Archive News
APRIL 2007
AGE
CONCERN - Age
Concern Morgannwg has moved their offices from
Age Concern will be open at the One 4 All Centre from April 2 and can be contacted by ringing 01443 776154. Opening times will be Monday to Friday, from 10am to 1pm, and again in the afternoons from 1.30pm to 3.30pm.
Age Concern offers a range of services which include;
- Information and Advice Service
- Community Outreach
- Hospital Discharge
- Dementia Advocacy
- Communities First
- Home Insurance – Buildings and Contents Cover designed for people aged 50 or over
- Motor Insurance – Affordable and quality cover with no upper age limit
- Motor Breakdown Services – All-inclusive cover for up to 50% less than similar cover with traditional organisations
- Travel Insurance – Choice of Single or Annual Multi-trip cover with no upper age limit. Children under 18 travel free (subject to terms and conditions).
- Gas and Electricity – developed in association with Powergen to provide great value on gas and electricity bills
- Funeral Plans – Your family will be spared the worry of having to decide on the funeral arrangements, and the financial stress of paying for them will be eased
- Aid Call Personal Alarms – An emergency response alarm service for use in and around the home
Age Concern Morgannwg Trading Ltd is an appointed representative of Age Concern Enterprises Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority for general insurance.
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CAMEO SOCIETY - Rhondda Cameo Society’s Spring Tea was held at Ton Pentre Football Club. The guest speaker was Mr Tom Phelps who entertained with anecdotes and humorous poems.
He was keen to point out that each of us has an interesting and unique life story, which we should pass on to family and friends by making written and recorded memoirs. This could also be very useful to historians of the future.
Mr
Phelps was thanked by Megan Morris on behalf of the meeting. In April
there will be a trip to Carmarthen and a visit to the
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Cwmparc
couple organise geocaching event
Following
the success of the 1st South Wales Geocaching event held at Parc Cwm
Darran near Bargoed last April - the second of what is hoped will become a
yearly event is to be held at Dare
Valley Country
Geocaching - pronounced geo-cashing - is the new high-technology
adventure game that is enjoyed by thousands of people of all ages from
most countries around the globe.
The only equipment needed is a GPS receiver that can be bought for less than £100, a love of the outdoors, and a sense of adventure.
Photo: Lynne and Derek Cummings take a break near a cache on the Bwlch
The game is played with individuals setting up ‘caches’ and sharing the locations of these caches on the Internet. GPS users then use the location coordinates to find the caches.
Hides themselves can take many forms but in the majority of cases the end result will be a find that will consist of a log book to log your find, and to make any comments about your adventure and often trinkets that are mostly of little value that you can swap for items of your own.
You
will also in many cases come across a ‘hitch-hiker’ that takes the
form of a travel bug or geocoin. These items often have a specific mission
that you can view by entering the special number attached to these items.
You must then help the hitch-hiker on its way by putting it into the next
cache you visit and logging its movements onto the Internet.
The few rules for Geocaching are simple. All the visitor is asked to do is
if they take something from the cache they should leave something of their
own. No items of food should be left or anything that can be dangerous to
animals or people. Caches must not be hidden in animal holes like rabbit
burrows and holes must not be dug to hide items. If hidden on private land
the permission of the land owner should be sought. The country code must
be obeyed. Dogs kept on a lead near livestock, gates closed, and no
rubbish should be dropped.
Hides
are rated in difficulty and range from the ‘walk in the park’ easy
caches, to the hard type that requires many miles of walking in difficult
terrain and hard slogs uphill in mountainous terrain. There is a cache
hidden on Llyn y Fan for example. We always advice wearing the proper gear
for this type of cache i.e. good stout walking boots, warm clothing and
waterproofs.
The Geocaching event on May 5th at
The
park is host to its own small hotel and a camping site for tents and
touring caravans and it is here Cachers will get the opportunity to relax
together at an informal barbecue in the evening.
Another feature of the day - that starts with Geocachers and visitors
being welcomed at the visitor centre by organisers and Geocacher's Derek
and Lynne Cummings of Cwmparc, alias ‘derrylynne’ - is a
‘find out what it's about’ for members of the public that would like
to know more and 'have a go'.
This
will consist of a short talk at 1pm in the conference room about the sport
followed by the opportunity at finding some specially placed small caches
nearby put out just for this short course.
If you would like to know more about Geocaching, visit
www.geocaching.com
to learn more about it - registration is free.
If
you are interested in joining in at the Dare
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