october / november 2018 november / october newsletter swiss social & sports club

newsletter october/ november 2018 forthcoming Events

4th October Pensioners Lunch 3rd November Over 70's Tea Party @ our Clubhouse 17th/ 18th November Opening of Camping Season 5th or 6th December Baenzejass (to be confirmed) 6th December Pensioners Christmas Lunch 9th December Samichlaus Jonkershoek

All events will be announced closer to the date with full details frauentreffen

As our ladies had enjoyed last an appeal to all members of the year’s 1st August lunch at the Club. club, it was decided to repeat the As you know, the Frauentreffen experience this year and move our always joins the Samichlaus in July meeting to the National Day Jonkershoek with their annual luncheon. As usual, our chief table Christmas Sale and Raffle, giving decorator, Gerda, made the tables away a great number of awesome look very festive and Swiss and the prizes. Now, should you happen fifteen members, who happened to have an awesome item in your to be in the country and not on home that you don’t really need, holiday in Switzerland, had a great some bottles of wine that don’t time savouring the tasty lunch and fit into your well-stocked wine enjoying the festivities. cellar or if you would like to give away a voucher or something August is, as you may remember, else somebody might enjoy, why the birthday month of our two not donate these things to us as most senior members: Dori and prizes for our Raffle? We would be Alice, who both turned 91! To most grateful indeed! Just contact celebrate the occasion, Monika Therese Dennler on 082 775 5849. invited us for cake to the Café Magnifico in . Although only a few of the usual crowd were available, we were very happy to Do YOU speak or write German? see some new faces at the table. And so we would like to welcome Excellent Job Opportunities Available to the Frauentreffen Mai Unger and her friend Wendy Vogt as well as We need German speakers! Bernadette Walther, who recently  returned to SA after spending  many years in Switzerland. A big  Thank You to Mai, who generously On Offer: picked up the bill for everyone’s  coffee and, of course, Monika for  the delicious and huge slices of   cake, which caused quite a few of  us to walk out with a take-away box!   And now, as this is the last issue before December, we would like to Email us for more information or submit your CV at [email protected] make october/ november 2018 cover story

On September 14 th we got to enjoy the last fondue evening of the season! What a pleasant evening it was. Ernst Tobler and his helpers stired up a yummy cheese pot which was enjoyed by all members including some "bring along 1st Swiss Club Members ying Economy Class will get the timers" Business Class allowance of 2 pieces at max 32 kg each !

On September 21st we Conditions: had a chance to "meet Members have to send an email to services@@yedelweiss.com, and greet" the athletes with cc to [email protected] of our Swiss National You have to quote your membership number, have to be a paid-up Teams that participated in member and quote your ight details the TUG OF WAR World Championships 2018 in Cape Town. We wish to thank the Swiss Consulate General Capetown for organizing and inviting them to celebrate their success!

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SWISS RIFLE CLUB CAPE TOWN SHOOTING CALENDAR 2018

SAPS Accredited Sport Shooting Organization under FCA 60/2000 No. 1300070 AFFILIATED TO THE SWISS SHOOTING FEDERATION (SCHWEIZER SCHIESSSPORTVERBAND) SSV http://www.swissclub.co.za – club sections – rifle club. Find us on Facebook * Shoot postponed to Alternative Date if > 50% rain of 2mm or more predicted *

V = VENUE: ALTERNATIVE DATE DAY V K = Klawer Simon’s Town – Navy Range TIME DATE W = Western Cape Shooting Union Atlantis * 07 Oct Sun W PRIVATE Fire-arms @WCSU 11:00 Cancelled 27 Oct Sat K Swiss/SA Navy Challenge. Host: Navy 09:00 - 17 Nov Sat K Knockout Competition President Mettler Cup 12:00 -

July 21 was a regular shooting day, and we had a reasonable turnout, which could not be said for the planned shoot at the ‘Good Hope’ military range on the 18th August, which was cancelled due to lack of interest. This was partly caused by the new requirement to have a SAPS Clearance Certificate for everybody attending that range, but this rule is not yet being applied stringently. Subsequently, we conducted a survey to see whether an additional shooting day should be programmed, seeing that 3 shooting dates were lost in 2018. Twenty-nine (29) members wanted an additional day, 14 at Atlantis and 15 at Klawer. The former was programmed for the 1st September, and a paltry three (3) members, other than committee members, made their appearance! Most reported sick or had some other excuse, while several did not even bother to send an apology for not coming at all! Members are reminded that the SRC is their club, and committee members spend their own time and money to perform many of the mundane tasks needed to organize a shoot! The last opportunity for completing the annual programme and achieving ‘Dedicated Sport Shooter’ status was on Saturday 15 September. We had a good turn-out, with about 18 members availing themselves of the opportunity of catching up! We welcomed our past president, Heinz Mettler who recently returned from his Swiss holidays. The up-coming private fire-arm shoot at the WCSU range is cancelled because of an international event taking place at that venue. The next important event is the Swiss vs SA Navy challenge on the 27th October at the Navy’s Klawer range above Simon’s Town (hosted by the Navy Service Shooting Team). Please diarize that date and make your presence felt, as we need to regain the trophy and win the bottle of bubbly that comes with it! After that, the President Mettler Cup Knock-out competition is on November 17 The ammunition, originally ordered back in 2013 has finally arrived! However, not without a few impediments! We are planning the 2019 shooting calendar as we speak, including the events around the 70th anniversary of the club! The anniversary shoot/festivities are provisionally planned for the middle of September, 2019. Watch this space!

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swiss social & sports club cape town since 1923 contact details membership FRAUENTREFFEN - Theresa Dennler [email protected] We welcome the following PRESIDENT - Nicky Rodrigues Cell: 082 775 58 49 [email protected] new members: Tel: 021 658 7276 - Cell: 082 921 7729 HUUSMUSIK - Ernst Tobler [email protected] Lindsay & Mattias Suter, Claremont VICE PRESIDENT & PUBLIC RELATIONS Tel: 021 531 5779 - Cell: 083508 79 06 [email protected] Stefanie Schmidle, Cape Town Christian Schiess - Cell 079 088 82 33 JONKERSHOEK - René Bützer Nicky & Roland Bühler, Fresnaye [email protected] TREASURER Tel: 021 557 6628 - Cell: 082 224 4191 Bettina & AJ Claasen-Frauchiger, Green Andreas Reichmuth Point [email protected] RIFLE CLUB - Dierk Lüthi Tel: 021 951 3169 - Cell: 083 297 38 03 [email protected] Oliver Trachsel & Mark Chhunthang, Tel: 021 715 6104 - Cell: 083 441 4626 MEMBERSHIP - Andreas Walther Bantry Bay [email protected] SECRETARY & Aline & Cristian Cordaro, Herisau-CH Cell: 082 663 51 56 REPRESENTATIVE for the Swiss living in Southern Africa (ASO)- Marcie Bischof Odette & Clive Brown, ADVERTISING - André Häberli [email protected] - Cell: 076 389 7824 [email protected] Birthdays October & Tel: 021 551 4898 - Cell: 076 933 0304 EMAIL November 2018 (80+) [email protected] CATERING & EVENTS - Marcie 13.10.1921 Josef Alois Eicher, [email protected] Cell : 076 389 7824 Club House: 021 - 434 8405 13.10.1929 Arthur Müller, CYCLE CLUB - Hans Herren GPS: S33.90534 / E 18.39981 [email protected] 14.10.1932 Bernhard Schreiber, Sea Tel: 021 551 8267 - Cell: 074 760 54 68 Point EDITOR - Patricia LoSciuto 25.10.1932 Joyce Evard, Vredehoek [email protected] www.swissclub.co.za Tel: 021 5524067 Cell: 083 548 25 30 28.10.1936 Johann "Hans" Buchmann, 04.11.1938 Bobby Buser, Mowbray Bank Details Account No: 07104 3144 Address Postal Address Swiss Social & Sports Club Branch code: 024 109 Green Point Commons, P.O. Box 2279 14.11.1937 Dave Jillings, Camps Bay Standard Bank, Seapoint Donation welcomed off Bill Peters Drive, Cape Town Cape Town 8000 27.11.1931 Liliane Cockinis, Plumstead Donations: Deceased members: Monika & Jürg Siegenthaler, Madeleine Low, Vredehoek (DoB 26.05.1929)

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