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LEITRIM

By HELENA O’NEILL

Sarah Beckett and family

At the Medtronic Open Day

Greetings to all our members.
There has great activity in the Branch
over the last number of months.

CHURCHGATE COLLECTION
Our annual Churchgate collection AFTERNOON TEA afield, such as Kilmainhamwood in
was held on the weekend of August Thank you to Sarah Beckett and Meath,who were with us on the night.
20th/21st and as always our sincere her family for a lovely afternoon tea, A sincere ‘thank you’ to Liam and
thanks to all the volunteers. held in Lough Allen Hotel. The event Fionnuala Taylor who were our hosts
was well supported by family and and who provided us with their
HEALTHY EATING PLAN friends and the proceeds went to the marquee and cooking facilities.
Congratulation to our members IKA. Many donor cards were Our DJ for the night was Damien
Mary and Annetha who both won distributed and donor awareness McGuinness who provided his services
‘Person of the Year’ awards in their was raised. free of charge. His humour and choices
local slimming clubs inspiring the rest of music certainly added to the fun
of us to get active. FUNDRAISERS atmosphere of the occasion. The master
A barbeque fundraiser was chefs were John Loughran, Martin
TESCO COMMUNITY FUND organised by our Chairperson Branagan and Frank Haupt. Martin also
The Leitrim branch was lucky to be Annetha Kieran and her husband provided the burgers and Stephen
chosen as one of the charities to John Loughran. It took place in Faughnan contributed the jumbo
benefit from the Tesco Community Taylors Bar, Drumsna on July 31st. It sausages. These went down very well
Fund this year. We would like to thank was a great success and €1700 was with the punters and we really
Tesco Carrick-on-Shannon for the raised for the IKA. We had collection appreciated their kind acts of generosity.
cheque for our share of the boxes on the door and had a Dugdales, of Mohill,sponsored sauces
Community fund. The amount was monster raffle on the night. We are and serviettes.
€406.98 and we thank all the very grateful for the generosity of Our sponsors for the raffle included
customers who supported us and the the people of Drumsna,Carrick-on- Heslin Antiques, Carrick-On Shannon,
other charities. Shannon and those from further Kieran's Totalhealth Pharmacy, Carrick,

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