BRIDGEND TOWN
Summer Fayre: Bridgend Friends of Tenovus Cancer Care are inviting you to join them at their Summer Fayre on Saturday July 30th between 11am and 4pm.
The event at the Two Brewers on Brackla Way, Brackla will feature the Sing with us Bridgend Choir and the Rusty Buckets, also lots of stalls and raffle. All are very welcome. Coffee Morning: Bridgend Soroptimist Club held a well attended coffee morning on July 15 at the home of club secretary Marjorie Page.
The event raised the sum of £248 for the Meru Womens’ Garden Project in Nepal.
The goal is to provide women in the area with the means to grow their own food products and sell on any surplus which will enable them to expand.
This project is currently being supported by all Soroptimist clubs in the UK and will run for a year.
Members and guests enjoyed a magnificent array of cakes and pastries and were joined by two young gentleman pupils visiting Wales from Estonia and Spain.
They are studying English and will be taking home some good memories of the Soroptimist movement both in Wales and throughout the World.
Holiday Playscheme: Once again this summer, Bridgend County Borough Council and Bridgend Town Council will be running a school holiday play-scheme aimed at the 8-12 years age range.
This is free to all participants.
The venue will be Bridgend Recreation Centre and will run for 4 weeks from Monday 1st August to Friday 26th August.
Sessions are daily Monday to Friday from 10am to 2pm.
This highly successful annual event is very popular and is open to all local children, with attendance last summer running at over 1,000 visits during the period.
Further information is available by contacting
Bridgend Life Centre 01656 678890.
Tabletop Sale: Sandville Self Help Centre at Ton Kenfig will be holding their next Tabletop Sale on Saturday August 6th between 2.30pm and 4pm.
Lots of tables with lots of goodies, for example, bric-a-brac, hand made shopping bags, jewellery, linens, toys and books, cosmetics, handbags, home made cakes, modestly priced refreshments and a grand raffle. All are very welcome. Bridgend Male Choir: With a history in recent years of singing at international sporting events, Bridgend Male Choir Choristers fondly recollect singing a welcome to returning, victorious Cycling Race World Champion, Nicole Cooke and singing the Welsh Anthem in Cardiff at boxing’s World Champion, Joe Calzage’s successful unification title fight against the Dane, Mikkel Kessier.
The current singing year however is unsurpassed for the boys from Bridgend, no less than four major sporting appearances will have heard its choristers entertaining.
Wales v France home team’s success in the Rugby Six Nation’s Championship opened its programme and recently it sang a welcome to competitors at the Ladies Under 25s Bowls Home International Series hosted at Bridgend Municipal Bowls Club.
Still to come are a welcome invitation from the Football Association of Wales to its Launch Dinner to celebrate the award of the Football Champion’s League Final to Cardiff in 2017 and a return visit to the sport of king’s, Coral Welsh Grand National at Chepstow at the year end, when also appearing will be Wales very own singing superstar, Bryn Terfel.
Exciting times indeed and an honour for the Choir to attend these sporting events.
Pupils’ History Lesson: Last year Year 5 at Penybont Primary School researched the life former Penybont School pupil Thomas Price Nicholas from Newcastle Hill.
Thomas was killed 100 years ago in France in WWI.
The schools researched work entitled ‘Thomas Price Nicholas, our Penybont Hero’ which is now on display for the summer at Tyr-Arth, Local and Family History Centre, Sunnyside. Go along and view this very intresting file.
Fresh Start: Fresh Start is a self help group which offers support and friendship for those affected by breast cancer and who live in the Bridgend area.
The group meet at the Heronston Hotel Ewenny Road on the second Tuesday of the month between 10.30am and 12noon.
The next meeting will be held on Tuesday August 9th for coffee and a chat.