As well as the excellent service available from the village library at Wenvoe, which includes four public PCs with broadband internet access, did you know we also have two mobile libraries which travel the length and breadth of the Vale on a two-week rota? We have several stops around the greater Wenvoe area, at Cambrian Residential Park off

Brooklands Terrace and the Horse & Jockey at Twyn yr Odyn. There are also stops further afield at St Nicholas, Bonvilston and Michaelston le Pit.

Both vans are equipped with a step lift making them fully accessible by less mobile people and carry a good selection of popular fiction and non-fiction for adults and children of all ages, as well as large print books and audio books on cassette and CD.

We regularly visit schools, nurseries, residential homes and sheltered housing complexes and are always willing to consider new stops where two or more residents are willing to commit to using the library on a regular basis. You can use your usual Vale of Glamorgan library card on the mobiles and of course, reservations are now free if we don’t have the books you want on the van.

A full alphabetical timetable is available on the Vale of Glamorgan website on the libraries’ pages, where you will also be able to access our 24-hr Library by using your library card and unique pincode.

Please come along and give thanks for all that is good in our lives and the life of our community.

WENVOE W I

Our main fund-raising event (a Garden Party in aid of LATCH, our chosen charity for 2010) took place at Wrinston on Friday, 30 July. The day began cloudy but clear and we had high hopes that unlikeprevious years, this would really be a GARDEN party, but as members and guests began to gather at  the tables laid out in the garden, a fine drizzle sent everyone indoors. Our thanks to Madeline for organizing the event, to our members who donated the refreshments raffle prizes and items for the sales table, to members of other WIs who attended and to former members Pam and Phyllis who volunteered  their help with teas etc. giving current members theopportunity to have a relaxing afternoon. The amount raised has greatly increased the sum to be presented in September.

NEXT MEETING: Thurs 2 Sept at 7.30pm, the

Community Centre. Speaker from LATCH. Competition: “An interesting postcard” A replacement meeting for one cancelled earlier this year will be a Harvest Supper with invited guests at 7.30pm at the Community Centre on Thurs 23 Sept. 500 CLUB (July) 176 Dunvant “Deep Sea Divers”. 256  Mrs M Jones

GFWI FUTURE EVENTS: Tues 14 Sept Public Affairs Conference, Royal Welsh Showground. Fri 24 Sept “Federation Autumn Walks (2) Dare Valley Country Park. Thurs 30 Sept Dinner with Ray Noble, Hi Tide Inn, Porthcawl

BARRY VALE ROTARY  CLUB NEWS

Many Club members, along with partners, enjoyed a  fundraising tea at Fonmon Castle in July. The event  was organised and hosted by Beppe and Christine Villa in aid of the Rudolf Steiner Camphill Centre for Residential Care, Therapeutic Work and Lifelong Learning. The event, which was very well attended on a pleasant sunny afternoon, raised over  £10,000 for the charity.

The sun also shone on the day of President Ann's garden party for club members and families last month. This very enjoyable get-together raised £200 which was donated to Cancer Research Wales.In response to the Rotary International appeal for emergency aid to Pakistan, following the recent flood disaster, the club donated £150 for the supply of a 'water supply box'. The Rotary Club of Chelwood and four other Bristol clubs are coordinating  this invaluable relief programme.

District Governor Donna Wallbank and her husband Steve visited the club last month on her tour around the 71 Rotary clubs in district 1150. In her enthusiastic address she referred to the great work done by Rotary clubs world-wide and, in particular, the 'End Polio Now' campaign which is three quarters of the way to reaching the target of £200m.

The Bill Gates Foundation has pledged to double the figure when the target is reached – a huge incentive! onna also passionately referred to Mary's Meals – the international movement to set up school feeding  projects in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. Mary's Meals provides free daily meals for chronically  hungry children in their own school. In this way the hungry child is encouraged to attend school and get the opportunity to learn. Through the organisation's local volunteers and bulk purchasing of basic food,  £9 provides enough food for a child for a year.

Further details can be obtained from the Mary's  Meals website. Past President Stan Elworthy will be taking part in the Great North Run again next month raising  money for Cancer Research Wales at Velindre  Hospital. Sponsorship forms are available from club members and we look forward to your continued  support.

Last year, we successfully held a “jewellery” event in the Wenvoe Arms and we have plans for this again on the 28th October. All proceeds will go  towards “Mary’s Meals”. More details in next month’s edition.

VILLAGE HALL

The Village Hall will be holding a Jumble Sale on Saturday 16th October from 12 noon at the hall. Please can you save your unwanted items for us?

Please leave your Jumble marked JUMBLE on the roadside by 1pm on Sunday 10th October if you live in the Village. I will advise collection for Parc Y Gwenfo and Brooklands Terrace area in next  month’s  Whats On. As we are such a small fundraising committee it is difficult to get to every area of the village If you are reading this and live up the Twyn, St Lythans, St Andrews or Burdons Hill etc. please give us a ring and we will call up on the 10th whilst collecting in the Village. Thank You.

If you have any Jumble which you would like  removed before this date please phone us or alternatively if you attend a group at the hall you can leave it on the stairs.

Marilyn 20592175 or Sandra 20594724

We will also be holding a children's Halloween Disco on Saturday 30th October. More details in October Edition

Within just a few weeks of being installed one of the  new kissing gates on the footpath through the Whitehall Quarry has been vandalised. Kissing gates were especially requested after the previous stiles were broken to make it easier for the passage of people using the footpath but obviously others who now find they cannot have free passage for their bikes, motorcycles etc. (these are not permitted on footpaths)  have taken it upon  themselves to smash their way through again. Anybody who has any information should  pass it to the Clerk to the Council or police.

One of the commonest insects around during July and August both in your gardens and in the countryside are Hoverflies. Often confused with wasps because some have yellow and black markings they are in fact quite harmless and many are positively beneficial. Some look like bumblebees and these use mimicry to enter the nests of bumblebees and lay their eggs there.

Hoverflies are so-called because they can often be seen hovering and may be completely stationary in the air for some time. Another name for them is  Flower Flies (particularly in the USA) because they  are usually associated with flowers. Found in every continent in the world except Antarctica there are around 6,000 species worldwide and 276 species in Britain.