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Falcon Weekly News

Week 6  First Term 2006

Mbondo Chalet at Quiet Waters - Good Progress

Shortage of Bricks delays brickwork at Computer Lab Site

Water Level rises significantly at Mbonisa Weir

Art Students Visit to Chipangali Wild Life Orphanage

 Quiet Waters : Good Progress at Mbondo Chalet building Site

Construction work at the new and fifth Chalet being constructed at Quiet Waters Conservation Scheme has continued steadily since the last update. The Chalet is to be named Mbondo after a tree which is common in the vicinity.  Mbondo Chalet will accommodate five people and, like Chelicuti Chalet, will have a bathroom en suite.  Quiet Waters has four chalets, all of them with separate ablution blocks and each capable of accommodating four guests.

Side view of Mbondo Chalet at Quiet Waters just before work was suspened..

The Chalet is being constructed with granite from the Quarry at Quiet Waters.  Work at the site has since been suspended for a few weeks as the builders have now been engaged at the gymnasium where construction work is being accelerated.

New Computer Lab - Shortage of bricks delays brickwork 

The building momentum gained recently at the Computer Laboratory construction site has been temporarily curtailed by a crippling shortage of bricks.  There was a breakdown at the Macdonald's brick-making factory in Bulawayo and the supply of bricks has become erratic. 
 

Although work at the new computer lab has stalled this has given workers the opportunity to accelerate construction work at the gymnasium site.where roof trusses have recently been delivered.  Trusses have already been laid on the front facade of the building and the trusses are now being mounted on the rest of the building.

Mbonisa Weir - Good inflow despite erratic rains
Rainfall at Falcon has been disappointing this season.  However, the rain that has fallen at Quiet Waters recently has resulted in a significant inflow into Mbonisa Weir.

Right: The water level has risen significantly at Mbonisa Weir

Art Students Visit to Chipangali Wild Life Orphanage
If you are an artist (or an aspiring artist) you have to be at peace with nature and the environment. You also need to have a highly developed aesthetic awareness.  Chipangali Wild Life orphanage is an ideal place to help develop and enhance aesthetic awareness of wild life.  Chipangali Wild Life Orphanage was founded by Vivian Wilson and, as the name suggests, is a centre that looks after and rehabilitates wild animals that are orphaned or that have been injured or abandoned.  The orphanage is situated about 30 km from the College and is well known in Africa.

 Left: Art Students pose for photographs at the entrance to the orphanage

Right: Dougall Carruthers taking a photograph of a warthog at Chipangali

Boys returned with a wealth of pictures of animals, important for their course work.

Jacqui Stewart recently took a group of art student on a tour of the Orphanage.  The visit was not only aesthetically enriching, but was educationally rewarding for the boys.  They took photographs of wild animals for use in their AS and A level course work. Wild life is part of our national heritage and the importance of its conservation needs to be inculcated in the students. The visit to Chipangali by our art boys was very appropriate.