This Week - A Business Meeting

There's not much to say about that, so here's the usual cartoon.

Last Week

Debbie Smit talked about an International Domino Competition.  I was absent and have had no feed back.  Maybe the whole club is going mad with spots in front of their eyes...I don't know.

Next Week

Vinessa van Rensburg will be talking about the Rondevlei Learning Centre. 

The Centre is at Sedgefield, not to be confused with the Rondevlei Nature Reserve in Cape Town.

It's an unconventional school, ACTS at Rondevlei Learning Centre is a place of imaginative, loving and inspired teaching. The perceptive, intuitive and open-hearted teachers have attracted amazing helpers and tireless volunteers to support them. This has in turn, resulted in the creation of an unlimited space for a number of children to thrive, children who were not coping with the standardised mainstream government education system.

Carol Van Zyl and Vinessa Van Rensburg used to help out at Smutsville Primêre School. One day after discussing the painfully slow progress they were making because of the limited time they had with the children, Carol said to Vinessa it wasn’t enough; they needed to have their own centre where they could make a bigger and longer lasting impact. Seeing children struggling to learn, the pair were gripped with a determination to help them overcome difficulties that could otherwise negatively impact the rest of their lives.

International - USA

For more than two decades, young anglers across Nevada have become hooked on fishing during a statewide free fishing day. In the city of Sparks, the event tips the scales: On a Saturday last June, more than 2,000 people lined the banks of a marina for the event sponsored by the Rotary Club of Sparks. Rotarians, joined by community volunteers, provided free use of 1,200 rods and offered fishing tips, hot dogs, ice cream, and beverages. The club has sponsored its city’s Kids Free Fishing Day since 2002. One of the event’s founders, club member Don Welsh, organised an extra day for anglers with disabilities, including his daughter, Rebecca, who had trouble navigating the burgeoning crowds at the main event. Club member Ed Lawson, now the mayor in Sparks, prodded the state Legislature to grant an extra day of license-free fishing for those outings, dubbed Fishing with Rebecca.