PLANS FOR YOUTH
Justina from the Youth Centre is planning an art project with children involving drama, art and music. The project will be called: “Art in me.”
Justina will go to schools in the Karas region and in a couple of schools in the Hardap region and wants existing passionate artists to come forth and join her. [...]
A NEW YEAR WHAT WILL IT BRING
2012, a new year, a new chance, new challenges. Thinking about what to do in the new year. Then my thoughts take stock! What do you want to do? What is going to make 2012 special and not the same as 2011? Well, you are turning a year older, some things from last year are [...]
SINGING AULD LANG SYNE
Now everyone has recovered from the excitement of New Year, I want to tell you about the next celebration for Scots, something called Burns Day or otherwise known as Burns Night…
On the 25th of January,1759 the Scottish Poet, Rabbie Burns(Robert Burns) was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, the West of Scotland. He is also known as [...]
SPEED CHALLENGE ACHIEVES HIGH RECORDS
THE SPEED CHALLENGE commenced this year on the 20th of October and came to an end on the 17th of November. After almost a month of hard going, sand, sea and surfing and of course a LOT of wind (no surprises there), the Speed Challenge of 2011 was the talk of the town.
This year [...]
EDITORIAL
The holidays are approaching us and as we are anticipating the New Year we close 2011 with our third edition of the Buchter News.
Novembers month bears News of all kind from the Speed Challenge to the Mayoral Fund Ball. We have been covering some of the most recent Ceremonies and Celebrations in Luderitz. Not dismissing [...]
SPECIAL OLYMPICS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN LUDERITZ
Part of the training and preparation for the National and International Special Olympics took place on the 5th of November at the Stadium. Beginning at six in the morning and ending around 9.30am
This event focuses on individuals with intellectual disabilities, giving opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in the sharing [...]
TEACHERS GRADUATE WITH ECD
On the 19th of November it was ECD’s(Early Child Development), turn to have a Graduation Ceremony. This took place in the old Helen van Rhijn school. The Early Child Development is a 12 week course for people to specialise in teaching children between ages 0 – 6. Now they have a diploma to work with [...]
CUP FOR CANCER 2011 – SOMETHING YOU SHOULDN’T MISS
The Cup for Cancer was held on the 29th of October. A great opportunity for a lot of people to give their views on cancer. Looking at the large turnout in the conference room at the Nest hotel, you could see that the community of Luderitz unquestionably wants to contribute and help make a difference [...]
BRIGHTSTART CALENDER UPDATE
The Brightstart Calendar 2012 is still going, selling and available. The calendar was made using local women as models. It was made as a fundraising project for the Cancer Association and selling well.
There are still a few of calendars available at Brightstart, but most of the calendars are obtainable from Cancer Association.
Others in South Africa [...]
SWEETS BRING SMILES TO VOLOMBOLA
The Kite Surfers weren’t only here for the Kiting. On the 8th of November, a couple of the Kite Surfers came to Valombola crèche to check out the area and meet the children. They were really surprised to see the conditions of the school and loved to see how
Valombola is becoming more and more like [...]
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