THE latest community news from Machynlleth

Flower festival

ST PETER’S Church, will hold a flower festival from 1 August to 6 August, open 10am to 6pm. Tea/coffee and cakes will be available.

On Sunday, 5 August, at 5pm there will be a bilingual Songs of Praise.

Conductor and soloist Alwyn Evans, with Margaret Hughes, organist and instrumental items by Matt and Anna Swan. A warm welcome to all.

Hear to Help

THE Hear to Help drop-in clinic will take place this Friday, 3 August, at the Care Centre, Forge Road, from 10am to midday.

NHS hearing-aid wearers can visit this Action on Hearing Loss Cymru service for friendly help with cleaning their aids, new tubes and free batteries. The clinic is free and is run by trained volunteers on the first Friday of each month.

Book club

The Tabernacle-based Book Club meets in the Green Room for a reflection of life through literature.

The club’s next meeting will be considering Roughing It by Mark Twain on Friday, 3 August, at 2pm.

County pool

MACHYNLLETH Marvels continued to experience mixed results in division two of the North Wales Pool Interleague in June and July’s rounds of fixtures.

Beating local rivals Machynlleth Morladron 24-16 in June, they lost this month’s home match to the division’s leaders, Welshpool A, 24-16.

Meanwhile Morladron followed their defeat to the Marvels with a loss at second-placed Wrexham 8 Ball by yet another 24-16 score line.

Bowls

THE town’s bowls teams experienced a very poor week of results in the Montgomeryshire County leagues.

Machynlleth (one point) had their lead at the top of the men’s first division pegged back as Welshpool (six points) won by 27 shots on Llynlloedd green on Thursday, July 12.

Maglona lost in the men’s second division when they went down by 86 shots at promotion hopefuls Maesydre, who took all seven league points.

Then, in the county mixed league, Machynlleth (two points) suffered a four-shot reversal in their opening fixture at Montgomery (five points).

Completing a week to forget, the former winners lost at Aberaeron by two shots in the Cambrian Rose Bowl.

Alwyn Jones was the club’s only finalist in the recent Montgomeryshire County Finals, losing 21-15 in the senior singles to Machynlleth-born William R James, of Newtown BC. William made it a day to remember when he went on to take the senior pairs’ and fours’ titles.

Gardening workshop

EDIBLE Mach Maethlon held a free summer pruning session on 19 July. Emma Maxwell led the attendees on how to prune in summer, using Edible Mach trees as examples. Then, on 20 July at Machynlleth Bowling Club, Clwb Coginio saw popular chef Mikhael prepare a traditional Russian Borsch, a classic beetroot sour soup.

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