sunshine escape 6 september
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Local film crew captures sustainable agriculture in Africa and Asia
When you hear the name Sustainable Seas Trust (SST) you probably correctly envision an organisation that focusses on research and protection of our beautiful coastal environment, what you may not realise is that at the heart of each and every one of their projects lies the well-being of people.
The Trust Sustainability Films (TSF) is the oldest and longest operating division of SST and their work excel-lently portrays SST’s dedication and efforts to empower communities through their on-going collaborative proj-ects within and now beyond our South African borders. The film crew, which is headed by Kyle Robinson, is currently based in Grahamstown and works under the guidance of Dr Tony Ribbink (SST founding trustee and director) and Shane Kelly, who head up the SST division in Kenton-on-Sea.
One of the ten projects captured, so far this year, by TSF is the START initiative (global change SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training) in Hamburg, a project driven by SST through the South east African Climate Consortium (SeACC). The multi-disciplinary project investigated food security in the context of climate change and saw three universities - Rhodes, Fort Hare, nelson Mandela Metropolitan – collaborate with SST and working hand in hand with the Keiskamma Trust, who was the crucial bridge between the project and the community and provided translators and guides for the researchers on site.
As will all research projects a final report and ulti-mately a book is published (in english and isiXhosa) de-tailing the findings in order to inform government and other institutions and organisations as to what the find-ings and what the suggested follow-up measures are. In addition to the final report and book the film division captured the essence of the project as a visual means of showing the community, funders and public what the project entailed.
The film clearly reflects the integrated approach of the project which incorporated research covering Agri-culture, Social Beliefs (Anthropology), Marine Science, economics and at the binding factor at the core, educa-tion. In fact the beautifully put together and informative video – which you can view on SST’s website and by fol-lowing the link on the Sunshine escape Facebook page – so impressed funders that the team were immediately asked to film other projects, beyond our borders, too.
The first project documented the urban food process-ing trend in Kampala and Kyle, along with TSF team member, Martin Bleazard, and SST partner and film-
maker, Graham Holmes spent ten days in mid-July film-ing in Uganda.
“The Ugandans were friendly and some of the hardest working people we’d ever met. People were continually on the go, delivering goods on overloaded rusty looking bicycles or families rushing about on dubious looking motorbikes,” Kyle commented.
The team filmed, interviewed, researched and ex-plored from pre-dawn to well after dusk - strapping GoPros to local’s bicycles, interviewing all manner of characters including a rather innovative pig farmer and trying some rather dodgy looking goat stew.
“At a glance it looks like the entire Ugandan economy is run off bananas. They’re used for everything, with nothing going to waste. The bird life was one of the best
parts though, with Marabou Storks roaming around the middle of the city, truly amazing,” Martin said
The Ugandans innovativeness with peri-urban agriculture was an impressive accomplishment for the film crew to capture. Success-ful farmers were producing healthy meals for their families in the middle of the city. “More people need to make a move to this kind of lifestyle, mass produced imported food cannot be the solution for our world’s food problems,” Martin said.
No sooner had the film crew returned home when the next invita-tion came through and this week Kyle, Graham and Justin Archer left for Kathmandu, the small but remarkable capital city of Nepal. The team will spend a week documenting how the nepalese are dealing with the global food grind.
“Too many people see climate change issues as battles that the in-ternational community wages in its struggles to formulate the bind-ing commitments necessary to reduce Green house Gas emissions in order to slow or halt further climate change. This focus by inter-national leaders on global issues is critically important, but in the impoverished local communities of Africa and elsewhere, one finds people whose daily livelihoods, health, and access to food, potable water, education and employment opportunities are already tough and are likely to become even more challenging when they have the added difficulties imposed by climate change,” Dr Ribbink said.
“It follows, therefore, that in the context of climate change, food security and the use of ecosystem goods and services, the real issue is about the well-being of people. helping people realize, through knowledge, understanding and hope that their actions and choices can secure a better future requires a people-orientated multi-disci-plinary approach,” he added.
“Poverty is the nub of vulnerability to climate change as poor people cannot afford to buy protection from environmental change: they are dependent upon natural resources. Yet natural resources upon which they depend are themselves being modified by climate change and very seriously impacted by direct human activities on a daily basis, especially in impoverished areas where people have no option but to degrade their lands, use the trees, hunt wild life, pol-lute rivers and exploit sea life,” Dr Ribbink concluded.
Sunshine escape will follow up next month with a story covering the projects that have now been established in hamburg after the completion of the SST’s START research initiative referred to in this article.
The Sustainability Seas Trust film division – Trust Sustainability Films – set up to capture harvesting of sea foods as an aspect of the START multi-disciplinary research project conducted in Hamburg into food security in the face of climate change.
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How to play: Sudoku is easy to play and the rules are simple. Fill in the blanks so that each row, each column, and each of the nine 3x3 grids contain one instance of each of the numbers 1 through 9.
Brain Crunches
Across1 Do evident disagreements bring them to court? (10)7 The girl, perhaps, is not so heavy (7)8 Father I left with container (4)10 Actors in Lancaster (4)11 A pig in many a wood (8)13 Boy’s name very recently entered (6)15 Show the French continually brought back (6)17 Ships taking care of flowers (8)18 Spare list (4)21 Scorch a fish (4)22 everyone left everywhere (3,4)23 Successful prose pours out (10)
Down1 Young attendants making a book? (5)2 Opposed to Tina Turner? (4)3 One from part of France - and not an isle (6)4 It’s better for a naughty child to have wan-dered (8)5 Get fair wind in vessel (7)6 Game played in club? (9)9 Look at ships delivering cosmetics? (9)12 Beer put on poles for birds (8)14 Sam’s out to get her - she’s a beauty (7)16 Musical country, so we hear (6)19 Dead singer somehow lives (5)20 Voice that has changed a lot (4)
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On Tuesday, 24 September 2013Wharf Street, Port Alfred
Come and support your Local Butcher and theIndependent Boerewors Makers
taking part in theBoerewors Championships
Starting at 10amLive music and entertainment throughout the day.
Come and spend a fun filled National Braai Day• Food Village • Pony Rides • Treasure Hunts
• Busker's • Jumping Castle • Beer Hall • Craft Village• Competitions • Spot prizes • Marimba Band
• Baby Competition
TO BOOK YOUR STALLContact Terry on Tel: 046 624 4591 Cell:082 676 1742 or
Visit us at 22 Wharf Street, Port Alfred
The Engela NeethlingKowie BoereworsChampionships
Entries to be in by 12pm on Wednesday
Meet the Matric Class of 2013 - The Year of LegendsDaNIca KUKarD
Grade 12 pupils all around the country have already begun to write their preliminary examina-tions. Sunshine escape caught up with Port alfred High School class of 2013 to ask them about their year and their hopes for the future.
Paige de Bruin has been at PaHS since 1998. She is well known for her participation and achieve-ments in the public speaking, drama and dancing societies at school. de Bruin has been accept-ed to study Psychology at NMMU in Port elizabeth next year. Jessica Kleinhans’ accolade’s include be-ing a member of interact, a library monitor and a prefect. Next year Kleinhans will be taking a gap year to complete courses in first aid, computers and photography. Hendrina Meiring has been a stu-dent at PaHS for the past 11 years. In ten years’ time Meiring hopes to own her own beauty salon. deputy Head Girl Chandra Knowles, is a promising academic and after she matriculates she hopes to study medicine at UCT. Knowles has various highlights from her matric year, one of which is watching her friends get accepted into various universities. Toit van Oudtshoorn has been at the school since 2010, he will be remembered by his class for his chess skills. In a few years’ time, van Oudtshoorn wants to be successful, married and travelling the world. Promising first team rugby player Daniel Nel, has set his sights on a future in sport. Nel has been at PaHS since grade one and hopes to find a job in sports
coaching and study towards a de-gree in sports science. after being a student at PaHS for only three years, Jolene Mitchley believes that her proudest moments have been when she has represented her school on the hockey field. Her love for hockey has inspired her to set a goal of coaching a na-tional hockey team. Litha Njube, or “Tae” as his friends call him, wants to study Psychology at UCT. However, he also sees himself ac-cepting a Grammy award one day. deputy Head Boy, first team hock-ey player and chairman of the de-bating society, Khanya Mabindi-sa, hopes to study an LLB at UCT next year. When asked if he had any final words to his classmates, he said that he would just like to say “thank you for being my fam-ily for the better part of my life”. Head Girl Kerry-Lynn Barnes has too many achievements to men-tion! Besides being an outstand-ing sports woman, she is also a very promising academic. rhodes University has accepted Barnes to study a BCom accounting. Last but not least we have Head Boy Joshua Austin. austin’s achieve-ments include playing first team rugby, being on the interact board and recently he has been identi-fied as one of the top five academ-ics in the district.
Headmaster, Clive Pearson said that this year’s matric class has had a very positive influence on the rest of the school and that he is ex-pecting top results. The Sunshine escape team wishes our matric class of 2013 the best of luck for their upcoming exams, we know that you will do our town proud.
A look back at some of the memories that the Matric class of 2013 have made over their schooling career.
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Russell Shelton, manager of Pick ‘n Pay and twice winner of the annual Engela Neethling Kowie Boerewors Championships has once again en-tered his famous boerewors into the retail cat-egory of the competition, to be held on the 24th of September 2013 in historic Wharf Street. The fourth year since its inauguration in 2010, the ac-claimed contest draws both independent boere-wors manufacturers and franchises to prove in jest that they have the winning wors recipe and acquire the glass trophy, whereupon all proceeds
will be donated to the research based charity or-ganization CAnSA.
According to Shelton, the winning recipe in both 2010 and 2011’s retail category, Shelton Boere-wors, has been made in the old family style ac-cording to a method that has been handed down for the last fifty years through generations of his family. “It is a recipe that my late dad used in his butchery in east London (and) it’s always been a winner,” he said.
Shelton, the General Manager of Pick n’ Pay Peppergrove Mall, Port Alfred and Mthatha, (Pick n’ Pay are the sponsors all the rolls, butter and
condiments on the day), believes the secrets to expertly made wors, lies in the preparation of its ingredients, the exact balancing of spices on the palate as well as using only A- Grade products such as the softer sheep casings, in conjunction with having experience in its making, and know-ing what to look for in particular. “Quality boere-wors has a red- maroon colour- and when you cook it, it stays plump and moist,” he added
entries for participation will be closing shortly, any parties still interested in competing are wel-come to contact Terry at the Sunshine Coast es-cape office on 046 624 4591 or 082 676 1742.
Russell Shelton from Pick n’ Pay smiles for the camera
Sugar ‘n Spice and all things nice - Voila!
Top Boerie Champs Contenders: Russell Shelton
VOILA in Kenton on Sea offers a cornucopia of gifts, art, clothing, fabric and books. At the heart of the gallery-shop-restau-rant emporium is Toni Ward and Ross Swarts, a vibrant sugar and spice partnership that makes Voila, a delightful escape and lekker kuier-plek for one and all.
The restaurant’s new Spring menu offers su-perbly tasty food made from fresh produce and beautifully presented with edible flowers. The delightful selection of desserts and cakes – chocolate mousse, choc-olate brownies and the fabulous hummingbird cake, to mention a few - is superbly rounded off with a cup of Ross’s ex-cellent coffee or cappuc-cino. You can dine inside or out on the sheltered and secluded veranda with a garden view.
The collection of art on display features in-ternationally acclaimed, Mary Fowlds’ work in-terspersed with a wide range items from local artists and final year fine art student pieces. There are historical and Settler maps, driftwood art, interesting furniture and accessory pieces and ceramics from Mad-eleine Murray and Megan Sparg.
Clothes and shoes are on offer too. A selection of items from South Afri-can designers is regularly updated. The recent ad-ditions of new dresses and skirts, from among others Sway and Olka Polka, made from top quality fabrics are must have items as are a pair of holster sandals, just arrived in stock, and the naughty-but-nice linge-
rie. There is a stunning selection of shawls and kikoi wraps. Match your kikoi pants with original Tomy Takkies or opt for a personalised pair created for you by Toni.
Voila recently also add-ed a material and dress-making section owned and run by Cecelia Im-melman. here you will find a great selection of quality fabrics and sew-ing accessories at afford-able prices, all carefully selected by Cecelia. In addition Cecelia offers dress-making, altera-tions and onezies - once off item tailor-made for you.
Do take your time troll-ing through the magnifi-cent range of gifts – fair-ies, pewter, jewellery, mats, and more - you are bound to find something here that is just perfect for the person you have in mind. Support a good cause and purchase a second-hand book in support of the Treasures for feral cat fund, which offers sterilization, feed-ing and care for our furry friends.
Voila! Kenton on Sea, a perfect place for locals and tourists to meet ‘n greet and ‘shop from their seats’.
Toni Ward, of Voila in Kenton on Sea, sharing a delightful mo-ment with her restaurant clientele.
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Meet the Matric Class of 2013 - The Year of Legends
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Top Carpets are able to supply customized Sisal, Jute and Coir Rugs with any border to suite all client needs. We
would like to congratulate Top Carpets Port Alfred
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a boooHighland Bamboo onlyM
Best wishes and congratulations
to Derek Kleinhans and
his team at Top Carpet.
TOP CARPETS AND FLOORS
PA home industries now offers morePoRT AlFRED home Industries have now allocated an additional section of the shop – which previously housed the lingerie section – as a dedicated art and craft display area.
Alongside the bounty of pre-serves and jams, you will find everything from cakes and cook-ies to frozen meals, farm fresh chickens, eggs and vegetables, and farm fresh cream is available every Friday. Platters, special-ity cakes, including a diabetic cake range, are on offer too, just enquire at the counter.
“We cater for older folk and singles too in our portion sizes and it works out far more eco-nomical to buy a small portion from us than making it from scratch at home,” Barbara Main one of the members said.
In the deep freeze
you’ll find a selection of ready-made meals and three styles of lasagne – beef, chicken and vegetarian.
In the crafts line there is knit-ting, sewing, crochet, smock-ing, sheepskin slippers, greet-ing cards, belts and key rings, embroidery kits and mosaic tem-plates. And there are even treats and beds on sale for our canine friends too.
Port Alfred home Industries currently have around 35 mem-bers. There is a once off R100 joining fee and thereafter a com-mission is taken – this varies de-pending on whether a
member works in the shop twice a month for
a morning or afternoon.
They are always looking for new members to join so
if you see a gap in their current offerings do
pop in and enquire about becoming a member.
A selection of the goodies in store at the Port Alfred Home Industries.
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Laminate flooring up to 20% offPorcelain Tiles up to 15% off
Under floor heating up to 20% off
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Constantia Brand carpets up to 20% off
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Best Wishes to Top Carpet
Grahamstown from management &
staff @ Nouwens
Best Wishes to Top Carpet Grahamstown
from Stuart Graham Furnishing Fabrics
Top Carpet and Floors now in Grahamstown
TWENTy-oNE years ago Derick Kleynhans relocated to Port Al-fred and opened a store in Wharf St. he named it Samantha’s after his baby girl and specialised in cur-tains, tiles, carpets and accessories. Six years later, in 1998, the store was renamed P.A. Interiors and Der-ick moved from Wharf St, to number six, Main St where P.A. Interiors became a landmark in our little town, op-posite First national Bank.
Last year the store, now named Top Carpets and Floors, moved to Rosehill Mall and on Friday the 6th September, Derick is delight-ed to announce the opening of his new branch in Grahamstown. “We have more and more clients com-ing to us from Grahamstown and the surrounding satellite towns, so it just made sense to open a store in Grahamstown which will be far more convenient for those clients,” Derek said.
Top Carpets and Floors stocks all the leading brands of floor-ing, carpeting, tiling, blinds and American Shutters, making it a
one stop décor shop. An indication of the loyalty Top Carpet and Floors generates, can be seen in their well trained and steadfast employees, most of whom have worked for Derick for many years, some of them in excess of ten. This group of dedicated employ-ees, are a loyal team that complement one
another, they form the backbone of the business. James and Lindy Robinson, a very experienced husband and wife duo, have been with Derick for a number of years and will be managing the Graha-mstown branch.
One of the latest products launched by Top Carpets is the health Guard installation system. This product is used with the in-stallation of carpets and lami-nates and consists of a high filter vacuum system to remove all dust and pollutants. Bio Guard Pro is sprayed onto the floor to destroy all dust mites and moulds, Still Guard underlay is then installed as a water and dust proof barrier. This method of pollutant filtering
Derick Kleynhans the proud owner of Top Carpet and Floors in Port Alfred and now in Grahamstown as well.
Port Alfred water tanks to mitigate water shortage
By GINa FLOreNce
nDLAMBe Municipality has imple-mented a system of JoJo Tanks to be installed throughout ndlambe to mitigate the water shortage during the renovations at the balancing dam. According to Superintendant enoch Jobela of Water and Sanitation, there will be ten tanks supplied per area by Umso Construction as well as the Municipality, each with a carrying ca-pacity of 5000 litres. Deputy Direc-tor noluthando Vithi advises that the purpose is to provide an improved standard of water with a lower sa-line content to Port Alfred residents. “Our infrastructure is ageing…the people must bear with us (through this) month’s inconvenience in order to improve the quantity and quality of our water,” Vithi said.
According to Engineer Represen-tative Peter Stutterheim of Aurecon Construction, draining the ten mega-litre balancing dam will commence from the 2nd September, and con-struction should begin on the 9th
September. This will take place until the 7th October, at which point the dam will be refilled. During this pe-riod the JoJo Tanks will be supplied with groundwater via trucks and timed to pump from the bypass at a decreased water pressure of approx-imately 30%, particularly in high ly-ing regions such as the old township of nkwenkwezi in nemato and South Downs. Pumping will be alternated between the east and West Banks respectively.
Site Manager of Umso Construc-tion, hope Fumanisa adds that a three to four week water deficiency is the ‘worst case scenario,’ and that construction on the balancing dam could be concluded sooner than ex-pected.
To view the municipal press confer-ence, access www.qcardtelevision.com
is most beneficial to people with allergies and ensures a really clean carpet. For fur-ther information about this product, visit the website www.healthguard/flooring.co.za
James and Lindy Robinson, an experienced husband and wife duo, will be managing the Grahamstown Top Carpet and Floors branch.
We wish Derick and the Top Carpet team
all the best for their new
Grahamstown store
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TUITION
Extra Math or other subjectsupport sessions available for
Grade 7-9 learners.Consolidate primary school skills inpreparation or during the transition
to secondary school in relaxedenvironment provided.
Contact Maya Lloyd on082 393 9250 or
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COMPUCAREComputers(Pty)Ltd70 Southwell Road
Port AlfredTel: 046 624 8295
RESTORATION/REPAIRS
Restoration & RepairsTo all makes of furniture
Including Riempies and Sash windows
Contact Brian Penny (046) 624 5145
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Barbara MainQualified in
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Murray: 082 366 9878 / Sandy: 072 266 2524Tel: (046) 624 9069 o/h
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HAIR STUDIO
HOSPICE
NOW OPENPORT ALFRED HOSPICE SHOP
The Shop will now be open everyWednesday from 9 am to 12 pm.
Visit the shop at:No. 1 Alfred Road, Port Alfred.
SUNSHINE COAST HOSPICEUrgently require stock for their charity shop. We
accept anything including furniture, crockery, cutlery,kitchen appliances, electrical appliances, glassware,paintings, ornaments, bedding, toys, bric a brac etc
WE ALSO REQUIRE BOOKSONE MAN’S JUNK IS ANOTHER MAN’S
TREASURE
WOOL NEEDEDSunshine Coast Hospiceis in urgent need of wool
For their ladies who knit and crochetjerseys for the patients
Any wool is most welcomeContact Karen on (046) 624 4107
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Energy for Lifeholistic health practice.
Yoga therapy sessions, Energymassages, Ecopsychology and
Take Time Out Retreats.Contact Maya Lloyd on 082 393 9250
LAWNMOWERS
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For all repairs and spares salesPetrol, Electric Mowers, Weed Eaters and Brush Cutters.
Also buffing service (all sorts make it shine again),sharpening kitchen knives, cutting blades
6 Keey Street, Port AlfredContact Johan on 072 879 4910
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On the diary6th September – Fish Braai @ Port Alfred & Ski Boat Club. From 12. All are welcome and prices are very affordable6th to 7th September – Universities Boat Race7th September - CMA Breakfast @ THE LODGE (The Old Victoria Hotel) ex “BEYOND ADVENTURE” 06h30for 07h00 (Ladies Welcome) Speaker; Michael Austin Accountant for local Hotel Group. Join us as we hear what God has done in his life! Offering will be taken to cover cost of meal.R40.00 For more information contact Leon 082 673 1492 or Charlie 082 850 11667th September – Settlers Park Morning Market@ Don Powis Community Hall 9h00 – Feel free to come and spend the morning with us, there will be tea and eats available while you look around the amazing homemade goodies we have available.7th September – PAHS Pre-Primary 13th Annual Treasure Hunt 14h00 – Every team will win a prize! A vehicle is a must for the hunt takes you through Port Alfred. For more information contact Lyn Ridden on 082 722 67228th September – Amathole Triathlon 08h30 @ Kleinemonde East – Races will commence at 09h30 and will be 200m, 500m or 1000m River Swims, 5km, 10km or 20km Mountain Bike Races and also 1.5km, 4km or 8km Trail Runs.10th September – Probus Club @ Port Alfred River & Skiboat Club 10h00 - Guest Speaker Dr Amber Childs - M.Sc (Ichthyology), Ph.D Postdoctoral Fellow – SAIAB. Topic: “The Rhino of our Seas” Dr Childs is a Scientist who combines modern technology with ground breaking research techniques to give us “Insights into the Movements of the Iconic Dusky Cob”. For more information contact Paul Probert on 082 773 784712th September – Memory Book Scrapbook Club 14h00 – 17h00 @ The Presbyterian Church, Port Alfred. All welcome. For more information contact Cheryl on 046 624 2733 or 083 556 7562
20th September – The Hiking Group Outing @ Robby’s 07h00. The outing will be a beach walk from Bokness to Bushman’s. Bring R30.00 to cover any entrance fee that may be charged + R20.00 for petrol contribution. For more information contact Cathy Abbott on [email protected] or 083 399 2926
24th September – The Engela Neethling Kowie Boerewors Championships – In Wharf Street. Stalls, beer hall, live entertainment, bands, jumping castles, competitions, etc. Book your stalls by emailing [email protected] or call on 046 624 4591 or visit us at 22 Wharf Street, Port Alfred
30th September – The Hiking Group Outing @ Robby’s 07h00. The outing will be at Watersmeet. Bring R30.00 to cover any entrance fee that may be charged + R20.00 for petrol contribution. For more information contact Cathy Abbott on [email protected] or 083 399 292618th October – The Hiking Group Outing @ Robby’s 07h00. The outing will be at a beach walk at The Fish River Lighthouse. Bring R30.00 to cover any entrance fee that may be charged + R20.00 for petrol contribution. For more information contact Cathy Abbott on [email protected] or 083 399 292618th October – The Hiking Group Outing @ Robby’s 07h00. The outing will be at a beach walk at Belton. Bring R30.00 to cover any entrance fee that may be charged + R20.00 for petrol contribution. For more information contact Cathy Abbott on [email protected] or 083 399 292613th November – The Hiking Group Outing @ Robby’s 07h00. The outing will be at Mosslands. Bring R30.00 to cover any entrance fee that may be charged + R20.00 for petrol contribution. For more information contact Cathy Abbott on [email protected] or 083 399 2926
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Motoring mattersBy Erich Adendorff
Royal Port Alfred Golf Club
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WEEKly RESUlTSDATE: Wednesday 28/08/2013SPoNSoR: lalibela/Famous GrouseCoMPETITIoN: Individual Stabl-efordNo oF PlAyERS: 83VISIToRS: Peter Thompson – Jo-hannesburg Country Club; Mat-thew Thompson Pe Golf ClubResults:A Division:1st: len o`Haughey - 412nd: Dave young - 413rd: Geoff Bladen – 39B Division:1st: Ross Wright – 452nd: Neil Menary – 443rd: Dave Niccol - 43Two Clubs:6th: K Heny, N Forester, N oost-huizen8th: M Rushmere, C van Zyl, M Legg, D Young, P Longhurst. C howard11th: D Blomfield, N Menary13th: C van ZylBest Gross: 75 – Brian WrightBest Nett: 64 – Nick Menary, Ross WrightNearest the Pins:Debonairs Pizza – 6th: Kevin henyPA River & Ski Boat Club – 8th: Corrie van ZylThe Wharf Street Brew Pub – 11th: Rick PryceThe Highlander - 13th: Fanie TerblancheWimpy longest Drive - #3rd: nick Fox VW Market Square- nearest the
pin for 2 on 1st: Charlie PoultonJackpot: C van ZylDATE: Saturday 31/08/2013SPoNSoR: Pam Golding Proper-tiesCoMPETITIoN: Better Ball Bo-nus BogeyNo oF PlAyERS: 44VISIToRS: Mbulelo Renene – east London G CResults:1st: Franco Vidale, Ross Wright +102nd: Warren Solz, Neil v.d. linde + 83rd: Steve Gardner, Arjan Sap + 74th: Nathi Mbabela, litha Tsole-kile + 7Two Clubs:6th: F van Rooyen, T leach, o Pi-eterse, K HenyNearest the Pins:Mooifontein Quarry – 6th: Arjan SapPA River & Ski Boat Club – 8th: Desmond MjimlaPA Brick Works – 11th: Nathi MbabelaThe Wharf Street Brew & Pub - 13th: Zola MgudwaWimpy longest Drive - #4th: Moses Slavert Douglas Green – nearest the Pin for 2 on 1st: Moses SlavertJackpot: Carry over1820’sDATE: Monday 26/08/2013No of Players: 29 enjoyed warm, almost windless conditionsWinners on 35: oscar Pearson, Albert Whitfield, Don Howarth,
Louis v.d. WaltMoosehead on 45: John Clayton, Guy Hilton-Barber, Ram Piers, Lionel TimmGood Scores: 49: George Bydawell, 48: Conrad Winterbach, Don howarth, Juan Southey, 47: Windsor Bagley46: Dale Wisener, Ernie Allen, Dallas Cowie43: Ted Baines41: oscar Pearson2 Clubs:8th: oscar Pearson, Dallas Cowie, Ted BainesDATE: Thursday 29/08/2013No of Players: 28 on a warm overcast dayWinners on 39: Windsor Bagley, Lawton Amos, Juan Southey, Louis v.d. WaltMoosehead on 47: John Clayton, Dave Beatt, Ram Piers, lionel TimmGood Scores:49: Andy Simpson, Mick Parker48: Dallas Cowie, Roy Pople45: louis v.d. Walt2 Clubs:8th: Juan Southey11th: Andy Simpson, Roy PopleForthcoming Events: Friday 6th: Mutual & Federal golf day – 4 Ball AllianceSaturday 7th: Viv Jordan golf day – Better Ball MedalWednesday 11th: PSG – 2 Ball Al-liance (Maltby Cup)Friday 12th to Monday 16th: Course Closed (only 9 holes available)
TRAIlBlAZER - what an apt name for this vehicle - Chevrolet or rath-er General Motors could not have given a better descriptive word to describe the all-new 2.5LT 4X2 MT SUV. What a drive this is, fitted with a turbocharged Duramax diesel engine, which is new to our South African shores but legendary to GM in America.
The interior is very spacious and if needed can be used to ac-commodate seven people, with the extra two fold -away seats in the rear, which otherwise would be
luggage space. What I loved about this vehicle in particular is the very comfortable driver seat. excellent vision all round with drive assist for parking, reversing and when getting too close to any obstacle whatsoever. Strong, sturdy and ro-bust with appealing looks, no need to say more.
handling on the open road is great and I had to keep my eyes on the speedometer to not exceed the speed limit. Power is definitely not a problem here. As usual, my pre-ferred testing on gravel road is the
Shaw Park route and this is where I had to curb myself from trying too hard to see what limitations there is to this vehicle. It handled like a dream.
More technical data can be ob-tained from Richard Axe at Kenrich Motors in Port Alfred or from Dean Kent in Grahamstown.
Motoring tip for the week: Try to keep your petrol tank more than half full at all times .The emptier the tank, the more evaporation.
Cheers,erich
Winners Gr 6 + 7L-R Monique Muller (2nd), Britney Hawkins (1st) and Kayla le Roux (3rd)
FNB Jnr Public Speaking Competition winners
Winners Gr 4 + 5L-R Tazmin Cannon (Gr 5 - 2nd), Jenna Coetzee (Winner, Gr 4) and Erin Coltman (Winner - Gr 5)
We have all been most concerned about Jennifer Worrall, who suffered a stroke just over a week ago. She was in the Port Alfred hospital for the past week, but is now in Aurora in Port elizabeth. On the reverse side of that awful 'coin', Trish Love-land is making excellent, albeit slow, progress after her 'nasty' a couple of weeks ago. It's so good to see her out and around again and 'sterkte' to her and her 'master of all trades', Rick, for her continued improvement!
Congratulations to David Boyd who was re-elected as Club Presi-dent at the recent AGM of the PA Bowling & Croquet Club. Many thanks to all 24 Croqueteers who at-tended and for the many apologies received. Phyl Russell was unani-mously elected as Croquet Captain for the coming year.
The new committee is noeline Kirsten, Mercia Kruger, Anne Prette-john, Peter Wandsell & Jennifer Wor-rall. Well done to you all and we wish you a very good and happy year of office. Congratulations, too, to Mau-reen Heale and Marcel Renaud who were elected as the new Ladies' and Men's Captains and to their commit-tees. May you all have a happy and hassle free year of office!
Please will croquet players re-member to play as many Club Cham-pionship matches as possible, as somehow the time always seems to run away and we are left with a last minute scramble!
Many thanks, too, to all those in-volved for fitting 'Corky's Clutch' on the inside of the Croquet room door! Much appreciated so no more dra-mas for the 'old girl'!!
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ThIS weekend thousands of stu-dents from universities across the country will descend on Port Al-fred in support of the annual USSA National Institutional Boat Race Championship. The event has tra-ditionally attracted fierce competi-tion and this year promises to be no different.
In 2012 the University of Preto-ria (Tuks), aided by Olympic gold medalists John Smith and James Thompson, dominated the races, making a clean sweep of the men’s as well as the women’s A finals. however, 2013 presents an en-tirely new challenge and a number of universities have been working
hard to ensure that Tuks do not have it all their own way this year.
Amongst those eyeing a stronger campaign are hosts, Rhodes Uni-versity, who finished second in the women’s A final in 2012 but fared disappointingly in the men’s cham-pionship. Rhodes captain, Tristan Wentworth, spoke to Qcard Televi-sion at an earlier training camp and described how important this race is for him and his fellow rowers.
“The Boat Race has always been our big event. With it being set on the Kowie, it is our home event and it is very important to Rhodes,” he said.
“We are hoping to do a lot better than last year. Our goal has always been to make the final of the A divi-
sion, and I believe that this year we have a good shot at doing that,” he added.
Rhodes coach, John luck, was hopeful that the hard work done in training throughout the year would pay off. “The training has been going very well. We have got some great distance in during our preparation thanks to the amazing weather and we are feeling confi-dent,” he said.
Every year the Boat Races bring fresh excitement, and this year’s instalment could be one of the clos-est ever. The packed river banks are set to ensure an incredible at-mosphere as Port Alfred comes to life for one of the most exhilarating weekends on the local calendar.
Friday 6 September 10h00 Church Service: anglican Church – all welcome11h00 Coaches’ Meeting 11h00 Trustees’ Meeting12h30 – 16h30 B Finals Saturday 7 September 08h00 Veterans 26th anniversary race08h30 alumni 09h10 Men’s a 7th Place Final 09h40 Women's a 7th Place Final 10h10 Men’s a 5th Place Final 10h40 Women’s a 5 Place Final 11h10 C Final 11h40 Women’s B Final 12h10 Men’s B Final 13h50 Women’s a 3rd Place Final 14h10 Men’s a 3rd Place Final 14h40 Women’s a Final 15h20 Men’s a Final 16h00 Prize Giving
All set for thrilling 2013 Boat Races
It's already September, spring has sprung and congratulations to Tommy and Gwen Crouch on your 50th wedding anniversary, a milestone indeed.
The Personal Trust sponsored competi-tion, played last Tuesday was won by Trevor Frost, Maureen Heale, Nici Thomas and Rod Wilson with plus 15. Second place went to Ron orford, Marcel Renaud, Johann Kirsten,
Inter Regional Bowls 2013 - Russell Geard Trophy won by Eastern Areas.Back from left: Ruth Low, Delene Deenick, Jenny Wallace, Maureen Heale, Adele Wood, Marlene Jacobs.Front row from left: Sandra Wiblin, Kate Beavis, Gwen Bartlett, Jenni McLaughlan, Jane Armitage, Gill Duncan.
Port Alfred Bowling Cluband Tony nelson with plus 14. Third place was Rita Browne, Jenny Wallace, ni-gel Koster and Arthur Be-resford.
The finals of the mixed drawn trips were also played last Tuesday and the win-ners, by one shot, were Mike hayler, John Bennet and Mary Kilburn against Chris Armitage, Peter Smethurst and helen Otto. Well done to Mike and his team.
The eA Men's and Ladies’ trips finals, played over last weekend, have now been completed and the win-ners are: Men, Trevor Frost, Ron orford and Noel Heale ,(PABC) runners up Clive Bartlett, Bresby du Preez and Peter haynes.(Albany) Ladies winners are San-dra Wiblin, Collet Reid and Jenni McLaughlan, (PABC) runners up hermie Scholtz, Gloria Schmidt and Mireille McPhee.(Kenton)Congratu-
lations to the winners. The
eP Trips for all the above players will take place at Kowie Bowling Club on the 14th and 15th September.
Ladies a reminder about round one and two of the Renee Vroom Shield to be played this Saturday morn-ing starting at 09:00. Round three and four will be played on Saturday 14th. Also the mixed sponsored Radue trips take place this Friday afternoon.
Good luck and travel safe-ly to the two PABC teams taking part in the Inggs Cup in Uitenhage over this com-ing weekend.
Tuesday 10th Septem-ber is our monthly birth-day night celebration and "happy Birthday" to all our members with a birthday in September.
Round three of the mixed nominated pairs takes place on Wednesday 11th Sep-tember.
Kenton Bowling Club
Men’s Classic is being played over the weekend of the 14th and 15th September.
Duties for 10th - 14th September
Tabs: John Bennet and Mo GoffBar: Russell Geard, Martin leon-
ard, Ian McPhersonIroning: Gordon Goff