Young volunteers help Dundalk Tidy Towns with Navvy Bank clean up

A group of young people from Oregon in the United States have volunteered this week to work with Dundalk Tidy Towns in a clean up of the Navvy Bank.

The group of around ten young men and women are working with the local Lighthouse Church, a Christian religious organisation, and along with helping out Dundalk Tidy Towns, are taking part in other activities including participating in 'outreach' programmes.

The group, who said they are enjoying their stay in Dundalk, have been taking part in a three day clean up at the Navvy Bank with Dundalk Tidy Towns, and have been stuck into cutting weeds and sweeping paths. According to Dundalk Tidy Towns, it is the beginning of a big project, to turn the Navvy Bank "into a proper amenity for the people of Dundalk".

The help given by the young Lighthouse Church volunteers this week, along with the ongoing trojan work carried out by Dundalk Tidy Towns on a regular basis, is a tonic to the disheartening discovery of an illegal dump in Dundalk last week. 

It is a particularly busy time of the year for Dundalk Tidy Towns as assessment of participating towns in the Tidy Towns competition takes place during the months of June, July and August each year, on a date which is not specified. Stay up to date with their work and find out more about volunteering with them on their Facebook page here.

Lighthouse Church holds a Sunday service each week in The Venue at the Imperial Hotel in Dundalk, as well as in Blanchardstown in Dublin and Navan in Meath. They say that Sundays at the Lighthouse Church are designed to make faith practical at every stage of life.

Find out more about Lighthouse Church, including service times and what they do here.