Thornhill Issue 016

Contents
SOCIAL SATURDAY 3
Social Committee
PROJECTS 4 DESIGN 4
Carmen van Wyk
GENERATORS 6
THOA
SPEKBOOM CHALLENGE 8
Editor
MOVIE NIGHT 10
Social Committee
RECIPE OF THE MONTH 12
Editor
IN & AROUND THE ESTATE 14
CLASSIFIEDS 22
Reminders
• Residents to please register at the front office for the new access system.
• Please ensure your contact details are up to date with thoa


March 7th @ 6pm - Club House - R150/pp WINE TASTING
GIN, BEER & WINE ON SALE
No external drinks allowed at the event Live Entertainment & Food Included


Projects 4 Design
Residential - Commercial - Retail
Natasha Lloyd & Carmen van Wyk
Natasha and Carmen hailing originally from Durban, a dynamic mother and daughter duo at the helm of the P4D team, have both their personal residences within Thornhill Estate and their office conveniently located at the Flamingo Shopping Centre.
Projects 4 Design, affectionately called P4D by staff and clients, is an interior and architectural design company which has
been running for 8 years. We specialize
in residential and commercial design as our core business, but we love renovations and seeing a house being turned into the “wow’ home our clients desire! The P4D team have had various projects within Thornhill Estate and are always looking forward to having even more projects and opportunities to create dream homes for the families for Thornhill.
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Masters in the design and execution of corporate interior spaces, our staff have been part of various projects in and around the Gauteng area. We have also had the opportunity to create beautiful spaces within the Western Cape and beyond the borders of South Africa, afar as Accra, Ghana.
The P4D team, through the guidance of Carmen as design director and Natasha
as lead project manager, has the necessary skills, knowledge and passion to expertly provide a successful and well-designed project of various scales of complexity
and budgets. We are confident that we can provide you with a project which will run smoothly, be delivered on time, within budget and most importantly to the highest and most modern specification your budget will allow.
Every project undertaken by the P4D team is tasked to a dedicated and experienced Project Manager who will expertly drive the programme forward. P4D aim to elevate the industry by being principled, offering the best human capital, offering competitive pricing and delivering on time and on budget.
No project is too small or too big for the P4D team.
p4d.co.za / [email protected]


GENERATORS
Application and Installation
THOA
PLEASE FAMILIARISE YOURSELF WITH THE PARTICULARS OF ADDENDUM 11 AT THE LINK BELOW:
ADDENDUM 11 - GENERATORS
Any installation of a generator or any other alternative supply such as UPS, photo-voltaic cells, inverter and battery
or wind turbine, whether purchased or rented and irrespective of output, requires acceptance by the Operations Manager.
Estate rules and guidelines for such installations whether portable or permanentlyembedded are as set out in Addendum 11 and all applications will be reviewed against the criteria contained therein.
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The Spekboon Challenge
takes root in SA (& Thornhill Estate)
EDITOR
Various people and organisations all over SA are planting spekboom as part of the #SpekboomChallenge. Here’s why:
The humble Spekboom (that is mainly found in the Eastern Cape) can gobble up between 4 & 10 tons of carbon per hectare per year. It is said to be South Africa’s ‘wonder plant’.
This incredible tree uses carbon
to make plant tissue and produce oxygen. According to The Spekboom Foundation, spekboom’s capacity to offset harmful carbon emissions is compared to that of moist, subtropical forests. This remarkable plant is unique in that it stores solar energy to perform photosynthesis at night.
This makes a spekboom thicket 10 times more effective per hectare at carbon xing than any tropical rainforest.”
The spekboom is also great at adapting to its surroundings and can ourish almost anywhere. It makes wonderful hedges and beautiful shrubs and, can be planted in elds, owerbeds and pots.
Spekbook absorbs the highest amount of carbon dioxide when compared to any other plant in existence.
It is highly water-wise, needing up to half the water of other plants to survive.
Spekboom can live up to 200 years!!
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It’s also nutritious!! The Vitamin-C-rich plant is starting to feature in more and more recipes.
Besides individuals taking part in the spekboom challenge, there are various initiatives across the country to champion the cause of planting spekboom as an environmentally friendly act.
One such spekboom promoter is Abraham Enzo van Vuuren, president of the Greater Magaliesberg Biosphere Business Chamber and founder of Heal the World 4 Us.
He has carried a baby Spekboom tree
in an incubator around his neck and since 2014. He runs a project that creates awareness about the plant’s unique properties and sells Spekboom plants to school children and various businesses.
Another ambitious spekboom project is known as The Great Labyrinth of Africa with plans to create the largest labyrinth in the world by planting 165,000 spekboom bushes in Klapmuts, near Stellenbosch, in February.
Heart Capital, the group behind the project, has run into a problem and is appealing for funds to lay some water pipes to keep the nearly 200,000 bushes that it has grown over the last three years alive, as watering them by hand is impossible.
COME ON THORNHILL... Let’s accept the #spekboomchallenge - get growing and do our bit for planet Earth.
If anyone is interested in growing their own plant in their own garden, creating school projects for their kids or helping the Estate to create our own mini Labyrinth - please email #spekboomchallenge to: [email protected].
We will be in touch with more information on this challenge later in March.
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Our Thornhill social events plan kicked off for the year on 1 February with Movies in Park. Our community gathered in the Main Park and got
to enjoy free popcorn for all. At the last count, we had popped over 10kgs of popcorn pips !! The weather held out we had a fantastic turn out with what we expect was over 150 people. Scattered across the soccer pitch, people spread out on bean bags and camp chairs ready to take in the shows. We kicked off our viewing with Toy Story 4 and just as we were getting into our second showing, Lion King, we were plunged into darkness with a power outage in the area.
At least we got to share part of the evening with Woody, Buzz Lightyear and friends and fun was had by all.
Thank you to our Social Committee for their planning and support, we look forward to the next event.
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Recipe of the Month
Avo Banana Bread
WOOLWORTHS
It all about NO WASTE and MAXIMUM NUTRITION these days.
What if you could achieve both of those, and not lose out on taste and appearance - seriously this recipe is a no brainer!
Easy enough for the kids to get involved too. #bakersdaywinner
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1. Preheat the oven to 170°C and grease a 22 cm loaf tin or 1 x 15 cm cake tin, 1 x 11.5 cm cake tin and 1 x 9 cm cake tin.
2. Cut the ends off the bananas and blend the bananas and skins in a blender.
3. In a large bowl, mix the melted butter, sugar and eggs until light and uffy. Mix in the
banana.
4. Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl and gently fold in the banana mixture.
5. Bake for 30 minutes (depending on your cake tin size), or until golden and cooked
through. Allow to cool.
6. To make the avo frosting, place all the ingredients into a blender and blitz until
smooth. If you’ve made three cakes, use the icing to sandwich them together and
decorate the outside. If you made a loaf, spread the icing onto the top and sides.
7. To make the garnish, place the beetroot and carrot peels on a baking tray and
sprinkle over some cinnamon sugar. Bake until crispy. Top the iced banana cake with
the crispy beetroot and carrot peels.
8. Cook’s note: Banana peels: great for practical jokes, brilliant in banana bread. When
bananas are overripe, the skins also become thinner, softer and sweeter. Blitz them into a batter with the banana itself for a smooth, creamy result. They also add extra bre to the loaf. It’s a win-win.
9. Serve in a cute bowl with a drizzle of Olive Oil and a sprinle of parsley.
PREP: 15mins
COOK: 20mins SERVES:8
INGREDIENTS
BANANA BREAD
4 very ripe bananas
125 g butter, melted 150 g caster sugar
2 free-range eggs
AVO FROSTING
2 ripe avocados
1⁄2 t
2 t
175 g
2 t
Beetroot & Carrot peels, to garnish
1 T 1 T 1 t 2 t
cream cheese coconut sugar balsamic vinegar lemon juice
INSTRUCTIONS:
salt
baking powder flour
cinnamon sugar
COMPETITION TIME....
Send us a photo of any of the recipes you’ve made from the newsletter, at: [email protected] We’ll pick a winner in April. Good Luck and Bon Apetit!!
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EMERGENCY INFORMATION
MODDERFONTEIN INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
This is for YOU if your home is within a 7 KM RADIUS of the Modderfontein Industrial Complex (PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH EVERYONE AT HOME)
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WHAT TO DO
This information is here to help you when there is a major emergency at the Modderfontein Industrial Complex.
ALARM TESTS
Our emergency
alarm is tested every Friday 12h00.
A MAJOR EMERGENCY?
Undulating
siren sounding for the first 10
minutes of the emergency.
END OF EMERGENCY
Continuous siren sounding for 10 minutes.
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU HEAR THE UNDULATING SIREN?
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MOVE PEOPLE and ANIMALS CLOSE all WINDOWS INDOORS as quickly as possible. and DOORS.
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SWITCH OFF all air conditioners and ventilator fans.
THE SMELL OF GAS & THERE IS NO SIREN
This means that gas may have leaked, but its intensity is insufficient to create a hazardous condition - you can smell most irritant gases at levels which do not pose a risk to your health.
Remain INDOORS until you are advised by media that the situation is safe, or until you hear the
EMERGENCY SERVICES may be called in to assist in which case their INSTRUCTIONS should be FOLLOWED.
continuous
siren.
EMERGENCY NUMBER: 011 606 2703 or 011 606 2250
Issued by the Moddefontein Community Awareness and Emergency Response Committee
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Useful Numbers
MODDERFONTEIN & SURROUNDS
Any Emergency from a mobile Number Netcare 911
Flying Squad
Busamed Private Hospital (24hrs) Linksfield Netcare Hospital
Dischem Flamingo Centre
Fire Station
Sebenza Police Station
Edenvale Police Station
Emer-G-Med
Modderfontein Nature Reserve Modderfontein Golf Course
Automobile Association (roadside assistance) Metropolitan Police
National Tourism Information Centre (24 hours) OR Tambo International Airport
OR Tambo (Arrivals and Departures)
Directory Inquiries Local numbers
City of Johannesburg Customer Care City of Johannesburg Power Failures City of Johannesburg Vehicle Licencing
IF YOU PRINT THIS NEWSLETTER PLEASE RECYCLE IT WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED READING.
112 082911 10111 011 458 2000 011 640 3661 086 0347 243 / 0860 347 243 011 375 5911 011 400 6000 011 553 8600 086 100 7911 079 519 1589 011 608 2034 011 799 1000 011 999 2093/4 083 123 2345 011 921 6262 086 727 7888 1023 086 056 2874 086 056 2874 086 056 2874
RECYCLING IS PICKED UP EVERY WEDNESDAY IN THORNHILL ESTATE. ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS PUT YOUR RECYCLABLE PRODUCTS INTO A CLEAR PLASTIC REFUSE BAG ON YOUR PAVEMENT ON TUESDAY NIGHT. AND THE ECO FAIRIES WILL WHISK IT AWAY DURING THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY :) THANK YOU.