Founded December 1996

Issue 98 May/June 2013 The Salem Newsletter Welsh Night in The Hall insurance companies will even donate up to £30 simply for taking out a policy with them! The Welsh night held on 9th March was well attended and enjoyed, it would appear, by all What do you have to do? present. The food prepared by Eryl, Elin and It’s really easy! Richard was absolutely delicious and Alison was 1. Go to the following link to register: a superb bar stewardess! www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/salem villagehall and click SIGN ME UP 2. Fill out the quick form to register your details. 3. Find the retailer you want to shop with. 4. Click to visit the retailer, then shop as you normally would. 5. Your donation will be shown in your easyfundraising account within 30 days.

The entertainment was provided by Kelly Gwen The sums raised by each donation may Morgan and Martha Harris, who both sang and be a small amount, but if we all register, recited beautifully. We were also treated to some then our online purchases will soon add up delightful harp playing by Nia Eyre. There was and every little helps! also a master of ceremonies who did some guitar So please consider naming Salem playing and singing, but his name escapes me! Village Hall as your chosen cause and help When the ‘acts’ had done their turns, the to speed up the raising of the funds needed dancing began and went on ‘til late! If this is a to purchase this badly needed land. sample of what Salem residents can put together, then I for one, won’t be missing any events, Donations! fundraising or otherwise! A big thank you to the following groups I am happy to report that the evening raised and individuals who have made donations a profit of £474.00 Russ to the SAVE SALEM’S ACRE fund. Fundraising for SALEM’S ACRE Manordeilo & Salem Community Council Angela & David Rice easyfundraising.org.uk helps charities Biddy & Rob Donaldson and community groups to raise money when Stretch Group their supporters shop online and that’s why Salem Village Hall has registered with them. Table Tennis Club Margie & Denis O’Callaghan How does it work? Short Mat Bowls Club Simples! Once you've registered with Chris Bradley easyfundraising.org.uk and you shop with one of the participating retailers, their Doreen Moyle system makes a note of your purchase, Maureen & Ray Marshman collects the donation from the retailer and Beverley McCartney passes it to your chosen good cause. There Eileen Jones are over 2000 stores in the scheme, G.A. Jones including Amazon, John Lewis, Tesco and Pat & Tony Summers M&S and each will donate up to 15% of Salem & District WI what you spend with them. And the best 8 Maureen & Russ Hopkins thing is, it won’t cost you a penny! Some …Continued Total donations to date £1113.50 FUNDRAISING EVENTS 2013 Please support our fundraising efforts by Happy Birthday to Cris Spragg who attending as many of these as possible. celebrates on May 6th Birthday Wishes to Karl Spice who Date Event blows out the candles on May 12th Sat. May 18th Hog Roast & Dance Birthday Greetings to Julie Quelch who gets loads of cards on May 13th Sat. June 22nd Ascot Race Night Happy Birthday to you, Sat. July 20th Summer Ball Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Ava, Sat. Aug. 24th Horticultural Show, Happy Birthday to you! Dog Show & Bingo! Ava Kindred will be 5 on May 18th Sat. Sept. 14th Late Summer Ball Birthday Wishes to Teddy Whittall of Sat. Oct. 19th Pumpkin Festival who will be celebrating on May 20th Sat. Nov 2nd Halloween Night Happy Wedding Anniversary to Sat. Dec. 21st Concert Maureen & Russ Hopkins. On May 2oth, they will have been married for 46 years. They just don’t look old enough, do they! In addition to these events, the monthly Happy Birthday to you, Bingo sessions will continue to be very Happy Birthday to you, popular evenings at The Hall. Happy Birthday Dear Daisy, We will try to stick to these dates, but Happy Birthday to you! please check the village website for Daisy Martin, Lynda and Philip Rees’ up-to-date information about village granddaughter will be 5 on May 21st events throughout the year. Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, www.salemvillage.org.uk Happy Birthday dear Jasmine, Happy Birthday to you! The Easter Fair Jasmine Ava Roberton, Aggie & Paul Smith’s granddaughter, will Salem residents turned out in number be 2 on June 4th to attend this event. For most of the time, the hall was heaving and people were Birthday Greetings to Ben West who milling about, chatting to friends and celebrates on June 8th neighbours and generally having a good Happy Birthday to Philip Rees. Philip time. also has a birthday on June 8th The competitions attracted fifty-five Many Happy Returns of the Day to entries and as usual for Salem, the standard Bernard Kindred who celebrates on was very high. The children, winners or not, June 19th. There will be no candles on all received a chocolate goody. his cake for fear of Global Warming! There were a number of stalls selling A big Salem WELCOME to Rosemary & everything from paintings to cakes and Chris Payne who recently moved into brand new clothes. We’re sure you’re going to love It was really nice to see some new faces it here! attending the event and hopefully our next happening, The Hog Roast & Dance on May Don’t Forget! 18th, will be every bit as successful. If you would like a mention or would like to A big thank you to the organizers and mention a friend or relative in the Gossip to everyone who supported the Fair. Column, please let me know It’s also good to report that a profit of £174.50 was raised. Russ THE SHREDDER COMPUTER A young engineer was leaving the office at 3.45 pm when he found the CEO standing CORNER in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand. I recently purchased a "Listen," said the CEO, "this is a very lovely new wireless keyboard and sensitive and important document, and my mouse. Not top of the range, but not far off secretary is not here. Can you make this thing it. What a waste of money that was. My work?" "Certainly," said the young engineer. He typing, spelling and grammar haven’t turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and improved at all! pressed the start button. Thank You Brian "Excellent, excellent!" said the CEO as his paper disappeared inside the machine, "I just For auditing the Heolgaled Hall need one copy." accounts for the year 2012, we say a big thank you to Brian Carroll. Lesson: Never, ever, assume that your boss knows what he's doing. Crafty Canine Training Club In The Hall Fridays 7:00pm BINGO dates for 2013 Helping to bring out the best in your dog! Ring Linda on 01267 211656 Midsummer Magic BAROQUE MUSIC May 11 & DANCE June 15 Exhibition of Playford-style dancing in July 13 costume led by Peter Brock. August 3 The Playford Baroque Duo August 24 September 21 Abigail Hammett - violin October 26 Julia Jones - soprano ~ Gerald Jones - piano November 16 With glimpses of the period through poetry December 14 and prose with Barbie Davies NEWTON HOUSE, DINEFWR, Every effort will be made to adhere to these dates, but if it becomes necessary to change, we LLANDEILO will give as much notice as possible. Saturday 22nd June 2013 How come this box gets smaller CHAMPAGNE RECEPTION ON THE TERRACE with every issue of the gazette? AT 6:30PM - MUSIC STARTS AT 7PM Answers on a £20 note to Russ AUCTION DURING INTERVAL Tickets - to include generous buffet - £25 Strength In Numbers AVAILABLE FROM: Newton House Visitor Centre Peppercorn, Llandeilo ~ Just So Scrumptious Deli, The Salem Oil Syndicate run by Basil Llandovery or ring Angela Yardley 01550 760206 Forrester now has 50 members! This can ALL PROCEEDS TO MARIE CURIE HOME only be a good thing for those who use the NURSING FOR TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS service. If you have not yet joined, do IN CARMARTHENSHIRE consider it, as the more members we have, the stronger the buying power! THANKS TO CARMARTHENSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL CORE GRANTS for EVENTS & FUNDING WORDSEARCH AFRICAN COUNTRIES U ZZ LE AG E These are Wuzzles. But what do they mean?

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2. Cheese 2. COMMONYMS Oils 1. are a group of words with something in common. See if you can find the common trait in these sets Answers to Wuzzles No.3 of words. The answers are on this page. 1. Somewhere Over the 1. Corn - Baby - Olive Rainbow 2. Sharp - Cream - Cottage 2. X Marks the Spot 3. Santa's Sleigh - Churches - Schools 3. Put two and two Together 4. Debtors - Parliament - Ducks 4. Just Right 5. Picnic - Easter - Wastepaper 5. I Before E Except After C 6. Twilight - End - No Parking 6. High Seas 7. Secret - Double - Real Estate There was a group assembly in the e have been out W local village church hall. At the end of the and about a lot this year. meeting the vicar asked everyone " Do you In March we visited Nia want to go to Heaven?. Put your hand up if Clements workshop in you do". They all put their hands up except Llangadog and were very for one young man. impressed with both the The priest said "I don't believe this. You workshop itself, a conversion from an old mean to tell me John that when you die you farm building and also with the quality of don't want to meet your Maker ?" the beautiful jewellery she produces John sighed "Oh yes when I die, I thought there. Most of the members bought you were getting a group together to go right something, particularly earrings. now!!" In April we were very lucky with the www.Salemvillage.org.uk weather when we went to visit the Kaffe Fassett Exhibition in the Lampeter Don’t forget to visit our village website regularly. It’s the best way to keep up with Gallery. The quilts on display were what’s going on in and around Salem. The spectacular. Most of them were made site is updated on an almost daily basis, so from fabrics he had designed himself. it’s never far behind with news, events etc. There were also a selection of old Welsh quilts round the walls, which in their own Box Tops for Books way were just as amazing. Most of them Cylch Meithrin Ffairfach would be very grateful if you could donate your were hand sewn. When we had looked at Nestlé cereal box top tokens to them as the exhibition they provided us with a they are registered with the ‘FREE Books very good buffet lunch at £7 per head. for Schools’ scheme. There are 19 Next month we are due to meet in varieties of cereals to choose from, so there must be something there you like! Meryl’s Kitchen to make chutney in Sainsburys & Morrisons Vouchers preparation for the county WI show Would you please also consider ‘Cluedo’ The competition will be the best collecting and donating Sainsburys designed label for the jar. Active Kids vouchers & Morrisons Let’s Grow vouchers. These will be used Walk No 5 Llangennech will be on to obtain much needed equipment to help Wednesday 15th May at 10.00am and is with the education and fitness of our 3 miles. young ones. Walk No 6 Llanwinio has been Also, please could you donate your empty printer ink cartridges to them as changed to Saturday 8th June. they are a means of generating funds for The car treasure hunt is on Thursday the school. 16th May. The first car leaves Llandeilo Eryl, Elin or Peter Harries, Maureen main car park at 6pm. or Russ Hopkins will be only too pleased to take them off your hands, or you can The WI hired a table top in the hall leave them in the Hall for us to collect. for the fair at Salem on Easter Monday Our thanks to all the members who gave WANTED contributions. We raised enough money Items of interest, stories, anecdotes, clean jokes, to contribute £20 to the Save Salem’s poems. You know the kind of thing - what you’d expect to find in a small community newsletter. Acre fund. I know there are poets out there, so why not share I am pleased to report that we have your masterpieces with the rest of us! Most of us enjoy a good joke, so who’s hanging on to all of had several new members recently. I hope those! Everyone must have a story to tell, so tell it to us. you will join in lots of events and enjoy Come on - don’t leave it all up to me! yourselves with us. Submissions to [email protected] or just hand them to Russ or Maureen. TandemMichael Kindred, Salem BUILDING / MAINTENANCE & ROOFING SERVICES

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HEOLGALED MEMORIAL HALL & INSTITUTE What’s going on at Committee Members Salem Memorial Hall? Chairman: Peter Harries Vice Chairman: Ivor Dempsey Mondays 2:00 pm Table tennis club Secretary: Basil Forrester Mondays 7:15 pm Line Dancing Booking Secretary: Jan Hatfield 2nd Tuesdays 7:30 pm Women’s Institute Treasurer: Russ Hopkins Wednesdays 7:00 pm Short Mat Bowls Sub-committee Thursdays 10:00 am Stretch Get-Together (Projects & Fundraising) Fridays 7:00 pm Crafty Canine Training Club Elin Harries Saturdays 7:00 pm BINGO Once a month Maureen Hopkins Richard Palmer Making the most of our Hall! SULIAU 2013 To book the hall for functions etc., CAPEL ISAAC / SALEM please contact 2:00 oni nodir Maureen or Russ on 01558 824069 Mai 5 Parch Goronwy Wynn (Cymun) S LLYFRGELL LLANDEILO LIBRARY 12 Parch Hywel Richards CI Tel:01558 823659 19 Cyfarfod Blynyddol Capel Isaac Oriau Agor Newydd Parch Cen Llwyd CI 6:30 26 Parch Lyn Evans S New Opening Hours 23/08/2012 Mawrth/Tues 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Mehefin 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm 2 Parch Brenig Davies (Cymun) CI 6:30 Mercher/Wed 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm 9 Hywel Hughes S Gwener/Fri 10:00 am - 1:00 pm 16 Arweinydd CI 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm 23 Gerwyn Morgan CI Sadwrn/Sat 10:00 am - 1:00 pm 30 Cyfarfod Blynyddol Salem Parch Irfon C Roberts S 2:00 a 6:30 LLANDEILO COUNTRY MARKET Civic Hall, Crescent Rd. Fri 8:30 am - 12:30 pm, DO YOU HAVE INTERNET ACCESS? The Salem emailing list now has 119 names Heolgaled Gazette on it’s register. These people receive emails Would you like some space in the regarding news of events, notices and anything else to do with the community. If you have not Gazette or on our website already told us your email address and have no We can advertise businesses, services, objections to being kept up to date by email, then items for sale etc. please email your details to: [email protected] Just call Russ on 01558 824069

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