The Awards Ceremony for the YES Environmental Drama Festival took place in the main theatre of the Baxter Theatre Centre on Saturday 27 July 2013. The festival is one of the youth development initiatives of the City of Cape Town’s Youth Environmental School (YES) programme. This year the theme of the Festival was: ‘Smart Living. Smart Saving – Electricity Savings and … [Read more...]
Oostenberg residents slow to recycle
Some folk are just too 'comfortable' to appreciate a good thing, or do they just not care? The latest roll-out of the City of Cape Town's Think Twice curb side recycling system to the Durbanville area is particularly slow on the uptake. Since August 1st the Oostenburg area joined the Think Twice program with other suburbs to have their clean recyclables collected from … [Read more...]
Spring is poison time in the Boland
I trust it is safe to say that spring has finally arrived in the Cape. And with it comes gorgeous flower, blossoms, birds and beautiful burst of colour. I have already been lucky to receive in my garden an active team of bees pollinating my mostly indigenous flowers, unlike many parts of the world where the bees are disappearing due to illnesses and also the indiscriminate use … [Read more...]
