MAGAZINE: FEBRUARY 2016
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CONTENTS Important Numbers 03 PABX Not Working?
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Schonenberg Statistics 06 Schonenberg News
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Speeding & Signage 08 Refuse Collection 11 Register to Vote
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ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES
Grids 13
Contact Our Sales Team
Wildlife Protection 14 Security 15 Garden Tips for March
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Disclaimer: This eMagazine is produced especially for residents of Schonenberg Estate to provide updates and useful information. It is produced by GLOVent Media, a division of GLOVent Solutions, on behalf of Schonenberg Estate. Although every effort is taken to ensure accuracy of content, Schonenberg Estate HOA and/or the Publisher, cannot be held liable for any inaccurate information, and may not agree with all opinions expressed in this publication.
Security – Control Room Vetus Schola All hours: 021 852 9009 Security – Armed Response Vetus Schola [Estate] All hours: 081 051 6696 Fire Department 021 444 2700 / 021 590 1900 Ambulance EMO 072 996 6337 / 107 / 112 Schonenberg Maintenance Office hours (08:00 – 17:00) PABX 1202 After hours: 082 538 7812 Police - Somerset West 021 850 1303 | 021 850 1300
EMERGENCY CONTACTS Security – Main Gate All hours: PABX 1000 / 021 200 1835
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Security - Waterstone Gate Open hours (05:00 – 22:00): PABX 1001 / 021 200 1834 Security – Schonenberg Estate Vetus Schola Office hours(08:00 – 17:00): PABX 1000 / 6445 / 6426 / 021 852 9009 / 082 888 4850 Schonenberg HOA Office Office hours (08:00 – 17:00): PABX 9 / 021 855 4537
All maintenance related problems should be reported to Stephanie on PABX 1204 and after hours (in case of an emergency), please phone 082 5387 812
FAULTY TELEPHONE LINES We are aware of a fault on the HOA’s office telephone lines. Currently Maycom, Telkom and H&H Connection are working on the problem to get it fixed as soon as possible. We apologise for this inconvenience. If you have a not-so -urgent issue or a general query, please send an e-mail to one of the following addresses:
Important Numbers
Accounts [email protected] Maintenance [email protected] Data & Communication [email protected] Reception [email protected] 3
Your Pabx Is Not Working. What Should You Do? Is there a dialing tone?
Is the headset plugged in? Is the handset plugged into the correct jack? (PABX should not be plugged into the Telkom jack).
If yes to both questions, please report your phone to SHOA reception.
Is there a noise on the line?
Is the handset cord plugged in properly? Does the noise change when you move the cord around on the handset?
If yes, please report your phone to SHOA reception. If no, please report your phone to SHOA reception.
Do you have a dialing tone, but the phone does not ring?
Check if the volume is turned down? Is the volume turned down? If no, please report your phone to SHOA reception.
If no, please report your phone to SHOA reception.
Do you have a dialing tone, but the phone is not dialing out?
Check if the setting is set to PULSE.
The setting should be on TONE.
Is your phone not working at all? Please check the following:
Check, by shaking the phone, if there is any loose components in the handset; Check if all are secure & the jack intact;
If you hear lose components, the handset needs to be replaced. Please report to SHOA reception. If yes, please report to SHOA reception.
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Your Pabx Is Not Working Cont. •
If you have gone through the list and the problem is still not resolved;
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Contact Schonenberg Home Owners’ Association office on 021 855 3216 / 4537 or PABX 9 and report your faulty PABX phone at Reception.
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The PABX technicians are on the Estate on Tuesdays & Thursdays.
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Depending on when you have reported your faulty PABX phone, Madelein (Reception) will contact you on either Monday or Wednesday afternoon to arrange an appointment for the following day or a time that will suit you best.
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The technicians will visit you at your premises on the agreed time.
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They will have a work order with them, which you have to sign after repairs have been done. 5
Schonenberg Statistics: January 2016
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Number of security boom movements for residents entering the Estate Main entrance = 20,255 Waterstone entrance = 35,627 Domestics [Home and garden] entering daily = 210 Kiloliters dam water used for irrigation: 2013/14 = unknown 2014/15 = Zero 2015/16 [up to 31 Jan. 2016] = 19,990 Black refuse bags collected on Thursdays [average] = 1,350 HOA vacant plots = 31 under construction = 11 SRV vacant plots = 0 under construction = 4
Schoneneberg News
Weekly dam levels “The state of the main dams supplying the Cape metropolitan area as compared to the five previous years”… For more click here
Schonenberg Estate’s new maintenance vehicle.
Jephta Dube is an Irrigation Technician and he maintains irrigation and the irrigation infrastructure on the Estate. His career at Schonenberg started in January 2014 as a Maintenance worker. Jephta is 30 years old and was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He has been staying in Grabouw for the past 2 years and is very happily married.
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Speeding and Signage There are well sign-posted maximum speed limits for motorists throughout the Estate, please adhere to them accordingly: • Vaillant Boulevard: 40 km/h (forty kilometers per hour) • All other streets: 30 km/h (thirty kilometers per hour) • Schonenberg Retirement Village: 20 km/h (twenty kilometers per hour). Please note: Cyclists also need to respect these speed limits to prevent accidents. The HOA has also introduced traffic calming measures, such as speed-humps and pedestrian crossings, for everybody’s safety - especially children and elderly people. Please stick to the rules and prevent an accident from happening. We thank you in advance for your full support and cooperation.
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Did You Know? For both stopping distances and the severity of crashes, speed matters. Travelling at 40 mph, the average driver who sights a pedestrian in the road 100 feet ahead will still be travelling 38 mph on impact: driving at 25 mph, the driver will have stopped before the pedestrian is struck. Relationship of Vehicle Speed to Odds of Pedestrian Death in Collision
Vehicle Speed 30 Kph 50 Kph 65 Kph
Odds of Pedestrian Death 5% 45% 85%
SOURCE: http://humantransport.org/sidewalks/SpeedKills.htm
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Refuse Collection Thursdays: “Normal waste”. Please put normal waste in black bags. Please put black bags in the wheelie bins. No building material, no cardboard, no loose material (as shown in picture), no boxes and no bags full of sand will be collected. Bags need to be outside by 09:00 in the morning. Fridays: Recyclables. Please put all recyclables in “recycling bags”. Bags need to be outside by 09:00 in the morning.
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Municipal Election Registration for voters will take place on the 5th and 6th March 2016, between 07:00 and 17:00. The registration point for Schonenberg Estate, is the Life Church, opposite the BP garage on Somerset West Main Road.
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Grids
The removal of grids from the Estate, or removing grids from one place to another on the Estate is strictly forbidden. If you are in need of a grid at the entrance of your house or driveway, please contact Stephanie (Asset Care Maintenance Administrator) on PABX 1204 to find out the costs involved.
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Wildlife Protection Recently, we had an incident involving guinea fowl chicks, known as keets, which fell through a grid into a stormwater pipe. When keets fall into an outflow, they cannot get out. Security has been trying to assist the birds to get out, but alas they keep on falling back into the hole. The guinea fowl mother hen breeds in the area of Thunberg Avenue and Cole Street, where this manhole is situated. Please be aware of this situation and if you do see a guinea keet fall into the manhole, please help the bird to safety. Also, report the incident to the HOA office so that we can make an arrangement to cover the manhole until the birds are big enough to fend for themselves. The only problem is that if and when it rains, the manhole could get blocked. However, it would only be a temporary arrangement.
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Security Currently, there are new cameras being installed at both the Main Gate and Waterstone Gate for access control purposes. The work should be completed on Monday, 29th February 2016. Following this job, cameras will be installed on the eastern, southern and western boundary fences of the Estate.
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Garden Tips For March With the coming of autumn it’s time to start preparing our winter gardens. •
Start thinking about planting winter flowering bulbs. Lovely veld beauties like Ixia, Babiana, Freesia, Tritonia and Chincherinchees. Wait until it is much cooler and the first winter rains have fallen before planting them. If you do buy them earlier, store them in the vegetable compartment of the refrigerator and plant when the temperatures drop.
• Raise the height of mower blades as winter approaches and growth slows down. •
As the leaves start to fall, clean out gutters and drains to prevent blockages. Be sure to rake leaves on the grass to prevent fungal diseases.
• Most summer flowers will be over and need to be pulled out. Dig in compost and superphosphate or bone meal at the recommended application rates. • Why not add Leonotis leonurus (wild dagga) to your garden. It is a fast and easy-growing shrub that flowers profusely and attracts birds, bees and butterflies. 16
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