This year the Christmas lights will be switched on on Saturday the 5th of December. The lantern parade will also take place once again, finishing off at the tree in the Square, in good time for “Lights On” at 5pm.
Come along and join in the fun, Santa and his Elves will be in the Market House all afternoon and the Polar Express will be chugging around the town.
Click here to view this years pictures
A big Thank You to everyone who came along to the Galloween Ghost Village for the Ugly Bug Ball and Fireworks on Halloween Night. We hope you had a good evening and your family had fun. We’ll have pictures of the event online shortly.
(Site Editor’s in work today – but then again, as they say…..no rest for the wicked…)
Come along, Saturday October the 31st and enjoy the spooky goings on at the Galloween Ghost Village. Prizes for the best fancy dress, (even for the Mums and Dads !).
Join us at the Old Caravan Park, Exploris……if you dare !!!!
It was fantastic to see so many in the Market House tonight and hearting to have so many potential new members. If you couldn’t make it, but would like to be involved next year, feel free to come along next Wednesday evening to the next Gala Meeting, 7.30 in McNamara’s Back Room, or e-mail us info@portaferrytown.com
There will be a meeting on Wednesday the 30th of September at 7.30pm, in the Market House Portaferry, to discuss the future of Portaferry Gala.
As regular visitors to the site will know, many of the present committee are standing down this year and despite a number of appeals for new members to replace them, this hasn’t happened.
The remaining members simply can’t continue to run the Gala on their own. If you would like to join, or have suggestions which may help, please come along.
As you probably know, most of the present Committee are hanging up their Gala T-Shirts at the end of this year.
Without a new Committee to run it, there simply won’t be a Portaferry Gala in 2010.
If you really want to see the Gala continue, now is the time to act by joining the Committee or perhaps YOUR Portaferry based Group/Club can offer assistance with a particular event ?
If you’d like to help with Portaferry Gala, please join the Gala Committee NOW.
Meetings take place on the first Wednesday of every month, at 7.30pm, in the back lounge of McNamara’s, High Street.
Cameroon, New South Wales, Melbourne, Steinfurt, Berlin, The Nederlands, Rome, Dublin, Cork, Glasgow, Ayrshire, Buckinghamshire….our online visitors really do span the globe, website visits were up over 30% this Gala Week.
Welcome to our site, wherever you may be from, we hope you enjoy it’s content and maybe we’ll see you here in Portaferry someday !
Five pages full of Float Pictures, enjoy !
As Bugs Bunny would say…That’s all Folks” – thanks so much for all your support over the past week – weather not being the best – it was fantastic to see so many families out enjoying themselves at events throughout Gala 2009.
Now…to address a question which has been about a lot this week “Is this the last Portaferry Gala ?”.
A number of Committee members are hanging up their Gala T-Shirts this year, including our Chairman, Mary Mageean. It is a fact that the Gala WILL need new volunteers if it is to survive.
There will be a meeting on the first Wednesday of September, details will be posted here, nearer the time.
Why not come along and join the Committee ?
It’s YOUR Gala for YOUR town.
The short answer as to whether Gala survives or not is :
“It’s up to YOU”.