Ardmore Tidy Towns Notes Feb 10th 2016

Stop Food Waste.

With the super effort mounted by The Pattern Festival Committee on the Operation Transformation movement it seems a good time to remind us all of the mountains of food wasted by homes and shops all over the country and what we can do to discourage that. Rather than covering the whole list again, may I remind our homeowners to register with stopfoodwast.ie and also to register with greenhomes.ie for helpful tips about home economics iun general.

Garden Bird Survey.

Each year we do different surveys to capture the pulse of the community on various topics. Over the past 6 or 7 years we have spent a lot of time, effort and money in raising awareness of the wildlife and biodiversity around us. And since our first venture into that field was the ‘Birds of Ardmore’ board it seems natural to us to survey the birds in our back garden to give us a feel as to what’s around and see how aware are we of it. So I’ll kick off with my back garden and say that the following are regular visitors to me: Thrush, Blackbird, Blue Tit, Sparrow, Stonechat, Rook, Jackdaw, Magpie, Grey Back Crow, Wagtail, Robin, Collared Dove, White Dove, Sparrow, Pigeon, Starling, Wren. That’s 17 that readily spring to mind. We would like as many of you as possible to jot down your visitors and give the list to Mary Hennessy or Bernie Stilwell.

Poker Results

Wednesday Feb 3^rd saw the revival of the poker classic at the Round Tower Hotel. Aidan & Trish have very kindly offered to run this classic for the benefit of Ardmore Tidy Towns and by popular demand, it was the traditional game of 5 card poker run in classic format so the total outlay on any night will be just €10. We started off with just two tables but we had a number of apologies and hope to have a couple of more tables this Wednesday night. Please note the starting time 9.30pm.Ciara Griffin was lasts weeks winner with Billy Harty and Jason Lenane filling the minor places.

1916 Proclamation Signatories.

The Dept of The Environment has kindly donated 7 oak trees to each of the Tidy Towns National Winners since the competition began in 1958 to commemorate the 7 signatories to The Proclamation. These trees will be planted during National Tree week which commences March 6^th. Oak trees can last up to a 1000 years and require approx 10m square each.We are currently looking at a suitable public site for them, so if you have any suggestions, please contact us asap.

Jim will fix it!

Well he won’t but we want to know who will! Waterford Council are compiling a Directory of Repair services for the county & city, with the purpose of encouraging us to repair common household items such as electrical goods, bikes, clocks, phones, computers, shoes, tools, musical instruments, dressmaking etc. The list will be available in all libraries, public buildings in the county and on the council website, as well as our own tourist office. So if you read this and you’re a handy person here’s an opportunity for some real good free advertising.

Sympathy