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Issue 100 Sept/Oct 2013 The Salem Newsletter 100th issue! Our Gazette has been going for 16½ years!

SALEM SHOW & DOG SHOW EASYFUNDRAISING UPDATE This year’s show was one of the most So far this year, £32.10 has been raised by successful ever. A record number of people residents who have registered with entered 418 items in the show and the Hall easyfundraising.org.uk and have purchased was packed with those who came to view. items from online companies. It’s so easy Also, the Dog Show saw more entrants than to register and costs nothing, so why not ever before. register now and make your cause SALEM The weather was very kind in that it VILLAGE HALL. Every little helps! rained for a little while in the morning, but stayed dry for the whole of the show. It rained in most parts of England all day, as Donations! it had done here on the day before the event, A big thank you to the following groups so we were very lucky indeed. and individuals who have made donations to the SAVE SALEM’S ACRE fund. Manordeilo & Salem Council Angela & David Rice Biddy & Rob Donaldson Stretch Group Table Tennis Club Margie & Denis O’Callaghan Short Mat Bowls Club Chris Bradley Doreen Moyle Maureen & Ray Marshman Beverley McCartney Eileen Jones Gwenda Jones Pat & Tony Summers Salem & District WI Maureen & Russ Hopkins The picture is of Liz & Kevin Lloyd’s Tommy Thomas Herb Display entry which won Best in Meryl Thomas Show in the Garden section. Clr. Doris Jones A total of £486.96 was raised during Tegwyn & Gwenfil Evans the day. Expenses amounted to £188.25, Lisa & Tim Washington including rent for The Hall, leaving a profit Tegwyn, Gwyneth & Aeron Williams on the day of £298.71. This sum goes Iwan Harries towards the Save Salem’s Acre Fund. Debs & John Matthews All in all, a very successful day and a Maureen & Frank Clifford big ‘thank you’ must go to all those Sharon, Alun & Tomos Rees involved in the organization of the event. Bryonie Jones Total donations to date £1773.50 QUIZ NIGHT to Quiz Nights come and Quiz Nights go of and the the one we held in The Hall on 20th Harry celebrated on July 18th.J July came and went pretty quickly! Welcome to the Birthday List, Harry Thirty-one people attended, making eight teams. They were meant to be teams to of four, but some couldn’t count and some of William didn’t have any friends, so we ended up reached the big on August with 6 teams of four, one team of five and 15th! JWelcome to the Birthday list, a team of just two. The scores for the odd William teams were worked out by some very complicated formula, to balance up with the to on others. September 7th. Doesn’t look a day The standard of the answers was very over 75! high (in some cases) and there were lots of cheers and groans when they were read out. to The very latest digital technology was who celebrates on September 8th used to project the questions and the scoring to onto a screen. This was definitely the most who celebrate their hi-tech quiz night ever to be held in Salem! on September 14th! The winning team was the Salem Wizards: Edith O’Donahue, Val Forrester, Happy Birthday to you, Basil Forrester and Ivor Dempsey. They Happy Birthday to you, were presented with £20 prize money, but Happy Birthday Ella Mae in the spirit of things, they handed the Happy Birthday to you! money back to the organisers. of will be There were some light-hearted on September 14th complaints about the Quizmaster’s ‘On the Spot’ rule making, but hey, it was for fun to and a good cause and nobody’s reputation Maureen was at stake! At times, even the Quizmaster celebrates on October 4th had no idea what was happening next, so to thank goodness Richard was close to hand! Sophie celebrates on The sum of £93.40 was collected in October 5th entrance fees and raffle tickets and this, less rent to The Hall, will go towards the Save to . Salem’s Acre Fund. Doreen has a birthday on October 9th By the way, if entrance fees were £2.00 to . Rhys will and the raffle tickets were £1.00, where on be celebrating on October 10th! earth did the 40 pence come from? Also, did you know that Max Boyce to was responsible for the adoption of the leek who celebrates on October 29th as the national emblem of ! to , Kitty Snigger! Dawson’s Great grandson. Aled will be WANTED on October 30th Items of interest, stories, anecdotes, clean jokes, poems. You know the kind of thing - what you’d expect to find in a small community newsletter. Please could more of you arrange to I know there are poets out there, so why not share have their birthdays in Sept/Oct, as the your masterpieces with the rest of us! Most of us enjoy a good joke, so who’s hanging on to all of list is a rather short one! those! Everyone must have a story to tell, so tell it Don’t Forget! to us. Come on - don’t leave it all up to me! If you would like a mention or would like to Submissions to mention a friend or relative in the Gossip [email protected] or just hand them to Russ or Maureen. Column, please let me know Russ FREE - HARDCORE! Salem trip to Joseph a big success! If anyone is in need of some hardcore, there is plenty for the The first of our trips to the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff took place on taking. You will of course, need a 14 September when a small group of trailer or truck. residents went to see Joseph and the Please contact Paul Smith on Technicolor Dream Coat, starring “H” from Steps in the lead role. 01558 824655 The coach left Salem at 9.30 and arrived in Cardiff Bay in plenty of time for us to take in the sights of the Bay, grab a BINGO dates for 2013 coffee and enjoy a leisurely lunch before the matinee performance. All agreed that the show was very good, and going by coach meant that some of us could enjoy a pre and post show glass of wine or two! September 21 Whilst some of us were at the show, October 26 others took advantage of the coach trip to November 16 do some shopping in Cardiff. The coach December 14 dropped off and picked up near the museum - very convenient for our avid shoppers! Every effort will be made to adhere to these All in all a good day was had by all. dates, but if it becomes necessary to change, we The coach journey home seemed to be much will give as much notice as possible. quicker than the one to Cardiff (why does How come this box gets smaller it always appear to be the case?) and we were back in Salem in no time at all. with every issue of the gazette? This was the first such trip. There are Answers on a £20 note to Russ many more shows coming to Cardiff in the coming months, including the acclaimed “Wicked” and “War Horse”. If you’re FUNDRAISING EVENTS 2013 interested in joining us for either of these, Please support our fundraising efforts by just let us know. Look out for more attending as many of these as possible. information over the next few months. Richard Palmer Date Event Sat. Sept. 14th Late Summer Ball COMPUTER Sat. Oct. 19th Pumpkin Festival CORNER Sat. Nov 2nd Halloween Night I have just wasted a good 90 Sat. Dec. 21st Concert minutes of my time removing all traces of an ‘intrusive’ toolbar which In addition to these events, the monthly took over my Internet experience. This Bingo sessions will continue to be very installed itself on the back of a Mozilla Firefox popular evenings at The Hall. browser download - I obviously chose the We will try to stick to these dates, but wrong site from which to download it. please check the village website for Normally, I am extremely careful about what I download and which site I choose to up-to-date information about village download it from, but this time I slipped up. events throughout the year. No matter what settings I altered or what I www.salemvillage.org.uk uninstalled, the darn thing would still raise its ugly head each time I returned to the Internet. Crafty Canine Training Club After some searching, I discovered a In The Hall Fridays 7:00pm product called adwcleaner which removed Helping to bring out the best in your dog! every trace of the monster. Get it! What makes matters worse, I don’t even like Firefox - I just Ring Linda on 01267 211656 installed it to test something out! Grrrrrrrrrr…. WORDSEARCH No.6. ASIAN COUNTRIES U ZZ LE AG E These are Wuzzles. But what do they mean?

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COMMONYMS dates have They 2. are a group of words with something in common. Towers 1. See if you can find the common trait in these sets of words. The answers are on this page. Answers to Wuzzles No.5 1. Eiffel - Water - Watch 2. A popular girl - The dried fruit aisle - Tombstones 1. Backing up. 3. The scale - The legend - The key 2. Fat Chance 4. A shepherd - Sheet Music - The White House 3. Quarterback 5. Volleyball - Office with computers - Fishermen 4. Coffee break 6. Spider - Fiddler - Hermit 5. Identical twins 7. Trap - French - Glass 6. Count the ways FAMOUS OOPS! nce again the Summer “There is no reason anyone would want a O computer in their home”. holidays are almost over K. Olson IBM 1949 and we are preparing for the new season of WI August Bingo events. Once again, it was good to see some new I hope everyone has enjoyed the faces amongst the 45 players who turned up Summer break with the wonderful on the evening of the Salem Show & Dog weather we have had this year show. £190 was paid out in prizes and as In September we were due to have a usual, the evening was a jolly one. talk entitled Georgian Kitchen by Jenny Bingo Ticket & Raffle Sales £339 Kenna, but this has yet to be confirmed. In Prize money, food & raffle prizes £203 October we hold our AGM. Balance banked 24.8.2013 £136 Less £12 rent = profit £124 We are pleased to report that Salem A big thank you to everyone for the support came 2nd in the section for WIs with less given to this popular fundraising event. than 20 members in the County Show in Box Tops for Books St Peters Civic Hall, in July. Cylch Meithrin Ffairfach would be The Autumn Group meeting of the very grateful if you could donate your Cestyll group will be held this year, on Nestlé cereal box top tokens to them as Monday 21st October. in Felingwm they are registered with the ‘FREE Books for Schools’ scheme. There are 19 village hall. This will be the fourth and varieties of cereals to choose from, so last meeting with Julie VB and Liz there must be something there you like! Brockington as Chairman and convener of Sainsburys & Morrisons Vouchers the group as they will have completed Would you please also consider collecting and donating Sainsburys their two years in office. Active Kids vouchers & Morrisons We have a team busy reading the set Let’s Grow vouchers. These will be used books for the book quiz to be held on to obtain much needed equipment to help Thursday 21st. November at the Cottage with the education and fitness of our young ones. Inn, . Also, please could you donate your Some useful dates-- empty printer ink cartridges to them as 28th - 29th September Sheep, festival, at they are a means of generating funds for the school. Eryl, Elin or Peter Harries, Maureen 16th October - Wednesday Go Green-- or Russ Hopkins will be only too pleased 10.30am - to 4.00pm. Carmarthen Athletic to take them off your hands, or you can Club (cookery and clothing) leave them in the Hall for us to collect. 4th - 25th. Flower arranging 2.15 - 4pm. www.Salemvillage.org.uk Four Fridays in October. Don’t forget to visit our village website 28th October 7pm - A Chance to speak. regularly. It’s the best way to keep up with 1st November Harvest Supper at 7pm at what’s going on in and around Salem. The Bronwydd Hall site is updated on an almost daily basis, so Saturday 5th October - Walk 13 10am it’s never far behind with news, events etc. 4miles. Elderly Mr Jones is driving to Swansea when Saturday 23rd November - Christmas his wife calls him on his mobile and in a worried Creative Craft Day, St Peter's Bowls Club. voice says ,“Dai, be very careful! I have just heard Thanks to all the members who have on the radio that there is a madman driving the supported all the fund raising events wrong way down the M4!”. throughout the summer to raise capital for Tom says, “ I know, Blodwen. But there the Save Salem's Acre Fund. isn’t just one - there’s hundreds of ‘em!!”. Huw and Bethan were on their way back LINE DANCING from the pub one night when Huw was in Salem! pulled over by the traffic police. The officer 7:15 pm at The Hall told Huw that his rear light was not working. On Mondays " I'm very sorry officer. I didn't realise it had £3 for 1 hour session burnt out. I'll get it fixed right away''. Get Strutting, Just then Bethan interrupted " I knew this Have Fun & Get Fit! would happen when I told you four days We just know you’ll love it ago that the light was broken". SALEM OIL SYNDICATE So the constable asked for Huw's licence and examining it said " This has expired" If you would like to join the Salem Oil Syndicate, or order a delivery Bethan said " You idiot Huw, three weeks of oil, contact by email ago the DVLA sent you a reminder and you [email protected] or did nothing about it". telephone:01558 822048 By this time Huw was getting a bit hot QUIET SENSIBLE COB (13.3HH) under the collar and shouted "Oh shut up AVAILABLE TO HACK OUT IN SALEM AREA. you stupid woman you're only making SUITABLE FOR HORSE-WISE YOUNG things worse!". PERSON ABLE TO RIDE OUT ALONE OR FOR LIGHTWEIGHT ADULT. The policeman leaned over towards Bethan THE PONY ALSO DRIVES. and asked " Does your husband always talk PLEASE PHONE BIDDY to you like that?" 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