The Newmarket Parent and Toddler Group will be starting up again next tuesday 11th Sept from 1030 to 1230 in the CYMS. “It suits kids from 0 – 5 they can play with a wide range of toys provided and sometimes we paint or do arts and crafts. The moms can enjoy a cuppa depending on the behaviour of their little ones !!!”
Newmarket Community Development are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a second LEADER grant from IRD for the Town Park. This grant will partially fund an Outdoor Gym, 2 Picnic Tables, Poured Rubber Surfacing for the playground (work has already been completed), a new Lawn Mower for maintaining all the green areas in the town, Lights for the path in the park and a wildlife Board. This extra work means that the amount we need to raise ourselves has risen to almost €30,000. Donations would be greatly appreciated, we will be running many events to fund raise throughout the year so please support. You can donate directly to the town park fund: AIB a/c Sort Code 93-61-70 a/c no. 25218024 (Newmarket Community Development Association).
The outdoor gym will be provided by a company called Spraoi Linn. We have talked to a number of people around the country who have had these types of gyms installed and also to people involved in fitness to ensure that we get an outdoor gym of good quality, which will suit all levels of fitness. There will be two types of equipment – more advanced equipment that use your own body weight to provide resistance. These pieces are quite simple in design but can be used in multiple ways. We have also included a Health Walker and a Ski Stepper which can be used by the fit to the not so fit. We will be running a number of events next year with this equipment to demonstrate how to use it.
The picnic benches are being made by our locals Men’s Shed’s group and will be put beside the playground. We are also designing a wildlife board to include in the park – showing the many different birds and bats that can be seen in our local area.
We are currently putting together a planning application for the lighting but it is hoped that the new path with will be fully lit so the park will be more accessible and safer. The rubber surfacing in the playground has been completed and is now much safer than the tiles that were there before which were beginning to lift and separate. Finally the Lawn Mower was much needed for keeping the green areas in the town clean and tidy.
We would like to thank all those involved in submitting this grant application. Many people gave up their time and skills for free in order to get the application in on time. It was a real team effort. We hope these new amenities in the town will be used. Thank you!
The McAuliffee Clan Gathering weekend will commence on Friday 20th July in the CYMS Hall, Newmarket. For a full list of all events and activities you can follow them on their Facebook page:
The resurfacing in the playground will be completed today, Wednesday, 27th of June and the fencing will be taken down this evening, so the playground will be open again for tomorrow. Thank you for your patience with this.
The playground will be closed from Sunday the 24th of June to Thursday the 28th of June for resurfacing. The new surfacing is wet pour rubber and needs to set for a few days so there will be no access to the area for these few days. Thank you.
Another jam-packed festival is planned for 2012 and the full programme of events can be found on the above site and on brochures which will shortly be appearing around the town.
22 days and counting!
We have entered the Cork County Council litter challenge and there will be three different judging periods focusing on distinct areas of the town:
- Week 1 – 21/05/12-30/05/12 – New Street, High Street, Main Street, Church Street
- Week 2 – 04/06/12-13/06/12 – Scarteen Street, Charleville Road, Demesne
- Week 3 – 18/06/12-27/06/12 – Town Park (West End), Priory Park and the Pound Hill
We didn’t include the whole town as we had to enter a set number of areas but we will be doing a clean-up of the whole town every Tuesday night meeting at 7PM at the Town Park. We have been improving in the Tidy Towns competition every year and we’d like to make a real effort this year to do well and make our town look pretty.
Newmarket, Cork Premier Intermediate Football Champions 2011 – the book, mapping Newmarket’s historic county title success last October will be launched on Saturday night, April 28th in Dan Hourigan’s Bar at 9pm.
The publication maps the fairytale journey of the Newmarket footballers to ultimate glory in Páirc Uí Chaoimh. The 120 page colour publication contains match reports, player profiles, intermediate championship records and stats and several photographs all savouring the memorable historic achievement. The book is priced at €15 and will be available from next weekend.
This is the work we’ll be attempting to get done on the day – we need a lot of bodies to get this done so please come out and give us a hand:
- planting all along the wall at the back of the church car park
- weeding of biodiversity garden outside the Protestant Graveyard.
- set-up of bird boxes in the Protestant Graveyard.
- planting pots (5/6) on the Charleville Road
- planting the big planters on pound Hill etc. (8)
- general clean-up of the town
We will provide as much equipment as possible – but for the gardening work if you can bring along any tools you feel would be useful.
