To give back to the community and create some Christmas spirit, West Suburbs Roodepoort Neighbourhood Watch (WSRNW) will be hosting its annual Christmas parade on 26 November. A truck, complete with Father Christmas, and the Wicked Wheels Motorcycle Club, will lead the procession through the streets of Witpoortjie. Along the way they will hand out sweet packets and the children will be afforded an opportunity to have their photographs taken with Father Christmas. The truck will stop at the following points at the following times:
• 8.40am – corner of Quellerie Street and Trezona Avenue
• 9.10am – Laerskool Culembeeck
• 9.35am – corner of Koeberg and Teenstra Streets
• 10.15am – the church in Stumke Street • 10.40am – Witpoortjie Pick n Pay
• 11.10am – Putt-Putt course in Generaal Pienaar Avenue
• 11.40am – Boshoff Street
• 12.20pm – Oak Street
• 12.45pm – Lindhaven Shopping Centre
• 13.25pm – flats in Langenhoven Street
http://roodepoortrecord.co.za/2016/11/16/wsrnws-annual-christmas-parade/
The Ultimate Praise Festival is meant to uplift the people`s Spirit by Singing Praises to the Lord as we finish the year of 2016 and thanking him for all the great things he has done for us thus far. On stage we will have Dr. Tumi, Friends In Praise Featuring Neyi & Omega, Women In Praise the `khulul`ugcobo` hit makers, Lebo Sekgobela, this year we will also feature 2 young and upcoming artists from the community. This is gonna be a POWER packed show for sure and you don`t wanna miss it.
The Big bad musical is a fun interactive musical for children. It tells the story of the court case of the Big Bad Wolf who is being sued by the fellow villagers of story book land. It has all you favourite story book character – the Three Little Pigs, Boy who cried wolf, Little Miss Muffet as well as The fairy Godmother who represents fairytale land and wicked witch who represents The Big Bad Wolf. Included within this great funny story are fantastic original songs. The best part is the audience decide the ending – Guilty or not Guilty!
A courtroom has never been more lively and fun than in The Big Bad Musical. The jury, which is the audience, must decide the outcome of the biggest trial that’s ever taken place in the fairy-tale world. The notorious Big Bad Wolf is being slapped with a class-action lawsuit by quirky storybook characters who want to get even: Little Red Riding Hood, her Grandmother, the Three Little Pigs and the Shepherd in charge of the Boy Who Cried Wolf.
The plaintiff’s attorney is Miss Fairy Godmother, while Mr. Wolf is represented by none other than The Wicked Witch, who was assigned the pro bono case – a clash in a trial that will be remembered forever after!
Presentation and walk into reserve looking for scorpions under expert guidance of Jonathan Leeming, author of Scorpions in Southern Africa
Since early in December 2015 we have been working with 9 EPWP workers on identifying invasive problem plants in Kloofendal, mainly in the Wetland area, and how to remove them.
I have developed a booklet specifically on identification of these plants and with the help of Wendy Carsten from Melville Koppies, Andrew Hankey specialist horticulturalist from Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens, Dave Kirkby specialist horticulturalist, previous owner of Top Turf and the various relevant books, I have included ways on how these plants can be removed from the reserve, not an easy task as some of the plants need poisoning which we can’t do in the Wetland. So far the Wetland booklet has 39 species named with photographs and some dried specimen to make identification easier. The “Common problem and invasive plants in Kloofendal” booklet is a document on the whole reserve, on which I have been working on and off since 2009, which has 60 species described in it which are the more common ones in the reserve, there are others which haven’t been included as they are not considered a problem yet.
Jörgen Hammarström from the Friends Kloofendal has assisted in working with the EPWP group. Jörgen for several years has been leading alien invasive plant control with a small dedicated team of volunteers (not the EPWP workers) every second Saturday of the month, as well as on his own spending much time on invasive alien plant control in the reserve. Please do support him and his team second Saturday each month 8h30 – 11h00.? It is actually quite a rewarding job, seeing how much can be done in that time. Jörgen can be contacted at 083-546-1199.
Walk into reserve looking for and listening to the nocturnal creatures.
Please bring torches, wear walking shoes, bring raincoat in case of drizzle?
Please bring binoculars and a bird book?
Brochure on all birds found in Kloofendal with a distribution map and brief description where the more common birds are found available at R10 from Grant
Walk into reserve looking for butterflies. The guide will teach participants how to catch the butterflies, put them into collection jar in order to observe them from close. Butterflies & moths will be released at end of walk.& catching.
Nets and jars will be provided by FroK.
Looking and identifying the numerous little flowers found in the reserve, particularly along the firebreak
Bring Highveld Flower books & camera? Unfortunately Dr Jan van Wyk’s “Imaged list of wild flower in Kloofendal Nature Reserve” is sold out.