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If it is the last Friday of the month it is `Braai and Brain Evening’ at the Ramsgate Lions Club.

Everyone is invited to the Community Centre in Glemarkie Drive. Take along something to braai, salads are provided at R30 per person and the fires will be ready by 6pm.

After supper it is quiz time – cost is R10 per person – the winning team will be well-rewarded with good prizes. As the club does not have a licence do take your own drinks however, soft drinks will be on sale.

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This social evening is a wonderful way to meet new people and it’s a good way to test your knowledge. For more information contact Lion Jenny Henry at 083 3098314.

Fabulous festival

Margate Round Tablers will host `Oppikus’, a two-day Afrikaans music festival, at the Douglas Mitchell Sports Grounds this Friday (28th) and Saturday (29th).

The festival is sponsored by the Beekman Brothers and AfriForum and will feature some of the country’s best-known singers and performers with Steve Hofmeyr the headline act on Saturday. Die Heuwels Fantasties, Dewald Dippenaar and Elandre are some of the big names who will also be on the programme.

The festival starts at 6pm on both nights.

Tickets cost R150 for adults and R100 for children under 13 years (no charge for children under three years of age) and are available through itickets.co.za. There will be a special play area for children at the event.

For more information phone Shane Woolley at 083 5661275.

Get cooking

Are you good at concocting a tasty potjiekos brew? Then you must enter the Potjiekos Challenge. It takes place at Sherwood Forest in Marine Drive, Marina Beach next Sunday, July 7.

All proceeds will go to the SPCA and the top chefs will win great prizes and be awarded trophies.

Entry is R150. For more information phone 083 3772693.

Movie magic

`Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’ starring Jane Powell and Howard Keel is the next attraction at the July DVD Classic Movie matinee at Margate Retirement Village. Save the date Saturday, July 21 and get to the Ronnie Baker Hall before 2.30pm.

Cost is R5 which includes tea/coffee and biscuits served during the interval. For details phone the Residents’ Activities’ Committee’s office at 039 3125000.

Another great supper theatre show is coming to the Azalea Hall.

`Some Enchanted Evening’ featuring the talented Evan Roberts, Samantha Landers and Anthony Downing with guest artist, cellist Nina Watson, will take the audience on a magical journey to Broadway.

The date to diarise is July 27. Tickets cost R85 per person.

Mardi Gras

During the holiday season, the Margate Business Association hosts a Mardi Gras in Marine Drive, every Wednesday from 6pm to 10pm. There is a street party tonight (26th) and another one on July 3.

The stalls always have a variety of wares and the Mardi Gras is worth visiting for the fab street food on offer.

Step out

One of the best events-of-the-year on the South Coast is the annual Grandparents’ Walk. It takes place at St Mike’s beach on Wednesday, July 3 and walkers will be under starter’s orders at 8am. This super fund-raiser is hosted by the Hibiscus Rotary Anns and this year’s walk is the service club’s 35th edition.

If you cannot do the walk – you can help the club by sponsoring a grandparent – it is a wonderful community initiative and proceeds will go to South Coast Hospice. All the walkers are treated to a tasty breakfast cooked and served by the Rotarians.

For more details contact Kitty Steenmans at 083 2543886

Congratulations

Best wishes go to Rosali Bruggemann and Tiaan Visser who were recently married at Izotsha Creek.

And to Rose and Roy du Plooy from Ramsgate who welcomed a new granddaughter last week. Lilly Wallett was born last Thursday and her parents Lisa and John say she is a “cool kiddo”.

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Warm welcome

This week’s red carpet is rolled out for the Korb clan – Trevor and Catherine who arrived last week are visiting from Dubai and Kevin and Rhona who live in Johannesburg got here this week with their daughter Lindsay Scott and their grandson James who has come to meet his great-grandmother, Joan. They are wished a wonderful holiday with their family.

Condolences

Deepest sympathy is extended to the family and friends of Glenda Febb who died last Wednesday.

Good wishes

Celebrating birthdays this week are Lorraine Lawlor, Jason McCarthy, Elsie Thomson, Mariette Noordveld, Anthony Pianini, Christopher Kay and Kerry Bird (26th), Gordon Moody, Viv Gericke, Calvin Moore, Tarryn McCormick and Simon Lee (27th), Shay van Huyssteen, Nadine Kohler, Selvan Naicker, and Greg Keal (28th), Terry-Sue Moss (29th), Travis Hele and Kristian Moodie (30th), Max Haggard, Danny Dehon, Darren Staats, Pierre Venter, Keegan du Plooy and Doreen Gaze (1st) and Linda Bos (2nd).

Happy wedding anniversary wishes go to Jolene and Stefan Botha (26th), Charlene and Brett Dunkley, Danielle and Wayne Beekman and Luciano and Verona Baldi (28th).

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