown Park Hotel. Doors open at 9 p.m. Music by Paul Molloy and his Country Band (Jew3L Harmony), Jimmy Hogan and Lar Kenny, Seán Molloy and Kevin Mullhall. Admission €10. Raffle on the night. Tickets can be purchased from Fás office 1059427676 or Lili Masterson 087 6380966. A great nights music guaranteed. Your support would be greatly appreciated.

BALLYCANEW NS

Enrolments are now being taking for new pupils for September 2017. Please call to the school office or call 053 9427496 for an application form and return to the school office by April 30.

Clothes Collection: the school is holding a clothes recycling collection on Monday, May 8, to help raise funds for the school. Please donate all your new and used men’s/women’s and children’s clean unwanted clothing, paired shoes, towels, belts, handbags, ties, lines, household textiles, stuffed toys etc. Please leave bags into GP hall on Friday, May 5, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. or before 9.30 a.m. on Monday, May 8,. Please do not leave bags after 9.30 a.m. on the Monday morning. Thank you for your support.

BALLYOUGHTER NS

Ballyoughter national school are now accepting enrolments for the school year 2017/2018. Please call into the school or contact the school at 9382000 for an application form. Alternatively you can email the school at ballyoughterns@eircom.net and we will send you on an application form.

ST PATRICK’S GAA LOTTO

There was no winner of last week’s jackpot; winning numbers were 9, 11, 14 and 16; Chrissie Kinsella matched three numbers to receive €200.

WHIST DRIVE RESULTS

Results of whist drive held in hall on Friday night March 31 – Gents; first Peg Byrne; second – Colin; third – John McLoughlin; Gents Half time; P Stafford; Ladies first Anne Roche; Ladies – second Flo Kavanagh and Alice Gibney Anne Roche; second Maria Donegan and Anne Fleming; third Flo Kavanagh; Ladies Half Time – Arlene Dooley. Whist drive every Friday night in the hall.

FIRST RESPONDERS

A great days training was had for new volunteers recently but we are still volunteers are still needed to join the Ballycanew Community First Responders. This is a very worthy cause.

BCFR is a recently formed group where volunteers will be trained in using a defibrillator and will attend people reporting cardiac arrest, stroke, choking or chest pain while an ambulance is being dispatched. In order for BCFR to progress we need more volunteers. It will work around your own commitments. If you would like more information please contact John at 087 0541408 or Karen at 087 9052238.

CHURCH GATE COLLECTION

Please support the church gate collection in the Gorey District on April 8 and nine in aid of Fighting Blindness.

COLLECTION THANKS

A sincere thanks to all those who contributed to the Irish Association For Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Wexford Branch church gate collection which took place in Ballycanew and Ballyoughter. The total collected was: Ballycanew €204.70, Ballyoughter €104.65. Your continued support is greatly appreciated.

NOTES

If you have anything you would like included in your local notes please contact Ann at 087 7433684 or email annkehoe@yahoo.ie by 6 p.m. on Sunday evenings at the latest and by 6 p.m. on Thursday evenings when a Bank Holiday occurs.