Issue 91 Mar/Apr 2012 The Salem Newsletter New Salem Village Website Launched! Check it out folks. You’ll find it at www.salemvillage.org.uk and it’s a cracker. The site is not quite complete but it’s online right now and is being worked on as this newsletter is being prepared for printing. A massive NEWSFLASH‘thank you’ to Richard Palmer for his efforts in making this possible. St David’s Day Photo Shoot Sport Relief Charity Run Here we see Caela Hopkins & Max Price when they made themselves available for a St David’s Day photo opportunity. Four year old Caela is wearing the very latest in Welsh National costume with the addition of glittery black tights (chosen by herself, of course) and two and a half year old Max is showing off his personal preference complete with bow tie, cloth cap, weskit and leek. Duw, there’s lovely!

The Sport Relief Mile was an amazing day, with Mile events happening across the length and breadth of the country on 25th March 2012. We took part in a very picturesque Mile around Swansea Waterfront at 11am, the first Mile of the day. All sponsorship money given will help people living unimaginably tough lives both in the UK and across the world's poorest countries. Our team of 3 was called Run Rees Run!. The weather was very warm & sunny and we had a really good laugh taking part, and were some of the first to finish with Tomos, Alun and me coming in (in that order) with a time of between 11 & 12 minutes. Happy 10th Birthday, Tomos Tomos made light work of it (I held him back and personally I’m just trying to blot out the last few hundred meters!!) Sharon Rees Folks, if you think Sport Relief is a worthwhile cause, then why not sponsor team Run Rees Run! You can do so on their web page. It’s never too late! https://my.sportrelief.com/sponsor/RunReesRun

Tomos Rees of Ty Penbryn, becomes 10 years old on April 23rd. He looks pretty cool in his Wales rugby supporters get-up! The Gossip Column MANORDEILO AND SALEM Apologies to Fred Jehan for changing the COMMUNITY COUNCIL date of his birthday in the last issue. SO…. Manordeilo and Salem Community Happy Birthday to Fred Jehan who I am Council has taken a decision to reduce its precept told by a reliable source, celebrated on requirement by £2,000. This has meant that the March 3rd figure has been set at £7,500 for the financial year Birthday Greetings to George Perry. 2012/13. The Community Council hoped that March 4th was George’s special Day. this would send a message to the County Council Happy 2nd Birthday to Cian Hopkins to work within present budgetary limits, bearing whose celebrated on March 7th in mind the wider economic pressures on households. A Very Happy Birthday to Matthew Owain Jones. On March 12th Matthew WANTED became ONE YEAR OLD! Items of interest, stories, anecdotes, clean jokes, Happy 80th Birthday Tommy Thomas! poems. You know the kind of thing - what you’d expect to find in a small community newsletter. Tommy celebrated on March 15th I know there are poets out there, so why not share Birthday Wishes to Kitty Dawson. Kitty’s your masterpieces with the rest of us! Most of us birthday was on March 16th enjoy a good joke, so who’s hanging on to all of those! Everyone must have a story to tell, so tell Birthday Greetings to Aggie Smith, who it to us. Come on - don’t leave it all up to me! celebrated on March 18th Submissions to Happy Birthday to Basil Forrester who also [email protected] or just hand them to Russ or Maureen. celebrated on March 18th Birthday Greetings to Edith O’Donahue who Salem Short Mat Bowls celebrated on March 26th The Salem SMBC has just completed the Happy Birthday to Mary Kindred & Ruth Carmarthenshire 2011-12 Winter League fixtures Chard. April 1st is when they celebrated. in Division 1, finishing 5th on 76 points. Third was Birthday Greetings to Maureen Clifford who Llandyfaelog B 78 points, 4th Llandyfaelog A 77 points. Llandboidy A were top, Meinciau Sports has a Special Birthday this April 19th. 2nd. Many Happy Returns of the Day to Over the previous two years the club Alexander Davies. April 23rd is the special achieved 78 points to finish 3rd, so members are pleased with the standard of play throughout the day for him. season. Congratulations to Val & Basil Forrester The club was knocked out of the County on the birth of their 5th grandchild. Knockout Cup by Llanyfaelog by one shot, but there was success in the County Fours Frederick Jacob Forrester (Freddie) was Competition. Salem's Peter Lees, Richard Palmer, born on 29th February this year and weighed Basil Forrester and Mark Lees winning the in at 7lb 8oz. We imagine that parents championship and will now collect the trophy at a presentation dinner on 4 May. Emma & Ian are pretty chuffed! The club were also successful in the County A Very Happy Birthday to Tomos Rees who Triples. John Matthews, Gavin Matthews and Debs becomes 10 years old on April 23rd Matthews finishing 3rd. The teams then represented Carmarthenshire against other Welsh A Speedy Recovery is wished to John Beedie Counties at Llandrindod Wells. who recently received hospital treatment after a One game still to play is the annual Charity nasty fall. Get well soon John! Triples at the end of April at Bro Myrddin Bowls Stadium. Welcome to Salem, Chris & Chris Parrott Club nights still continue throughout the who recently moved into Rhoslan. We hope summer on Wednesday evenings 7pm - 9pm at you will be very happy here. Salem Memorial Hall and new members are always welcome. Take a look at the Salem Village Congratulations to Fiona & Colin Price on website for more details. www.salemvillage.org.uk the birth of their second child. Lilly Mair Price was born prematurely on 10th April and BINGO dates for 2012 weighed just 2 lb 11 oz. The family, including 21stApril - 19th May - 23rd June - 28th July 25th August - 22nd September - 20th October nanny Ann Price, great grandmother Doreen 17th November - 15th December Moyle and brother Max are all hoping that Lilly Every effort will be made to adhere to these Mai will be able to come home to them very dates, but if it becomes necessary to change, soon. we will give as much notice as possible. Members enjoyed the slide COMPUTER show by Mr Tony Birdwood CORNER about the Heart of Wales Line in February and at least two Love ‘em or hate ‘em, members have had an you just can’t ignore enjoyable day out to Microsoft. They have been Shrewsbury with free travel passes, (now responsible for some excellent finished for the season) since the meeting. software and recently gave us In February we were pleased to welcome Windows 7, the best pc operating system Denise Patcliffe, a former member who came ever. Since using Windows 7, my computer to give us some help and advice with one of has only crashed on one occasion, whereas the classes in this summers show. We all had with previous versions, two or three crashes a go at making cut outs and printing with some per week was the norm. very good results. I suppose then, that I was a fan of the Merle and Chris were on a high having Microsoft corporation and that is why, when won the table tennis the month before. They they offered me the chance to build and won a £10 prize in the County 200 club in manage a website, using OLSB, for just March and Merle was just out of the prize winners in the Dominoes at the White Hart. £8.50 per year with the first two years free, A car load of members will attend the I jumped at the chance. As the cost was so Spring Council Meeting on 30th April at St reasonable and it was felt that the website Peters Civic Hall. The speaker will be Jane and email facilities would be an asset to the Robinson, author of "A Force to be Reckoned community, the Salem Residents With", a best seller. Association agreed to pay for OLSB. Also, a number of the members have I opened an account and for the first 2 ½ booked places on the County trip to Clyne years everything went quite well. The Gardens on the 17th May. website builder was very easy to use and the On the 19th March, Julie and Elizabeth emailing suite was proving to be very useful held their first meeting in the cosy Hall at for keeping the community in touch. Llandyfan, Trap, as hostesses. A Very Then, at the end of January this year, amusing vicar’s wife as speaker and a very MS announced they would be discontinuing good poetry reading by Llandeilo WI as the OLSB and that all websites using the entertainers. Congratulations Liz and Julie on package would be closed down! But it was a very good first meeting. ok because we could sign up to the new The speaker of the April meeting in Office365 and that would cost just £5 or £6 Salem will be a butcher who will be giving us per month! Huh? We are being offered a a chicken boning demonstration and in May website builder which I am led to believe is we shall be having a games night which nothing like as good as the existing one and proved very popular last year. As always new members are always welcome. a suite of programs for which we have no need. And all this for just £60 odd per MANORDEILO AND SALEM annum! So I must say to MS, ‘Thanks - but COMMUNITY COUNCIL no thanks!’. Among the organisations to receive I’m sure an email client as good as Live financial donations from Manordeilo and Mail can be found and that that it shouldn’t Salem Community Council during the be too difficult to build a new, but more financial year 2011-12 were WRVS for Maes costly, website with a different web host. But Elfryn Luncheon Club, Wales Air I can’t forgive MS for the aggravation they Ambulance, Carmarthenshire Federation of have caused me and millions of others who Young Farmers’ Clubs, Macmilan Cancer thought their websites and communication Care, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Urdd facilities were safe for many years to come. Gobaith Cymru, Victim Support, Eisteddfod Now, who knows how to back up all the Genedlaethol Cymru Bro Morgannwg, Y Lloffwr, Carmarthen and District Youth website data, emails, contacts etc? Opera and Llangadog Ladies Tug of War UPDATE 12.04.2012 - Team. SOMEONE’S ALREADY DONE IT ALL! Another Great Evening! Box Tops for Books Cylch Meithrin Ffairfach would be very The second of the ‘Chilled-out Whist’ grateful if you could donate your Nestlé sessions took place on Saturday, March 10th cereal box top tokens to them as they are and a very enjoyable evening it turned out to registered with the ‘FREE Books for Schools’ be. Five tables were playing and while the scheme. There are 19 varieties of cards were falling well for some, others cereals to choose from, so there must be struggled to find decent hands. But that’s the something there you like! way of all card games, isn’t it! You win some, Tesco Vouchers you lose some. Would you please also consider Not all 24 hands were played and it was collecting and donating Tesco for Schools decided to stop playing at 9:00 pm. We did & Clubs Vouchers. These will be used to obtain much needed equipment to help with however, play more hands than on the first the education and fitness of our young evening and that can only mean that the not-so- ones. confident are getting more confident! Also, please could you donate your The next session will take place on April empty printer ink cartridges to them as they 14th and it is hoped that ‘someone’ will make are a means of generating funds for the a note of who won what, because they school. obviously forgot this time! Eryl, Elin or Peter Harries, Maureen or March BINGO Russ Hopkins will be only too pleased to take them off your hands, or you can leave them 27th March saw another very in the Hall for us to collect. successful session at the Hall with 32 players Diolch yn fawr/Thank you very much all hoping to make an appearance in the winners circle. But not everybody can be a QUIET SENSIBLE COB (13.3HH) winner and, as is to be expected, there were AVAILABLE TO HACK OUT IN SALEM AREA. lots more unlucky players than lucky ones. One corner in particular did very well SUITABLE FOR HORSE-WISE YOUNG but the official secrets act of 1989 forbids PERSON ABLE TO RIDE OUT ALONE OR that the names of the lucky persons be FOR LIGHTWEIGHT ADULT. revealed. Isn’t that right, Bernard and crew! THE PONY ALSO DRIVES. The usual thanks go out to the people PLEASE PHONE BIDDY who donated raffle prizes, supplied and FOR MORE DETAILS served the refreshments and those stalwarts 07890795293 (day) who set up the tables and put them away or 01558 822601 (eves). when all was done. Also thanks to those who ensured the hall was left in a clean and tidy state. LINE DANCING Financial breakdown Income from Bingo & Raffle £240.00 is back in Salem! Less Bingo & Raffle Prizes & Food £163.00 7:00 pm at The Hall Balance banked 31.03.2012 £ 77.00 On Mondays £3 for 1 hour session The committee of the Get Strutting, Salem Memorial Hall and Institute wish to thank Brian Carroll for Have Fun & Get Fit! auditing the year 2011 accounts. We just know you’ll love it

CHILLED-OUT WHIST! A bunch of Salem residents have been getting together to play a relaxed game of Progressive Whist on a ‘roughly once a month’ basis. The evenings are aimed at the more casual card player, but of course, everyone is more than welcome to take part. All the rules of the game are followed - it’s just that we play in a more relaxed manner. No worries, no sweat! So far, the evenings have proved to be a popular social event. So if you fancy a ‘nice game of cards and a cuppa’, just come along and join in the fun. We’d love to have you get involved. Dates of the sessions will be announced in the usual way; by email and word of mouth. Spice

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