Newmarket Community Development Association will be running a Street Museum as part of the Days of The Region Month being organised by IRD Duhallow.  The idea is that both businesses and private houses in the town will put up displays in their windows that are of cultural or historical interest to Newmarket; anything from old photographs, posters, old objects, poems, songs, history of the building or more elaborate displays.  There will be a prize for best display.  The event will run from 2-5PM on the 20th of July.  If you would like to take part please give your name, address and theme of your display to Eilis Hourigan (087-2480935) or email to contact@athtrasna.com before the 1st of July.

We are nearing the end of the work within the town park.  The last items to be finished are the outdoor gym and some new picnic tables (made for us by our local Mens Sheds group).  These items will be in place by the end of June.  With all grants in this will leave the total money we need to pay off at €15, 314.  We are a small committee so this is a considerable amount of money for us to raise.  We will be organising a number of fundraising events throughout the year and would like to appeal for support from the community.  We are grateful to other organisations and groups for their assistance, such as beginner’s corner montesorri who are running a pyjama day in early June to raise funds for the park.  If you would like to donate directly you can lodge to our AIB account (Sort Code 93-61-70 a/c no. 25218024 (Newmarket Community Development Association)) or you can talk to any of our committee members.

We would also like to put out our usual appeal for articles and photographs for the website. We are building a nice library of old pictures and articles about the town.  On the day of the street museum (20th of July) we will be serving refreshments, and will have a group of crafts people demonstrating their skills (location to be confirmed).  We will also have a few computers and scanners so that people can bring their old photos and have them scanned while they wait for inclusion on the website.  We have received some absolute gems of pictures and are sure there are plenty more out there – it would be great to get them out of albums and boxes and to share them with the community and our diaspora.  If you have an article you would like to contribute please send to contact@athtrasna.com or talk to any committee member we are interested in anything to do with Newmarket: history, geography, anecdotes, poems, songs, nature.