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An Taisce’s National Spring Clean campaign is well underway in County Westmeath with hundreds of groups organising clean-up events throughout the county during April. The National Spring Clean campaign is Ireland’s largest anti-litter initiative organised by An Taisce and funded by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

Westmeath County Council has been announced as a winner in the annual e-Government Awards, held in Dublin recently. The council was one of five short-listed candidates in the Local Government category and took the award for their suite of online services which includes a newly-redeveloped website, rural transport initiative and online services for elected members.

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) says thank you to the people of Westmeath who participated in the Census last Sunday April 10.

Westmeath communities are this week being encouraged to keep up the good work as the National Spring Clean campaign reaches the half way mark!

Preparations are in full swing for the sixth year of the Waterways Ireland triAthlone, and registration is now open for the event happening on July 2.

Moate will host its own culture day and night this September in conjunction with Westmeath and National Culture Night and they are looking for you to help!

Westmeath County Library Service welcomed storyteller Aideen McBride to Kilbeggan and Moate Libraries to help celebrate READiscover your library month.

A large group of international tour operators and buyers visited Kilbeggan Distillery and Old Locke’s Distillery Museum on a familiarisation trip to the Midlands. The group are in Ireland to attend Meitheal 2011, the annual travel trade workshop organised by Fáilte Ireland, in conjunction with Tourism Ireland. Meitheal is one of the largest tourism trade workshops and the most important event of the Irish tourism calendar.

The annual South Westmeath Hospice 5km Fun Run/Walk saw over 320 people participate in a race at AIT last Sunday. In its third year, the event continues to be a successful fundraising event for the hospice in Athlone.

Three Westmeath women have been warned that if they engage in further violent disorder, they will be jailed.