The Deputy Lord Mayor attended a similar event at Swansea’s Quadrant Centre on Monday. The Royal British Legion with their volunteers, raise substantial sums of money during this annual appeal to support the work of veterans and serving armed forces personnel.
Swansea’s 50th anniversary celebrations continue right up until December 10th, and this week I will be welcoming Brynmelyn Community Centre, Swansea Eastside Historical Society, Swansea Arts Society and Penllergaer over-60 groups to the Mansion House.
The Mayor’s residence becomes a haunted house on Thursday evening, when it hosts a Halloween fundraiser for the Air Training Corps cadets of Welsh Wing No 3. The cadets do a fantastic job in decorating the building and dressing up while raising funds for their cause.
On Friday, along with council colleagues I will be attending the funeral service of one of our Honorary Aldermen, Alan Lloyd. Alan was unique in holding the position of Mayor of Swansea in 1980, and Lord Mayor of the City and County of Swansea in 2009.
He was a stalwart of local politics, elected first to Swansea City Council in 1967 and serving right through to 2012. I may have crossed swords with him when I was first elected in the 1980s, but I held him in the highest regard as a councillor and as a servant of the City.
The week ends on a note of entertainment with a concert on Friday to support the Mayor of Neath Port Talbot’s Armed Forces Covenant, and on Saturday I will have the pleasure of attending St John’s Church Musical Players concert, ‘A Night at the Shows’.
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