Umtamvuna Views: ‘The Greenhearts’ takes top honours at bowling match

February 14th has come and gone, but St Valentine’s Day is not celebrated like it used to be. It was an excuse once a year for eager young people to drop some hints to the one they fancied. And for newlyweds and romantics it was an opportunity to show their special mate how much they cared.

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Your scribe has not decided whether to lay the blame on social media where everyone tells everyone exactly how they feel or whether to accept that she has just become a grumpy fuddy-duddy. Anyway, not too many red roses or chocolate boxes were sold, but hopefully romance and love is still alive and well out there.

Munster Bowling Club hosted its annual ‘St Valentine’s Day Ladies’ competition at the club last Saturday. The 42 women bowlers dressed for the occasion with hearts, red ribbons and roses. It was stifling hot on the greens and the second session was reduced to eight ends. The event was sponsored by ex-member John Lee, in memory of Gerri Dickenson, his partner of many years. John now lives in England.

Winners for the second consecutive year were ‘The Greenhearts’, comprising Leoni Booth, Sariena Ziervogel and Pat Lyle, all from Port Edward Bowling Club. Second place went to Leonie Bloem, Linsey Humphries and Beryl Laurent. The winner of the Zen Spa gift was Helen Cock and the food hamper went to Eileen van der Lith.

Heidi Losch of Palm Beach had a real treat recently when her youngest son, Holga, who was involved in the organisation of the amazing charity tennis match in Cape Town, gave her a ticket to the exhibition match. Roger Federer played against Rafael Nadal on February 7.

Other stars of the show Trevor Noah and Bill Gates played doubles with top players and never stopped smiling and having fun. Spectators were enthralled and almost 53 000 people were treated to a light-hearted festival of wonderful tennis.

Roger Federer’s charity, which promotes education in Southern Africa, will benefit greatly from the $3.5 million raised on the event. Heidi commented that it was an amazing spectacle that ran smoothly from start to finish. She spent 10 days in Cape Town visiting friends and also spent time with two of her grandsons who were also treated to ‘The Tennis Match’.

Linsey Humphries of Leisure Bay has just returned from a fabulous three-month trip to Australia. Her eldest son, Dean and his family emigrated to the Gold Coast 19 years ago and Linsey’s younger son lives in England. Dean turned 50 in January and his brother and his two children also travelled to Oz to make it a combined family Christmas/New Year/birthday celebration.

She travels to Australia almost every year to visit her family, as well as old friends who worked with her in Durban more than 30 years ago. They live in Townsville (near Cairns) and Linsey spent ten relaxing days with them. She loves Australia and commented ‘Australians have a wonderful, safe lifestyle and it is a beautiful country.’

Fun-loving Port Edward bowler Hansie van der Sand married his sweetheart, Katy Babich at the club on December 28. Last week Hansie suffered a massive stroke and sadly died in hospital on Sunday, February 16.

Southcity Church, in conjunction with Port Edward Banners Rest Ratepayers’ Association group (PEBBRA) has organised a beach clean-up for Saturday, March 7. All residents are invited to lend a hand with this project and requested to meet at the Port Edward main beach at 8am. For enquiries contact Amanda at 082 0932085.

All news to Philippa.

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