THE latest community news from Blaenau Ffestiniog

Services

HOLY Cross: Mass at 6pm on Saturday with Fr Shaji Punnati.

St Mary Magdalene: Mass at 11am 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.

Bowydd: United chapels service with the Rev Dewi Morris.

Choir

THE Moelwyn Male Voice Choir, conducted by Sylvia Ann Jones and accompanist Wenna Francis Jones, were in concert at Betws y Coed on Friday evening and the compère was Gareth Griffiths.

Clwb Merched

CAFODD aelodau Clwb Merched nos Fawrth noson draddodiadol werinol yn nghwmni Mair Tomos Ifans o Ddinas Mawddwy, gan ganu gwerin, stori, cerdd dant a datganiad ar y delyn, yn noson lawen wych.

Gwesteion y te oedd Valerie a Lena ac enillwyd y raffl gan Christine rhoddedig gan Bet.

Bydd y cyfarfod nesaf ar 22 Hydref.

Appointments

CLLR Geraint Parry has been appointed on to the town council committee.

Gwenlli Evans has also become a member of the town council.

Rhoddion

CAFWYD rhoddion o £700 er cof am y diweddar John Llewelyn Thomas o Glaneiddion, Manod tuag at Ambiwlans Awyr Cymru.

Planning

THE town council supports the following planning applications: 1 Erection of detached domestic garage to rear of 35 Dorfil Street; 2 Construction of an agricultural shed at Fferm y Ffynnon, Manod and 3 Retention of dog sheltered buildings, including four buildings to protect up to 19 dogs at Cymerau Ganol.

However, it has been announced that discussion of the applications and decisions would be deferred and dealt with at an amenities committee meeting.

Doctors

DUE to a doctors cover shortages, it has been announced that only emergency appointments can be treated on the following dates: 21, 22, 28 and 30 October at the Memorial Health Centre.

Llan Ffestiniog

THE Ffestiniog Town Council has been informed that the Llan Ffestiniog Village Hall Committee is arranging a meeting to discuss the constitution and the lease of the hall and cabin to present the information to the Charity Commission.

Gwynedd Council is one of the trustees.

Ffestiniog Town Council is still waiting a response from Gwynedd Council’s property department as to when the hall will be transferred to the ownership of the Ffestiniog Town Council.

The youth club was due to start there again in the hall last month.

Gallery

THE Maenofferen Gallery hosts an exhibition under the heading of the Quarry Women until 29 October and admission is free.

Council

A PROPOSAL has been made to transfer all the money left unspent from the Blaenau Ymlaen account into the Ffestiniog Town Council bank account.

Upon transference any existing and unfinished financial obligations will be honoured and discharged.

The money is to be used for the enrichment of the town centre with £400 already been spent on two slate plaques and there’s £1,923.52 credit left in the account and the proposal was accepted by the council. The council has decided that the cost of £50 per week was expensive to hire a room from the Community Centre Management Committee to store paperwork and to ask them if £30 per week was acceptable.

The community wifi equipment has been installed on some of the buildings but the council needs clarification if it is live or not.

Archaeology society

THE recent talk was by Iwan Parry of Brython Archaeology Cyf., who described some of the revelations made by his company who conducted professional exploration of the Wylfa B site and on the Llangefni link road.

Archaeologists digging on the site of a new road in Anglesey have unearthed an ancient cemetery and a 1,500-year-old “time capsule”. Some 48 early medieval graves have been discovered on the Llangefni link road site. The “cist” graves each hold several bodies, alongside jewellery and French pottery.

Archaeologists used DNA techniques to discover whether the group are related to modern Llangefni residents.

Following an initial survey of the site by Wessex Archaeology, Brython took on the full dig remit based on their findings.

As with the Llangefni site a host of graves of excellent preservation were discovered from different eras as well as the remains of early settlement.

Full details will eventually be made public but the Society were very grateful for this insight into the findings.

Iwan has promised to take a look at Llys Dorfil for the group when his time allows.

The next meeting of the society will be this Thursday at Y Ganolfan at 7pm for 7.30pm.

The talk will be by Rhys Mwyn, who will be giving a talk entitled ‘Archaeology and Art’.

The talk will be bilingual.

Admission £2.

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