Archive for the ‘Table Talk’ Category

End of term

Friday, November 7th, 2008

I always thought that Christmas was a kids thing. That is until I started looking for a Santa hat for our youngest’s end of year jamboree. But the world appears to have gone crazy and the only furry red snow hats I could find were the sort you end up with at the office party where everyone is too drunk to realise how inappropriate they are.. I trudged from Ackerman’s to the Crazy Store, CNA, Pick and Pay and ended up at the Toy Factory which didn’t have Santa’s suits for anything or anyone. I don’ know if that shows that they are more attuned to what the little people really want to wear or not but I was certainly not spreading any Christmas cheer in my futile quest.

I briefly thought about setting up another site I will never finish but thought better of it given the economic meltdown we are facing.

Do It Day

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

This idea is one that was put forward after the Mayor asked could be done for Do It Day.

The objective is to get as many children as possible to clean up the town and fill black bags. The bags are donated by the municipality. Each school will clean up in their area and then count the bags they fill. John and Stephen Langlands from sanitation and cleanliness at the municipality will arrange collection of the bags and officiate the count. We will then cover the event in the press in the following week and announce how many bags were collected and ask the public and the businesses to sponsor a bag for R10. We have Oakhill School, Knysna High School, Hornlee School, the Christian School all getting geared up to help CLEAN UP Knysna! The idea is that business/individuals sponsor each bag collected by the children and all the proceeds go to the children in our locality that cannot afford school fees or lunches! We are also arranging that food is delivered to the Chris Nissan School on Friday morning to ensure that the children are fed before they set off to collect rubbish and clean up! Any help is most welcome at this stage.

COME ON LETS GET OUR CHILDREN EDUCATED!!!

FROM 9 – 11AM on FRIDAY 19th at the KNYSNA PRIMARY SCHOOL FIELDS

PLEDGE OR PARTICIPATE!!!

LETS DO IT

Jane van Velsen

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0443841025

Seat Belts

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Are seat belts in cars children friendly?