Thursday 7 October 2004

This site will be updated on 14 October  2004 at 17:30

Lifestyle - Leefstyl

• Hospice Spring Walk
• Paarl Toastmaster vergader
• Help to count pelicans
• Stap vir borskanker
• Klinieke wil help

UITGEVAT. Leerders van Laerskool Drakenstein en Mary Help of Christians Primêr het die Afrikaanse Taalmuseum se Erfenisdagvieringe bygewoon waar almal iets moes aantrek om hul erfenis voor te stel.  Op die ou end is daar sommer sewe wenners van die kostuumkompetisie aangewys. Hier is die wenners, (van links) Siphokazi Plaatjie, Zanele Ntakana, Arethe Williams, Melindi Coetzee, Retha Brooks, Juan Blignaut en Luncedo Ntubuntu.

Hospice Spring Walk

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THE People's Bank/Drakenstein Hospice's (previously Paarl Hospice) 4th annual spring walk (8 en 11 km) takes place on Saturday 23 October at the Paarl Rugby Club.

The walk starts at 08:00 and finishes with the prize giving at 10:30.

All entrants who complete the walk will receive a certificate, badge and a coke. The first three walkers home in both walks will win cash prizes. There are also more than fifty lucky draw prizes.

Entry forms are available from 08:30 to 15:00 from the Hospice office on the corner of Breda and Swartvlei Street as well as from all the sports shops in Paarl.

The first 250 entrants from Paarl and surrounding Boland towns will receive a free Paarl Virgin Active workout voucher. Other information to be found on the entry form. 

Enquiries can be directed to the organiser, Tommy Goliath at 082-439-5855 or to Trevor Callanan at Hospice, 872-4060.

DIE Paarl Toastmasters-klub se volgende byeenkoms vind Dinsdag om 18:45 by die KWV Rolbalklubhuis plaas. Gaste word verwelkom.

Die klub bied ondersteuning aan diegene wat hul selfvertroue, persoonlike groei en leierskapsvaardighede wil uitbou, veral in die arena van openbare kommunikasievaardighede. 

 Vir verdere inligting, skakel met Johan Nel (president) by 873-3839 of Janet Smith (skakelbeampte) by 083-6496-883.

KEEN birders of the Drakenstein Valley can assist with the first National Pelican Counting Day on 16 and 17 October.

There are a number of farm dams around Paarl and Wellington that provide feeding places to these odd-looking birds.

Locally, pelicans are often seen at the Paarl Bird Sanctuary, an irrigation dam in Noord-Agter Paarl and many smaller farm dams in the area.

This first count will take place while the pelicans are concentrated in their breeding localities. Another count is planned for April to June, when the birds disperse after the breeding season.

"Together with the biannual data retrieved by CWAC from the main South African water bodies, we will be able to reach an accurate total pelican count for the region, and to monitor population changes and trends," says Marta de Ponte Machado, a UCT pelican researcher.

The researchers are interested in data, which include an accurate account of the number of pelicans seen, the site with co-ordinates if possible, date and time of sighting, as well as the direction where they were moving to and from.

"We are also interested to know what the pelicans were doing when you spotted them," says Marta. "Were they preening, sleeping, eating or flying?"

Ringed birds could provide valuable information about the age of a bird and its movements across southern Africa.

If you see any rings, annotate the colour, the leg the colour-ring is on, and if there is any visible letters engraved on the ring.

Volunteers can contact Marta de Ponte Machado at mdeponte@adu.uct.ac.za, 082-408-6025, or 650-4549 (w). The data collected can also be sent to her.

DIE Kankervereniging van Suid-Afrika (Cansa) bied op Woensdag 20 Oktober, in samewerking met Paarl Medi-Clinic en Boland Kollege, 'n borskanker pretstap (ongeveer 5km) aan as deel van hul nasionale borskanker bewusmakingsveldtog.

Die wegspring is om 18:00 by die Paarlse stadsaal.

Oktober is Borsbewustheidsmaand - wanneer vroue leer hoe om hulle waardevolste bate te versorg en die belangrikheid begryp van die vroeë opsporing deur maandelikste selfondersoek en gereelde mediese ondersoeke, soos 'n jaarlikse mammogram ná die ouderdom van 40.

Borskanker is die nommer een kanker onder vroue wêreldwyd en is die tweede mees algemene kanker onder Suid-Afrikaanse vroue.

 Huidige statistiek toon dat, onder alle bevolkingsgroepe, een uit elke 31 vroue in hierdie land die gevaar loop om borskanker te kry. 

Alle vroue loop die gevaar om borskanker te kry, maar jy loop 'n groter risiko as jy ouer is as 40; 'n ma of suster het wat met die siekte gediagnoseer is; op 'n vroeë ouderdom begin menstrueer het; op 'n laat stadium deur menopouse gegaan het; kinders ná die ouderdom van 30, of glad nie, gehad het nie; meer as twee glase alkoholiese drank per dag drink.

Vroeë waarskuwingstekens sluit in 'n klont in die bors of armholte; 'n plooiing van die borsvel; 'n ongewone vergroting van die een bors; 'n ingesinkte tepel; 'n vergroting van die kliere; 'n verandering in die vel om die tepel; 'n ongewone swelsel in die armholte en een bors wat opmerklik laer as die ander is, met die tepels op verskillende hoogtes.

Belangstellende stappers word aangemoedig om so gou moontlik in te skryf. Inskrywingsvorms kan verkry word by Paarl Medi-Clinic of kan afgelaai word van: www. mediclinic.co.za. 

Deelnemers kan op 18 en 19 Oktober by Virgin Active in die Paarl registreer, van 10:00 tot 15:00.

Op 20 Oktober kan mense van 10:00 tot 17:30 by die stadsaal inskryf. Inskrywingsgeld is R20 (studente, skoliere & pensioentrekkers R20).

Voltooide inskrywingsvorms kan ook gefaks word aan 023-347-1933 en inbetalings kan gedoen word by Absa Bank-rekening 911 954 2770 (Kansa Boland).   

Kontakpersone: Alta Falck (865-2408), Juanita Kennard, (807-8000) of Marli Saunders (872-3323).

DIE Kankervereniging van Suid-Afrika (Cansa) bied, in samewerking met Paarl Medi-Clinic, gratis borsondersoek-klinieke gedurende Oktober aan. 

Die doel van hierdie klinieke is om vroue die nodige kennis te gee oor die korrekte manier waarop borsselfondersoeke gedoen behoort te word. Algemene inligting omtrent vroue-gesondheid sal ook gedeel word. Die klinieke vind vandag, asook 14 en 19 Oktober plaas.

Belangstellendes kan met Mareé Lambrechts van Cansa skakel (876-3589) vir 'n afspraak.

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