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Charity Swim Thank You from Helen and Richie Lewis
In July, Richie Lewis
held a charity 3k swim from Ballycotton Pier to Ardnahinch Beach. A great day and night was had by all and we raised €4211(including
dona-
tions made through my-
charity.ie €766). Raised funds were divided as fol- lows: €1000 to RNLI and €3211 to Marymount Hos- pice. A huge thank you to all who helped make this a great event, those who do- nated, the swimmers, kay- akers, RNLI, refreshment organisers,
the Blackbird
Bar, Ballycotton manage- ment and staff, and all who turned up on the day and night to offer support or who helped out in any way, Thank You.
Thursday, 8th
December 2016
Charity Craft and Vintage Fair Comes to My Place Midleton
by SEAMUS WHELEHAN
My Place Midleton
will be converted into a Christmas wonderland on Saturday and Sunday 17 and 18 December, where last minute bargain hunt- ers will be given an oppor- tunity to inject real festive spirit into their Christmas shopping with unique gift ideas. Vintage
Christmas
cards and decorations will be on sale, as well as novel gift ideas from many East Cork crafters. Organiser Jean O’Brien,
from the National Council for the Blind (NCBI), who is bringing the collection together said its promising to be a great weekend and that
she’s really looking
forward to it. “This is the second year
of the vintage and craft fair
at My Place. Last
year’s event was such a great success we are back again.” Entry is free
for the
public. However there will be a monster draw where tickets can be purchased over the two days. Stall holders have been
charged a fee which is go- ing directly to the NCBI along with the proceeds of the raffle. Prizes range
from a
€100 Super Valu shopping voucher, €50 voucher for Raymond’s, a food ham- per, bottles of Jameson, wine and yankee candles to name but a few. Last
year the NCBI
provided a service to over 8,000 people, 2,000 of whom they saw for the first time. Almost 95% of the peo-
ple who access the char- ity’s services every year have some degree of use- ful vision while less than 5% are blind. With an ageing popula-
tion, the number of people needing to access NCBI services is increasing by 12 per cent each year. The charity offer com-
munity based services to help people adapt to sight loss and maintain their independence. These ser- vices include
emotional
support to the individual experiencing loss of vision and to their families, ad- vice and information on all aspects of vision loss as well as practical sup- port and solutions to the challenges
encountered
by people with vision loss. The service is offered to people of all ages, from birth through to older age.
East Cork Christmas Market in Aid of East Cork Rapid Response by LEAH RING
THE East Cork Christ- mas Market will be held in the Garryvoe hotel on Sunday, 11 De- cember from 11.30am – 4.30pm. All proceeds will go to
the East Cork Rapid Re- sponse and the admission fee is a voluntary donation.
Local craft food producers, makers and small
businesses will all be show- casing their work, with lots of Christmas gift ideas. Co-Organiser
Mary
Griffin said: “It is hugely popular and very well sup- ported with lots of differ- ent stallholders and a great variety of things to choose from.”
The event began five
years ago as a brain child from a group of friends from the locality. Mrs Griffin explained:
“We were a group of about 5 or 6 who just got together through garden- ing. We started selling our own gardening things on Sundays in summer out- side the church and it went
from there and morphed into a Christmas market.” Three
years ago the
event moved to the Gar- ryvoe and has grown year on year since then. Mrs Griffin explained: years ago
“Three we
moved to the Garryvoe Hotel and it has really grown since. It is not for profit and in the past we’ve
given the proceeds to the St Vincent de Paul and other charities. This year we chose the East Cork Rapid Response as they do great work.” The markets has unique handmade items,
mas essentials and Christ- mas poultry, baking and home grown vegetables. “It is fantastic. It start-
Christ-
ed off with six friends and now we have about 60 stallholders. We keep it all as local as possible, with products as local as pos- sible and all coming from small businesses,” Mrs Griffin explained. The group welcome all
along to celebrate the day, with stalls for both children and adults.
Mrs Griffin said: “There
is a wide range of crafts, food, all kinds of stalls. There are Christmas stalls for decorations and we have some
local groups
like Community Cats set- ting up a stall and the com- mittee for the hall in Bal- lycotton. We have a face painter for the kids too so it is open to all the family.”
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