{"id":727,"date":"2008-12-12T00:07:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=727"},"modified":"2009-03-15T11:05:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T09:05:19","slug":"hermanus-sweet-and-telkom-sour-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/hermanus-sweet-and-telkom-sour-service-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermanus Sweet and TELKOM Sour Service Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Sweet Service Award<\/strong> goes to the citizens of Hermanus, who enthusiastically sent votes by SMS, for the town to be named the Rapport Town of the Year.\u00a0\u00a0 Special recognition should go to Storm Kreusch of the Hermanus Tourism Bureau and Maxie Lerm of the Overstrand DMO.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

This year saw the fourth Rapport Town of the Year Competition. The publication’s almost 586 000 readers were asked to vote for their favourite town in the Western, Southern and Northern Cape by SMS or mail. Oudtshoorn, Hermanus and Robertson were the three finalists and were judged by a panel consisting of representatives of Kaap-Rapport and co-sponsors, Cape Town Routes Unlimited and Van Loveren Winery.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The WhaleTales 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 <\/span>info@whalecottage.com<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to the citizens of Hermanus, who enthusiastically sent votes by SMS, for the town to be named the Rapport Town of the Year.\u00a0\u00a0 Special recognition should go to Storm Kreusch of the Hermanus Tourism Bureau and Maxie Lerm of the Overstrand DMO.\u00a0\u00a0 This year saw the fourth Rapport Town of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,248,22,21],"tags":[32378,595,1021,596,594,501,566,597,9,10],"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