Contents Cover Photo: Pride of Craigavon: Mayor Colin McCusker presents the Community Excellence Large Group Award to Andrea Heads & John McGuinness of ABC Community Network. Page 3. Editorial 3. Learning & Development 4. Drumellan’s Housing Hero ABC Community Network 22 Church Street 5. 25 Years of Cane & Able Portadown County Armagh 6. Scotch Street Oil Club BT62 3LQ 7. Memories of George Thompson 028 3839 2777
[email protected] 8. Pride of Craigavon 2015 www.abccommunitynetwork.com 11. ABC Members Events facebook.com/ABCCommNetwork twitter.com/ABCCommNetwork 12. Housing Support for Older People Spring 2015 14. Promoting Wellbeing Training 15. Other News Network News Spring 15 3 Editorial Here at ABC Community Network we’re feeling experience in completing online applications. pretty pleased with ourselves! On a starry night We hope you find the information contained in this in March - and up against fierce competition! - we issue helpful. In particular, please have a look at the were presented with Craigavon Borough Council’s back cover – Advice NI offers a free, confidential debt Community Excellence Award for Large Groups. service here at ABC offices, helping those who are Please see pages 8-10 for details of all the winners in debt. However, if you or someone you know is in and runners-up and a report on the flavour of the danger of getting into debt, Advice NI can help too. night. Of course, Network News wouldn’t be Network News Also in this issue is a fantastic tribute to Bernie Burns without all the contributions from our members, so of Drumellan Community Association who picked up thanks to all of you who sent us articles and photos the Housing Hero award from the Chartered Institute for this issue.