SDC Electrical – Their Business Story

The SDC Electrical business story spans thirty-five years and began from humble beginnings, as all family businesses do.

In 1988, Daron and Lauren Cock built a family home in Camps Bay. Daron, a qualified Master Electrician, and his brother Shane Cock, an Electrical Engineer, formed SDC Electrical. In 1991 SDC became a licensed company and a member of the Electrical Contractors Association. We were officially a legitimate business!

We started with electrical home maintenance and domestic installations and completed construction work from contractors that went insolvent. 

In the Nineties, we branched into shop fitting with an anchor client, Spec Savers, which found us doing installations across South Africa. We worked on many boutiques, stores, and restaurants during the construction of the Cavendish Square shopping mall in Claremont, Mitchell’s Plain town centre and Canal Walk in Century City. 

By the 2000s, we had grown from a team of two to a staff of twenty-six! Our services expanded to include domestic, industrial, and commercial installations and issuing compliance certificates. 

Fast forward a decade, a lot of hard graft, ups and downs. In 2014, the business management was entrusted to siblings Jodi and Brusco Cock, bringing the idea of forming a family business full circle.

SDC has continued to thrive thanks to a legacy of hard work, maintaining an excellent reputation for outstanding workmanship and reliability within our community and the construction industry. 

We have long-standing relations with the best builders, architects, interior designers, and lighting specialists in South Africa. 

In 2021 we took a leap of faith and expanded our electrical services to Cape St Francis and St Francis Bay, ‘our other home’ in the Eastern Cape. 

Today SDC Electrical remains a family business at its core and within its values, and we’re proud of this. 

www.sdcelectrical.co.za 

https://www.facebook.com/sdcelectrical/

 

Salubri Food

There’s A New Food Truck In Town

Salubri By The Sea  is a healthy and environmentally-conscious food truck operating at Cape St Francis, by the Seal Point Boulevard Car Park writes guest writer, Craig Jarvis.

Salubri Food TruckOwned and operated by Cody Futeran and Alexandra Singer, their offering is a healthy and organic menu of home-made meals and snacks, including green salads, grilled chicken and pesto wraps or ciabatta sandwiches, and grilled sirloin chimichurri wraps or ciabatta sandwiches. They also have daily specials.

They have healthy and delicious snacks on the side such as fruit kebabs, banana bread, granola yoghurt and fruit breakfast snacks as well as their delicious strawberry smoothies.

Fresh produce with all their packaging entirely compostable and bio-degradable, from their straws to their cups, Salubri has opted for the healthy and sustainable route for their enterprise, and it has already taken off.

A few good days of trading under the belt and they have a steady stream of customers, lining up for their early morning coffee, post surf meals or healthy snacks for the kids. It seems that the healthy option is paying dividends.

Alex prepares home-made iced tea for the hot days, and this has proven to be popular, and they have benches and tables set up for the customers to relax on while enjoying their food and watching the guys surf.

Situated alongside Surf Camp South Africa, on the beach, there is a natural spill-over of hungry surfers and would-be  surfers, burning up their energy in the sometimes chilly waters of the Seal Point beach break.

EDITORS NOTE:
Before receiving Craigs article I dropped in a t Salbri’s for a chat with Cody and Ally and I must say if you bottle enthusiasm, I would bottle Cody’s enthusiasm and make a fortune. But food is all in the taste and presentation and whhilst enthusiasm my sell it it the test is in the taste and all I can say is WOW. I sample the Angus Beef Sirloin Chimichurri and the Free Range Chicken breast with atantalising pesto and yes WOW! The beef all but melted in my mouth and the chicken, well anyone who can mass cater chicken breasts and keep them moist and succulent, knows what they are doing.  To wash it all down I had an apple and cinnamon iced tea served in a plastic cup that is FULLY BIO-DEGRADABLE.
In the words of the Arnold – I will be back!
Collo
All details including menus and phone numbers can be found on their facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/Salubribythesea/
More about Cody and Ally and their backgrounds here – https://www.facebook.com/notes/salubri-by-the-sea/salubri-by-the-sea/206813259886854/
Definition of salubrious. : favorable to or promoting health or well-being. 

Cody and Ally ready to serve their delicious, healthy fare

Cape St Francis Civics

November Newsletter: Cape St Francis Civics / Ratepayers Association

Good day members

It has been a busy few months, and the Cape St Francis Civics/Ratepayers Association has been hard at work with a number of endeavours. Apologies for the newsletter that is a little longer than usual, there is so much to tell!

Firstly, thank you for all the subscriptions, membership renewals, and all the fees that have been paid. The proposed R350 total has been widely accepted, with many members donating more than that, which is greatly appreciated. Membership numbers and finances will be totaled for the next communication. If you know of anyone who might not have paid up or joined, please forward this email to them. The subs link here – http://www.capestfranciscivicassociation.org.za/membership–lidmaatskap.html

After much hard work and relentless investigation and enquiries, we finally made some progress with the clearing of the R330. The danger to runners and cyclists was becoming quite alarming, and eventually Randall Moore; the district roads engineer for the Sarah Baartman Region organized Tzitzikamma Fencing to do the clear up job. Big thanks to both, the road is looking great and runners and cyclists can continue with their pursuits without danger.

The Kouga Municipality sent out traffic officials to assess our request for traffic calming (speed bumps) at the two hotspots – our village center alongside the retail outlets, as well as alongside the Cape St Francis Resort and Rock Lily stretch. Assessment details to follow.  

The CCTV Camera Installation request went through the first round in the standing committee, and all being well should be approved at the next council meeting on 15 Dec 2017. It seems everyone is keen. We are setting up a trust fund for the cameras for donations for this project. At this stage phases 1 and 2 are funded, thank you to all who pledged, and we are currently looking for funds for phase 3.

We would like to welcome the Woodridge Surf Life Saving Club, who is covering our beaches every Sunday out of season during the summer months, from November to April. Great to have you guys around.

Civics will also be employing four additional lifeguards who will be on duty for the busiest times of our season – 24 December to 2 January. Lifeguards from anywhere around the country who are interested in working here in December can contact Civics onCSFCivic@gmail.com

Cape St Francis Car Park ShowerCivics has also employed Beauty to maintain our beaches and ablutions. Her duties include the cleaning of the bottom and top ablutions, and the cleaning and maintenance of the beach from Lookout to Corner, as well as the path and verge from the lower car park up to the Lighthouse. She will be employed for three days a week for the months of December to January. Beauty will be recognizable and hard at work, so please feel free to say hello when you see her.  

Big thanks to Alex Odendaal from Allens Woodworks for the donation of wood, and to Stuart Minehan for his time and expertise in the deck build at the lower car park showers. Much appreciated guys!

A recent dead giant fur seal washed up on the beaches estimated at about 300kgs and in a state of decomposition. Thanks to Kouga Municipality and Councilor Williams who dealt with the removal of the animal within an hour of the phone call.  

Kouga Municipality has a new call center and app to improve service delivery at Kouga, thus making it easier for residents to report and track service delivery problems in their wards, and it’s working great.
The free LINK app is available for Android and iOS devices and can be downloaded at download.linkapp.co.za/#dl, from the Google Play or App Store.
Upon registration the app will request permission to access your location – this is important, be sure to accept.
To Link to your Ward, (Ward 12) click on “+ and Add Channels”. Select the blue Municipal Ward icon, allow the app to geo-locate you and Link to your Ward as displayed. It’s totally intuitive and many people are utilizing it to great affect. 

Further information about Link is available at www.linkapp.co.za and Kouga’s new call center can be contacted on 042 200 2200

Nick Schoeman from the Cape St Francis Police Forum has suggested whatsapp micro-groups in a bid to combat crime in your immediate area. Instead of only belonging to bigger safety groups, he advised to set up street safety groups of between 5 to 8 families/homeowners who watch each other’s back a bit closer than the bigger groups. A few streets have already initiated this to good effect, with members now alert to their neighbour’s alarms being triggered and other suspicious behaviour.   

Another thank you to Kouga Municipality who responded after hours to a burst water pipe and their prompt water leakage solution at corner of Waratah and Diaz. Thanks guys. 

Please remember that we still need to urgently save water, and need visitors to our beautiful village this holiday to be mindful of the water scarcity. If water wastage is spotted, there is nothing wrong with a friendly word with the visitor, to remind them that we too are in a water crisis and we all need to save water. 

Kind regards.

Dane Shaw
Chairperson, Cape St Francis Civics/Ratepayers Association

FREE breast cancer screening

FREE breast cancer screening at Saturday’s St Francis Park Run

PinkDrive will conclude their outreach to the Kouga Community on 21 October 2017 by providing their FREE breast cancer screening services to the community of St Francis and Cape St Francis . The PInkDrive team like to invite all members of the community to make use of our services offering. Free clinical breast examinations and education will be on offer. Mammograms will be offered for a donation of R500, Pap smears for a donation of R200 and R65 for PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen).

If a Corporate Company would like to make a donation for their staff to make use of these services, PinkDrive can issue a CSI Certificate for the value of the spend.

PinkDrive’s team will be at Rock Lily, opposite the Cape St Francis Resort: 21 October 2017, from 08:00 – 14:00.

PinkDrive sincerely thanks the staff of Cape St Francis Resort for the opportunity to offer our services to the community and assistance with accommodation of our team during our week of outreach to the area.

For more information, please contact: Fébé Meyer, PinkDrive, febe@pinkdrive.co.za or 078 800 7736

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