Margate Moves: Get ready to rock and roll

VARIETY, it is said, is the spice of life. If your life needs a little spicing up read on. Talented producer/director Mari Webster has assembled a great cast of singers, musicians, dancers and performers for her latest show `Rocking All Over The World’.

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It will be staged as a supper theatre offering at the Azalea Hall, at Margate Retirement Village, over two nights, May 24 and 25. Doors open at 6pm and it’s showtime from 7pm.

Pack a picnic supper and liquid refreshments, don’t forget to take along your own crockery, cutlery and glasses. Tickets, at R65 per person are on sale from the RAC office or call 039 3125701 or 039 3125812 to book your seat.

Be crafty

Save the date, Saturday, June 2. Margate Retirement Village’s Residents’ Activities Committee is hosting a Craft Fair and Jumble Sale at the Azalea Hall from 8.30am.

Jewellery, plants, woodwork, hand-made knitted and crocheted goods, home-made jams and art will be on sale.

And there will be tasty fair fare such as curry and rice, boerewors rolls and pancakes as well as tea and coffee. Shelly King will provide the background music.

For more information contact Liz Curran at 039 3125000.

Let’s get quizzical

Ramsgate Lions Club invites everyone to its month-end braai and quiz night.

It takes place at the Community Centre in Glenmarkie Road (old bowling club) next Friday (25th) from 6pm. Take along some meat for the braai (fires are provided), salads are on sale at R30 per person and there is a cash bar available.

After everyone has enjoyed a good supper and socialising it is time for the quiz. Teams comprising four people then put their general knowledge to the test to win prizes. It costs R10 per entrant.

If you need more details about this community event contact Lion Warren Theron at 082 4149589.

Strings and things

The next Classics at Riverbend concert takes place at Riverbend Art and Wine Gallery in Southbroom this Friday, May 18. The Siberian Trio comprising Boris Kerimov, Liezl-Maret Jacobs and Elena Kerimova will perform from 6.30pm.

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There will also be a free wine-tasting from 5.45pm and tickets at R100 per person are on sale at the curio shop at the crocodile farm.

More music

Blues guitarist, Albert Frost, will perform at Ramsgate’s iconic music venue – Rocky Ridge this Friday (18th) from 8pm as part of his African Frost Tour. Entry is R100 per person. After his national tour, he will visit a number of southern African countries before heading off to Holland and North America.

Rest in peace

The first lifesaver to be officially employed at Margate beach in the early 1930s, Willie Rees, died last week aged 106 years.

Mr Rees also went on to work as a voluntary town councillor and served two terms as the mayor of Margate.

Good wishes

Celebrating birthdays this week are Gloria Bester, Bobby van Rooyen, Kayla de Fonseca, Mark Ponting, Karen Armstrong, Rob Piers, Marisa Laister and Forward Ngomo (16th), Makhosi Dlezi and Saneliswe Nzama (17th), Barbara Waters, Dave Page, Sean Lambert, Allan Booth, Kim Bevan Black, Ken Farquharson and Liz Jones, her twin sister Amy Maffee and son Stephen Jones (18th), Cindy du Plessis, Frank Csnayi, Natalie Milton, Elise Warde, and Kevin Anderson (19th), Verona Baldi, Eleanor Bard, Nicole Human, Claire Gaze and Megan Kodi (20th), Jessica Card and Henk Swart (21st) and Bev Copeland, Jill Bothma, Sally Sanders, Merle Peckham, Lyn Lombard and Alison Snyman (22nd).

Happy anniversary wishes go to Zara and Lee Bromfield and Skye and Robert Forsythe (16th), Heidi and Sean Doveton, Vanessa and Geoff Howard-Tripp and Caroline and James Anderson (17th), Kate and Jason Howard-Tripp (19th) and Doreen and Rob Fidler (22nd).

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