Music Club

THE Golden Jubilee Concert Series, presented by Machynlleth Music Club, will close on 22 April in The Tabernacle with a guitar duo that brings together two of the leading young guitarists in Europe.Sean Shibe, hailed as the finest guitarist ever to be born in the UK, and his duo partner the Czech prodigy Petra Polackova who now enjoys a similar reputation on the continent.

Midday Market Day Talks

FOLLOWING the success of mid-day talks by the curator of the exhibition Romanticism in the Welsh landscape, Dr Peter Wakelin, and the artists Peter Bishop and Clive Hicks-Jenkins, the well-received series of talks continue at the Tabernacle Museum of Modern Art Machynlleth on Wednesday, 20 April.Starting at 12pm, Peter Wakelin interviews Eleri Mills about how her deep knowledge of her home landscape in mid-Wales informs her work. Admission to the talk is free.

Bowls

THE new season is fast approaching for Machynlleth’s bowlers as they set their sights on fruitful campaigns in the Montgomeryshire County Bowling Association’s coun-ty, league and cup competitions.Club captain Phil Jenkins said: “Squad meetings will be held in the clubhouse on Friday, April 15, at 6pm and I’m very keen to see good attendances.”

Sunday Gardening

EDIBLE Mach carried out a highly successful project at Ysgol Bro Hyd-dgen’s Primary School campus on Sunday, 3 April. Work was undertaken on the school’s garden beds, including the construction of a new compost bin, to bring the beds up to scratch for the children to be able to grow food and learn about the different types of edible plants.Gardening sessions will continue fortnightly for the time being. Edible Mach is crowd fund-raising to keep the project going. If the group raises enough funds, it will move into weekly sessions soon. If we don’t raise the funds, we are not sure what the future will bring.Check out the fund-raising page to find out more and help raise money: http://chuffed.org/project/edible-mach-maethlon

Pool

SCOTTY Davies (Llew Coch A) still led the pacesetters in the individual standings after round 16 in Division 1 of the Machynlleth and District Pool League.Scotty’s 42 wins from 48 frames has kept him three frames clear of White Lion’s Mark Gaskell with 39 wins from 48 frames.Completing the top six places were Gareth Evans (Tredegar Arms) 34/46, Lee Davies (Llew Coch A) 31/37, Dai Owen (Tredegar Arms (31/48 and White Lion’s Telor Pugh 30/48 Meanwhile, Foresters’ Robert Lewis took his total to 30 wins from 37 frames to become the frontrunner in Division 2. He was closely followed by Edward Jones of Wynnstay Llanbrynmair with 28 wins from 33 frames.Filling the next four places were Kyli Williams (Rugby Club C) 27/38), Phil Evans (Rugby Club C) 27/40), Aled Jones (Foresters) 26/36) and Mike Akers, of Y Llew Coch Dinas, with 25 wins from 36 frames.

Broken a bone?

ARE you over 50 and have broken a bone? Does a family member have osteoporosis? Have you wondered whether you are at risk from osteoporosis yourself? Osteoporosis can cause bones to break easily, but can be treated. Find out more about osteoporosis, whether you are at risk, and what you can do to protect yourself, by visiting Machynlleth Library where there will be information available from the National Osteoporosis Society until 6 May.