THE latest community news from Aberaeron

Bridge club

WINNERS in an exciting session of bridge in the Thursday session of the WBU Simultaneous Pairs on 6 September were Herbie Rowley and Nigel Symons Jones, with Keith Bellamy and Dai Hayes second and Virginia and Valerie Wylie third.

In the overall rankings, Keith and Dai were third (with very creditable four scores that were ‘National 100 per cent Tops’), Virginia and Valerie 12th and Herbie and Nigel 19th.

There were four of the 27 boards in which slams were bid and made: two pairs making two slams each!

The club will play in the Mid-Wales Simultaneous Ladies’ and Men’s Pairs Competition on 13 September, where the same set of hands will also be played in Cardigan, Lampeter and Aberystwyth, as well as on the other side of Plynlimmon.

Afternoon tuition for beginners and improvers start up again on 1pm on Wednesdays in a new venue, the Royal British Legion Hall.

Aberaeron Bridge Club meets in the Royal British Legion Hall each Thursday at 6.40pm.

Cancer Research

The committee members extend sincere thanks to all who supported Cancer Research at the annual town carnival on August Bank Holiday Monday.

The Pot of Gold winner was Ann Evans and the second prize went to Steffan Rees.

A total of £256 was raised.

The next fundraising event will be the annual cheese and wine evening to be held at the Sports Club on 13 October.

Entertainment will be provided by Bois y Gilfach and TV presenter Yvonne Evans will be chairperson for the evening.

Tickets and further information can be obtained from Neris Lloyd on 01545 570498 or any committee member.

Irish night

ON Friday, 21 September, the Memorial Hall will host an evening of Irish music with the Brit Award-winning Henry Marten’s Ghost Irish Band.

The evening will start at 7.30pm with doors opening at 6pm.

This will be a lively evening of traditional music, songs, ballads, reels and jigs.

For further information and tickets contact the memorial hall on 01545 574934.

Tabernacl

CYNHELIR yr oedfa y Sul nesaf, 16 Medi, am 10yb gyda’r Parch Ifan Mason Davies yn gwasanaethu.

Peniel

NI fydd oedfa ym Mheniel ar ddydd Sul, 16 Medi, ond cynhelir oedfa yn Neuaddlwyd am 1yp gyda’r Parch Stephen Morgan yn pregethu.

Catholic services

THERE will be a Mass on Sunday, 16 September, at the Holy Cross Catholic Church at 12.30pm.

Church services

SUNDAY, 16 September - Aberaeron, Holy Trinity: 8.45am, Cymun Bendigaid; 11am, Holy Communion and Sunday School, followed by refreshments; 5.30pm, Word and Worship, with guest preacher Mones Farah in the church hall.

Thursday, 13 September: 9.30am, Parish Communion in Holy Trinity Church Hall, followed by refreshments.

For more information see church website - www.aberaeronparish.org.uk or call 01545 570433.

Henfynyw, St David: 9.45am, family service (bilingual service).

Llanddewi Aberarth, St David: No service.

Llanbadarn Trefeglwys (Pennant), St Padarn: 2pm, Holy Communion (bilingual service).

Women’s Institute

IN August, members met for the annual treasure hunt, which was set by last year’s winners.

Clues were to be found along the town’s streets and riverside with the evening culminating in everyone meeting up again at The Hive on the Quay.

Finding the clues proved more challenging to some than others and the winners were Eleanor Evans and Anne Evans.

They were presented with the Wynne Davies Memorial Silver Salver by Neris Lloyd.

Following tradition, members had a stall in the successful Aberaeron Carnival on Bank Holiday Monday.

Trade was brisk and a total of £202.06 was raised.

The charities for this year are the Aberaeron Community Friendship Group and the Blood Bikes and the stall’s proceeds will be shared and donated to these two charities together with money already raised during the year.

For the September meeting, they were back in the British Legion Hall.

President Neris Lloyd took them through the business before introducing Lesley Denver, who advised and encouraged members to participate in chair yoga.

Linda Badham thanked Lesley on behalf of members.

The competition winners were: 1st Ann Jackson and 2nd Sylvia Williams with Jacqui Thomas winning the raffle prize.

Foreign language classes

ABERAERON Memorial Hall is the venue for new and exciting French and Spanish classes during this academic year, run by Aberystwyth University.

French beginners are welcome on Mondays from 11am-1pm, and Spanish beginners are on Thursdays at the same time.

Both classes will run from the first week in October.

For further information contact the Memorial Hall.

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