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Visit Cinnamon Cafe at 13 Albert Street with a friend, before 10 July 2011, buy a Cuppachino and get a second one for FREE!
We also stock delicious winter-warming home-made soups, to eat in or take-away!  Our vegetarian soups are also available in 1 litre containers at Health & Living in Courtenay Street.
For more details call 044 874 0424 or Joan on 083 326 5630

Cinnamon Café

As you may know, I have taken over the Cinnamon Cafe at George Child Welfare's and Sikelela Centre, with the aim of getting it up and running and then training a few of the ladies working there to run the business and eventually take it over as their own.

However, with the winter chills, we have been dead quiet!  The menu is not big, we do breakfast, toasted sandwiches, salads, muffins, and then a meal of the day that changes every day, and a cake of the day (today is lemon meringue).  We also have a selection of yummy soups for the winter!  We stock jams and chocolate brownies to take-away, and want to expand this range as well.  Our hot chocolate is to die for!

We would love to increase our menu, but with so few customers, it is difficult to keep lots of fresh ingredients, but if you have any suggestions, please let us know!

I wish to appeal to you to please make an effort to visit us, and come and see what we do - I am sure you will be pleasantly surprised by the ambieance, even though it is a little out of the way!

We also do meetings and group breakfast/lunches up to 30 people, so please consider us for your next get-together.  If you cannot make it to us, we will be thrilled to cater platters and bring them to you!

For more information or to book, please call me on 083 326 5630 or 044 874 0424 or mail me at joan@gardenroutemarketing.co.za

Thanks & kind regards,
Joan Shaw

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Tips: Top Ten Ways to Recycle at Home or the Office

This list of the top 10 ways to recycle at home and in the office:

1. Buy recycled paper and print on both sides. When using paper in the office, print on both sides of the sheet and recycle the paper when you are finished. By recycling one ton of paper, you can save 17 trees, almost 7,000 gallons of water and more than three cubic yards of landfill space.
2. Recycle your outdated technology – donate old computers to schools or homework centres.
3. Make recycling bins readily available. Make sure your home and office are outfitted with recycling bins for paper, plastic and metal. Keep them out in the open and label them appropriately. Sometimes the convenience factor is all that is needed.
4. Recycle your empty ink and toner cartridges. Almost eight cartridges are thrown out in the United States every second of every day. That's almost 700,000 cartridges per day.
5. Buy remanufactured ink and toner cartridges. Each remanufactured cartridge keeps approximately 2.5 pounds of metal and plastic out of landfills and saves about a half gallon of oil.
6. Recycle old newspapers lying around the office. When finished reading the newspaper, either leave it for someone else to read or recycle it.
7. Look for the recycled option in all the products you buy. It's not just paper that is recycled.
8. Buy rechargeable batteries. It takes 1,000 regular batteries to equal the lifespan of one rechargeable battery. When you are discarding your batteries, recycle them.
9. Purchase rewritable CDs and DVDs so that you can reuse them from project to project.
10. Reuse your morning coffee cup. Or better yet, buy a mug to avoid the waste caused by throwing away the paper or Styrofoam.

This article is from Environmental Protection.  The Solution Resource for Managing Air, Water, Energy and Waste Issues

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Calitzdorp Port & Wine Festival

Port and Wine I will be visiting the Calitzdorp Port & Wine Festival next weekend, 16 - 18 June 2011, and this is why: Calitzdorp is often referred to as the Port Capital of South Africa due to the numerous prize winning Ports produced in our area.   Calitzdorp is home to 8 wine cellars - Axe Hill, Boplaas, Calitzdorp Wine Cellar, De Krans,  Du'SwaRoo, Peter Bayly, TTT Cellars and Withoek - all participating in the Festival.  Local ports and wines can be tasted at the various cellars or at the central tasting venue located in The Barn at the Station.   The local cellars will be joined by members of the South African Port Producers Association (SAPPA) on Saturday at The Barn. Biodiversity The Klein Karoo has a unique biodiversity with rare flora and fauna which is a major attraction in our area.  The Festival celebrates this biodiversity by hosting an exhibition and presentations by our local experts on the succulents and other plants of the Klein Karoo, the Cape Leopards living in our surrounding mountains, the numerous diverse butterflies of the area and how our landscape was formed and the associated geology of the Little Karoo.  Visit the Donkey Trail exhibition and meet the guides and donkeys that travel to Die Hel and back.   The festival promises to be jam-packed and something for everyone, so remember the date 16-18 June 2011 and expect the warmest welcome to the best little village in the Klein Karoo! Why not join me for this fun experience?  If not, check out next week's blog to see what we did!