A NEW YEAR, A NEW
BEGINNING.
As Chairman of the Forum I would
like to suggest that our resolution of the year be that we continue to all
reach out to each other; young and old, new comers and old-comers, English and
Afrikaans, rich and poor, visitors and residents because as I have said before
– there is strength in unity, and our Vision of creating a beautiful village
here is worth all of us playing a part.
Lets try and:
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Do unto others as we would have them do to us
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Respect each other as we respect ourselves
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Judge not lest we be judged
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Where there is strife, let us sow peace.
New Years Eve saw a coming
together of all parts of the community of Paul Roux, when the largest gathering
we have had in years got together to enjoy one another and dance the night
away. Again a sign that the movement to become ONE Paul Roux is really taking
off.
The generosity of some Forum
members continues to blow me away;
Anthony and Leslie Hawley donated
6 fans to the Bowling Club - Anthony, through his company
Lighting Be, then donated 44 street lamps to the Village to cover the whole of
Joubert street with Energy efficient street lighting which Council can monitor
later to see the power savings which will be substantial. 18 have already been
installed. They have also donated lights for
the bowling greens. Wow guys!
Then hats off to Ruben Evans who secured 1000 trees for us in the Re-greening project and 100 trees were given to each school for planting and the rest are being planted in the camp adjacent to the N5 road and also some along the fence of the cemetery. Huge thank you Ruben.
In our attempts to beautify the village we will
be embarking on several projects:
Hartmut and Rosemarie Schutze
have donated dozens of awesome squared off 1,6 m poles of hard wood. We felt
that it would be wonderful to create a nice white washed fence from the country
shop down ( with relevant gaps for cars and driveways of course) past the
Pensions office / Ons Trots down to past the sandstone house above the small
side road. The relevant creepers and flowers would be planted here as well to
increase the appeal of the main Entrance to Paul Roux. If and whn more become
available, we will continue with this theme. Huge thank you to the Schutze’s.
We are also looking at ideas to
improve the entrance of the Village from the N5 down the near the Rock, in line
with our Vision to be attractive as a country eco tourist destination.
Good news is that Paul Roux is a
registered Conservancy and now we can start getting formal assistance in restoring
our wetlands and protecting our environmentally sensitive areas.
Left over paint will be used to touch up other
buildings that need to be cleaned up.
It’s been great to see how many people have
been working so hard in their gardens, all doing their bit for the appearance
of the village – Its amazing what clean pavement gardens do to the appearance
of a road n- I don’t know about you, but I think the village was beautiful over
the Xmas and New Year season.
May 2013 be the start of a whole new life of
energy, joy and enthusiasm for all of you.
Dr.Richard Lewis
Chairman
The evenings are absolutely beautiful at the moment. Nice to see that there are a lot more residents out walking, etc.
And good summer rains continue to fall bringing out the best in gardens.
