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Seniors celebrate Westridge's history
Plainsman
|May 21, 2025
A group of Westridge seniors who were among the first families to move into the area in 1976, hosted two neighbourhood tea events last week.
Brenda Barnes, 69, and her sister Kathleen Barnes Baatjes, 66, coordinated the first gathering last Tuesday May 13, to bring the neighbours of nearly five decades together, in anticipation of Mitchell's Plain's 50th anniversary next year.
Ms Barnes recalls her family moving to Westridge from Kewtown when she was 20 years old.
"I moved into the area with my parents and two younger siblings on June 18 and turned 21 a few months later. My two older siblings stayed behind in Kewtown as they were married.
"My younger brother started school at Mitchell's Plain Primary on October 5 1976, when the school opened its doors for the first time," she said.
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