KCA discuss busy time coming

St Brigid's Well: new sign ordered, and sculpture cleaning to go ahead.

Organisational details of what will be a very busy May for Kilcullen Community Action were discussed at last night's April Open Meeting of the group, writes Brian Byrne.

These include the AGM 2024 scheduled for 14 May, for which everyone who has any interest or questions about KCA and its projects is urged to attend. The meeting will be held as usual in Kilcullen Town Hall and Heritage Centre.

On the Friday and Saturday of the same week — 17th and 18th — the annual street collection for Kilcullen in Bloom will be held.

A Teddy Bears Picnic will be also held in the Library Community Garden on the afternoon of Saturday 18 May, a full family event with quizzes and fun events for children. Families are invited to bring their own picnics to the afternoon and celebrate the garden. A Biodiversity Week event is currently being developed for Saturday 25 May, details to be provided closer to the time.

"It's going to be a very busy month for the group," KCA chair Ann Cashman noted. She also gave some details of the KCA Newsletter which is being prepared for distribution with The Bridge May edition. "It's two years since we published the last one, and it's amazing the number of events and activities which we have to show in it."

Meantime, Noel Clare urged all members who had undertaken to provide information for different sections of the application for the Supervalu Tidy Towns 2024 to do so as quickly as possible. "The closing date for registration is 8 May, and there's no leeway," he warned, adding that some elements of funding provided to KCA were dependent on being registered for the Tidy Towns each year. He also told the group that Kildare County Council has offered to provide and erect signage at the approaches to the town showing replicas of the Bronze Medal won by Kilcullen in the 2023 competition.

In other projects, the meeting heard that a sculpture figure of pugilist Dan Donnelly is ready for collection, and it was suggested that it could make its debut at a Heritage Week event in August.

A new sign for St Brigid's Well in The Valley has been ordered, the meeting also heard, and a special cleaning of the Henry Flanagan sculpture at the well has now been given the green light.

Closing the meeting, Ann Cashman noted that 'amazing work is being done' by the group, and the current open meetings each month are an opportunity for people to come and join KCA. It was agreed that the monthly frequency of these should be continued, but may be reviewed for the winter months.

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