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JUNE 2005

BOWLS - Congratulations to Mark Thomas of Ynyswen on being selected to play in the Junior International Bowls Trial at Llandrindod Wells in July. 15 year-old Mark has played for Ystradfechan Bowls Club since the age of nine, and is the first youngster from the club to be selected to compete in the under 25’s section.

• CANCER RESEARCH - Recently, Treorci and District Cancer Research Committee held two very successful fund raising events. A Cheese and Wine Evening was held in St Matthew’s Church Hall with Gillian Elisa of BBC Wales’s ‘Pobl y Cwm’ as guest. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the evening and £640 was raised for Cancer Research. The annual street collection in Treorci was also very successful with £950 being collected, thanks to the effort put in by committee members. The committee would like to express their grateful thanks to the public, who so generously support these fundraising ventures every year.

THANKSGIVING SERVICE - Rhondda Kinder Care will be holding a thanksgiving service at Bethlehem Chapel on Sunday 3^rd July at 3pm. Pupils from Treorchy Primary, Penyrenglyn Primary and Ynyswen Infants Schools will also be taking part in the combined service. All are welcome to attend.

• CAR BOOT SALE - The monthly car boot sale at Ysbyty George Thomas hospital car park in Treorchy will take place on Saturday 2^nd July and is open from 8am until 1pm. Cars cost £4, vans £5, and the popular cake stall is also there. Proceeds as usual to Fernhill Ward. All welcome. 

SURGERIES - Plaid Cymru Councillors will hold their next monthly advice surgeries on Friday 1^st July. They will be at Cwmparc Welfare Hall from 10am to 10.50am and afterwards at Noddfa Day Centre from 11am to 12 noon. All residents are welcome to attend and no appointments are necessary. To contact them at any other times, phone Councillor Cennard Davies on 435563 or Councillor Edward Hancock on 774785.  

• VOLUNTEERS - Ty Hafan Charity Shop at 83 Bute Street, Treorchy, requires volunteers to work within the shop. Please call in for an application form if you are interested in helping out.

KNOCKOUT FINALS - Congratulations to the Pig and Whistle’s Friday night dart’s team, who beat Pentre Legion ‘A’ side 2-0 in the Brains SA League Team Knockout Finals on 17^th June. The team will receive their winner’s shield and individual trophies at the Presentation Evening to be held in Treorchy Rugby Club on Friday 24^th June.  

CONSUMER CHAMPS

Congratulations to Simon Bould, Matthew Chick, Scott Goodman and Chaz Field - pictured left - who are all pupils at Rhondda’s Ysgol Hen Felin in Ystrad, for winning the Trading Standards Initiative Consumer Challenge national contest.

The boys are the first Welsh team to win the event, having beaten off competition from schools from Cheshire, Oxfordshire, Edinburgh, Dudley and Trafford, and received their trophy at the TSI Annual Conference and Exhibition at the Brighton Metropole Hotel on 21 June.

40 schools around the country originally entered the 2005 Consumer Challenge competition, which was launched a few years ago for children with learning difficulties.

“Well done, boys!”  

• STARSEARCH - Applications are invited for contestants who wish to take part in the annual talent show ‘Star Search 2005’ which will be held again at the Pentre Legion Club this Autumn.

• Please note that contestants must be aged 14 or over to take part.

• For further details and an entry form, please ring Neil Abber (show co-ordinator) on 01443 439941 and state your full postal address, or send an e-mail to nh9921@rncb.ac.uk and type ‘Star Search’ in the subject box.

• Agencies will be present at both the semi and grand finals and this event is an ideal showcase opportunity for local talented individuals. 

SUMMER FETE - A summer fete will be held in the grounds of Ty Pentwyn Nursing Home on Saturday 25^th June, and will be open to the public from 2pm. A wide variety of stalls present will include; Brik-a-Brak, Name the Doll, Burgers and Hot Dogs etc. During the afternoon there will also be musical entertainment provided by “The Gamblers”, within the home itself, for residents and visitors alike to enjoy. Programmes will be available at 50p with a raffle included. All are welcome to attend and the proceeds will go to the Resident’s Fund.

• FIRE - South Wales Fire & Rescue Service received hundreds of calls over the weekend: 

  Locally, they responded to a call in the early hours of 19th June from Pen Dinas, Porth, Rhondda. Four firefighters in breathing apparatus used 2 hose reel jets to extinguish a fire in a 2 storey flat, within a 4 storey block.  Nobody involved or injured.  Fire investigation on going.

  Later the same day 4 firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used 1 hose reel jet to extinguish a fire in the kitchen of a 2^nd floor flat in Ellis Block - a residential block at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Ynysmaerdy. Fire crews used a thermal imaging camera to ensure that no people remained in the building, and a positive pressure ventilation fan to clear smoke logging.  

ART EXHIBITION  -  A most popular annual event returns this month to Treorchy, when Ystradyfodwg Art   Society hold their 36^th Annual Art Exhibition in the Parc and Dare Theatre’s Lesser Hall from Tuesday to Saturday, 21^st to 25^th June 2005.   

Many excellent works of art painted by the members will be displayed, and are also available for sale, featuring a wide range of style of paintings created through the use of oils, watercolour and acrylics etc. 

This year, for the first time, pupils from Treorchy Comprehensive School will also be showing their works of art alongside the main exhibition.   

Open from 10.00am until 9pm each day - but closing early on Saturday at 3pm.

Entry is £1, by programme available at the door. 

Admittance for senior citizens is 50 pence and all accompanied children can enter for free.

This is certainly one local event not to be missed!  

• LOCAL DERBY - Two local pubs will meet in the semi-final of the Upper Rhondda Pool League Knockout Cup, when the Prince of Wales ‘B’ take on the Stag for a place in the final of this inaugural event. The Prince Prince had a comfortable 5-2 win over the Pencelli, whilst the Stag defeated the Wyndham 5-3 in the quarter-finals.

OPTION - Treorchy Primary School will now have the option of re-introducing squash on its school menu, thanks to Catering Direct’s decision to have a sample trial of ‘no added sugar’ squash in RCT schools. There has been a lot of discontent amongst parents since the children have only been allowed to drink water with their school dinners, after the squash option was removed by the catering suppliers some time ago.

• FIVE FOR HOBBS - Ceri Hobbs, aged 18, became the highest eight ball break league player when he recorded his fifth maximum of the season in his side’s 5-4 win at the Greenfield ‘A’. Hobbs, who plays for the Stag, is in his second season of pool, having previously played for the Red Cow.  

WI EISTEDDFOD - Treorchy Women's Institute have won the Glamorgan Federation Women's Institute's Eisteddfod Shield for the third consecutive time, putting them on a par with friends from Treherbert WI who have similarly won the WI shield on three consecutive occasions.

• UNLUCKY -  The Stag Sunday night dart’s team were unlucky in their latest league game, after going down 4-3 at the Wyndham, after, at one stage, trailing 3-0. For the Stag, Handel Rich won the singles, with Kevin Moon and young Joanne Rich gaining their other points, with Moon going out on 64 and Rich playing a stormer throughout and eventually going out on double 15. Next match the Stag entertain local rivals Treorchy Hotel.  

RVIC REUNION - There have been literally thousands of people over the years who have received information, advice and help from the volunteers with the Rhondda Volunteer Information Centre (RVIC).  The current volunteers are now planning a reunion this July to celebrate their achievements over the last 25 years. Anybody who was on the management committee, or who helped out as a volunteer, are urged to contact ‘the cabin’ on 01443 437253 or 432942.

• SURGERIES - Chris Bryant MP for Rhondda holds the following advice surgeries this month. For enquiries, please contact the Constituency Office at 5 Cemetery Road, Porth CF39 0LG . Tel: 01443 687697 Fax: 01443 686405

CAR BOOT - The next monthly car boot sale held at Ysbyty George Thomas car park will take place on Saturday 4^th June and is open from 8am until 1pm. Charges for cars is now £4 and vans cost £5. All welcome and proceeds as usual go to the Fernhill Ward.

• TABLE TOP SALE - Treorchy Conservative Club will host a table-top sale on 18^th June 2005 at 1pm. Tables will cost £3. Contact Jan on 772161 to book a table. 

BOOK SIGNING - Professional artist William (Bill) Wheeler will be at Treorchy Library from 9.30 am on Thursday 2nd June for a book signing session to mark the launch of his first book. More details and photographs will appear here later...

• FASHION SHOW - St Matthew’s Social Fundraising Committee will hold a fashion show at St Matthew's Church Hall, Bute Street, Treorchy on Thursday 9^th June at 7pm. All proceeds will go to the church hall’s rebuilding fund. All welcome.  

ART DEMO - Bristol based Paul Weaver was the visiting artist to the Ystradyfodwg Art Society, at the Abergorki Hall, Treorchy last month, with another excellent demonstration of the skills and techniques of watercolour painting given by this popular artist.  Paul is a natural artist and teacher and his many useful tips will help our members to, hopefully, create better paintings. 

His composition of a crowded street scene in a Bristol market came to life as we watched. His use of light and colour and the speed at which he worked was something to behold.  

The finished painting (opposite) can be seen on our web pages provided by our local community website at www.treorchy.net inside their Art Gallery section - along with many other works of art and earlier demonstrations. 

(see under the Art Gallery link on the main page) 

It will also be displayed later this month in our annual exhibition at the Parc and Dare, as Paul donated the painting to our Society on completion.

• ART EXHIBITION - This year, for the first time, an exhibition of the work of pupils from Treorchy Comprehensive School will be shown alongside the Ystradyfodwg Art Societys main annual exhibition in the Parc and Dare Theatre’s Lesser Hall.

A Founder's Trophy has been designed for the competition and we hope that this new development will become a fixture in the annual events of the arts in the valley. We are all looking forward to the show, so do please come along and join us at the Parc and Dare.

The annual exhibition begins on Tuesday 21st June and will run until Saturday 25th.  Doors will be open from 10.00am until 9pm each day, but will close on Saturday at 3pm.  Sold paintings can then be collected after 4pm. Entrance is only £1, by programme, available at the door. 

• SURGERIES - Local Plaid Cymru Councillors hold their next advice surgeries on Friday 3rd June at Cwmparc Welfare Hall from 10am to 10.50am and at Noddfa Day Centre from 11am to 12 noon. All residents are welcome to attend and no appointments are necessary. At any other time, please contact Councillor Cennard Davies on 435563 or Councillor Edward Hancock on 774785. 

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