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The film, which some critics have said is Spielberg’s best in “at least the last 10 years”, is a soaring epic about a Devon farm boy and his horse, Joey, who land up on the front lines of World War I. It has earned several Academy Awards nominations and stars Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson and Peter Mullan.

The film opens to the public at The Bridge today (Friday February 24).

The full list of winners includes: Ann Mitchell; Bal Wicht; Sandra Purse; Rene Holder; Elizabeth Reeves; Philippus Pieterse; Crystan Prinsloo; Patricia Kivido; Carla Hazel; Rod Baker; Roderick van Heerden; Gerda van der Vyver; Collin Murray; Wendy Walsh; Kumarin Padayachee; Lorna Dullisear; Manar Moodley; Angelique Mostert; Memory Bigg; Rikus Romer; Gwen Burke; Debbie du Preez; George Wilson; Denise Bartlett; David Williams; Anthony Siepman; Alister Greenwood; Bernadene Patterson; Lesley Groenewald; Colleen Sass; Bernard Rupp; Keith Are; Sonya-Marie Ogden; Johan van Niekerk; Gail Channon; Marilyn Harte; Penny Pheys; Fiona Cilliers; Gail Schupp; Cindy Thomson; Jeanette Roberts; Marion Darkins; Lesley Murie; Norma Swanepoel; Gerard Rogers; Ashley Bint; Annetjie Botha; Elizabeth Able; Patricia Scheepers and Olivia Brice.

Scroll down for social pictures taken by Salvelio Meyer at the preview. 

Winners and their partners (from left) Jeanette and Fred Roberts and Anita and Bill Wilson enjoyed the preview at The Bridge on Thursday night.

Kumarin and Ivana Padayachee with Lee and Bets Ward Able.

Weekend Post's Louise Liebenberg (left) with Gail and Chris Schupp.

Patricia Louw and daughter Ashlee with Avusa marketing's Deirdre Brand (right).

Avusa marketing staffer Durelle Erasmus (centre) with Gerard and Marie Rogers.

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Kylie Jefferson (left) and Ashleigh Parkin with gorgeous Swarovski crystal jewellery from Jenni Collections. Picture: Mike Holmes

FEBRUARY is the month of love and nothing says “I treasure you” quite like a trove of beautiful jewellery!  Weekend Post and Jenni Collections are giving away a whopping R30 000 worth of hand-crafted Swarovski crystal jewellery over the next four months – and your first shot at the prizes starts tomorrow (Saturday), just in time for Valentine’s Day on Tuesday!

This weekend you can win R10 000 worth of earrings, rings and gift vouchers, so get your copy of Weekend Post to find out how to enter.

Weekend Post is your prize paper and there are other great ones up for grabs this weekend: A R500 gift voucher from Greenacres Shopping Centre; six double tickets to see Antony and Cleopatra  at the PE Opera House and…  30 double tickets to Wednesday’s game between the Warriors and the Cobras! Finally, there is also the chance to win a wine-tasting outing for four!

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* WIN: Valentine’s Day meal vouchers

The seven participating restaurants are: Bayside Pantry, Yi Pin, News Cafe, Dulce, El Greco, Squires and Leonardo’s, all at the Boardwalk in Summerstrand in Port Elizabeth. Each meal is worth R200.

To find out how to enter, get your copy of Weekend Post tomorrow (Saturday February 4). And don’t miss next Saturday’s paper either when you stand a chance to win more Valentine’s inspired prizes … like fantastic crystal jewellery from Jenni Collections worth R10000 in the first of three such competitions, and a R500 gift voucher from Greenacres Shopping Centre!

Lara Kirsten has stirred up the small community of Hogsback with her nude biking antics. Picture: Francois le Roux

By Barbara Hollands

A LEISURELY bike ride in the buff down Hogsback’s main street on a lazy Friday afternoon by local concert pianist, poet and self-confessed “free spirit” Lara Kirsten has stirred up a storm in a C-cup in the arty mountain village.

Kirsten, 32, Hogsback’s own “Lady Godiva”, raised the ire of some fellow residents when she set off on her naked ride down the main street on January 20, with some even threatening legal action.

Having “cycle-streaked” in the Hogsback Pass three years ago without any objections from the locals, she was “taken aback” by the response and it took speedy intervention by the local community policing forum (CPF) to cool frayed tempers.

“When I did it the first time there was no criticism from any angle,” Kirsten, who loves to go bare whenever she can, told Weekend Post in a cheeky telephonic interview. “I am always in the nude – I’m even in the nude while I’m talking to you,” she said.

Kirsten said her naked caper from the top of the village main street and down the Hogsback Pass was an “off the cuff” decision she made while going shopping with a friend. “I just said ‘I’m going to do it again’ and off I went. I started from the top of Main Road so there were quite a few people coming and going. The [clay] hog sellers in the street even cheered me on.”

She said she did not mean any disrespect when she cycled through the village starkers. “I’m a free spirit so I’m not constrained by social norms. I like challenging people but I’m not a provocative artist. I’m a trained classical pianist so come from a rigid training background and being nude has flowered into a freedom of expression.

“I’m a good Afrikaans girl and even a bit Calvinistic, but I want to reform myself and not let the system take control of my mind and soul.”

However, after being invited to “chat” with the town’s CPF, Kirsten will now confine her nudie bike escapades to the forest. “Two women from the CPF requested I not do this again in the main road but rather in the forest. They said four people wanted to lay charges against me!

“But about 10 to 20 people told me next time I do it they are coming with me. They said it should be a yearly institution.”

Hogsback CPF deputy chairwoman Monika Hof said although Kirsten had pedalled through the village buck naked “in all innocence”, some residents were less tolerant than others. “She was like a bolt of lightning going through there and some people wanted to lay charges,” Hof said.

(This is a shortened version of an article first published in the print edition of Weekend Post on Saturday January 29.)

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