The 4th Annual Winter Wonderland Festival of Lights and two Carnival Weekends
13 August 2014
Dear All
The 4th Annual Winter Wonderland Festival of Lights and two Carnival Weekends are behind us now. Quite a challenge with the first one raining out. The community, service providers and City of Cape Town stood behind the committee and all supported our ‘Take2’ without the blink of an eye. Within a week, the marketing team and committee worked round the clock to make the second weekend a reality. This enabled the stall holders, musicians and businesses to have a longer trading and for the visitors who were very disappointed that they could not attend the first one. This also enabled the Carnival Parade that everyone was looking forward to – participants and visitors – to take place. Just to see the absolute joy in the eyes and faces of the children taking part – priceless!
Firstly, we want to thank God for allowing us to see the opportunity and for giving us the talents and the team (some team members who live in Somerset West) to execute this.
Last year I mentioned that one of the aims was to extend the amount of visitors to Gorgeous Bay over a longer period of time. This became a reality this year as visitors already started streaming in the weekend before the Carnival Weekend was to take place and over the whole of the school holidays – resulting in about 20 000 visitors to Gordon’s Bay over the holiday period.
Thank you to all businesses and home owners who put lights up on their buildings. It is amazing to see how it grows if you just add one string extra per year. We are hearing via the grapevine that residents are motivating their neighbours (especially those visible from Beach Road) to put up lights next year.
We will try to include as many people as possible in this letter, but because Winter Wonderland has grown and with the support of people taking over the responsibility of many departments, we do not have all the names and for this we apologize. This letter also serves for you to see what part each played in the bigger picture and how important each individual’s role is in the success of Winter Wonderland.
This is truly an event by Gordon’s Bay for Gordon’s Bay.
PLANNING OF THE EVENT:
First and foremost our dedicated committee. We had wonderful brainstorming sessions and open conversations – feeling free to share ideas. Not everything materialized as was planned an envisaged, but in many areas a start was made. This is important as it will grow in the future and already more “champions” are and will be coming on board. Sponsoring the venues for our meetings: Windrose Guest House, Talla’s Tavern (handing out of prizes for the raffle winners and catering wine and pizzas) & Melt’s Tavern provided venue for debrief meeting as well as delicious snacks.
City of Cape Town: The contribution and support of the City was invaluable and one of the major factors enabling Winter Wonderland to take place – everyone involved in cleaning the village, erecting motifs, upgrade of beach front, etc. Special Events Committee: Madam Mayor Patricia De Lille, Councillor Brett Herron, Councillor Gareth Bloor, Alderman Jean-Pierre Smith & Teral Cullen A special thank you to the support of Leonora de Souza-Zilwa (Events Manager) and Mariana Opperman, Julian Fredericks and the drive of Sandra-Ann Williams. Cllr Johan Middleton who was always available (day or night), Cllr Stuart Pringle and Cllr Dave Venter. Electricity Department: Ian Rose, Clinton Hartogh. Clinton Hartogh’s team who just deliver! Our local guys Donald Pretorius whom we called a few times after hours and who was always willing to send his team out to help. Ian Pollock for connecting the fun park & Circus and disconnecting and collecting the cables after event finished. Andrew McDonald for making decisions to get quick action. Renee Olivier & Ruschenca Fourie – Parks & Recreation
Nico de Kock & Wesley Schuller – Traffic (excellent support and these guys know to go about making an event a success) Gordon’s Bay SAPS – Lt Nkonyana and her team Law Enforcement – Rachel Paulsen and her team Metro Police – Marco Appany and his team Neighborhood Watch – for doing extra patrols at the beach front Arno Terblanche – helping with smooth running of applications for certificates Eduard Labuschagne, Ulrich Louis & Nicolaas Benade – Fire & Resue Noise permission signatures – Adam de Carvelho Johan van der Westhuizen – Disaster Management When we were unable to get hold of the new owner of our previous site, Franklin Anthony from Parks without hesitation offered us our new venue at Hendon Park which has amazing potential. To Willem le Roux who set the ball rolling until Gideon du Plessis took over who we worked very closely with. A pro-active person, excellent communication and a doer. Inititiating the fixing of the beachfront balustrades and repairing the little wooden bridge himself one Sunday. Gerhard Conradie of GLC Development for their generous contribution of the Van Riebeeck Site and without hesitation allowed extention. Chris Barratt for the Ghost House and Craft Market Venues. Hanli Steenkamp for sharing her home.
Site Managers: Pieter and Morné van Antwerpen for their invaluable contribution. Sponsored by BP to work on the sites (these guys worked hard and long hours – always with energy and a smile) Johnny, Hano, Justin and Mark as well as Fundiswa and Mary who kept the toilets clean over the two weekends.
Marquees: Dowings Marquee Hire (Adelle – who helped beyond what was expected of her, supported and gave advice regarding applications and for your patience), Elite Marquees – Byron who phoned and offered marquees at no cost when the weather turned bad. Downings Bedouin – who put up Bedouins at reduced cost.
Waste Bins: Sappi and Mpack who sponsored bins. Waste Plan – Reinhardt Bieler for superb service.
Boland Toilets for excellent service.
University of Potchefstroom: Prof Elmarie Slabbert and her team: Viability Study of Winter Wonderland.
Amanda van Wyk – updating banners for Boat trips, WonderNote and GB Then & Now Tone van Tonder – drawing of maps for events application
Security: Guy van Damme and Dave Surridge form Somerset West who took on this portfolio. Gordon’s Bay Security, GB Med, Neighbourhood Watch and AM Security for providing guards at the various venues – all who did an excellent job. This was a major sponsorship and extremely important aspect. Although the agreement did not include the second weekend, they were all on their posts without any hesitation. A great THANK YOU!
Liquor Stalls: Run by Carl Gultig and his team which took a big load off André’s shoulders Liquor Licence: DH Bestuursdienste who renewed the licence for “Take 2” at no charge.
LIGHTS:
Phil Shawcross who reacted on a facebook message asking for help and helped André and Dirk Kirton to re-rope all the motifs and Winter Wonderland Display. This took up a few day’s (and night’s) work. Almost 1km of rope light was used (500m sponsored by ACDC) and 5000 cable ties sponsored by Cronlec. Thank you to Lourens Snyman and Shélanca from CRONLEC who helped to sponsor 200m of electrical cable and many other necessities required for the lighting. Jeanette Loring who sponsored Mike to come and help out one Saturday. Alan Schnider from Specialized Components who generously provided his workshop for us to do all the work and transported the motifs to Gordon’s Bay for the City to put up and back to storage again. Dirk Kirton of Good News Electrical who did all the connections of the motifs and the Fairy Forest and Market trees and helped out where needed – most of the time after hours and over weekends. Lester Burrow for the connection of the lights of the Post Office Tree. John Adams & after he retired, Imraan Karaan – Post Office for connections for lights and Telkom for connection. Anton from BP who loaned us his extention lead.
Arrister for making the Carnival Park sign at very short notice and sponsoring it. Also transported fire drums and fencing and for storage of these till next year.
Putting the fairy lights up on the trees: André Paulsen, Phil Shawcross, Pieter van Antwerpen, from BP Justin & Mark. Keeping the lights burning – Pieter and André. Putting up of the motifs on the lamp poles and Winter Wonderland display – Clinton Hartogh’s team from City of Cape Town. Returning to do repairs when the water (what a bugger!) seeped into the ropes.
WINTER WONDERLAND NEEDS UNDER COVER STORAGE SPACE to store the motifs till next year. CAN ANYONE HELP? We found a storage facility but will cost R9000 for the year. At the moment is temporarily stored by Johan Hatting.
FINANCIAL SPONSORS:
As Winter Wonderland is a NPO with no big sponsorship as yet, the event relies heavily on financial contributions to help pay the numerous expenses that goes with organizing such an event. For this we are eternally grateful to the following people:
Old Cape Café: Who was the only restaurant that took the initiative to do the Winter Wonderland Special – thank you! A great way of promoting Winter Wonderland throughout the year and allowing individuals to contribute to this event.
Raffle: The raffle was initiated by Mark from Radio Helderberg. Thank you to everyone who supported in selling tickets and everyone who bought tickets. Congratulations to the following special monthly draw winners:
January – Paula Lang Accommodation for 2 people for 2 nights at www.bergenzee.co.za Berg en Zee Guest House February – Carl Gultig 2hr Catamaran Clifton Sundowner Cruise (http://www.tangentcharters.co.za) for 2 sponsored by www.origintours.co.za March – Wendy Clarke won a massage (Sherry Dart 074 215 4256), nail treatment (Tercia Coetzee 073 727 5866)and gift pack of seasonal herb teas (Hazel Sayer https://www.facebook.com/SymbiotiqueEmporium ). April – Nicole Neethling Session of Archery, Air rifles and blow pipes for 4 people sponsored by www.triactive.co.za May – Jenny Burnham Rafting Trip on the Breederiver for 4 people, sponsored by www.africanrafting.co.za June – Moira Gouws R1000 gift voucher, sponsored by Builders Warehouse.
The following winners were drawn for the big raffle prizes: 9th prize: Sharleen Labuschagne won Cash in lieu of treatment due to renovations at Villa Via sponsored by Ilse Mynhardt from Chi The Spa – value R1120 8th prize: Piet van Rensburg won Accommodation at 18 On Kloof http://www.18onkloof.co.za/ PLUS Sea Caves Exploring (Sinead 074 234 6462) – value R1940 7th prize: André Koorts won Great White Shark Cage Diving sponsored by Jo’s Tours http://www.jotoursza.com/ – value R2700 6th prize: Willie Krige won Accommodation at Blue Horizon Guest House http://www.bhorizon.co.za/ PLUS Wine Tour by Eye of Africa Tours (Jenny Burnham 082 537 0849)– value R3160 5th prize: Chan-Yu Fieng won 2 hour boat trip along Gordon’s Bay beautiful coastline for 6 on Indigo Scuba’s 8m Super Duck http://www.indigoscuba.com/ – value R3360 4th prize: Fanie Oosthuizen won Full day treatment for 3 from Mukda Thai Spa http://www.mukdathaispa.co.za/ – value R5100 3rd prize: Estelle Myburgh won Self Catering Accommodation for 6 at Die Braaihuis https://www.facebook.com/DieBraaihuis PLUS Bicycle Rentals http://www.rentabicycle.co.za/ – value R5200 2nd prize: Paul Nieuwenhuis won 150cc Gomoto by TS Motorcycles http://www.johnway.co.za/ – value R9000 1st prize: Tercia Coetzee won 3,2m Dolphin Otter series 3.2m rubber duck from Dolphin Inflatables https://m.facebook.com/DolphinInflatables – value R10 000
A big THANK YOU to all the sponsors for their generous contributions!
Tins: The tins were organized by Cyril Brown & Anton Gerber. Thank you to the public for their participation and donations and to all the shops that allowed us to put the tins in their businesses and motivated the customers to contribute to Winter Wonderland.
Our special thanks goes to the following people who through their normal activities and events contributed a % towards Winter Wonderland during the year. This is a wonderful way of supporting and raising much needed funds for this event Windrose Guest House: contributed a % twice from Christmas lunch organized for the GBBF and show held at the Guest House which is becoming a popular attraction, Richard Loring productions: contributed a % twice from shows held at Richard’s Supper Stage & Bistro in Sea Point, Rotary contributed % of their profits from the Mad Hatter Party, PEPA Fitness – they had special fitness classes as their financial contribution The ever popular Hobo Dance got a new jacket this year – organized by Lynn Giles Contributions were made by the following: Builder’s Warehouse, Yacoob Yacths jolly roger, Yacoob Yacths tigresse sailing, Waterkloof wines, Waterfront charters, Blue Rock ski, Fruit & Veg, Woolworths Winter Wonderland Ball – was held at the Lord Charles Hotel on Saturday 28 June. Thank you to Richard & Jeanette Loring for an absolute magnificent evening and The Lord Charles Hotel for excellent venue (The Ball Room) and support.
Fund Raising Events: This was quite a challenge as there was no champion for this department. HOWEVER, a very special event will be held in the STRAND TOWN HALL soon.
Cash Contributions: Thank you to each of the following who contributed: BUSINESSES: Richard Loring Promotions Oceana Palms Wind Rose Christmas lunch Toni van Zyl Financial Services Pam Golding Properties Talla’s Tavern Gordonsbay.co.za – ball donation The Salon Gordon’s Bay Fisheries PEPA fitness Spar sponsorship for billboard Jim of the Jungle Brenda Boyce & Stan Slater – The Bay Guest House GB Tourism centre – Di Nosworthy Zest Restaurant Melt’s Tavern Gordon’s Bay Guest House SA Homeloans Manor on the Bay Novel Villa OWN FUND RAISING ACTIVITIES: BP pretloop Mary-Jane Paulsen – sales from cup cakes Richard Loring Productions Quiz night entrance Windrose Guest House – Christmas Lunch & Entertainment Evening Rotary – Mad Hatter Old Cape Café – Winter Wonderland Special Meal Tins collections – public INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS: Gordon’s Bay Business Forum Johan & Winnie Burger Pig & Whistle Pub from London in England The Old Sergeant Pub – London, England GBBF members challenge GB Art group GBBF Exco Donation – anonymous Chanel Miller – woodchips Donation – unknown Mark & Simone Liana Jordan Abrie & Maria Ryke Jim O Chanel Miller Danie & Carol Miller Kobus & Petro Louw Monica & Richard Miles Rotary Gordon’s Bay Richard & Jeanette Loring
CARNIVAL PARADE:
This was absolutely spectacular! The highlight for Winter Wonderland. I know of a few people to whom this parade brought tears to their eyes. The pleasure of seeing the absolute joy and pride in the children’s faces who took part in the parade. A huge thank you to Richard and Jeanette Loring for taking this initiative and who under very trying circumstances (due to the rainy weather) had to change it twice! To contact and reorganize a contingency of close to 300 people and 50 vehicles was a mammoth task as well as all the parade participants and their families who were willing to give up their time and be able to take part at “Take 2” – we salute you! A very special thank you to Premier Helen Zille for giving up her off Sunday without any hesitance to attend Winter Wonderland – we salute you! – even though it could not take place then – once again because of rain. Thank you to the following participants:
Band Military bands and cannon: Lt. Col. Bryan Sterne Band South African Army Band cape town: Capt Vernon Michels Beaumont Drummie Club: Cathy Lourens Bicycle – Unicyclist: James Kasirye Juniga Bicycles: Ryno & Juanita
CHILDREN: Heather Mercuur & Nita Wilson Wagon: Kobus Louw Facebook Group: Charlotte Jordaan Fairies stiltwalkers: Hazel Sayer Fire Dept: Mr Manual Ghost House kids: Len Wilmot Gordon’s Bay Neighbourhood Watch: Richard Miles Gordon’s Bay Security Car: Heyns de Waal Ikamva Choir: Vusi Twala Jeep: Bikini Beach Villas Andre League of Gentleman: Sean Prinsloo Limited Edition Drummers: Ismail – manager Man of lights – tree lights: Ephraim Mark Taylor Melts Car: Melt Mostert PEPA Fitness traintrainer : Kurt & Shana Rhapsody Dance Centre: Antoinette de Villiers SA Home Loans Car: Anita Bellini SAN Circus School: Dimitri Skull Dragons Helderberg Chapter: Blackie Swart Snow Queen and King: The Thirsty Oyster Car: Mark Engelke Traffic outriders & car: Insp Joe Taylor Train with Rhapsody dancers: Fred Bovill of Fun Fair Yellow Door Wild cats: Retha Gardiner of Rotary
MARKETING:
Jeanette Loring, Lynn Giles and Carlinda Maré – the main team. You did a magnificent job. The news went out far and wide and was in many newspapers and magazines as you will see below.
Update received from Jeanette Loring:
I have just done a positive story for 567 Eye witness News: 10 July 2014
of how the community of Gordon’s Bay has pulled together
that the Weekend Carnival will be re-presented this weekend,
how we have shaken tins to collect money in the first place,
to be lashed by the storms last weekend
then disappointed by the vandalism of the lights
but we are resilient and are contributing funds again
and that the beautiful Fairy Forest will again sparkle this weekend
and the public can enjoy lots of activities etc…
Website: Marla Nortjé from ShowMe who sponsors the webpage. Janne Dannerup who uploaded all the information – a mammoth task and when her mother fell ill and she had to go to Denmark, to Carlinda Maré who took over the job.
Facebook page managers Lynn Giles of https://www.facebook.com/qe111prandevents QEIII PR & Events and Carlinda Maré of http://www.mustlove.co.za/ Must Love Photography. Bill Board on N2: Sponsored by Gary Power and the banner by Go Fish and SPAR Gordon’s Bay. When we had to change the dates for “Take2” Marius from Epic Signs sponsored and put up the new dates without any hesitation.
Radio Helderberg for their support. Richard Loring for recording our advertisement and SA Homeloans for sponsoring it. The song you hear on the advertisement was written, composed, sung and recorded by Edie Henn. Bok Radio’s Team KFM Eye Witness News
Posters: Designing the posters: Johan & Ester le Roux from http://www.lerouxcreatif.co.za/ Printing of posters and for excellent service: Postnet & Kodak at Baykem Pharmacy. Printing of Signage: Colin McCann Distributing Jean Bulmer, Celeste, Ray Kets for fetching them out of her own and helping – thank you! Distributing flyers to post boxes – Anton Gerber. Other venues – Alecia & Rupert Gous. Putting up the poster collages all over town: Sherry Dart & Mariska Verhoeven.
Photography: Video’s of Carnival Parade and events: Gunter & Sandy from http://www.silvermoon-media.com/ Winter Wonderland Ball Video & photo’s: Maureen Malan 084 484 7922 Carlinda Maré from http://www.mustlove.co.za/
WW Wall updated: Pino Settimi who did all the beautiful writing.
Gordon’s Bay and Winter Wonderland received wonderful media coverage from the following media: The Bolander & our own Gordon’s Bay Reviews who published wonderful articles and photo’s. Thank you for your support. eventsNOW! 5 Jun 2014 http://www.eventsnow.co.za/news.php?id=1571 eventsNOW! 10 Jul 2014 http://www.eventsnow.co.za/news.php?id=1621 Cape Town Magazine 9 Jun 2014 http://www.capetownmagazine.com/out/july-events-in-cape-town-andsurrounds/116_22_17623 48hours 26 Jun 2014 http://48hours.co.za/winter-wonderland-festival-of-lights-to-wow- gordonsbay/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=winter-wonderland-festival-of-lights-to-wow-gordons-bay 48hours 3 Jul 2014 http://48hours.co.za/living-loud-with-liezel-my-all-ages-holiday-picks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-loud-with-liezel-my-all-ages-holiday-picks 48hours 10 Jul 2014 http://48hours.co.za/cpt-special-guide-4-10july/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cpt-special-guide-4-10july District Mail 26 Jun 2014 http://www.districtmail.com/160075/news-details/districtmail-photo-booth-at-winter-wonderland District Mail 3 Jul 2014 http://www.districtmail.com/162601/news-details/district-diary-3-10-july District Mail 3 Jul 2014 http://www.districtmail.com/162441/news-details/a-magical-wonderland-awaits District Mail 17 Jul 2014 http://www.districtmail.com/166641/news-details/gordonsbaai-fees- The Newspaper 2 Jul 2014 http://www.thenewspaper.co.za/switching-on-of-lights-winter-wonderland/
Cape Times 4 Jul 2014 http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/high-alert-for-intense-cold-front-1.1714056 www.capetown.travel/events/entry/winter-wonderland-2014-gordons-bay www.capetownmagazine.com/winter-wonderland-festival www.whatsonincapetown.com/post/winter-wonderland-festival-lights http://heartbizz.co.za/new/single_event/gordons-bay-winter-wonderland-festival/ http://www.mycomlink.co.za/posting.php?i=11786 http://www.kfm.co.za/events/winter-wonderland-carnival-2014 http://wikivillage.co.za/event/2014-06-27/gordons-bay-winter-wonderland http://wesgro.co.za/corporate/event/gordon%E2%80%99s-bay-winter-wonderland-festival-27-06-2014 http://helderbergbasin.blogspot.com/2014/07/winter-wonderland-gordons-bay-2014.html http://tourismcapetown.co.za/leisure-travel/event/gordon%E2%80%99s-bay-winter-wonderland-festival-27-06-2014 http://insideguide.co.za/cape-town-events/gordons-bay-winter-wonderland/#.U8z587flpVc http://www.childmag.co.za/content/gordons-bay-winter-wonderland-festival http://www.capetownkids.co.za/events/ http://ificould.co.za/whats-cape-town-june/ http://www.countrylife.co.za/diary/winter-wonderland-festival-lights-gordons-bay/ http://www.livingandloving.co.za/default.aspx http://trippatryst.co.za/winter-wonderland-in-gordons-bay/ http://trippatryst.co.za/winter-wonderland-in-gordons-bay/ http://www.highveld.co.za/events/winter-wonderland-carnival-2014 http://www.southafrica.to/transport/Airlines/cheapest-flight-survey/2014/20140604-mango-cheapest-to-cape-town.php http://yourparenting.co.za/home-life/travel/holiday-programmes/june-july-2014-holiday-guide-cape-town
INFO KIOSK:
Anton Gerber and Amanda van Wyk who took ownership of this department. You did a great job! The Barn who provided the tables. All the helpers who dedicated their time and came to work shifts: Amanda van Wyk, Hennie & Ona Greeff, Marla Nortjé, Blackie Swart, Retha Theron, Shaun Minnie, Carol Miller, Tone van Tonder, Ryno van der Riet, Elmarie & Kirstin van Zyl, Celeste Elliott, Jenny Burnham, Jean Bulmer, Pieter Strachan, Jo Yoxen, Mike Roberts, Mike Tollmer, Lynn & Cyril Brown, Jeanette Loring, Solveig Martin & Janne Dannerup.
GORDON’S BAY THEN & NOW, WONDERNOTE, WHALE EXHIBITION, FYNBOS TEA GARDEN @ NG KERK: Unique and special exhibitions were done by volunteers at the NG Church Hall. Special thanks to the following people: CCT Biodiversity Management Branch & CapeNature — Hayley-May Wittridge; GBay FireWise — Gail Dent, Judy Gash, Anton Fuchs, Monica Miles; GBay’s Bowling Club — Johan and Jenny Dormehl; GBay’s Lion Head — Shirley; GBRA — Edwina Hadfield; History of NG Kerk — Johan van Zyl; NG Kerk “Fynbos” Coffee/Tea Garden and selling bouquets of beautiful Fynbos — beautiful lights in the church and the cross Wieneke Greeff & Iris Basson;
Pet Sitters and Gluhwein — Vicky and Kobus Lotter; SA Navy — Manfred Thieroff; WhaleMark — Whale Exhibition — Ken Botes; Wynand du Plessis, NG Kerk for setting-up on the set-up day and every morning the GBay’s History DVD, the Whale DVD and the music CD; Ruben, NG Kerk for all his assistance and opening and closing the hall; Wendy Engelbrecht & Theo Engelbrecht of On Time Deliveries for bringing and returning the display boards to the school. The Primary School for the use of their eight display boards — Mrs Denniston; Tessa Colson helped sell Winter Wonderland DVD/Cards/song CD/raffle tickets Saturday afternoon. Marjo de la Fontaine who made the DVD.
BIKE BRAG: A massive Bike Brag was organized which unfortunately rained out both Sundays. Thank you Okkie van der Merwe. Next year will be a sight and excitement that Gordon’s Bay has not experienced in a long time!
MARKETS, STALLS & ART: Thank you to the following Champions who took care of: The Food Stalls — Jimmy & Paula Lang of Lions Gordon’s Bay; Craft Market & Fairy Market — John & Mickey Sanders; Art Exhibition — Amanda van Wyk. Gordon’s Bay Fisheries for your special support who went out of their way to support Winter Wonderland. To all the stall holders – for your perseverance during the heavy rains. It was definitely not easy. Thank you for your constructive feedback at the debrief meeting.
GHOST HOUSE: A huge success and every year it just gets better and better or scarier and scarier — Ena Storm and her team, Len Wilmot and his team of ghosts from GBPS.
FUN FAIR: Our local guys, Fred & Neil Bovill – for believing in Winter Wonderland and supporting us from day one.
CIRCUS: Thank you to SAN Circus who did wonderful performances.
MUSIC: This was organized for three different venues this year – quite a mammoth task. Thank you to Estelle O’Neill of Windrose Guest House who opened her Guest House to the musicians who lived out of town. We had excellent musicians who supported Winter Wonderland and provided top class entertainment. Thank you to the following people: (You can check out videos on Winter Wonderland’s fb page): Helene Henn, Lana English & Victor Siljeur, Frans & Sandra Brits, De Wet Meiring, Willie Strang, Ltd Edition Drum Corps, Naomi Bell, Jeremy Quickfall & Shaun, Chris Else, Karla Christine, Jaco Losgelaat, Pieter Mohr, Dee-Dee, Leroy, Lindie, Dirkie van Staden & Talisa, JJ Strydom, Kobus Muller, Marius Swanepoel, Petra Mans, Lester Burrows, Dale Hutting Dance School, Gerald & Mario, Natasha Marlherbe, Prism, Catch 22 and many others who performed at various other venues around the village. Definitely something for every taste – from the classics and light opera as well as saxaphone & clarinet, guitar & violin to country, jazz and rock ‘n roll.
Thank you to the Restaurants who sponsored meal vouchers: Bella Mia, Miquel’s Cucina, Java Hut, Spur, Old Cape Café, Zest, Al Forno’s, Yummie Kitchen, Thirsty Oyster, Ooskus Fisheries & Simply Delicious.
Thank you to the Guest Houses who sponsored accommodation: Windrose Guest House, Gordon’s Beach Lodge, Manor On The Bay, Boardwalk & Bay Breeze Lodge.
GB for Jesus: A special hour of praise in song organized by Edie Henn and band — Drums Edu Henn, Singers Helene Henn & André Strijdom, Piano Rudi van Reenen and Base guitar Martinus Pick.
VIABILITY STUDY TEAM: All the way from University of Potchefstroom: Prof Elmarie Slabbert & her team. Accommodation for them was sponsored by Boardwalk & Bay Breeze Lodge.
Please check out our website: www.winterwonderland.co.za If your logo and link to your webpage is not there, please send it to me know via return mail. We would love to add you so everyone can know and support you and your business.
This article below was published by the Sunday Times last Sunday. Cape Times 10 August 2014 http://issuu.com/propertyjunction/docs/sunday_times_100814/1?e=3776902%2F8865358 Buzz Feed 11 August 2014 http://www.buzzfeed.com/travelguru/the-most-beautiful-coastal-drives-in-the-world-w9r0
Gordon’s Bay and surroundings is surely beginning to get the recognition it deserves. We are not the “forgotten” or “best kept secret” village anymore. I am sure that the residents and businesses will do their utmost best to keep and improve the village ambience and atmosphere. We are now attracting more visitors throughout the year. This improves the vibe and atmosphere and also help the businesses in the village to do much better.
It is still, however, up to each individual to do their part in marketing the friendliest village, working together, supporting each other and be part of the Gorgeous Bay Team.
ALL the people mentioned above unselfishly contributed their share to Winter Wonderland – whether it is in time, contributions or finances – all are important.
And for that we salute YOU!
Best Wishes
André Paulsen
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