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FROGS AND TOADS: Chad Keates, right, from Rhodes University spoke at last week’s Probus Club meeting about the frogs and toads of Albany and received a token of the club’s appreciation from Port Alfred Probus president Mitch Ramsay Picture: ROB KNOWLES
CHAD KEATS

A leap into the frog world

Story by intern NANDIPHA PLAATJIE and ROB KNOWLES The Probus Club held a meeting at the Port Alfred Ski-boat Club in Port Alfred last Tuesday where Chad Keates, a Rhodes University zoology PhD candidate doing molecular systematics on…

  • Rob Knowles
HEAD START: Practising their potjie skills, members of the Port Alfred Ski-boat Club were busy preparing for the upcoming potjiekos competition to take place at the club next Saturday (June 1). From left are Ski-boat Club Keith Fryer, Darryl Kukard and Anton van Aard chairman Picture: ROB KNOWLES
PORT ALFRED

Get ready for a great potjie at the Ski-boat Club

The Port Alfred Ski-boat Club will be holding a potjiekos competition at the club next Saturday (June 1). Everyone is invited to come and sample the hard work put in by the various teams that will be competing. “Not just that,” said club…

  • Rob Knowles
ALBERT WHITFIELD

Whitfield delights the Rotarians

ALREADY a nonagenarian, Albert Whitfield took to the podium at the recent Rotary Induction Dinner, held at Harry B’s at the Port Alfred Ski-boat Club, and sang Morning has broken to a delighted audience of around 100 Rotarians and guests.…

  • Rob Knowles