Yee-hah, it’s Wild West fete fun
MAESTEG Hospital League of Friends held its 55th annual fete last Saturday in the Maesteg Market area with help from Maesteg council.
The event forms part of the Gwyl Maesteg Festival and this year’s theme was the Wild West so visitors donned their cowboy hats.
There were numerous stalls and attractions from a bucking bronco and coconut shy to bric-a-brac and a cantina.
Maesteg Ukulele Band performed followed by children’s entertainer Daily Bee, with vocalist Alex John rounding up the day’s entertainment.
Other attractions included plate spinning and hula hoops, a bouncy castle, face painting, police fingerprinting, a visit from the mounted police, toy stall, cake stall, speciality sweets, jewellery, bag shop, handmade accessories and balloon modelling.
All the hospital staff are immensely proud and grateful to the league for all its years of dedicated support and the effort it puts into helping the hospital.
Among those areas to have benefited is the speech and language therapy department which was bought special resources for its clinic at the hospital by the league
In return the therapists supported the fete and took the opportunity to continue to publicise the Help Me Speak initiative which aims to show families how they can improve children’s speech and language development.
Pre-school lead speech and language therapist Sue Koziel said: “We had very positive feedback from events we held in April so want to continue the good work.
“Parents appreciated the advice they received and felt it was really useful to have an open table where they could come to ask questions and get help.”