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Thoboshana Primary School principal, Nandi Qinela, left, receives a Vocational and a Community from Rotary Arcadia’s president, Rommy Naude. Picture: MADELEINE CHAPUT

Rotary Arcadia gives pupils boost

A VISIT from Rotary Arcadia members to judge a decorative project at the school recently had Thoboshana Primary School pupils excited. At the end of last year, thanks to the Jacobsson Trust, the Rotary Club of Arcadia donated mobile…

WELCOME PARTY: Gill Cotterell, Janene Hand, Heidi Flanegan and Pat Hill enjoy welcoming golfers to Rotary Arcadia’s charity golf day. The event managed to raise much-needed funds for St Bernard’s Hospice Picture: SUPPLIED

Rotary golf day swells hospice’s coffers

THE Rotary club of Arcadia hosted their annual golf day last Friday in aid of St Bernard’s Hospice this year. The event managed to generate R30 000, with 50% of those funds being donated to the non-profit organisation. Rotary Arcadia also…

Magic Music in the Park

IN AN effort to bring joy, laughter and the sweet sounds of idyllic music to the community, Rotary Arcadia are once again hosting their annual Music in the Park event in the beautiful, park-like Berea Gardens. Taking place next Sunday the…

GREENING INITIATIVE: Newly-appointed Rotary Arcadia president Rommy Naudé, left, with club members and pupils from Thoboshana Primary School, who planted more than 15 indigenous trees around the school grounds during Arbor Week Picture: MADELEINE CHAPUT

Rotary plants trees for pupils’ benefit

AS ARBOR week came to an end, the Rotary Club of Arcadia visited Thoboshana Primary School to plant trees and encourage environmental awareness at the school last Friday. Newly-appointed president of Arcadia Rotary, Rommy Naudé has made…

Many pupils overjoyed

THE Rotary Club of Arcadia, partnered with the Rotary Club of Northampton Becket has once again aided under-resourced primary schools in and around East London with the Classroom Box project. Started by the Rotary Club of Northampton…

Joy as farm school gets upgrade

FOUNDED in 1989 as a small farm school in Nahoon Valley, Thoboshana has come a long way with the help and support it has received from Rommy Naude and Rotary Arcadia over the years. The school started with the capacity for 40 children…

Howes’s vision helps needy pupils

Focus on teachers, thanks to eye expert THOBOSHANA Primary School had some generous visitors last week. Geoff Howes, retired ophthalmologist and Rotarian, and his team performed and taught teachers how to perform eye tests for the pupils…