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WENVOE VILLAGE SHOW

WENVOE VILLAGE SHOW
Saturday 9 September, St Mary’s Church Hall

This is Wenvoe’s own local show and offers an excellent opportunity for some friendly, fun competition. Will your fruit and veg be the talk of the village? Is your baking a triumph? You don’t have to be an expert; you just need to enter.

The show is limited to entries from people who live in the Wenvoe community (Wenvoe, Twyn-yr- Odyn, St Lythans and Dyffryn) and children who attend the village school.

Entries to be registered at St Mary’s Church Hall between 8.30am and 11.00am on Saturday morning (for those who have other commitments on Saturday morning there will be a limited time slot to register entries between 6.00pm and 7.30pm on Friday evening 8th September but this WILL NOT INCLUDE CULINARY ENTRIES). The hall will then be closed between 11.00am and 1.00pm for the judging to take place. The public will be welcome to come and view the exhibits between 1.00pm and 4.00pm. From 3.00pm there will be a chance to sample the culinary entries for yourself. There will be a raffle (raffle prizes would be very gratefully received) and this will be drawn at 3.30pm.

If you wish to reclaim your entries, they should be collected between 4.00pm and 4.30pm.

Entry fee – £1 for the first entry and 50p for all subsequent entries per person. You may enter as many sections as you wish but the maximum number of entries per person in any one section of a category is two. Items entered in previous Wenvoe Village Shows are acceptable but only if they have previously failed to win a prize. If you would like to help on the day or have any queries, please speak to Mike or Glenys Tucker.

Money raised from this event will be donated to the St Mary’s Church building fund. Please support this local event in any way you can.

In conjunction with the Wenvoe Village Show there will be a Teddy Bears Picnic in St Mary’s Church grounds opposite, between 1.00pm and 4.00pm. Bring your own refreshments and teddy bears. There will be games for children and fellowship for all, in between popping over to the church hall to admire the exhibits. St Mary’s Church will also be open. Come, relax and enjoy the beautiful area in the centre of the village.

 

 

 

COMMUNITY HUB NEWS AUG 2023

WENVOE COMMUNITY HUB

Tel: 02920 594176 – during opening hours or wenvoelibrary@outlook.com

Like and follow us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/WenvoeCommunityLibrary

For general enquiries you can email us at wenvoelibrary@outlook.com

Summer Reading Challenge 2023

How to take part through the Hub:

  1. Tell us that your child would like to take part in the Summer Reading Challenge.
  2. We will get you signed up and give you a special reading record, which also has instructions on how to access fun reading activities online.
  3. The challenge is for your child to read six books over the holidays.
  4. Your child can borrow and read books, e-Books, and audiobooks of their choice. They can read anything they like: fiction, fact books, poetry, joke books, picture books and graphic novels all count towards completing the Challenge!
  5. We will provide special incentives along the way.
  6. Your child will receive a certificate for reaching their Challenge goal.
  7. There will be a special prize for each child who has read more than six books over the holidays.

 

Additional Summer Opening Hours

The Library will be open on Thursdays over the summer break for adults and children who wish to continue with their Sumer Reading Challenge or wish to sign up for it if they have not already done so.

The Hub will also be open. Don’t forget that as well as hot drinks we also have ice-creams, lollies etc. on sale.

We also have lots of new children’s books, plus toys, jigsaws, puzzles and games to amuse adults as well as little ones.

The opening days are 27th July, 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st August from 11.00am – 1.00pm

 

BFI Replay – 60 years of screen stories digitised and preserved just for you.

Exclusively available to UK Public lending libraries, BFIReplay is a FREE resource for users to browse and enjoy for leisure or study. There are thousands of digitised videos and television programmes from the collections of the BFI National Archive and UK regions and nations film archives, alongside contributions from other significant archives such as BBC and ITV.

The videos span six decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s, offering a glimpse into Britain’s past, its people, and places; recording and revealing an era of rapid social, industrial, political, and technological change. You can be sure of lots of nostalgic Welsh content too. To access the platform just click on the BFIReplay icon on the Library Hub PC desktop.

 

Date for your diary

Cuppa with a Coppa: 2:30pm Wednesday 30th August.

 

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE AUGUST 2023

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE AUGUST 2023

Wenvoe WI completed their year’s monthly meetings tonight in style, with a cream tea. The Speaker was Mrs Vivian Turan from St Nicholas, an antiques enthusiast. Mrs Turan brought along a dozen antiques of various kinds, from china cups to a mundane picture hook, as well as two boxed Dinkie toys and a Royal Doulton figurine. Our members’ tasks were to asses them, date them and price each article, while Mrs Turan regaled us with tales surrounding each item.

Although tonight’s meeting is the final meeting of the WI year, we have decided to hold two informal meetings through the Summer so members can stay in touch. The first is a members lunch in the Walston Castle on 18th July. The second meeting is an open Coffee morning in the Church Hall at 10 am on 15th August to which any ‘tasters’ / prospective members are welcome.

This year marks the centenary of the Glamorgan Federation of Women’s Institutes, and on 4th July, Wenvoe WI held a Garden Party at the home of a member, Mrs Judy Marsh, as phase one of our commemorating that event. Phase two will comprise members planting 100 daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Wenvoe Church in late September.

Wenvoe WI meets regularly at 7.00pm in the Church Hall on the first Thursday of each month, beginning a new year on 7th September, when we shall be holding ‘Floral Evening’, courtesy of ‘Daisy Chain’ from Sully.

New members and ‘tasters’ are always most welcome.

Jan Young (President)

 

WARD COUNCILLOR UPDATE

WARD COUNCILLOR

RUSSELL GODFREY COLUMN

I have now received confirmation that the installation of the outdoor exercise equipment at Station Road Playing Fields, will commence around the third week of August

Also, by the time you read this, I should have received confirmation of how to book the revamped tennis courts. I will put this information on all the community group sites and also at the Village Shop.

The new refuse collection rules continue to raise concerns from the residents of the VOG. To this end I had an article published in the Glamorgan Star (14th July edition) confirming your concerns and the poor response from the Leader of the VOG.

I was recently invited to the opening of the marketing suite at the new Glenburnie Care Home, which plans to open in November. The facilities there will include a cinema, gym and ensuite rooms, all furnished to a very high standard. This is going to be another excellent facility within our area.

Finally, I am pleased to inform you, that I successfully applied on behalf of Wenvoe Playgroup (where I am Chairman) for a grant of £2,500 for a new shed to store play equipment.

If you have any issues/suggestions please do not hesitate to contact me or pop along to one of my monthly surgeries. The third Saturday of every month at the Community Centre between 10.00am & 11.00am.

Tel: 07927588924 or Email: regodfrey@valeof glamorgan .gov.uk

 

Planning Updates August 2023

Planning Updates August 2023

 

The following applications have been approved by the Vale Council.

    • The Laurels 6 Walston Rd. Side and rear extensions. Approved.
    • The Walled Garden. Approval sought to extend existing permission for an extension. Approved
    • Burger King. Culverhouse Cross Retail Park. Recladding and new signage. Approved.

     

    The area around the new Hub patio has now been reseeded while some of the surrounding trees have been cutback to prevent encroachment into neighbouring properties. Discussions are taking place with the owner of the adjacent ‘conifer’ hedge in an attempt to reach an agreement on the way forward over this rather unsightly area.

    A request has been received to allow a fast-food van to be sited in the Community Centre car park for several hours a day. After discussion on the impact this would have on parking facilities, Council rejected the proposal.

    Following the Vale Council decision to close some facilities at the Alps, the Hub has agreed to take over the distribution of recycling bags and boxes once they have storage facilities. Quotes are being sought to upgrade the storage sheds at the rear of the Community Centre for this and other usages.

CARDIFF’S ROALD DAHL – BEYOND THE GIANT PEACH (Part 1)

CARDIFF’S ROALD DAHL – BEYOND THE GIANT PEACH (Part 1)

Cardiff City fan, supporter of the Norwegian Church and Fighter Pilot!

When Roald Dahl was born, on 13th September 1916, he was named after the first man to reach the South Pole. His Norwegian father, Harald, came to Cardiff to seek his fortune in the late 19th-century coal-mining boom. He made money in shipping and built his own substantial home, Villa Marie on Fairwater Road, where Roald was born. Now renamed Ty Gwyn, there is a blue plaque on the garden wall.

Harald died in 1920 and was buried in St John’s Church in Danescourt. His widow and six children lived in what is now the nursery of Howell’s School Llandaff for most of the 20s, a fact marked by another blue plaque. The family worshipped at the Norwegian Church, then in Cardiff Docks. When the church fell into disrepair in the 1970s, Roald was at the forefront of a campaign to raise money to save it.

As a youngster Roald was a keen Cardiff City fan. The 1920s was a golden era, with the team riding high in the First Division. He recorded fond memories of attending matches with the family gardener Joss Spivis. ‘Every Saturday afternoon, rain or hail or snow or sleet, Joss and I would go to a packed Ninian Park (pictured) to see City play.’ He remembered being passed to the front over the heads of the crowd so that he could see the action.

‘As we rode the 20-minute journey from Llandaff in the big red bus, our excitement began to mount. Joss would tell me about the opposing team and the star players who were going to threaten our heroes. Outside the ground we would stop at a whelk stall that stood near the turnstiles. Joss would have a dish of jellied eels and I would have baked beans and two sausages on a cardboard plate.’ Dahl recorded the names of his favourite players, the legendary Billy Hardy and the giant goalkeeper Tom Farquharson. He may have attended the FA Cup Final in 1927 or listened to the first ever cup final radio commentary, when City became the only team to take the cup out of England, beating the mighty Arsenal 1 – 0.

At the outbreak of World War II, Dahl at 23, was commissioned as a lieutenant into the King’s African Rifles in Tanzania. His heart, however, was 600 miles away in an RAF base in Nairobi where he soon enlisted and trained as a fighter pilot. At 6 feet 6 inches he could barely fit into a cockpit. His air combat career got off to a bad start when he was involved in a near-fatal crash landing after being given the wrong airstrip coordinates. The crash fractured his skull, broke his nose and temporarily blinded him. He only just dragged himself free from the blazing wreckage just before the plane’s fuel tank exploded. Dahl returned to the fray after spending 6 months in the Royal Navy Hospital in Alexandria. He flew a Hawker Hurricane as part of a fighter squadron battling the Nazis near Athens, shooting down a pair of Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88s. On 20 April 1941 he took part in the Battle of Athens, which he described as “an endless blur of enemy fighters whizzing towards me from every side”. Around a third of the British pilots were killed. However severe migraines, caused by his earlier crash, resulted in him being sent home.

When the war ended Dahl was still 16 years away from writing ‘James and the Giant Peach.’ His life after 1945 was no less interesting than before…..but that’s for Part 2

 

 

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