Pontarddulais Walking Club

After several weekends of rain which saw walks cancelled the club were finally blessed with some summer sunshine during last weeks trek. As always and true to form club secretary Mr Alan Richards led the group to a classic walk from Llandeilo to Carreg Cennen. Club members then had a stunning lunch stop at the base of Carreg Cennen castle. The group then followed the riverside path of the Afon Cennen through the picturesque village of Trapp back to its confluence with the River Towy at Llandeilo.

Fundraising for Air Ambulance.

The Red Lion in Hendy will be 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. There will be live entertainment over the weekend including artists like Jay Miller, Teri Dean and Nick Skinner.

Annual Hog Roast

The annual Pig Roast and entertainment will be held in a marquee in the Pontarddulais show ground on Friday 24^th August at 7.30pm, Tickets will cost £7.50 with all the proceeds in aid of the Leukaemia Fund Wales, the special guest and compere for the evening will be Swansea Sounds Kevin Jones, there will be a licensed bar available, the event is being organised by Gorseinons Barclays bank manager Kevin Logg, for further details and tickets rin 01792  882334 or 883580

Traffic Issues

After the traffic calming scheme introduced by the county, there have been a number of meetings about safety issues regarding buses and bus stops, last week the highways officer John Mcenvoy arranged with the bus company First Cymru to come to a site meeting with Nia Griffith MP and local residents, there were three locations to discuss, the first was the junction of Harleyford Road, under the traffic scheme, the junction was extended outwards into the main road with islands added outside the undertakers to improve visability, with the halt sign now past the pavement as the bus company were approaching the bus stop, their near side wheels are crossing over the halt sign as they approach the pavement and some near misses with vehicles on harlyeford road have occured, it was decided to extend the pavement into the white hashed no parking zone, so that buses do not cut drivers up as they approach the junction, the second bus stop issue was near the new mini roundabout by the rugby club, when this was installed the well used bus stop that served the oap complex was removed and never replaced, the bus company agreed to replace the bus stop by sighting it in the parking bay outside the rugby club, the third bus stop that was visited was opposite the old doctors surgery, there is a bus stop sign post on the church side of the road which clearly states bus stop both sides of the road, but some drivers are refusing to stop to pick passengers up and on several occassions, they have taken passengers to the harleyford road junction before stopping, the operations manager assured residents that drivers are aware of the stop and if these incidents continue, he would like it reported on the day it happens, so that the company could deal with the driver on duty.    

Hendy Post Office

The Hendy post office held an official opening day of its new refit last week, to celebrate they offered regular customers a free raffle and they also donated a mountain bike towards a raffle to help raise funds for Hendy Pool, This raffle will be drawn on Monday