THE latest community news from Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Services

HOLY Cross - Mass at 6pm on Saturday with Bishop Edwin; St Mary Magdalene - Mass at 11am with Bishop Edwin; St Michael’s - Morning service at 9.30am’ St David’s - Morning service at 11am; Manod Orthodox - Third and Sixth Canonical Hours at 10am followed by the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom; Bethesda - Rev Huw Dylan Jones, 10am.

Choir

ON Saturday, the Rhiannedd y Moelwyn ladies choir, conducted by Sylvia Ann Jones and accompanist Awen Davey took part in a service of remembrance at St Asaph Cathedral, also taking part were Rhys Meirion and harpist Dylan Cernyw.

Advice

ON Mondays between 10am and 1pm, a representative of the Citizens Advice Bureau will be at the library and ready to help with any relevant questions one might have.

IT

has been 25 years since John Glyn Jones took over the baton with the Oakley Silver Band and, to mark the occasion, the band held a concert last on Saturday, 19 November, at Y Ganolfan, Porthmadog, where they were joined on stage by the CF1 mixed choir from Cardiff, conducted by Eilir Owen Griffiths and Bethan Mair Lee, an accomplished international pianist who is John Glyn’s niece.

Guests included eight former pupils of John Glyn who are now performing with bands all over Britain. The compere was Nic Parry.

Gallery

THE Maenofferen Gallery hosts an exhibition of the work of the learners of the local Craft group led by Stephen Owen and admission is free during the library’s opening hours.

Resignation

CLARE Britton has informed the chamber of commerce and tourism that, due to her being the secretary of the North Wales Tourist Board, she will be standing down as the chair of the chamber.

Alister Haveron of the Dolawel Guest House has also tendered his resignation as the commerce’s website controller, a post he has held for five years. Both have stated that they will stay as valued members of the chamber, and their time in their present posts will come to an end at the commerce’s AGM next year.

Plas Tan y Bwlch

AM 7.30yh nos Fawrth, 29 Tachwedd bydd gwr lleol, Vivian Parry Williams yn rhoi sgwrs ‘Y Stori tu ôl i’r Trysor’ i aelodau fforwm yn y Plas.

Banks

FOLLOWING the recent closure of the town’s last bank, the HSBC Claire Britton chair of the chamber of commerce and tourism has failed to get any positive response from the HSBC about the need for another ATM in the town, but the Natwest were more keen to talk to her and only time will tell if the community gets what it badly needs.

Cymdeithas y Gorlan

BU cyfarfod nos Lun, 7 Tachwedd yng Nghapel Calfaria.

Rhoddwyd croeso i’r aelodau gan Janet Roberts a dymunodd wellhad buan i Ceinwen ar ôl ei damwain. Croesawyd y gwr gwadd, Steffan ab Owain, a cawson noson ddifyr, drwy help y lluniau, yn crwydro llwybrau’r fro.

Cychwynodd ar Bwlch y Gorddinan (y Crimea i ni), a gafodd ei greu rhwng 1842 i 1852, ac ei ail-wneud yn 1864. Ymlaen wedyn at y llwybr cam, wedyn i lawr am Cwmbowydd.

Dangosodd sleid o fodrwydd o’r canol oesoedd a oedd wedi ei darganfod wrth y llwybr, bu hen ddyfalu am leoliad rhai o’r llwybrau sydd erbyn hyn, naill ai wedi diflannu, neu wedi newid i ffyrdd bach, fel Ffordd y Meirw, sydd rhwng Ceunant Sych a’r Llan, ond gobeithir fydd defnydd yn dal yn cael eu gwneud ohonynt er mwyn eu cadw.

Taliwyd y diolchiadau gan Robin Davies, a cawsom paned cyn troi am adra.

Bydd cyfarfod nesa yn Bowydd ar 5 Rhagfyr, am 7yh, pan ddaw Geraint a Neris Roberts o Trawsfynydd atom gyda Naws y Nadolig. Croeso cynnes i bawb.

Charity

IT is barely an year since Ceinwen Jones of Penybont, Tanygrisiau, opened the former Siop Dan on Blaenau High Street as a community charity shop.

Since then, thanks to the generosity of its donors and customers, she has been able to donate £1,000 to the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, which has provided care for many children from north Wales over the years, including some from the Blaenau area.

The work at Siop Dan is carried out voluntarily and Ceinwen said that with the valued support, she will continue donating to the worthwhile charity and other charities.

In the meantime she has received a letter from Clare White, chief executive of the Alder Hey Children’s Charity, thanking here for the amazing donation, and saying that the support is very much appreciated and the money raised will be used to give the young patients and their families the best possible care and support.

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