Events
Kanturk Mallow Municipal District – Towns Garden & Floral Display Competition 2015
Cork County Council have announced Garden and Floral Display Competition for 2015. The towns included are Millstreet, Mallow, Kanturk, Buttevant and Newmarket. There is a Prize fund for each town in each category. The categories are Best Overall Display – Housing Estate, Best Front Garden Display, Commercial Floral Display and between the 5 towns Best Overall Prizes. The entry fee is 5 euro and entry forms can be gotten from Carnegie Hall, here in Millstreet. So lets get planting people. We can totally win top prize in the overall categories. See Cork County Council website for full details. http://www.corkcoco.ie/co/web/Cork%20County%20Council/Departments/Environment%20%26%20Waste/News%20%26%20Events?did=302116191. Have fun planting and don’t forget that Millstreet Tidy Town are running Best Frontage and Best Commercial, judging throughout the summer months.
Litter Pick Up
It’s that time of week again. The weekly Litter Pick Up will be held tomorrow evening. Meeting point is The Square at 7pm. All pickers, bags and gloves will be provided. Hope to see you all there.
In The Corkman
A huge big thank you to John Tarrant for the fabulous write up that Millstreet Tidy Town Association received in this weeks Corkman. It is a great salute to all the hard work that all the volunteers put into our town keeping it both clean and beautiful. Anyone who would like to help, please do not hesitate in contacting us here on the website http://millstreettidytown.ie/contact/ Facebook and Twitter. All help is gratefully accepted. Remember Tidy Town Judging has begun and will not finish until end of August. Also don’t forget our own local award running this year. http://millstreettidytown.ie/best-frontage-competition-2015/.
Weekly Litter Pick Up
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ekly Litter Pick Up is organised for this evening @ 7pm, meeting point is The Square, Millstreet. All bags, gloves and pickers will be provided. Hope to see you all there. Remember that the Tidy Town judging has begun since the 13th June and will continue until the end of the summer. They could pop up @ anytime so all help is gratefully successful.
St Mary’s Clean Up
Millstreet Tidy Town Association are delighted to report that with the help of Millstreet Macra, and under the watchful eye of Gordon, the clean up at St Mary’s Cemetery was a huge success. There were lots of hard workers pulling weeds in the pathways, raking and edging as well. Colman was able to spray the paths this evening I left. It just goes to show with a little help we can achieve massive things. We hope to continue with these projects in the future and really hope that more people will come and volunteer. A massive thank you to Millstreet Macra and especially Lil Millstreet Macra, loads of work done this evening. A massive thank you to all involved.
Clean Up In St. Mary’s Cemetery
Calling all of you wonderful volunteers. The Millstreet Tidy Town Association are planning a clean up in St. Mary’s Cemetery on Thursday evening at 7pm. The pathways are in particular need a good clean up. Please bring along a hoe or a small shovel, we have plenty of weeding to do. Looking forward to seeing as many people as possible.
Flower Beds
Pat and Noreen and their wonderful team of volunteers have been planting beds all over Millstreet in the last couple of weeks. Pictured are the flower beds at Drishane Castle and they look beautiful. It is a magnificent sight to see entering and leaving the town. The beds have also been done on Macroom Road, Killarney Road, various pots in town as well as The Square. More pictures can be seen in 2015 gallery. Well done to all involved. Help is always needed, so please feel free to contact us here if you would like to help.
Anti Litter Competition – Period 2 results.
The Anti Litter Competition Period Results are in. We are in 4th position again. Not bad but we are definitely in with a chance of winning. The next judging period is start Monday again. 25th May to 3rd June. The entire town will be judged with particular focus on Clara Road for this judging period. With a massive last surge we can most definitely aim to win this competition, if everybody could do their a small part. Even something as little as keeping the area outside your own house or business premises and just give a quick look and a small tidy up every morning would go a long way in improving our chances. As you can see any points that are gained now are of huge importance. Great result again for this period. Keep up the good work everybody.
Best Frontage Competition 2015
Millstreet Tidy Town Association are delighted to announce that once again this year there will be an award for Best Frontage Competition 2015. There will be two categories this year. Best Commercial Premises and Best Residential Area. The Best Residential Area, can be an estate, a street or a road. Adjudication will commence in June and run through to the end of August. So why not get together with your neighbours and win it for your residential area. Everybody can do a small part and make a big impact.
Boys National School Talks
Mr Tony Keneally, Wildlife Biologist, this morning visited the Boys National School in Millstreet. Tony gave talks to all classes in the school today about Millstreet and Ireland and the surrounding wildlife. He even brought some visual aids, as seen in the photograph on the right. I was informed that there were also tadpoles and newts which I am sure the boys enjoyed seeing up close. There are many habitats in our area. The River, Clara Mountain, there are also ponds up at Alps. We would sincerely like to thank Tony Keneally for taking the time to visit the Boys School today.