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Last year’s Chair of Carmarthenshire County Council has raised £14,000 for his two chosen charities. Cllr Terry Davies has shared the money raised between the Teenage Cancer Trust and the British Heart Foundation. The sum comes from a range of events including the proceeds from the Chair’s Charity Evening held at the Ashburnham, Pembrey, last November, which raised £2,830, and taking part in the Walrus Dip on Boxing Day in Pembrey, which raised £1,112. Cllr Terry Davies said: “There are so many worthwhile charities out there and I picked the British Heart Foundation because I had a quadruple heart bypass several years ago in Morriston, and the Teenage Cancer Trust because I have worked with youth clubs for the last 35 years. “When I started my year as Chair, taking the recession into account I would have been happy to raise £5-6,000, but the money has flooded in and I’m delighted to be able to share such a substantial sum between the two charities.”

Last year’s Chair of Carmarthenshire County Council has presented two paintings from his personal collection to the County Museums Service. Cllr Terry Davies has donated an original Valerie Ganz painting of three miners and a Bryan Hitchman painting of miners and a train at a railway station. He said: “I worked closely with Ann Dorsett for many years when she was with the County Museums Service and wanted to see more about the coal industry featured. I donated my collection of plates and paintings and obtained a grant and made a donation myself to make a short film not just about how coal is produced but the social side, choirs, soup kitchens and the Strike. “I had left the Valerie Ganz painting to the Museum in my will and decided to give it now along with the Bryan Hitchman painting.” County Museums Curator Gavin Evans said: “These paintings are a wonderful gift and we are very grateful to Cllr Davies. They are also a marvellous example of how our archives are built up mainly thro...

The Chair of Carmarthenshire County Council has held a reception for the Llangyndeyrn Village Committee following the 50th anniversary of the saving of the village from drowning. Cllr Terry Davies invited the group to County Hall in Carmarthen to mark the occasion. There was a week of celebrations from October 20-27 last year to celebrate the saving of Llangyndeyrn and Cwm Gwendraeth Fach from drowning. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the then Swansea Corporation developed proposals for a dam and reservoir to be built in the Gwendraeth Fach valley to supply water to Swansea. The proposals involved the construction of a dam which would have resulted in the flooding of productive farmland, several farmhouses and a number of houses close to and within the village of Llangyndeyrn, and also upstream to the village of Porthyrhyd. The village of Llangyndeyrn itself would have been greatly affected with a large dam wall built on its eastern flank. Homes would have been lost, livelihoods d...

The Chair of Carmarthenshire County Council has raised nearly £11,000 for his chosen charities. Chair Cllr Terry Davies picked the British Heart Foundation and the Teenage Cancer Trust as his charities for his year in office. The £10,802 he has raised so far comes from various events such as his Charity Evening held at the Ashburnham, Pembrey, last November which raised £2,830 and taking part in the Walrus Dip on Boxing Day in Pembrey which brought in £1,112. Cllr Davies also presented two cheques for £1,000 to the two medical charities in memory of his brother Canon Islwyn Davies, Rector of Ystradgynlais, who died a year ago. The £2,000 was donated by Cllr Davies and his niece Helen.

The Chair of Carmarthenshire County Council has presented two cheques for £1,000 to medical charities in memory of his brother. Chair Cllr Terry Davies has chosen the British Heart Foundation and the Teenage Cancer Trust as his charities for his year in office. Cllr Davies and his niece Helen have donated the money in memory of his brother Canon Islwyn Davies, Rector of Ystradgynlais, who died in January. Cllr Terry Davies is pictured presenting the cheques to Jane Lewis of the British Heart Foundation (right) and Cllr Gwyneth Thomas of the Teenage Cancer Trust in the Chairman’s Room at County Hall, Carmarthen.