Tweni Talk: Consider others when taking dogs to the beach
Make sure that all dogs are on a leash and be prepared to pick up after them.
WHEN taking your dogs to the beach, please make sure that they are on a leash and be prepared to pick up after them as per Ray Nkonyeni Municipal bylaws. Last Friday, Moira King went to Tweni beach with her small Jack Russell ‘Rodney’ on a leash.
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The little dog was viciously attacked by a Gauteng holidaymaker’s unleashed black Staffie. The holidaymaker’s daughter’s name is Mandy and if anyone has any information regarding this incident, they are asked to contact Basil King at 082 8792715.
Sad state
Chantelle Donald and Wendy Millward were part of a group who wandered around what is left of the historic 100-year old St Elmo’s Convent in Umzumbe recently. Chantelle says, ‘It is devastating to see it in this state’.
The building was constructed in stages between 1918 and 1939 as a Catholic convent, used as a retreat for the nuns of the Third Order of St Dominic, as well as a remedial school for children with learning disabilities. Your scribe personally remembers stories told by her gran, Leila Sybil Hoffman, who was post mistress in Hibberdene in the 50s and 60s.
Italian prisoners of war were sent to the South Coast to build St Elmo’s and she acquired a painting executed on canvas cut from a tent from one of the prisoners.
Lightning trip
Recently-engaged couple Chris Polinski and Melissa Deane spent a few days catching up with family in Ponta Malongane in Mozambique. It was a well-deserved, awesome weekend away and they are already back and hard at work.
Welcome Abigail
Di and Alt Visser are very proud new grandparents to a bundle of cuteness. Abigail Visser was born in Cape Town in June to Brian and Michele.
Elusive shoal
Let’s hope that a second shoal of sardines will land on the Lower South Coast. Your scribe is personally holding thumbs and can’t wait to savour some delicious fresh sardines.
Hip, hip hooray
Birthday greetings this week go to Don Solomon (5th), Marie Harley (6th) and Bec van Tonder (7th).
All news to Leila.
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