Archive for the ‘Announcement’ Category
Talk at WESSA on the Cape Clawless Otter on 19th April
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
Fundraising Event to be held at SAB Newlands
Thursday, March 15th, 2012SAB Newlands will be organising and hosting a fun run or “dash” this Saturday the 17 March, to help raise funds for the work being carried out by the Friends of the Liesbeek. If you would like to find out more about the run please visit the following link http://www.topevents.co.za/index.php?sectionID=191
The South African Breweries has been instrumental in funding the start up operations of the Liesbeek Maintenance Project and their continued support has allowed the project to grow to the success it is today.
Friends Group Workshop
Friday, November 4th, 2011A warm invitation to attend our
FRIENDS GROUP WORKSHOP:
Saturday 12 November, 10h00 – 13h00
The Friends of the Liesbeek will be leading our November Friends Group Workshop in celebration of their 20th anniversary! This ‘workshop with a difference’ will begin with a slow and gentle walk-and-talk along the beautiful upper reaches of the Liesbeek River down to Paradise Park in Hiddingh/Newlands, visiting the riverine park managed by Joan Parker from the Bishopscourt Village Residents Association en route. (more…)
What the Friends of the Liesbeek have learnt over 20 years
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011This slide presentation was given by Kevin Winter at a public meeting to launch the Black and Vygekraal River Friends / Action group. What the Friends of Liesbeek have learnt over 20 years (file about 6.5Mbs!) It summarises some important lessons that shape the approach the Friends of the Liesbeek have taken over the years since the organisation was founded on the 28th November 1991. This approach is working well for the FoL, but the presentation was not intended to suggest that this is what the B and V Friends need to follow. Maybe they will need to form an Action Group rather than a Friends? The condition the Black River is serious – maybe a more radical approach is necessary. Kevin Winter
Peninsula Paddle
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Here is the link to the website http://peninsulapaddle.wordpress.com
WATER WEEK
Sunday, March 13th, 2011FOL WATER WEEK WALK TO NEWLANDS SPRING
Join us on Wednesday 23rd March on a walk along the Liesbeek to the Newlands Spring as part of our activities during Water Week. We will meet at 18h00 in front of Josephine Mill in Newlands and walk as a group to the spring. The walk will take approximately 30 minutes.
Bring along an empty container to collect water for tasting and testing.
We will also be searching for a geo-caching point.
Afterwards you are welcome to join us at Barrister’s. Transport back to Josephine Mill can be organized.
For more details phone Francine at 0216715385 or Liz at 0216714553. You can send us an e-mail at info@fol.org.za or drop a note to Friends of The Liesbeek River, PO Box 333, Rondebosch, 7701.
Few people know about the springs that flow into the Liesbeek. The Albion Spring used to supply the Schweppes factory.
Friends welcome Mike Tanner from Wisconsin
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010The Friends will again benefit from the Global Environmental Ambassador program (GEM), an initiative of the University of Wisconsin. Mike Tanner, a major in Ecology and Public Administration, will be working on various projects for the Liesbeek including signage proposals and content; rehabilitation plans for the Valkenburg wetland; and assessing the habitat of the Liesbeek. We are grateful for the support we have had from GEM students in the past and look forward to making progress on various initiatives over the next two months with Mike.
Raising awareness about Cape Town’s rivers
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
This is an adventure that no one else has done or at least in recent times using Cape Town’s waterways as the route. Kevin Winter (current Chair of the Friends) is kayaking from False Bay to Table Bay on 23 May together with 3 other wildcats. The idea is to raise awareness about the state of Cape Town’s rivers. A film and media crew will accompany the team. Various environmental groups will meet the paddlers along the way to talk about rivers and to take some water samples. See the proposed route map attached. More details to follow.
FOL joins the WordPress revolution
Friday, April 2nd, 2010After having served us very well for over 2 and half years, out little old blogging platform FlatPress has been replaced by Shiny New WordPress install. Its taken me the better part of today to perform the upgrade and its still not 100 percent complete.
I have to customize the theme a bit and create categories and then categorize the existing posts. I have also to add some static Pages namely About, Contact us and Join Us for a start.
With WordPress comes a much more advanced system of managing the website and cutting out all that comment spam that plagued the old site.
Our OtterSpotter blog will continue to operate as it has – http://otterspotter.fol.org.za until I also port it over to WordPress in the near future.
The WordPress platform will also make it easier to collaborate via multiple authors and the comments system
I look forward to taking the Friends web site forward and hope you all enjoy the new look.
Trev
