Page 4 - SilverLakes_Issue 1_2022

CONTENTS

ESTATE NEWS LIFESTYLE
Message from the Finance Manager 4 Crossword puzzle competition 26
News from the Golf Club 8 WIN a braai competition 28
Security and speeding on the estate 10 Restaurant competition 33
News from the Angling Club 14
Squash Club Champs 2021 17 TODAY’S CHILD
The new outdoor gym and its benefits 19 Teach your child to problem-solve 34
Upcoming Estate Events 20
Field excursion – a slippery summer walk 21 NATURE
Christmas Quiz Night at Fairways 23 Stretching the imagination 36
Quiz Night kicks off in 2022 24
Charity and giving back 29 MOTORING
Toyota Corolla Cross SA Launch 39
PROPERTY
Understanding the voetstoots clause 27 HUMOUR
Love is in the ear 41
GARDENING
Common garden plants on the invasive species list 30 CLASSIFIEDS 43

SILVER LAKES CONTRIBUTORS EIA PUBLISHING OFFICE Tel: 011 327 4062 - www.eiapublishing.co.za
27 Muirfield Boulevard, Silver Lakes HOA Debbie Viljoen PUBLISHER Nico Maritz - nico@eiapublishing.co.za
Silver Lakes, Silver Lakes Directors Nigel Lawler GRAPHIC DESIGNER Adele Gouws - adele@dezignhq.co.za
Danélle Smuts-Steenkamp
Marlie le Roux
0081 Bobby Westman Elize Malan SALES MANAGER Martin Fourie - 072 835 8405 - martin@eiapublishing.co.za
PO Box 11106, Silver Lakes 0054 Brendon van Nieuwenhuizen Nicoleen Davies ADVERTISING SALES Justin Surendorff - 082 815 0593 - justins@nowmedia.co.za,
Gerdie Murphy - 082 556 9863 - gerdie@eiapublishing.co.za
Tel: +27 12 809 0142 Nienke Moolman James Clarke
Andre Botha Alan Rosenmeyer EDITOR Nicole Hermanson - nicoleh@nowmedia.co.za
Daleen du Plessis PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR Chris Grant - chrisg@nowmedia.co.za
Note from the Editor

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to this hole. The aim of the redesign is to improve In this issue, we’ve included our Kids’ Feature to
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year’s first edition of Intra Muros magazine. and modernise the 17 hole. help prepare your children for the future. You
will find a selection of the top schools in your
I hope you enjoyed the holidays. I wish you all As things start to normalise, the estate has area and other useful information.
a Happy New Year and a successful year ahead, planned some exciting events for residents;
and I hope you are ready for the challenges please refer to page 20 for more details. I While on the topic of kids and opportunities, we
of 2022. hope you’ll get involved and enjoy yourselves. would like to extend our hearty congratulations
to all the Matrics who completed their final
After a good December break, the best way to Our children are back at school and face exams. Well done to you! We also congratulate
kick off the year for many of us means going back daily challenges there and at home, just like all the teachers, who worked so hard at preparing
to the gym. Here at Silver Lakes, you now have we adults do. How can we ease the way for learners for the next exciting phase of their lives.
better exercise options (and fewer excuses not them? Nicoleen Davies, director of Life Talk,
to tone up), thanks to the new outdoor gym. a non-profit organisation dedicated to youth Enjoy the range of articles in this issue; there’s
It’s a mere stone’s throw from your doorstep, empowerment, offers sound advice on how something for everyone. And don’t forget to
located in front of the Golf Academy, next to to teach your child to solve problems from check out the wonderful competitions on offer
the stream. This provides relaxing background a young age. By doing this, you’ll set them – if you don’t enter, you don’t stand a chance of
noise and a perfect change of scenery – great up to develop healthy and valuable habits winning, so “tata ma chance”!
motivators for working out. that will carry them through life. It’s never
too late to learn good habits, and we adults Until next time, take care
There are some exciting projects under way, can also incorporate Nicoleen’s skillsets into
such as the moving of the tee box on the 17 our lives. Nicole Hermanson
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