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Cape Camera October 2024

News from the Council

It is a great pleasure to welcome Association, where she will de-
Brian Jones to council as our vote all her considerable tal-
new secretary. He responded ents to fight for the pres-
to my appeal to members to ervation of the character
volunteer to fill vacant posts of the suburb where she
and we are looking forward lives. Our loss is their gain,
to working with him. He has but hopefully she’ll still
already proven himself as an find time to contribute to
able reporter as a Cape Cam- Cape Camera.
era contributor – a handy skill Please take a look at the list of
for taking minutes. council members below. You’ll see
The secretarial position became va- that Andre Mouton’s name appears next to several key
cant when Sally-Ann Spooner, our very efficient secre- portfolios. Apart from maintaining our prize-winning
tary, asked if she could take over the E&D portfolio when website and sending out Snapshot, Andre also served as
Steff Hughes resigned due to health reasons. treasurer and outings coordinator during the past year.
Despite having a demanding full-time job, Steff played He did all this while holding down a demanding and
an active role on council and organised some memora- time-consuming full-time job!
ble E&D evenings – for example, the portrait workshop To lighten Andre’s workload, we are looking for volun-
with John Alexander and the memorable tabletop/food teers to take over two portfolios, namely:
presentation by Yvette Jordaan. Treasurer — the main job consists of elementary book-
Health challenges also resulted in Mike de Villiers step- keeping functions: processing payments, once or twice
ping down from council, although he offered to continue per month and on average about 6 to 8 per month; rec-
with the setting up of the hall for meetings as one of our onciling and follow up members' payments for annual
off-council workers. Mike has been serving on council membership fees, annual dinner and outing expenses.
since mid-2018 when he agreed to fill the vacant PRO po- Outings coordinator — the main job will be to plan
sition after John Spence moved to KwaZulu-Natal. In 2020 monthly day outings (not weekend outings) and coor-
Mike took over the portfolio of venue management from dinate a team of volunteers. Also to provide reports and
Detlef Basel and served in this position ever since. images of upcoming and past outings for Cape Camera
Anna Engelhardt established Cape Camera as one of the and generate support at meetings.
leading club magazines during her six years as editor Please contact me if you can assist.
and rejoined council last year to manage the Member-
ship and Events portfolio, ably assisted by Joyce Gold- Nicol du Toit
schmidt. She, however, now accepted a nomination for CTPS President
the Council of the Constantia Ratepayers and Residents nicol@sportstrader.co.za

Please contact CTPS on info@ctps.co.za and visit the website www.ctps.co.za .
Contact CTPS Council

President Nicol du Toit 082 377 8285 Outings Andre Mouton 071 892 1981
Vice-President Lesley Parolis 082 780 6925 Storage/Venue Rudi Pothas 082 516 9215
Secretary Brian Jones 084 219 4024 Cape Camera Trudi du Toit 082 572 6127
Treasurer Andre Mouton 071 892 1981 Website/Snapshot Andre Mouton 071 892 1981
Competitions Lesley Parolis 082 780 6925 Public Relations Trudi du Toit 082 572 6127
E & D Sally-Ann Spooner 079 274 2073 Off-Council workers

Cape Camera Editorial team Weekend outings Richard Goldschmidt
Member promotions Jacoba van Zyl
Editor & layout Trudi du Toit Members & Events Joyce Goldschmidt
Proofreader Lesley Parolis Body of Work Kim Stevens
Competition images Lesley Parolis Venue Mike de Villiers & Phil Green
Judges comments Anna Engelhardt Facebook (members) Kim Stevens & Steff Hughes
Member profiles Dave Gordon Facebook (public) Joyce & Lesley Parolis
Snapshot Andre Mouton Investments Richard Goldschmidt
Travelogues Brian Jones AV Group Ken Woods
Events Photographer Joyce Goldschmidt Salon Group Nicol du Toit

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