NEW LIFE FOR OLD CHOC SPACE

Last month, Hilton’s Amy Odell set out to give one of the CHOC Childhood Cancer Foundation rooms a makeover.

CHOC provides free, safe overnight accommodation to child cancer patients and their parents when visiting Pietermaritzburg for hospital visits or chemotherapy treatments.

For Mandela Month, Odell wanted to give one of these rooms a cheery facelift and replace the drab and dull furnishings with a colourful and cosy new look.

She appealed to the Hilton community for donations of old furnishings for the room, and what resulted was a magnificent makeover.

“We are thrilled with the outcome and know it will be well used and loved by the moms and children who spent their time in this gorgeous place,” she said. Pictured is the room before and after the makeover.

Iwas most interested to read, in your last edition of The Hilton, about the new school being developed in our area: Etham College, behind the Rotunda.

I must confess that I cannot quite visualise where it will be, but like you, I believe that there is room for a further academic institution in our area because quite rightly, competition is good.

We are seeing an increase in young families moving up to the Midlands, no doubt to escape the rat race and the frenzy, filth and crime of the cities, and I have complete faith that the new college will be fully subscribed once it is up and running.

In these severe economic times, it is heartening that developers and investors have such confidence in the area.

It can only spell good news for Hilton, and in fact the Midlands as a whole.

Well done.