Stanford river talk october 2015

STANFORD RIVER TALK Volume 121 | OCTOBER 2015 | Stanford‘s monthly newspaper | R14

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Q1: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?

Q2: In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink!

What color were the stairs?

A1: The letter M. A2: There weren’t any stairs, it was a one story house!

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MONTHLY CONTRIBUTORS Jennie and John Chancey, Suzanne FrancoisRossouw, Andrew Herriot, Mike Horn, Olga Koorts, Emma Kriel, Karen McKee, Don MacIver, Martin Ranger, Bryan Robertson, Naas Terblanche, Wanya van der Walt, Tania Weich and James Yeats.

COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Taken by Bryan Robertson.

Have some fun and try these games – there is something for everyone in the family.

Chain Sudoku

Each puzzle consists of a group of circles arranged in a square grid and containing given clues in various places. The object is to fill all empty circles so that the numbers 1 to 4 (for 4x4 puzzles), 1 to 5 (for 5x5 puzzles) etc. appear exactly once in each row, column and chain. © Conceptis Puzzles

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Boggle

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The old guard always referred to the school holiday that fell between the third and fourth terms as the Michaelmas holiday. Michaelmas is a Christian festival during which believers honour the Archangel Michael and all the Angels by eating a roasted goose with specially baked bread. It is also a time which marks the end of harvest in the northern hemisphere, and the beginning of autumn and one of the few flowers left at this time is called the Michaelmas daisy. Isn't it wonderful how it is the opposite here in South Africa?

Our gardens are bursting with brilliant green lawns (and weeds), the vines are pushing out leaves and small hard grapes after wintery hibernation (Wine Talk, page 14), and children play in warm sunny gardens. Stanford is also planning its first Thanksgiving Feast, usually an American tradition (Thanksgiving and giving back, page 6) and all profits will go to the Okkie Smuts Koshuis. They will be roasting a turkey or two instead of a goose. Naas Terblanche writes about the Namaqualand bloom (Nature Talk, page12), again the opposite of the dwindling flowers in the north.

Local charities are working full tilt to support the community (News and Updates, page 5,6) and the schools have been busy with the humdrum of sports, academics and school plays (School Talk, page 8,9). Dr Wanya van der Walt writes about eating healthily (Health Talk, page13) and Suzanne Francois-Roussouw suggest ways to keep a healthy garden which is attractive to birds.

October is chock-a-block with activities happening all over the Overberg (What's On, page 22) so make sure you get outside and support these events. It's a wonderful time to fill your house with friends so extend the invitation and make sure you show off the best of Stanford. The more the merrier.

How many words can you make using this Boggle layout? You may change direction at any time within the word, but your words must use letters which lie next to one another, and only use each letter only once.

Please send your letters to philippa.murray@gmail.com Try to keep letters as short as possible (100 words or less) and supply your name and address. Anonymous letters will not be published. The editor reserves the right to edit, amend, abridge or reject any letter.

Thank you Stanford Carers It was never my intention to be amongst the first to call on this amazing team, but life happens … and suddenly the need was there.

Stanford Cares has been amazing. Quiet, supportive and encouraging, giving space when it was needed and bringing cheer and village updates with their visits; they fetched and carried, did shopping, collected medication from the chemist and gave me lifts into Hermanus.

There are too many to mention everyone separately, but my special thanks go to Bea Whittaker, Sally Filmer, Elma Hunter, Merle Bernstein, Beryl Maxwell and Terry and Beryl Haw. Thank you to Janet Wyngaard who cared and cooked for us and to Denise Anderson who ‘cautiously’ passed a plate of delicious cream scones over the garden wall!

For the many prayers that were given, I will be forever grateful. Bless you all. I hope one of these days to be able to join the team and pass on some of that special care.

Kerri Brokensha

Be the change Judge the public sector like the private sector

We live in a fast changing world where it seems that everything old needs to be replaced by something new and we should share a coherent vision on the future which we define.

Change is inevitable in every area of life as we know it but we share many insecurities and feel unsupported by the government. The call for change comes from the bottom, most disempowered group who often feels ignored, disconnected and insecure.

Sometimes the best way forward, is first to go backwards. Let's consider going back to basics. In doing so the community can come up with solutions that suits its needs.

Changes start from within communities.

We see these movements all over the world. In the private sector, management would have to explain to shareholders and employees if they failed to take proper care of them, failed to reach targets and lost sight of the company's vision. Surely it is the same in our community?

What does all of this have to do with Stanford? If we establish an open and transparent situation and ongoing discussion about the challenges our village faces, we are surely on the path to change. The community can determine its input and output, and can work together to realise the potential for business in Stanford.

My dream for our community is that it will become a results-driven small society, almost like a small company. We can all work together to determine our future, how we want our community to be seen and how visitors experience it. We are the active shareholders. The essential part is that the more equality we can achieve, the better our community will work together. The better it is for business and better for all.

Let's all think how we can make our community more equal, and how we all can contribute to our desired future. Let's create a new connection and ongoing discussion between all Stanfordians.

Harry Poortman

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letters to the editor

Die Rooi Kafee

Stanford Koshuis is baie dank verskuldig aan Carine en George Briedenmann, sowel as hul helper John. Dankie vir die verf, vervanging van gordyne en vervraaiing van die koshuis eetsaal. Ons noem dit nou die Rooi Kafee.

Baie dankie van al die Stanford Koshuis leerders.

A round of applause for Rotary There is an expression about 'loading a willing horse' and we have all probably experienced it at some time. Our Stanford Rotary Club appears to be a prime example of this behaviour and I wonder whether other residents were as impressed as I was when sent their latest newsletter. I wonder how a club of so few members manages to not only tackle so many projects, but achieve such consistent success with each? As an ex-Rotarian of a Johannesburg club of about 30 members, I don't recall more than a handful of projects at any one time. Stanford Rotary's newsletter was delightfully informative, professionally produced and does a great job of showcasing some of their many projects. They clearly deserve our congratulations and our increased support in all their endeavours; they might be 'the most southerly Rotary Club', but I bet they have made their presence known north of here, to those who would be hard-pressed to match their achievements.

Bob Broom

SWOP SHOP Rotary Stanford's Swop Shop was a treasure trove in September From colourful age-appropriate reading books and marble bags to mandalas and pencil crayons, from mittens to ponchos, plus a wide array of essential school stationery, children could choose their own goods, paying for them with tickets they have earned for the recycled plastic, glass, tins and newspapers which they eagerly collect from their own household or in their neighbourhood.

At an event held in the Stanford Community Hall on Wednesday, 16 September, after a welcome by the Okkie Smuts Marimba Band, Overstrand Municipality’s Manager of Solid Waste Planning, Johan van Taak, explained the importance of recycling and the success of the local Swop Shops. Marilyn van der Velden, Councillor Dudley Coetzee and the Mayor, Nicolette Botha-Guthrie added their proud voices to reiterate the fact that Overstrand have won both Cleanest and Greenest awards in the last few years.

Afterwards, the Rotary Stanford Swop Shop opened and the impatient crowd of would-be 'shoppers' were waiting at the ticketing gate to hand in their many bags of plastic, bottles, tins and newspapers in return for tickets. As a special treat, Overstrand Municipality provided apples and fruit juice for every child.

Volunteers at all three centres regularly brave the throngs of eager people on shop days, and between times stocks are replenished, keen crafters are encouraged, more second-hand clothes and household goods are sourced. Volunteers share that they just love being at swop shop sessions.

Involvement comes from many quarters. Auntie Emmy Dreyer (age 93), from a well-known family who make up part of the history of Stanford, and is now living in Huis Lettie Theron, still has the welfare of the children of Stanford at heart. She crochets ponchos and knits mittens to send to the Swop Shop for ‘purchase’ by appreciative grandmothers for their grandchildren.

Elma Hunter

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news and updates

WARD COMMITTEE FEEDBACK Meeting held 17 September 2015

TARRING OF SHORTMARKET STREET The tarring of the section between De Bruyn and Morton Street commened in September.

REGISTERED SLIPWAYS Both the Du Toit and King Street slipways appear on the list of registered slipways in the Western Cape. This will allow especially boat operators to, for the time being, utilise the King Street slipway during periods of high water levels. Once the Du Toit Street slipway has been upgraded and the proposed floating jetty has been built, it is the intention to de-register the King Street slipway.

VILLAGE GREEN PRECINCT The village green precinct plan concept was presented to the municipality and property owners after the ward committee meeting. Unfortunately only two property owners attended the meeting, and a future meeting will be called to discuss the various proposals. See page 7 for more information on this project.

BEZUIDENHOUT STREET PAVEMENT This project was completed during September. The lower section of the walkway coincides with the area that will form part of the community hall precinct.

WORKING FOR THE COAST – THE GREEN TEAM It has been confirmed that the project will start on 1 November; but only for 6 months. There will then be a 6-month break due to 'budget constraints' (being contested by the municipality at the moment), after which the project then continues uninterrupted for another year. It is envisaged that the Stanford team will only consist of 8 members, compared to the previous 12 – 14.

Bea Whittaker

Sporting superstar Hats off to Grootbos Foundation superstar Natasha Bredekamp who has recently been awarded the Mayoral Award for Excellence for her outstanding work as Project Manager of the Football Foundation where she manages 7 youth sports programmes across the Overberg including Gansbaai, Stanford, Zwelihle, Mount Pleasant and Hawston. We salute her amazing drive and dedication to facilitate sport as a tool to engage children, providing educational Natasha Bredekamp: activities and excursions after school, during Bringing soccer to the school and public holidays, and keeping them out of harms way.

Stanfordians.

Grootbos Foundation

STANFORD PROPERTY SALES One property in Stanford was issued with a sale certificate in September, 2 in August and 4 in July. These figures include name transfers.

The Stanford Street Festival

Sunday 13 December 2015 We are delighted to announce the return of the Stanford Street Festival and the Stanford Dip Skateboard Race which will be just in time for your country Christmas shopping.

Vendor application forms are available on request. Contact John Withers at john@orton.co.za or 071 568 3499 or 028 341 0553

STANFORD NORTH NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH As long as a community continues to abdicate its civic duty to see that people caught for perpetrating crimes are punished to the fullest extent of the law, we can expect to see criminals (and repeat offenders) take this as an open invitation to continue to plunder innocent people's properties.

I am sure you all read the Hermanus Times article of 17 September in which SAPS had to release a criminal who had been caught redhanded because the victim declined to lay a charge after his property was recovered. This kind of apathy comes as a body blow to all of us involved with crime fighting. SAPS must find this particularly distressing as they cop a lot of flack from the community with regards to crime and the apprehension of criminals. SAPS is castigated regularly for not controlling crime, particularly when it is being committed by repeat and known offenders. I am afraid this will continue as long as people suffering losses are not prepared to see the case through to finality and a successful conviction.

I appeal to all Stanfordians to take this message to heart and to do the right thing.

Keep safe and alert.

Chris Moll

ROTARY

Smiling all the way: (From left) Elma Hunter, Malcolm Bury, Lana Coates, David Grier and Annie Ranger.

DAVID GRIER – WALKING THE TALK Thank you to both Stanfordians and out-of-towners who braved cold, wet weather to listen to David Grier, inspirational speaker, chef and long distance runner. Stanford Rotary Club invited David to the village to help raise funds for local Rotary projects as well as raising awareness for Operation Smile. This organisation performs corrective surgery on children with cleft palates.

David’s talk was full of humorous anecdotes and everyone was spellbound. He has run the Great Wall of China in 93 days and the entire coastline of SA in 80 days, paddled from Africa to Madagascar in 12 days, and run the entire length of India in 93 days. He will soon run from North to South Korea!

He talked about the lessons he has learnt from his journeys, and tries to make a difference in people’s lives by being pro-active and having a positive attitude. His abiding lesson is to never give up. You could say this is the mission of Stanford Rotary as we try to make a difference in our community with community support.

SOUP KITCHENS – OUR VITAL PROJECT We are currently providing nearly 500 portions of food per day from Monday to Thursday. A small food bank is also being stocked to assist people over weekends. Support can be offered in a variety of ways by providing dry or tinned goods at the Rotary box in Spar which can go into the food bank, or by donating cash into our 'Soup book' at Cobin’s General Dealer. Always most welcome is a regular monthly donation of money into our bank account, which can easily be set up as a debit order. Please call Ansie on 082 320 0982 for more details on how you can make a difference.

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CPF NEWS LET'S UNITE STANFORD CPF Chairman Willem Maclean and Vice Chairman Sarah Phillips invite all Stanfordians to join them in their quest to make Stanford a better and a safer place. Both have in depth knowledge of Stanford having lived in the community for the past twenty years. They joined the CPF in 2008.

The reason why they joined up was their shared concern regarding the increase in crime levels in Stanford CPF Chairman Willem Maclean from twenty years ago. Drugs, in and Vice Chairman Sarah Phillips. all forms, especially amongst the youth, is the major contributing factor in the continuously escalating number of crimes committed. They are worried about how basic human values such as respect and integrity seem to be disappearing rapidly.

Willem has attempted to unite the community through the seventeen churches which exist in Stanford. He was responsible for the establishment of the Christelike Forum which is open to all community members. The Forum gets together every month not only to pray for peace, but also to discuss strategies to reduce crime.

Sarah heads the Stanford South Neighbourhood Watch, which organises night time foot patrols over weekends. She has concerns about the shebeens and spaza shops, some of which are totally illegal.

Her NHW team spend a lot of their time chasing or taking young children back home after they are seen loitering around the spaza shops late at night.

They both think that the village is divided and call on all Stanford associations and individuals to join them in holding hands together in partnership with the police and law enforcement to unite the town.

They feel it is urgent that a civic association of all concerned citizens be established as soon as possible. Its objectives would be to eradicate crime and to introduce programmes to uplift the community. Strong and dedicated leadership would be needed to head such a civic association. Please contact Willem on 076 810 8908 if you would like to get involved.

DETECTIVE UPDATE August proved a successful month for Stanford SAPS in that 23 convictions were secured out of the 45 cases that went to court. More convictions could have been made if plaintiffs hadn’t either withdrawn their charges or failed to attend their court cases. One community member was sentenced to seven years in prison, five of which were suspended, after being convicted of house breaking in 2014.

Stuart Anderson

Planting trees for the future Afriforum Overstrand en Whale Coast Conservation het op 4 September hande gevat met en gehelp om bome by Laerskool Okkie Smuts te plant. Afriforum verrig heelwat gemeenskapsdiens en wil graag in die toekoms by die Laerskool betrokke raak.

Afriforum se portefeuljes is Jeug, Omgewing, Plaaslike Bestuur en Veiligheid.

Elmarie van Dalen Voorsitter: Afriforum Overstrand

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news and updates

Keeping us covered Robyn Lavender and her team at Kiwinet are really putting Stanford on the map. Their recent extension and new factory building have given them the space they need to meet the growing number of orders for mozzie nets and beautiful bedroom dressings which are produced on site.

Creating jobs in the village: (Back from left): Wendin Bruintjies; Lyvonne Arendse; Robyn Lavender, Natalie Ground; Jeanetta van Heerden (Front from left): Sandra Pieterse; Britneé Carstens; Ella Tobias; Taru Munyuki; Ruwaida Dunsdon; Zenobia Dunsdon; Cornelia Dreyer; Nareema Fortuin; Sanet Afrikaaner and Lisa Buys.

Treasure Hunting The Heritage Treasure Hunt was held on 25 September. Locals and longweekenders signed up in teams to crack the cryptic clues and race around the village collecting numbered stickers and secret envelopes. Although it was swelteringly hot in the noonday sun, children, teens, parents and retirees relished exploring the historical walk and were pleasantly surprised by the array of prizes at the finish line. And how wonderful it was to see so many people walking around Stanford and enjoying the heritage details of the beautiful old buildings instead of driving past them.

Stanford Conservation would like to thank Coffee Corner, Graze Restaurant, Kiwinet, Mosaic Spa, Reed Cottage, Stanford Harvest, Village Life and Yum Plotting a route using cryptic clues.

Eat Café for the donated prizes.

TOURISM TALK

Stanford Classics kicked off the Spring Season again this year with their usual enchanting performances of classical and light classical pieces. The five friends from the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra performed at the Dutch Reformed Church on Friday, 4 September before heading off to De Hoop Nature Reserve for their popular Wine, Whales and Music Concert.

The five friends, Malané Hofmeyr-Burger on flute, Peta Ann Holdcroft on cello, Marjan Vonk on viola and Irina Tsonif and Ivo Ivanov on violin, have performed around the world for a number of renowned orchestras. They are well known for their outdoor concerts in the Kruger National Park in aid of countering poaching.

This year, all the young musicians from the Janika Dorland School of Music in Stanford were given complimentary tickets to see how the virtuosos do it. The youngsters were dressed in their concert best and enjoyed the show with their parents.

Thank you to William for the complimentary tickets given to the children who are studying music with Janika, and to the ladies from the NG Kerk who provided delicious snacks in the interval.

Tourism Committee

Park off, or Park on?

The playground on the market square is to be completed by a number of volunteers under the leadership of Abrie Hickman from Adenco.

Unfortunately, intermittent rain has caused delays on Adenco’s work, and subsequent delays to finish off the playground.

Bea Whittaker

Crossing the ford

On 26 September, 55 music enthusiasts gathered at Ford Hermanus to be entertained by Jazzfordians Janet, Rash and Andrew and their talented Hermanus friends (Judy Miller, Ryno Steyn and Servaas Verster). The musicians performed a Montage of Music evening while supporters nibbled on delicious snacks. What else does one do in a car showroom after-hours?

Profits of R3 000 from the event are gratefully received by Jami Kastner, Chaiman of The Butterfly Foundation. Andrew Herriot

Thanksgiving and giving back Why host a traditional American feast in a South African village? Well, there are many reasons, but here are a few of the best: • Community: Thanksgiving in the States is all about family and community togetherness. This yearly feast symbolizes the joining of diverse talents and interests to benefit everyone, no matter their background. It’s all about coming together to share. Best of all, Stanford’s FOOD HEROES will be using the leftovers to create delicious soups for the Rotary Soup Kitchen.

• Food: Americans think more about what they prepare for Thanksgiving than they do for Christmas! While there are traditional dishes (roast turkey, mash, greens, corn), there is an infinite variety of side dishes, usually prepared by the guests in attendance to create the feeling of a real community/family endeavour. Your ticket will cover all your main dishes, plus a couple of sides and dessert. Wine and beer will be for sale at the feast.

• Service: After food and logistics costs have been covered, all remaining funds will go to benefit the Koshuis at Okkie Smuts School.

There will be an open house event in early October to launch ticket sales for this exciting event, so be sure to watch the Stanford Tourism page on Facebook. Mark your calendars for Thursday, 19 November at 18:00. The venue is the Birkenhead Galley, and there will be traditional American music and dances once we’ve eaten our fill and pushed back our dinner plates. Hope to see you there! Jennie Chancey STANFORD RIVER TALK 6

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Village green – which way are we going?

OPTION 1 Stanford’s village green (which includes the abutting sections of Longmarket and Shortmarket Streets) is of provincial heritage significance and any improvement to the area (which is urgently required) has to take this restriction into consideration.

By now you are aware of the four precinct plans for Stanford, which are fully endorsed by the Overstrand Municipality. A concept for the village green precinct was presented during September to the Ward Committee, various municipal officials and property owners around the village green. Unfortunately few property owners attended, and another meeting will be held at a more convenient time. In the meantime the concept (explained below) is open for discussion and all feedback is appreciated.

Due to its heritage status, one is not be able to decrease the size of the village green itself for parking purposes. Parking, traffic and pedestrians will therefore have to be accommodated in the existing road width. Various options were discussed at the meeting and the two most popular are explained below.

It must also be kept in mind that, in order for the Queen Victoria Street precinct to be feasible (i.e. pedestrian-friendly), as many parking bays as possible need to established around the village green. However, this has to be done without compromising the heritage, 'green' and aesthetical characteristics of Stanford’s most prized feature.

It was agreed that the following are essential components of both roads: • A paved sidewalk (taking into account the ‘leiwater’) adjacent to the houses on both sides of the village green; • Parking on the market green side (either parallel or angled); • A natural pathway between the parking and the village green.

To accommodate these essential components, the bottom line is either a two-way street with parallel parking on both sides, or alternatively only on the village green side; or a narrower one-way street system with sufficient parallel parking and the ability to continue the creation of forecourts. The proposed one-way system is from north-to-south in Shortmarket Street, and south-to-north in Longmarket Street – the reasoning being that one could turn down Bezuidenhout Street to get to Longmarket Street more quickly.

Please post or email comments to Stanford Conservation, PO Box 539, Stanford, or email: milkwood@maxitec.co.za Bea Whittaker

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school talk All local schools are invited to send news and photographs each month.

OKKIE SMUTS

21 DAYS FOR THE OCEAN As part of their 21 Days for the Ocean campaign, White Shark Projects initiated a competition where they asked the learners of Okkie Smuts Primary School in Stanford to collect as many 2litre plastic bottles as possible. Learners were motivated by a chance to win a shark cage dive for two. White Shark Projects were inundated with bottles. The ultimate winner was Asana Miles who collected 249 bottles. White Shark Projects were so impressed with the effort that they decided to invite the runner up (Nushaan Cornelius with 102 bottles) to join them on a shark cage dive too. The plastic bottles will be used in the 'We build Zwehile' campaign, where they use plastic bottles to build houses. They need 3 500 bottles to build one house. Now they still need donations of cement, doors and windows. Okkie Smuts pupils, thank you for your hard work!

Winners of the bottle collection: (From left) Nushaan Cornelius, Inge Altona de Klerk from White Shark Projects and Asana Miles.

MATHEMATICS COMPETITION

Maths whizzes: (Back) Jade Coetzee (Middle from left) Reuben Roode, Erin Dreyer, Emma Privett (Front) Taylor Anderson and Courtney Anderson. Absent: Tanique van der Walt.

Verskeie van leerders van Okkie Smuts het deelgeneem aan die kompetisie wat eers by die skool, daarna binne die kring van skole, en uiteindelik in die distrik gehou is.

Ses leerders het aan die distrikskompetisie deelgeneem wat op 17 September in Caledon plaasgevind het. Baie geluk aan ons Wiskundeleerders. Ons is trots op julle!

BUZZY BEES CONCERT Buzzy Bees held its annual fundraising concert in the NG Church Hall on 11 September.

Families filled up the hall to watch the little animals and insects perform their songs and dances.

Well done to the staff at Buzzy Bees who pulled off a triumph of

SPRING DAY Okkie Smuts celebrated Spring Day on 4 September.

All pupils were encouraged to dress up as birds and they did an excellent job fluffing out their tail feathers. The day's activities involved a clean-up of the area around the Willem Appel Dam, a gentle spring stroll along the Wandelpad, and boeresports on the Village Green.

The crowned crane: Jade Coetzee was dressed for Spring Day. SPELLING BEE Imaan Sydow and Ethan van der Schyff represented the Overberg District at the Western Cape Provincial Spelling Bee 2015 that took place on Saturday,19 September at Pelican Park Primary in Grassy Park.

Mrs Christien Haxton accompanied them. 33 learners from 11 districts took part and congratulations Spelling bee: (From left) Imaan Sydow to Imaan who achieved and Ethan van der Schyff. fifth place and Ethan who achieved seventh place.

ART COMPETITION • KUNSKOMPETISIE Caledon Toerisme het ‘n kompetisie geloods vir leerders in die Overbergomgewing. Waarvan die tema ooreengestem het met die Kuns Kurrikulum. Graad 7 leerders het gefokus op historiese huise of geboue.

Twee van ons Graad 7 Vuyo Mbangeni Marion Pretorius leerders het deurgedring na die eindrondte van die kompetisie wat op 4 September 2015 in Caledon plaasgevind het.

Marion Pretorius het tweede plek behaal en Vuyo Mbangeni eerste plek. Hy neem binnekort deel aan die eindrondte in Somerset-Wes.

HOCKEY UNDER 8S The Okkie Smuts Hockey U8 team played its first ever match against Curro Hermanus on 2 September. After a shaky start and a quick goal against them, they found their stride and finished the match with a courageous loss of 3-0. They had a marvellous time – thank you to Coia De Villiers for coaching them.

Buzzy Bees: (Back from left) Alex Kastner, Rokeya Semwayo, Zaylin Montagu, Rachel Hague, (Front from) Kellan Nale, Jasper Goss and Mivuyo Apolisi.

BELOFTEBOS DINNER DANCE We had a wonderful fundraiser on Friday, 19 September at the beautiful Beloftebos Wedding Venue. Thank you to each and every one that made this event so successful, and especially the de Villiers family. We raised R8 600 for Okkie Smuts and the Stanford Hostel Fund.

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Hockey U8: Coia DeVilliers' junior Hockey Squad.

school talk FUNIMFUNDO

Klein River Farm outing

The Food 4 Thought committee members and teachers had their hands full on Wednesday, 16 September when all the children from Funimfundo preschool went on a picnic outing to the Klein River Cheese Farm.

With picnic goodies packed and a load of very excited children we hurried off to the cheese farm.

We pulled off the road en route to admire the handsome Zebra,

Springbok and Bontebok. With great excitement and enthusiasm we arrived at the Cheese Farm, greeting the billy goat sitting on the roof of his house at the entrance to the farm before being warmly welcomed by the farm management and staff.

48 Funimfundo children had a blast on the rocking horse, trampoline, swings, jungle gyms and in the doll houses – what a fabulous venue for children under

6! After loads of play and fun, the children were finally hungry and we all sat down to a yummy picnic of hotdogs, popcorn, icecream and juice.

The Funimfundo children were very well behaved and really did us proud. Thank you very much Klein River Cheese for having us – we loved it!

Funimfundo is a pre-primary school run by the NPC Food4Thought. Maryanne Ward

Playing house: (From left) Lisakhanya Mongameli, Iminathi Qhankqiso, Buhle Shologu, Sibabalwe Sodam and Likhona Mthanyana.

GANSBAAI ACADEMIA

DIE BRON TREES FOR DIE BRON Die Bron Primary School in Stanford is planting 100 indigenous trees in the school yard. Maarten Groos from Trees for Tourism and Die Bron Primary School have begun to plant trees in and alongside the school yard.

The school yard of Die Bron Primary School is at present somewhat bleak, mainly devoid of plants and shade, and is exposed to wind and harsh sun. Planting trees will provide a welcome greening of the children’s environment.

• It will teach the children to appreciate the beauty of our South African nature and their own environmental heritage.

• It will bring birds and other small wildlife into the school yard and into

the lives of the children.

• The trees will create a soft and green barrier between children of different age-groups.

• The trees will be planted by the children themselves under supervision of the school staff and the South African Reforestation Trust.

So far 40 trees have been planted.

We would like to encourage anyone who would like to support this initiative to sponsor a tree at R150.

Please contact Maarten maarten@farm215.co.za or Regina omstables@telkomsa.net Trees for Tourism is a programme of the South African Reforestation Trust.

Stanford School Hostel The Stanford School Hostel is according to the Western Cape Education Department part of Okkie Smuts Primary School. All the occupants are learners of Okkie Smuts Primary School. The hostel is managed by the School Governing Body of Okkie Smuts Primary with a hostel committee, sub-committee of the Governing Body with Andries de Villiers as Chairman.

The superintendent is Rita du Preez with Gerrie and Adanne Geldenhuys as hostel parents.

Currently there are 55 children in the hostel. We have a very close working relationship with BADISA and supply a place of safety for learners whom they refer to us. This is how the hostel becomes their home and Oom Gerrie and Tannie Adanne become their parents.

80% of the learners apply for hostel bursaries from WCED. The bursaries cover only about two thirds of the operating cost of the hostel. The guardians, most of them single parents, are responsible for the rest of the fees. To assist the parents, the hostel created a bursary fund. The hostel committee identify cases of merit and the funds are paid into the hostel account to cover the shortfall. The hostel receives a lot of support from the community. These children do not just need beds and plates of food, but also love and understanding. We want to create an environment where there is no difference between the learners with needs and those who come from safe and happy homes. To really create a home away from home, we need all the support we can get. Everybody is welcome to come and visit and even just donate time to make a difference. Please feel free to contact the school or hostel if you want to help. 028 341 0611 Mr Kobus Koekemoer

It is the end of the third term already and in about a month’s time our matric class starts its final examinations. We wish them all everything of the best and urge them to make proper use of the holiday schools that have been arranged for them, mainly in Swellendam and Villiersdorp.

Gansbaai Academia is involved in a pilot project as an inclusive school to look after learners with learning difficulties.

Ms Harding-Male is the Learning Support Co-ordinator and has 16 learners from grade 8 to 12 who are receiving specific intervention.

After the disappointing mathematics results of our grade 8 learners, it was decided to implement a programme with the maths educators, co-ordinated by the principal and Ms HardingMale. She assisted with discipline, marking and assisting learners with problems in the class amongst other things. The results were astonishing. In one term the grade average increased from 13% to 38%, the pass rate from 4% to 50% and the top learner, Elize Appel went from 44% to 88%. This is proof why we ask parents for a monthly contribution to cater for extra educators. So much more can be achieved for the learners with extra hands on deck.

Our first annual Sports Gala evening, held on 21 September, was a great success. Our top sport participants were awarded with certificates for their performances, whilst an enjoyable meal was dished up. Everybody was most impressed with the function and it will become an annual event. The rugby team was chosen as team of the year for their astonishing 10 victory stretch.

Gansbaai Academia’s marimba band kept the crowd thoroughly entertained during the Funky Fynbos Festival, whilst some parents baked pancakes to raise funds for the school. We were all so proud when Thembasile Mangali, followed closely by his brother, came first and second in the 12km event. Together with another learner, Marco Maarman, they form part of a group of athletes sponsored by Grootbos Foundation, and have accumulated many impressive achievements.

Funky Fynbos runners from the Grootbos Foundation: (From left) Izaak Jantjies, Alvino Cupido, Themba Mangali, Shenobian Cupido, Marco Maarman, Edward Goliath, Thembasile Mangali and Tertius Lutzeyer, (Front) German Lewis.

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Market leader Incanda Furniture, an established brand in the Western Cape, is known countrywide for its proudly South African designs and recently opened a showroom at The Interchange in Somerset West.

Incanda is the Xhosa word for a porcupine quill and it was the sale of a bundle of porcupine quills that gave birth to the Incanda we know today. Although the porcupine quill does not feature in the business, it was the proverbial spark that ignited the entrepreneurial spirit of the creative driving force behind this rapidly expanding brand, Gerhard van Deventer.

From initially establishing himself in the leather and skins wholesale industry, he soon moved on to establish an exclusive leather upholstery with the help of varsity friend, Hendri Visser. From its humble beginnings in a double garage in December 2003, Incanda Furniture has grown from, producing about 10 couches SHU PRQWK LQ LWV ÀUVW \HDU WR FXUUHQW YROXPHV RI PRUH WKDQ new couches per month. A re-upholstery department, where well-lived classics are restored, was established a year or so down the line. This division currently does the equivalent of around 30 new couches per month.

Over the past few years Incanda has also branched out to include a wood studio as well as an interior dĂŠcorating service.

The business now employs close to 90 people and opened its fourth showroom in Somerset West on 24 August this year.

As the business grew, its focus also shifted towards developing a truly South African inspired and designed range of products unique to Incanda; turning the factory into a world class RSHUDWLRQ LQ WHUPV RI SURGXFWLRQ HIĂ€FLHQF\ DQG TXDOLW\ standards and taking client service to another level, thus fast becoming the most loved furniture brand in the country.

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in the making “At Incanda we stubbornly believe in our simple recipe of excellent quality, reasonable prices and superb after-sale service. We only use the best raw materials - whether it is for our leather or wood furniture,� explains Gerhard.

The planks they use for manufacturing leather couches are WKLFNHU DQG ZLGHU WKDQ WKH VWDQGDUG VSHFLĂ€FDWLRQV DQG DUH VWLOO fastened with glue and screws instead of staples. They pride themselves on using the best quality sponge available on the market and, most importantly, only use top quality, natural full grain analine leather. The same can be said of its Blackwood (Acacia Melanoxylon) furniture range that is 100% sustainable.

As an introduced species to the Knysna area, it encroaches on the natural forest and has to be kept under control – hence ensuring a constant supply of top quality timber while, at the same time, maintaining the natural balance of the forest. Construction is kept simple but sturdy in order to ensure a top quality product that will withstand the test of time.

Regarding Incanda’s policy on price, Gerhard summarises it as follows, “Anton Rupert once said, the purpose of a business is to VHUYLFH WKH SXEOLF DW D UHDVRQDEOH SURĂ€W , DJUHH ZKROHKHDUWHGO\ with this and thus Incanda clients always receive good quality for their money!â€?

While good pre-sale service is the standard at Incanda, good after-sale service is the golden rule. To convince a client to purchase an Incanda product is one thing, but to assist a client that encounters a problem after a while in such a way that they still recommend you is what everyone at Incanda strives towards. “This combination of quality, reasonable prices and good client service will always remain Incanda’s winning recipe,� concludes Gerhard.

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THE ONLY CONSTANT IS CHANGE

technical talk

FINANCE MATTERS The Old Boar mulls over whether the blood moon heralds something monumental

The fickle finger of fate strikes again! While we were all watching the market after the August hiccough, waiting for the crash, it was the Rand that crashed. It was not unexpected but the timing certainly was. Once one of the rating agencies decided to close its doors (a polite way of telling us that we have hit junk bond status), it was a raging certainty that the Rand would fall off the boat. The ALSI index at 51044 (at the time of writing) is just 7.5% off its high of 55188 which was in April 2015.

While the crash can certainly still come 7.5% does not constitute a crash but merely a correction. Personally I don't see the high of 55188 being broken before 2018 but probably much later. Anyway, the Fed has decided to allow the free money party to go on for another few months.

Somehow being a beneficiary seems to have eluded me.

'Change is something we live with all the time and it could certainly be the end of the world as we know it.'

September 28 will see a 'blood moon'. A blood moon occurs when there is a lunar eclipse and the refraction of light in the earth's atmosphere makes the moon appear red. There were two last year and this is the second this year. This is known as a Tetrad. Most interestingly, all four of these blood moons have coincided with a Jewish holiday. Pundits 'in the know' (or perhaps with direct connections to the cosmos?) and some Christians say that this signifies the end of the world or, at the very least, a time of great change. Previous Tetrads saw the expulsion of the Jews by the Spanish Inquisition in 1493, the founding of the State of Israel in 1949, and the Six Day War in 1967.

Change is something we live with all the time and it could certainly be the end of the world as we know it. Refugees pouring into Europe at an unprecedented rate must surely have an effect on the countries accepting them. I have great difficulty in understanding how 'refugees', ostensibly with nothing but the clothes on their backs, can leave swathes of litter beside the roads they travel on and have the gall to throw the water and rations offered them back at the donors. Could this lead to the greatest civil war in history?

With summer approaching it is great to be in Stanford, far from the madding crowd.

I have been writing this column for the last five years and have decided to take a break and not bore you good people any further. Good luck from the 'Old Boar'.

Editor's note: The Old Boar has brought us years of serious, hardhitting truths and fair perspective on the muddy world of economics.

Team River Talk will miss your columns and we shall always make space for your commentary when you are ready to return. We have certainly never been bored.

The trouble with tagging Jennie Chancey gives some practical advice on how to beef up social media privacy

One of the most frustrating aspects of our digital lives is that we don’t have complete control over our names and photos being published by others. Many a prospective employee has been turned down for a job due to some ‘interesting’ photos or comments turning up on social media. Ah, the Tag Monster. You can be the most private person in the universe, but if you have friends who enjoy sharing and tagging (even if they mean well), what can you do? Thankfully, there are some practical steps you can implement right now to help regain control of your own images and ‘privacy’ in our digital era.

If you use Facebook and want to control where you are featured in friends’ posts, you can learn how to untag yourself in previously published posts and how to turn off automatic tagging at http:// ow.ly/SrGgu. Unfortunately, Facebook will still allow others to tag you, but you control what appears in your newsfeed and who can see it. Be sure to double-check your privacy settings to make sure you aren’t sharing with the general public but only your trusted friends and associates (see http://ow.ly/SrGBP).

Now, while Shakespeare said, ‘What’s done cannot be undone’, if you decide you’d like to remove a lot of previous Facebook activity rather than leaving all that data sitting in the cloud, there’s an easy way to do so. You can first download your Facebook data (allowing you to keep all your photos and posts) by following the instructions at http://ow.ly/SrGXO. Next, there’s a handy tool that can delete huge amounts of Facebook activity quickly and painlessly. See http://activityremover.com. You can set a date range and a speed and just let the application delete at will or delete only certain things (photos, videos, etc.). You’ll still need to untag yourself in photos others have posted if you haven’t already done so, but you won’t have to sit for hours hitting the ‘delete’ key while going through months or years of activity.

Keeping a handle on your privacy is a challenge, but it’s worth the effort. Next month John will be share some tips about geotagging, and I’ll share about private alternatives to Facebook and WhatsApp that are gaining new members daily as more and more social media users take a stand against data mining.

SOAPBOX

On my hobbyhorse

I

Plywood chuck gliders are just not Martin Ranger's thing

suppose we all admire someone – perhaps a sportsman, a celeb or (even) a politician. Me? I admire people with hobbies. I envy their preoccupation with their own pleasure; their ability to justify absence from other social activities or civic responsibilities based on the supreme importance of their particular pastime. I have briefly considered a few.

Take golf – is it a sport or just a walk around a park trying to knock little white balls into

holes? If recreational activities are intended to be beneficial to our health how can a game such as golf, whose frustrations must inevitably raise one's blood pressure, be healthy? And I am sure that we are genetically programmed to avoid wearing mismatched pastel checks, so why the exception on the golf course?

Then there is photography.

Sadly today’s technology has ensured the obsolescence of its associated rituals. Now anyone with a reasonable sense of

composition and a steady hand can produce perfectly adequate pictures. Phrases like ‘f-stop’, ‘dark room’ and ‘developer bath’ have joined VHS and carburettor in the photo album of history.

Currently the only thing posted is either a request for your money or a magazine from the people who are looking after it, so stamp collecting seems like a poor choice.

Gardening might have featured on my list were it not for the fact that My Lovely Wife is something of an expert. She insists that I stay

on the verandah, reminding me that 'you pay and I display'.

So to all of you that busy yourselves with collecting, snapping and pruning – and even those who can say ‘bogey’ with a straight face – I offer my admiration.

So what do I do? I write a bit, I help out a bit, I try and put something back and I keep an eye on my investments in the stock market. After all, those are cheques that definitely have to match!

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nature talk

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By Naas Terblanche

Flowers & insects

his year we spent our short winter holiday in Namaqualand. We saw many beautiful flowers but it was mostly overcast and we did not see the spectacular displays of flowers that we hoped for.

This made us wonder why the flowers only open on sunny warm days. The reason of course is that the flowers are not at all interested in pleasing humans with their beauty. Their only interest is attracting insects with their bright colours and fragrances.

The fact that flowering plants evolved at the same time as

plant talk

insects is no coincidence; the plants needed the insects to cross-pollinate them. Until then plants had to put up with little genetic variation and were at risk of inbreeding and deterioration. As a result of cross-pollination by mostly insects, flowering plants now rule the plant world.

Flowering plants attract insects in many different ways; they have nectar and pollen to lure bees, butterflies, beetles and other insects. The downside is that the plant leaves can sometimes be eaten by insects.

Insects in turn also became

dependent on flowers for their survival – a win-win situation.

Flowering plants use their bright colours and scents to attract insects. Some flowers attract specific insects with specific colours. Yellow beetles often go for yellow plants. Flies and blowflies are however not impressed by sweet scents and bright colours.

Some flowers like Stapelias are brown or black and have bad odours. Flies of course love this.

To give them an extra advantage over the competition for insect pollinators, flowers

sometime even use deceit.

The most amazing example of deceit is the Beetle Daisy that has markings on the flowers that look exactly like a specific local beetle. This creates the illusion that they already have visitors with which the beetle can mate. And what makes it even more remarkable is that different individual Beetle Daises differ from flower to flower in the number of 'beetle' spots on their petals. The beetles have little chance to cotton on to the ploy.

By Suzanne Francois-Rossouw

For the birds

How to make your garden appeal to birds

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to different sized birds. You can also sow some wild bird seed so the birds can eat the seed directly from the grasses when they come into seed. Some birds like scratching round on the ground looking for insects, so consider putting mulch down or leaving leaf matter from the trees for them to dig through. It would also be a good idea to have more vegetation in this area so they don't feel too exposed.

Lastly, but probably most importantly, try to be more considerate of the environment by removing alien vegetation from your garden, planting indigenous as far as possible and avoid spraying with dangerous chemicals to control insect problems in the garden.

If you create a balanced ecosystem your insect problems will be controlled naturally and more birds will visit.

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With spring in the air you hear birds singing outside from early in the morning. This got me thinking about how you would attract birds to your garden. What you would require is food, water, shelter and nesting spots. If you are starting a garden from scratch, you would need to look at planting trees, shrubs, perennials, succulents, grasses and ground-cover plants that would be attractive to birds. You would also need to know what birds would eat in the garden, eg. nectar, seeds, insects or fruit.

Another important factors to consider when creating a garden for birds is supplying water. You can do this by creating a small pond or putting a bird bath in a sheltered spot in the garden.

If you want to attract seed loving birds to your garden, you can make use of various bird feeders which would appeal

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Smelly cat

vet talk

Dr Olga Koorts discusses the causes of cystitis in pets Cystitis is a general term referring to inflammation of the bladder. This might be due to an infection or irritation, both which in turn may be the result of a number of issues.

Both cats and dogs commonly suffer from cystitis and in both species females are more prone to disease than males. Bladder infections are, however, often more serious in male animals, especially male cats which may end up with blocked urethras (the tubes they urinate through). Back pressure from the bladder to the kidneys can cause kidney failure. A 'blocked' male cat constitutes an emergency.

Diabetes, vaginitis, bladder stones or crystals, cancer of the bladder, diseases affecting normal emptying of the bladder, abnormal bladder anatomy and certain medications may all contribute to the development of cystitis. Cats often suffer from idiopathic cystitis – meaning cystitis without an identifiable cause. Stress is also a common factor in cats with bladder problems. Hormone related incontinence and thyroid problems often play a role in dogs.

The first symptoms noted are frequent, strained or painful urination which is often smelly, cloudy or bloody. Accidents in the house or in inappropriate places might be a further clue.

In order to find the reason for your pet’s bladder problem, your vet might do a urine analysis, a culture for bacteria or might even suggest other tests like an ultrasound or blood tests.

Treatment consists of antibiotics if infection is confirmed or suspected and/or anti inflammatories. Special diets are often used as long term management. Underlying disease or behavioural issues also need to be addressed.

health talk

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Dr Wanya van der Walt says we should concentrate on our food

We are inundated with information about how we should live, what we should do and what we should eat. Big food manufacturers' demands for higher profit has given rise to over processed food which is devoid of nutrition, and is overly sweet, salty, and fatty.

I read Screen Talk in the September edition of Stanford River Talk and enjoyed James Yeats' article on his rebooting programme. We are surrounded by news of an increase in cases of cancer, auto-immune disease, depression and obesity. It is scary but true that this may in many ways be connected to what we eat.

My youngest child is allergic to something new every day and this has opened my eyes to what we really put in our mouths. Our bodies are finely tuned and very sensitive and very unique. We live stressed, hurried lives, in different social structures, and different economic situations. Our relationship with food is quite unhealthy. We don’t think about it, or it is just a means to an end, or a habit. We seldom make time to have a sit down meal, and we don’t realise what we are eating. We do not chew slowly enough so that our bodies have time to register and process what our body needs and when it is satisfied. Our western lifestyle has turned into a pattern of television-dinners, highly processed snacks and endless reruns of 'NCIS New York'.

One of the many books I have read is called ‘It Starts With Food’ by Dallas and Melissa Hartwig. Because of my medical background, I love the fact that they turn to science and give the practical evidence to their statements. They propose a few good food standards, the food we eat should: promote a healthy psychological response (it is either good or bad, there are no 50 shades of grey), promote a healthy hormonal response, support a healthy gut, support immune function and minimize inflammation.

I agree whole-heartedly. One ingredient or chemical can have an influence on many different systems in the body, and they usually are consumed in combination with other ingredients or nutrients. In our area, we have a wealth of qualified nutrition experts and ‘good food’ producers. We don’t have to go far to find healthy, organic, real free range produce. So, set the table, switch off the television and cell phones, and enjoy your food.

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kitchen talk

Little crisp clouds of meringue smothered in whipped cream and tarted up with fresh fruit are a real treat. Whether childishly crushed up into a mess, or elegantly towered with fresh frosted flowers and spun sugar, meringues are a show stopper. As long as you have an electric beater this recipe is a sure thing and can be piped into individual mosque shaped domes, teaspooned into wobbly icebergs or spread into Pavlova discs.

3 egg whites * 150g castor sugar * 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar * 1 teaspoon corn flour Crack three egg whites into a large round bowl. Beat with an electric beater until foamy like shaving cream. Begin slowly adding the castor sugar 1 Tablespoon at a time, beating continuously until you form stiff, glossy peaks. Finally add the vinegar and cornflour and beat for a few more seconds.

Spread onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake at 140˚C for an hour and then turn the oven off, leaving the meringues in to cool slowly. If you like your meringues to be slightly chewy, open the oven door to allow them to cool faster. If your meringues darken too much while baking, your oven is too warm. If they are still soft to the touch after an hour, your oven is not warm enough and you will need to give them another 10 minutes.

Slather your crispy peaks with whipped cream, bitter chocolate shavings and fresh berries. Or why not try something different: stir together equal quantities of whipped cream and Greek yoghurt, and serve with freshly sliced mango on a Pavlova base. Meringue heaven!

ANNA PAVLOVA, 1912

Mouthfuls of meringue While it is believed that the Pavlova is a dessert named after the Russian Ballet dancer, Anna Pavlova, there is still great debate over who first invented this billowy, jeweled extravaganza.

Many claim to have been the first to create such a treat but the most commonly believed origin is in a hotel in Wellington, New Zealand in 1926 while Pavlova was on world tour. The Pavlova has become a favourite pudding in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa and many families serve it on summer festive tables.

wine talk

October in the Wine World Tania Weich says cheers to new growth and beauty

The countdown begins! 'Tis the season of growth, which heralds that time of the year when the season for celebration is imminent.

I’m curious. What is your opinion on chinking your glass and saying 'cheers', in October? ‘A little premature’ some may say… ‘a little late?’

I suspect the optimists amongst us would raise the objection.

Bear in mind that spring also denotes a new growing season in the vineyards and a period of feverish housekeeping, which extends beyond the confines of where we were cocooned during the past really-cold months. Whether we are in sync with the process of spraying crops, thinning shoots or fertilizing fields as in the wine world, by spring cleaning our homes and eventually getting around to spaceclearing, for reasons of feng shui or to make extra funds, there is a marked similarity of what goes on in our immediate space and what goes on between the vines.

Surely it is not my imagination that our self-esteem experiences an upswing in October and November, which I accredit to our entry back into our ubiquitous and previously slumbering social circles. And so it is in the outdoors - as the vines begin to flower and after berry set, new bunches of grapes make their debut.

Furthermore, I have experienced first-hand a burst of creative growth when I was recently invited to one such social gathering. Chris and Toni threw a major bash and I arrived to pay my respect to a couple who gracefully endure the tequilas and tribulations, which goes with being my friend. I must admit that I spent a large part of the evening saying cheers – in salutation of Chris who was celebrating a milestone birthday, and to Toni who gave me a sample tasting of the wine, which she made.

Back to the question of whether it is a time to celebrate? I don’t know! What I do know for sure is that by the end of that birthday party, whether anybody agrees with me or not is irrelevant, I was beautiful.

But then… in the vineyards, canopy management activities occur about now in order to control growing vigour of the vines. I think this means that I should exercise caution regarding my new found beauty regimen – either that, or it means that if you intend making your own tipple… you need to ensure that I taste it first?

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Animazings

book talk

By Bruce Lawley

Nooks and crannies Have you seen these before? Test you knowledge of our eclectic heritage village and see if you can find these in Stanford.

A local children's story which ticks all the boxes Breaking into the publishing world is no easy feat and the self-publishing route can be hazardous and soul destroying. Add to that the cut-throat competition amongst writers of children's fiction and picture books and most folks would sigh and give up. JK Rowling and Julia Donaldson have got that wrapped up, so when Bruce Lawley, Cape Town based copywriter, began writing a story about animal superheroes for his two daughters, he didn't imagine it would even make it to print.

At first, this quirky rhyming story about six animals dressed as superheroes who save a rhinoceros from poachers was only available overseas through Amazon but now it can be bought through Takealot.

The Animazings like Elephantastic, Hippofabulous and Acrobat rescue the rhino who joins their ranks as a fellow Animazing. The illustrations are charming and the story is proudly South African and aimed at children between 4 and 10 years old.

This will make an excellent Christmas or birthday present for South African kids, or for friends and family overseas who just love a bit of Africa on their bookshelves.

Phil Murray

The Write Stuff There are many published authors in Stanford and surrounds. If you have written a book, be it fiction or not, for kiddies or grown-ups, why not ask a friend to send us a review? We would love to help you get your words out there.

Please email philippa.murray@gmail.com

GAME TALK In September's edition of Stanford River Talk, we asked readers to send us a photograph and review of their favourite parlour game and this was the first response.

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he noble game of cards. There’s no skill If you go down to the TWIT: code name … here.’ woods on a Thursday Aaah souls!

But there is a much night and hear shrieking, If you go down to the darker side to all and cackling and wild woods tonight (Tuesday this daring expertise, hysteria, it is the group in Stanford) you're sure excitement and at times that I speak of. And of a big surprise. If you outrageous cunning. they wear hats. Yes, the go past some houses Unbeknownst to some of weirdest array of hats! tonight, you’ll find some these players, a subAnd that is all! Or maybe oldies playing cards, with culture evolved within I should say and that no compromise. No, the ranks, and they meet is not all. They elect a they’re not gambling: on Thursday nights. This president and deputy, they are playing the is a group who throw some mere mortals. Even highly competitive game all caution to the wind. the Twit has a deputy, of Canasta! And some This group of souls (Aaah (poor) souls). Is of the players imbibe pushes the boundaries it The Clan? Is it the in the bubbly stuff, and of card playing to the Illuminati? What rituals pink fluids, home brews limit. ‘ Aaaarrrgghhh, do they practice? I have and the like. Some have me hearties!’ shouts the heard it is a game that been heard to say, ‘Aaah, Scotsman as he rubs the requires enormous it’s all in the luck of the monkey's shoulder. concentration and * Please join in and send your review to philippa.murray@gmail.com

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strategic power play.

More challenging than bridge? More demanding than chess? Yes, it puts the glass Mad hatters: Rick and Lyn Prins. bead game to shame.

It’s the game of princes.

The theme song, the chorus is ‘Aaah (poor) often bawled out loudly soul.’ into the Stanford night (In this game a player by a lusty balladeer can never be President after being victoriously and Twit at the same appointed the President, time, which is not the is, ‘From a jack to a case in our fair land) king, from loneliness to Penned by Ricardo, a wedding ring, I played the Shuffler, Dealer, and an ace and I won a often-time lackey to the queen, you made me President. king of your heart.’ And Rick Prins

A taste of Wine & Wisdom For those who have never been to a Conservation Trust fundraiser, here is a selection of the questions posed by quizmasters Lyn and Mike Bouchier.

1. Which European river is the only one to flow eastwards?

2. How many husbands did Elizabeth Taylor have?

3. Who was the only South African Prime Minister not born in this country?

4. What country is generally accepted to be the birth place of wine?

5. Born in England on July 25, 1978, why was Louise Brown unique?

6. What is Germany’s biggest selling fast food?

7. Who won 6 consecutive Wimbledon titles in the 1980’s? (Answers below) Wine and Wisdom is held on the first Thursday of the month at the Birkenhead Brewery. The fee of R50 goes to the Stanford Conservation Trust. If you would like to join in the fun contact Annie Ranger annie@reedcottage.co.za to book your place.

1) Danube. 2) Seven. 3) Verwoerd in Amsterdam. 4) Georgia. 5) First test-tube baby. 6) Turkish doner kebab. 7) Martina Navratilova.

Judging the nation Emma Kriel takes up the plight of animals

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money and even less support, like don't like admitting to a lot our man in Khayalithsha. Credit of things, but I will admit must go to the adoring owners of (somewhat reluctantly) to being Dotty, the crippled dachshund, who an incorrigible newspaper article was fitted with a 'doggy' wheelchair collector. I have a lever arch file at great expense. Dotty then filled with cuttings which have went on to have a fling with the caught my interest over the neighbour's Yorkie, Buttons, and years. And when I am looking for delivered five very cute puppies. something, like now, I sift through Harriet the tortoise had her back them again and then end up sitting leg gnawed off by a nasty rat. The a while as I find new items of local vet was obviously a man of intrigue, like the one of the man great innovation and glued his living in Khayalitsha who is the son's toy tractor wheel onto the proud owner of 12 dogs. bottom of Harriet's shell. She now A large photo shows him winding gets around at greater speeds his way between shack dwellings, than she thought possible. And followed by all 12 hounds loyally following him as he lovingly pushes what about Ethel, the bunny with a hop in her step, whose back legs an injured one in an old pram to were paralysed by an illness? No the vet clinic for treatment. How euthanasia for this rabbit. Zoe, her immensely laudable this is when doting owner, promptly ordered we read daily about the most horrific acts carried out on innocent a tiny custom-made cart at a cost of ₤80 saying it was cheap at the creatures, from rhino poaching to canned hunts, from battery chickens to abattoirs, not to mention dog fights, bull fights, cock fights, horse and dog racing and starving dogs tied up in back yards: quite a list when you start adding it all up. I don't quite know what to to do about it Going Dotty: The crippled dachshund and her puppies. except champion their plight. price! How heart warming is that?

How delightful it is then to come Why can't more people heed across stories of people who adore Ghandi's words when he said: 'The their animals and who will stop at greatness of a nation and its moral nothing to care for their every need progress can be judged by the way and their wellbeing under the most its animals are treated.' difficult circumstances with little

village lifestyle

Village life and procrastination Karen McKee wonders why she should do something today if she can put it off until tomorrow

Let me tell you; if I could get paid for procrastinating, I would be on the cover of Forbes. I don’t know why I do it; all I know is that when it comes to certain indiscriminate things, I just cannot get myself to do them until the very, VERY last minute.

These things also differ in nature from time to time – this month I felt compelled to go and do something else every time I had to go near my computer, whereas I usually happily tap away at the keys.

For the last three weeks it was as if I had suddenly grown a fear of my laptop, and I used every conceivable excuse to get away from it. Which is a problem as I earn my living on my laptop. Last month it was a series of other things that only got done once there was no choice, and every year I only manage to put away the fibre optic Christmas tree around August. I bought a book called 'The NOW Habit… Overcoming Procrastination' about 4 years ago and I still haven’t read it. It just sits there staring at me hatefully from my bookshelf.

Maybe it is a family trait. My aunt who is a teacher once took so long to grade a set of test papers that she was too embarrassed to hand the papers back, so instead told her students that they were stolen and they would have to rewrite. My father once had to perform some dismal task and convinced himself that he could not do it before he had weighed the cat. We still call procrastination 'weighing the cat' in my family.

I have learnt valuable things from procrastination though. I know how to write a complete thesis in a week and I can cram a month’s work into the week before a deadline; I have discovered very inventive ways to shorten the time it takes to do just about anything. And I know how much my cat weighs. I still, however, don’t know exactly why I have to push myself practically to breaking point before I will do certain things. In the end when I do actually get myself to perform the dreaded task, it is never as bad as I imagined, and then I beat myself up over how much easier it would have been if I had just done it instead of weighing the cat.

I’m an expert procrastinator, and I should really start a support group for procrastinators. Yes, I’ll do that tomorrow.

The villagers Johannes Pietersen is well-known and dearly loved by the children and staff at Okkie Smuts.

He has a jovial easy way with pupils and a magical touch in the gardens, conjuring up pretty borders and beds on a shoestring budget.

How did you end up in Stanford?

I came to Stanford in 1997 in the hope of finding a job.

Where do you work?

I work at Okkie Smuts Primary and also Beloftebos wedding venue.

What is your favourite thing to do on weekends, and during your holidays? I spend my spare time with family and friends, and I enjoy doing some gardening too.

You have a close friendship with the children of Okkie Smuts.

How has the school and Stanford changed over the years?

The one thing that has remained the same is that the school holds the children's wellbeing close to its heart. There has been a rapid growth in the number of children attending the school, and principals have come and gone, each contributing something positive and different. There have always been children that are helpful and with whom I have a good rapport.

If you won the lottery, how would you spend the money?

I would buy myself some property near the sea, and I would also put some away in a pension fund.

Who do you think will win the Rugby World Cup? South Africa, of course.

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art talk

Beauty in a wounded place

Frolicking on the red carpet

Suits

Red carpet smiles: Crystal-Donna Roberts and Theresa van Graan went to the Venice Film Festival with the production crew of 'The Endless River'

SCREEN TALK

James Yeats suits up for five whole series When I come across a good TV series I usually wait for the season to finish before watching an episode as I am what is commonly known as a ‘binge watcher’ or ‘serial killer’ and can quite easily lose a couple of days of interaction with other humans (and also fresh air) for the sake of reeling in a whole series.

Imagine my excitement when I stumbled upon Season 1 of the 21st century version of ‘LA Law’, a series called ‘Suits’, of which Season 5 is currently being aired. I had struck gold aka several weeks of couch dwelling. I watched the pilot episode with growing fascination and was immediately hooked by the storyline, brilliant acting and high budget production which has now replaced the memories of corporate ‘bored’ meetings (pun intended!) from the 'LA Law' of my childhood.

Mike Ross finds himself trapped in a job interview when running from the police after a drug deal gone awry. Harvey Specter is his potential new high profile boss. Specter is a top lawyer and his firm only hires from Harvard. Mike unfortunately hasn’t graduated from Harvard, or any University for that matter. He does, however, possess a ‘super brain’ of genius proportions and impresses Harvey with his knowledge of the law and his ability to recite whole chapters from law books and cases by simply having read them once. The storyline reveals that Mike used this ability at University to write exams for other students and made extra money this way. He was eventually caught and expelled, thereby finding himself on the slippery slope to drug dealing.

Harvey takes Mike under his wing and soon they make a formidable team tackling complex multi- million dollar law suits for their firm. Their secret becomes increasingly difficult to hide and this brings a new level of danger and suspense to what is already a cut-throat business. The whole cast is impressive and the chemistry between them makes for great dialogue and colourful scenes. I feel I have learnt a great deal in my 5th Season ‘with’ the firm and I am ready for any corporate entity which may threaten my business in a hostile take-over scenario, that is when I eventually do own a business!

Trivia In 2011, 'Suits' was widely regarded as the best series to be released that year after 'Game of Thrones'.

A priceless smile

Radical Joy for Hard Times is a world-wide newsletter that tries to unite people and to make beauty in wounded places which culminates in the annual Global Earth Exchange. Beatrice Pook learnt about the event from a friend and was a first time participant this year. She didn't have any particular wounded place in mind on the morning of 20 June, 2015 but when she opened her door she found that a truck driver had broken a branch off her beautiful flowering coral tree. She used the splintered branch to make a bird (the theme of this years Global Earth Exchange). She then walked down Bezuidenhout Street and found litter simply tossed on the ground which she used to make a second bird. People saw Beatrice making her birds and asked about them, and she was able to spread the hope and beauty of the Global Earth Exchange with others in the village – the very goal of the Exchange.

Well done Beatrice!

For more information, go to www.radicaljoyforhardtimes.org

Welcome to Baardskeerdersbos The upcoming Baardkeerdersbos Art Route (17-18 October) promises to showcase a glorious range of work and artists. The usual talents will be there as well as new guest artists. Look out for Kali van der Merwe’s photo light painting of fynbos and Jan Vingerhoets’ functional sculptures.

'The exuberant fynbos displays the most abundant proliferation of species of any floral kingdom. Yet this glorious heritage is seriously at risk with over 1000 species close to extinction. On a daily basis, I am privileged to come across rare and endangered species of flora and fauna.

I utilise a slow photographic process of long exposures with a continuously moving light source in creative documentation,' says van der Merwe.

Jan turned a 20-year, after-hours, anticorporate self-therapy into a re-invention of self. He crafts unique functional art from recovered wood, metal, stone and glass, with strong influences from art nouveau, steam punk, Dr Seuss and Roald Dahl's children's stories (www.redeux.co.za).

More info at www.baardskeerdersbosartroute.com and the Facebook group: Baardskeerdersbos Art Route Liz van den Berg

CATHERINE BRENNON

Local Stanfordian, Theresa van Graan, attended the Venice Film Festival (2-12 September) with the production crew of the South African movie, 'The Endless River' which was filmed on location in Riviersonderend. The crew did South Africa proud and looked like true A-listers on the red carpet. While the movie did not win the coveted Golden Lion award for which it was nominated, it was well received by the judges and the public.

The museums very rarely sell them, and as such, they are quite literally priceless. Guinness World Records lists the Mona Lisa as having the highest insurance value for a painting in history. On permanent display at The Louvre museum in Paris, the Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million on December 14, 1962.

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Winging it

LIVING SOUNDTRACK

Andrew remembers being at the wheel in the 1950s

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y dream of becoming an acceptable time signature such as the dubiously popular jazz pianist wasn’t developing! My jazz and unsophisticated melody 'I Belong Tae mentor, Dickie Donaldson, went off Glesga' – tenuto at its worst - Ugh! Assuring the to Spain on a gig and unfortunately drowned vocalist that I would be able to extemporise, in the hotel pool – he was a haemophiliac. s/he would launch into a fusion of hideous My next mentor turned out to be an assertive deviant - sacked. Almost six decades later I still recall the memory of my jazz music mentor (from that time to this day, 210 of my musical genius heroes, listed in my forthcoming book 'A Chronological E-Guide to Jazz', passed on).

In the late 1950s I entered The Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh to study mathematics.

In some lofty universities I believe one ‘reads’ mathematics. My gigs around Scotland did bring in a bob or two but it was expensive being a student: McEwan’s Ale cost 2/1d for a pint and jazz clubs or the Edinburgh Fringe weren’t cheap, not forgetting the A wedding Limo: Andrew drove his dad's Humber nightly testosterone pursuits, 7 Denier, and of course maintaining good grades. Also, Limousines on weekends.

I was an unpaid taxi driver for my father’s wedding vehicles – all Humber Limousines (very dissonance and garbled melancholy of a useful for my after-hours divertissements). But raucous nature as I feebly struggled to find the something drastic, a re-think, was required. key before segueing. One particular vacillating I offered to accompany vocalists in some singer struck the pause button, 'Hey, you, jist of the local working-men’s clubs, playing play in yer ain key and I’ll sing in mine!' So I for ‘go-as-you-please singers’, which was entered a new and unknown era of extemporal a high-risk soundtrack. Inevitably there was accompaniments for unemployed vocalists who always someone who would approach the frequented Working Men’s Institutes. For those piano, swaying unavoidably demanding, agonising nights I would usually earn thirty bob 'Can ye no play so-and-so?'. More often than plus the odd free beverage; 'Wid ye no like a not it was a typical pub song with a doubtful wee dram, son?' was the lingua franca for most

of those inharmonious forgettable evensongs.

However all was not lost regarding my far from whimsical ‘dream’. House parties were very common amongst the student fraternity and often there was an‘unmanned’ piano!

Student frolics were opportunities for me to experiment with the riffs that Dickie had shared with me. Even to this day when I play the 1928 song 'I Can’t Give You Anything But Love' (JazzFordian Janet will sing it on 12 December for Sinatra’s 100th), I weave extemporisations and inflections, quite predictably, into my rendering.

Lamentably I made little progress on the jazz front. My student years were listening years (the age of Bebop and Improvisation), heeding jazz heroes like Shearing, Peterson and the big bands, Gillespie, Ellington and the vocalists, Sinatra, Fitzgerald. Remember, I ‘read’ mathematics and my aim had been augmented towards qualifying as a maths teacher. That was a ‘proper’ profession compared to being a musician according to elderly endearing wise counsel. What is it they say about mathematics and music? Counting, rhythm, intervals, patterns, symbols, harmonics, time signatures, inflections to mention a few linking ideas. My current soundtrack was far from 12 bar, not even 32 bar, it was symphonic, thus endeth the crescendo of the 1st Movement of my living soundtrack. And I learned a new word during the late 50s and early 60s years – ‘musicologist’.

This is the fourth article iin n a series of vignettes by Guy Winchester-Gould and offers an overview of the period until ntil 1947 when India gained Independence from Britain.

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he Mutiny of 1857 was a long time coming and when it did, it caught the East India Company and British Army in India completely unaware. The event, lasting just over a year, plunged northern India into a maelstrom of savage and brutal violence.

CAUSES The causes of the Mutiny are many and varied but it’s generally conceded that the spark which ignited the fuse was the British Army’s insistence on replacing its heavy smoothbore musket, affectionately known as ‘Brown Bess’, with the

new Enfield rifle with its longer lon nger range and greater accuracy.

Across northern India sepoys (infantry, mainly Hindu) and sowars (cavalry, mainly Moslem) were instructed to use the new rifle which involved biting a greased cartridge. The East India Company’s Bengal Army, numbering some 150 000 men, refused believing that by doing so they were being converted to Christianity! Village drums throbbed wild rumours that the Lord Sahib (the British!) sought to destroy the caste of the army through smearing the cartridges with cows’ fat and hogs’ lard

– unthinkable alike to Hindus (who held the cow as sacred) and to Moslems (who abhorred the pig as unclean). Despite a government decree that the cartridges need no longer be bitten but effectively torn utilising the left hand, northern India was in a state of high tension.

Native soldiers became sullen and distrustful. Feelings of disquiet and foreboding began to spread. The Bengal Army trembled like near-boiling water. It seemed something was about to happen which would shake India like an earthquake.

Worrisome to the British but not

BROWN BESS

Tales from the Raj regarded with undue alarm, alarm was an isolated act of Mutiny which occurred on Sunday, 29 March 1857 on the parade ground at Barrackpore, near Calcutta. There, Mangal Pande, a sepoy, suddenly broke rank proclaiming loudly that by biting on the new, defiled cartridges, sepoys would lose their religion and be converted to Christianity.

In an effort to restore calm a British officer galloped into the melee to be cut down by the mutineer. Pande attempted suicide, only to be hanged on 8 April. (continued next month)

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WATER TESTING

STANFORD - RETICULATED DRINKING WATER RESULTS

STANFORD - RIVER WATER RESULTS

The treated sewerage outlet point into the Kleinriver is at the slipway at the end of Du Toit Street. The stream in the middle of town, starting in the dip in De Bruyn Street, is partly fed by the treated effluent from the waste water treatment works which gets complemented only in winter, by the overflow of the two dams in the middle of town. The two sampling points for the river are thus respectively known as under and above the treated sewerage outlet point.

Escherichia coli (E.coli) – bacteria that is a normal inhabitant of the human intestine. Its presence in a sample indicates pollution from human faeces.

Total Coliform bacteria – is the name for all the bacteria that produce gas and acid from the fermentation of lactose and its presence in a sample indicates pollution from the intestines of both humans and animals.

Heterotrophic Plate Count – is a standard microbiological method used to determine the efficiency of operations to remove or destroy organisms, good and bad, during the treatment process.

Determinant (e. Coli) Under treated Above treated Sewerage Standard Sewerage Outlet poin Outlet point (Bridge R43 0-130/100ml (Jetty next to erf 396) to Hermanus)

DETERMINANT E. coli STANDARD (0/100ml)

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105

2419

Total Coliform bacteria STANDARD (10/100ml)

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JULY

1203

461

Heterotrophic Plate Count STANDARD (5000/100ml) 0

0

AUG

JULY

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WHAT'S ON

WHAT'S ON IN STANFORD • Every Wednesday, Graze Farmers Market, 09:00 – 12:00, get your fresh veggies at Graze Restaurant.

October

A message from the Christian Forum

Isaiah 52:7. 'How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”' We see the evidence of God’s mighty hand all around us in nature and in the upliftment and salvation of people. God makes things beautiful!

When a person accepts the Lord Jesus as Lord and Saviour, everything becomes new to that person: old values become insignificant and interests are different. Suddenly there is beauty in many things as well as in people around us, and we become aware of deeper beautiful emotion. We are touched in our soul by God who makes many things beautiful. Francis Bacon said, 'The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.' This is probably why it is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder because true beauty is perceived by more than the eye.

Where and how do we see beauty? Is it in colours, flowers, mountains, sea, creatures, sensations, light or something indescribable which requires all our senses? Is music just heard with the ear or is there something more? When looking at a newborn baby, is it just with the eye that we perceive? I am quite sure that many things that we see, hear, feel, smell or taste or take cognisance of require and utilise more of our senses that we are ever aware of. Looking at someone you love gets different emotions going within you. When we consider these aspects mentioned we realise that there are realms of human feeling that are very deep and contain more than we ever imagined. We discover that we have a soul.

Now when we come into a personal meeting and experience with Jesus Christ all these feelings are magnified tenfold. Have you ever received goosebumps when hearing a particular piece of music or seeing an exquisitely delicate thing or been deeply touched by someone - that is beauty! In the Lord we do not just perceive beauty, we experience it!

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• Every Saturday Morning Market, 9:30 –12:00, home-made and home-baked goodies from the heart!

• Every Wednesday, mini bazaar, 10:00-12:00, NG Church Hall. Arts & crafts, homemade food. Vendors welcome R20 per table. Setup at 09:00. Contact Veronique Olwagen for more details 082 550 5099.

• Every Tuesday & Thursday, Stanford MTB Night Rides, Sir Robert Stanford Estate, 18:00. Contact Gys on 061 782 5950.

• Thursday, 1 October, Wine & Wisdom, 19:00, Birkenhead Galley, R50 per person and all proceeds go to the Stanford Conservation Trust. Food and drink extra. Essential to book: Annie Ranger ranger@reedcottage.co.za • 2-5 October, Stanford Flower Show, 09:00-21:00 NG Kerk, corner of Queen Victoria Street and Church Street. Entrance free.

• 3 October, NG Kerk Bazaar, 10:00. Vleis verkope, fresh produce, tea garden, tuisgebak, kids' play area, car boot sale.

Contact 028 341 0966 or ngkerkstanford@maxitec.co.za • 3 October, Klein River Cheese Picnic Season starts.

• 10 October, Viva Art Festival, All local artists and creative people are invited to join us to paint and create art in the Stanford Community. Contact: Regina 076 3757116, Wilhelm CPF 076 810 8908, Bruce 083 659 7125.

•10 October, Viva Art Festival, 9h30, Kannemeyer Street.

Musiek, kos, potjiekos, kinderpret, biertent op die rugbyveld en vele meer. Almal is welkom, kom geniet die dag saam met ons.

• 11 October, Beloftebos Summer Sunday Picnics, live music, good food, horse riding for kids, tractor trips. Booking essential: Corneli de Villiers, corneli@beloftebos.co.za, 072 111 9380.

• 30 October, Stanford Sunset Market, It’s time for the Stanford Sunset Market again! Village Green, 17:00.

• 31 October, Blom & Blitz Country Festival, 09:00 - 22:00.

Live entertainment, MTB races and trail running through the vineyards and fynbos. Boeresports, children’s play area and more.

Miss Blom en Blitz beauty pageant for the little ones to take part in.

Tickets are on sale at: http://www.webtickets.co.za/blomenblitz COMING SOON • 7 November Stanford Valley Guest Farm, Gert Naude Art Exhibition • 15 November, Beloftebos Summer Sunday Picnics • 19 November, Thanksgiving Dinner at the Birkenhead Brewery • 27 November,Stanford Sunset Market • 28 November, Stanford Stumble WHAT'S ON IN CALEDON • 28-31 October Caledon Kersmark, Caledon Wes Kerksaal WHAT’S ON IN HERMANUS • 2-4 October, Whale Festival, www.whalefestival.co.za • 3 October, PJ Powers, Sprokkelster, R175 pp, bookings through Webtickets.

WHAT’S ON IN BAARDSKEERDERSBOS • 17 - 18 October, Baardskeerdersbos Art Route.

WHAT’S ON IN GANSBAAI • 12 October, Grootbos Foundation hosting the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra’s School’s Outreach event in Gansbaai, 15:00 at Gansbaai Academia School Hall.

email your events to design@stanfordrivertalk.co.za

happy birthday Onalo Apolosi 26 September

Khayone Ziwele turns 1 on 8 October

Ruby Walne 1 October

Tamara Krut 9 October

Nonkoliseko Mngeni 3 October

Basil Whittaker 10 October

Mivuyo Apolisi 3 October

Thembisda Apolisi 12 October

Hero Chancey 16 October

Japie Louw 16 October

Tracey Paton 17 October

Nobandile Kuze 18 October

Werner Jacobs 21 October

Graig Niemand 25 October

If your birthday or a special occasion is coming up, please email design@stanfordrivertalk.co.za or sms 079 523 8453.

Cade Ingles 13 October

Aphiwe Malele Sodam 17 October

Nondumiso Gobeni 26 October

Libra

Janice Gilman 29 October

Onako Mancoba 30 October

Kellan Nale 31 October

Beauty Thobeka Apolisi 3 October

Reinhard Odendaal 14 October

Chanette Paul 20 October

Zoleka Zawula 26 October

Jenna Theron 4 October

Aluve Mngeni 15 October

Seymour Paterson 20 October

Ros Nale 26 October

23 September – 22 October The symbol for Libra is the scales based on the Scales of Justice held by Themis, the Greek personification of divine law and custom, who has also become the modern day depiction of Lady Justice. Libras are typically about balance, harmony and a sense of fair play making them excellent partners and great team players.

Libras choose balance and try to avoid conflict.

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