Page 3 - Silver Lakes January Issue 2023

CONTENTS

ESTATE NEWS LIFESTYLE
Message from the CEO 2 Restaurant competition 21
Getting to know Wayne du Toit 4 Crossword puzzle competition no. 11 23
Silver Lakes squash club champs 8 Mental health in the workplace 28
Our reserve welcomes a new-born black impala 10 Nine healthy substitutes for kids’ favourite meals 30
Easy steps to recycling in the estate 22
TODAY’S CHILD
GARDENING Preparing for 2023 25
Garden of the month 17
Five tips to planting your own vegetable garden 18 CLASSIFIEDS 33

SILVER LAKES CONTRIBUTORS EIA PUBLISHING OFFICE Tel: 011 327 4062 - www.eiapublishing.co.za
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Silver Lakes 0054 Nienke Moolman EDITOR Nicole Hermanson - nicoleh@nowmedia.co.za
Tel: +27 12 809 0142 Dr Ilse Ruane PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR Chris Grant - chrisg@nowmedia.co.za
Note from the Editor

A warm welcome to 2023! On a deeper level, we have adapted to a So, if our bodies can recharge on a nightly
newish life. Having been forced to go digital basis, what’s stopping each of us from
The new year is always full of promise. This is for work or shopping, to cope with cabin taking charge of our life on a daily basis?
when we’re at our most positive: “Things can fever, to face our mortality and our anxieties, It all has to do with attitude, with taking
get better,” we tell ourselves, and we resolve etc., we are not the same person we were stock of where we are and where we’d
to make all sorts of changes both personal before the pandemic. The change may be like to be every morning.
and professional. imperceptible to some, but it is there. After
such a major social upheaval with tragic It’s difficult and it takes focus and
Usually, by the third week of January, we’re consequences for so many people, things discipline, but it can be done. It’s about
back in the familiar swing of things – the can never be exactly as they were. attitude. In the words of the late American
traffic, our schedules, and our old habits too. author Zig Ziglar: “It’s not your aptitude,
We just get back on the treadmill and carry Nature is a wonderful teacher. We all saw but your attitude, that determines your
on. during the global lockdown period how altitude.”
nature renewed itself. Pollution receded,
But something has changed for all of us. For plants thrived and animals came out to play. As Star Trek’s Captain Picard said:
the first time in two years, we enter a new year “Make it so.”
not plagued by a virus, even though Covid-19 We forget that renewal is our natural state
is still with us. Sadly, there are still variants, of being. It happens every night while we On your marks, get set, go!
but there are no more lockdowns, no masks. sleep: body repair processes are activated
We have learned to live with the pandemic and our cells regenerate. We wake up with
and get on with the business of living. our bodies reset. Nicole Hermanson

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