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Launching the new monthly Tralee Tidy Towns award for businesses at Benners Hotel on Monday morning were, seated, Joan O’Regan Of Tralee Tidy Towns and Cllr Sam Locke, Chairman of Towards A Better Tralee. Back from left; Manor West Retail Park Manager Derek Rusk, President of Tralee Chamber Alliance John Drummey and Martin McCarthy of Benners Hotel. Photo by Dermot Crean
TRALEE Chamber Alliance is making an early bid to prepare Ireland’s Best Large Tourism Town for the 2016 Tidy Towns Competition with a view to retaining a gold medal and making a real challenge for the top prize.
A new Tidy Towns Monthly Business Award has been launched by Tralee Chamber Alliance in association with Tralee Tidy Towns Group to help get Tralee into the best possible shape for success.
Prizes, supplied by local artists and craft makers, will be presented to the monthly winners who will be chosen from any of the following categories:
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• Best Business Premises
• Best Floral Display
• Best Shop Window
• Best New Paintwork
• Most Consistent in Appearance
• Outstanding Individual Work
“The various volunteer groups who comprise the Tidy Towns Team in Tralee have worked tirelessly in recent years to bring Tralee to Gold Medal status,” said President of Tralee Chamber Alliance, John Drummey.
“The entire business community in the town needs to show more pride in our town and play a bigger role in supporting the volunteers’ efforts with a view to winning the National Tidy Towns Competition. We all need to work on this throughout the entire year rather than waiting until the weather improves or before an imminent visit from the Tidy Towns Judges,” he said.
Joan O’Regan, a member of the Team Bramble Volunteer Group, who was a key player in Tralee’s success in the 2014 Entente Florale, will lead the Judging panel each month.
The Judges will consider all businesses in Tralee for a monthly award and the first winner, for January, will be announced at a business lunch early next month.
Tralee jumped to 3rd from 25th in the Irish Business Against Litter League survey last August only to drop the ball and slip back down the pecking order to 17th earlier this month.
“Victory in the Tidy Towns Competition would be the ideal way to celebrate Tralee’s 800th Year Anniversary, but it can only happen if everyone – businesses, residents and visitors – makes the effort to have Tralee looking as good as possible all year round,” said John Drummey.
For more information about how to become a member of Tralee Chamber Alliance or to join any of the volunteer groups working towards making Tralee Ireland’s tidiest town, visitwww.Tralee.ie or contact 066 7121472.
