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A special conference on producing successful festivals and social events will be held in Ballinasloe in November.

Ballinasloe is this week preparing for the annual Ballinasloe October Fair and Festival, which gets under way in the town this weekend.

Two separate investigations are underway after a lorry collided with a road sweeper and jackknifed, coming partially off the Athlone bypass yesterday morning.

The programme of events for the 2011 Ballinasloe October Fair, worth in the region of €8.5 million to the local economy, was officially launched by Mayor of Ballinasloe, Cllr Mike Kelly at a special reception at the Carlton Shearwater Hotel in Ballinasloe on Monday night.

The countdown to the Ballinasloe Fair and Festival continues, and the search is on for this year’s Queen of the Fair. Europe’s oldest horse fair starts on Saturday October 1, and the Queen of the Fair will be crowned in the Carlton Shearwater Hotel on a gala night on Saturday September 17.

The draft Ballinasloe Town Enhancement Plan goes on public display today (Friday) amid some concern from a local business representative group at their lack of input into the plan.

Ballinasloe-based professional artist collective, Group 8, launch their exhibition, Ten Mile2, on Thursday July 7 at 7pm in the Aidan Heavey Public Library, Church Street, Athlone. The exhibition will run for the month of July at the library and admission is free.

Two of Galway’s public hospitals will come under increasing pressure if a proposal to close Roscommon County Hospital’s A&E department in a fortnight’s time goes ahead, a local trade union official warned this week.

To mark World Elder Abuse Day on Wednesday June 15, staff from the HSE’s Older People Service in conjunction with local community services in Galway are organising a series of workshops to create a greater awareness of elder abuse and the supports that are there for older people. The workshops will run for about two hours and will include a video, discussion, and light refreshments at the end. The workshops are free to attend and all are welcome.

The Keep on Track Project is a unique collaborative, cross curricular project connecting 16 schools from Galway to Ballymun in Dublin along the Inter City Rail Line, culminating in a launch day which will be held in the Radisson Hotel in Galway tomorrow, in which schools will present their project findings.