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International Table Tennis Federation 06 Apr 2021
Encouraging everyone to try the sport of table tennis, it is the underlying theme of World Table Tennis Day; it is about providing opportunities, particularly for those who find themselves in difficult situations, refugees are of particular importance.
Abbas Ramezani, a refugee from Iran (centre) with (left) Rob Van der Horst, club chair and (right) Mark Smith
by Ian Marshall
One person who very much answers the call for help is Mark Smith. Dedicated to say the least, recently when table tennis sessions had to be curtailed owing to Covid-19, he found the answer, head for the beach and keep fit.
Castlepollard Community College extension gets the go ahead
1 April 2021
Damien English, Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Wayne Walsh, Principal of Castlepollard Community College, and Cllr. Frank McDermott, all welcomed the news last week that the extension at Castlepollard Community College is to go ahead.
There was great news for Castlepollard on Tuesday of last week, 23 March, when the Government announced that Castlepollard Community College, was one of a number of schools in the country, to get the green light to proceed with a new extension.
Castlepollard Community School has been accepted as one of the 20 schools nationally under the School’s Building Programme to get a major extension to the existing school to accommodate the growing number of pupils. The extension includes several new classrooms, Special Educational Needs base, new specialist rooms for subjects like music, IT and Art and a new sports hall with fitness suite.
The launch of the Handbook âLocalising SDGâsâ
During the 22
nd Expert Group meeting on Sustainable Development for the Council for the Baltic Sea States (CBSS), Joel Ahlgren from the think tank Global Utmaning presented the new handbook: Localising Sustainable Development Goals in the Baltic Sea Region: A Handbook. The Handbook was based on the outcomes of the Baltic 2030 Capacity Building Programme – localizing SDGs in the Baltic Sea Region implemented by Global Utmaning and the Council for the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) with funding from the Swedish Institute.Â
The digital launch began with an opening speech from the Lithuanian Presidency on priorities for 2021. This was followed by a presentation of the handbook by the authors