ANNASCAUL

FITNESS CLASS

’Movement Mondays’ will commence this Monday 3rd of September in the Community Centre in Annascaul from 7:30pm-8:30pm. Combining dynamic Yoga and dance, learn, move & stretch. Suitable for beginners. €10 per class. Call 0892554848 for booking and enquiries. Or just drop in.

INCH BEACH HALF MARATHON/10K BEACH RUN

A date for the diary: Sunday 16th September, for the Inch Beach Half Marathon and 10K Beach Run. To register - https:// register.primoevents.com/ps/ event/InchBeachHalfMarathonAnd10KBeachRunWalk.

Half marathon & 10k run will have separate start times. Half marathon at 10:30am / 10k run at 11:30am. All proceeds go to community projects and nominated charities. - The nominated charities for 2018 are K.I.D.S Kerry Intervention & Disability Services and Cuan Counselling. This is a non-profit event organised for your enjoyment.

HERITAGE WEEK

A fantastic event took place last Sunday with the help of Irish Wildlife Trust, Irish Seed Savers and Mossy O’Connor who gave a fabulous talk on Water birds, bats and Freshwater Mussels, Aisling O’Connor our local artist displayed some of her wonderful collection and made a presentation on Life Cycle Art. Elizabeth Brookes put in an enormous effort into making this event so interesting. Gretta’s herbs was there with local produce. The day was ended with tea/coffee, cosy chats and home- baking supplied by the local children. Inch Beach ParkrunInch Beach Parkrun starts at 9.30am every Saturday morning. Please have your barcode laminated. If you can’t. Let us know and we will help. Our scanners cannot scan phones or laptops. No printed barcode no results. Put your names down for volunteer. All fun. Run/Walk/Buggies/Dogs on leads/Beach Wheelchair to book phone 086-2663186Annascaul Adventures (Training)Annascaul Adventures is a voluntary, community based, non profit organisation based in Annascaul.

The committee was formed in 2015 by a group of local residents from all across the community of Annascaul.Throughout the last few years several sucessful training courses have been completed. We organised an essential course in first aid/diphibulator. As a result there are fifteen members of our community who are qualified. KETB provided a three week course in biodiversity in which ten residents trained sucessfully.

An Teasca provided training on planting Marram grass on Inch beach for the committee in which we held some lovely Sunday mornings protecting our sandunes. Streamscapes a multi award winning organisation trained several people and organisations including Dingle Tidy Towns upstairs at the South Pole Inn on the intervebrates of Annascaul river. Annascaul Adventures held a training evening with Conservation Bats of Ireland for surveying the Daubenton bats.To our surprise we had families from different parts of Kerry, Limerick and Bray. Birdwatch Ireland organised a training course in birds in Maynooth University. Teachers from all over europe attended. Elizabeth Brookes recieved a certificate on completion and is now in a position to visit schools and provide teaching in innovative bird education programmes. Annascaul Adventures are delighted to support Elizabeth and wish to express our gratude on the many biodiversity projects she has organised. Up-coming training events - This October-workshops, The Cottage Herbalist will give training on fermination and natural cleaning products. This will take place in Annascaul Community Care Centre. Limited places, contact Ph. 086 2663186

NIGHT AT THE DOGS

Annascaul GAA will be holding a fundraising Night at the Dogs at Kingdom Greyhound Stadium, Saturday 8th September. Tickets, priced at €10, include entry to the rack track on the night and a race programme, and can now be purchased from players and committee members. As well as being a fun night out, this is an important fundraising event for our club development plans and we look forward to as much support as possible.

WHIST RESULTS

Ladies: 1st Mary Kenny, 2nd Bridie McDermot, 1st Interval: Bridie Lyne, 2nd Interval: Mary Devane. Gents: 1st Pat Moore, 2nd George Finn & Sandra Hoffman & Mary Shanahan. 1st Interval: Gerry Curran, 2nd Interval: Femma Haverman, Raffle: 1st Bridie Lyne, 2nd Brid Malone, 3rd Nora Devine, 4th Mary Shanahan, 5th Siobhan Kennedy, 6th Ann Kavanagh, 7th Bridie Mc Dermot. Mystery: Maureen Dowling, Ann Moss.

MUSIC CLASS

Music class led by local singer ‘Kaiona Solas’ (who featured at this years Annascaul Singing Festival) starting this week. Every Monday from 6:30pm-7:30pm in the Community Centre in Annascaul. Only €5 per person per class. We will cover rhythm, harmonyy, basic music theory and practical musicianship. ALL levels WELCOME young and old!Ph. 0892554848