Lakeside Village February 2018 | Page 14

14 Rand Aid News Recent happenings at The Manor A well supported Christmas dinner & dance provided a good evening’s entertainment in the newly completed main hall. Pictured below are Dawn & Brian Burls and Maureen and Paddy O’Brien with their daughter Pam. (Photos: Jenny Schoeman). A new snooker room, situated below the new hall’s extended kitchen and toilets was inaugurated recently. Regular players who were there for a first game on the completely renovated table were: Mike Palmer, Don Gaynham, Clive Locke, Dave Webster, Alan Bird and Harry Pearson. A new ‘Draw-the-Lucky-Joker” fun competition was launched at the Manor’s first Sundowner build-a-burger evening of 2018. Winner for the evening was Ettie Firkser and here she is with Dave Web- ster, Thornhill Manor’s village committee chairman. Each monthly winner qualifies for a chance to win the overall competition which ends when the one-and-only joker on the board is revealed. No less than 100 residents of the Manor attended this very popular event which has had to be moved from the community centre to the larger