“Summertime Is Always the Best of What Might Be.” NOVEMBER 2016 - ISSUE 22
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“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” NOVEMBER 2016 - ISSUE 22 In this newsletter we pay tribute to John Lamb for his input to Formosa Garden Village. During his tenure, we have witnessed substantial improvements. The ageing cottages are being up- graded; new cottages have been built; the laundry and staff ab- lutions were completed. In the Frailcare many improvements such as good beds & mod- ern showers have been provided. Through all the passage of progress, he was assisted by his wife Beth who has left us with a true “Garden” village. We wish to thank them for a long & selfless contribution to the lifestyle we all enjoy here. We are continuing with the addition of new cottages and have gone to tender on three more on the upper west area of the vil- lage. Contrary to the belief of some residents, we do not fore- see a water problem in the area, and this has been confirmed by a consulting engineer. The tenders have been submitted and have been adjudicated. The sponsoring process has started and the building of the new cottages will only commence in the new year. We will keep you appraised of progress. Don Ayres - House Committee Chairman Formosa Garden Village Management and 6 1 Welcome to new Residents Meet our new residents Since our last News- Roxana Sayer - Cottage 106 letter, we have wel- My name is Roxana Sayer and I am a brand comed more new new resident of FGV! I’ve been living in Plet- faces to FGV. tenberg Bay for seventeen years, and many of you will know my former little house be- They are, Ursula hind the hedge in Roche Bonne Avenue, Gordorr to cottage 20, where my husband Ian and I spent so many Roxana Sayer to happy times. cottage 106 and I had planned to spend much of this year Veronica Rimbault to travelling to visit friends and family, and was cottage 134. taken slightly by surprise to be offered a cot- tage here—which might explain why I moved To the Frailcare, we in for three days and promptly disappeared for a month! However I am welcome Mrs Helga very pleased to be here now and am revelling in my new home. Worthington to Riley I have two daughters who live in Wales and New Zealand respectively, Wing room 26 and Dr and they are delighted to be following all the news of my grand move. van der Vyver to Price Jones room 39. Now they have seen photos of the splendidly renovated cottage and they are eagerly planning to come and visit me, which will be lovely. Meanwhile I hope to use my new base from which to continue my usual We trust that they are pursuit of choir singing, concert going, reading, bird watching, French settled in and feeling conversation and other UA topics. at home in our lovely village. There are lots of friendly faces around and I will be happy to offer a cup of coffee to anyone who feels like popping in to no.106 for a chat! Ursula Godorr - Cottage 20 With current renova- tions still in progress, Greetings to everybody. I am glad to be here. I am Ursula Godorr, born we will also soon be in Germany in 1940. I came to South Africa when I was 21, happy to welcoming Hector and leave Germany as there was still a bad taste Jannette McIvor from the 2nd World War in me. to cottage 127. The I met my German husband in Cape Town and renovations to cottage we lived there for some years then moved to 47 will also soon com- Johannesburg. I have 2 children who are mence as it has suc- now living in Germany. cessfully been spon- sored to Mr and Mrs In 1999, I retired and moved to Plettenberg de Jager. Bay and have ever since enjoyed this lovely place and I am now happy to be here in the village. 2 TELKOM DATA Meet our new residents TOWER: Telkom has Veronica Rimbault - Cottage 134 chosen to place the Telkom cell site at It’s a wonderful feeling, after a very lengthy wait Formosa Gardens for the privilege to express sincere gratitude to because it is the opti- the competent and very caring Management of mal place to get the FGV and all their dedicated staff and friendly best coverage for residents, for the warmest of welcomes to join customers in the sur- their “mercy thing” rounding area. The My husband passed away 11 years ago in our technologies that are retirement home in Hillcrest, Natal, and all four of being deployed are my sons live in overseas countries. I was drawn LTE, 2G and 3G. to Plett to be near my soul-mate sister, Lyn Con- Telkom cellular cus- nell, then also recently widowed. We’d never tomers will be able to been parted until we had a double wedding, when we promised our- experience the high- selves we’d some day, somewhere, somehow, get together again—” est data speed avail- when we had no more encumbrances! “ We grew up near the banks of able at this moment the mighty Zambezi River near Livingstone and the Victoria Falls in old in time. Northern Rhodesia, and lo and behold, the day has now at last come for our pact of long ago to come true—in this lovely place of beautiful gar- dens and friendliest folk! ACCOUNT PAYMENTS Remember that FGV Thank you to FGV - by Elma and Les Bergh has a Card Machine. We accept Debit cards As we approach this special time of the year in our Christian calendar, I just feel the need to express a very big thank you to Philip and Gerda as well as Credit cards. and all our helpful admin staff of this beautiful FGV in which we live. To Just remember to raise thank you Matron Hanlie and sisters Ingrid, Susan and Daphne and all your daily spending limit our kind, caring carers and nursing staff who so patiently and lovingly to accommodate your attend to the sick and the frail. To thank all our ever-cheerful domestics levy. and gardeners and maintenance staff for keeping our cottages and gar- We however can not dens looking so beautiful and cared for. To thank the kitchen and laun- accept American dry staff, for all the hard work behind the scenes and thank you to the Express, Diners Club Security for keeping us safe. cards and foreign bank We love you and thank you and wish you all a very Happy, Healthy cards. Christmas and loads of Blessings in 2017. Should you pay by bank ‘COME WITH THE SPIRIT & HEART OF A CHILD, transfer, please remem- ber to use your FGV IT MATTERS NOT WHAT WE SHARE. account number as FOR CHRISTMAS ISN’T CHRISTMAS AT ALL payment ref- UNLESS THE CHRIST-CHILD IS THERE.’ erence. 3 Christmas Mini Market We apologize for any omissions. Our annual Christmas Mini Market will be During the next few months there are quite a num- held in the ber of our dear Octogenarians and Nonagenari- FGV lounge on Thurs- ans who will be celebrating their birthdays. Happy day 1 December Birthday and many blessings to all of you. 2016 , commencing NOVEMBER 2016 at 8:30am. 3rd Margie Arnold 4th Norman Gess Do invite your friends 5th Jean Wilkinson 11th John Lamb to join you in browsing 11th Elma Bergh 22nd David Atkinson the stalls and doing 25th Ivan Baker 25th Roger Wright your early 29th Rene Isemonger Christmas DECEMBER 2016 shopping. 13th Jessie Burnell 13th Leslie Bergh Coffee/ 14th Flo Schreuder 17th Leslie Burnell Tea and 20th Val Gardner 24th Nancy Wilkinson mince 26th Margaret Plater 28th Joan Stockdale pies will be served. 31st Maggie Couper 31st Chappie Chapman JANUARY 2017 Cocktail Party 2nd Tony Millerd 15th Ann Holmes The annual Cocktail 18th Francis Porlock 20th Geoffrey Gardiner Party hosted by Ex- 20th Clare Anderson 21st Brenda Masterton ecutive Committee will 22nd Jackie Bass 28th Helen Rogers take place on FEBRUARY 2017 Tuesday, 6 December 5th Kathleen Petersen 5th Mary Marais 2016 at 18h00 for 6th Aiden Buchholz 11th Jean Rist 18h30. Please diarise 15th Barry Stroebel 16th Joanie Hutchinson this date and come 17th Elaine Vosges 17th Mala van Huyssteen and join in the happy 18th Jackie Delport 20th Edwin Courtenay get-together of FGV 22nd Nancy Stratten 23rd Joy Williams residents. Besides the 26th Dixon Russel wonderful feast pre- pared by our own kitchen, Staff Matters we will serve Ephraim Gwiga wine, beer , We welcome a new permanent staff member to the team. Ephraim has soft drinks and been appointed as a driver and with his friendliness and caring attitude, fruit juices. he is a valuable asset to the team. Welcome Ephraim. Please book your Training attendance at the Several staff recently completed a Safety Representative office before the Training course at FGV hosted by SafeTech Medical and 21 November 2016. Safety Training Specialist. Congratulations to one and all. See you there. 4 Happy Anniversary Heartiest congratulations and many blessings to our bridal couples who will be celebrating their special day during the next few months. We wish you every joy for the future. Cybercriminals are up to their old tricks again. NOVEMBER 2016 We have received sev- Rene & Neville Isemonger 15/11/1958 58years eral reports that resi- Annette & John Dreyer 16/11/1963 53years dents who have re- Heather & Bosh Karis 30/11/1956 60years ceived calls from “Microsoft” to offer help DECEMBER 2016 in solving their com- Jean & Ivan Baker 13/12/1952 64years puter problems or sell Flo & Dick Schreuder 14/12/1961 55year them a software li- JANUARY 2017 cense.