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If you are thinking of filling a shoebox and times are tight, you can still help those who have less, even on a shoestring. There are 27,064 households/ families living in County Westmeath so Westmeath can really make a difference if every family donated one shoebox.

Times are tight, but you can still help those who have less – even on a shoestring – by filling a shoe box this Christmas.

DELICATE BOSSA Nova, flamboyant flamenco, fiery rhythms, and electronic beats will be the order of the day when Polish-Spanish singer Magda Navarrete plays Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Sunday November 6 at 8pm.

Chico and Rita is the next screening at Ballina Film Club on Tuesday night November 1. Set in Cuba in 1948, Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache and torment. From Havana to New York, Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas, two passionate individuals battle impossible odds to unite in music and love. Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) and Catalan designer Javier Mariscal create a passionate, animated Cuban love story. Admission is €5.

November’s Mayo Open Coffee Club meeting will take place on Wednesday November 2 at 11am in the TF Royal Hotel, Castlebar, and this month the club will be focusing on the Public Procurement Process. Annually the market for public procurement in the EU amounts to approximately €1,800 billion.

On Friday November 4, at 8pm, Ballina Arts Centre will present Fishamble Theatre Company’s Forgotten, a powerful piece of theatre written and performed by Pat Kinevane.

A seven-a-side soccer tournament will take place tomorrow (Saturday), in the Watershed facility, in aid of a very worthy cause.

The HSE is urging parents to ensure their children are vaccinated against measles following a large pan national outbreak of the disease in Europe.

A man who escaped from custody in Roscommon Courthouse on Tuesday, and drove away in his car with a garda on the bonnet, before driving through a funeral, a level crossing, and eventually the wrong way up the motorway in Athlone before being apprehended, will appear in Harristown District Court in Castlerea today (July 22).

Pake Crehan of Rushestown Newbridge has seen a lot in his 88 years. “A little stiff but otherwise in good nick” was how he described his state of health when we spoke about old times in the company of his wife Delia and some of the extended family in their comfortable home recently.