Clwb Maglona Club

THE MAGLONA Club (Machynlleth Senior Citizens Club), will celebrate its 10th anniversary on 23 June. In recognition of this, a celebration party will take place in the Bowling Club on that date. It is hoped all the members will be able to attend to mark this milestone.

Bowls

RECEIVING his first full Welsh cap in 1998, Machynlleth’s Andrew Fleming has been selected for his 18th season with the Welsh Elite Squad for this season’s internationals. He will be joined by Robert Weale (Presteigne) and Mark Weaver (Montgomery), while Newtown’s Mark Jones and Llandrindod Wells’ Luke Har-wood are reserves.In the Montgomeryshire County League Division One, Machynlleth (5 pts.) bounced back from last week’s two-shot defeat at Kerry to claim a home victory over Welshpool (2 pts.) by 12 shots on Thursday, 2 July.They will play Kerry in the second round of the county league cup thanks to a first-round walkover against Llanfair Caereinion.Maglona, however, lost their first round two-leg tie to Aberdyfi by 135 shots to 96.Meanwhile, the club’s ladies have made a great start to their Montgomeryshire Ladies’ Wednesday League campaign, beating Llanidloes 10-6 and Guilsfield 20-10.

Pool

THE MACHYNLLETH and District Summer Pool League 2016 kicked off recently with Slaters securing the week’s highest score courtesy of a convincing 12-3 victory over Llanbrynmair. The rest of the first round’s results were: Skinners A 11; Skinners B 4; Dwynant 5; Llew Coch 10; Llew Coch Ladies 5; Rugby Club 10; Bowling Club bye.

Carnival Disco/Auction

COME along and support your local carnival at a carnival disco and auction in the community hall at Plas Machynlleth on Saturday, June 18, at 8pm. Entry tickets cost £5 each and can be purchased at the Plas (phone 01654 702571).The auction will include a Portmeirion family ticket, two tickets for the Glen Miller Story at Venue Cymru, Coasteering, a family ticket for Greenwood and many more items.Mach MaethlonEDIBLE Mach Maethlon held a successful event at Machynlleth Train Station on Thursday, June 2. All attending were able to learn about unusual edibles such as Quinoas, Wasabis and Orcas as well as overhauling the beds.Gardening evenings have been arranged on 15 June, in the Tasty Tunnel and 22 June, at the Show Allotment.

Garden Club

MACHYNLLETH & District Garden Club would like to thank all who contributed to the success of their recent plant sale. They are planning a coach trip on Tuesday, 14 June, from Machynlleth to the renowned Cae Hir Gardens, near Lampeter. The cost is £15 and the trip is open to members and non-members alike. Anyone interested should contact the Chairman, Elise Payne, on 01654 702853 for further details.

Probus

JOHN Hoyle was elected vice chairman at the recent Dyfi Probus AGM. John, a former chairman of the group, had been intent on keeping a low profile but decided to volunteer as nobody else had thrown their hat into the ring.It might be thought that a dentist, with a talk entitled “A History of Dentistry”, would be enough to put any group on edge; especially their teeth. However, members’ fears were calmed without anaesthetic when Illtyd Griffiths delivered his very interesting and entertaining talk at the May meeting.He told of the Etruscans who used gold wire to try to adjust an existing tooth sideways in order to fill a space left by a missing tooth. The first simple tooth drill where, once a hole was excavated, it was then stuffed with herbs. In the middle ages, dentistry was undertaken by monks who would hold a patient’s head between their knees and nag at the tooth for ages before it was loose enough to come out. When Queen Elizabeth 1 was suffering in 1602, one of her advisors had his own tooth extracted in order to convince her to have hers removed. Upper and lower dentures connected by springs were in fashion in the 1700s, but made it virtually impossible to eat or speak. By the 1840s, teeth were extracted, painfully, at fairs and the poor were selling their teeth to the rich for use on dentures. All of this, before the introduction of ‘laughing gas’ as an anaesthetic.Afterwards, members spoke with great feeling about their own experiences before Richard Stoner gave the vote of thanks.June’s speaker is Tia Jones who returns to Probus with a talk on ‘Writing’. This time she arrives with a Deputy Lord Lieutenancy under her belt.On Ladies Day, 26 July, Naomi Jones will speak on Snowdonia National Park.

Rotary

THE Machynlleth Rotary Club were pleased to assist at the re-opening of Cemmaes Village playground on Friday, which was well attended and pro-vided a great spectacle for both young, and young at heart. On Wednesday, 8 June, Rotary are providing an afternoon tea party at the Day hospital to commemorate the Queen’s 90th birthday and will be presenting new mugs for all to enjoy their daily cuppa!Royal British Legion Machynlleth MEMBERS met at the Bowling Club on 3 May, when the meeting was opened by Stephen Doyle, the Vice Chairman and the Exhortation was given in English by Anthony Jones, and in Welsh by Eufyl Williams Secretary Anthony, said that 13 people had put their names down to go on the Annual Trip to Bodelwythan Castle on 18 June, for Armed Forces Day. Ifan Price Edwards from the RWF said about 10 of his members interested in going, and Anthony said to wait till next month for the final figure.A church service will be held on 26 June, at St Peter’s Church at 11am to mark the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Letters of invite to the Machynlleth Town Council, the RWF, and the Machynlleth Cadets, all are welcome to bring their standards.Mach Carnival - There was a suggestion for members to dress as land girls, or the home guard, and organiser Stephen Doyle suggested a sub-com-mittee to meet before the next meeting to consider all ideas.The ‘Name the Teddy fund-raiser’ organiser Evelyn Jones, told members that this would be on Wednesday, 15 June, at the Co-op from 10am to 4pm. This years’ fundraiser is ‘give Winnie the Pooh another name’.Anthony Jones told members that part of his Town Council work now is to represent One Voice Wales, Montgomeryshire Committee on the War Memorials Project Committee. Ifan Price Edwards told members that Fusilier Bruce Mckay of the 7th Montgomershire Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers from Pennal has never received his war medals. These were the Victory Medal, Defence Medal, and the NW Europe Star. Bruce, who is now over 90 years old, left the army in 1948. Ifan Price Edwards told the members that he sent for the medals and upon receiving them he presented them to Bruce Mckay.There was no further business and the meeting ended with the Kohima Epitaph.