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unusual facts about Oakdale, Caerphilly



Brandon C. Rodegeb

Brandon was born in San Francisco, CA at San Francisco General Hospital and raised in the public housing projects between Palou and Oakdale Avenue in the Hunter's Point District of San Francisco, California.

Built Like Alaska

Also in 2005, the band provided the score for Scott Coffey's film Ellie Parker and spent a good deal of the summer touring the U.S. Built Like Alaska has recently completed work on their currently untitled third album, recorded by the band in Oakdale and mixed by Lucky Lew at Wave Parade in Modesto.

Capital Region Tourism

Capital Region Tourism defines the region and therefore the area it serves as the local authority areas of: Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan.

Connetquot School District

The Connetquot Central School District of Islip is the name of a school district located in Bohemia, New York, Ronkonkoma, New York, Sayville, New York and Oakdale, New York, USA.

Daisy, Maryland

Edwin Warfield (1848–1920), the 45th Governor of Maryland, grew up at the Oakdale manor built in 1838.

Gwilym Davies

Gwilym Ednyfed Hudson Davies (born 1929), Welsh Labour Party then SDP politician, Member of Parliament for Conway 1966–1970, Caerphilly 1979–1983

Hengoed

The A469 to the east of the village carries the Stagecoach service number 50, north to Bargoed and south to Caerphilly and Newport with a half hourly service in each direction during weekdays.

Home Bargains

In August 2007, two stores in South Wales were opened in Barry and Caerphilly, these had been acquired from Netto which abandoned its plans to expand into the region.

Islwyn Borough Transport

Prior to its sale in 2010, Islwyn operated 18 local bus routes centred on Caerphilly and Blackwood, taking in Cardiff and Bargoed.

King Pleasure

Born as Clarence Beeks in Oakdale, Tennessee, he moved to New York City in the mid-1940s working as a bartender, and became a fan of bebop music.

Kristina Sisco

Sisco left the show after three years on October 25, 2002, when Abigail left Oakdale to move to Los Angeles with Adam.

Lynn Bowles

As of June 2009 Bowles was living in Wimbledon but regularly travelled back to her family home in the village of Rudry near Caerphilly.

Lyrick Studios

The company developed the Wishbone series for PBS in 1995, a show about a talking dog living in the fictional town of Oakdale, Texas.

Michaelston

Michaelston-y-Fedw, a small rural village and community to the west of the city of Newport, Wales, on the border of Cardiff city and Caerphilly county borough

Miners' institute

By the eve of the Second World War there were more than a hundred miners' institutes, those of note include 'Y Stiwt' in Rhosllannerchrugog, the Oakdale Miners' Institute, the Parc and Dare in the Rhondda and the Abercynon Miners' Institute.

Mynydd Meio

Its eastern slopes drop away to Cwm yr Aber between Caerphilly and Abertridwr and its western slopes to the valley of the Taf.

National Cycle Route 4

After Newport, the route heads west to Caerphilly, then north towards Pontypridd during which it crosses the Taff Trail.

Noah Mayer

Seeking to affirm his relationship with Maddie, Noah convinces her to think about going to Oakdale University in the fall with him, instead of pursuing her dream of attending Wesleyan.

Oakdale, Iowa

A separate entity that also carries the Oakdale name because of its proximity but was never a part of historic Oakdale, the Iowa prison system's Iowa Medical and Classification Center is located immediately across the road from the main Oakdale campus.

Oakdale, Tennessee

State highways 299 and 328 intersect at the town's southern boundary, the latter connecting it with Harriman to the south and U.S. Route 27 to the north.

RG Jones Sound Engineering

RG Jones Sound Engineering was founded in 1926 by Ronald Geoffrey Jones of Caerphilly in Wales.

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

Graduate and professional programs are offered at facilities in Winona, the Twin Cities, Rochester, Apple Valley, Minnetonka and Oakdale, Minnesota; and various course delivery sites around Minnesota and Wisconsin; Jamaica, and Nairobi, Kenya.

Sian Evans

Sian Evans (born 9 October 1973) is a Welsh singer-songwriter from Caerphilly.

Special Operations Response Team

Some of the lesser known operations that BOP SORTs have been involved in include the mass movement of inmates from FCI Miami, after the facility was damaged by Hurricane Andrew; and the resolution of inmate disturbances at FCI Oakdale, Louisiana, FCI Lawton, Oklahoma, and the USP Atlanta.

Visco Grgich

Visco continued to live in the Oakdale, California area until he was moved to Dale Commons assisted-living facility in Modesto, California shortly prior to his wife Grace, the country and western singer known as "Sioux City Sue," died in 2001.

Grgich became the head football coach at Oakdale High School, in Oakdale, California in 1957 and 1958.

Walnut Tree Viaduct

Finally the line circumvented the town of Caerphilly, and crossed the Rhymney Valley by means of the Llanbradach Viaduct, near Pwllypant, constructed to ease the gradient onto the BMR at Maesycwmmer.

Yerranderie

Accessible mainly by dirt road from Oberon, New South Wales 70 km to the west, although there is a seldom used route through Oakdale to the east.

Zephaniah Williams

Williams was born near Argoed, Sirhowy Valley, Monmouthshire, Wales, with much of his childhood spent near the then village of Blackwood, also living for some periods in Caerphilly and Nantyglo.


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