Judging for Pride of Place
SLIGO will be putting its best foot forward next Monday when a judging panel from Pride of Place will be in town.
The judging group are visiting on August 8th and Sligo has two strong entries this year.
Tubbercurry is representing the county in the population category.
This is a category of a population between one thousand and two thousand people.
It’s apt timing for the south Sligo town, as the main event on its calendar, the Old Fair Day festival is taking place that week and packed crowds are expected during the celebrations.
In another category, known as the Communities Reaching Out, Sligo Town Twinning Committee are hoping for glory here.
The Sligo Town Twinning Committee is a voluntary group.
It was established by Sligo Borough Council in 1978 to administer the Town Twinning Programme.
Sligo is twinned with two European cities.
They are Crozon in Brittany and Kempten in Bavaria, along with one American sister city, Tallahassee in Florida.
Membership of the committee is open to all.
Sligo’s Town Twinning strength lies in its ability through its members to reach out to the local Sligo community.
This is done via schools, clubs and community groups and includes and encourages people to stay involved in ongoing programmes.
Throughout Ireland local authorities have made provisions for twinning as a ceremonial function in its annual estimates since 1991. The IPB Pride of Place awards provides a platform to showcase the 38 years of work carried out by this grouping and to see its amazing legacy over this timeframe.