VOLUNTEERS GATHERED up to 20 bags of rubbish and retrieved eight shopping trolleys from the River Barrow on Saturday when they focused their attentions on cleaning up the Three Sisters Marina.
The voluntary community cleanup, a coordinated effort between the Tidy Towns, New Ross Town Council, local Community Employment Scheme employees and local volunteers with the help of the River Rescue spent Saturday morning cleaning up the Marina, which is currently trying to obtain Green Flag status.
On the water members of New Ross River Rescue retrieved eight shopping trolleys, while the volunteers on the land picked up somewhere between 15 to 20 bags of rubbish.
This clean-up aims to improve the performance of New Ross in this year’s IBAL and Tidy Towns Competitions.
Another combined community effort will be made as volunteers are invited to assist in the collection of litter around New Ross. For further details contact Ray on 086 3642592.
The plan is to hold monthly clean ups in a bid to build on and add to the work that is already being done by New Ross Town Council staff, Wexford County Council road workers, the New Ross Tidy Towns voluntary group and the Rosbercon Parish and New Ross Town Council FAS CE Schemes.
If you would prefer to concentrate on your own area or the grounds of and outside of your business or organisation, contact the local New Ross Tidy Towns Committee (086 3642592) who will try to assist in whatever way they can.
There is support available at the moment through An Taisce. Log onto www.nationalspringclean.org to register your club, organisation or residents group with An Taisce as part of National Spring Clean Week and once you register you will be supplied with equipment to support the efforts of your local group.
Richard Dollard with his parents Nicholas and Teresa and from left: Frank Murphy, Principal of Teagasc Kildalton Agricultural and Horticultural College; Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD and Hugh Ryan, FBD Trust Company, Sponsors. A TULLOGHER FARMER has scooped a coveted national title after being announced this week as the Teagasc/fbd Student of the Year.
Chosen from almost 800 peers for the title, Richard was announced as the national Student of the Year at an awards ceremony in Dublin’s Merrion Hotel last Thursday.
The award, sponsored by FBD Trust, was presented to Richard by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney.
Speaking at the presentation of the awards, Director of Knowledge Transfer in Teagasc, Dr. Tom Kelly, congratulated Richard and the nine other finalists on their achievements saying that Teagasc were pleased with the high calibre of students attending agricultural courses in all the colleges and education centers.
Richard, from Smithstown, Tullogher, completed the Advanced Certificate in Dairy Herd Management at the Teagasc Kildalton Agricultural and Horticultural College in Piltown, Co. Kilkenny in May 2011.
– ELAINE FURLONG
Source: New Ross Standard-Twenty Rubbish Bags And Eight Trolleys Plucked From River
