{"id":65318,"date":"2015-01-23T09:52:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T07:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=65318"},"modified":"2015-01-23T21:59:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T19:59:38","slug":"hermanus-firefighters-and-community-sweet-service-and-city-of-cape-town-sour-service-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/hermanus-firefighters-and-community-sweet-service-and-city-of-cape-town-sour-service-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermanus firefighters and community Sweet Service and City of Cape Town Sour Service Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hermanus<\/a>The Sweet Service Award<\/strong> goes to the firefighters and community of Hermanus, for its work last weekend in fighting a massive fire in Onrus, which led to the evacuation of residents of retirement villages Kidbrooke and Onrus Manor, as well as residents of Chanteclair and Bergsig. The Windsor Hotel and guest houses also accommodated residents for the night. \u00a0Social Media played an important role<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>in preventing residents threatened by the fire from panicking, and to call on Hermanus locals to assist with bedding for those that had to sleep in community halls. \u00a0Ultimately too it was Mother Nature, which brought pouring rain late that night, putting an end to the fires.<\/p>\n

\"City<\/a>The Sour Service Award<\/strong> goes to the City of Cape Town, for the slow action to repair two very bad potholes on Kloof Street in Clifton, caused by repair work done by the Council but the surface not repaired subsequently. \u00a0One of the potholes was so bad that cars had to drive in the oncoming lane to avoid skidding on the loose gravel and chipstone. \u00a0Only the third Tweet message in so many days was responded to. \u00a0 This is not the first time that we have had to request road damage and potholes to be repaired by the City of Cape Town!<\/p>\n

The\u00a0WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards<\/strong>\u00a0are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog.\u00a0 Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at \u00a0whalecot@iafrica.com<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio:\u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 Tel (021) 433-2100, Twitter:@WhaleCottage Facebook: \u00a0<\/strong>click here<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to the firefighters and community of Hermanus, for its work last weekend in fighting a massive fire in Onrus, which led to the evacuation of residents of retirement villages Kidbrooke and Onrus Manor, as well as residents of Chanteclair and Bergsig. The Windsor Hotel and guest houses also accommodated residents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,75,248,1590,21],"tags":[20315,29617,11242,32378,257,32383,21770,29574,129,32377,29575,665,22328,32373,29573,29576],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t