Carol
concert
DECEMBER 9 is the date for the Mayor of Liskeard's carol concert, to be held in the Public Hall at 3pm.
A raffle will be held for the Respite Centre in the town, and refreshments will be available. Admission is free, and contributions will be made by Liskeard Silver Band, Liskerret Male Voice Choir and Liskeard Ladies Choir.
Santa competition
TO celebrate Christmas, Mackays 'KylieKlub' is running a national 'Secret Santa' competition. The competition is open to all young people and involves guessing who is behind the Santa disguise on in-store posters.
Free entry forms can be obtained from the Liskeard Mackays store, located at 1 Baytree Hill and must be returned by Christmas Eve.
Darts results
RESULTS in the Liskeard Ladies darts league for Wednesday night are as follows: Manor House 4 Cheesewring 3; White Hart B 2 Sports Club 5; East Taphouse social club 3 Liberal club 4; Police club l Highwayman B 6; Highwayman A 5 Highwayman C 2; Highwayman D 3 Market 4. The match between Dobsons and White Hart A is to be arranged.
Name suggested
LISKEARD town councillors have suggested that properties l-8 in the development at Lanchard Lane should be known as Rees Court.
The town council had been approached for suggestions by Caradon district council.
Postage stamps
wanted
CHRISTMAS stamps are wanted to help fund the treating and curing of leprosy sufferers.
Gwyneth McLoughlin at Liskeard Community School will collect the stamps which the Leprosy Mission will then turn them into cash. £31,000 alone was made nationwide from the collection of used stamps.
If you have any stamps, drop them into Liskeard Community School for the attention of Gwyneth.
Cat food
donations
TRAVELCARE staff from Liskeard are launching an appeal for donations of cat food for a local charity.
The branch in Pike Street, Liskeard, is carrying out the collection in support of the Woodside Animal Welfare Trust.
Customers, members of the public and local businesses are invited to take donations into the branch.
Travelcare hope to receive all donations by December 10, in time to make the presentation to the trust before Christmas.
New industrial
units and workshops
A £730,000 scheme, to provide 11 new industrial units and nine managed workshops at Liskeard Business Park, is due to begin soon.
The scheme, which has government and European funding, could lead to the creation of 31 new jobs. It is likely to aid around 20 small and medium-sized businesses, with the new units to be completed by May 2002.
Caradon Council, which is to manage them, said there is a waiting list.
Boost for bus passengers
Plymouth Citybus is running two extra journeys in each direction on its Monday to Saturday service 77/78 between Liskeard and Plymouth.
The enhanced service started operation on Monday. The additional journeys, funded by Cornwall County Council, mean a bus every hour between Liskeard and Plymouth during Monday to Saturday daytimes.
Every other journey operates through Menheniot, providing a two hourly service from Menheniot and Merrymeet to both Liskeard and Plymouth.
Since taking over this service in September last year Citybus has gained new passengers - although not enough to justify the new journeys on a commercial basis.
They are only viable with county council support.
Meanwhile, the Monday to Friday journey at 12 noon from Bodmin to Liskeard on service 78 will run one hour earlier throughout its journey departing from Bodmin at 1100.
This adjustment will allow a stay of just over one-and-a-half hours at Trago Mills and an hour in Liskeard.