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Charity Santa Ride Photographs
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Saintfield’s Main Street was host to dozens of Santas on horseback for this year’s Saintfield Christmas Charity Santa Ride on Saturday 7th December. Gary Henderson took photographs of the event and kindly submitted them to discoversaintfield.com. They can be viewed HERE. |
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Small Art Competition Winners Announced
| Rowallane Credit Union ran their annual “Small Art Competition” at SDA’s Saintfield Christmas Fair. The competition, with its £50 and £25 prizes, attracted numerous entries.
The names of the winners can be found HERE. |
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Saintfield Development Association Says “Thank You”
| Saintfield Development Association would like to thank all of the people who generously contributed to our collection for the Philippines Typhoon Appeal at the Christmas Fair. You donated £145, and this has been transferred to the Disasters Emergency Committee. This is their reply to you all:
“First I want to say thank you for your generous gift of £145.00 to the DEC Philippines Typhoon Appeal. Because of your generosity we can provide hope to some of the Millions whose lives have been turned upside down by the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan. Hope to people like 10-year-old Rafael, who lost his father when the Typhoon struck. His cries for help did not go un-noticed; it was you and many others like you that decided to answer his call. Now we can provide people like Rafael with food, shelter and urgent medical supplies. We simply could not do this without you, so once more on behalf of all those affected by this disaster, who will receive aid because of you, we say thank you.” |
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Local Man Overcomes Blindness
| Saintfield man Doug Stevenson suffers from an hereditary eye disease which caused his sight to deteriorate over recent years until it resulted in total blindness in March this year. However, this has not stopped the 24-year-old equestrian from overcoming his disability and achieving successes denied most able-bodied folk.
More details can be found HERE. |
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Saintfield Christmas Fair 2013
| Saintfield Development Association’s annual Saintfield Christmas Fair on Friday 6th December attracted more visitors than ever before.
Fire performance group FirePoise opened and closed the evening. The Christmas Tree lights were switched on by Saintfield man Paddy Jackson, the Ulster and Ireland rugby player. Santa gave sweets to the children, and Batman made an appearance too! There was a Christmas Market, the BBC Big Bus was in town, and there were old favourites too, like the children’s roundabout and the miniature steam train. |
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Photographs of Saintfield Christmas Fair can be seen HERE.
Saintfield Christmas Fair
| Saintfield Development Association has been making preparations since July for its annual Saintfield Christmas Fair. This year the Christmas Fair will be held on Friday 6th December on Main Street from 6:30pm to 9:00pm. The street will be closed to traffic during this period to provide a safe environment for residents and visitors.
There are many attractions for all age groups, made possible by generous donations from local traders and businesses, together with some support from Down District Council. The Saintfield Christmas Fair is an ideal way to begin the festive season, with something to please all the family. Full details of Saintfield Christmas Fair can be found HERE. |
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Does anyone know Fay Magean (nee Smith)?
We have had a request from Maurice Bunyan to try and find his cousin Fay Magean nee Smith.
If anyone knows Fay please ask her to contact us and we will give her her cousin’s contact details.
Yuletide Market at Rowallane Garden
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Get in the Yuletide Spirit at Rowallane Garden!
Get in the festive spirit at Rowallane Garden, Saintfield for the National Trust’s popular Yuletide Market event on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th December from 12-5pm. More details about the event can be found HERE. |
Saintfield Christmas Charity Santa Ride
| Today saw the launch, in Rowallane Garden, of the 2013 Saintfield Christmas Charity Santa Ride. The annual Charity Ride, organised by Joan Cunningham [pictured right], is in aid of underprivileged children in Uganda and Rwanda whose parents have either died from AIDS or have been murdered.
Riders from the Showjumping, Eventing, Hunting, Racing and Showing world, not forgetting of course the Happy Hackers, will take part in this charity fundraising event – all dressed as Santas! On Saturday 7th December the real Santa and his Santa guests will ride from Saintfield Livestock Mart to the Christmas Tree on Main Street, arriving there at 1:00pm. This is a spectacular event not to be missed! Photos taken at today’s launch can be viewed HERE. |
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Descendants of Alexander Massey of Tonaghmore sought
Sandra Ward, who lives in Motherwell, Scotland, is researching her family history, which takes her back to two families around Saintfield, the Battons and Masseys.
She has found out a lot about the Battons but would like to make contact with any descendants of Alexander Massey who was a farmer in Tonaghmore in the 1850s or 60s. He had three sons, John, William and Robert and a daughter Eliza who married a Batton.
If you are a descendant of Alexander Massey or know someone who is, please respond to this post and we will put you in touch with Sandra.
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