What Did I Do?
When your grandchildren ask you in the future what you did to make our town a pleasant place to live, what will your answer be? We really need new volunteers and the town would benefit so much if more buildings were painted. Over to you!

2004 Estimates
Weekly tidy-ups have removed an average of twenty bags of litter every week for the last 54 weeks. Our experience shows that all the areas tidied become heavily littered again within 4-5 weeks at most and in the case of some parts of the town, within days.

IBAL's surveys of other towns show that even the best towns have to keep doing this work every week or their rating slips rapidly. For example Carlow fell from Number 1 to number 12 rapidly this year.

We earnestly hope that both Longford Town Council and Longford Co Council will allocate the required resources to do this work in 2004, not only in the town area but the critical approach roads. You only get one chance to make a first impression.

Presentation Evening
Longford Town Council hosted a function to honour winners of best estates, gardens etc last week. We say a big congratulations to all award winners and thank the Council for the evening.

Athlone Road
Weekly tidy ups continue and last weekend we removed a total of thirteen bags of litter from along the Athlone Road and a further six from other approach roads, mainly the area around the Dublin Road roundabout. Even after all our work this year, we were taken aback at the level of litter on these roads.

Tidy Up This Weekend
Our Saturday tidy-up takes place from three to 5pm and we meet at 3pm at the AIBP car park beside the army barracks. Our Sunday tidy up takes place from 12 noon to 2pm and we meet at noon at the AIBP car park beside the army barracks.

AGM Reminder
Our AGM takes place on Thursday week, 27th November - further details next week.