Skips at the gates and the matter of grave fees

Extra rubbish skips are already in place at both cemetery gates and will remain until mid-November. Please put old candles, artificial flowers and wreaths in them — let us not leave them along the paths or behind the wall. Last year we took eleven skips of rubbish away from the cemetery; the cost is covered by the parish from the cemetery offerings.

Please tidy the graves early, not in the last week of October. Towards the end of the month it gets crowded at the gate and on the narrow paths, and it is then difficult for older people to get around.

With this year's special collection we have topped up the gravel on the main path and repaired the gate on the Zalesie side — the hinges had been loose for several years, and the gate leaf sagged so much that it had to be lifted by hand.

On the noticeboard by the cemetery chapel we have posted a list of graves for which the plot fee has not been renewed. We ask families to contact the parish office. The point is not to clear any grave — it is to know who is looking after it. In several cases the families moved away long ago and simply do not know that the fee has expired.

The collection for the restoration of historic gravestones will take place, as every year, on All Saints' Day at both gates.