Margate Moves: Margate Police Station is best in SA
This is a great achievement and congratulations are extended to the members who are based at the station.
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Margate Police Station was voted the best in the country at the recent, national police awards.
This is a great achievement and congratulations are extended to the members who are based at the station.
Airmen to meet
The Lower South Coast branch of the South African Air Force Association (SAAFA) kicks off its 2019 activities next weekend.
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Members and those interested in the association are invited to a luncheon at the Village Bowling Club at Margate Retirement Village on Saturday, February 10 at 12pm.
Cost is R75 per person. For more information contact Carl Volker at 083 5288840.
Open day
Southcity Christian School in Ramsgate will hold an open evening next Thursday (7th).
The school caters for pupils from pre-primary, junior primary, preparatory and college. The evening is aimed at parents of pupils from grade 8 to 11 and takes places in the auditorium from 5.30pm.
For more information contact the school at 039 3149470.
Brothers rock
Ramsgate’s iconic music venue Rocky Ridge will host the fabulous Hinds Brothers this Friday (1st). Aden and Wren Hinds who first began performing way back in 2008 are delighted to be playing in their hometown. Take note the doors and kitchen at Rocky Ridge open at 6pm and the Hinds Brothers, who have performed at almost every music festival in South Africa, will be on stage from 8pm. Entry is R50.
Sad news
Deepest sympathy is extended to the family and friends of Ingrid Berry from Margate who died at South Coast Hospice on Monday this week.
Ingrid (59) worked as a DTP operator with her brother Arnie and sister-in-law Sandy Hofmann at Impact Printers in Ramsgate since it opened.
She leaves behind two sons, Warren and Robert.
Congratulations
Best wishes and many happy ever afters go to Kerryn and Rowan Adamson who `tied the knot’ last Saturday.
And to former Hibiscus Queen, Roberta Alessandri and Jon Ivins who were married last Saturday.
Roelof Bos from Ramsgate is a great-grandpa again – Harlow Lacy James – was born in Auckland, New Zealand on January 24. Her parents are Ryan and Courtney (Roelof’s granddaughter) and she has a big brother Fox (2). Roelof hopes it won’t be too long before the James family comes to visit so he can meet the latest addition.
Good wishes
Celebrating birthdays this week are Susan Cooke, Bianca Baldi, Joe Oliver and twins Caylee and Andrew van Heerden (30th), Bevis Fairbrother, Peggy Burd, Benita Smythe, Leigh Gilmour, Flavio Morassi, Robert Boltman and Sheila Kelly (31st), twins Chantell Knott and Jason Earnshaw, Clayton Vetter, Alan Footit, Damien Williams, Brad Cousens and Gaby Frey (1st), Jonathan Neaves, Wally Robinson and Colleen Eaton (2nd), Logan Barnsley, Marc Lange, Toni Perkin and Dave Millar (3rd), Liz Page, Suzanne Jade and Manda du Plessis (4th) and Shreyan Samuel, Dennis Steenmans, Kye Manson and Penny George (5th).
Happy anniversary wishes go to an almost-gold couple, Dave and Dawn Clark, who celebrate their 49th on the 30th and to Yvonne and Pete Theunissen who celebrate a 17th on the 2nd.
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