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Saintfield Development Association’s Green Saintfield Committee have been watering the Grow Wild scheme’s wild flower seed beds on the Lisburn Road and at The Point on the Belfast Road.  As you can see here, vessels of all shapes and sizes are used to carry water to the sites!

Saintfield Development Association’s Green Saintfield Committee member Lawrence Murphy worked through the rain to clean road dirt, weeds and litter on Belfast Road from the traffic lights to Saintfield High School.  He lifted 19 bags of dirt, 6 bags of weeds and one bag of litter.

A kind word from Ann McCandless was encouraging at the start!

Early on Sunday 5th June the Gran Fondo Giro D’Italia Northern Ireland passed through Saintfield.  Watch them entering Comber Road HERE.

Saintfield Development Association would like to take this opportunity to invite you to attend our Annual General Meeting on Monday 13th June at 7:30 pm in Saintfield Sports Club.

Over the past few months members of Saintfield Development Association’s Green Saintfield Committee have been working at The Point, the junction of the Belfast Rd and Comber Rd.  This is in preparation for the sowing of wild flower seeds as part of Grow Wild‘s nationwide scheme.

You can follow progress on the Saintfield scheme on the official Grow Wild website HERE.

The Gran Fondo Giro D’Italia Northern Ireland will be coming to Saintfield on Sunday 5th June!  There will be some disruption to early morning traffic in the area from 07:15 – 08:45 [Details HERE].

If you get up early you will see an amazing spectacle!  Have a look at this VIDEO of the Giro on Comber Road last year!

For more details of the event visit the official website HERE.

This morning 175 cyclists took part in the Saintfield Cycle ride.

A video of the cyclists leaving Downpatrick Street car park in Saintfield can be viewed HERE.

Two short videos of the cyclists passing through Crossgar can be viewed HERE & HERE.

Photographs taken at various locations on the route can be seen HERE.

The organisers, Saintfield Development Association, would like to thank:

Vivoxtra, Saintfield, for their kind donation of refreshments for the riders
The Women’s Institute and other volunteers for the tray bakes
The Rowallane Inn for hosting the riders at the finish

On Tuesday 10th May members of Comber Historical Society were taken on a tour of heritage sites in Saintfield by Saintfield Heritage Society.  This time last year Comber Historical Society had welcomed Saintfield Heritage Society members for a tour of Comber’s historic locations.