SAB 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...
Announcement
Friends Group Workshop
A 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...
20th Birthday Celebration
Dear Friends, After a dry winter we wonder what spring and summer have in store for us! Perhaps all of us should look again at being waterwise in our homes and gardens. However, we still can enjoy the display nature puts on - see the lovely photos of flowering plants to be found in our area in...
What the Friends of the Liesbeek have learnt over 20 years
This 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...
Peninsula Paddle
Here is the link to the website http://peninsulapaddle.wordpress.com
WATER WEEK
FOL 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...
Friends welcome Mike Tanner from Wisconsin
The 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;...
Raising awareness about Cape Town’s rivers
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...
FOL joins the WordPress revolution
After having served us very well for over 2 and half years, out little old blogging platform FlatPress has been replaced by Shiny New WordPress install.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...