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Prominent local landscape artist, Anna Boles, has raised €2020 for the South Westmeath Hospice from the sales of her 2024 calendar.

South Westmeath coffee lovers are being encouraged to host a fundraising morning to help raise €2million for ‘extraordinary’ hospice services.

Together for Hospice, the National Hospice Movement, is delighted to announce that Hospice Sunflower Days is returning for its 33rd year with 19 hospices throughout the country taking part in the on-street collection on Friday, June 9 and Saturday, June 10.

The final countdown has now commenced prior to the hosting of ‘Together for Hospice’, the National Hospice Movement’s Hospice Sunflower Days on-street collection which is returning to Athlone and Midlands region towns and villages this weekend on Friday, June 10 and Saturday, June 11.

On Friday, June 10 and Saturday, June 11, local volunteers will be selling sunflower merchandise to raise vital funds for the South Westmeath hospice and specialist palliative homecare services.

MICHAEL SILKE

South Westmeath Hospice is one of 26 hospices nationwide affording full support to the ‘Virtual Sunflower Remembrance Garden’ initiative.

RONAN FAGAN

The South Westmeath Hospice committee is to seek legal advice following the conclusion of recent discussions with the HSE relating to the proposed transfer of facilities from the palliative care unit on Northgate Street to the new 50 bed community nursing unit planned for Clonbrusk.

An impasse pertaining to the future of the South Westmeath Hospice palliative care unit in Athlone shows no immediate sign of resolution following the conclusion of a meeting between the volunteer committee and HSE representatives in recent times.