A flower bed at the Aberdare Park to celebrate the CENTENARY of the GIRL GUIDE Movement was the centre piece for a Teddy Bears Picnic for all sections of Guiding in the area.

There were bears of every size being cuddled by the kiddies… and adults!

Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Trefoil members enjoyed a picnic followed by a campfire style sing-along.

A practice session for their big date at the Coliseum on 20th October, 2010 at 20.10. This date in their diary is very important as members of Guiding in all parts of the country will be renewing their Guide Promise.

News story via Aberdare Trefoil

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Only Men Aloud gave a fantastic show at the Welsh Proms at St David’s Hall, Cardiff last night.

The all-male choir which won the BBC’s Last Choir Standing competition appeared as part of the Stage and Screen Prom.

If you enjoyed the Welsh Proms, share you thoughts here…

Cyfarthfa Castle, Merthyr, turned brown and yellow on Saturday 19th June! NO … autumn had not arrived early, but a delightful invasion of Brownies in their brown and yellow uniforms from the whole County were there to celebrate the CENTENARY of GIRL GUIDING in grand style.

The highlight of the day was the arrival of the Chief Guide, Liz Burnley, who joined in the big celebration. In each County of Wales Brownies were making a ‘takeover’ of a Castle in their County and intent on a load of FUN in the same Brownie style as the Central Glamorgan Brownies were having.
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Aberdare Celebrates the Life of Stuart Cable today.

A celebration of Stuart Cable’s life takes place at St Elvans Church, Church St, Aberdare at 12.00 on 21st June 2010.

Procession Starts from Richard’s Funeral Services Chapel of Rest, Harriet St. in Trecynon to Mill St.
Left at The Welsh Harp into B4725,
Continue for 1 mile to town center (Canon St).
Right at Cenotaph into Victoria Sq, bear right
Right into Church St.

Procession End:
St Elvans Church can be found directly ahead.

For Parking:

From Cardiff:
Use Dukes St Car Park or continue to Tesco roundabout,
Turn left and follow road to R’bout then continue straight over
into Gadlys Pit Car Park

Secondary Parking:
YNYS Car Park. Right off A 4059 towards
Michael Sobell Sport Centre.

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Win a Bottle of ‘Aberdare Champagne’! … … Where’s the best Elderflower in Aberdare ? Answers on a post card please to Aberdare Blog.

There was big chuckles and cheers of applause tonight marking the long-awaited return of local drama sensation, the Library Luvvies.

Staff from Rhondda Cynon Taf Council Libraries service – aka ‘the Library Luvvies’ – performed their own musical comedy ‘Where in the World?’ at Ton Pentre Library.

Rhondda Cynon Taf Council Libraries Service is holding a week of travel-related activities during its ‘Where in the World Week’, starting Monday, June 7, 2010. The local library service in Rhondda Cynon Taff offer a range of travel books and DVDs available for loan.

Tonight was an hilarious night of comedy sketches from around the world.

Mountain Ash folk are urged to line the streets of Mountain Ash this weekend to enjoy a public ceremony organised to mark the rededication of the town’s war memorial.

The event will include a parade through the town being led by local dignitaries and the Regimental Band of The Royal Welsh, which is set to please the crowds.

Significant work has taken place on and around the important memorial after it was damaged by mindless vandals in 2008.

The event takes place on Sunday, May 23 and begins with a parade that leaves the Remembrance Gardens in Oxford Street at 1.45pm.

Read the full story on Aberdare News.

Rhondda Cynon Taf Cabinet Members have approved action to accelerate progress towards a dedicated War Memorial and Roll of Honour in Ynysangharad Park.

The Ynysangharad War Memorial Park Cabinet Committee has decided to convene key stakeholders, with a view to launching a public appeal to raise funds for a Roll of Honour for Pontypridd, and to allocate money from the Park’s Trust Fund to contribute to the project.

Public subscription was one of the original funding methods for Ynysangharad Park itself, which since its opening in 1923 has served as a memorial to the fallen of the First World War and subsequent conflicts. It is felt that appealing for public contributions would be appropriate since it would enable greater ownership and identification from the people of Pontypridd.

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Mrs Julie Thomas from Abercynon has just finished her term of office as Divisonal Commissioner for the Cynon Valley Guiding Association. She has had a life time in Guiding.

She said “I was a Brownie, a Guide and gained my Queens Guide Award, a Young Leader, and then I became a Guider at the age of 18 and took over 1st Abercynon Guide unit.
I have been involved in guiding in the county continuously since becoming a guider – Outdoor activities adviser, International Adviser for Cynon Valley Guiding. I have been district commissioner for Mountain ash, International Adviser for Central Glamorgan, also Outdoor Activities Adviser for Central Glamorgan. I have been Divisional Commissioner for Cynon Valley for 5 years. Now I have been lucky to hand the post to the very capable and enthusiastic Guider Mrs. Stephanie Martin.”

Photograph by Joan Rees: On the Left is Julie Thomas. On the Right is the new Divisional Commissioner of Guiding for the Cynon Valley Mrs. Stephanie Martin.

Story via Aberdare News

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