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Members of Galway’s Indian community from the Kerla region of southwestern India will be celebrating Christmas and New Year with a party in St Joseph’s Community Centre, Shantalla.

St Kieran’s Community Centre emerged the big winner in this year’s St Patrick’s Day parade in Athlone, scooping the awards for ‘Best overall entry’ and ‘Best community entry’ during Tuesday’s festivities.

Achill Island community is leading the way in the fight against heart disease by working with local heart charity Croí, in partnership with HSE West Mayo PCCC (Primary, Community & Continuing Care) by launching the inaugural Achill Healthy Heart Week from April 20 to April 24.

Mona Joyce of St Kieran’s Community Centre in Athlone was the worthy recipient of this year’s overall Cathaoirleach’s Award.

The Carramore 10k is the first race in Mayo AC's 2009 Road Race League, which is sponsored by Vodafone C & C Cellular and supported by Mayo Sports Partnership. The race is on tomorrow at 6pm. This will the first chance for participants to pick up league points in what promises to be a very competitive league this year. The Carramore 10k is a firm favourite on the western athletics calendar and is now in its sixth year of the race. The course is a fast, one lap, rural circuit which will test all athletes. There is a good community spirit and there has been lots of local help in support of the main organiser Christy Heneghan, who has been involved in athletics since the 1970s. Once again the race is supported by local business people PJ and Helena O'Connor. This race has a strong fund-raising tradition. The main charity this year is the Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation. To date the event has raised €46,000 for its palliative care service.

At the Dublin Athletic Board Graded meeting last week two Mayo AC vets took part in the 1500 metres race. Seamus (Jim) Gaughan has been training back in Mayo recently and it showed as he recorded an excellent 4.57.33 in the over 55 category. His Dublin based colleague and clubmate Mick Ferry (over 60) also had a good run to finish 5.40.13.

The annual Darren Wallace/Padraic Sheriff Memorial Cups will take place on Monday August 3 this year. Now in it’s 14th year, the memorial cups have proved a fitting tribute to two of Assumption Road’s most fondly remembered natives.

Galway celebrated its most beautiful gardens, best kept lawns, streets, and neighbourhoods when the Galway City Tidy Towns and Garden Competition winners were announced this week.

A public meeting will be held in St Mary’s Community Centre in Mountbellew next Monday night, November 23 at 9pm. The meeting is called to discuss the already announced proposed closure of the Franciscan Agriculture College, Mountbellew.

Galway Community Circus is hosting a Christmas Show on Sunday December 13 at 2.30pm at St Joseph’s Community Centre in Shantalla. It promises to be a spectacular event, showcasing a colourful array of circus skills learned by young people at weekly circus classes. Go and experience the magic of Christmas in the Galway Community Circus way.