ABERKENFIG & COYTRAHEN

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Art Exhibition: Tondu and District Art Society hold their Summer Exhibition from this Saturday June 10 to Tuesday June 13 daily. from 10am-6pm (Sundays 11am-4pm) at the Len Evans Centre, off Heol Persondy, Aberkenfig, CF32 9RF.

Work from Year 6 pupils at St Roberts Primary School, Aberkenfig, will also feature as part of a competition.

Easy car parking, free entry, light refreshments available and all welcome.

Can You Help: A group of volunteer students from Swansea University are going for a monthlong project to Siavonga, Zambia, at the end of this month.

This is part of The Swansea Siavonga Partnership. They would like to take a variety of items to use with children and women’s groups.

Further information and a list of required items are available on the Swansea Siavonga Partnership Facebook page.

If you are able to donate any of these items then please contact me on the number for the column.

Items can be delivered to the Old Police House, Maesteg Road, Tondu or collected from you. Many thanks.

Fitness Classes: New fitness and well-being classes for all ages are being offered at Ty Morfa in Aberkenfig under the banner Jym Jams. Call Joanne on 07876 747 441 for more details.

Psychic Fair: A psychic fair will be heal at Ynysawdre Community Centre at Bryn Road, Tondu (on the junction with Heol yr Ysgol), on Tuesday, June 27. Doors open 6.30pm, free admission. Call Mrs Bryant on 01656 657 463 or 07890 234 235.

Afternoon Tea: There will be an Afternoon Tea in support of Marie Curie Cancer Research at the Ynysawdre Community Centre (at the junction of Bryn Road and Heol yr Ysgol) this Saturday, June 10, from 1pm-5pm. Cost is £5 for a full afternoon tea. Please support this worthy cause if you can.

Table Top Sales: Held at Coytrahen Community Centre on the first Saturday of every month from 8am-12noon.

The next one is due Saturday, July 1. Tables cost £5 each. There will

Aberkenfig Allotments: The Aberkenfig Allotment Association shop is situated in the allotments at Sandfields Road Aberkenfig.

It’s open every Sunday from 10am-noon with a variety of products at good prices on sale. Call Joanne, or Jamie Hunt on 07810 034904.

Pilates Class: Every Thursday 6.15pm at Litchard Mission Church, Litchard. Contact Ruth on 07786 627 335 or email ruth@c2cfitness.co.uk for further details.

Spiritual Healing: Spiritual healing is offered each Tuesday from 6pm7.30pm at the Ynysawdre Community Centre (at the junction of Bryn Road and Heol-yr-Ysgol). Call Mrs Bryant on 01656 657463 or 07890 234235.

Christian Spiritualist: A Christian Spiritualist Church meets each Sunday at 6.30pm at the Ynysawdre Community Centre. Call Mrs Bryant on 01656 657 463 or 07890 234 235.

Nazareth Chapel: Nazareth Baptist Chapel Bryncethin offers a Service 4pm each Sunday.

Smyrna Penyfai: Sunday School is held every weekend from 10.30am12noon for stories, singing and fun with arts and craft work.

A coffee morning is held on Tuesday, from 10am-noon with good company and a raffle is also held in aid of local charities.

Bible study takes place on Thursday evening at 7.15pm and is led in turn by Mrs Marlyn James and Miss Dorithy Evans.

Call Mr Peter David on 01656 659856.

News Items: Please send any items to the address at the head of the column by the Wednesday evening for publication the following week. Best of all it’s free. For further information and a programme, visit www.love2walk.co.uk, telephone 01656 642593 or email love2walk@ bridgend.gov.uk.

Carers Information Event: To celebrate National Carers Week, Bridgend Carers Centre in Association with Hafod Care are holding an Information and Entertainment Event at Brocastle Manor House on Thursday, June 15, from 1pm-4pm.

If you would like to attend this event or have an information stall, please contact Bridgend Carers Centre.

Help and information, support and social events can be sought by calling 01656 658479, enquiries@ bridgendcarers.co.uk or www.bridgendcarers. co.uk or call into Bridgend Carers Centre, 87 Park Street Bridgend CF31 4AZ.

Charity Coffee Morning: This will be held at Tabernacl Hall, Elder Lane this Saturday, June 10 from 10am-12noon. To include a Welsh cake and cup of tea or coffee.

Proceeds will be donated to the chapel charities for this year, which include The Leprosy Mission, Wales Air Ambulance and Noah’s Ark. Welcome to all. Croeso I bawb. Admission £2. The coffee morning held for the Urdd raised £175.

Cantorion Coety Concert: The 2017 Annual Concert takes place at Tabernacl Chapel, Derwen Road at 7pm this Friday, June 9.

Tickets are available at the door from 6.30pm or from any choir member. This year the choir is delighted to welcome back guest soloist Rhydian Jenkins of Maesteg.

Rhydian is a very accomplished performer, having won many competitions at the Urdd Eisteddfod and at the Eisteddfod of Wales. He is currently studying music at Cardiff, and enjoys playing rugby to a high standard.

Cantorion Coety Choir is also pleased to welcome two choirs from the Kenfig Hill area to join them, for the first time. Both choirs perform under the auspices of the Kenfig Hill Male Choir.

They are namely, Da Capo Children’s Choir, and Crescendo Youth Choir; both choirs are directed by Katheryn Brace, with Beryl Evans as the accompanist.

A warm welcome awaits all who wish to attend and support the concert.

WWII Memorial Project: A project is about to start on identifying the Bridgend and District men who lost their lives in WWII and whose names are on our war Memorial in Dunraven Place.

If you have any knowledge or if you know of any soldier , RAF, or sailor whose name is on our War Memorial please contact me on 01656 66 3041.

Hopefully a commemorative booklet will be published remembering the men of the area.

Philatelic Society: Do you collect postage stamps, post cards? Are you interested in postal history? If so, the Bridgend Philatelic Society meet on the second and fourth Thursday of the month at 7.30pm at the Gospel Hall School Room, Llynfi Street, Bridgend. Contact Mr Lyons on 01446 792 149 or Mrs Phillips 01656 653 753.

Wartime in Bridgend: The countdown has started to this Saturday, June 10, when Bridgend will step back in time to the 1940s and give a feeling of what life was like in the dark days of WWII.

Many of the activities will be educational for people of all ages. Activities will include WWII toy soldier painting, 1940s cooking; poppy making, school life and period games and lots more. Live music entertainment will take place throughout the day.

A Winston Churchill and ‘Monty’ ‘sound’ and ‘look-a-like’ will also make an appearance around the town.

There will be 1940s cooking, school life and period games and much more for the children to do. Photographic displays by Bridgend and District Local History Society, Wartime display by Michael Ridley, Dig for Victory with Bridgend Allotments, three Historical Walks by John Dunkley-Williams, the first will start from Bridgend train station at 9.45am, and will proceed to Island Farm, taking around an hour, before John hands the group over to the friends at the gate of Hut 9 Camp for their camp tour, which would take around an hour and half.

This will be limited to the first 20 places which can be booked by contacting John at Ty Ardd 01656 754810.

The second and third walks will start from the same place at 1pm and 3pm, and John will deliver the same information on his part, but the walks will be a shorter circular walk around town.

All the fun takes place throughout Bridgend town centre from 10am-5pm.

To cap off the event, a re-enactment style dance and entertainment evening will be held in Bridgend Rugby Club featuring international swing vocalist and trumpeter Ricky Hunter and 1940s ‘forces sweetheart’ Amanda Beaumont.

Tickets cost £5 from Bridgend Town Council 01656 815 757 or ticketsource.co.uk/ carnegiehouse.

Local History: Bridgend Local and District History Society begin the new season on Wednesday, September 13, at 7pm with Allan Underhill giving an illustrated talk on the subject of Images of Bridgend. Registration will also be held on the same evening and the joining fee is £7 and visitors £2.

Coffee Mornings: These continue every Friday and Saturday, from 10am12noon at Bridgend United Church Tondu Road all welcome.

Fair Trade Move: The Den Company – the fair trading clothing and accessories store – has moved from Queen Street and is now situated in the Rhiw Shopping Centre (unit 2). Good luck to all concerned.

Bridgend Male Choir: The choir was pleased to support the Urdd National Eisteddfod, donating the Trophy for the Group Singing Competition for boys aged 12-14 years old.

The title of the piece for competition was Teithio’r Gofod (Space Travel) and was written by Rhys Jones (Caryl Parry Jones late father). The adjudicators for the event were Meinir Richards and Helen Wyn.

The preliminaries for the competition were held on Thursday June 1 in the Neuadd Gorawl (Choral Hall) with the final in the Pavilion Hall.

Next month, the choir will be appearing at two historical venues, Harrow School, in north west London and the Coal Exchange in Cardiff Bay.

Harrow School will be the venue for an evening concert on Saturday, June 17. Joining the choir will be Lewis-Merthyr Band under the baton of renowned Welsh conductor Owain Arwel Hughes CBE. The concert is in support of St Mary’s Anglican Church, Harrow on the Hill.

The historical Coal Exchange in Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff has been restored and converted into a luxury hotel, the Exchange Hotel, and the choir will entertain 200 guests at the Chartered Institute of Builders (CIOB) Presidential Dinner on Thursday, June 22.