This year’s Golden Heart Raffle was launched on the 1st October 2012 and will be drawn in the second week of January 2013. The top prize is worth over 1,000TL and the second prize over 900TL. Tickets are 5TL each and can be purchased from the following outlets:-

Best Sellers Book Store – Karakum and Alsancak ;
Ozankoy Book Shop ; 
St Andrews Church Hall, Girne c/o John Dyer ;
Sandy & Yusuf – Chateau Lambousa Market on Saturday and The Lodge Market on a Sunday ;
Steve the Book – Chateau Lambousa Market on Saturday

For more details click Golden Heart Raffle

From 7pm to 9pm at Riviera Bungalows, Karaoglanoglu, CESV (Civil Emergency Service Volunteers)  will be holding First Aid Training classes open to adults (14+).  Refreshments will be available at 5TL  If you want to learn some life-saving skills or brush up on previous skills then go along and join in a friendly informal group.  For further information call Steve Collard on 0548 845 5927

If you want to enter your garden for the 6^th Lapta Tourism Festival Garden Competition you will need to register between the dates shown.  The winner will be announced in June 2013.  For further details telephone Berke Ertopaloğlu on 0533 834 9878 or Eylem Zaimoğlu on 0533 862 9001 and to see the poster click here

The Olive Press will be having a New Year’s Eve Night Party.  Retro fun and games is the theme for the evening – Mr & Mrs, Play Your Cards Right, Beetle Drive and Shove Halfpenny.  Entry is free and couples will be needed for Mr & Mrs and teams of 2 for Play Your Cards Right.   This sounds like a real fun night.  For more information call Martin Appleton on 0533 8801196

Vicki will be holding a 50th birthday party for her husband Unal from 7pm at The Black Olive Cafe in Alsancak.  Everyone is welcome.

The Black Olive Cafe will be holding a Crash Course Day of Tarot. 10am to 5pm.  Price 75TL including lunch and coffee.  The course will be to discover the basic ways of interpretation and will include much more.   For further information or to book a place call Vicki on 0533 835 5133 or Suzie on 0533 882 1475

This will be the 3rd Esentepe Fun Run and will be in memory of George Roper who died in 2012 and was the instigator of the original event to raise funds for Help Those with Cancer Association (Tulips). Look out for more information in the New Year on this website.

Everything is fairly quiet at the moment but once the New Year comes in all of the regular activities will be starting off again and our Events Calendar pages will be filling up with all of the social activities we enjoy in North Cyprus.  Keep checking for your favourite activities.