Hi everyone,
Yesterday was the first annual Transition Towns Kinsale Tidy Towns spring fair. While the second spring fair for TTK (www.transitiontownkinsale.org/) it was the first time Tidy Towns had joined in. This year's fair was also a substantial increase over last year's event for TTK in complexity and scope and a group of upwards of thirty people worked on the organization from the first weeks in January until now.
Alas on the day the weather did not look good - and then the sun came out as did all the people, then it rained again. At the end of the day it was completely satisfactory if not brilliant. The car boot sale (garage sale or flea market to my US readers) netted €200+ for Tidy Towns - the first donations of this kind for a few years. Also the Tidy Town-ers (http://www.tidytowns.ie/) sat at a booth and chatted with bypassers about our various renovation projects. This year we hope to renovate the trees along Pearce St., a good project since at the moment the rest of the town is torn up by the crews changing out the water mains.
By 7:30 we were ready to join the crowd at the Further Education College www.kinsalefurthered.ie/ at their sustainably built stage. Listening to local acts in candlelight with wood burning to keep the outdoor environment warm, we listened to great local acts of music and comedy. Alas the 50+ year olders that we are we left early, but with smiles on our faces. A great day all around.
Hope to hear about your local events as well,
Alana
1 comment:
I am glad to read about Car Boot sales and remember our conversation about them in Oct!!! congratulations on success! I wonder if being in a small town makes your kind of involvement much easier? Here in the big city, there are so many entities with which to allign and act., Keep it up and telling us. jean
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