Scheduled MRT Track Maintenance Works

Dear residents of Limau Estate,
Please be informed of the scheduled MRT track maintenance works to be carried out from 9 - 15th May 2011.

Put on your ear plugs if you are a light sleeper! :-)

DATE PALM TREE GROWN FROM ISRAELI SEED TO BE GIVEN AWAY FREE!

Hello Neighbours,

A gardening club member wants to give away his Date Palm Tree. - FREE!
If you are interested, please contact him directly.



Extract from his email ......

Attached is the picture of our Date tree that we would like to give away instead of chopping it down, please help pass this info around. I can be contacted via email at jaysng@singnet.com.sg or mobile no 96728488.( Mr Ng ) The offer is good for 2 weeks ( till 8 May 2011) after which I will proceed to chop it down.

Background to this Date tree

This Date tree (palm) is about 5 years old and it is germinated from one of the seed in a pack of date fruits which was brought back from Israel by my wife during her pilgrim trip to holy land. This date tree is planted on our planter plot and as it sits on a higher ground than our rear neighbour's, so, as it grows bigger, chances it may topple over to our neighbour's backyard and damage the retaining wall.

Interested party need to do the tranplanting themself or engage a contractor to do this on their behalf.

Limau Estate Gardening Club
Limau Estate Neighbourhood Committee

Community Service Message: Crime Watch

This is a community service message for the residents of Limau Estate:

Police Professionalism

“Murder of a Male Massage Operator”

The foul smell of a highly decomposed body in one of the units at Blk 79 Indus Road which went undetected for ten days finally led to its discovery. With the cooperation from the Royal Malaysian Police, watch how the officers from the Criminal Investigation Department solved the case within 26 hours upon its discovery.


Appeal for Information

”Murder at Marina Boulevard”

On 18 November 2010, Wu Hui, a 36-year-old construction worker from China was found dead on a bench at Marina Boulevard. The victim worn an orange polo T-shirt and dark coloured pants. If you have any information on this case, please call the Police Hotline at 1800 225 0000.

Telecast Dates:

Tamil Version
-Vasantham: 26 April 2011 (Tuesday) at 9 pm

Mandarin Version
-Channel 8: 29 April 2011 (Friday) at 8.30 pm

Malay Version
-SURIA: 30 April 2011 (Saturday) at 8.30 pm

English Version
-Channel 5: 15 May 2011 (Sunday) at 9 pm

Food Fiesta At Bedok Ria Crescent !

Meet your neighbours and your MP, AND Support Earth Hour 2011 at Limau Estate Food Fiesta on 26 March 2011!

Calling all Limau Estate residents! Limau Estate Neighbourhood Committee is organising a Limau Estate Food Fiesta at Bedok Ria Crescent playground, on the 26th of March 2011.

This is a wonderful opportunity to meet your fellow Limau Estate neighbours, chat up our Member of Parliament - Mr Abdullah Tarmugi, as well as support Earth Hour 2011 at the same time!

There will be dinner, fun and games, entertainment, as well as educational booths set up by our friendly neighbourhood police, Civil Defence, NEA, our gardening club, etc. There will even be door gifts and free tickets to the PCF Carnival coming up in April too!

So, turn off the lights in your home, bring your family, neighbours and friends and join in the fun!

The details again:

Date: 26 March 2011
Venue: Bedok Ria Crescent Playground
Time: 6.15pm - 9.30pm
Tickets: $10 per person.

For more details, please call Yongyang at Siglap Constituency Office at 64498040.

Library For Limau Estate Gardeners!

Limau Estate Gardening Club is pleased to announce the formation of a library dedicated to all things gardening. The library is housed at 53 Bedok Ria Crescent. we currently have 11 books in the library and will add more books to the collection as we go along.

The library is open to all registered members of the Limau Estate Gardening Club. Some rules to be observed :-

A. Call Mr Wong Seng Chow at 91206070 to make sure the book you wish to borrow is available and make an appointment to collect the book.

B. Each member can only borrow one book at a time.

C. Each book may be borrowed for one month. However, if no one is on the waiting list for this book, it maybe extended for another month.

D. Members will be required to sign out for the book borrowed.

E. Members are responsible for the care of the book borrowed.

Books available now:

1. 1001 GARDEN PLANTS IN SINGAPORE.

This is a NPark’s publication and contains photographs of all plants listed. Besides photographs there are also notes on plants characteristics, habitats and care requirements.

2. TROPICAL GARDEN PLACES by William Warren

This book has many photographs of tropical plants. The photographs are larger than those in the previous book. The photographs also blends with other plants as it would in a garden. The plants are well documented.

3. THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF HERBS

A Reader’s Digest publication, this book list more than 100 herbs. Besides growing the herbs, it also describes the uses of herbs for health, beauty, cooking and crafts.

4. COMPLETE GUIDE TO ORCHIDS

5. ORCHIDS IN GARDEN CITY

6. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PLANTS AND FLOWERS

7. HOW TO GARDEN- Hamlyn

8. A GUIDE TO HYDROPONICS

9. A GUIDE TO FRUITS AND SEEDS

10. A GUIDE TO HERBS AND SPICES

11. A GUIDE TO COMMON VEGETABLES

The Librarian

MP Walkabout on 18 Dec 2010 (Saturday)

We had an MP Walkabout led by our adviser, Speaker of Parliament and MP for East Coast GRC (Siglap) Mr Abdullah Tarmugi, last Saturday 18 Dec 2010.

We started the walk from Jalan Greja at about 9am, and proceeded through Taman Bedok, Pesari Walk and Bedok Place. It was a lovely morning for the walk, and many residents came out to meet their MP. It was very nice to see some streets with really closely bonded neighbours who are friends with each other and have been living harmoniously with each other for decades. They even came up with ideas together to beautify their environment as a group.

Many residents staying in this area have been staying their for a long time indeed. Their reasons for staying: good neighbours, convenient location, and peaceful environment. The latter two can be found in many places of our beautiful country, but good neighbours do make all that difference.

Thanks to all our LENC and Siglap volunteers, as well as the representatives from the Police and National Environment Agency who turned up for the walkabout last Saturday. Last but not least, a big thank you to all the residents who came forward to say Hello. The smiles and harmony of our neighbourhood certainly made it an even more beautiful morning indeed!

*Here are the photos of the walkabout!