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This is an educational talk for young and old.
Join Zane at Polliwiggle for an informative morning. It is of vital importance that the public are aware and are informed of what to do when coming across a snake.
Refreshments and wors rolls will be on sale.
Funds raised will be used to assist the Capture Service Program which Zane is self funding.
News supplied by Polliwiggle Pre School.
The one moment you’re playing in the most glorious sunshine, wondering how on earth you actually forgot you sun cream at home. Then two hours after finishing your game, the green was pelted with rain and hail and this did not just happen once this past week but twice. The result of it all is that our greens are lush, our beloved Midmar Dam is full and ready to overflow and we still got to play all the bowls we wanted to.
Competitions
There were no sponsored competitions held this past week but we did see the culmination of our 2 Bowl Trips Internal Competition. Congratulations to the team of Barbara Brook, Dudley Ventress and Neil Wright who are 2018’s first champions. In an absolutely pulsating match they beat the team of John Withers, David Mainprize and David Riall by 15 – 13. The next club sponsored competition will be played on Saturday 10 February with tabs in at 1.15pm and will be our SUPERSPAR Greendale sponsored comp which will be followed by our Halfway Toyota Howick competition on Wednesday the 14th of February which also happens to be Valentine’s Day.
Club Activities
The highlight of the week was our Prize Giving which was held on Saturday 3 February at a bring and share event. It was wonderful to spend time celebrating the achievements of our bowlers and special thanks to all the members for the lovely spread of eats. As a club we would like to congratulate the following bowlers on their success on our bowling greens during 2017. The champions for 2017 were as follows Ladies Singles: Alison Toms, Men’s Singles: Clark Logan, Novice Singles: Mark Taylor, Nominated Ladies Pairs: Alison Toms & Lyn Durandt, Nominated
Men’s Pairs: Clark Logan & Barry Bedworth, Nominated Mixed Pairs: Ed Sharpe & Alison Toms, Drawn Mixed Trips: Peter Burton, Alison Toms & Eric Simpson (with Tony Gage as sub). As can be seen from the set of results, the Victrix Ludorum Trophy went to Alison Toms and the Victor Ludorum Trophy to Clark Logan. Congrats again to everyone. Let the games begin for 2018.
Regular Times Are:
Tuesday mornings Tabs in by 8.15am (Civvies)
Wednesday and Saturday afternoons Tabs in by 1.15pm. (Club Colours) Visiting bowlers are welcome to join us at these tabs in times.
News supplied by Umgeni Waterfall Bowls Club.
The Howick High School Equestrian Team have started on a high note this year, with four of the five team members competing at Dolcoed this weekend in Stadium Eventing. Luca Tissiman was placed first three times, both in arena eventing and cross country; Tristan Strauss had a first place in cross country; Daena Horne came second and third in arena eventing and Nadine Dickinson came fifth in cross country on her horse, Silver Flight, who was a first time eventer.
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News supplied by The Cookhouse.
The Good Health Group is a recently formed group based in Howick. It is for individuals who want to take charge of their health and well-being. It has been initiated in order to support and empower people who want to take a more holistic approach and play a more active role in maintaining good health and/or in recovering from a particular health challenge. Emphasis is placed on the body-mind connection. At each monthly meeting a health practitioner is invited to present on a topic that has been chosen by members of the group. Q & A and/or a discussion of important points follows the presentation. Stephanie Joyner Dietician, a registered dietician will focus her presentation on: Promoting the health of your digestive system.
Meeting Date: 8th Feb 2018 (Thursday) Time: 17:30 – 19:00 Place: 15 Riley Crescent, Howick.
Healthy refreshments will be served. Please RSVP for catering purposes and, if you would like to know more about the group, contact Alistair Mork-Chadwick on: Ph: 033 – 330 7973 / Cell: 072 – 365 5875 / Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
News supplied by ALISTAIR MORK-CHADWICK Counselling Psychologist.
SA Guide-Dogs Association would also like to extend the best wishes to the Howick community, all the family and new friends who came to visit the Christmas Lights on Drew this year. A total of R8600 was raised and will go toward the training of a guide-dog puppy for KZN.
At S A Guide-dog Association we train dogs to work with visually and physically impaired persons as their tool to independence.
It takes us on average 2 years and a R100 000 to train one dog, the person who becomes a recipient only pays R5.00.
Thank you to all who supported this imitative, may your 2018 hold only love and laughter.
The attached photograph is of Cailin Hills who will be starting Grade 1 at Howick Preparatory School on Wednesday, 17 January. She is pictured with her father, Sean Hills who is a past pupil of Howick Preparatory, and her mother Laura Hills. Not only is Cailin very excited about starting Grade 1 but parents Sean and Laura are just as excited as Cailin is the oldest of their two daughters and they are very proud parents to be joining the Howick Preparatory family.
Photograph (L-R): Sean Hills, Cailin Hills, Laura Hills.
News supplied by Howick Preparatory School.
I would like to send a great big shout out to say thank you to a wonderful Howick resident!
My family and I were staying at Beverley Cottages, Impendle, for the Christmas weekend.
On Christmas day our vehicle would not start, and we managed to push start it. The car was “revving” and didn’t sound very healthy.
We called Eddie from ‘Eddies Motors’. I disturbed his Christmas lunch and yet he was amenable and concerned. Later that evening he called to say that he would come out to the farm on Boxing day to assess the problem.
I desperately needed to travel back to Johannesburg on the 26th December to get to work.
Eddie drove to Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday, after Christmas, to purchase a car battery as he couldn’t get one in Howick and then drove out to Beverley Cottages. It was a holiday and yet he was willing to give up his time out of the goodness of his heart. He drove out to us and fortunately it was a flat battery in the car causing the problems. He then followed us to the Highway to make sure that we didn’t have any issues.
It is wonderful to realise that there are people out there who care and in the Christmas spirit make things easier for others out of the goodness of their heart.
Thank you, Eddie for outstanding service, to people you didn’t know.
We really appreciate your help.
Best Regards,
Berenice Thorne Bryanston Johannesburg
Julie Hay, the founder and director of local charity, Singakwenza, swam her fifth 8 Mile event at the aQuelle Midmar Mile this past weekend. As it is her 50th birthday this year, she set a goal of raising R50 000 for the Early Childhood Programmes that Singakwenza runs in economically disadvantaged communities. Thanks to the support of friends and family, she exceeded this goal by more than R10 000!
“This is just one example of the way in which Julie gives her absolute all to the vision and mission of Singakwenza, and it ignites a passion in us to do the same. She shows us what it means to really love the teachers and children that we work with, to care about our children’s futures and to make a change in our country,” said Claire Willows, Occupational Therapist at Singakwenza - a sentiment echoed by the Singakwenza team.
Julie was among 30 swimmers who swam for Singakwenza over the Midmar Mile weekend, as Singakwenza is one of the 6 official charities of the 8 Mile Event.
“I had lots of fun swimming across the dam 8 times, surrounded by wonderful people who were all there to do their bit for charity. I am incredibly humbled by the support and generosity of family and friends who donated towards my cause,” said Julie. “Our grateful thanks goes to Wayne Ridden, his team, and the amazing sponsors who enable this world class event to happen.”
To find out more about Singakwenza, please visit www.singakwenza.org
Pictured below: With fellow Singakwenza 8 Mile swimmers, John Wright, Julie Hay, Brad Ray, Abi Ray and Tracy Kerr.
News supplied by Singakwenza.
Players from the KZN Dolphins cricket squad recently visited Howick Prep School to speak to the pupils and run coaching clinics for both the coaches and all players at Howick Prep.
Pupils were all also issued with tickets to go along and support the Dolphins against the Titans which was played at the Maritzburg Oval. Howick Prep pupils would like to thank the Dolphins players for giving up their time to spend a day at Howick Prep and for the professional manner in which they interacted with both the players and coaches of the school.
Photo attached: Dolphins players with a group of Howick Prep cricketers during the coaching clinic run by the Dolphins players.
News supplied by Howick Preparatory School.
Despite the Iffy weather we manage to get two sessions of social bowls in this past week. If you have never bowled in mizzly weather, it’s like bowling on a green where your slightly wet bowls pick up every bit of wet grass and it looks like you’re bowling in a sea of coconut.
Competitions
Each year our members have the opportunity to play for club trophies and we play all the traditional options like singles, pairs, trips and fours…. But this year we launched a new “2 Bowl Trips” competition for a brand new trophy. On Saturday 20 January we had one of the biggest turnouts for a club internal competition in a long while. There were some very close matches and in the end 6 teams went through to the next phase of the competition, which will run to a conclusion in the next week or two.
By the time this report goes to press the J Leslie Smith & Co competition will have been played and the results of that competition will be in the report next week. The brand new Teams-In 2 Bowl Trips competition sponsored by Woodstone Craft Café and The Treatery as a support-sponsor, starting on Friday morning 26 January @ 8.30am, now officially has 14 teams coming from all over PMB and the Midlands to play. Much excitement looms for this competition.
Club Activities
The coaching and PR team are putting together plans to launch couching and fun bowls on a Friday afternoon from the beginning of February. Notices to follow in the next few weeks.
Regular Times Are:
Tuesday mornings Tabs in by 8.15am (Civvies)
Wednesday and Saturday afternoons Tabs in by 1.15pm. (Club Colours)
Visiting bowlers are welcome to join us at these tabs in times.
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The new Grade 1 pupils of Howick Preparatory School already hard at work in Mrs Tooms class on their very first day of their school careers.
News supplied by Howick Preparatory School.
Bowling is back into full swing for 2018. Even though some bowlers are still on vacation there is an air of expectancy that 2018 is going to be a special year.
Competitions
Our year kicked off with our first competition which was played on Wednesday 10 January and was our trips competition sponsored by HALFWAY TOTOTA HOWICK. There were some keenly fought contests that went down to the last bowl of the day. Congratulations to Ed Sharp, Balf Balfour and David Riall who secured the HALFWAY TOYOTA HOWICK first prize. The team of Peter Burton, Graeme Cameron and Mark Taylor won the Dr ALAN SARA sponsored second prize. Massive thanks to Margie Wheelwright of Halfway Toyota Howick for being present to hand out prizes and for having the awesome Toyota Fortuner on display for players and visitors to view. Special thanks also to Dr Alan Sara for his continued support of this much loved game.
The SUPERSPAR Greendale competition was played on Saturday 13 January with the Ed Sharpe, Pat Bailey and Grace Abrahams taking the honours. The second prize was won by Alan Wells, Ken McDonald and Bev Vorster. We also had lucky draw prizes sponsored by 68 On Main Restaurant which was won by Stella Gardiner and Piet van Rensburg as well as a new Sporting Chance prize sponsored by Rene Stokes of Classic Cut, which was won by Barry Fairbrother. We once again thank our amazing sponsors for their support of our club. The J Leslie Smith & Co competition will be played on Tuesday morning the 23rd of January with tabs in at 8.15am. We will also be launching a brand new Teams-In 2 Bowl Trips competition on Friday the 26th of January and this competition will be sponsored by Woodstone Craft Café and The Treatery as a support-sponsor. Members please take note that this IS NOT a tabs in comp. You have to enter a team to play in this competition
HOT OFF THE PRESS… Congrats to Peter Burton, Eric Simpson and Alison Toms for winning the clubs Mixed Drawn Trips Title with a handsome 20 – 11 victory. (Special mention of the efforts of Tony Gage who played in Eric’s absence). A warm welcome to Ann Marnoch & Pat Bailey who recently moved to Howick and officially joined the Umgeni Waterfall Bowling Club family.
Club Activities
The coaching and PR team are putting together plans to launch couching and fun bowls on a Friday afternoon from the beginning of February. Notices to follow in the next few weeks.
Regular Times Are:
Tuesday mornings Tabs in by 8.15am (Civvies)
Wednesday and Saturday afternoons Tabs in by 1.15pm. (Club Colours)
Visiting bowlers are welcome to join us at these tabs in times.
News supplied by Umgeni Waterfall Bowls Club.
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Monkey Magic – Natal Midlands understands that money for celebrations is not always easy to come by. It is for this reason, we offer you the flexibility to work outside of our standard packages, to build the party you desire, within your budget. Alternatively you can tell us your budget amount and we can give you options of what can be done for that amount, while still creating a special occasion.
While Monkey Magic is a nation-wide franchise, Monkey Magic – Natal Midlands is located at Celtiskloof Lifestyle Centre, Howick. It was founded in January 2017, by Howick locals Shari Cade and Shan Cade, who aim to provide happy and special occasions to all who choose to use their services.
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News supplied by Monkey Magic-Natal Midlands.
A very active bowling week with all tabs in games played this past week. This week’s competitions included a surprise fun day competition sponsored by Warwick Wealth.
Competitions
Along with many helpers, our Competition Secretary, Colin Burden organised a fun morning of “Bowls Golf” on Wednesday the 6th of December. Now that might sound confusing but it was most definitely fun. There were a total of 10 prizes up for grabs with John Withers & Julia Strachan walking away with the top prize. Ex Springbok Bowler and Warwick Wealth Specialist Stuart Milligan was present to hand out prizes. Kudus to Warwick Wealth for their continued Innovative Sponsorships of bowls at countless clubs like ours around the country.
We also played our SUPERSPAR Greendale / Giovision competition on Saturday 9 December with some keenly contested matches finally won by the team of Mike Scheffer, May Blackford and Neil Wright with second prize going to Lyn Durant, Clark Logan and Stela Gardiner. Our 68 on Main vouchers were won by Enid Bush and Piet Van Rensburg and the SUPERSPAR Greendale lucky draw was won by Jenny McHendrie. Big thanks to our sponsors for their support of our club. Our next club competition will be the J Leslie Smith & Co which will be held on Tuesday 19 December with tabs at 8.15am
Club Activities
We will be holding our end of year Christmas Function on Saturday 16 December in the form of a bring and share tea. Tabs in as usual at 1.15pm after which we will have our Tea. Members are hereby reminded to please bring a plate of eats for the tea as well as contributions for the Christmas Hamper. Hamper contributions must be given to Lyn Durant and preferably before Wednesday the 13th.
Social Bowls
Our Newbie Couching Sessions will be announced once the planning calendar for 2018 has been finalised.
Regular Times Are:
Tuesday mornings Tabs in by 8.15am (Civvies)
Wednesday and Saturday afternoons Tabs in by 1.15pm. (Club Colours)
Visiting bowlers are welcome to join us at these tabs in times.
Umgeni Waterfall Bowling Club is the place to be.
News supplied by Umgeni Waterfall Bowls Club.
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