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Editor: Audie Neal, (cottage 138) Proof-reader: Ros van Zyl

Content

Notice Board 2

This and That 3

Food for Thought

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Village Grapevine

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Out & About 6

Body Corporate

& Dept. Details 7

Calendar of Events

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Editorial

Audie Neal

Dear Villagers, Let me start by offering my most profound apologies to all dear daddies of the village for not highlighting ‘Fathers Day’ in the June edition of Village News and Views. Hopefully you didn’t lose out on all that special attention you all so rightfully deserve! Things can still happen if you have family in Australia or New Zealand where Father’s Day is on the 1st September. The 21st June (solstice) marked mid-winter in astronomical terms, but it is more common to use the meteorological definition of the seasons where winter in the southern hemisphere runs from 1st June to 31st August, the 1st September being the first day of Spring. Spare a thought for Finland and Sweden where spring officially begins when the average temperature rises above 0 °C !! At the end of May…….ah now so far away, the 30th to be precise, there was the usual village end of the month “Sun-Downer and Braai”. Even though the weather is indeed that much cooler (colder?) at 5 O’clock in the afternoon this time of the year, it didn’t deter 38 residents from stepping out of their cosy cottages to enjoy the warm and friendly gathering on the village green. The splendid braai fires needed for so many braai-ers were a product of the boy scout attributes of Ron Innes…. thank you Ron. The larger than usual turnout for the braai, was due, I would suggest, to celebrate Jan Innes’ birthday ‘clickety – click’ and all that.

We are in need of volunteers to add to the duty roster list of fire lighters / braai masters for the monthly village

“Sun-Downer and Braai”. Please contact me if you are able to help.

Like everyone these days, cutting costs and reducing expenses is a way of life and the Village News and Views is no exception. I encourage more villagers to consider having the news letter sent to their computer / notepads etc. rather than printed copies in their post box in the community centre, thereby reducing the printing costs. Send me your e-mail address and I will add your name to the growing list of subscribers. Cover Picture: Fig Tree Drive, Waterfall Gardens Retirement Village

Deadline for the July 2019 issue is 25 June 2019

Stop Press Please note as from

the 1st June 2019, geyser claims will carry an excess fee of

R1500.00

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Shared room Private rooms

Mornings: 09:00—12:00 Afternoons:

15:00—18:00

Mornings: 09:00—12:00 Afternoons:

15:00—20:00

Whenever possible visitors to shared rooms are asked to use the PCC sitting room or the Community Centre seating area for their visits. This avoids intrusions on the privacy of all parties.

DOCTOR’S CONSULTATIONS If you have booked a Thursday doctor’s appointment at the PCC, please phone the PCC on the Thursday morn-ing to confirm the expected arrival time of Dr Martin. All Emergency appointments on a Thursday should be made directly with the doctors rooms. Dr Martin will then bring your file with him. Please note that Dr Martin is away from 27th June 2019 returning on the Thursday 11th July 2019

THE VILLAGE LIBRARY

Lately large amounts of old magazines of any vintage have been dumped in the library, which causes great inconvenience to the librarians, who have to dispose of them. Only current issues of the last few months are kept on the desk for readership.

Please be so kind as to dispose of your

old magazines yourself. I also want to bring it to your attention that there is also a large collection of films on DVD’s in the library. With thanks, Christina Morgan

WGRV GUIDE LINES FOR RESPONSIBLE RUBBISH DISPOSAL

Unwanted household items from cottage

cleanouts or garages may not be left behind the green wooden fence on the bowling green. It is not the responsibility of the complex to dispose of residents unwanted household items.

Resident’s private contractors must remove

all their rubble and rubbish out of the complex.

Small electrical appliances can be taken to

Incredible Connection in the Watercrest Mall or at the Pavilion shopping centre.

Fluorescent and long life globes can be taken

to Pick ’n Pay collection bins in store. Put glass bottles in bottle bank on bowling

green. (no bakeware or window glass) Cleaned food cans, beverage cans and

aerosol cans in green wheelie bins on the bowling green. Please sort into bins as per labels. Do not mix food and beverage cans.

Green garden refuse only to be placed in

area designated for plant material on bowl-ing green. Please do not leave plastic bags, seed trays or plant bags in this area. Do not leave your garden refuse on the roadway.

Black bags for household rubbish are

collected from cottages on Tuesdays. Orange bags for plastic, paper and card-

board (please flatten cardboard for easy collection) are collected from cottages on Tuesdays.

If residents are using their maids and

gardeners to dispose of the above, please make sure they are aware of these guidelines.

The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea. Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), author (1885-1962)

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Tel/Fax (031) 465 4086 Cell: 072 270 4310

E-mail: nursingsevices@telkomsa.net

Contact : Steve Farrar PROFESSIONAL HOME CARE FOR

THE SICK, ELDERLY AND FRAIL.

QUALIFIED CAREGIVERS THAT ARE RELIABLE AND HONEST.

24 HOUR SERVICES AVAILABLE. EXCELLENT RATES. WE ARE PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT YOU.

The Village Sell, Swop, Wanted

Items

FOR SALE FOOT SPA MASSAGER Salton electric Foot Spa Massager, excellent condition .Hardly used R150,00 Contact Trish, Cottage 16, . FOR SALE Jiuyangyu Lap top Briefcase, Maximum screen size compatibility: 33.8 cm(13.3") R75.00 Contact Audie Neal Cottage 138 Wanted Laundry basket approx. size 400wx400dx850 h Contact Sally Nahman Cottage 169

‘QUIZ TIME’ 1 (Nat. Hist.) What is a fesnya?

2 (theatre) Who wrote School for Scandal?

3 (medical) Who discovered X-rays?

4 (Poetry) How many lines has a triolet?

5 (Art) Which artist painted the picture entitled A Man in a Golden Helmet?

6 (buildings) What is a dream-hold ?

page 4 for answers

THE VILLAGE BRIDGE CLUB Would you like to learn how to play bridge? Is it years since you last played? Worried about saying or doing the wrong thing?

No Worries We are looking for new players at all levels of the game to join our social bridge club on Wednesday evenings (18:00— 21:00) in the community centre

For further details contact

Brian Graham

Audie

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The world economy explained with just two cows (Part 2 final)

A SWISS CORPORATION You have 5,000 cows. None of them belongs to you. You charge the owners for storing them. A CHINESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment and high bovine productivity. You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation. AN INDIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You worship them. A BRITISH CORPORATION You have two cows. Both are mad. AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate. A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive. AN IRISH CORPORATION You have two cows. One of them is a horse.

‘QUIZ TIME ’ answers 1. A number of ferrets 2. Sheridan 3. Wilhelm Rontgen 4. A poem of eight lines 5. Rembrandt 6. A hole or slit in the

wall of a belfry, steeple, tower, barn, etc

Services Nursing sister’s services are available on weekdays and

the first and last Saturday of each month.

Services available include; screening tests ear syringing health advice Reflexology and trigger

point massage available by appointment

Pop in or phone for our BEST PRICE IN TOWN specials. 5% pensioners’ discount on selected items on Tuesdays.

Free deliveries on weekdays & Emergency deliveries on weekends

Shop 16 Link Hills Shopping Centre. Waterfall Tel. 031 762 1420/9 : Fax 031 762 2486 Dispensary : Tel. 031 762 2593 Mon.—Fri. 8 am—7 pm Saturdays 8 am—3 pm Sundays & public holidays 9 am—1 pm

Pauline Randles owner since

2010 has been serving

Waterfall Gardens for over 15 years

Lady Chatterley’s Lover A book review from the past

The sexual morality of this book was one of the most discussed novels of the twentieth century. Although published in 1928 in was not published in its full text until 1960 in England. Many denunciations and legal actions arose about the book’s capacity to corrupt the general public. During a British trial the prosecution asked the jury if this was the sort of book they would wish their servants to read! This unfavourable review appeared in the American magazine Field and Stream:

Although written many years ago, Lady Chatterley's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press, and this pictorial account of the day-by-day life of an English gamekeeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor minder readers, as it contains many passages on pheasant-raising, the apprehending of poachers, ways to control vermin, and other chores and duties of the professional gamekeeper. Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savour those sidelights on the management of a midland shooting estate, and in this reviewer's opinion the book cannot take the place of J. R. Miller's Practical Gamekeeping. Ed. Zern (b. 1910)

Field and Stream: ‘Exit Laughing’ (article from ‘The Frank Muir Book’)

The A B C.. After being married for thirty years a wife asked her husband to describe her. He looked at her slowly, then said, "You're A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H........ I, J, K." She asks...... "What does that mean?" He said, "Adorable, Beautiful, Cute, Delightful, Elegant, Fancy, Gorgeous, Honey.” She smiled happily and said "Oh, that's so lovely.... what about I, J, K?" He said, "I'm Just Kidding!" His eye is still swollen....but it will get better.

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VILLAGE

HAIRDRESSER (Unisex Salon)

Colleen is available in the Village Salon on Mondays

Phone 082 646 4557 for your hair

appointments. Some days, if urgent, I can come to the village for an

early morning 08:00 appointment

2 Moyna Askew

3 Jimmy Arnett 6 Julie Moore 8 Dorothy Millan 10 Sheila Thompson 13 Jenny Harries

15 Mies Pontier 16 John Cotterell 17 Glenda Skinner 19 Ruth Ndlela 23 Wendy Udal

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank, Holocaust diarist (1929-1945)

CARDS FOR ANY

OCCASION Designed specially

for you!

Weddings Birthdays Congratulations Condolences Missing you Place cards

Contact Clare Cottage 18

Tel. 031 765 5567 : Cell 072 460 3481

www.juliecardona.co.za

3 Burnside Office Park 1 Buildersway Hillcrest 3610

Editor

Nonagenarian!.....No worries!! Turning 90 can be fun, exhilarating and filled with love especially when it is celebrated with family and friends. Maureen White experienced all of those emotions when daughter, son-in-law and 2 grandchildren arrived from Australia and family from Cape Town including 4 nieces came to Waterfall to celebrate a very special birthday on the 26th May 2019 for a very special person.

Among the many family outings and excursion over a 2 week period that Maureen and family embarked upon, one in particular was a visit to the Karkloof area. For many the Karkloof Canopy Tour is definitely an item on a ‘must do bucket list’ So Maureen with her ‘buddy’ pulling the strings, as it were, zipped through the air with the greatest of ease, that incredible lady on a flying trapeze, enjoying and loving every moment!

another Nonagenarian!! Quintin Fuller turned 90 on the 21st June. The celebrations had started a week or so earlier with a celebratory lunch at Mythos (Authentic Greek) restaurant Hillcrest and a grand family gathering. Rumour has it there was additional expense incurred due to broken crockery! The celebrations continued on Saturday afternoon (22/06/2019) with a birthday tea party in the village community dining room. Seated at the head table between son Brett and Basil, life long friend for seventy years, Quintin enjoyed the company and good wishes of friends from the village, who in turn enjoyed a feast of sandwiches, savouries and cakes with tea or coffee. Of course there has to be a birthday cake and the skills of Janet Innes and Dawn Smith produced a beautifully decorated and very tasty cake. Editor

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On Sunday 9th June 2019 the 94th Comrades Marathon took place. This year was the “up run” starting from Durban‘s City Hall at 05:30 finishing at the Scottsville Racecourse, Pietermaritzburg a distance of 86.83km. This world renowned ultra marathon event attracts participants from all over the world, male, female, ages ranging from 20 to 80, varying levels of fitness, bearing in mind everyone has had to have run a qualifying standard marathon time in order to participate. Their aspirations ranging from a sub 6 hr. time to just participating and finishing before the 12 hour cut off time when the gun is fired. Among the more than 21000 runners who set off from Durban in this gruelling event were a number family members from our own village residents Oliver Floyd, grandson of Joy and Arthur Stembridge. Oliver lives in Australia with his family He was inspired to run the comrades by a former Comrades Marathon multiple gold medallist Gary Turner. In 2018 Oliver completed the down run in a time of 11hrs 35 min. He was determined to come back the following year for the up run and collect a ‘back to back’ medal. This year he was back on the starting line in C batch. The family acting as his seconds met up with Oliver at Hillcrest and Drummond and he looked very good at each point. Oliver finished in a great time of 10hrs 38min. and received a Bronze Medal and his back to back Medal. Jolene Thompson, daughter-in-law of Jill Thompson The Cape Town family were back in town again for the Comrades Marathon. Early morning on arrival at the starting area Jolene met up with her running club mates getting ready for the start. This was Jolene’s fourth comrades marathon and once again the long hours of dedicated training would to be put to the test. Meanwhile Sean, husband and second, headed up to Pinetown the first check point. Jolene ran her own race crossing the finish line with a huge smile on her face 111th position in the women’s race in a time of 8hrs 34min. With today’s the modern technology the family members in Dubai and New York were kept well informed of her progress throughout the race. This was a well earned achievement making everyone so very proud. Jaclyn Campbell, granddaughter of Ken Wood Jaclyn Campbell and friend Andrew Dennis came out from the UK to run in this ultra marathon for the very first time. Both found the race very tough and now know why it’s called the Ultimate Human Race! From singing Shosholoza and the national anthem at the start line the camaraderie throughout, regardless of race or position, was absolutely brilliant. Jaclyn’s time of 11hrs. 48min. and Andrew’s (Andy’s) time of 10hrs. 50 min. earned them their well deserved medals. David Baird, son of Sally Nahman David came down from Johannesburg to compete and win his 4th Comrades Marathon medal in a time of 11 hrs. 49min. It was certainly a very long day for both runners and their families getting up in the early hours of Sunday morning and finishing well after 6 in the evening. Tired and exhausted maybe, but with a successful run behind them and family members smiling saying, “well done, we are so proud of you”, it was a day to remember and celebrate.

FOR FURTHER DETAILS

AND INFORMATION

Editor

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Administration Office Infinite Property

Management

Jackie Scullard

Office fax

031 762 3031

086 241 3389

Office Hours. Mon-Fri. 08:00–13:00 NB. Office Closes: 13:00 Mon.-Fri

jackie@infinitepropertymanagement.co.za

Personal Care Centre Sr. Jacky van Schalkwyk

Chef Manager Teagan Hudson Office Closes:15:30 Mon.-Fri 12:00 Sat.& Pub. Hols

Maintenance Queries Maintenance Manager

Jackie Scullard

Godfrey Wheeler

Contact Jackie for all village maintenance queries Contact Godfrey directly for Emergencies Only

Sales Office Kerry Mindry 031 762 1280 chaplinc@iafrica.com

Booking of the Community Centre

for all uses & events

Yvonne Wood

Waterfall Village Property Trust (WVPT)

Claire Vorster 082 568 2048 021 763 4201

clairev@leisurecorp.co.za

DEPARTMENT CONTACT DETAILS

WGRV SECURITY GATE TELEPHONE NUMBERS

Main Gate (East) (By Cottage No.1) 031 762 2935 West Gate

(By Cottage No.124) 031 762 2445

PORTFOLIO TRUSTEE Resident/ Non Resident

Email Address Telephone/ Cellphone

Finance Brian Skinner Resident

Chairperson & Security Colin Chaplin Resident

Gardens Yvonne Wood Resident 1

Maintenance & WVPT Claire Vorster Non-Resident clairev@leisurecorp.co.za 021 763 4201

082 568 2048

Share Block Colin Chaplin Resident

Personal Care Centre Vacancy

Catering Vacancy

WATERFALL GARDENS BODY CORPORATE TRUSTEES

Maid Services Jackie Scullard

Village Hairdresser (Mondays only) Colleen Retief 082 646 4557

Chiropodist Gail’s Foot Care 082 374 1191

Commissioner of Oaths Rod Morgan

Village Library Hours Mon.–Sat. 08:00 to 16:00

Car Discs for Residents & frequent visitor Graham Harries

Plumbmart (Plumber) Steven 081 040 5172

Eco Electric (Electrician) Craig 076 110 6582

DSTV Nick 072 266 5072

TV Paul Kenyon 083 654 3799

USEFUL INFORMATION & Tele. Numbers

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All events are in the Community Centre unless stated otherwise. BYOE means bring your own everything—food, drink, crockery, utensils.

Mon 1 Jul &

Mon 15 Jul THE VILLAGE KNITTERS meet at 10:00 Tea or coffee is available

(monthly collection of R10 to cover costs)

Sat 13 Jul

BINGO at 09:30. join fellow Bingo players and be a WINNER Tea/coffee at R2 per cup, with eats R10.

Thurs 25 Jul

SUN-DOWNER & BRAAI (BYOE) 17:00. Join a friendly gathering with fellow villagers

On the Village Green.....but as always...weather permitting! !

Fri 26 Jul DARTS at 18:00 for 18:30—till + - 20:00 Enjoy a fun evening together.

We have spare darts but bring your own drinks and snacks!

FRIDAY 12 July CHRISTCHURCH WATERFALL SERVICE at 09:30 for tea, followed by a service at 10:00. Come and make friends, enjoy Christian fellowship. (second Friday of the month) MONDAY 22 July 09:30 ANGLICAN COMMUNION SERVICE. All welcome! (Fourth Monday of the month ) If you wish to donate an item of non-perishable food, all donations are passed on to people in need HILLCREST METHODIST WOMEN’S AUXILIARY MEETING contact Sylvia Henderson

031 776 3425 or 072 377 6528 for details of date and venue

Church Services & Bible Study Groups (Held in the Community Centre U.S.O)

CHOIR PRACTICE

Mondays 15:00—16:00.

New members are most welcome

CHAIR EXERCISES WITH MUSIC

Wednesdays 09:30—10:30

Come and join us

BRIDGE EVENING

Wednesdays 18:00--21:00 Contact persons:

Brian 031 762 1367 Graham 031 762 1100 Audie 031 762 4971

CROQUET ON THE LAWN

Thursday mornings 09:00—10:30 All welcome

Trained by fully qualified chiropodist Kathleen, Gail available in the Village hairdressing salon on the

first Monday of each month.

For appointments call Gail: 082 374 1191

Contact Carol Cottage 32

Cell 084 252 2504

For mending small alterations, cushion covers, etc