* MAJOR industry on the Upper South Coast have asked the Demarcation Board to exclude them from a regional services council. AECI, Saiccor, C G Smith Sugar and Smith Chem gave evidence at last week’s demarcation hearing in the Amanzimtoti civic complex that they wanted to be excluded from the proposed regional services council.
* CASH card users should be careful when making transactions, as two conmen are removing the cash cards and drawing out all the funds in the account. The two conmen usually operate after hours during the week and after 2pm on weekends.
* NO charges have been made in connection with a hit-and-run accident at the intersection of Isundu Drive and Adams Road on Tuesday.
* IT’S an ill wind that blows nobody any good. And this is exactly what happened after the parking blitz in Toti, which highlighted the plight of a stroke victim. It was reported it last week’s Sun that Micheal Maiko, incapacitated since he suffered a series of strokes last year, would not be allowed to sit in a car parked in a metered bay close to his flower stall for more than a hour at a time.
* A TOTI schoolboy saved a woman from drowning in the sea off Pennington beach last weekend. Michael Chapman (15), a standard eight pupil at Kingsway High School, was the first on the scene when a woman got into difficulties off the beach at Pennington on Sunday.
* A VENDOR trading area has been established just to the north of the taxi and bus rank in Toti. The Toti council decided on allowing vendoring in the area as a request from people who wanted to trade without the formality of the licensing laws that pertain to CBD trading.
* WORK on the new bridge over the Illovo River is progressing well and the bridge should be open to the public by August next year. The bridge was damaged in the floods last year when there was a washaway of a pier from the north.
