As I write
we are enjoying a sixth week of continuous sunshine – nothing like it since 1976!
And Pontyclun knows how to celebrate the sun with a month of fetes and
festivals already under our belt.
The
Community Council organised its ‘Picnic
in the Park’.
Hundreds of Pontyclun people came together to share a cake
and sandwich, to wang a wellie, compete in the silliest of walks and the
strangest of runs, as well as throwing and catching eggs with the greatest of
skill. Our local Macmillan Group were raising funds, our theatre group
attracted new recruits and our Community Garden put on their best show of plants
and vegetables as a means of attracting ever more volunteers. Sam Jones and
Ollie Smith won the welly wanging with a series of Olympian welly throws.
Pontyclun Primary School organised its annual fete, also in
Pontyclun Park, and it was another day of sunshine and smiles as hundreds of
families shared each other’s company in support of their own school.
Pontyclun
Football Club organised an enormous children’s football festival which
attracted teams from far and wide – it put events in Russia into the shade
Our Welsh
medium Primary School in Miskin, Ysgol Llantrisant, started off our sequence of
summer festivals with their very successful fete at the Rugby Club’s Windsor
Fields.
Let’s face
it – Pontyclun does know how to party!
The fun will
continue through August.
On 11 August
there will be the Hole/Palk charity rugby game at the Rugby Club with stalls, a
funfair, bars and music from midday on to the evening.
Pontyclun’s Festival of Food and
Drink
On the Bank
Holiday weekend of Saturday 25 August to Monday 27 August Pontyclun will enjoy
its first Festival of Food and Drink, organised by the Pipeworks.
The Community
Council will close the Car Park on Heol yr Orsaf. The Pipe Works will erect a
Marquee. There will be food stalls from many of our favourite providers including
Fulbrooks and Lisa’s Deli. There will be the widest range of beers and gins.
You must not miss it. Be there!
Vegetable garden & Allotment Competition
Pontyclun
Community Council are arranging a Best Vegetable Garden and Allotment
competition this summer.
This
competition is open to all residents of Pontyclun, including Miskin and Groes
Faen and aims to promote a sense of pride in their gardens/allotments. It does
not matter how small or large your vegetable garden/plot/allotment is, or how
young or old you are, just enter and show us your efforts.
Categories
- Best Vegetable garden / plot
- Best small Vegetable garden/plot (less than 2m sq)
- Best Allotment
- Best Children's vegetable garden/plot
- Most Bee friendly vegetable garden/allotment
Contact
Pontyclun Community Council for a form 01443 238500 or go to Pontyclun net/
Community Council
Anrhydeddu Carole
Llongyfarchiadau I Carole Willis a gaiff ei derbyn yn aelod
o’r Orsedd yn Eisdeffod Genedlaethol ym mis Awst.
We wish to congratulate Community Councillor Carole Willis
who will become a member of the Gorsedd at this year’s National Eisteddfod for
her work in supporting the Welsh language in our community. It is an honour for
Carole and for Pontyclun.
Weekly Councillor Surgery
Margaret Griffiths and Paul Griffiths hold a weekly
surgery each Tuesday from 9 am to 9.45 at Pontyclun Library to cover all issues
relating to RCT Council and Pontyclun Community Council.
Cllr Paul Griffiths
Chair of Pontyclun Community Council
e.mail: chair @pontyclun-cc.gov.wales
Tel. 01443 229301