Can't miss Swiss trip.YOUNG footballers are training hard for their next big match. ..in Switzerland! From June 5 to June 9, the students from Mencap's Pengwern College in Rhuddlan will be flying the flag for Wales at a European soccer tournament in Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. . The players,aged 17 to 21, attend the Further Education college for young people with learning difficulties. To help pay for the Swiss trip, Pengwern College's senior learning support worker Malcolm Armstrong will stage a sponsored bike ride over the 200 miles between Llandudno and Cardiff Bay Cardiff Bay (Welsh: Bae Caerdydd) is the regeneration area created by the Cardiff Barrage which impounded two rivers (Taff and Ely) to form a new 500 acre freshwater lake around the former dockland area south of the city centre of Cardiff in south Wales. on the A470. Malcolm will be joined by his brother-in-law Charles Newport and both have been promised a free meal in the Welsh capital by Harry Ramsden's Harry Ramsden's is a worldwide restaurant chain dedicated to traditional British-style fish and chips. Based in the UK, the business has over 170 owned and franchised outlets internationally, and serves around 10 million people annually. restaurant chain. Proceeds will go towards the cost of sending the 13 students and five staff to Switzerland. Malcolm told People Post: ``The players are really looking forward to it.'' Coached by Charles Jones, they are Roy Baxendale,Andy Brown, Matthew Buggins,Bobby Burke,David Byrne,Matthew Davis, Simon Edwards,Richard Ferris-Jones, twins Matthew Metcalfe and Glenn Metcalfe, Charles Myers-Hewitt andSteven Riley. Their great new kit was recently handed over to Pengwern College by Rhuddlan company NWPS NWPS Northwest Wildlife Preservation Society (Vancouver, BC, Canada) NWPS North Wales Police Service Construction Ltd. Mark Durkin (bottom left), Matt Hughes (topleft)and Roy Taylor visited the grounds to donate the strip. To sponsor Malcolm and Charles on their marathon bike ride, ringPengwern College on 01745 590281. |
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