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At times it has felt as though the various building works in the village will never end. There have been some mishaps with the high number of heavy duty vehicles coming in and out including the dislodging of part of the beautifully constructed slate wall built around the Memorial Garden. The Company involved have agreed to pay for repairs. Contractors are reminded that there is a 20 m.p.h. speed limit in the village.

Llangrannog Community Council has given £100 to the Welfare Committee for its general activities.

The situation regarding the sea wall is deemed unsatisfactory and it has been agreed to forward copies of all our correspondence to Llangrannog Community Council.

Alun Jones, Community Policeman, is working with CAVO to establish funding for the Park and Ride Project, which, in its trial over the May Bank Holiday weekend, carried 500 passengers.

£175 was given to Crannog Mini Minors by the Welfare Committee to fund their prize giving evening.

On a visit to Llangrannog recently, J.P.R. Williams signed a ball which Pete and Jan from Siop Glynafon have donated to the Welfare Committee as a future raffle prize.

There is currently an exhibition at the Urdd Centre celebrating the opening of the Ceredigion Coast Path. Many local artists have created and will be exhibiting pieces of art on the theme ‘The Coast’, including Janet Baxter, Helen Booth, Andie Clay, Alistair Crawford, Kathryn Dodd, Helen Elliott, Phil Jones, Sarah Jones, Karen Pearce, John Rees, Dilwyn Roberts, Paula Rylatt, Lizzie Spikes, Dot Thomas, and Henry Thomas. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. until the 25^th July.

At a recent meeting in the Ship, attended by eight local people and supported by others who couldn’t attend on the night, it was agreed to re-form the Longboat Club.

The cost of getting a boat, with trailer and blades, on to the water is about £8,000 and so far some £3,100 has been promised in sponsorship. Kevin Brown will be opening a bank account and applying for grants on behalf of the Club, and the hope is to have a boat on the water next March (2009). If interested in either sponsoring or joining the Club please contact Kevin Brown in the first instance (654394).

During the summer months there may be some alteration to group meetings in the Village. Please make sure you check before coming for a group.

Bica Surf Club (first Tuesday of each month in the Beach Hut. Pob Thomas 07950 568 538

Cyd Group (1^st and 3^rd Wednesdays of the month, 7.30 in the Pentre. Contact Philippa or Nic 654561)

The Welfare Committee usually meets on the second Thursday of each month; contact Philippa 654561 for information.

During the summer, the Cardi Bach bus leaves Llangrannog at 10.53 and 15.53 for New Quay, and at 12.35 and 17.35 for Cardigan.

Items of clothing left on the beach, or washed up by the tide, are being cleaned and taken to a charity shop. If you find any clothes, please don’t bin them (which sends them to landfill) but leave them at the top of the beach and they’ll be picked up. If anyone has clothes left in a holiday cottage, take them to Anne at Bodawen who will ensure they go to charity.

No travelling involved! Jane and Debbie in Y Caban have a re-cycling box, and the ‘phones will be taken to Ty Hafan, the Children’s Hospice, who will receive funds for each one handed in. Remove the SIM card first!

Local Artist Barry Arnold is willing to run one day courses for local interested people or groups, if a sufficient number of people contact him. 01239 654884.

Rob Davies, Car Park attendant at the Ship Car Park in Llangrannog, was happy to take the £3.50 car park fee last Tuesday from a very smart Audi which swept into the parking area, closely followed by a Range Rover. Three men enjoyed some fish and chips while apparently waiting. Rob, also known as Dux, was astonished to see that they were waiting for Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, who had been walking along the Ceredigion Coastal Path with a lady-in-waiting, and after arriving in Llangrannog had a snack in The Patio Cafe on the sea front. Tuesday was a rest day in the heavy schedule of commitments that the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall had undertaken in Wales during their five-day stay. Rob was so delighted with his customers in the Car Park that he provided a huge grin and salute to his royal visitor when she left.

On Saturday 12th April a film crew came to the village to film a reconstruction of last summer's beach rescue. Photographs with thanks to Martin Greig.

Llangrannog has no more of a litter problem than any other village which vastly multiplies in size during the holiday season. But we do have a beach and a village which we want to keep clean and tidy.

Members of the Boat Club clean up the beach regularly. They do a fantastic job, but even the next day you wouldn’t think that they’d been at work. The tide deposits more flotsam, picked up from other beaches, or thrown overboard from boats, and our beach gets its share all over again. The bio-degradable material is unimportant, but the plastic is horrible. If left to go back out to sea it can end up destroying marine life anywhere from here to the South Pacific. If you don’t believe this look at the Modbury experience, which stemmed from people seeing films of dead birds and animals who have choked on plastic bags and bits of plastic in the sea. See http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1717476.ece

In addition, numbers of individuals in Llangrannog pick up litter around the lanes, and also dog mess. We would rather the dog owners cleared up their mess, but we also don’t want the visitors to have to endure it. Then, a couple of times a year there is a “Codi Swbriel” or “Litter Pick”, when the village turns out to do a massive tidy up. We did one just before Easter and will do one later in the year.

Each year the various litter pickers fill dozens of black sacks with rubbish. The key to cutting this down is to ask everyone, resident or visitor, to join the litter-pickers of Llangrannog and help keep the village clean and tidy. So ...

Don’t drop it, bin it!

If you see litter, pick it up and bin it!

If you see someone drop litter, ask them to bin it!

Remind people at the point of sale to bin rubbish!

THE keys to Capel Crannog were officially handed over to the people of Llangrannog by the chapel trustees this week.

The premises, which are a gift to the village, are to be developed into a community, arts and activity centre.

Chairman of the Canolfan Crannog steering committee, Aled Roberts said: "The village is extremely grateful to the trustees for their kind gift and we are now ready to start the work of achieving a centre that will reflect the wealth of enthusiasm and creativity that is an integral part of this area.

"There have already been many stimulating and diverse ideas put forward and the aim now is to realise the vision to establish Canolfan Crannog and to further develop and secure sources to finance this venture."

It is intended to re-develop the church, which was built in 1889, the vestry and the chapel house. Further plans will be unveiled during the next few months.