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MATRIC EXPERIENCE EXPO 2015 Last year saw the Parent Forum embarking on a new fund-raising venture in the form of a Matric Dance Expo. The event, titled MD-X, was popular amongst both exhibitors and visitors, and proved to be quite a success. This year, we are planning on doing things on a much larger scale……….Go Big or Go Home they say! The expo, which will be titled MEˣ, will include all aspects of the complete Matric Experience, and will take place from the 21 - 24 May 2015, at the TYGERVALLEY SHOPPING CENTRE! We are very excited to be partnering with the Tygervalley Centre Management team, as well as with Cream Library, an events company, in planning this event! Watch this space for more information, fantastic opportunites, and news about absolutely awesome competitions and prizes! 7) MOTHERS WHO PRAY CALLING ALL MOTHERS! A very warm welcome is extended to all moms wishing to join our “Mothers Who Pray” group. We meet every Wednesday, at 07h30, in the Boardroom of Fairmont High School. Please come and join us, or contact Amanda (072 072 1047 8) LIBRARIAN’S CHOICE THE KEEPER by MARGUERITE POLAND When lighthouse keeper Hannes Harker is posted to a remote island with his wife, he discovers something longhidden in the tower that caused him to lose his footing and fall. Seriously injured, Hannes is evacuated to hospital and nursed back to health by Sister Rika, to whom he haltingly tells the story of his life: of his mother’s mysterious death, of his wild young wife, Aletta, and of the desolate island inhabited only by the lighthouse keepers and guano workers – two communities confined together, yet rigidly separated in one of the bleakest places on earth. With the arrival of a figure from Aletta’s past, her own secrets erupt into the present, just as the simmering tensions and injustices endured for so long by the guano workers erupt into a single, shocking act of violence. The Keeper is the story of two generations of lighthouse keepers – men obsessed by their duty to the light – and the wives who accompany them into a life of frightening isolation.