Members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith will march 70 miles to deliver personally a Giant Postcard from Tryweryn to Gwynedd Councillors ahead of a crucial vote on the future of a school which is the focus of one of the most famous village comunities in Wales.On Thursday 15th July the Full Council will be voting on a recommendation to close the Village School at Parc, near Bala, which was the birthplace of Merched y Wawr.The previous Sunday, the Ysgol Parc Defence Committee will be holding a major rally "Tryweryn 2010" on the damn to remember the community whcih was destroyed by Liverpool Corporation and to warn that our own council are now threatening to destroy an adjacent Welsh-speaking community by taking away the school which forms part of a unique school/community partnership upon which the village thrives.Cymdeithas members will be inviting all at the rally to sign a giant Tryweryn Postcard which will be addressed to Gwynedd Councillors. Following the rally, they will then begin a 70-mile march to deliver the postcard personally to Gwynedd councillors reaching Caernarfon for a rally outside the Council HQ at 1pm Thursday 15th.Cymdeithas Education spokesperson, Ffred Ffransis, explained:"In view of this renewed threat to this and other Welsh-medium schools, we shall take to the road again. It fills us with sadness that it is now our own Council who seem willing to betray this Welsh-speaking community, and not a corporation from England who probably understood and cared little about the situation as happened half-a-century ago. Along the way, we shall be visiting other communities in Gwynedd and Conwy who are living in fear of losing their schools."

MOUNTAIN TO CLIMBMr Ffransis added:"As Gwynedd officers have already persuaded the Council's leadership to accept their proposal to sacrifice Ysgol Parc, we recognise that we have a mountain to climb in order to persuade the full Council to vote instead for a proposal which can command full local support. As a symbol of our willingness to "climb the mountain", our march will ascend to the summit of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) en route to Caernarfon and down the other side rather than taking a detour around the mountain. We shall raise the banner 'Cadwn ein Hysgolion a'n pentrefi Cymraeg' (We shall defend our schools and Welsh-speaking communities) on the summit."