Sorry, it's been a while since you've heard from me. But in between my mother passing and turning the Big Five, life just ran away from me. But I'm putting shoulder to the grindstone again:
Our annual golf day is on Wednesday 15 October - and if we have a full field, we'll have the money to fix the electricity at YOUR meeting place, the Obs Bowling Club in Park Street.
So I'm asking for all to come to the party:
We're playing a Stableford Alliance and a 4-ball costs R1 200 ((R300 per player). This includes green fees, halfway house, a cabaret (yes!) and dinner (no dance, sorry).
Advertising is R500 at a hole (a full field's advertising will give us R9 000 towards our bad building) so ADVERTISE your practice, goods, company with the odd board, banner or whatever you have
The onus always falls on your deputy chair, Ane Niwinska, and I to sell all the tickets, organise the prizes, the cabaret, the day... This year I am asking you to help: Book a 4-ball - even if you give it away to your loyal clients. And advertise. We need every cent...
E-mail me on
to book your tee-off time and advertising. Or phone me. I'd love to hear from you.
Carine
Carine Hartman
Chair: Observatory Ratepayers
Association
011 648 0027
082 515 8499
New:
A teenager is looking for a home AND your pool needs fixing for the summer. CLICK HERE
For your diary:
We are talking CRIME in the suburb this THURSDAY, 18 September, from 7 - 8pm, followed by your suburb's needs from 8 - 9pm at the Obs Bowling Club in Park Street. Join us and say your say
The Johannesburg Children's Home in Urania Village are planning:
19th October 2008 – 10am-3pm – JCH Family Day and Miss JCH competition.
25th October 2008 – 10am – 3pm – Mini League Touch rugby Tournament.
Please note that on these days there will be loud music and entertainment. Phone the director, Narisha Govender, on 011 648 1120 for more details
If you have not done so yet:
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.
Updated 15 September 2008 by
Welcome
Welcome Observatory residents!
This is YOUR website about YOUR suburb - and what's happening in it.
In July this year we will be up and running for three 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, fought about our disused
bowling clubs - but the most important is our Precinct Plan for Observatory.
We launched this website three years ago to keep you informed and ask 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 26 March 2008 by Carine Hartman, your webmisstress
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