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HHHaaalllkkkyyynnn MMMooouuunnntttaaaiiinnn NNNeeewwwsss Issue 161 - Summer 2015 Rhes-y-Cae and Moel-y-Crio What’s where: Sheepdog Trials and Show Page 2: Editorial th th Page 3: Flintshire Flag. 24 and 25 July Flintshire War Memorials Page 4: Halkyn Councillor Page 5 Halkyn Community Council Page 6: Grosvenor Estate Graziers’ News Halkyn W.I. Page 7 Halkyn Heritage Week Page 8 Under Halkyn Page 9 Mountain Soup Page 10 McIntyres Interview Pt2 Page 12 Children’s Pages Page 14 Blue Bell Inn Page 15 PH Community Centre Halkyn Parish Hall Page 16 Rev’d Hugh Burgess Parish Holiday Page 17 Church Services Page 18 Halkyn Church Children The big event in the Mountain’s calendar takes place this year on the last full Rhosesmor WI & Hall weekend of July. Last year’s event was an outstanding success: the picture here Page 19 Chapel Services was taken at the show. RhesyCae Village Hall The organizing committee have already put many hours into preparation for the Page 20 Rhes y Cae News event, and have given us the following encouragement: Put the dates of this year’s show in your diary: Friday 24 th and Saturday 25 th of Page 21 Rhes-y-Cae Show July. Do you come along on the Friday! Get your sheepdogs working and enter Scouts and Cubs them for the local class. Also start training your dogs for the Terrier racing at Page 22 Red Lion Inn 6:30 p.m. This is a fun night and a chance to meet old friends!! Saturday is a good day out for all the family!! Get your horses into shape and Page 24 Ysgol Rhos Helyg start to sow your seeds and get the plants in. We hope that the weather is kind Page 25 Ysgol RH PTA to all the gardeners as this has a great effect on our garden section on the day of the show. Page 26 Ysgol Brynffordd Find the knitting needles and get that sewing machine out. The items you need Page 28 Back Advice to make are listed below. Cricket Club Cooks can start jamming and practicing their baking skills as soon as the sched- Page 29 Holywell Golf Club ules are out. We hope that they will be available from June onwards in the shops, garages, and pubs, or from any committee member. Page 30 Halkyn United Football The Secretary is Mr Keith Jones, Hill Cottage, Cornel y Cae, Rhosesmor, Mold. Halkyn Bowls Page 31 onwards Issue162 will be distributed in September The deadline for items to be submitted will be 1st August, 2015. Advertisements You can submit items by email to - [email protected] or hand them in to the Blue Bell Inn or the Britannia PageInn. 1 Editorial Halkyn Mountain Community Cinema It is always nice to hear people asking when the next We hosted our second screening of the Halkyn Moun- edition of Halkyn Mountain News is due. It is satisfying tain Community Cinema on Saturday 21 st March, which to know that there are people who look forward to proved to be another complete success with all tickets reading it. It is clear to see from each edition of Halkyn being sold – thank you to all who came along to support Mountain News how much is going on in the area. this community venture. For our second screening we However, we still hear of events that haven’t featured in showed the Oscar nominated film ‘The Imitation Game’, HMN, so if you feel like writing about a forthcoming which is based on a true story during World War II. event or reporting on one that has taken place, we Keeping to a theme of the era we sold some 1940’s would love to hear from you. We would also welcome homemade Carrot Cookies and Gingerbread Men, contributions from our younger readers who may be along with Popcorn, in ration book style packaging making their first attempt at writing for publication. We which seemed to go down well. are also happy to help first time reporters and writers. Our 3 rd screening was on Saturday 30 th May, when we In this edition we have the second instalment of an showed ‘The Theory of Everything’, another true story, interview with Kevin and Delyth McIntyre about their on the life of Stephen Hawking. Unfortunately we can’t amazing journey in a VW Beetle in 1973. In this provide you with an update as this screening took place instalment we pick up their journey from the Khyber to after the deadline for this edition of the Halkyn Mountain home. News. We are sure however, this will have been another We were delighted to receive so many entries for the success. competition to draw Ginnie the Donkey. See the Children’s pages for details of our winner. Also, Ginnie We have started to sell hot drinks and yummy treats at once again shares her thoughts with our younger our screenings, so we wanted to take this opportunity to readers. make you aware that all proceeds from the sale of these After some months of website issues, we are pleased to drinks and treats helps towards the cinema running report than HMN is once again available online at costs, as we are a not for profit, volunteer run, commu- www.halkyn.org . If you are one of our ex-pat readers, nity venture. For each screening we have to pay a film we would love to hear from you as it would be licence fee (on average £100) as well as hire costs for interesting to list all those places across the country the venue, screening equipment hire and purchase of (and abroad?) where HMN is read. the film. Income from the sale of these refreshments We would like to make a special mention and say a big therefore helps towards these costs and also helps us to thank you to Roma Gray who has now retired as one of keep the costs of tickets down, at just £4 if purchased in the volunteers who delivers Halkyn Mountain News. We advance or £6 on the door. are pleased that Rory Gray has kindly agreed to take over Roma’s delivery area in Pentre Halkyn. We would also like to take the opportunity to thank once again Pentre Halkyn Post Office, The Blue Bell Inn, Hal- We hope you enjoy this edition. kyn Sports Association and Cricket Club and Halkyn Community Council for their various help in supporting the community cinema, including providing outlets for tickets to be sold (you can purchase tickets, from about 3 weeks in advance of a screening, from Pentre Halkyn Post Office, The Blue Bell Inn or online via the mountain cinema website). We are now getting ready for the next couple of screen- ings which are taking place on Saturday 25 th July and Saturday 26 th September , at Halkyn Sports Associa- tion / Cricket Club. Doors open at 7:00pm with the film starting at 7:30pm – plenty of time to catch up with friends and neighbours, maybe make some new friends, and have a chat before the film starts or even after. Please do therefore sign up to our mailing list via the website and follow us on Facebook or Twitter to ensure you are kept informed about details of the next and sub- The Halkyn Mountain News does not accept sequent screenings... responsibility for, nor necessarily agree with, any of the views expressed, statements or claims made in www.mountaincinema.org.uk articles or advertisements produced. www.facebook.com/halkynmountaincinema The Halkyn Mountain News will be available to read or download from the Halkyn Council & Community www.twitter.com/mountaincinema Website - www.halkyn.org.uk On behalf of all the Halkyn Mountain Community Cin- The sender of any article and/or pictures that they do ema volunteers, we hope you are enjoying the fun and not want to appear on the website must tell the individuality of the community cinema and that it is editors when submitting it and it will be removed from bringing our community even closer. the website version. Please note we may need to abridge some articles to fit available space. Mountain Cinema Working Group, email: mountain- [email protected] Page 2 A Flag for Flintshire Flintshire War Memorials Project The historical county of Flintshire has been granted an official flag by the Flag Institute, the UK’s national flag Shirley Walls of Berth Ddu has asked us to highlight the charity which has formal responsibilities for managing Flintshire War Memorials Project and appeal for copies the National Registry of UK Flags. of any photographs, letters, family stories or any other information regarding those who died in The Great War From the beginning of 1914 -18 and are remembered on the war memorials of 2015 a group of Flintshire. Flintshire residents came The website is a virtual memorial and began in 2007 together to start when Eifion and Viv Williams of Sychdyn began to re- campaigning for a county search the names on their village memorial. It was al- flag as symbolic means ways the stories of the men that seemed important to for people to express them, who they were, where they had lived and worked pride in coming from this and who their families were. Others have told and are wonderful part of Wales still telling the stories of the battles and the war itself, we are so lucky to call home. Eifion and Viv, however, wanted to tell the stories of the The design of the flag is steeped in local heritage and men so that they could become more than just names tradition, featuring a version of the coat-of-arms on stones.