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....a scrappy little village like ...Reenascreena
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Written by Ted Coakley   
Saturday, 08 December 2007
A friend told me that during the Summer he had a great time in northern Spain as part of the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage walk. I was posted a book to read about it and to make sure that I visited shortly. I did not read the book -yet- so when I saw an article in the Southern Star dated November 17th last, I realised my chance to catch up on this item.

The article was written by Perry O'Donovan, a West Cork native, presently undertaking the complete walk over a period of 40 days. He demonstrated the various experiences along the route, the different places he visited and that some were "scrappy little villages like Reenascreena".

So, there you have it.

Our village now has a "reference point" but for all the wrong reasons. Is it a fair description? It seems extraordinary that as full members of the E.U. over the past 35 years, have we advanced much? How is it that some people can hijack the normal progress of a place and this has happened on many occasions? What can be done about it? Does it matter?

In October of this year, a sum of 5000euros had to be refused from the County Council for village renewal as agreement could not be reached on how to use it. Unbelievable.

Ted Coakley (hon sec CAG)

 
Guestbook repaired
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Written by Calvin Jones   
Monday, 08 October 2007

Our guestbook was experienceing problems displaying the security image that is designed to prevent automated spam entries. Unfortunately this meant that for a while our visitors were unable to leave their entries in the guestbook.

Guestbook functionality has now been restored, so feel free to post your entries here

 
Reenascreena Group Water Scheme -- 30 years on
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Written by Ted Coakley   
Monday, 08 October 2007
At first glance, it would appear that the area around Reenascreena is ideal for all kinds  and methods of  water supply. The Argideen River rises here with sources  from three  different points ; a strong tributary, called the Glashagloragh, comes from the   northern side and the Rowry  river has  a source   nearby, too.  We have two lovely lakes : Corran and Lough Atariffe. There is a share of wet land like cut-away bogs, marshes and many streams ; our rainfall levels are  considerably high. But when  efforts were made  to sink or bore for water, the aforementioned facts hold  little relevance towards having success due to the fact that the rock formation locally is not conducive to the retention of water in  most wells and boreholes. The hardship that this visited on the local population is  hard to calculate and now, many years later, it seems difficult  to understand. Buckets, barrels, churns  and the famous sweet-tins, were used to transport and store water that was drawn from a well for domestic and personal  use . The problems for livestock management were  huge: nearly every farm had some pigs and  most  householders kept a cow or two.
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Reenascreena Community Playschool Enrolment
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Written by Calvin Jones   
Wednesday, 09 May 2007

Poster for the Playschool Enrolment and Cake SaleReenascreena Community Playschool will be holding its enrolment day for the 2007/2008 school year on Friday 25 May between 09:30 and 12:00 at the Reenascreena Community Hall.

All parents of pre-school children are welcome to come along and sign their child(ren) up for a playschool place. We look forward to meeting you and next year's pupils on the day.

Reenascreena Community Playschool is a community run, not-for-profit facility affiliated to the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation.

 
Internet Explorer 7 layout problems
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Written by Calvin Jones   
Thursday, 25 January 2007

Those of you using Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer 7, may have noticed that it's causing problems with the header layout of the Reenascreena.com site. We will be addressing this in time, and giving the site a bit of a re-vamp too. Meanwhile, you could try using the standards compliant (and frankly better) Mozilla Firefox browser which is free to download from the Mozilla website.

Regards,

 Calvin Jones -- Webmaster

 
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