To bid on the Observatory Bowling Club or just say your say about it CLICK HERE
ORA's Annual General Meeting: Read your chair's report and the issues I chose to highlight (CLICK HERE to read it)
The Observatory Ratepayers Association is asking you for your NEW subscription of R200 FOR THE WHOLE YEAR so we can better our suburb. CLICK HERE for our banking details. We desperately need your financial support...
Phone 072-NO-CRIME (072-66-27463), your dedicated hotline to prevent crime in Observatory, immediately when you are in need or see anyone or anything suspicious.
This is YOUR website about YOUR suburb - and what's happening in it.
In July this year we will be up and running for four whole years - and what a
great way of communicating.
We've had a lot of issues: we signed petitions for road safety, vetoed
developments, changed wrong street name spellings, built a Precinct Plan for Observatory - but the most important is the use of the disused
Observatory bowling club.
We secured the lease for the property for the next ten years and need to use it. Now. It's up to you to decide how. TO MAKE A BID ON THE USE or just express your view CLICK HERE
We launched this website four years ago to keep you informed and asked your views
- and sometimes money - and can now pat ourselves on the back: our plan is
approved with clear guidelines of what is allowed to be built, and where.
But above all we had fun - a concert in the park, a street party, donkey derby,
Valentine's ball and threw in the odd golf day too.
In a word: we are a community. We talk, fight, laugh together. And we work at
making our suburb safe and clean.
You can read about the Observatory Ratepayers Association
under ABOUT US. We’re just a bunch of people working voluntary to better our
suburb. Nobody gets paid for anything. Even this website is free. Justin
Hartman has carried the hosting for three years now. Your webmistress loses
many hours of sleep updating (and is slipping, sorry. The weekly updates are
now monthly.)
So how can you help? Register on the web under JOIN
US. I then have your e-mail address and you’ll know when I update.
And e-mail me at
with
whatever query or question. We aim to please.
But most important: pay your yearly Observatory Ratepayers
Association “club fee” of R200 – or R1,80c per day for the WHOLE year. Just
click on join
for our banking details and do that Internet transfer now…
Because Observatory consists of over 800 households. To play a pivotal part in
the suburb, we need all households to join us. Once you are a member, you will
have access to the whole website, join the hotly debated forums and participate
in the surveys we will run to determine our residents’ needs.
We are NOT asking you for any donations (but won’t say no),
but we ARE asking you to support whatever fundraisers we plan. And you can even
advertise your business on this website @ R100 per month!
Which brings me to sponsorship: Diana Delmont has over the
last three years poured tens of thousands of rands into being the main sponsor
for this website. But she has now left Chas Everitt to join a new estate agency
called InRealty.
The banner on top is waiting for a new sponsor…
Join us today and be part of our
family!
Updated 22 May 2009 by Carine Hartman, your webmisstress
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