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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

A Scenic Situation For An Airport

This morning - Tuesday 7 July - a light aircraft and helicopter landed on the airstrip in Aberdeen. In the early morning light and crisp winter air, the view of the mountains from the respective aircrafts can only have been breathtaking.

Aberdeen, with the historic architectural beauty of the NG Kerk and tall steeple, around which nestled a small Karoo town, must surely have been enticing to the tourists.

Article By: Joan Tinker

Shelagh Miller Wood Turns 80 Years Young

On Wednesday 8th July 2009 it will be a privilege to wish Shelagh Miller Wood the happiest of birthdays. This incredibly caring woman is a blessing to Aberdeen. Shelagh has devoted her retirement to assisting the community in many ways. She started a community centre in Aberdeen some 10 years ago to teach dancing at no cost to under privileged children, providing the dancing shoes, the Christmas parties and recognition for these children at the Grahamstown Festival, and in the arts in Graaff-Reinet as the Thembalo Children’s Theatre Group.
Shelagh continues to give exercises at Alwynhof, the home for the aged, and exercise and stretching classes to the woman in Aberdeen.
In her sun filled home, once a mission station in Aberdeen, Shelagh sparkles with enthusiasm for all her projects. It is still amazingly easy to recognize the vital young dancer who graced the London stages, and arranged the choreography for the Brian Brooke Theatre productions around South Africa such as Irma La Douce.

Article By: Joan Tinker