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As a local publication serving our communities, if there is something you’d like to submit for publication, please email it to the address below. We try our best to publish all local material but the pages fill up fast! .CONTACT DETAILSAddress for correspondence:The Meath Coaster147 Betaghstown WoodBettystownCo. MeathPhone: 041 9813860 Email: dermot@meathcoaster.comThis month’s cover is a view of Drogheda & the river Boyne from Mornington Cemeteryby John Taylor. If you have any interesting seasonal photos or of local people or places, send your photos to the Meath Coaster at dermot@meathcoaster.comPRINT DEADLINESAs the printer closes over Christmas and New Year holidasy, the closing date for the JANUARY issue is Sunday December 17th. Distribution will begin at the start of the month.ADVERTISING RATESAdvertising in The Meath Coaster really works! No other media is so effective in the Meath coast area. Effective advertising needs repetition and time. 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MeathTelephone (041) 9887885Find Us OnDecember 2017 The Meath Coaster6Bettystown Tidy Towns GroupBettystown will be lit-up on Saturday December the 9th with the switching-on of the Bettystown Christmas tree and street lights. This is the first year that lighting has been installed in the village and was organised by the volunteers of the Bettystown Tidy Towns group.The day will be marked with special of-fers and customer appreciation offers in some of the local businesses, see our Fa-cebook page Bettystown Tidy Towns for details. The day will culminate with the switching-on of the lights at 6.00p.m., with carol singing performed by pupils from Scoil an Spioraid Naoimh. We hope that the local community will visit the vil-lage to enjoy the event and support their local businesses. The installation of the lights would not have been possible without the generous support and assistance of local businesses and developers and the Tidy Towns Group would like to thank the following for their generous support,Anagenic hair design, Ashcroft Property Development Ltd, developer of East-ham Square, Carroll Estates Dublin Ltd. , developer of Cois Na Mara, Council-lors Eimear Ferguson & Sharon Tolan, Funtasia, Pat’s Centra, Reddans Hotel and Bar, Stacks Pharmacy, Urban Life Devel-opments Ltd., developer of Dun EimearThe group are especially grateful to Car-roll Estates, developers of Cois Na Mara, who in addition to supporting the instal-lation of the festive lights are also going to partner with the Tidy Towns Group to support other Tidy Towns initiatives to in-clude providing landscape assistance with the planters in the village and on the ap-proach roads.As always, Councillor Sharon Tolan has been very supportive, as she is of all com-munity activities, and we would like to thank her for her support with the festive light installation, the planning application process with Meath County Council and with the planting of the flowers and plants in the Triton Road roundabout, which she supported earlier this year through her Discretionary Fund contributions.The Bettystown Tidy Towns group are al-ways looking for volunteers and sugges-tions. 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