heres my weekly column you will notice under the Hendy pool section that we will be busy next week, the current situation on the process is this, back in December the county council representatives offered the pool committee the pool and park area which would include the tennis courts a chance to lease the area off them for a pound. The committee was also advised by the county to approach the community council to ask them to consider forming a partnership on the lease. 

The community council never said no, but stated they may consider it, subject to a feasibility study and business plan being completed, one of these needed to be done to enable the project managers to apply for any grant, 

The committee with the help of the surveyor employed by the community council drew up a brief  which i added to my blog   

 http://grasscarper.bravejournal.com/archive/05/11/2007,  we sent off to five companies and we had four replies, we met two weeks ago and picked two as a short list and then decided to vote on which company to interview, the number one choice is now coming to discuss their tender, we have found a grant source which we have applied to and if we are successfully a large % of the cost will be met by the grant, we are waiting for a response from the grant before any work is started

below is next weeks column

Hendy Junior School

The recent fundraising activities by the school has seen them raise almost £2000, there school football match against Saron which ended up with a 3-2 score line, this game was followed by an all stars celebrity match against the parents with everybody going back to the rugby club for a function where £800 was raised on the night. The school would like to thank the mayor of Pontarddulais Gail Bateman who attended and won a cash prize which she donated back to the school. The school rugby team have seen a bit of success lately, the Scarlets organised a schools competition which saw the games played down the beach with Hendy winning the Carmarthenshire School’s Beach title.   

Winning Carnival Programme

Every programme has a unique number which is entered into the draw the winning number would be worth £100. The winning number is 1635 and the reserves are 648,   1124,     113,   276,   74,   and 2045. Please Tel 882777 if you have any of the numbers listed

Summer Sensation

Cyngor Tref Pontarddulais town council will be proudly presenting at Coed Bach Park Pontarddulais on Saturday 28^th July gates open at 4pm “Night at the Opera” a Queen tribute concert. They will be supported by an “Elvis tribute” and “2 plus1” 70’s and 80’s music. The event will be compared by D.J. Chris Smithy. Further info and details of the web can be found on the www.pontarddulais.com web site.

Hendy pool committee

Last Tuesday 24^th, the pool committee met again to meet one of the consultant companies that hopefully will be starting the work to do the feasibility study. The firm came to visit the site and then to explain to the committee the time scales and what the consultation process will look like.

Bus Stop Issues

Following the street meeting with the county council and a local surgery with Nia Griffith MP, a meeting with the First Cymru Bus company management has now been agreed. There will be a further site meeting on Friday 27^th July , at the bus stops to discuss bus routes/stops and issues.

Fundraising for Air Ambulance.

The Red Lion in Hendy is holding a two day event on Friday 10^th and Saturday 11^th of August, there will be live entertainment, bouncy castle in the garden, hot dog van, and the event will have an auction and raffle. Paramedics from the Air Ambulance will also be there over the weekend. Hendy pool committee collected gifts to raffle off during the carnival and the stall raised £123, there were some items left over and at last weeks pool committee meeting the committee decided to donated the gifts that were not won to the Red Lions Air Ambulance event.

Miss Wales Earth 2007

Hendy pool committee member Miss Kylie Hearne has entered this competition, Kylie is 21, to support her in the competition final you will need to text MissEW03 and send to 84205 the live final is being held on July 27^th details are on the web at http://www.missearthuk.co.uk/

Pontarddulais Walking Club

Members would like to thank Mr Keith Hopkins for leading last weeks walk. For a change the weather held fine and the group stayed dry during the trek. The group enjoyed the splendid scenery of the Pembrokeshire Coast and the walk entailed a circular trek around St David’s. The fair weather walkers were again conspicuous by their absence. It seems that a few of them are checking on the weather forecast for the day before their travels. The group will be heading shortly for a weekend trek in the county of Devon.