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ftheREE! PINELANDS COMMUNITY MAGAZINE musissuee 15 | February 2012 SUPPLEMENT lOVE ER Pinelanders MM SUpg.s 10 & 11 GRacE Priem A people person RIchard Cousins Mechanical mastermind out & About Roses aT chart faRm CoMMuNItY tRAVELLERS BUffElSfontein FOOD West Coast Game and flaSh in a PaN naturE reservE By Heleen Meyer YOUR GUIDE TO lOcal NEWS, EVENTS, PEOPlE & PLACES welcome About the Cover: 4bikes4Singapore Roses are so often The 4Bikes4Singapore Team: associated with Mal Taylor, son Julian and romance and this daughter Shan, and John month we celebrate Byett left Cape Town on their Valentine's day. journey by motorcycle to Thanks to Reggie Singapore on December 26th. Lord for the cover They are raising funds for photograph and the Red Cross War Memorial article on a beautiful Children's Hospital Trust rose garden. see page 17. Follow their progress at www.4bikes4singapore.wordpress. com where they are posting their experiences,with welcome To summer — IT'S ABoUT TIME! photographs, The Muse wishes them all the best! We hope you enjoyed a good break over Christmas and got to spend time and catch up with family and friends. We were privileged to spend a weekend with family at Buffelsfontein, up the The last we heard, they had crossed into Tanzania. We'll West Coast (see our Travel article page 16). It was great to get away and enjoy wildlife, a bit of try and keep you updated on silence and the unhurried pace that it brings. Last week we were also lucky to see three hippo their adventure. at Rondevlei — but more about that in another edition. Well, Summer was a bit late in arriving this year wasn't it? I hope we get some payback with a later start to winter, although I understand that the dam levels are lower than normal and you DID recognise that we are really in need of a good rainy season. See our Love Summer feature on pages 9 - 11. These peoplE! In our Pinelanders section this month we talk to two well known local characters — Grace Priem and Richard Cousins. The number and depth of interesting people in such a relatively small suburb still continues to amaze me. It must be something in the water that breeds them in Pinelands. It is not only famous celebrities that have interesting life stories to tell — we have unique personalities all around us colouring the fabric of our suburb, their stories revealing the exceptional hopes, dreams, and achievements of the everyday people who live next door. Reggie Lord, a prolific Pinelands blogger, writes about Chart Farm for our Out and About piece on page 17, and also the news article on The Ride on page 7. We love it when Pinelanders provide us with local content. Tell us what you would like to read about and send us your nominations for the Pinelander pages. We would love to hear from you. Love summer! Enjoy the issue! max Schutte Editor max Schutte Our mystery photograph found contact Us behind a wardrobe, from a house Photographer and writer tel • 021 531 3324 built in the 50's, was tentatively Glynnis Schutte cell • 073 644 1288 email • [email protected] identified by estate agent Peter assistant post • The Muse, 12 Rhone, Pinelands, 7450 Lovell. He remembers the couple christelle Botha as Mr and Mrs Wiese who bought We have ideas for features, but we also his property in Cone Way in 1985, Regular contributors invite you to send us your suggestions, carol Booth of cannons creek or even contribute an article or news. when they were in their 80's. Independent School, Email us at They had been living in Pinelands heleen meyer [email protected] for many years and had rented a flat in Glen Roy. We have no All contributions, photographs and text, submitted to The Muse Magazine can be sent to [email protected]. 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An SRA is a demarcated area where our constitutional rights to freedom and Matthew was also placed in the top 10 in municipal services are controlled and funded safety, we as citizens need to get involved, the Province for Mathematics. Matthew, by the community, typically through an as, in reality, government funding is limited together with fellow matric pupil Zizipho additional top-up to rates and a special not-for- resulting in basic municipal services. Even the Pae, both received scholarships from the profit management body. The City and SRA first most efficient, well-resourced police services Allan Gray orbis Foundation. Both will be have to agree on current services and service are more effective when there is community furthering their studies levels/frequency of services and then look at involvement.