Events Newsletter August 2015

The second annual 16 mile run / walk around the beautiful lake of Lough Sheelin is on Monday, 3rd August starting at 10am

For full details of this event please visit www.sheelinchallenge.com

Community Social EventMountnugent Community CentreSunday, 2nd of August at 5.00 pm

Come Join Us for Tea, Home Baking, Music, Song & Chat

All donations of Home Baking & offers of help on the day will be gratefully accepted

Everyone Welcome

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Oldcastle LibraryPresents

Help to support Oldcastle's local growers, producers, makers and bakers with avisit to the Country Marketin the Masonic Hall every Friday from 9:30 am.It's always worth a visit!

Oldcastle Craft Circle meets every Tuesday morning from 10:30 to 12:00 in Witch's Hill Interpretive Centre, Cogan St.

Everyone is welcome to come in to craft together, chat and make friends and host occasional demonstrations and workshops.

Oldcastle Credit Union

Revised Opening Hours

Monday 09.45 - 12.30 13.30 - 17.15Tuesday 09.45 - 12.30 13.30 - 17.15As and from the 5th of August 2015 theoffice will remain closed on WednesdayThursday 09.45 - 12.30 13.30 - 17.15Friday 09.45 - 18.00 Open Through LunchSaturday 09.45 - 16.00 Open Through Lunch

Oldcastle United AFC. Ready for the new season

The Oldcastle Community Resource Group would like to take this opportunity to wish Oldcastle United AFC all the best in theLeague and Cup competitions in 2015/16.

Fancy a Play and a Pint?

Presents

First WednesdaysAn Evening of Drama and Craic !

Come and join us at 9 pm onthe 5th of August and on the first

Wednesday of every Month !

Talent Show for ages 7 to 14Prizes for First, Second and Third

Friday 21st of August at 10:30 am

€50 €30 €20

More information from Oldcastle Library049 854 2084 or oldcastlelib@meathcoco.ie

OldcastleOldcastleCarer'sCarer'sSupportSupportGroupGroup

Are You Providing Care For aRelative, Friend or Neighbour?

Do You Feel IsolatedUnsupported and Stressed?

Why Not Join Our Group to Share,Support & Learn from Each Other ina Relaxed & Friendly Environment?

For more information, pleasecontact us through the OCRG.

A small donation is requested to help with costs.

Services available to the Community in the OCRG office, Cogan Street

FREE Wi-FiFREE ScanningFREE Laptop UseLow-cost PrintingSecure email accessAirline Flight Check-InLocal Information PointPublic Notice Boarand much more

Oldcastle Pitch & Putt ClubWeekly competitions are

held on Tuesday eveningsand on Sunday mornings.

If you would like to start playing Pitch & Putt, please see the club's Facebook page or contact any of the members listed below.

Tommy: 086 220 2575 - Tommy: 087 678 4532Margaret: 087 687 2738 - Annette: 087 272 9062

22 - 30 August 2015

There's plenty of events in and around Oldcastle during Heritage Week 2015

Kraft Kaffee: Flax to Fabric. A museum dedicated to the flax & linen industry in North Meath. Book at 049 854 2645Loughcrew Tattoo: Get a temporary Tattoo. Realistic temporary tattoos incorporating Neolithic designs. Safe, non toxic and pain free! Aimed at u12'sMoylagh Historical Society:Saturday, the 22nd from 3pm – 4pmat Cairn T Carnbane East. Dr Robert Hensey will talk about how the monuments were used in the rituals of our neolithic ancestors 5000 years ago.Loughcrew Megalithic Centre:Sunday the 23rd. Seanacaí Sunday. Learn about the legends of Ireland from the Hearth. Also, guided tours all week.

For more information on these eventsplease visit www.heritageweek.ie/whats-on

Launch Night ahead ofthe Main Event in October !

Saturday, 29th August at 8 pmThe Cinema Club, OldcastleEntertainment on the night

Tickets are available from club members and volunteers at €10

They are looking for volunteers to help with cleaning, sweeping, gardening & litter picking.

The Oldcastle Tidy Townsgroup meets every Tuesdayevening at 7.30 and on Sundays at 8.00 am.

To find out more, please contactConcepta Farrelly on 086 820 4637

If you would like your local event, activity or notice to appear in the September Issue of the OCRG Events Newsletter, please send the details to us by 1.00 pm on Monday, the 31st of August.

087 712 6377oldcastlecrg@gmail.comocrg.wordpress.com/contact-ocrg

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Workshop will cover Attuning and working withSpirit, Enhancing Healing and letting go of Negativity

(Demonstrating Mediums Mark Impey and Julie Coyle)

The Oldcastle Community Resource Group began as an EU funded project called NETBOX which was designed to create a website to be used as a place to share information within our community freely.

This project finished in 2014 but with the support of Meath Partnership it has been taken over by a group of volunteers fromthe community. It is now known as the Oldcastle Community Resource Group – OCRG.

The OCRG community volunteers give a few hours each week to help in the office, run classes, liaise with the groups in the town to find out what’s going on, update the website, suggest ideas and ways to help our community and many other things.

Our volunteers come from all areas of the community and are of all ages, skills and interests.

The OCRG shares information on clubs, local businesses, organisations, artists & performers, and events in our community.

Our Aims are:

● To promote a sense of community in Oldcastle

● Be a place where people can find out what’s going on in the local area

● Provide a focus for the community to pull together

● Provide people with the opportunity to participate within their community

● Be a forum for discussion and debate about matters that affect Oldcastle and surrounding areas.

In addition:

● We provide a computer with free wi-fi and a low-cost printing service for our community

● We run a website called OCRG.wordpress.com

● We help raise funds for good causes. Last year we hosted a HB Ice Cream Funday to raise funds forDown Syndrome Ireland

● We act as a facility for small groups requiring somewhere to hold meetings

● We offer information and a friendly welcome to newcomers to the town

● We hold classes in Art, Crochet and occasionally host courses in things like Basic Computer Skills

● We have also helped Castle Arts to become established. This group consists of all local artists who make, display and sell their works locally. Some of the members of this group offer art classes in the Cogan street office but can be available to groups on request. They are also happy to take commissions for works.

Get Involved

Do you have a skill or an interest you’d like to share? We want our community to come together on projects and use ourfacility to share information on clubs, organisations and local businesses.

This will be a huge benefit within our community and together we can achieve wonderful things. If you any ideas, talents or facilities which might help our community to be a better, closer happier and healthier place, then just let us know.

You can drop in to see us at our Cogan Street office, get the latest OCRG news on our website, or check us out on Facebook.

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Who are the Oldcastle Community Resource Group?

This Newsletter has been produced by the Oldcastle Community Resource Group based in Cogan Street.If you would like to know more about the OCRG or you have an event you would like us to include in ourNewsletter, please visit our website at www.ocrg.wordpress.com. You can also find us on Facebook or emailus at oldcastlecrg@gmail.com. Alternatively, you can phone the office on 087 712 6377 any weekday til 4pm.

Don't forget, the OCRG office now stays open until 6.00 pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

The next edition of the OCRG Events Newsletter will come out on Tuesday, 1st of September