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20 Talk of the Town ADVERTISING / NEWSDESK: (046) 624 4356 Find us on Facebook March 28, 2019 WAVE RIGHTS: Ready to face the waves in the first round of the 2019 King of the Kowie surfing competition at East Beach on Human Rights Day last Thursday, were, from left, Mark Stephens, Kyle S c h e n t ke , Tristan Wantenaar and ReetMeiring were Picture: ROB KNOWLES SURF BUDDIES: With their enthusiasm clear to see, from left, Nick Schmidt, Kye Macgregor, Guy Campbell and Kyle Emslie were keen to enter the water at East Beach last Thursday, Human Rights Day, to compete in the first leg of the King of the Kowie surfing competition Picture: ROB KNOWLES REFRESHMENT TIME: Coffee and sugar help stave off the effects of a chilly Indian Ocean morning before the start of the first leg of the King of the Kowie surfing competition that took place at East Beach last Thursday. Enjoying the morning were, from left, Phil Britz, Larissa Pretorius, Stephanie Dunnington and Jamey Ries Picture: ROB KNOWLES WAITING FOR THEIR VISITORS: Ronnie Holmes and mom Ruth were awaiting the arrival of overseas visitors at the Barefoot Café on Sunday Picture: ROB KNOWLES HEADING UP THE FAMILY: Heading up the family outing to the Barefoot Café on Sunday were Patrick and Christine Vance Picture: ROB KNOWLES RARING TO GO: Young Lana Heny, left, and Helen Averbuch were ready to show their skills at East Beach on Human Rights Day last Thursday at the start of the first leg of the 2019 King of the Kowie surfing competition Picture: ROB KNOWLES FAMILY TIME: Brother and sister, Bernard and Jestine Vance enjoyed lunch with their family at the Barefoot Café on Sunday Picture: ROB KNOWLES FOOD AND ENTERTAINMENT: At the Barefoot Café on Sunday to listen to the music and have a nice lunch were Piers and Michelle Steenekamp Picture: ROB KNOWLES PORT ALFRED BRIDGE CLUB Results for Thursday, 21 March 2019 Red Section (6 tables) N-S 1st A Osinski & K Botha 67.0% 2nd L Futter & LInglis 52.3% E-W 1st M Wesselo & H Clohessy 62.3% 2nd G Wallace & G Renecle 52.0% Green Section (6 tables) N-S 1st D Wostenholm & B Osborne 62.5% 2nd Dianne & David Long 53.3% E-W 1st M Smith & R Jackson 56.3% 2nd D Lang & J Gie 53.8% Board 2: Dealer E, N-S vul ¹ even if your partner may be short in clubs, it is best to pass, because North is almost certain to compete. À Two suited overcalls can be a useful weapon, provided that they are not À will not be happy! One needs to consider vulnerability, whether the opener is sitting in front of you or behind you, together with your trick taking ability. It is also well to remember that if your opponents subsequently win the auction; they will have ‘road map’ as to the shape of your hand, and can plan their play accordingly. Because 1C is so often a ‘phony’ suit it is best to play a 2C overcall as showing a club suit, normally six cards; 2NT as the two lowest; hearts and diamonds; 3C as the extremes, diamonds and spades; and 2D as showing the majors. East’s 3C is based more on overall strength than on the club, suit; but with North showing 10 cards in the red suits, there is a fair chance that West can compete in clubs. À all went down in their contracts. Results by section Red Section 2S-2 (3); 3H-2; 3D+2 (2) Green Section 2C-3; 2D+3; 3C-3 (2); 3S-3; 4D= Full results at: www.pabridge.co.za, including details of all the hands. Results for Monday, 25 March 2019 Red Section (7 tables) E-W 1st C Fletcher & A Osinski 61.0% 2nd P Southey & J Wright 60.4% N-S 1st Elzabe & Ricardo Rodrigues 64.3% 2nd T Paterson & A Ridderhof 54.2% Green Section (8 tables) N-S 1st T Versfeld & J Gie 62.3% 2nd L Lombard & L Inglis 59.1% E-W 1st B Osborne & L Futter 62.4% 2nd Patricia & David Townsend 56.4% Board 2: Dealer E, N-S game ¹ By bidding at the two level in a new suit West is showing at least 10 points; the bid is forcing on the partnership to at least the level of 2NT. À spade suit, the spades are too thin, and the points are too low, for a 1S bid. If you bid 1S partner will make a mental note to downgrade your overcalls in future! After East has bid 2C and (hopefully) North has also passed; East can show the diamond suit, without fear of a pass from West. In fact West should add up the four trumps headed by an honour, the AK of clubs and the potentially useful heart Queen; realise that there can be no possibility of a no trump game, because of the bidding, and jump to 4D, which says to partner, we should be able to make 10 tricks in Diamonds: can we make game? North’s singleton spade, good hearts and diamonds, taken together with West’s club bid make À Results by section Red Section 3D+3 (3); 5D+1 (2); 5D+2 (2) Green Section 2D+5; 3D+3; 3S-4 (S); 4D+2; 4H+2; 4S-5 (S); 5D+1 (2) Full results at: www.pabridge.co.za, including details of all the hands. LEARNING THE ROPES: Young Raven Dry, left, comes from an arty family and was learning some new colouring techniques from Claude Samuel on Saturday morning at Rise Café in Van der Riet Street Picture: ROB KNOWLES
March 28, 2019 ADVERTISING / NEWSDESK: (046) 624 4356 Find us on Facebook Talk of the Town 21 SUTTIE RETIRES AFTER 41 YEARS The name Ian Suttie is legendary in teaching and cricketing circles not only in the Eastern Cape but indeed across SA. A teacher and later head of the junior school, Suttie retired from Graeme College at the end of the first term of 2019 after no less than 41 years’ service to the school. But his association with the school went even farther than that, having spent six years as a pupil at Graeme. Suttie was not only known to and respected by thousands of pupils who passed through the doors of the school in Somerset Heights, he gained recognition and renown as a senior school cricket coach and junior rugby coach. Let’s look at the life of this highly respected educator and sports coach. Ian Suttie is from farming stock, the Suttie family having farmed on The Lomonds on the Skietrug ridge in the Alexandria district. He fondly remembers that the Salem Cricket Club and Salem Methodist Church were close to his father’s heart. Suttie started as a schoolboy at Graeme in 1967, was elected headboy in 1972, and attended Graaff-Reinet Teachers’ Tr a i n i n g College. It was there that he met Glynis Brill from Komgha farming stock, who was schooled at Clarendon Girls’ High in East London. Suttie began his teaching career at Graeme in 1978, married Glynis two years later, and in 1986 was appointed head of department in the junior school. Interestingly, when Suttie started teaching at Graeme in 1978, 24 of the current staff members had not been born yet! NEW CHAPTER: Graeme College’s head of department in the junior school, Ian Suttie, retired after 41 years’ service to the school Outside of the classroom, Suttie has had a massive impact on cricket at Graeme and Eastern Province, as well as junior rugby at Graeme, and his time and efforts are appreciated and remembered by hundreds of Old Graemians across the world. On the cricket side of things, Suttie coached the Graeme 1st team from 1982 until March 2016, continuing as manager until his retirement this month and, still at schools’ level, was an Eastern Province Under 18 selector for 30 years, of which he was convenor for the last 10. In addition, the tireless worker for schools’ cricket was organiser and convenor of the 1988 and 1997 Nuffield Coca-Cola Cricket Week tournaments held in Grahamstown, as well as a member of the organising committee for Nuffield Coca-Cola Week tournaments from 1989 to 1994. Other noteworthy achievements were starting the Cape Youth Cricket Festival in 1992 and the Grahamstown Cricket Festival in 1999. During the winter months, Suttie coached the Graeme U13A rugby team for 25 years and the U9A team for the last 10 years. Graeme headmaster Kevin Watson said: “In my time I have developed an enormous amount of respect for what Mr Suttie has achieved and what he has given to Graeme College and to the game of cricket. “It is actually quite accurate to suggest that he has dedicated his life to Graeme College and cricket.” SPRINGING FROM THE HILLS A resident visited the water spring a kilometre out of town on the road to Stones Hill last Friday morning. It wasn’t as busy as it has been in recent weeks, and he told me the flow from the pipe is stronger than it was a fortnight earlier, thanks to the rain the area has received. He said that the flow is still weaker than it was, say, three or four years ago. VACATION TIME Undergraduate lectures at Rhodes University end this Friday and students will proceed on their first vacation for the 2019 academic year. They will be back for the start of lectures on April 15. In the meantime, the Rhodes graduation ceremonies will take place from April 11 to 13. QUITE A MORNING, OR WHAT? On Tuesday morning last week, residents on the southern side of Sunnyside, in particular Thackeray Street, Rennie Avenue, Jackson Street and Watson Street had to contend with much more than they bargained for. There was no water from taps when they awoke; a drove of donkeys were on the prowl seeking food and water; there was load-shedding from 9 to 11.30am (and again that same evening); and they had to avoid scores of potholes littering the above streets on their way to work or taking children to school. What next, residents may well ask? And the same goes for many other parts of Makhanda (Grahamstown), no doubt. Fortunately on that particular morning, streets and sidewalks were not littered with uncollected refuse bags and garbage due to the strike by municipal workers, as was the case three weeks earlier. Incidentally, these workers have been on strike for almost two months, believe it or not. It’s beginning to reach the stage, I feel, where they can be referred to as ghost w o r ke r s . NEW AT GRAEME Three new staff members have been appointed at Graeme College – Amy Hiscock (English teacher), Liz Manning (Grant House matron) and Debbie Labuschagne (marketing). A DECADE OF GRAND BAND MUSIC An evening catering for all musical tastes awaits guests at the Kingswood College Grand Band Concert in the school’s high performance centre on Friday, March 29 (7pm). Kingswood Music School spokesperson Alke Bradfield said the event, the proceeds of which will go to Grahamstown Hospice, was started in 2010, “so this is our 10th year – a decade of hits”. Hi-Tec Security will be sponsoring the event for the next three years – p a st sponsors have included Carara Agro Processing (three years), GBS Mutual Bank (two years), and Pam Golding Properties (one year). The Kingswood Grand Band comprises 62 instrumentalists – girls and boys from grade 4 to 12 – and there is a “wonder ful camaraderie between the musicians”. Tickets for the concert are R120 per person or R1,200 for a table of 10, and can be booked by e-mailing Alke Bradfield at a . b ra d f i e l d @ k i n g s w o o d c o l l e g e . c o m or by phoning her on 046-603-6670. A selection of cheeses and snacks will be included at each table, along with two complimentary bottles of wine. HIKERS ELECT COMMITTEE The Oldenburgia Hiking Club is a well-established hiking club based in Makhanda (Grahamstown) that offers a range of hiking and other outdoor activities to suit a variety of abilities and interests. The club arranges a day hike and a weekend hike each month if possible, and at least one multi-day hike every year, plus a few social events. The club’s activities are organised by a committee elected at its AGM. The 2019 committee comprises Karen Kouari (chair), Jono Campbell (secretary), Taryn Bodill (treasurer), Liz Gowans, Katja Offerman, Richard Grant, Lynne Angus and Peter Sturrock. Oldenburgia’s next hike is a 9km circular route on the southern commonage on Sunday, April 7, starting and finishing at Rivendell farm. The hike leader is Jono Campbell and he can be contacted on 084-917-3667. Meanwhile, further club information and membership forms can be obtained by e-mailing oldenburgiahikingclub@gmail.com GOOD TIMES IN UITENHAGE Makhanda (Grahamstown) athletes Stephen and Terri-Lynn Penney finished 87th and 105th respectively at the Legacy Project Human Race over 30km in Uitenhage last week. There were 384 finishers. Stephen Penney (Kowie Striders) recorded a time of 2 hours 30 minutes 09 seconds, while Terri-Lynn Penney (Nedbank Athletics Club) finished in 2:33:48. HISTORY BOOK OF SORTS Not only was the on-field action superb at the Pam Golding Properties/Graeme College rugby day a fortnight ago, so too was the comprehensive and informative 44-page programme put together by the organisers DONATING RED: Makhanda (Grahamstown) resident Patricia Mayekiso, left, donates her 10th unit of blood during the SA National Blood Service (SANBS) visit to the Dutch Reformed Church hall in Hill Street. Assisting her is professional nurse Siya Stokwe. The next visit of the SANBS to the hall is from midday to 6pm on Tuesday, April 9 Pictures: SID PENNEY for the event. What struck me while reading through it was that it was something of a history book, or walk down memory lane, recalling when this school was founded and when that business started opened its doors to customers. Let’s have a look. In his message, Graeme headmaster Kevin Watson welcomed everyone to the rugby day, an event which has grown from strength to strength since its inception in 1998. Graeme’s opponents on that day were Dale College, established in King William’s Town in 1861, while Framesby High School in Port Elizabeth was established more than a century later, in 1966. Makhanda (Grahamstown) attorneys Wheeldon Rushmere & Cole stated in their advert in the programme: “Connecting communities, clients and people in the field of law since 1908.” Another advertiser was GBS Mutual Bank that was established way back in 1877. Just down the road from Makhanda is the family school at the sea, Port Alfred High School, which is 135 years old, and is unique in that it is a dual-medium, co-educational school, catering for 820 pupils. Travelling a long distance to play in the rugby day was SACS from Newlands in Cape Town, founded in 1829, making it the oldest high school in SA. I chatted with SACS headmaster Brendan Grant at the rugby day, and he was interested to learn that my Standard 6 (grade 8) year (1959) was spent at SACS in the Gardens (at the foot of Table Mountain) and Standard 7 and 8 years at SACS in Newlands after it had moved lock, stock and barrel. But that’s another story for later. Another local firm of attorneys of long-standing that placed an advert in the programme is Dold & Stone, established in 1841 . St Andrew’s College, we learn from details in the programme, was founded in 1855, while rugby at the school dates back to 1875. In its advertisement, Hi-Tec Security said it had been protecting the city for more than 25 years. An interesting read the Graeme College rugby day programme! RESULTS AT GREY Makhanda (Grahamstown) schools’ 1st team results at the weekend’s Grey High School rugby festival in Port Elizabeth were: Day-one – Graeme College lost to St Alban’s College 7-10; Kingswood College beat Parktown Boys’ High 50-12; and St Andrew’s College beat St John’s College 31-0. Day-two – Graeme lost to Marlow Agricultural High 10-34; Kingswood beat St John’s 35-8; and St Andrew’s beat Jeppe Boys’ High 13-12. LOTS OF POWER, LOTS OF NOISE Two young motorcyclists had a whale of a time aboard their very noisy scrambler-type bikes last Thursday afternoon on the southern side of Sunnyside, charging up and down George Street, Watson Street and into Arnecourt Close. They really made a heck of a din, but please do not get me wrong, I am not complaining. I simply love the sound of high-revving motorbikes, thanks to many a day spent at Killarney (Cape Town) and Aldo Scribante (Port Elizabeth) racetracks. However, what concerns me most is the fact that numerous vehicles do not yield at the Watson/Thackeray intersection and simply sail through. With a motorbike charging up or down Watson Street and a vehicle not yielding at the intersection, there is surely an accident waiting to happen or, as they would say in surfing terms, a “wipe-out”. Incidentally, possibly showing off to somebody in the area, one of the riders stood up as he rode down Watson Street. BRIDGE LEADS TO SCENIC COURSE I am a Facebook friend of Cape Town Tourism, and on one recent post was a photo of Table Mountain and Table Bay, with parts of Milnerton Golf Club visible. Undoubtedly, that must be one of the most scenic golf courses in South Africa – the Atlantic Ocean on one side, the Diep River on the other side, and Table Mountain always in the background. To access the golf course, the Milnerton Lighthouse and Woodbridge Island housing estate one has to cross the concrete bridge over Diep River. Five decades ago there was a wooden bridge affectionately known as “Black Bridge”, but which is not used anymore due to safety concerns. How do I know all of this? Back in the 1950s and early 1960s the Penney family lived less than a kilometre away from the golf course, and I used to spend a lot of time as a teenager gallivanting in the area of the golf course, the lighthouse and, of course, the beach! That leads me to wonder how many members of Belmont Golf Club and Royal Port Alfred Golf Club have played a round or more at Milnerton Golf Club and taken in the marvellous 360° views. REMEMBERED Last week, I wrote about the late Eric Tasmer and his willingness to help others with woodwork, mechanical and many other DIY issues. Derrick Fellows of Port Alfred writes: “I was at Graeme College at the same time as Eric Tasmer, although he left before me. “Your reference to him being so helpful reminded me of an occurrence which supports your contention that he was always willing to be of assistance. “One of the items presented on Founders Day at Graeme was a wooden plaque or shield. “At assembly after one particular Founders Day, OB Taylor, the then headmaster, mentioned that the plaque had over time developed an unattractive blemish and that Eric, who had been in the audience as an Old Boy on Founders Day, had been sharp-eyed enough to spot it. “He had later approached the headmaster and offered to restore the plaque to its original pristine condition. This he did promptly and efficiently. The headmaster had commended Eric for being the embodiment of the ‘Graemian Spirit’. “Why this incident should have remained in my memory for half a century or more, when some days I can’t remember what I had for breakfast, is strange. “I can also remember the Tasmer family home was on the corner of Lawrance Street and Shepperson Lane, although I still insist it is, in fact, Shepherds Lane.” GOOD WEATHER, GOOD PARKRUN FIELD Thoko Sipungu (20 minutes 00 seconds) and Kelly Mackenzie (25:32) were first in the men’s and ladies’ sections respectively at last Saturday’s parkrun in Makana botanical gardens, an event that drew 181 par ticipants in glorious weather. Runners-up were Melikhaya Dyubele (20:19) and Charlotte Abraham (27:27), while teenagers Cee-Jay Porthen (22:05) and Tosca Stoloff (29:41) were placed third. Thabisa Twani completed her 50th parkrun last Saturday, while Ju-Ann Cox and Justine Weeks each have one to go to their 50th. Parkruns are held each Saturday at 8am from the entrance to the botanical gardens. HOCKEY WIN FOR KC In their 1st team hockey clash on Saturday, Kingswood College defeated Diocesan School for Girls 2-1. A TALE OF A LANE Elsewhere on this page is an e-mail from Derrick Fellows of Port Alfred in which he states, quite correctly, that the Tasmer family lived in a house on the corner of Shepperson Lane and Lawrance Street a few decades ago. If one looks at the street signs at either end of the lane, they read “Shepperson”. Yet, the “Grahamstown 1966 Directory” states that the lane back then was Shepstone Lane, and that residents in those days included Ginger Muddle, Athol Will, Mick Hanley and Ernest Will. Now, can anybody explain to me via e-mail at sidp@imaginet.co.za how it came about that Shepstone Lane came to be renamed Shepperson Lane? ATTENTIVE GROUP: Grade R teacher at Graeme College, Jacqui Flowerday, and her class watch the proceedings at the memorial service that formed part of the school’s Founders’ Day celebrations. The proceedings included flag raising, singing of the national anthem and the school song, and laying of wreaths
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