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Rotary Club

ON 5 January, the members welcomed Maureen Jones to give the club an impressive presentation about her forthcoming Marie Curie Himalayan Trek in October 2017. Maureen is a qualified midwife with GIG Cymru/NHS Wales and together with her brother Alan and two of her colleagues, Claire Tregear and Julia Taylor they decided that they would raise a total of £3.500 each for Marie Curie that would allow them to join the Marie Curie trek to India and the Himalayas in October. Maureen explained that she and her party would join a group of 30-40 other travellers for an exciting and rewarding six-day guided trek in the mountains. The trekkers would camp out in tents in temperatures ranging from 10 degrees to -10 degrees. Stores and supplies will be transported for them between overnight stops.The fund-raising activities of the group to raise the sum that each of them would need to raise included among others, coffee mornings, presentations, bag packing in supermarkets, collection boxes and auction dinners.Maureen is in the process of getting herself physically fit for her trip by regular long walks with her dog in the local hills.In a vote of thanks president Anthony Pearson on behalf of the club, wished Maureen every success for her project and senior vice -president Nancy Clarke presented her with a cheque for £100 towards the total that she is required to raise for Marie Curie UK to qualify for the trip.

This year the weather was fortunately quite kind to the club which managed to complete all the usual rounds of Tywyn and the surrounding villages with the Santa Sleigh.The evening trips out with the Santa Sleigh, together with Santa’s presence outside the co-op and Spar stores on the 23 and 24 December, collected £2,527.85 in total.The club would like to thank all those who helped in any way whatsoever and to express its gratitude to the general public who gave so generously.

As 2017 begins let’s hope you’re in a romantic mood as there’s plenty of choice in Tywyn to celebrate St Dwynwen’s Day, 25 January, the Welsh patron saint of lovers. Children and parents are welcome to join pupils from Penybryn school as they decorate the Magic Lantern Cinema and enjoy a Te Bach Dwynwen between 3.45pm and 4.30pm. Solomon and Gaenor will be on show at 7pm at the Magic Lantern cinema.The Welsh/Yiddish with English subtitles film, directed by Paul Morrison, with Ioan Gruffudd and Nia Roberts.As timeless as young love and as tragic as Romeo and Juliet, this is a lush Oscar-nominated romance featuring star-crossed lovers caught in a cultural crossfire. Wales in 1911 is a beautiful world, but fraught with racial and economic un-rest. Solomon is young, handsome and Jewish, selling linens door-to-door in a nearby mining village. There he falls for Gaenor, the daughter of a strict chapel-going family, and decides to conceal his heritage in order to win her heart.

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