The community is mourning the death of Pam Eriksen, who died recently after a long illness bravely borne.
Pam arrived in the Scottburgh/Umkomaas area about 45 years ago, with her twin boys, Dean and Darren.
She worked at Standard Bank and her friendly face was familiar to many people.
Pam leaves behind Alan her husband, also a familiar face in the community and her sons, who both live overseas, and four grandchildren whom she loved dearly.
Described by some as a ‘beautiful angel’, with a wonderful sense of humour, she will be much missed by her many friends for her graciousness and loyalty.
‘See a feather never fear, because you know an angel is near’.
In other news, John and Heike Hudson are new to Pennington and sent in the following communication.
It goes like this:
Just a short note to express my disappointment and concern. We’ve recently moved to Pennington which falls under the Ugu District Municipality and have been fairly impressed with the runnings within the town.
Potholes are a countrywide problem so putting that aside most things are attended to and sorted out within a quick period of time.
However, on February 6 we had family and friends to visit to see where we had relocated to and obviously to view our new house. We decided to go down to the beach below the Beach Café at Impithi.
On arrival we parked our vehicles and as we disembarked stepped out into liquid sewerage that was overflowing from a raised manhole which was oozing the liquid spillage out and across the tarmac in the car allocated parking area. The stench was foul.
This was disgusting as only a few metres away was the Beach Café @ Impithi where folk were having lunch.
Those at the restaurant were lucky as the wind was carrying the stench away from the restaurant.
This spot with the Café was one of the highlights that was a deciding factor for us to move down here.
Some of the beachgoers leaving the beach were unaware of what the liquid was, thinking it was water and were trying to rub their feet in it to remove excess sand, only then to realise the stench!
This surely is a health hazard.
I spoke to the carguard there, at the time, and he informed me that this happens frequently when the municipality truck doesn’t come to drain the tank. Apparently it had not arrived last week.
I then sent a message to one of the organisers at the café. She informed me that this is an on-going problem and that they are aware of this and have in the past had people standing in the parking area with hose pipes washing down this spillage.
My question is why is there this constant problem? Something must be done. Could this be a mere blockage or is the septic tank inadequate?
I would like to see some action taken here.
Maybe a new larger septic tank could be acquired and repositioned to the right of the parking area, which could save expenditure not having to be drained so regularly and if it did overflow it would flow into the grass and not be such a health risk to the public.
Such a prime spot in Pennington immediate action needs to be a priority.
Is there someone in charge who would like to answer Mr Hudson’s query/complaint?
Send news, views and pictures to bronwyn@scottburgh.co.za.
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