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This year we had a welcome surprise from Sandra van Niekerk, mother of our top junior lady paddler Melanie, who announced that Old Mutual would sponsor our development team with a trip to Grand West for ice skating and a meal at the Spur! Sandra and 4 staff from Old Mutual came along to assist Lisa and Richard with the afternoons activities

 For all of them this was their first time on the ice but most of the boys had lots of practice with inline skate and were soon skating rings around the rest of us. The girls took a more cautious approach and clung to the rails but by the end of the session were skating across the middle of the rink.

After 2hrs of skating everyone had worked up an appetite so we moved off to the Spur. Here they soon found the games room where they made the most of the time in between courses. After desert they had a team photo and said their thanks to Sandra and Old Mutual.

A tiered but happy bunch of kids were dropped off at Du Noon.