THE latest community news from Blaenau Ffestiniog

Services

HOLY Cross – Mass at 6pm on Saturday and 11am on Sunday with Fr Shaji Punnati; Manod Orthodox – Third and Sixth Canonical Hours at 10am followed by the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom;

St Michael’s – Morning service at 9.30am;

St David’s – Morning service at 11am; Hyfrydfa – Eifion Jones,

Ffestiniog, 5.30pm; Carmel – Rev Dewi Morris, 10am;

Bethesda – Nerys Wyn Griffiths, 10am.

Clwb Cerdded

TAITH nesaf aelodau Clwb Cerdded Stiniog fydd dydd Sul yn Uwchben Bermo, i gyfarfod ger T? Gorsaf am 9yb. Mae esgidiau cryf, dillad addas a phecyn o fwyd yn hanfodol i’r daith.

Choir

THE Moelwyn Male Voice Choir held its AGM last Friday and the officials were re-elected: chair – Idris Roberts; vice chair – Tecwyn Williams; secretary – Eifion Morris; and treasurer – Meirion Ellis. Conductor – Sylvia Ann Jones, accompanist – Wenna Francis Jones.

During their concerts at Betws y Coed the choir’s charity raffle raised £1,000 which will be donated to the North Wales Ambulance Service.

Reminder

A REMINDER to members of the English section of Cymdeithas Bro Ffestiniog that their March meeting will take place tonight, 14 March, at 7.30pm at the Community Centre where the guest speaker Rob Booth will give a talk on ‘Local North Wales Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves Past, Present and Future in Gwynedd’.

Tree

FOLLOWING a discussion the Town Council has passed to name the Bro Ffestiniog Memorial Tree as Coeden Coffa Ffestiniog which will be put up in Diffwys Square and it will be illuminated on Sunday, 24 November.

Cllr Ronwen Roberts has been asked to design a logo and all donations received will go to St David’s Hospice/ Hospice at Home.

Programme

THE last Helo Syrjeri programme, filmed at the Memorial Health Centre and viewed on S4C, can be seen on Monday evening and by all accounts the series has been enjoyed by local viewers.

On Thursday evening S4C showed another programme, Y Siambr, which had been filmed in the Bounce Below site at Llechwedd and featured two teams of three go head-to-head battling over a series of epic challenges across four levels of the chamber.

The aim of the game is to be the first team to reach the bottom of the chamber and to get hold of the power core.

Parking

THE TOWN Council has accepted the information that Newborough Street and part of Wynne Road will become a residents’ parking permit or limited parking waiting time of 45 minutes with no return within one hour.

International

LOCAL player Jessica Kavanagh was a member of the Wales Women rugby union side that got a last minute win against Scotland on Friday evening, in Glasgow.

Dentist

CONCERNS have been raised locally on the news that the regular dentist was to finish at the Memorial Health Centre and dental service will only be available one day a week.

The council has also debated the matter and has resolved to write to the Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board.

Planning

THE COUNCIL supports a planning application to change the use of the former Tanygrisiau Post Office to form part of adjoining dwelling and extend alterations.

Also agreed to the application to the rear of 154, High Street including construction of extension , creation of an external balcony/terrace. Permitted was an application to a single storey rear extension at 20, Ty’n Maes, Ffestiniog.

Cyfeillion Ysbyty Goffa

CYDYMDEIMLWYD gyda Sandra Williams yn y ganolfan sydd wedi colli ei g?r yn ddiweddar ar ôl salwch hir.

Dywedodd Gwilym Price ei fod wedi dychwelyd dau lun i’r Ganolfan ar ôl iddo eu cadw yn saff pan gaewyd yr ysbyty. Byddant yn cael eu rhoi i fyny yn y ganolfan yn fuan.

Mae y chwe cadair a bwrcaswyd gan y Cyfeillion ar gyfer yr ystafell ddyddiol wedi cyrraedd. Bydd Nia Williams, swyddog cyllid y GIG yn trefnu i wneud placiau i osod ar y cadeiriau i nodi mai’r Cyfeillion a’u prynnodd.

Mynychodd y cadeirydd y diwrnod agored yn y ganolfan yn ddiweddar. Teimlodd nad oedd llawer wedi troi allan. Diwrnodi hysbysebu y ganolfan a’r clinigau sydd ar gael yn ogystal ag asiantaethau allanol yn egluro eu gwasanaeth oedd ei bwrpas.

Derbyniodd yr ysgrifennydd lythyr o ddiolch i’r Cyfeillion gan Mark Polin, cadeirydd Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Betsi Cadwaladr. Dangoswyd pryder fod yr adeilad ffisiotherapi yn Heol Towyn ar werth drwy dendr gan y bwrdd iechyd am oddeutu £60,000.

Nodwyd fod y Pwyllgor Amddiffyn yn credu y dylai’r bwrdd iechyd roi yr adeilad i’r gymuned gael defnydd ohono. Mae’r adeilad yma yn golygu llawer i bobl y Blaenau gan ei fod wedi ei godi i gofio am y 54 o annwyliaid a gollwyd yn yr Ail Ryfel Byd.

Penderfynwyd y dylai’r Cyfeillion anfon llythyr i Gary Doherty, prif weithredwr y bwrdd iechyd i godi’r pwynt yma a gofyn iddynt gysidro ail feddwl ei werthu a’i adael i’r gymuned gael defnydd ohono. Mae’r Cyfeillion wedi rhoi cyfraniadau ar hyd y blynyddoedd tuag at offer yn yr adeilad.

Bydd y cyfarfod nesaf ar 20 Mai am 7yh (i gynnwys yr AGM) yn y Ganolfan Goffa.

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