A GWYNEDD councillor has said ‘thanks a bunch’ to green-fingered students who are helping decorate Dolgellau.

Cllr Linda Morgan, who represents Dolgellau South, and who also works at Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor as an Independent Living Skills facilitator, visited students and staff at the college’s garden department recently to see all the work they are doing in preparation for the summer displays of flowers for the town.

Along with Robert Whittey, the students’ union president, Cllr Morgan was impressed with what she saw.

“We have developed a fantastic and worthwhile partnership with the college. The flowers and baskets add colour and brightness to the town as well as allowing the students to develop their business and vocational skills,” she said.

“It also allows the students to play a full and active role within their local community which is brilliant they are all enjoying themselves looking after the flowers.”

The ongoing partnership between Dolgellau Town Council and the Dolgellau campus of Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor has resulted in the brightening of Eldon Square as well as other areas of the town over the last few years.

The three wooden flowerbed boxes in Eldon Square were made by the Construction Department at CAMDA and organised by Mike Taylor, programme area manager of the department at the Dolgellau campus, while the flowers to put in the boxes are supplied by the ILS department - having been grown and nurtured by both foundation and pre-vocational students. The college also supplies hanging baskets every year.

Next month all the baskets and eight flower containers will be in place ready for the summer display.

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