Archive for the ‘GEESE’ Category
Fish Saving at the Vlei
Dear Neighbour, Following the recent blog, can anyone help? Regards Geoff From: Elizabeth [mailto:lizzy.lilly@gmail.com] Sent: 07 April 2011 13:05 To: gneden@googlemail.com Subject: Fish Saving at Glencairn Vlei – LOST NET Hi Geoff, please could you circulate this- Paul Jaques posted this on the Glancairn Page Facebook page: Hi All. The fish-saving kids left their net [...]
Notice for the 2010 Annual General Meeting for GEESE
Notice for the 2010 Annual General Meeting for GEESE to be held on Sunday 11th April at 5pm in St Andrew’s Church, 73 Glen Road, Glencairn Please put this in your diary now so you can make sure you will be at the meeting as we want as many people there as possible [...]
GEESE JANUARY NEWSLETTER
8th January 2010 Catch your breath! The new year, Twenty Ten, has begun! And that means that World Wetland Day is just three weeks away! Actually, this year it falls on a Tuesday so we will be celebrating on Sunday afternoon, 31st January. How are we celebrating? We will be [...]
Vandalised Bench
Dear Neighbour, Sometime last night a memorial bench which was recently erected by the Rodgers family at the Whale Watching Site in commemoration of their son was vandalised apparently by a motorist who got his vehicle stuck in the sand and removed a slat from the bench to help extract his car. If anyone [...]
GOSLING INFO
Attached is an invitation to the 1st GOSLING afternoon on Sunday 4th October. Please reply quickly if your child/ren want to come – only 20 places as this is our first effort! We hope it will be fun and there will be many more afternoons like this. Believe it or not, the Egyptian GEESE proudly [...]
Report Back on GEESE Meeting – Sunday 23rd August
Just to bring you up to date with everything after the GEESE Meeting on Sunday – it is all so challenging and exciting! – Cilla AUGUST – SEPTEMBER GEESE NEWS LETTER The General Meeting has held last Sunday, attended by some 35 people and about the same number of apologies. The main purpose [...]
Geese Newsletter – August 2009
8th August 2009 We are bursting with exciting news! Cape Town City Council have entrusted us with R29,000 to be spent before June 2010 on improving and beautifying our wetland! It is exciting and sobering! We applied a year ago on the basis that we wanted to employ someone once a [...]
GEESE NEWSLETTER – MAY 2009
Since the last time we wrote at the end of March, so much has happened! In the last couple of weeks GEESE have achieved three milestones! So exciting! Two weekends ago, we recorded receiving 55 ml of rain after the most unprecedented warnings of two cold fronts hitting us simultaneously. We ourselves had squalls [...]
GEESE FEATURED IN FULL CIRCLE MAGAZINE
Check out page 22 of Full Circle Magazine – there is an excellent feature article, explaining what GEESE ( Glencairn Educational and Environmental Support Enthusiasts) are all about and what they are doing to protect our little store of environmental treasures and improve public access to the natural assets of our valley – especially around the Wetland [...]
STEPPING STONES AT GLENCAIRN VLEI
Congratulations for a job well done and thanks to the members of GEESE and all their helpers, for their hard work in setting up the stepping stones that will enable the community to cross the Glencairn dam spillway in wet weather. 2 Responses to “STEPPING STONES AT GLENCAIRN VLEI” Cilla Bromley – April 27, 2009 Thank [...]