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Junior Riders: Cefn RFC Junior Riders are now recruiting.
If your child is in years 1 to 5 and looking to play rugby, why not join the Riders.
With Riders rugby there is - no registration fee or weekly subs, free team wear, free playing kit, regular games with plenty of game time, regular family events and great fun guaranteed.
Training is every Thursday at Cae Gof field.
For more information contact Alud Jones on 07450 052 423 or visit their Facebook page.
CCAC Junior Riders or Twitter @junior_Riders walk will commence at 10am from Parc Calon Lan Visitors Centre, and a further one will take place at 2pm. Toilet facilities and refreshments are available.
Saturday, September 21 - From 10am - 4pm, Tabernacle chapel in Pontycymer will be hosting an exhibition on the social, cultural, industrial and mining history of the Garw Valley. Photographs, stories, pictures and artefacts will all be on display, and a non-stop projector showing many aspects of the last 100 years will be in use. Organist Peter David will be available to play requests and favourites over the lunchtime period. Free entrance with refreshments and toilet facilities available. Come along with your families and your own stories and pictures!
Autumn Fair: On Saturday, September 21, from 11am - 4pm, there will be a Mind Body Spirit Fair at the Garw Valley Leisure Centre, Old Station Yard, Pontycymmer.
There will be talks, holistic and energy treatments, crystals and candles, tarot reading, psychic medium, palmistry, aura photography, apothecary and herbal medicine, natural beauty, herbs and organics, jewellery and handmade crafts, plus refreshments available all day.
Free entry and all are welcome.
Valley Ravens Autumn Raffle: The Valley Ravens under 7’s section will be holding a Grand Autumn Raffle to raise money for their club funds. The draw date for the raffle will be on October 5.
Tickets, which cost £1 a strip, can be purchased on training or match days, and also from behind the bar at Pontycymmer R.F.C. and Ogmore Vale R.F.C.
The prizes are Scarlets Pro 14 family ticket to any home game, 4 tickets for a Principality Stadium tour, 3 signed Wales Grand Slam 2019 team photos, £15 voucher for Ogmore Valley Valeting Services, £20 Homebase voucher, 2x medium breakfasts at Mr Big Bites, voucher for Vale Foods, hair cut at Patrick’s, Ogmore Vale, Gin Hamper, selection of bottles of wine, plus many more prizes to be added.
Ogwr Hawks Women’s Rugby: For women of all ages who would like to take up rugby/touch rugby, the newly formed Ogwr Hawks will be holding a meeting at the Ty-Risha Inn, on Tuesday 17th September at 7pm, to discuss training nights, games, etc. All ages and abilities are welcome.
For more information please phone or txt 07940 174 449.
Guest Speakers: It has just been announced that on Friday 29th November, on the eve of the Wales v Barbarians autumn international, Pontycymmer Rugby Club are holding a gentlemen’s evening at the function suite in their clubhouse on Oxford Street.
The club can confirm that the two guest speakers on the night will be former British Lions, Wales Rugby Union, Great Britain Rugby League and Wales Rugby League centres Allan Bateman and John Devereux.
It is sure to be a fun filled night, which will also include a question and answer session.
Tickets are priced at £10 each and can be purchased from the club. All are welcome.
Rugby Match Report: Pontycymmer 14 - Cwmtwrch 14
Pontycymmer started the 2019/20 season with a bang, fielding a team packed out with big guns, including props Ricky Griffiths and Craig Hitchings, lock Lloyd Webb and centre Ryan John, and they did not disappoint.
It was the home side that looked good in the opening quarter, burly wing Dave Upton in top form, carrying like a train and crossing out wide for the opening try which pivot Corey Harris then converted. Back came the visitors with a penalty, and at half time the score was 7-3.
Flanker, Scott Hampton and replacement second row, Danny Griffiths both put in big second half performances, and Upton was again in the limelight, looking like Casey Jones as he grabbed his second try to complete a match brace, with Harris once again adding the extras.
However, at the end of the 80 minutes there was nothing to separate the sides.
Blaengarw & Coedely C.C.: Thank you to everyone who turned up at Darren Park on Sunday, September 8, to support the Blaengarw & Coedely annual Past v Present end of season cricket match.
It was great to see so many of the former players back at the Garw Valley.
Also, good luck to Blaengarw & Coedely players, officials, and