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6 July at Canimambo Restaurant Graskop 1 8:00 moonlight market and live music by Courtney and Neil and St Dog and a Day. Come and enjoy extraordinary food at affordable prices. 1 0 July Monthly LEFPA Escarpment meeting Anyone in the wood industry, sawmill etc. please attend this meeting. Fire safety is our first priority. For more info: Annalize Nieuwoudt 078 801 0487. 11 July World Population Day World Population Day aims to increase peoples awareness of various population issues, such as the importance of family planning, gender equality, poverty, maternal health and human rights. The day is celebrated worldwide. 1 2 July The next issue of GPS News! 1 5 July Public schools reopen 1 4 August Blood donation: Sabie Country Club 1 5:001 8:00 Graskop Town Hall 1 5:001 7:00 Pilgrims Rest Information Centre 1 0:00-1 4:00 Bowls @ Sabie Country Club Every Wednesday and Saturday @ 1 3:30
Briewe / Letters
Who cares?
The cares (worries, stress, anxieties, fears) of this world will strangle the Word of God in your heart and kill you. The Ididitmyway philosophy causes depression, suicide and un timely death in millions of lives. Does your life reflect success and peace due to this very philosophy? Should you try, once again, to resolve the problem (because you care) marriage, sexual prowess, children, finances, business using your own intellect, knowledge and Prozac, you will end up recreating the wheel with the same results as before. Einstein called this insanity. Make a change! Purposefully or ignorantly ignoring God is called pride. This attitude screams Ive got this! You havent got this none of us have. You may insanely choose to attempt to fix the mess, or you may wisely humble yourself and pray Help! God is good. He is waiting for you.
He will never override your choice to ignore Him. He is highly receptive to humility, but arrays Himself in battle against pride (not against man). Man must make the first move. God will overwhelmingly respond, be cause He cares! Do you wonder whether God will hear you? He will hear the prayer of a humble man.
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Her spark and love for life will be deeply missed, and her legacy remembered forever in the beautiful gardens she has left behind. GPS News extends its deepest sympathies to the family and friends.
New manager
Gawie Rautenbach, a resident of Graskop for seven years, is the new manager of Build it in the town. He took over the management of the store a couple of months ago. I love Graskop and I dont ever want to leave this town, Gawie says.
Were not always right, but its not always because were wrong.
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Tannie Kobie de Villiers het on langs n dubbele rede gehad om vriende te onthaal. In die eerste plek het sy op 27 April 90 jaar oud geword, en tweedens moes sy af skeid neem van haar geliefde dorp en sy inwoners omdat sy na die versorgingseenheid van n aftree oord in Pretoria verhuis. Die afgelope 14 jaar het inwo ners van Sabie aan die figuurtjie van tannie Kobie met haar stoot karretjie (wat sy haar 4x4 noem) in die dorp gewoond geraak. Sy was jare lank n inwoner van Sabie Af treeoord, maar het die afgelope vier jaar by haar dogter, Stephanie Turner, gewoon. Al is sy nog baie gesond, het die jare haar ook maar begin inhaal, veral op liggaamlike gebied, en is sy nou al baie gemak lik in die Vergenoeg Huis in Vil leria, Pretoria, waar sy naby talle van haar familielede woon en heerlik deur die vriendelike en be hulpsame personeellede bederf word. Greenview Spar het n reusekoek geskenk om haar met die mylpaal geluk te wens, en inwoners en an der vriende het in Mei die feeste like geleentheid in Sabie Aftree oord se saal saam met tannie Ko bie gevier. Tussen die tee en koek
is daar gesels oor die heerlike tye wat sy in Sabie belewe het. Sy was deur die jare bekend om haar skerp sin vir humor en is by talle geleenthede gevra om n paar van haar ondeunde grappies te vertel selfs tydens Bybelstudie op Woensdae moes ds. Erik haar maar toelaat om skerpsinnige staaltjies te vertel, tot groot ver maak van almal teenwoordig. Tannie Kobie het in haar toe sprakie almal vir hul liefde en on dersteuning deur die jare bedank. Sy het vertel dat sy haar berg gaan mis, maar dat sy ook na die volgende stap in haar lewe uitsien. Stephanie, haar dogter, wil ook hiermee die wonderlike vriende van die aftreeoord bedank vir al die moeite met die saal, en ook vir die liefde wat almal haar en haar ma so in oorgawe in Sabie gegee het. Ook n groot dankie aan Greenview Spar vir die heerlike verjaardagkoek. Stephanie het GPS Nuus gevra om n spesiale woord van dank aan tannie Kobie se oudbure en goeie vriende Bertus en Lorraine Swane poel te gee vir alles wat hulle die laaste jare vir haar gedoen het. Julle weet nie wat dit werklik vir ons beteken nie, het sy ges.
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impart information about the event. The only odd thing was that cer tain local drivers, not part of the
rally, were allowed to interlope into this special stage and delay the event from being completed so that
the police could once again open Gods Window to the tourists on one of our precious clear days.
Van Heerden Pharmacys Fathers Day competition has a winner! The prize was a voucher for Body Stress Release by Ja nine Knox. Sheugnet van Heerden of Sa bie won the prize and received it here from Van Heerdens Denise Rees.
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being borrowed by the motoring press so that road tests could be written for magazines and newspapers in south ern Africa. The top speed was quoted to be 310 km/h, which is about as fast as a Formula One car! The Jaguar FType has already
been declared the winner of the 2013 World Car Design of the Year Award ahead of 43 other cars. In March, in Belgium, a new FType V8S achieved almost 180 mph (280 km/h) and reached 62 mph in 4,2 seconds during a 2mile sprint on the track.
If you have just won the lottery and do not know what to do with the money, the Jaguar F Type V6 starts at R820 000, while you can have a V8 for a mere R1345 000. If you havent won the lottery, do not despair it is only seven months until Christmas!
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Louis favourite subject matter the Karoo. today known as the contemporary father of modern landscape oil painting in South Africa. The depth and mood of Louis landscapes are breathtaking. He Louis Audie explains it is the secrecy of nature locked into its unique globe and the magic atmosphere of it that inspires him so. His special passion is painting landscapes in the Karoo. When
Whiteonwhite: The first painting Louis did after he had arrived in Graskop.
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Competition winners:
Chess: Ndabenhle Masina (boy), Tshepiso Mndawe (girl), Ronaldo Marobe and Kgahliso Mogane (best performance). Scrabble: Dankwa Yamoah (first), Jaqueline Mkhabela (second), Patience Mthethwa (third). Computer speed typing: Andile Mashile (9 12 years), Lorraine Ngwenyane (1316 years), Raymond Mashego (1720 years). Drawing: Simiso Mthombothi, Menochka Barton. Written and presented poetry: Langelihle Zulu. and board games practice sessions Mondays to Fridays from 15:0017:00. Residents and learners are urged to register at the library for the free computer lessons.
School. They also had a special thank you to local resident Gustine Bernard Ntimeng for donating a painting to the library, to Thato Mathebula and Themba Buthelezi for of fering chess lessons, and to Grayton Nkosi from loveLife for assisting at the event. The library invites learners and residents to make use of its services: there is free internet service, free computer classes offered to the public
Thabo Mashego of Panorama Secondary School is proud of his garden. Behind him are the footpaths that he has laid out using broken bricks. hard has saved the school lots of money over the years. His garden is proof that you can create something out of nothing if you set your heart and mind to it.
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Jessica Rossouw with her proud parents, Pierre Rossouw, Corn Ros souw and Pauline Duffett,at the Griffith University Awards evening. lence (Bachelor of Commerce). But the finest achievement of this Sabie girl was her reception of the CPA Australia first year accounting award. CPA (Certified Public Ac countants) is Australias largest ac counting body and every year it seeks out the most promising young ac countancy student from all the coun trys universities to honour with this
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Susan van Zyl and Annelize Cloete at ProLife Pet Rescues new shelter premises at Mac Mac.
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once had an area manager that said there were four types of people: those that were energetic but stupid, those that were lazy and stupid, those that were energetic and clever, and finally those that were lazy and clever. He said that in his experience those that were lazy and clever were the most successful, but, he said, the most dangerous and he shuddered when he said it were those that are most energetic and stu pid. He said that if one ever wanted to bring any business to utter ruin, it would be a wellmeaning energetic, stupid person. Of course nowadays it is so politic ally incorrect to call someone stupid that any article bearing the word is almost certain to be censured, but I am of the old school so that when anyone mentions that something happened ten years ago, I automatic ally think of the eighties. I believe the term nowadays for the obtuse beings amongst us is differ ently brained, and sometimes when I hear the new linguistic wrangling of the politically correct, I do not have the foggiest idea of what is being said so that I begin to strongly suspect that I myself am somewhat differently brained. I do try, however, and pride myself in keeping attuned to the new phrases so that I can understand a reasonable amount of what is said. Just the other day I had someone that was involuntarily leisured (un employed) that came to ask me for a plastic. I replied that I did not have a plastic, but would he be happy with
a processed tree carcass (paper bag). He replied that he had just been a cli ent of the correctional system, for be ing a cost of living adjustment specialist (shoplifter), and he did not fancy going about with carcasses of any kind. He then told me that his wife was hugely parasitically op pressed (pregnant) in every sense of the word, and as he was economically unprepared, unless he received help from somewhere, he was henceforth going to be residentially flexible. I suggested that he find a job but he replied that he was factually unen cumbered. I suggested he became a sanitation engineer, as in that posi tion it does not matter too much if one is a knowledgebased nonpossessor, or that he could perhaps ask for a place in the government. Take someone with a large nose for example. I do not know if he would prefer to be called nasally gifted. It is all very well to be considerate and to spare peoples feelings, but in so doing we sometimes go overboard. It is supposedly offensive to use the term manhole and one is supposed to say maintenance hole one is not allowed to use chairman if a woman fills this role and I believe the world has be come unnecessarily super sensitive. I do have some personal favourites, however: Dead Terminally incon venienced, Bald Comb free, Clumsy Uniquely coordinated, White Melanin impoverished, and last but not least, Drunk Spatially per plexed. I do believe politically correct phrases are here to stay, so let us all relax and enjoy them!
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Young skaters show their skills at a training session. Form left: Lucky Mashele, Nhlanhla Gorden, July Mnisi and Casey Tapfira.
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Roelof Coertze, Barbara Hare and Grant Bosman enter the stadium at the finish line. Grant said: We met Roelof around the halfway mark, and by the time we have finished, we were best buddies. 20th race then I will receive my double green permanent number. My sons promised to run that race with me I hope they will keep their promise, he said. Grant keeps running the Com rades because he enjoys the vibe at the race. The Comrades gives me faith in humanity again. When you are running this race, it doesnt matter who you are, what you look like or where you come from everybody is the same. Gerhard Nortje, who also runs for
Arsenal FC rising stars. Through the efforts of the dedicated players and their volunteer coach, loc al resident Brian Ryan, the team con tinues to bring the club to the front of the soccer community. The club is an independent club that is sustained by the players and its mentors. However, sponsoring a soccer team can be a great way for companies to connect their brand with their target market. Businesses or in dividuals are invited to gain valuable exposure by assisting the team with sponsorships. The club has opened its doors to all inspiring soccer players who have a love and desire for playing the game. For information on becoming a spon sor of Arsenal FC or offering volunteer assistance in mentoring the team, contact Ryan on 082 3247 890 or Nonyane on 076 251 8804.
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