Pwllgor Bro Ingli Cancer Research Committee

9:25am Thursday 2nd July 2009

On Wednesday June 24th a successful strawberry tea and raffle was held at the Golden Lion. It was a beautiful sunny day and the conservatory and garden was the perfect setting. Many thanks to Darren and Christina and staff for their help. The sum of £627 was raised.

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Newport Music Society

1:15pm Tuesday 2nd June 2009

Newport Music Society’s inspiring summer concert takes place at Tregwynt Mansion on Saturday June 13th.

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90th birthday donation

9:52am Tuesday 19th May 2009

Her gratefulness to Morriston Hospital for giving back her independence spurred Mrs May Davies, Awel Deg, Newport to make it known to family and friends that any monetary gifts received by her on her 90th birthday would go to the Cardiac Unit at that hospital.

WRVS Meals on Wheels Newport.

2:18pm Monday 18th May 2009

Sue Wells and two of her team of volunteers ready to deliver meals to the elderly and vulnerable members of Newport community.

Music at the Bay Spring Festival : Ramapo Mountain with Nadine and Andy Highfield.

2:18pm Thursday 30th April 2009

Ramapo Mountain, singing Blue Grass and folk music, will feature at the Marquee on the Parrog at 12.30 pm on Sunday, 3rd May. "The name Ramapo Mountain comes from the area in the Appalachians in Northern New Jersey where I grew up," says Nadine. Blue Grass has been influenced in style, but not in material, by jazz and blues. The Scots-Irish traditional music of the Southern Appalachian Mountains has evolved into Bluegrass music . Nadine explains that, "Blue Grass is acoustic and usually features unamplified mandolin, and fiddle and does not use electric instruments. It is a natural sound." Bluegrass has come to symbolise an older and less industrialised America and is often used as back up music on films and television. I remember the films Deliverance, Bonny and Clyde and the television series The Beverley Hill Billies. Much that does appear on film or television is an indifferent version of Bluegrass. The influx of Welsh immigrants from the coal mines of Wales also became absorbed into both the culture and music of the areas where Bluegrass developed.

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Brynberian News goes on-line

10:06am Thursday 30th April 2009

The Brynberian News is now available, either in English or Welsh, to those in the area who wish to receive the Newsletter via e-mail. After a hiccup, for some readers who could not open one edition, followed by an apology by the busy editor Nikki Beken, the Newsletter now seems to be up and running. Nikki writes that she is "using a different programme this time with, hopefully, a better result." This addition to the print edition is another imaginative move by the Brynberian Community Hall Management Committee who rescued an old school and refurbished it as a Community Hall which is now at the heart of the area. The events attract audiences, usually to bi-lingual speakers, in numbers which reward the effort and imagination behind this venture. Nikki Beken, and the others who support this enterprise, are already busy people and Nikki welcomes information on events in the area which she could include in the Brynberian News at nikki.beken@tesco.net.

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Meet your local authors at the Newport Bay Spring Festival

9:23am Tuesday 28th April 2009

The Marqeeon The Parrog: Sat 2nd to Monday 4th May, 10pm to 4.30pm This year the Newport Bay Spring Festival will be bringing together over a dozen local authors who will be signing their work in the marquee on the Parrog from Saturday 2nd May to Monday 4th May.

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Talk on the Ty Canol Woods area

1:32pm Monday 20th April 2009

Hedd Ladd-Lewis, on Saturday 18th April, followed by a throng of adults, a few children, a variety of dogs and a pet lamb, began his much anticipated talk on the Ty Canol Woods area. The talk, arranged by the Brynberian Community Hall Committee, gathered below Carnedd Meibion Owen. "Despite the interest we never expected as many people," said Sandra Llewellyn in her introduction. The numbers grew while she spoke as people continued to arrive. Hedd Ladd-Lewis is an expert with a passion for his subject and an admirable ability to communicate to an audience. Under an April sun and cloudless sky the walkers, most from the Brynberian area, enjoyed perfect weather for the walk. Even as natives of Brynberian they gained fresh insights into this ancient region of history, myth and magic. Hedd, with his own family roots deep in the area, spoke first in Welsh (the language of most of those present) before translating into English. He spoke of his admiration for the ancient people, including those of the New Stone Age (the builders of Pentre Ifan Cromlech); the farmers desperately grubbing an existence over hundreds of years and those who sacrificed and lost so much during the First World War. He referred to the use of the trees of the area to build ships in Napoleonic times, pit props in the First World War and to sustain "the madness" of the trenches. Iron Age people valued iron so much, that it was only used in the life and death business of battle. In the Iron Age the massive rocks were moved and defensive walls erected by muscle power and with no use of iron tools. In ancient times the forest stretched about thirty miles into what is now the Irish Sea before it flooded during an earlier episode of global warming. In local cultures the inflow of water is recorded in the myths and legends.

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