Galway Advertiser 1990/1990_02_15/GA_15021990_E1_014.pdf 

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Group Welcomes Literacy Boost

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FORECAST: We seem to swing from mild, wet AND windy times, to bright, colder wintry showers. Friday is expected to be mild and windy, Saturday bright AND cold, while SUNDAY we will return to milder windier times. TRADITIONAL:

In the Garden
By Charlie Wilkin.

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And so to another wonderful year, one of great expectations, renewed opportunities and the viewing once The Galway Adult more of garden treas Literacy Group wel February 18th--St. Colman (Undisfarne) ures, lost temporarily to comes the provision for It WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE T DESCRIBE IN A SHORT SPACE THE O the vagaries of our cold adult literacy announced major theological argument that surrounded Colman's winds, by the Minister for efforts to sustain the traditional Irish date for Easter. After torrential rains and days which allow the Finance, Mr. Reynolds, 3 years as Bishop of Lindisfarne in england, where the sun to in his budget speech. "I Christian Church owed much of its enlightenment to Irish rise but a few monks, he resigned his post and with some 30 anglo Saxon e d e am i n c r e a s i n g the followers founded a monastery on Inishboffin towards e g r ends a b o v e the THE horizon, before falling allocation for Adult of the 5th century. Later on in Mayo he founded a second back Literacy from 0.5 million monastery for his english brethren WHICH WAS known for into a sunset of smog, to 1 million in recognition centuries as Mayo of the Saxons. It is os some significance haze and winter gloom. of the fact that 1990 is to Galway readers to remember that it was from Inishboffin It won't be long that Bishop Lynch of Clonfert escaped to the Continent. This things begin to before Adult Literacy Year". was much later, in Cromwellian TIMES, AND IT IS BELIEVED HE The earlier provision took WITH HIM THE PAINTING "THE WEEPING Madonna'.' Thechange for the better and, referred to by Mr. painting is probably by the Flemish artist Peter Pourbus andin anticipation of what Reynolds was not in now hangs in the Cathedral ofGyHr, Hungary. It is the object lies ahead, I start the year with a plea for point of fact for Adult of great DEVOTION SINCE ON March 17TH, 1697, IT SHED TEARS of 3 hours. The originally L i t e r a c y , but f o r blood for marked IN ST. place where the paintingTODAY.the r e n o v a t i o n of hung is NICHOLAS'COLLEGIATE CHURCH countless back gardens Community Education in ANOTHER TENUOUS strand in all this is that when Canon Leslie up general, of which Adult Forrest was being installed IN 1986, HIS TITLES INCLUDED: and down the country which on this very Literacy formed a very PREBENDARY of Kilmoylan and Ty (Tigh) Saxon. Morning Afternoonmorning are probably small part. The Group is H I G H T I D E I N G A L W A Y neglected, overgrown, gratified, therefore, that T H U R S D A Y , F e b r u a r y 15th M.08.23 A.20.47 and home to all sorts of the Minister for Educa F R I D A Y , F e b r u a r y 16th M.09.00 A.21.25 accumulated rubbish tion, Mrs. OTtourke, has M.09.41 A.22.09 from builders' planks to confirmed, in speaking to S A T U R D A Y , F e b r u a r y 17th M.10.34 A.23.13 heavy glazed sinks and journalists, that the S U N D A Y , F e b r u a r y 18th M.00.01 A. -- 500,000 pounds increase M O N D A Y , F e b r u a r y 19th defunct kitchen appli is to the V.E.C. to fund T U E S D A Y , F e b r u a r y 20th ances. M.00.48 A.13.57 literacy programmes. Everyone begins with W E D N E S D A Y , F e b r u a r y 21st . . . M.02.15 A.15.05 front gardens - showy areas with roses and summer bedding, with perhaps some attractive climbers over the door or 21 SHOP ST..GALWAY. TEL.: (091) 63683 windows, which can be admired by visitor or passerby. These aren't for privacy, but for adornment and unless The Galway School Worried about cholesterol? they are manicured and Project Group, who are tended from the very Digestive complaints? at present fundraising to beginning, they will never Griffin's Bakery are proud e s t a b l i s h a multi catch the eye of the denominational school in t r a v e l l e r or draw in launching their new Galway, w e r e very 99 "W CALORIE-HI FIBRE pleased with the turn out at their first Round Table the group are looking at BREAD Quiz earlier this month. various premises in the M a n y p e o p l e w h o City as possible locations Made to a high class recipe using Oat attended had no children for the new school. They Bran, it contains only 40 calories/slice of school going age but acknowledge the spon and is effective in reducing cholesterol. were anxious to give sorship from Tigh their support. N each tain's and Galway The next Quiz night Crystal and will issue will be W e d n e s d a y , further news items as February 21st, at the they arise. Atlanta Hotel. Already

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Tragic Drowning of Galway Nan
A 40 year-old Galway man was killed when his car plunged into the River Corrib on Friday evening.
Galway Harbour Board has extended its sympathy to his wife. " I t was a very tragic event," said Tom O' N e i l l of the H a r b o u r Board. H e d e c l i n e d t o say whether the Board would consider erecting barriers at Long Walk. " A n y decision will be discussed at the Harbour Board meeting on February 23rd," said Mr. O' Neill. Noel Sherlock, an organiser with Conquer Cancer, w a s from Old Church street, Athenry. He was married but had no children. The accident occured at 5pm when his Mini Metro accidentally entered the river at Long Walk and ended up in eight feet of w a t e r . H i s body w a s recovered within half an hour by divers and fire brigade personnel.

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attention from neigh bours. But at the back? Ah, that's another thing altogether, something infinitely more myster ious and utterly reward ing! Though they are never totally private, they contain a quality that lulls you into feeling secluded, alone and unobserved. Here you can potter in your workclothes, without make-up or hairdo, and never worry as to who may see you in your haven of seclusion. Here, you can create your "secret garden", one full of treasures and loved plants that are usually associated with gardens of antiquity, but modified into an urban retreat where a little sylvan h o o d w i n k i n g really works! You create illusions with c l i m b e r s like clematis or roses on wooden supports so that all you own is not viewed in the overall glance. Divide up long, narrow plots using specimen shrubs to the left and right at staggered intervals, and keep paths narrow and winding so that pollen and coloured petals will have to be brushed from your clothing once you reach that seat area near the end limits of your boundary fence. Underplant all trees and shrubs with bulbs not solely the springflowering kinds, mind you, but those also that bloom in midsummer and early autumn. So that if half your secret garden is perpet ually in shade - there are beauties like primulas, ferns, astilbes, lily-of-thev alley, host as and many more which will excel in such situations. In sunny areas use your annuals, lillies, herbaceous bloomers and miniature or patio roses. If what passes for a lawn looks too small or if the constant cutting takes too much of your time, why not get rid of it altogether and go for a gravelled or paved area instead? On this, stand your pots and containers. No back-gardener can fail to be aware of the important part that these play in small-space gardening. Round every corner nowadays, one can see pots with scarlet geraniums, cascading lobelia and ample clumps of softly-hued petunias, all of which could grace your plot given remind ers on when to begin, and instructions on their modest requirements. Overhead, or from wall brackets, one can have overflowing bask ets to last from May to October, even in years when our sunshine quota is way below that of 1989. Some failures, must be expected with container plantings, especially

when the grower is not constantly present, but then again the help of a neighbour or friend can reduce these to a minimum. I'm full of ideas for the coming year, all you have to do is attempt what I suggest even on a tiny scale. Begin this soon by clearing the area nearest the back door. Bite off a little at a time never huge chunks which will tire you and make you give up long before that "secret garden" begins to take shape. N o w a d a y s , plants, trees and shrubs don't come cheap, but when matched against the price of Christmas drink, clothes, dining out or petrol, they are relatively inexpensive and far more

permanent. Treat your self once a month to something which will give you years of pleasure and enjoyment. Don't hang on to miserable, neglected and sad items, in the hope that they will eventually satisfy. They won't - you know it and so do they.
Charlie VVUkia*.

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