1
Friday 7 January ‘11 Kruger2Canyon 3 LOCAL NEWS Summer Monday to Friday 6:00 - 18:00 Shopping Saturday 7:00 - 17:00 HOURS Sunday 8:00 - 13:00 0157932305 HOEDSPRUIT - After many years of applying for various funding initiatives sponsored by SA Lotto, Gorutha Education Centre recently received funding for several of its programmes benefiting farm workers’ children from Hoedspruit and the surrounding communities. The funding has helped SA Lotto boosts education centre Gorutha in three ways. Gorutha was able to buy a Toyota Quantum to safely transport children from farms to the Toy Library and other educational and recreational activities. Gorutha can now provide educational scholarships for deserving farm workers’ children to attend private school in Hoedspruit. The funding from SA Lotto will also cover three recreational outings for the children this year. As the first of these three recreational outings, 72 children from the greater Hoedspruit community are attending a three day/two night outing at the Blyde Adventure Camp. After stowing away their gear in the dorms; the group divided for soccer and volleyball. This relieved some of the initial anxiety and they started to enjoy themselves. Following lunch break, there was swimming, water sliding and cable walking across the river. After dinner the kids enjoyed a walk under the evening stars and a talent show; then a good night’s rest. With everyone looking forward to the activities planned for Wednesday: rafting, zip line and paint ball in the forest – their dreams were sure to be exciting! Thank you to SA Lotto, Sarie Mommsen, Nick Vorono, Fia Lööf, Christine and the Hlokomela team, Barbara and the Blyde Adventure team and the Hoedspruit community for their continued and generous support! HOEDSPRUIT – ‘Hoedspruiters have been absolutely amazing! My phone hasn’t stopped ringing and the SMS’s are just pouring in!’ says Barbara Fluxman, well known and well loved estate agent in Hoedspruit. Barbara is strengthening on slowly but surely in her home in Johannesburg after surviving a fall from a wooden deck, 3.5m off the ground, at a house she was showing to clients early in December last year. ‘I have no idea how it actually happened other than remembering that the deck had no railing. I don’t Local survives fall from deck Desiré Wright remember actually stepping off the deck’ says Barbara. Barbara’s injuries were so severe that friends called her son and daughter to come, fearing that she might not pull though. She suffered ten broken ribs, a broken collar bone and a serious head injury. After being denied medical attention at the Drakensig hospital, Barbara was taken to Tintswalo where the laceration on her head was taken care of. She was then transferred to the ICU in the Tzaneen MediClinic where she received further medical care. Barbara has undergone a shoulder operation and will see a chest surgeon next week. ‘I hope they don’t have to do another operation, I just want to get back to Hoedspruit!’ says Barbara over the phone from Johannesburg. ‘Thank God for friends and family! My son comes to check up on me three to four times a day and I have two wonderful friends sitting on my bed right now’ says Barbara. From all in Hoedspruit who know and love you Barbara – Get well soon and come home to Hoedspruit! VERMAAK – Stel gerus jou kuierplanne vir Saterdagaand 15 Januarie uit en bespreek jou plek voor die televisie. Hoedspruiters het op 17 en 18 Augustus verlede jaar die geleentheid gehad om hul vernuf as bobaas grapvertellers op die proef te stel. Dié wie se grappies die Hoedspruit op die kassie vervaardigers se goedkeuring gekry het, is in episode 29 van die derde reeks Net virrie Grap saam met Thys die Bosveldklong opgeneem. Maak seker jy kyk uit vir Hoedspruiters op KykNET op 15 Januarie tussen 19h30 en 20h00. Die herhaling word op Sondag om 11h30 uitgesaai. Is this yours? HOESPRUIT – On December 2 last year, the DA Hoedspruit cleaned and removed 40 bags of rubbish from the picnic rest stop on the way to the reptile park from Hoedspruit. The refuse removal at and maintenance of this rest stop is apparently not the responsibility of Maruleng Municipality. Little or no maintenance has been done for the past several years, making the above clean- up session something of an occasion. According to Christine du Preez of the DA Hoedspruit, the site was clean right up until after Christmas day. From Christmas present wrappings found amongst the rubbish, it seems that someone just drove up to the rest stop (not a dump site) and disposed of the leftovers of their Christmas festivities. As seen here, there were quite a few names in the heap. Do you know any of these people? Let K2C know at [email protected].
