September 2008

Its hard to believe that our summer is over and everyone has gone back to school. It also means the beginning of our classes in the Lisbane Centre starting 8 September and each class will run the same day each week.

Monday 15 September - Bridge for beginners 10.30 am - Bridge for Improvers - 12.30 pm -

Tuesday 16 September - Flower Arranging - This class has been postponed - further information will be forthcoming

Thursday 18 September - Lunch club for the over 60's 12.00 noon

Thursday 18 September - Musical workshops for Adults 7.30 pm - 8.30 pm learn how to play fiddle, tin whistle/flute, guitar - Enrol on the night

Friday 19 September - Art Class 10.00 am

If you are interested in registering any of the above courses (except music workshop) please contact the South Easter Regional College on 0845 600 7555 (music workshop contact Lisbane Office on 97 542717)

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New Music Workshop commencing Thursday 18 September 2008 in the Lisbane Centre at 7.30 pm just come along - try your hand at guitar, tin whistle/flute, fiddle.

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There is room for other courses - expression of interest is being sought together with ideas for other classess - some ideas that have come forward are photography, learning sign language, yoga, circuit training - would YOU be interest in joining any of these classes - for any class to happen we would need 10 or more so please, if you would be interested, Contact Linda on 97 542717.

Spring 2007

The following classes are running at present:

• Hips,Bums & Tums
• Art
• Bridge

Expression of Interest

We currently run courses for *Bridge *Flower Arranging *Art *Music - is there something else you would like to learn. If so let us know and it will be invesitgated and if possible put in place as a further course. Contact Linda on 97 542717 with your ideas.

Are you interested in Local History? Would you like to join Norman McKeag our local Historian and enjoy a series of talks - LISBANE and BEYOND.

Why not come along to the Centre once a month - third Tuesday in each month - starting January 2009

contact the office for further details 97 542717

Other interest groups using the facilities of the Community House include the following:-

• Bridge Club
• Killinchy Motorcycle Club
• Rural Development Training provided by DARD'S CAFRE Greenmount Campus & Countryside Services.

The facilities are also booked for private parties, special events and for meetings by a variety of Health Promotion Agencies.

If you would be interested in booking the facilities, please contact us.

Starting with a Jubilee Year event in 2001, a successful mid-summer Community Fete was revised and has become an annual event.

The annual Lisbane Summer Fete and Family Fun was scheduled to happen on Thursday 21 August 2008 in a field near to the Community House on the Lisbarnett Road. Sadly, due to the horrendous weather which made the field waterlogged, it had to be cancelled. The raffle draw took place and winners were notified, and the children's competition was judged and they too received their prizes. It was very disappointing for the committee members who put a lot of time and effort into organising it but as much as we would like to we cannot control the weather. Hopefully next year will be more successful and the organising committee is actively working on a programme for all ages, these will include

• Inflatables
• Stalls - craft, vegetable and plants etc
• Barbecue
• Vintage Tractors/cars
• Killinchy Silver Band
• Balloon Race
• Children's Art Competitions
• Community Police
• Raffle
• The Owl Man
• Happy Hedgehogs
• ASSISI
• The Lisbane Welly Boot Throwing Championship
• Climbing Wall
• Laser Clay Pidgeon Shooting

If you have any Ideas to help make it an even bigger success for next year please contact the Community office on 97 542717. Volunteers for the 2009 Fete will most welcome!

The Community House office is opened to the public from 9.30 am to 12.00 noon, Monday to Friday (except Wednesday). If you have any issues you wished brought to the committee, or wish to discuss future classes - feel free to call in between these times. Office services are also available to residents, photo copying, fax, emails or letter writing all at a small charge. Maybe you would like some help filling in a form just - Contact Linda on 97 542717

Have you young pre school children and would like to have a morning letting your children play with other children while you chat with others over a nice cup of tea why not come along to the Lisbane Parents and Toddlers morning. It is held every Thursday morning from 10.00 am at the Lisbane Centre.

The Community Police Liaison Committee continues to meet every other month in Comber, Lisbane, Killinchy and Ballygowan.

The Committee aims to:

• Maintain good relationships between the community and the police.
• Promote better understanding of what the police can do in response to local problems.
• Work together to identify solutions to those problems.

If you have any issues you would like to have raised at the CPLC meetings please leave your details at the Community House or Contact us.

The next CPLC meeting will take place at the Lisbane Community House on 20 May 2008

District Policing Partnership (DPP)

The first meeting of the new DPP will be taking place on Monday 2 June 2008 at 7.30 pm in the Ballygowan Village Hall, Belfast Road, Ballygowan. Everyone is welcome to attend, but if you have an issue you wished to be discussed, or questions you would wish to be answered, you have to email them to nicola.dorrian@ards-council.gov.uk prior to the meeting. No questions will be taken from the floor, but answers will be given to questions received by email.

The Lisbane News section in the Newtownards Chronicle is not just for the use of the Community Association. If there is a local event you want publicised just contact the Chronicle with details or alternatively leave the details at the Community House and they can be included in the next edition.