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Joy as woodworkers donates toys to Child Welfare

The Lower Albany Woodworkers Guild has spread the kindness once again after their annual toy donations outreach to Kenton Child Welfare. Role-players from a Kenton-on-Sea soup kitchen, a crèche and child welfare offices itself were on…

Woodworkers’ donation a labour of love

The Lower Albany Woodworkers Guild (LAWG) are doing their bit to help shape the future of underprivileged youth in Ekuphumleni by donating handmade wooden toy items to Kenton-on Sea’s Child Welfare Office. LAWG members gathered at the…

Chefs turn up heat at Festival of Fire

Warthog and Impala, were just some of the unusual culinary delights on offer at the Alex-Kenton Round Table 210 Festival of Fire potjiekos competition at the Goat Shed Bush Bar & Bistro on Saturday. The event was appropriately headlined…

Strong support for Kenton Child Welfare Fun Run

There was a good turnout for the Kenton Child Welfare Fun Run on Sunday 18 December. This year’s event was sponsored again by Pam Golding Properties – Kenton on Sea who also assisted with a water table at the finish line. A solid cohort…

KEEPING COSY: The ladies of Damant Lodge knit blankets and donate them to worthy causes in the area. This year the blankets were shared between, from left, Craig Ellis and Dini Hartleb of the Port Alfred Soup Kitchen, at the rear, Amanda van Rhijk and Hennie Delport of Huis Dias, front, Jill Reed and Liz Coombes-Heath of Loaves and Fishes, Susan Harty of Child Welfare at the rear and Tania Khats of Huis Dias Picture: ROB KNOWLES

Blankets for the less fortunate

Every year the ladies at Damant Lodge knit and crochet blankets and donate them to worthy causes in the area. On Monday and with a total of 82 blankets complete, the Damant Ladies invited Child Welfare, the Port Alfred Soup Kitchen,…

LIST FROM THE PAST: A list of donors on a wall inside the Child Welfare cluster foster home property, which thanked all who made the home possible Picture: JON HOUZET

A good thing comes to an end

It is sad to see the rise and fall of good initiatives in a short space of time. Such is the story of the Child Welfare cluster foster home in High Street. There was much excitement and enthusiasm about the cluster foster home project in…

NO MORE CHILDREN: The Child Welfare cluster foster home in High Street which will be closed by the end of the year Picture: JON HOUZET

Child Welfare foster home closing down

It came as a shock to many Port Alfred residents to hear that the Child Welfare cluster foster home in High Street would close down in December. TotT first learned of the impending closure two weeks ago when a resident alerted us that the…