July and August Returns for Parish Draw 2009

Promoters should make their returns to the Parish Office on Tuesday 14 July for both July and August (£10.00 for each person) from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and from 7.30pm - 8.30pm. The 2 Draws for July and August will take place on Thursday 16 July at 10.30am in the Parish Office.

Collection Counters

The following are asked to count the collection for the month of July: Bill Doherty, Sally Drumm, Dessie Drumm, Maureen Hegarty, Cecilia McDaid, Patricia McDaid, Teddy Quigley, Brian Foster and Helen Foster.

Cleaning of Church

The team for cleaning the church during the month of July is Mary McGuigan’s team. Many thanks to Patricia McDaid’s team for cleaning the church during June.

Accord will hold Marriage Preparation Workshops on September 18/19 and October 23/24 2009 from 7.00pm - 10.00pm on Friday and from 10.00am - 4.00pm on Saturday at the Thornhill Centre, Culmore Road, Derry. Booking forms are available from the Pastoral Centre, 164 Bishop Street, Derry, telephone 028 71362475.

Strabane Youth Association is running a summer programme for junior members aged 6 - 11 years at Melvin Hall from Monday 6 July - Friday 17 July. The programme will have various activities including football, snooker, games consoles, computer use, talent shows, quizzes etc. There will also be trips to Go-Karting, Swimming etc. Cost 0.50p per night. Places are limited so book early. Tuck shop available.

Parish Draw 2009

The Draw for June took place on Thursday 18 June 2009. The winners are as follows: June Draw
£500: 1382 Pauline Wright - Bosco McCready
£250: 1158 Jimmy McLaughlin - Mar Hagan
£250: 1254 Eoin McCay - Ann Donaghey
£250: 1703 Ken Devine - Helen Foster
£150: 1551 Johnny Crossle - Sheila McGonagle
£150: 1064 Mary Gillespie - Frank Forbes
£150: 1017 Teresa Kane - Brenda Brolly
£100: 1619 Mary B. McGarrigle - Frances McLaughlin
£100: 1653 Hugo Duncan - Dympna McNamee
£100: 1274 Laura O’Kane - Sheelagh McKelvey

July and August Returns for Parish Draw 2009

Promoters should make their returns to the Parish Office on Tuesday 14 July for both July and August (£10.00 for each person) from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and from 7.30pm - 8.30pm. The 2 Draws for July and August will take place on Thursday 16 July at 10.30am in the Parish Office.

Parish Draw 2009

The Draw for May took place on Thursday 21 May 2009. The winners are as follows: May Draw

£500: 1265 Francie Patton - Sheelagh McKelvey
£250: 1030 Monica McGuigan - Maureen Hegarty
£250: 1302 Carol Ann Stewart - Carol Ann Stewart
£250: 1488 Josephine McGrath - Michael McGrath
£150: 1414 Dolores Houston - Helen Foster
£150: 1687 Kevin Boyle - Sheila McGonagle
£150: 1397 David Cunningham - Helen Foster
£100: 1588 Gladys Kelly - Frances McLaughlin
£100: 1165 Catherine O’Reilly - Juliana Murray
£100: 1669 Jordan O’Doherty - Dympna McNamee

Parish Savings

Anyone who saved with the Parish Savings during 2008 and who has still not lodged their savings cheque to their bank account is asked to do so before May 26, 2009 as the cheques will then be six months old and out of date and no longer valid.

ACCORD
Marriage Preparation Courses are now available:
Forms can be obtained from ACCORD Omagh Centre, Mount St. Columba Pastoral Centre, 48 Brook Street, Omagh, BT78 5HD.
Telephone 028 82242439.
E-mail: accordomagh@btopenworld.com

St Mary’s Church Choir
St Mary’s Church, Melmount Strabane.
Tel: 7188 4529
Aims: To provide sacred music for the liturgical functions associated with the church.
Contact: Mr Gerard Bradley
Activities: Weekly choir practice in St Colman’s High School.
Organists: Mr Gerard Bradley and Mr Noel McGinley

Melmount Folk Group
Aims: To provide liturgical music at Mass or any other sacred celebrations.
The group sing each week at the vigil Mass on Saturday evening and rehearsals take place on a fortnightly basis.

Legion of Mary
Melmount Centre, Strabane
Aims: To bring spiritual help to members and to those they visit.
Activities: Visiting the sick; lonely; old; hospitals; homes; promotion of the rosary through circulation of the statue of Our Lady in the parish; book barrow for spiritual literature.

“SPRED” (Special Religious Education Division)
Melmount Centre, Strabane
Aims: Catechesis of the developmentally disabled
Activities: Spred is a diocesan network of parish based communities, whose primary aim is the faith development and parish integration of those with mild or severe learning difficulties (mentally handicapped). Also, it is an on-going adult faith development programme for those who volunteer to help.

Third Tyrone Scouting Ireland Group
Mr Charlie Brown
Aims: To contribute to the development of its members in achieving their full spiritual, intellectual, physical, social and cultural potential as individuals so that they may take a constructive place in society.
Activities: Exploring/compass work; mapping; orienteering; hiking; climbing; camp craft (rope work, tying, cooking, pioneering etc.); physical fitness and first aid training; communications; water activities; international camping.

St Vincent de Paul Society
Aims: To help members grow in the love of God and their neighbours through direct personal services to others.
Main Activities: Visitation, hospitals and Greenfield Home; personal visits; bus for elderly; outings and holidays for elderly; helping those in need.

Knights of St Columbanus
C/o 19 Melmount Gardens, Strabane. Tel: 382282
Aims: To encourage and develop Christian values in all things. To assist the bishops and parish priests if requested in the work of diocese or parish.
Contact: Mr John Duffy 19 Melmount Gardens, Strabane.
Activities: Interest and involvement in emigration advice; community development; alcohol and drug abuse; job discrimination.

“SEARCH” Youth Group
Termonbacca, Derry
Tel: 71260305 (Secretary) or 71351759 (Chairman).
Aims: For young people to meet regularly to pray and to share with each other their experiences of life. Getting to know about the opposite sex.
Contact: Mr G McCann (Secretary), or Mr Martin McLaughlin (Chairman), or Mrs Camel McGarrigle, Our Lady of Mercy High School, Strabane.
Activities: Drama, singing, discussion, spiritual reflection, youth Masses, social evenings, discos.
“Search” came to Ireland via America in 1985. To date 9,000-10,000 young people have taken part in the programme.
Search is for young adults ranging from 17-24 years of age.

Strabane Prayer Group
Day Chapel, Melmount
Aims: To foster shared prayer within the context of charismatic renewal and cultivate the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Activities: Prayer and praise; scripture sharing; teaching on the Christian way of life.

Colman Fold
Melmount Road, Strabane
Tel: 382463
Aims: care for the elderly in individual units
Activities: Bingo; Outings; Social Evenings; Whist Drives

Greenfield R.H.E. (Residential Home for the Elderly)
2 Melmount Road Strabane. Tel: 882381
Aims: Care for the elderly
Activities: Respite Care; Bingo sessions on Saturday afternoons; Outings and Parties; Yearly Quiz; Garden Fete.

Melmount Bridge Club
C/o Melmount Centre, 37 Melmount Road Strabane.
Aims: Weekly bridge meetings
Contact: Vourneen Duffy, 2 Vallen Heights, Nine Mile Road, Newtownhamilton, Newry, Co. Down

Melmount Ladies Guild
Melmount Ladies Guild is a group of ladies who meet every Wednesday evening at 8.30pm in the Melmount Centre. Apart from meeting socially, they raise money for various charities. Every lady welcome.
Contact: Any member of the Guild or telephone Margaret (7138 2460) or Tina (7188 4327)