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2009 Community Games Sligo County Finals Athletics: Cliffony Grange Winners:
U8 Boys 60m :
Gold: Drumcliffe: Michael Hedigan.
Silver: St.Feichins: J.J. McGowan.
Bronze: Cliffony Grange: Noel Burke.
U12 Boys 100m :
Bronze: Cliffony Grange: Christopher O'Donnell.
U12 Girls 100m :
Silver: Cliffony Grange: Ciara Herron.
U13 Girls 900m walking Race
Gold: Cliffony Grange: Sinead Keogh.
U14 Girls Shot Putt (3.25kg)
Gold: Cliffony Grange: Sarah Oats.
U16 Boys 100m :
Silver: Cliffony Grange: Kieran Elliott.
U16 Boys 15,00m :
Gold: Cliffony Grange: Shane Roddy.
U16 Girls 15,00m :
Gold: Cliffony Grange: Siobhan Boyle.
U16 Boys Marathon (7k):
Silver: Cliffony Grange: Jake Freely.
U16 Girls Marathon (6k):
Gold: Drumcliffe: Ciara McBride.
Silver: Coolera: Claire Stenson.
Bronze: Cliffony Grange: Mairead Rooney.
U 12 Boys 4 X 100 Relay:
Gold: Drumcliffe: David Byrne, Cian Lally, Liam Bell, Philip Hamilton, subs Oisin O'Reilly and Aodhan Kilfeather.
Silver: Cliffony Grange:
Bronze: St. Feicchins:
Four National Diploma in Pollution Assessment and Control Projects were completed in May of this year (2001) by Institute of Technology Science students and later given to CEARN. Three were supervised by Dr. Bill Crowe:
1. The Assessment of Water Quality Within Grange Village. Submitted by: Karl Harting.
2. Research project into the prospects of Grange Village in the National Tidy Towns Competition 2001, Suggesting ways to improve its prospects.Submitted by: Daire Walsh.
3. Waste Management and Recycling in Grange, Co. Sligo. Submitted by: Hazel McMahon.
One was supervised by Dr. Don Cotton and this student, Adrian Parker, produced a documented Nature Trail (with brochure) along the river; primarily for the local national school, but it possibly could be used later by tourists and the local population.
This Brochure is here presented as a web-page which could be down-loaded and printed prior to visiting the site of the Nature Trail.
The Sligo Natural Heritage group are considering ways of disseminating information to the general public.
One way of imparting information would be by a series of Nature Trails. Many now exist in the County. However, a problem exists that numerous leaflets distributed at the sites do not last long; people often take more than one.
More often than not there are no brochures (leaflets) left when a person interested in nature arrives at the site. In Hazelwood, for example there is a well marked out nature trail, there is a box for storing the leaflets to be dispensed, but there is rarely any leaflets left in the box. Instead there is usually rubbish.
Sligo County Council are operating a policy here of telling people to "take their rubbish away with them". When rubbish bins are left in a region with a car park it has been found that drivers take the opportunity to clean out the rubbish from their cars; food, nappies, paper e.t.c. and some people use the bin site as a dump.
Even if the bins are used legitimately they have to be emptied frequently, or the rubbish builds up and it is worse than having no bins. It is expensive emptying all the bins daily, or every two days, which is the rate that probably would be needed in a busy, frequently used area. The rubbish found in the leaflet box is probably the result of a frustrated member of the public looking for somewhere to dump their rubbish
If detailed maps showing labelled stops, information, diagrams, and photographs about a particular nature walk can be placed in a professionally produced brochure, these could be scanned into a web-site. This information could be accessed and printed prior to visiting the location. This would be very usefull for teachers planning to take school children / students to the locality, or for families, with home computers, planning to visit the region.
Adrian Parker's brochure, produced on his own computer, is not very detailed and is an ammateur inexperienced production, photographed and assembled under time constraints for submission with a diploma examination thesis, but is here reproduced as an example of how this technique could be used.
In September 2000 first year Environmental Science and Technology degree students and Diploma in Environmental Protection Students undertook a clean-up of Ballyconnel Beach under the supervision of Dr. Don Cotton, Dr. Bill Crowe and Ms. Frances Lucey. The Students also analysed the quantities and sources of the pollutin while on the beach and over a number of weeks in the laboritory
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