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More annual highlights from p7
Salons
Photoshop tips (Kim Stevens), plus books to reach a situation where the I have tried to resurrect the CTPS
reports by the E&D and outings con- job could be handed over to Rudi. salon group but had to abandon it
venors on council. As editor, Trudi du He recently contacted the Univer- again when I just did not have the
Toit, made sure everything came to- sity of Johannesburg to confirm time to do it properly.
gether, and she also did the layout. whether they are still interested on It was nevertheless successful in
Snapshot emails are sent by An- taking over the books from us and convincing many members to start
dre Mouton to inform members of are awaiting their reply. Once we taking part in salons — 28 CTPS
events taking place and other im- can move that out of our storage, we members earned acceptances and
portant information. will start with the move to a better appeared on the Impala Trophy
Secretarial storage facility and follow the same Competition Log for the year end-
ing June 2024. A few years ago there
When Rudi took over the portfo- procedure with the other items in were fewer than a handful.
our storage.
lio of storage and archives, we ap- Some of our members did very well.
proached Sally-Ann Spooner to take The most valuable cameras are still Seven CTPS members are among
over as secretary. She kindly vol- on display at the Science Centre in the Top100 of the more than 1 000
unteered and we co-opted her on Mowbray. photographers on the PDI Impala
council. She not only did a good job Audio visual (AV) Log and 6 CTPS members are among
as secretary but also made a valu- AV is one area where we are strug- the Top10 on the print Impala Log.
able contribution to council. gling, but then we are not alone.
Treasurer Very few people are still making AVs. Congratulations to all our members
who regularly receive medals and
Unlike most of the people serving Ken Woods is trying his best to stim- COMs to bolster our salon accept-
on council, Andre has a demanding ulate the group. ance points.
job requiring a lot of his time, but he Body of work We also reached the Top10 of the
is always willing to help with every- Kim kindly volunteered to run this National Premier Club competi-
thing else in addition to all his other new portfolio for us. Several mem- tion, based on salon acceptances,
work. Andre took on the job as treas- bers are participating in this pro- for the first time. We accumulated
urer this year. He acquitted himself ject, which will hopefully end with the 9th most points of all clubs in
well and proved himself as a reliable an exhibition of the Body of Work the country.
treasurer handling payments and produced by each of them at the na-
reconciliations well. tional congress in Struisbaai, which Unfortunately, we lost the Western
Cape Premier Club award when
Investments CTPS will host in celebration of our Tafelberg beat us by 134 points, de-
Richard continues to look after our 135th year, next year. We are looking spite us scoring 982 points — 302
investments very well and we owe forward to seeing the work of all the more than last year when we won
him many thanks and compliments. participants. this regional competition.
As usual he’ll report on it in person
at the AGM.
Venue

Mike de Villiers has been arranging
our meetings and setting up the
venue for a number of years but
decided to step down this year. We
want to thank Mike for his long and
faithful service to the society. Phillip
Green has been assisting Mike for
some time and has agreed to con-
tinue setting up the venue in Mikes
absence. He prefers not to serve on
council.
Storage & Archives
Rudi Pothas took over this portfolio
from Trudi soon after being elected
to council as secretary last year. Dur-
ing the year Trudi and I assisted Rudi
to complete the sorting out of the Kim Stevens Sally-Ann Spooner by Andre Mouton.

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