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The Community Is Raising Funds To Upgrade The Kleinmond Police Station
Through the Community Policing Forum, the communities of Kleinmond, Bettys Bay, Pringle Bay and Rooi Els are being asked to join in on this community initiative to raise money to upgrade the Police Station.
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CALLING ASPIRANT JOURNALISTS
As well as any of you out there with fascinating stories to tell, relevant facts to impart or photographs that may be of interest to Betty’s Bayers…
Please contribute to The Buzz. We need different voices. You can email your work to me, Helen George at the address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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- Category: 2016 - March April
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Betty's Bay — Where Whales Play and Wild Flowers Bloom
Betty's Bay is a beautiful small holiday town situated on the Overberg coast of South Africa's Western Cape province. Just an hour’s drive from Cape Town it sits beneath the rugged Kogelberg Mountains on the scenic R44 ocean drive between Pringle Bay and Kleinmond. Tourism plays a large role in the town's economy due to the its popularity with holiday makers from across the Western Cape and Cape Town in particular. This village is the longest in South Africa at over 13 km.
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- Written by Colin Chapman
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- Category: 2016 - March April
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Hangklip Community Care Centre — Making a Difference
Madiba is quoted as saying that “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”
The greater Hangklip region is home to some folk who struggle . . . with loneliness, ill health, financial uncertainty and hunger. The Hangklip Community Care Centre (HCCC) in Bettys Bay wishes to make a difference in the lives these people, through offering cooked meals, food supplementation, chronic medicine facilitation, foot care, medical equipment loan, exercise sessions and social gatherings.
To be effective HCCC needs your help through assisting those in need to make contact with HCCC – we need to know them in order to help. Volunteering your time and talents – help spread the load of caring.
Follow Madiba’s example – your life can make a difference in the life of others!
Contact HCCC at 028 272 9051 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or https://www.facebook.com/Hangklipccc
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- Parent Category: Community
- Category: Hangklip Community Care Centre / Gemeenskapsorgsentrum
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Feedback on Ecological Matters at Stony Point
The African Penguin
The South African population of the African Penguin, 2015 census: 19000 breeding pairs or 38000 adult breeding penguins, of which Stony Point supports 13% of the national breeding stock of this endangered species.
African Penguin Annual Moult
- The annual moult season commences from October, with a peak occurrence in December. It then tapers off in the early months of the following year.
- Every penguin will moult every 12 months – like clockwork. During the moult the birds have to remain ashore because feathers are shed and replaced. The moult phase is the most sensitive period in the annual cycle for the African penguin.
- Moulting penguins at Stony Point ‘loaf’ within the intertidal zone of the coastal fringe as this location is the coolest environment where natural and sustained metabolic processes can evolve with detriment to this annual fasting phase.
- Peak count: December 2015 was 1973 adult moulters and 416 juvenile moulters.
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- Parent Category: Buzz
- Category: 2016 - March April
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