LALESTON & BROADLANDS
Send Your News To: Carol Thomas
carbrya@supanet.com
Ukraine volunteering: If any volunteers are needed in Bridgend area please ring 01656 657846.
New home: Best Wishes and Kind thoughts to a longstanding friend Jean Godsell of Churchill Close, Bridgend who has settled very well in her new home at the Breaksea Care Home, Porthcawl. Jean has always been a great friend to all who knew her.
Bridgend Community Outreach Centre: Please note A Drop Off Point for Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine is at 13 Ewenny Road, Bridgend CF31 3HN on weekdays 9.30 - 3.30 p.m.
Many items are needed but all must be new or in excellent condition such as clothing, blankets, toiletries, food, medication and first aid kits.
All will be collected and distributed to Ukraine by the Local Self-Help Group Drop-Off Hub. As was mentioned on the Television this week...please no rubbish as it costs money to dispose of !
Porthcawl Museum: The Museum in John Street Porthcawl will be open to the public on Saturday, April 2 with lots of historical interest.
School Uniform Swap: The Llangewydd Arms is partnering with Vivienne James (prospective candidate for Laleston Community Council) regarding a school uniform swap on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in March from 12 noon.
You may pop in and pick up what you need for free or drop off any unused uniforms at the pub anytime before the event including decent shoes and bags.
Lost Cat: Please help me to find my way home to 4 Pant y Fedwen Broadlands. I am very pretty, wearing a lovely black and white fur coat and my name is Patches.
I have been homeless since Valentines Day, February 14 and perhaps I was a bit naughty to wander off but if you should see me wandering in this awful weather please take me back to No 4 and I will never wander off again.
Can somebody help please? Meow meow. Contact 07894 317 241.
Westward Community Centre: A Bridgend Lions Book Sale is planned for Westward Community Centre on April 1 and 2.
Please note, no more donations of books or jigsaws are needed at the moment due to lack of storage. Many thanks to all those who have supported the event to date.
Craft Fayre: The next Craft Fayre will be held in Bridgend Indoor Market on March 19 at a cost of £10 per stall/tabletop (third Saturday of the month). Charity stalls will be invited on the second Saturday of the month.
Please ring Eileen on Stall 22c for more information.
Laleston Gardening Club: Following a Committee Meeting on Tuesday, February 15, there are a number of dates that members of Laleston Gardening Club might like to enter in their diaries.
After two years of inactivity Sue Ford and her team were able to formulate plans for the future without being inhibited by Covid regulations, these being due to cease at the end of March.
In view of this relaxation and the required ventilation being achieved in the main hall with the installation of our new opening sash windows early in March, it was decided to restart lectures in April.
A lecture has already been booked for April 11, when Kevin Thomas will give a talk entitled Bedding
Plants and Schemes which is very appropriate with the Annual Plant Sale taking place just one month later.
Booking for lectures will be necessary in view of the large membership base and the need to limit the numbers within the building to take reasonable precautions for Covid purposes and to comply with our insurance regulations.
Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis and there will be a small admission charge of £1 per person to help with additional expenses and refreshments.
Details of how to secure future bookings are included in the latest newsletter which has been distributed electronically, by post and hand delivery.
Sue will accept bookings by email, Facebook Messenger or by telephone, but this is the least favourite option as she has many commitments outside of Gardening Club.
Why not call at Cliff Cottage on Saturday morning between 10am and noon to make bookings while seeing what is on offer in the Club shop?
On Saturday, March 26 we plan to hold Lunch at the Gardening Club between 12 noon and 2pm. This is a pilot event and if successful there will be further lunches held with differing menus.
It has also been decided to restart the Ladies Section Meetings commencing Tuesday, April 5 at 7.30pm.
On Saturday, April 23 at 10am there will be a sale of perennial plants and on Saturday, May 7 at 10am we will hold our usual sale of bedding plants and veg plants.
The occasion of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee will be celebrated on Saturday, June 4 at 2.30pm with celebration teas served in the marquee and the main hall.
The Committee then focussed its attention on the Summer coach trips.
A trip to RHS Tatton Park Show has been provisionally booked, leaving on Friday, July 22, overnight accommodation is booked with dinner and bed & breakfast at a Manchester hotel.
On Saturday, July 23, we will be taken to the Tatton Park Show and the admission price is included in the total cost of £150 per person.
Our Annual Horticultural Show will take place as usual on Saturday, September 3. Further details will be published nearer to the respective dates.
Sue concluded her newsletter by saying how much the Committee had missed the company of members for the past two years and how good it will be to have them all back at Cliff Cottage.
It should be said that The Club owes a huge debt of gratitude to Chairman Sue who has done more than anyone to keep the Club afloat during the troubled waters of the past two years and put it in good heart to face the future.
LLYNFI VALLEY Send Your News To:
01656 810084
llyngazmvr@hotmail.co.uk
Events Diary: This is for organisations of the valley, asking them to check at the council office’s diary before arranging an event, so that you won’t clash with anyone else.
Clwb Maesteg: Mae rhagor o fanylion ar gael gan Lloyd Evans 07856 553 777 e-bost: Psycho1283@hotmail.com.