Christmas Newsletter 2019
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Fáilte Welcome to our 12th edition of our Annual Christmas Newsletter. We aim to give you a in insight into what happens in our parish throughout the year. If you have joined us to live here welcome and we hope you will be very happy here. It is lovely at present to see many of our youth returning to the parish to set up home. With youth brings new light and new ideas, so feel free to speak your mind and be heard, we need new blood in our committees and organisations. We remember those who are no longer with us and were very much part of our community, I'm certain they are in a Happy Place looking down from above. As you read through this Newsletter you will see Milford Parish has a lot going on and we hope there may be something suitable for everyone to be involved in. if you think there is something missing that you would like to see going on please let us know and we if possible will try to make it happen, there are not many Parishes that have a Camogie, Gaa, Tennis, Bowling and Comhltás clubs to name but a few. We miss our shop greatly, hopefully the day will come that we may have something like a community shop up and running, as I've said already we are open to any ideas / suggestions in relation to this. In the future also we would like to see an afterschool service up and running, a playground, with these additions to the Village it would improve life immensely for a lot of people. Our Tidy Towns have done trojan work throughout the past year which can be seen clearly when passing through the village, it would be nice to have services available to attract people and families to Milford. We are lucky to be still able to have our two lovely Pubs which provide great atmosphere and comfort to meet, enjoy the music, fire and have the chat. Thank you for all your support throughout the year, as always when we look for support and help you are always both helpful and generous to us. We appreciate your support. On behalf of Milford Area Community Council I'd like to wish each and everyone of you a Happy Christmas and a safe and healthy New Year. 2 Milford Tidy Towns. As we come to the end of another busy and successful year Milford Tidy Towns group would like to acknowledge and sincerely thank the community in Milford for their support and involvement during the 2019. We increased our marks by eight bringing us up to 316 out of a possible 470 ….. still a way to go ! While it’s good to see our marks increase year by year, it’s equally as important that our village continues to develop and improve making it a pleasing place to live and visit, encouraging a sense of community and fostering a pride in our own place. In the spring with the kind permission of Fr. Peter, and the guidance and management of Lisa, the unused polytunnel on the Parochial grounds was given a new lease of life, with the involvement of the primary school children. Here they experienced the planting, growing and harvesting of organic fruit and vegetables. The school children and their teachers are doing great work in raising awareness of the need to take care of our planet, working tirelessly on their Green Flags. There was tremendous work done on the Monday evenings from May onwards when so many volunteers came out to clean, weed, strim, paint and generally do their bit to keep Milford looking it’s best. So many people became involved in litter picking for The Anti- litter challenge in June and thanks to the parent’s council for including this on their WhatsApp group. Even though there was a huge effort put into the Anti- Litter campaign again this year our marks did not reflect this. One statistic this threw up, is that between 200 - 300 cigarette butts a DAY were collected within the speed limit signs. Dog fouling on our footpaths is still an issue and a health hazard. Dog owners, if you would like a little container with a small roll of plastic bags that can be clipped to your dog’s lead let us know and we will supply you with one free of charge. Our projects in 2019 included extra baskets on the creamery wall, hanging baskets on the bridge, sign writing on two premises, a sensory garden by the Quay Wall, and the placement of five beautiful wildlife panels by the Quay wall in November. The instillation of water harvesting in the square was hugely beneficial this summer. Check out the little “Wee Free Library” in the park. This works on a “bring a book, take a book system. We would like to acknowledge the support of Cork Co. Council and Pobal for funding towards some of these projects. Milford Village came first in the village section of Cork Co. Council’s Community in Bloom competition in the Newmarket / Kanturk section. A big Thank You to all the households who put out some lovely colourful boxes, baskets and containers to give our village such vibrant colourful displays, netting us this award in its inaugural year. A huge thanks also to our volunteers who continue to “adopt” a pot or plot around the village and take responsibility for feeding and watering it. Without this community support Tidy Towns could not maintain the standard of colour throughout the village. A special word of thanks to Michelle Crowley Photography for so generously allowing us to use her beautiful photographs of the village taken during the summer. 3 In our planting this year we did our best to include as many pollinator friendly plants as possible in the containers and in the sensory garden at the Quay Wall. There will be further work in the coming year around biodiversity in our area. We would be delighted to hear of any suggestions from the community as to how we can improve in any way. As always Tidy Towns would be delighted to have more people joining us, every little helps. Keep an eye on our Facebook page for updates. Again, we thank everyone who helped in any way to keep our lovely village looking so well always. We wish you and you family a very Happy Christmas and a safe and healthy New Year. Social Committee Welcome to you all, we hope you have a lovely Christmas and a Safe and Healthy New Year. Our committee is made up of Ladies and Gentlemen volunteers, a few have been there 15 years at this stage but the most of us have joined up in the last 10 years. Yet when we are asked to help we get ladies in the Parish that fall in and help us as much as they can. We are doing the same now as was being done 15 yrs ago. We have fabulous ladies that offer Home Baking for us for any occasion when required, these ladies keep very much in the background but without their generosity we could not continue. We thank all of you that help us each year whether you cook, clean or wash up, each task is more important than the other. The Social Committee every year organise the Kitchen for the Garden Fete and do an excellent job as always. We would love and welcome new people on to our Committee so feel free to come along, no invitation necessary. I thank all my Fellow Ladies and Gentlemen for helping to make the Social Committee both enjoyable and rewarding. We wish you and your family a very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year. Milford Coursing & Gun Club Milford Coursing & Gun Club are holding their annual coursing event on January 5th We wish all landowners, members and supporters a very Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. 4 Milford Juvenile G.A.A. Failte Tuismitheoirí, imreoirí, cóistí, agus daoine an phobail, As we enter the year 2020 looking back at the season just gone I would like to extend warmest thanks to parents, coaches, selectors, players and the committee and members of the Juvenile GAA and also to the GAA Senior club that have provided a fantastic grass pitch for training and matches during the season of 2019. We would like to take this opportunity to thank outing members of the juvenile committee Sean Carroll (Cathaoirleach) and Peadar O’Gorman (Runai) for the guidance and services while they were involved in Milford Juvenile Gaa and wish them the best as they move onto other duties in Milford Gaa club. Youth Developemt: Thanks to Milford National School for providing time in their timetable for Milford GAA to send Sean O’Gorman to provide training in Gaa Skills to the pupils in 2019 and we are looking forward to it continuing in the new term after Christmas. During the school term we ran a Easter Camp at the GAAgrounds and had over 50 kids attending, again we had a successful well attend Cul Camp in July, with 137 kids attending. Thanks to Imelda Buckley for organising and coordination the Easter and Summer Cul camps in 2019 and a big thanks to the coaches and assistant coaches without your help these events could not be take place. Fundraising: We have 2 fundraising draws outside of juvenile club membership the Christmas and Easter Draws. Thanks to everyone that has supported these draws over the year which provides financial support in running of the club.