THE latest community news from Blaenau Ffestiniog

Charity

THE newly opened Y Gorlan raised £131 during this year’s Macmillan Big Coffee Morning on Friday in memory of owner Eleri Wyn Jones’s late father, Edgar Wyn Jones.

Cymdeithas Bro Ffestiniog

THE monthly meeting of the English section will be held at the community centre at 7.30pm on 11 October when guest speaker Margaret Dunn will give a talk entitled Discovering Old Welsh Houses – An Update.

Clwb Merched

CAFWYD noson ysbrydoledig nos Fawrth yng ngofal Cass Meurig o’r Bala.

Mam ifanc ydi hi, wedi arall gyfeirio at yr eglwys ac yn cyfansoddi ei chaneuon crefyddol ar geinciau gwerin. Cafwyd detholiad oddi ar ei CD Taith ynghyd â chwarae y crwth.

Gwesteion y te oedd Eirlys, Christine a Valerie ac enillydd y raffl oedd Glenys, rhoddedig gan Valerie.

Church services

BETHEL, Ffestiniog, Rev Anita Ephraim; Carmel, United Churches service with Mair Penry, Bala; St David’s, morning service at 11am; St Michael’s, morning service at 9.30am; Manod Orthodox, Third and Sixth Canonical Hours at 10am, followed by the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom; Holy Cross, Mass at 6pm on Saturday and 11am on Sunday with Fr Shaji Punnati.

Bus services

REPRESENTATIVES from Arvonnia bus company have reassured residents that the times of their services to Porthmadog and Pwllheli will not change, but that from January there will be a change to the route.

Planning

GWYNEDD Council has received a planning application from JTD Construction Ltd to convert the former Cymdeithas Tai Eryri building and before that, the local employment exchange at Park Square, into four apartments.

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