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CARMARTHENSHIRE NEWS • EDITION 10 NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2012


www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk


Project to improve ancient woodland


PUBLIC services students at Coleg Sir Gâr are working with Troserch Woodland Society, the council’s Tidy Towns project and Keep Wales Tidy, to help improve a Llanelli woodland area. The woods, along the Morlais


valley north of Llangennech, were put up for sale by their English owners in 2006. After a public meeting, the Troserch Woodland Society was set up to buy the ancient woodland. This was achieved in October that year a grant from


CydCoed, the Welsh Forestry


Commission. Daniel Snaith from Keep Wales


Tidy said: “The society’s aim is to promote and uphold its original purpose of ensuring public access, protecting


pathways and


encouraging wildlife. During the project, students have demonstrated the skills and knowledge needed for creating a new path with steps and it’s hoped that they are learning good woodland management practices.”


Blanket testing


AN electric blanket testing event will take place at Carmarthen Fire Station on December 5. Carmarthenshire Command Community Safety is holding the event from


10am to 2pm. Watch Manager Sean Lloyd said: “We encourage owners to bring their blanket along to this event to check it’s safe. Any faulty blankets will be replaced free of charge.”


£5.5m grant hope for Parc Howard


PARC Howard could be returned to its former glory if a £5.5million grant bid is successful. Carmarthenshire Council


is


seeking funding, whilst working with Parc Howard Association,


to


remodel the 54-acres park into a valuable player and continued attraction in the fortunes of the town. Bids are being made to the


Heritage Parks for People Fund and the council is committing up front funding and staffing resources to pull the masterplan together for stage one submission to Heritage Lottery Fund by February 2013. The blueprint includes bridal and


banqueting facilities, tea rooms, a restored bandstand and audience amphitheatre, a youth education exhibition centre, memorial walks, a wetland and wild meadow, upgraded public facilities, other features and improved vehicular access and car parking. The museum, housed largely in the upper floor of the


mansion, would be ungraded and displays modernised. County executive board member


for regeneration and leisure services Cllr Meryl Gravell said: “We have to


be innovative, bold and ambitious with the support of all partners like the association to bid for funding opportunities to achieve our mutual dream.”


THE Council’s Fusion health and fitness team have married with MYZONE to help motivate leisure centre members to adhere to regular exercise. They are the first in the country to link in with the ultimate retention tool which the county’s activity and health manager Berian Allcock said was quite an achievement, demonstrating the council’s commitment in these austere times. MYZONE leverages heart rate technology to accurately and conveniently track the concerted physical activity of gym users both inside and outside the club. The wireless tracking is an instant online logbook for the member, with personal goals, progress charts and challenges to make it fun. The club gets access to individual and aggregate data at the touch of a button. MYZONE measures more than just visits to the club, it incorporates calorific spend, points earned, effort, and time for all physical activity, providing an exciting visual display of members effort at the gym, cycling out or in class space. Members are encouraged through MYZONE to adhere to exercise and make physical activity an integral part of their lives.


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