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Kasouga Art & Craft Market offers bounty of great goods

The Kasouga Art & Craft Market threw up a veritable mix of bric-a-brac items for sale as holidaymakers flocked to the James Ford Hall to check out what’s on offer. From jams, honey to jewellery, shortbread, biscuits, beaded items, straw…

Rotary’s Tree of Joy branching out to help the needy

Rotary Club of Port Alfred is putting in a huge effort to spread some Christmas joy to Port Alfred’s needy communities with its Tree of Joy. Rotary president Ren Mouton and Petro Horner brought out their Christmas Tree of Joy on Saturday…

Skitterende optree vir Boknes Kersmark

Vakansiegangers en inwoners het die tiende uitgawe van die Boknes Kersmark hierdie week begeesterd bygewoon. “Dit was die beste opkoms in tien jaar,” meen lid van die koordinerende span, Riana Smith. “’n Groot sukses. Daar was baie mense…

A baby koala is seen among decorations while celebrating its first Christmas at the Australian Reptile Park in Somersby, Australia, December 15, 2020, in this picture obtained from social media.Image: THE AUSTRALIAN REPTILE PARK
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Christmas comes early for baby animals at Australian Reptile Park

Christmas has come early for some animals celebrating their first Yuletide holiday at the Australian Reptile Park. In footage released on Wednesday, some of the park’s youngest residents, including a koala joey named Pipsqueak, were seen…

CHARITABLE CAUSE: Craig Ellis collecting funds at the Rosehill Mall for the Port Alfred Soup Kitchen recently Picture: ROB KNOWLES

Let’s all have a charitable Christmas

Giving is in the nature of the people of the Eastern Cape and, during these difficult times it is worth remembering that, no matter how bad things seem to get there are always those who are worse off than you. That is where charitable…

Kids deserve your help, especially this year

Bonani Ngqobo is a local man on a mission to collect old toys to redistribute to the poorer children in the community. This is his seventh year of doing this and believes that, due to all the problems they have faced in 2020, this year is…

A scene from Carols by Candlelight and the Hospice Tree of Lights in December 2019.

Carols by Candlelight to go virtual

The Sunshine Coast Hospice Carols by Candlelight and Tree of Lights will be a virtual event this year, and not take place at the Port Alfred Hospital grounds as in past years. Hospice decided to change the format of the event because of…

A scene from Carols by Candlelight and the Hospice Tree of Lights in December 2019.

Pictures from Hospice Carols by Candlelight and Tree of Lights

The annual Sunshine Coast Hospice Carols by Candlelight and Tree of Lights, held at the hospital grounds on December 19, is always a popular event for both locals and holidaymakers. The Port Alfred Baptist Church worship band led the…

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End of an era as Manelec turns on Tree of Lights for last time

The annual Sunshine Coast Hospice Carols by Candlelight and Tree of Lights was held at the hospital grounds on December 19. It is the last year Manelec switched on the Tree of Lights, which they have done for the past 19 years. The…

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The ever popular Hospice Carols by Candlelight and Tree of Lights

Port Alfred Baptist Church pastor Josh de Wit presented a Christmas message at the Sunshine Coast Hospice Carols by Candlelight and Tree of Lights at the hospital grounds on Thursday December 19, a popular event for both locals and…

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The lighting of the Hospice Tree of Lights

There was a big turnout of locals and holidaymakers for the annual Hospice Tree of Lights and Carols by Candlelight at the Port Alfred Hospital grounds this evening. The event, always a popular one on the festive season calendar, is a…

Readers get their copy of Sunshine Holiday

Talk of the Town sales reps Bryan Smith and Adele Steck popped into Rosehill Mall to hand out our free Sunshine Holiday edition, and impart and receive some Christmas cheer. They also came across the Rotary Tree of Joy where members and…

FOR THE CHILDREN: As they have done for the last several years, the members of the Lower Albany Woodworkers Guild donated toys they had made to Child Welfare at the guild’s AGM on Tuesday. Susan Harty of Child Welfare gratefully accepted the toys which will be shared among less fortunate children from Port Alfred and Kenton-on-Sea Picture: ROB KNOWLES

Annual donation of wooden toys

The Lower Albany Woodworkers Guild (LAWG) held its AGM at the Port Alfred Masonic Lodge on Tuesday evening and made it clear that passing on the knowledge they have acquired over the years was a priority as, if they do nothing, their…

Happy Hours after graduation

Immediately after graduation the pupils followed the procession and got changed for their nativity story set to music.

Happy Hours pupils graduate

With graduation season in full swing, on Tuesday evening the pupils at Happy Hours Pre-school donned their caps and gowns and celebrated their moving to “big school”. First, there was the graduation ceremony itself where the children…