{"id":45560,"date":"2013-10-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/45560\/club-holds-successful-fund-raiserorspecial-fund-raising-lunch-goes-well\/"},"modified":"2013-10-08T10:16:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T08:16:34","slug":"club-holds-successful-fund-raiserorspecial-fund-raising-lunch-goes-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2013\/10\/08\/club-holds-successful-fund-raiserorspecial-fund-raising-lunch-goes-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Club holds successful fund-raiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston Simmer Rugby Club hosted their fund-raiser lunch on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The event was held at the Tryline Restaurant and Sport Bar, at the Germiston Stadium and funds raised are to be used to buy better equipment for the new season.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The club was selling tickets for the test match between the All Blacks and the Springboks, in various packages, ranging from a meal and drinks at the club with entertainment, a biltong pack and a bus trip to Ellis Park and back.<\/p>\n<p>All tickets were sold, which was an indication of the successful turnout.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We are very happy with today&#8217;s turnout; if we could have, we would have bought more tickets,&#8221; said club chairman Rene Audier.<\/p>\n<p>The lunch commenced at 11am and everybody who attended was transported, by bus, to Ellis Park to watch the game.<\/p>\n<p>The club will begin with their pre-season training on October 15, and this will run until the end of November, in preparation for up-coming tournaments, as well as the new season.<\/p>\n<p>The age groups are from u-19 to seniors and the six-week training programme will run every Tuesday and Thursday, from 6.30pm to 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody is welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Germiston Simmer welcome funding and will gladly accept and appreciate any form of aid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thrive on funding and, any sponsorship we can get, we appreciate,&#8221; said Rudy van der Westhuizen, vice-chairman of the club.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the club, contact manager Nardia Carlse on 083 600 3304.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='aba272665c5920476d90ec888904fb7b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special fund-raising lunch goes well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":45561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1768,1857,1517,1854,979,1793,1122,1121,1724,1767,1855,1856],"class_list":["post-45560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-all-blacks","tag-bus-trip","tag-fund-raiser","tag-fund-raiser-lunch","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-stadium","tag-rugby","tag-simmer-rugby-club","tag-sports","tag-springboks","tag-test-match","tag-tickets"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["all blacks","bus trip","fund raiser","fund-raiser lunch","germiston","Germiston Stadium","rugby","simmer rugby club","sports","springboks","Test match","tickets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}