Local crafts wanted

This is the Silver Jubilee year of County Kildare twinning with Lexington. There will be a special celebration in July this year when 40-50 visitors will come from Lexington to the County to celebrate the occasion.

The County Twinning Committee want to give each of these visitors a little gift to mark the occasion. However with stringent economic factors reducing budgets all over the place, they are seeking suggestions from Kildare Crafts People to come up with suggestions and proposals. Since twinning was started back 25 years ago they have tried to use locally made products whenever possible and to promote local design and local manufacture.

Now is the chance for a person who makes gifts locally to promote the new Spirit of Enterprise all are talking about but few are seeing in action.

Intentionally it is a wide ranging brief and no budget is specified. This is to get you to come up with a practical gift for our visitors that will reflect Kildare, 25 Years of twinning and will fit the current stringent state of the economy and our creativity in dealing with the problem.

Back in the early eighties when twinning started, Harry Lyons -- then County Secretary -- scoured the county for suitable gifts to bring the message of Kildare as a modern productive and creative county to America. Surely it is an opportunity to rekindle that spirit again.

For more information contact Ann Kavanagh, Secretary, Twinning Committee at Aras Chill Dara. 045 980538.

Sean Cleary
PRO County Kildare Twinning Committee
087 9090044