A NEW EXPERIENCE FOR ALL
The entry form for the 2021 SuperValu Tidy Towns competition has been emailed with all of the documents required being sent online this year, a new experience for all of us! According to the Tidy Towns unit of the Department of Rural and Community Development, it is remote adjudication this year, that is adjudicators will not be visiting participating centres.
However those of us working with Lismore Tidy Towns want Lismore town’s standard of presentation to be the same as if the adjudicators were visiting. We ask people who have litter picks to watch out for litter in their own areas, even when not rostered.
The work team had another busy week last week with washing street furniture and general tidying the main agenda. Gates at Lady Louisa’s Walk and two at the water treatment were washed plus a number of black lamp standards in that area. The top of the wall at the water treatment plant was weeded, sweeping was carried out at Lady Louisa’s car park, around the Spout and from the Spout over Lismore bridge to the Ballyduff Road. Jim one of our CE workers swept all of the footpaths in the Millennium Park and around the traffic lights on West Street, swept under seating at West Street and North Mall, cleaned walls at the front of the public toilets and swept the main car park, weeded the ditch at BankField and the Grotto there. Pat weeded beds at Lios An Oir and entrance to Bothar Mochuda and did sweeping at TownParks.
It would be great to see all property owners in the Main Street and West Street areas sweeping outside footpath kerbing and picking up debris, doing this is a contribution to the Tidy Towns effort in Lismore. Thanks to those people who do this regularly.
Thanks to Michael McBride and Nora O’Connor who worked on the compost area in the Millennium Park last week. New Signage was put up at to explain how the composting system at this site works and to ensure that the proper bay is being used to dispose of green and brown material. This area was developed in 2017 and part of last week’s work was to empty one of the bays as the compost was ready for use. This is our second harvest with four large bags of good compost being produced. This will be used to enrich planted areas in Lismore town.
New signage was put up at the two community orchards planted by Lismore Tidy Towns at the Chapel Street entrance to Lios An Oir and at Bank Field. Thanks to Jacinta and Michael at Munster Design and Print for their help with the design and production of the sign and to local staff at Waterford City and Co. Co. for putting signs up for us. Funding for the apple trees was through the Local Agenda Environmental Partnership Grant 2020 and the signage was funded by a Tidy Towns grant received from the Dept. of Rural and Community Dev. in 2020.
ECO TIP OF THE WEEK INDOOR HOUSE PLANTS — ARE THEY GOOD FOR THE HOME ENVIRONMENT?
Indoor plants add a layering effect and they are visually calming but they are more than that. In 1989 NASA undertook a Clean Air Study to research ways to clean the air in space stations. Discoveries include the fact that the Peace Lily is a benzyne and formaldehyde removing powerhouse as is English Ivy. Spider plants can help remove xylene and toluene as does the Boston Fern. So, if you are looking for an excuse to become a Plant Parent, then the cause for cleaner air is a noble prompt.