APRIL 2009

Treorchy WI President, Mrs Pauline Worman, welcomed members to the meeting. A warm welcome was also extended to new member Mrs June Evans.

We were very pleased to see Mair Flockhart with us this evening.

Congratulations to Eirlys Davies who celebrated a very special birthday recently and to Ursula who is grandmother for the second time this year to lovely baby Alfie.

Our love and best wishes are sent to Pat Scane who recently sustained an injury to her shoulder.

We send our love and best wishes to Ffion Wilde who has been ill recently. We hope she is now well on the way to recovery and that we shall see her soon.

Margaret Haskins thanked everyone for all the cards and best wishes she received on her special birthday.

Our President was very proud that Treorchy WI won the overall Shield in the recent GFWI Arts Festival. Congratulations to all who took part in the written, craft and stage events.

We gained first place in the Creative Dance, Sketch, Choir, Limerick (Anna Brown) and had first and second places in the spontaneous dialogue (Milwyn, Diane, Christine and Judith).

We won second place in the Choral Speaking, second prize in the Folk Song (Kath Evans), Glenys Nash won first prize with her book mark and second prize with her Montage; third prize in the Karaoke (Kath Davies), and Carole Clark was highly commended with her photo caption.

Our President thanked everyone for the hard work they put into the various events – Mary Price (the Choir), Ann Thomas (the Creative Dance), and those who took part in the Sketch and Choral Speaking.

The £5 deposit for the Mystery Trip in August needs to be in this evening, and the balance of £7.50 as soon as possible please.

The Gwyneth Jarman competition for next year is a photograph of a local Rhondda scene (black and white or colour) 6 inches by 4 inches. This year’s competition was won by Mrs Cheryl Rees, Ton WI.

Our Vice President, Mrs Milwyn Pearce, went through various items of interest in the Newsletter.

Our guest speaker for the evening was Dean Powell. Dean is a member of Treorchy Male Voice Choir and gave a very entertaining talk on how the first male voice choir was formed in the Rhondda. This took us on a journey up to the present day.

Dean is well-known for his skills as a compère at the Treorchy Male Voice concerts and this was evident with the very interesting and enjoyable talk. Mrs Christine Jones gave the vote of thanks and we are sure that we shall be seeing more of Dean in the future.

The raffle was won by Joyce Martin.

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March 2009

Treorchy WI President, Mrs Pauline Worman, welcomed members to the annual St David’s Day Supper.

It was especially pleasing to see Hilary this evening after undergoing surgery on her foot.

Our love and thoughts are with Mair Flockhart on the death of her dear husband John.

Congratulations to Ursula who not only celebrated a very special birthday recently but became a proud grandmother to baby Alistair.

Congratulations also to Margaret Davies on the birth of her lovely grandson Ben.

Members enjoyed the ham and salad supper. Our thanks go to Anita and Marian who did the bulk of the shopping and to Beryl who sorted out the ham, with a special thank you to all those who helped organise the tables, this was greatly appreciated.

Everyone enjoyed a social evening, with jokes provided by our President Pauline and Enid Roberts, and a very enthusiastic sing-along.

The next big event is the WI Arts Festival on March 21.

Our WI will be having an exhibition cabinet in Treorchy Library from March13 and members were asked if they had any items of interest to display in the cabinet.

Christine Jones thanked the Committee for the enjoyable evening.

The lucky raffle prize winner was Ellen Hughes.

Our guest speaker next month is Dean Powell.

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February 2009

Our President, Mrs Pauline Worman, welcomed everyone who had braved the elements and turned out on such a cold evening and was pleased to see how many members were present for our February meeting.

Members were made aware of the Health and Safety procedures.

Our love and best wishes were sent to Hilary Clayton. We also send our love to and best wishes to Pat Wright’s daughter, Judith, who is in hospital.

The list for the St David’s Day Supper is available. There will be no charge for the supper and there will also be a free raffle. Entertainment has been arranged for the evening.

Eisteddfod entries for the written work and the photo captions have been submitted to GFWI. Photographs and other items of arts and craft will be sent to GFWI by the 23^rd of this month.

Entries for the Gwyneth Jarman Plate should be in before February 17. The competition this year is a humorous short story of no more than 500 words. Ton Pentre WI is holding a Coffee Evening at Ton Pentre Junior School on March 23 when the winner of the competition will be announced.

Our Vice President, Mrs Milwyn Pearce, went through various items in the GFWI Newsletter.

Members were asked to support the petition and meetings which are being held regarding the closure of Treherbert Swimming Baths. Many of our members are avid users of the Baths and it would be a shame to see the Baths close.

Anita informed the meeting that a Mystery Trip is being arranged for Tuesday, August 4. More details later.

Unfortunately, because of the very bad weather, our speaker Dean Powell was unable to be with us. We hope to invite Dean back to our WI at a later date. However, everyone enjoyed a really spontaneous fun evening with Enid Roberts getting things under way by telling us a few humorous yarns, Diane followed and then we were entertained by many of our members telling us humorous stories (many of which were true).

All in all, we had a very enjoyable time and our President thanked everyone for making the evening such a warm and friendly one.

Pauline Worman, Margaret Harris and Christine Evans were raffle prize winners.

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January 2009

At the January meeting, Treorchy WI President Mrs Pauline Worman thanked everyone for turning out on such a cold evening and wished all members a happy, healthy 2009.

Members were made aware of the Health and Safety procedures.

Our good wishes for a speedy recovery to Olwen Milward’s husband Les, who has broken his femur.

Our love and best wishes for a very happy day go to Pat Scane who celebrates a special birthday this month.

Lists were up for our St David’s Day Supper and for the Half Yearly Council Meeting in April at the Brangwyn Hall.

The Service of Carols and Readings evening held in December had been a very successful event with everyone enjoying the carols and readings and also the welcome cup of tea and mince pie in the Church Hall.

Many thanks to Mrs Mary Price on her choice of programme for the evening, thanks to the readers and soloists and to the happy band of workers in the kitchen for the welcome cup of tea after the concert.

A collection of £200 was presented to St Matthew’s Church.

The itinerary for the forthcoming Eisteddfod is available for members.

This year a caption is needed for a photograph of synchronised swimmers.

The Performing Arts Group entertained senior citizens at St John’s Church, Porth, on January 6. This year the concert went without a hitch and was enjoyed by everyone.

The meeting ended with members taking part in an entertaining Quiz, organised by Ann Barrett. Everyone had fun guessing the names of famous film and TV stars.

Afterwards we all enjoyed a game of Bingo. Many thanks to Pat Scane, who sold the bingo tickets, and to our President Pauline for being our ‘caller’.

Our President thanked Ann Barrett very much for organising the quiz and making the evening so enjoyable.

Pat Scane, Diane John and Margaret Haskins were raffle prize winners.

Our guest speaker next month is Dean Powell, who is a member of Treorchy Male Voice Choir and a wonderful after dinner speaker.

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