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Ocean View Community News
Care Centre Opens for the Whole Family
The new Ocean View Care Centre opened on the 16 April 2015. Situated on the vacant property behind the civic centre, the new centre comprises various containers where residents can go for help.
The new centre is aimed at creating a safe place where people can get the help they need for various social problems.
Funded by the mayor’s urban regeneration programme (Murp), the centre will offer a variety of services including drug counselling for outpatients, parental guidance classes, a crèche and a coffee shop.
The centre would be run by volunteers. The layout has been designed by an architect to ensure the containers are located in the best place for service delivery. The new centre will also accommodate a local school and four containers have been allocated to it.
Earlier this year Johann Kikillus established the school to assist children at risk and those who cannot afford the fees of crèches in Ocean View.
For the school, the centre would also have an Astroturf field and play equipment. In addition, a food garden is planned for the site.
At the entrance of the centre will be a coffee shop. Weddepohl said they hoped this would become a place where residents needing help could come and find assistance in a safe and relaxed atmosphere. Read more…
The Burning Hills of Cape Town
The massive fire raging in the southern peninsula mountains is set to burn for at least another two days – perhaps longer.
Family Fun Day
Please support the Family Fun Day and Food Drive for Hunger on Saturday, 4 October.
The main reason the Deep South Care2Share Club started was to help families in need who are going through bad times. They would like to be able to help those families with gifts of food.
Care2Share is pleading to the Valley to please help them to make this all come true. They have already managed to help a handful of families and have even managed to find the one mom a job
Please support them by coming on the day to this amazing event and if you bring along a bag of groceries your name will also be put into one of the amazing raffles of your choice!
Bread Run in Ocean View
The first ever Bread Run takes place in Ocean View on Sunday 21 September. Bikers will donate loaves of bread to needy families.
The event kicks off at 10:00 at the corner of Hydra and Milky Way, Ocean View.
Instead of attending a church service, congregants of a local church will assist in distributing bread in different areas of the community.
The loaf of bread will be given along with a letter of hope to each family. The aim is to bring hope to a community ravaged with drug addiction, poverty and killings.
Annual Heritage Day Potjiekos Challenge
National Braai Day and Heritage Day are on Wednesday, 24th September, and Noordhoek Farm Village celebrates both occasions on this proudly South African National Holiday by hosting the increasingly popular annual Heritage Day Potjiekos Challenge at Noordhoek Farm Village, where 11 teams will fight it out for the coveted title of Best Potjie 2014.
Teams will begin cooking from 10h00, with potjies ready by 15h00 for final judging at 16h30, whereafter helpings of the contestants’ delicious potjie offerings will be sold for R30 per bowl. The money we raise will be donated to Open Door NPO in Ocean View, who assist the youth in Ocean View with a dedicated soup kitchen, counselling and activities to keep the kids off the street and safe.
For more information on this year’s potjie entrants and Open Door NPO, follow the link.
There will also be an auction of various goodies at 13h00 to raise funds for Noordhoek Tourism, which provides a valuable service to locals and tourists alike. Come along and see if anything takes your fancy!
Cost: Free entry, however there will be a charge of R30 per bowl of potjie, with proceeds being donated to their chosen charity.
Fish Hoek Murder Accused Released on Bail
A Fish Hoek man accused of murdering Crystal Newman from Ocean View has been released on bail.
Neman’s body was discovered by SANparks workers wrapped in a blue sheet and dumped in bushes near Red Hill Road two weeks ago.
Newman had a bump to the head and the right side of her face was swollen.
The man was arrested after a third party allegedly reported him to police.
Newman was buried on Saturday 23 August where a placard demonstration was held.
The man appeared in the Simon’s Town Magistrate’s Court on Monday 25 August and the case was postponed to Monday 1 September. During this time he remained in custody at Pollsmoor Prison.
Police spokesperson Captain Stephen Knapp confirmed the man was released on R1000 bail.
Newman’s friends and family attended the court proceedings. The man has not yet pleaded.
Knapp says bail was not opposed by police and the next appearance is on Friday 28 November.
Clinic closing for Renovations
The Ocean View clinic will be closed from the 2 June 2014, to replace it's roof before the winter rain starts to fall. The clinic has received R500 000 to replace the roof. The City of Cape Town has secured the Ocean View community hall during the renovation period to ensure residents still have access to healthcare services.
The clinic at the hall will operate from 08:00 – 15:00.
For more information read the full article here
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"What do you like most about living in Ocean View?"
We are giving a R300-00 shopping voucher to the best answer!
Answer as a comment to the Facebook Post and we will announce the winner (also as a comment to the post as well as here on our Blog) at the end of December!
Ocean View – a township experience with a difference
Meet a local fishing family. Assist in the preparation of a delicious three-course seafood meal in their kitchen. Take a walking tour of the township, hear of its history and learn how to handle local fish. This, and much more, is what to expect of an Ocean View township food tour.
Perhaps it Cheryl Wyngaard’s passion for people, or her big heart, that makes you want to sit in her modest dining room in Cape Town's Ocean View township and listen to stories of this small fishing community while on a township food tour.
Ocean View is a township near the fishing village of Kommetjie, approx. 45 minutes drive from the centre of Cape Town. It is here where members of South Africa’s coloured community were forcibly moved in 1968 under the Apartheid regime. Most families in Ocean View eek out a living through the catching and selling of fish.
As a young woman, Wyngaard decided to get into the tourism industry, and in the process has helped uplift her community while sharing their traditional way of life with travellers. Wyngaard started her tourism business with a tiny yellow boat, taking visitors out to catch crayfish. According to Wyngaard, her ancestors, who arrived from South America, were among the first fishermen to introduce hand line fishing to the Cape. Many of Ocean View's fishermen still use this practice today.
Wyngaard's husband Stephen and son Melshaw – a registered tourist guide – teach the art of hand line fishing to travellers on boat excursions around the Cape Peninsula. Today Wyngaard operates fishing excursions with three motorised boats. Melshaw also takes guests on guided township experience tours around Ocean View to visit community upliftment projects and to meet the locals.
A popular stop on the tourist map is Wyngaard's home in Ocean View, where visitors help her prepare a delicious three-course seafood lunch or dinner, and then dine while listening to her fascinating tales about her family and the Ocean View community.
Wyngaard's big heart extends to helping her community, and she and her family feed 400 children daily. For some, it's their only meal of the day. Wyngaard lives by the motto 'the more you give, the more you get back' – and giving is what she does best.