THE latest community news from Machynlleth

County Pool

THE town’s two pool teams suffered disappointing results in round of the North Wales Interleague Division 2 recently.

Machynlleth Marvels put up stern resistance at Wrexham 8 Ball before the homesters took a narrow two-frame victory 21-19.

However, Machynlleth Mor-lladran found visitors Wrexham Gwersyllt on top form and well-worth their 28-12 verdict.

The Marvels held fourth place with 87 points while Môr-lladran lay sixth with 52 points.

Despite the teams’ disappointing results, three players were in the division’s top ten.

Dewi Thomas led the way with seven wins from nine frames closely followed by Arwel Owen and Robert Griffiths both with seven wins from 10 frames.

Book Club

ON Friday, 1 June, members of the Tabernacle-based book club will be discussing My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout.

Members meet in the Green Room between 2pm and 3.30pm.

Entry fee of £1.

New members always welcome.

Welsh cake baking

GAIL from Caffi Alys and Angharad from Popty were the chefs for a successful bilingual evening’s baking at the local bowling club on Thursday, 17 April.

Organised by Mach Maethlon, the duo made Welsh cakes – traditional sweet ones and savoury ones too!

Bowls

MACHYNLLETH made the short trip to Carno and comfortably beat the home side by 29 shots (89-60) in the first round, first leg of the Montgomeryshire League Cup.

Then, on 17 May, they made a satisfactory start in defence of their Division One championship title with a 12-shot home win over Kerry. Machynlleth secured five points to Kerry’s two.

Meanwhile, Maglona were awarded a league-cup walkover against Abermule to gain a second-round place.

However, in Division Two of the Montgomeryshire County League, Maglona (one point) lost by 32 shots at unbeaten leaders Montgomery (six points).

AGM

MACHYNLLETH Town Council will be holding its annual general meeting, including the election of mayor and deputy mayor for the next 12 months, at Plas Machynlleth on Tuesday, 29 May at 6pm.

The AGM will be followed, at 6.30pm, by the month’s ordinary monthly meeting.

U3A

MEMBERS of the Dyfi U3A group have held an exhibition after the group joined a project to celebrate Wales’s coastline and borders area.

The Dyfi U3A worked with other groups to catalogue an area between Borth and Barmouth with their work being shown at Machynlleth’s Bowling Club after it had been displayed at the All Wales Conference in Llandrindod Wells on 9 May.

Barbara Friar, project leader, said: “In 2017 a member of Flint U3A suggested we adopt a coastline and borders celebration project.

“All U3As were invited to participate. At present 25 are involved, and Dyfi U3A became interested in the project.

“Members decided to interpret an area from Borth to Barmouth, and eight of Dyfi’s interest groups agreed to participate. Five individual members also submitted studies.

“All the material was collated and an exhibition set up. This was displayed at the All Wales Conference on 9 May.

“Coastline and Borders is an ongoing project which will culminate in another exhibition in 2019.

“Many members of Dyfi U3A have said how much they enjoyed being a part of this meaningful project.”

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