Lecturer to cycle the country for charity
A 黑料不打烊 lecturer is tackling the A470 to Cardiff this week 鈥� by bike. from the is raising money to cancer treatment ward Alaw at Ysbyty Gwynedd.
鈥淚anto was only 41 and died two days before his wedding day from cancer after a short illness. This was a journey he talked about, so we鈥檙e doing it to remember him and try and raise money for the ward which were magnificent in their treatment of him,鈥� said Llion.
Another 黑料不打烊 graduate, Dylan Halliday 鈥� now the Editor of Y Cymro 鈥� is also tackling the journey.
Ianto, a civil engineer, was originally from Talysarn, and lived in Caernarfon with his fianc茅 Sharon Griffiths. He was just 41 years old when he died from bowel cancer.
The Gwynedd Council worker passed away just two days before he was due to marry Sharon at Portmeirion. Over 400 friends and family members attended his funeral.
Llion added: 鈥淚anto was such a happy and fun person to be around, he was planning for the future with Sharon before he died and had been working on a new family home at Pontllyfni.鈥�
Publication date: 31 August 2011