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TRIAL RUN: Appleby rural fire fighters Tom Jackman and Spike O’Donoghue prepare to do battle with this deliberately lit house fire on Sunday morning. The house, on Waimea West Rd, was believed to be around 100 years-old and was set on fire by local rural fire fighters so they could train and new fire fighters could gain experience. Brightwater Rural Fire Force Controller Mark Donaldson says he has received positive feedback from all those who attended. The house was donated for this training purpose and had remained untenanted since 2002. Photo: Teresa Hattan.

The Holy Trinity Church has hit back at Waimea Weekly, after it reported the church lied in last week’s issue.But the church has been caught out by its own written state-ments.The church felt aggrieved by the article about the felled 100 year-old oak tree, stating in a letter that the tree was not cut down because it was rotten and “any suggestions to the contrary are misinformed”. Waimea Weekly last week wrote that a report, commissioned by Tasman Dis-trict Council, showed the tree was healthy and not a safety risk due to rot, despite the church saying that was one of the rea-sons it was cut down.Since the church felled the tree in early March there has been a public outcry.After last week’s article, sev-eral members of the parish and other community members phoned Waimea Weekly, thank-ing it for bringing the issue to light.Clearly the iconic tree meant a lot to the wider community.The letter by Rev. David Hol-lingworth to Waimea Weekly states: “The decision by the par-ish authorities to fell the oak tree at Holy Trinity Church, Richmond, was made in 2009. The sole reason for the tree to

be felled was the location of the proposed community centre” and “the church has never stat-ed that the reason for felling the tree was because it was rotten.”However a press release sent to Waimea Weekly in March and signed by David said: “The ex-pert who felled the tree for us offered his opinion that the tree was a major safety risk as there was rot in the main trunk.”The “expert” was a West Coast bushman, according to a local arborist, called in to cut the tree after qualified arborists refused to do the job because in their opinion the tree was healthy and should stay.The church says it did not lie because it was not aware of a report commissioned into the health of the tree, until it was too late and “the die had been cast for the felling of the tree”. Although the church admitted it saw the report in February, before the tree was felled. The report, written by an arborist, confirmed the tree was healthy and “was not a safety risk”.“The felling of the oak is a loss, but we need to keep our eyes on our vision for the future; of the light literal and metaphori-cal we wish to shed, and of the service we wish to offer,” wrote David. Editorial on page 3.

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Nelson is primed to be the latest must see destination for the rich and famous, creat-ing a new million dollar industry for the region.Yesterday, a multi-million dollar supery-acht sailed into Nelson Haven, the fifth this summer and with each spending around $30,000 in the region, it is having positive spinoffs for the local economy and three local businessmen say that is just the start to a new luxury tourism market in the region.John Baudier, Haden McCrorie and Dave Pinker started Yacht Services NZ last No-vember, which, among other things, spe-cialises in servicing superyachts. They say the number of extremely wealthy tour-ists coming to the region is set to explode and it could be worth millions to the local economy.The trio have in fact been so success-ful in getting superyachts to Nelson that Port Nelson is considering a reshuffle of the marina to accommodate them all and

Nelson Tasman Tourism is working with them to help bring more to the region.Haden, who grew up in Richmond, worked on a superyacht for eight years and his knowledge of what is needed by crew is such that he can tailor an entire visit for overseas guests. In the past few months he has worked with chefs to arrange gour-met food delivery, arranged hanger space for private jets at Nelson airport and even planned wine tours and accommodation for the guests. John admits they have been busier than they thought, thanks in part to a positive response they have received from agen-cies in Auckland who are now sending clients to Nelson and Marlborough. “This year there are as many superyachts in New Zealand as there were during the Ameri-ca’s Cup in 2003, and next year we know there is going to be more.”John and Haden refused to say if anyone famous had visited Nelson this summer, as privacy is a cornerstone to their success, but John did manage to tease. “They may not be household names but if you read the

Wall Street Journal you may have heard of some of them. Some guests we had looked after had their own Gulfstream G550 here in Nelson, go look up how much they are worth and you will have some idea of the money they have.”

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John. “The superyacht industry is pretty small and often it’s the crew that make decisions about where they are going and they talk with each other. They know Haden, or know of him, and when he says ‘why don’t you come down here’ they trust him. And they haven’t been let down, every single superyacht we’ve had here loved it.”The majority of the superyachts are owned by wealthy Americans, Europeans and Australians.Harbour master Dave Duncan says the arrival of multiple superyachts to Nelson is exciting for the region. “This is something new and some-thing that will be of massive benefit to Nelson financially so we are working hard to make that easier for them.”On top of the superyachts, another five adven-ture yachts have come to Nelson because of mar-keting by John, Haden and Dave.

“Not all of them used us but they all spend time in Nelson, bought groceries, bought fuel and used local businesses,” says John.They say the season will start earlier this year with the Rugby World Cup in September.John says support from the region has been great. “We’ve had a great working relationship with the port and the airport. We are working with local businesses in hospitality, painters, uphol-sters, rental car places and a lot of other busi-nesses that will benefit from this new industry,” says John.But Haden says it is not just the rich yacht own-ers that spend up large. Crew, at sea for months at a time, often have a week off once the guests leave, meaning they also want to explore the re-gion and they don’t mind spending. “You can’t spend your money at sea so when they land somewhere like Nelson, they go pretty hard.”

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Here at Waimea Weekly we encourage progress and contin-ued growth. Our region is at an exciting point in its life and it is important that development keeps up with demand from an ever-increasing population.However, while keeping one eye on the future it is also im-portant to keep our feet firmly planted and know who we are and where we come from. Our heritage and history is as important as our future.So when a 100 year-old oak tree, that has become an iconic part of our landscape, is cut down we need to ask questions. It is the Weekly’s belief that we

are sometimes too quick to lose our history because of a com-paratively small inconvenience. The Holy Trinity Church says it debated whether to cut the tree down or not for two years and has offered all sorts of reasons for its demise, including need-ing the space for a new build-ing, that it was unsafe anyway and that it would even improve the view. This has all been in an attempt, in our opinion, to “snow” parishioners and the wider public. We tried to contact the church five times over five days before last week’s article was printed. We called so they could provide com-

ments for its parishioners and the wider public, through the newspaper. But they were not returned, despite making clear why we were calling.While a tree is only a tree, it is important that we in 50 years will still recognise our town, while continuing to strive for greater services to its people. For example, well done to the Grace Church for build-ing around its ancient trees and preserving our iconic and much-loved heritage when it decided to build. It’s a shame your lead wasn’t followed by other churches.Editor.

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CLASSIC CAR: If you’ve walked down Queen St in the past week and noticed something differ-ent, don’t worry, so did we. This 1959 Plymouth Sports Fury was lifted through the window of Heyward Realty last week. Photo: Steve Page.

Shoppers ask: how on earth did that get there?An empty space proved inspirational for local businesswoman Lydia Heyward. A vacant, and currently available, retail area be-low Lydia’s real estate company on Queen St Rich-mond is now home to her husband’s 1959 Plym-outh Sports Fury.Lydia says this has proved to be a good adver-tising opportunity for her husband’s business, Heyward Rod’s and Restorations. The business restores classic cars such as the Sports Fury.The car was found in a disused car yard in Amer-ica and was imported to New Zealand and re-

stored in Nelson. “It’s such a nice colour and it fits in nicely and this is all a bit of fun,” says Lydia.Last week the car was backed up to the window of Heyward Realty by using Phill Nicholls’ Auto hydro deck and it was then lowered into the shop.“He just backed the truck up to the window, slid the deck through and then the car could just drive off it.”Lydia says she and her staff have already fielded a lot of comments about the car - most wondering how the car found itself to be inside.

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Free internet at your local library is set to continue after the Tasman District Council extended the agreement with its provider. The partnership agreement between the TDC and the Aotearoa Peoples Network Kaharoa (ANPK), the central gov-ernment authority that provides free broadband internet ac-cess in libraries, has recently been extended.The partnership provides access to computers, training and broadband internet access in public libraries in return for a small contribution by the council. In confirming the decision Tasman mayor Richard Kempthorne says the arrangement has delivered a number of social and financial benefits to the communities that host public libraries. “It has, however, been the subject of public comment in the past few months particularly about its effect on the competitiveness of local internet cafes.” To take ac-

count of the benefits to the whole community the partnership provides a number of conditions that must be met, the most significant being that there will be no obstruction to free ac-cess for anyone. “If the council chose not to continue with this arrangement the council would have to fund what has become an expected feature of Tasman libraries to the tune of $300,000 annually, in addition to the ongoing maintenance and renewal costs of the hardware” says Richard.In supporting the renewal of this partnership the council has taken account of the increased expectations of the commu-nity regarding access to broadband. They have also looked at the positive effects the facility has provided in the form of increased overall library patronage, the ongoing costs that would become the council’s and ratepayers’ responsibility, and the likelihood of further provision of broadband access by public and private providers.

Free internet at library looks set to continueEmergency services remain reasonably quiet over weekendThe past week has been relatively quiet for the re-gion’s rural fire forces.Sunday morning saw the Richmond brigade at-tend a vegetation fire after receiving a call from local police.Chief fire officer Ralph Lonsdale says a cabbage tree was on fire by Raeward Fresh at around 5.20am and was quickly extinguished by the crew. “It’s very interesting because there are not many people about at that time.”Another vegetation fire on Cropp Pl in Rich-mond on Monday night saw the police involved. A call was received at 6.30pm and had Ap-pleby, Brightwater and Richmond attend. It was discovered some-one had lit a camp fire in the forest without a permit. Brightwater Rural Fire Force controller Mark Donaldson says every-one should have a per-mit when lighting fires in rural areas. “This guy was escorted out of the forest and was dealt with by police.”The Wakefield Rural Fire Force attended a truck fire on Monday morning. “The truck driver had extinguished it by the time we got there though,” says deputy chief fire officer Simon Ladley. Meanwhile, police made several arrests last week-end. On Saturday, April 2, a 37 year-old Richmond woman was arrested for possessing an offensive weapon in a domestic incident and a Richmond man was arrested for breach of his bail conditions.

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field recently.

Kozue Kanai, Anne Hohmeister and David Grant at the WineFest at Waimea Estate.

Steve and Bob Jayes. at Waimea Estates.

Jean Jackson, Pamela Banks, Sum-mer Jamieson and Vivienne Chan-dler at Waimea Estate last Sunday.

Former Richmond girl Nikki Penn married Englishman Mark Webb last month on the beach at Little Kaiteri.

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This week the Out & About camera stopped in at Waimea Estate for the Wine Fest. We found several groups of people enjoying the dull afternoon to-gether with a glass of wine or coffee. The camera was also at the Arthur Wakefield recently and snapped a couple of locals enjoying a beverage or two. On Friday we caught up with a few children at Richmond Playcen-tre’s fundraising disco. A few parents were spotted as they relaxed watching the band entertaining their children. While waiting for fish n chips on Friday night the camera went next door to the Sprig & Fern and caught up with a few people having end of the week drinks. Remember, if you’re throwing a party or hosting an event, let us know, we love to get Out & About. Phone 544-9037 or email [email protected].


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WEDDING EXTRAVAGANZA: Jorja Ayers, 6, and Kay Peterson took part in the recent wedding dress extravaganza organised by St David’s Presby-terian Church in Richmond to raise funds for the victims of the Christch-urch earthquake. The event raised $1620.

LIFETIME MEMBERS: Tapawera’s Stuart Bryant and Appleby’s Graeme Taylor were presented with life membership awards at last week’s A & P Assoication AGM. Photo: Teresa Hattan.

The A & P Association and the show it holds every year has been a part of the Tasman district for 118 years. Two of its committee members haven’t been around that long, but between them have put in over 50 years worth of service for the association.Stuart Bryant and Graeme Taylor were last week presented with life memberships for the time and effort they have given the local group.Stuart has been coming to A & P shows for 50 years and has been a committee member for 21 of those years, continuing on the tradition laid out by

his father, Barry Bryant, who was also involved in the association. Both Stuart and Graeme have been president a number of times over the years.Graeme has been involved since the late 1970s and was one of the youngest presidents at the time.Both men say being awarded a life membership has been one of the highlights of their time with the A & P Association.This year’s show is taking place on November 19 and 20.

Richmond's Joel Tyrie has just missed out on opening for Good Charlotte in his first ever concert since joining Recommended By Your Mom, the region's most promising pop punk band.Recommended By Your Mom entered a com-petition on radio station ZM to open for hit US band Good Charlotte at the ITM400 in Hamilton. The four piece band reached the top three af-ter the public got to vote from a top ten se-lected by ZM. Good Charlotte then chose the winner on Friday morning, which ended up being Auckland band Atlanta Fall.The opening slot in front of thousands of roar-ing fans as well as opening for one of the most popular pop punk bands on the planet came

right down to the wire.The former Waimea College student was asked to join Rec-

ommended By Your Mom by fellow members Matthew Johnston and brothers Josh and Sam Edmonds, who Joel attends NMIT with. Joel was upbeat despite missing out because their band had received more publicity “then they could buy” from making the top three. Fresh off a South Island tour with Kids of 88, Joel has joined the hot act swimming in mo-mentum. “It's like wow these guys are actually getting out there and doing it. They're playing shows which is what I want to be doing," says Joel.Since competing at the regional final of Smokefreerockquest in 2009, Joel knew being a musician is all he ever wanted to do. “If I can play music as my job for the rest of my life then I'll die happy."Joel has an eclectic style of music but has warmed to the “party punk” genre that the band has brought out of him.Now that he is up to speed with their songs, Joel and Recommended By Your Mom have

been working on new material for an upcoming al-bum.The four piece group is also looking at form-ing a cover band under a new name to perform cover songs at local bars and events.


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It’s the people aspect that has kept local podiatrist Malcolm Swindon coming back for more.Malcolm is currently basing himself out of the Richmond Recreational Centre on Cam-bridge St.After living between the UK and Christchurch for a num-ber of years Malcolm has fi-nally made Nelson his home.Malcolm says unlike a den-tist, being a podiatrist makes it easier to talk to patients. “While they’re having their feet done they can’t do much else so we’ll sit and have a conversation.”Malcolm deals with a lot of sports injuries, in particular running problems.Runners are a different breed of athlete all together accord-ing to Malcolm. “With run-ners you find that it’s more of a mental need to run because if you’ve got the drive to do the sport then that’s more im-portant to them than the feet, so I’m constantly treating the feet to keep them going.”After spending 30 years as a podiatrist Malcolm says he

has seen a large variety of feet. “I treat a lot of verrucas and one of the worst cases I’ve seen was a guy had not just one or two but all over his feet, about 70 percent of his feet were totally covered with one massive verruca.

“He wanted them burnt out, he desperately wanted them out so he was resorting to desperate measures. I used homeopathy and that cleared him up in two weeks, that’s the worst case of verrucas I’ve ever seen and that was

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Women loose all for charityHope woman Gillian Kolk only had a week to pre-pare. The brave lady, who works in the medical unit at Nelson Hospital, lost all her hair last Fri-day as part of Shave for a Cure. Gillian and sev-eral other Richmond women including Michelle Faulkner, Deidre Karl and Iris Greene, took part in the hair shaving at work last week. More than $1500 was quickly raised from other hospital staff.


Richmond historian Peter Kearns delves into yet another slice of local history.This Richmond complex developed initially from an old derelict house that had caught fire and at the time in about 1980 the local fire brigade wondered whether it was worth saving. Fortunately for Tony and Marion Smith it was res-cued and they plied their energies in to converting the house built by the Wilkes family around 1894 in to a very attractive colonial style restaurant.At the time Tony and Marion had made a decision to leave Auckland and set up a restaurant in either Kaitaia or Nel-son. Following much journeying around and appropriate research Nelson was found to have minimal eating houses other than those connected to a hotel and so they saw this as an obvious market potential. Tony, originally from the West Coast, spent his early working years training as a builder and having been in-volved in designing and building several restaurants he thought it was time to try his hand at making something he did with flair. After some haggle over planning with

the local authority the direction he would take was Old World charm style and achieve this he did. The restaurant soon became very popular, but one would wonder how it was ever possible, the house was literally internally gutted. The house had been built as a standard working class fam-ily home, there was nothing fancy about it and over the years some of the rooms had been altered. Original dou-ble hung windows at the front were retained and added were two kauri jams on either side to form the bay win-dows. Throughout the project the Smith’s concentrated on using materials and furnishings from Nelson and the West Coast. Some materials were sourced from the old Nelson post office, as were the kauri front doors and heart rimu stair rails that adorn the bar. The solid kauri bar top came from this source also. Fortunately the house was structurally sound with brick piles that made the work much easier. From the West Coast and Nelson two ornate fire places were installed and which in the winter months made the building very cosy for diners. Considerable efforts from numerous West Coast contacts enabled Tony to wood panel the main dining room and although cedar it proved to be done very cheaply in that the wood was sourced from a firm about to go bankrupt. There were fancy tim-ber scrolls supporting the picture rails and these came from the Kosy Corner tea shop in Tahuna, subsequently replaced by the Kentucky Fried complex.An old Motueka insurance building was where the slates used in the front entrance porch were sourced. The old wooden stools dotted around the veranda came from Greymouth. For the shingles that clad the exterior Tony used white pine which were milled in Ahaura (West Coast). Tony’s father adopted an old fashioned method

of soaking the shingles in a special solution and splitting them by hand. In keeping with the house’s new found character a picket fence was added.The Smith’s decided to name the restaurant after Arthur Wakefield because he had been such an integral part of the area’s history.This was how the Arthur Wakefield first presented itself to the public at large; it was sold to Ross Williams and Fred

Gear in 1985 who in turn added a twenty unit two storey motel complex. Mr and Mrs Murray Pope later purchased it from the latter and to this day there have been several ownership changes.Tony indeed was an entrepreneur and later set up Flinders on Hardy restaurant which later became the present Lone Star, and earlier also had quite an involvement in develop-ing Robinson’s range of juices in Stoke.It was with real sadness when Tony passed away about five years ago and so then was lost this man that a had a ”flair” for business opportunities.

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MAKE MUSIC $69Guitar: Beginners & Intermediate classes Wednesday evenings from 11 May for 8 weeks. Learn to play, dust off rusty skills or move your playing up a level with experienced music teacher Mike Gough.Ukulele: Beginners & Intermediate classes, Have fun with this easy-to-learn musical instrument. Thurs 6.30-7.30pm & 7.30-8.30pm from 12 May for 8 weeks, Mike Gough.

MAKE ClOTHES & ACCESSOrIES $79Pattern Making: 6.30-8.30pm Mon 9 May 4 weeks. Let Larisse Hall share her commercial pattern drafting experience to create basic skirt, pant, top, dress patterns. Sewing: Beginners & Improvers weekends 14-15 May & 28-29 May, Margy Meys.Bead Jewellery: Design & create necklaces, earrings & bracelets. 6.30-8.30pm Tues 10 May, 6 weeks, Judith McColl.

MAKE FOOD, WINE & PErSONAl PrODUCTS $55-$99World on a Plate Cooking: Covers a range of dishes from Indian, Thai, Middle Eastern, Spanish/Mexican, SE Asian. 7-9pm Mon 23 May, 5 weeks, Jocelyn Winter.

Winemaking: Tap into Peter Heppell’s life-time passion and practical knowledge to make your own labelled fruit wines 7-9pm Thurs 12 May, 8 weeks.

Preening & Cleaning: Wed 7-8.30pm, 4 weeks from 11 May. Create your own eco-friendly products for personal & household use. Includes moisturiser, soap, air and carpet freshener. Sandra Johnson guarantees ideas to reduce the use of chemicals.

Rave raiser to get teens to Hillary Challenge

UP FOR THE CHALLENGE: Garin College Year 12 students Joel MacManus, 16, and Nick Allison, 17, are holding a Rave Wave Rock Fest at the ASB Aquatic Centre this Friday. Photo: Teresa Hattan.

Two young Garin College students have had a taste of concert management – and they like it.Joel MacManus, 16, and Nick Allison, 17, are fundraising so they can attend the Hillary Challenge, the top secondary school adventure race in Australasia, next month.Costs are quite high so the boys have had to come up with an inventive way to raise the money, and so the Rave Wave Rock Fest was born. The event is being held in conjunction with the ASB Aquatic Centre in Richmond this Friday and is for eight to 14 year-olds. “It’s going to be one of the biggest wave rave’s in a long time; we’re aiming to break the record,” says Nick.

Those planning on attending can expect a wide variety of bands including Parachill, which has the Rock Quest best instrumentalist Clark Hinton in it. Georgia Knott, who is in Peasants of Eden, will be performing, along with Keiran O’Connor from Waimea Intermediate School.“It’s going to be a big pool party basically, it’ll be a really big event for kids,” says Joel.A portion of the ticket sales will be helping Joel and Nick on their way to the Hillary Challenge.The Rave Wave Rock Fest kicks off this Friday from 7pm to 9pm with presale tickets at $7.50 and available from the pool or from some school offices, or $10 at the door. A limited number of tickets are available.

MOVING: NZCU South staff members Jess McLean, Debbie Atkinson and Angela Cheruseo get ready to push manager Jill Jenkins up to their new premises. NZCU South will be moving next month from 250 Queen St to 212 Queen St. Jill says this is because they have outgrown the current building. Staff are looking forward to moving into a bigger and brighter building. “Everyone’s looking forward to it, we’ll have much more space,” says Jill. The same friendly staff will be able to help you at the new office from May 9, they’ll just be up the road a few metres. Photo: Teresa Hattan.


Women’s expo tickets go to two lucky ladiesAll it took was once click of the mouse.Two lucky followers of the Waimea Weekly’s facebook page were re-warded for their dedication with two Women’s Lifestyle Expo tickets last week.Frances Gaffney and Marney Kel-ling were able to attend the expo for free after going onto our facebook page and ‘liking’ the expo post. Both ladies say they were thrilled

with their win and were looking forward to getting along to the event when they collected their tickets. From time to time the Waimea Weekly facebook page, which can be found by searching facebook for Waimea Weekly, will be giving away tickets to events like the expo. It is also a place where we upload extra photos from events we attend. So like the Waimea Weekly, you never know what you could win.

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LAWYERS: Manager Peter Riley, Michael Ducray, Graham Allan, Kelly McDonald and Stephen Sansom are excited to be opening the Richmond Community Law Clinic, a free legal clinic at the Richmond Recreational Centre. Photo: Teresa Hattan.

Free legal advice in Richmond will soon be here.Nelson Bays Community Law say they are de-lighted to announce that starting next month they will be offering a free legal clinic at the Richmond Recreational Centre on Cambridge St in Richmond. The service will be every oth-er Monday beginning May 2 from 6pm – 8pm. This clinic will be staffed by a roster of volun-teer lawyers including Craig Morice, Rout Mil-ner Fitchett and Michael Ducray from Property Law Centre, Graham Allan from Pitt and Moore, Sally Gepp, Duncan Cotterill and Sarah Fitchett from Stevens Orchard Lawyers and Steven San-som from Richmond Law. This new legal clinic is part of the Nelson Bays Community Law mis-sion to provide legal information, assistance and

advice to those who cannot afford a lawyer and find it difficult to come into the Nelson office. As a guideline, everyone will be entitled to an ini-tial meeting in order to obtain legal information. For those requiring on-going legal assistance the lawyers are expected to primarily serve those cli-ents who have a household income of less than $40,000 per year. The clinic’s main areas of work include employ-ment, debt, family issues, ACC and WINZ ben-efits, immigration, consumer issues, Dispute Tribunal claims, traffic offences and tenancy dis-putes. Call 548-1288 for an appointment. The Richmond Legal Clinic is in addition to the Stoke Legal Clinic which takes place every other Thursday 6pm – 8pm at 44 Karaka Street.

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I enjoy a nice fresh hot cross bun, although sometimes the pleasure of biting onto that tempting bun brings disap-pointment when they just don’t taste as good as they look or as they should. Last week both my wife and I brought home a packet of hot cross buns as a treat, both knowing that each other enjoy hot cross buns, but not know-ing the other had the same plan. Before long the discussion came up which bakery made the best hot cross buns, which bakery still put in all that tasty fruit and spices.No longer just a treat at East-er, now hot cross buns seem to be baked year round; even chocolate flavoured ones can be found.It is said that hot cross buns date back to 1733, and are eaten on Good Friday as an Easter tradition that is especially asso-ciated with Britain, although it has spread elsewhere. In the nineteenth century they were sold by street vendors who were so commonplace that they inspired a song which has now become a children's nursery

rhyme:Hot cross buns! Hot cross Buns!One a penny, two a pennyHot cross buns…So what does make a good hot cross bun? Well I’m sure many g r a n d m o t h e r s have a special rec-ipe handed down from her grand-mother that in her family’s eyes just can’t be beaten, and a local bakery recently advertised that they make the best hot cross buns in town, no doubt causing some de-bate. Putting aside our taste buds and tra-ditions about hot cross buns, and thinking about the Easter story that dates back even long-er than hot cross buns, to a time when there was a real cross, a real sacrifice and an amazing love, a time so powerful that is remembered throughout gen-erations. Thinking about hot cross buns and even Easter eggs, do we get carried away with things that

maybe just aren’t so important, and don’t really think about things that make life, things that do change generations.As we approach Easter, our shops will greet us with Easter eggs, hot cross buns, we will be hit with advertising Easter sales, Easter holiday opportunities and so on, but will this encour-

age us to stop and consider why Easter is celebrated, what is the meaning be-hind the cross, why we call Easter Fri-day, Good Friday and why the cross has such meaning to Christians. The cross that you see outside or on our local churches is a symbol of why we celebrate Easter, when God through

His amazing grace, provided a Saviour. On Good Friday our local churches come together for a combined Easter service from 9.30am on Good Friday held at Richmond Baptist, why not come along and reflect on something more important than hot cross buns as the mes-sage behind the cross will last longer than the taste of your fa-vourite bun.


After being absent from the paper I’m back. With all the calf sales now behind us, tomorrow we will be holding an open cattle sale, all classes of stock are welcome from calves through to adults - prime and stores, however you must contact your stock agent to book them in. Last week’s Brightwater sale again had some great results. Prime lamb’s up to $1.45, middle cut from $110 to $120. Big fat old ewes up to $120, medium $90 to $110. Store lambs are becoming increasingly hard to find, with limited number now

coming through the yards. Best of the store lambs sold in the mid $90 bracket. I can always gauge when the fat lamb price is too

good to turn down, when the pet lambs start coming through. One way ticket for them unfortunately. We broke a record last week with a prime angus steer, fetching a whopping $1640. We will be

holding weekly Wednesday sales at Brightwater for the next couple of months. Ring your agent or contact me on 03-544-0777 or 027-432-2566 for more information.

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Woman delighted to win BBQ thanks to Westmeat

LUCKY WINNER: Redwood Valley resident Erica Lynch, left, was the lucky winner of a BBQ last week thanks to a Westmeat promotion. Erica is presented her BBQ by Westmeat retail manager Lynley Tainui. Photo: Teresa Hattan.

If you get invited to Erica Lynch’s place for a BBQ soon, you’ll know why.The lucky Redwood Valley resident was the winner of a brand new barbeque thanks to local butchers Westmeat last week.Erica says she was delighted and very surprised when she got the call from Westmeats to say she had won her new toy.“I love Westmeat, with their cheap prices and their good product, so when I got the call, just hours after being in the store and entering, to say I had won I was very surprised.”Erica had purchased a pack of ice creams to get herself in the draw.Retail manager Lynley Tainui says Westmeat love giving away things like BBQs and Erica was able to enter the draw after purchasing a product from their new line of Emma Jane, which make frozen desserts and pies.Erica says she isn’t normally a lucky person and is looking forward to using her new BBQ. “It’s a brilliant thing to win, it’ll certainly make next summer much more enjoyable.”

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Richmond dance crew Origin made the finals at the SDNZ national championships over the weekend. There were 17 varsity teams competing in the preliminaries on Friday night and from there 10 team went through to the Saturday night finals round. Origin are the only South Island team to have made finals in the five years the competition has been running according to the team’s coach Gemma Laing. Origin danced in

the Saturday night finals to a sold out crowd at the Bruce Mason Centre in Takapuna, Auckland and the feedback from the judges about the performance was that it was energetic, powerful and Origin are a very strong team. “In the opening ceremony it was awesome to see Origin dancer Ashleigh Compton carry the plaque for Origin and also representing the South Island,” says Gemma.

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Expressions of interest are invited from suitably experienced people for a fixed term part time contract to provide Enviroschools facilitation services in Nelson.Service providers are expected to be experienced facilitators, with knowledge and understanding of the principles of sustainability, and preferably experience working in school environments. Specific training in the Enviroschools programme will be provided.Interested parties should provide information on their relevant experience by Wednesday 27 April to:

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ALL IN: Lisa and Andrew Stevenson of Fowler Homes live and breathe their business and have been involved in the area for the past eight years. The couple are excited about the official opening of the show home on Daelyn Ave on April 17. Lisa and Andrew say they get a lot of repeat business and are always available if a client has a question.

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The Fowler Homes show home is all completed and looking great, they are opening its doors to the public this Sunday.Lisa and Andrew Stevenson have been running Fowler Homes for eight years and say they live and breathe the company.The husband and wife team say they can design and build a home for real living.It’s the personal touch that Lisa and Andrew bring to the whole building process that adds to the uniqueness of their business.“What we bring to the market, is that we are owned and run by Lisa and myself and it has been from the very beginning, it has always been a husband and wife team,” says Andrew.“People are still really passion-ate and focused on that personal touch.”Andrew has been a builder all his life and he built the show home on Daelyn Ave himself.“I came out of the office and physi-cally built the show home. We did that for a number of reasons and one is so that when we’re actually

here selling it I can say I actually built it, I’m a builder not just a salesman.”The couple are thrilled they are able to provide this great point of difference to their clients.“You only deal with us, that’s what a lot of people who have built with us say, that it’s so good be-cause they’re not ringing an office and getting put on to this person or that person, we’re the one stop shop. We’re accountable,” says Lisa. “We have built this with family in mind, we designed the home as we would live. With three chil-dren ourselves we concentrated on that, our space, their space, and with our girls wanting to move in, I would say the design matched the brief, our brief ” says Lisa.The whole process has been a lot of fun for the couple, who say that building a home doesn’t need to be stressful.“That’s the thing everyone enjoys when they’ve built with us. People going into it say it’s stressful but we say there is no reason for it to be. We deal with the stress and you en-joy it.”

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Building a home is a personal experience and Lisa says relationships have been formed with their cli-ents in the past. The couple have attended weddings, birthdays and other celebrations for people they have built homes for.Andrew says building a home from scratch is a big thing in someone’s life.“It’s big financially and it’s a commitment we take very seriously.” All of the Fowler Homes sub contractors and suppli-ers are fantastic according to Lisa and Andrew. “They’ve been with us for the eight years as well. With most of the people advertising within this fea-ture we’re loyal to them and they’re very loyal to us and they see our clients right. They follow our way and are always available for us and our clients. Be-tween us and our contractors we really do offer a full service, from helping our clients find the right sec-tion through to full interior design. I help 90% of our clients with interior design, I have even helped on

move-in day to arrange furniture!” says Lisa. This is all part of the Fowler Homes full service, you won’t have to pay for an interior designer when building the them. Lisa is more than happy to visit clients cur-rent homes to see how they live and to view their fur-nishings to make sure all their favourite pieces can have pride of place in their new home.The builders have also been with Fowler Homes for eight years. “You get quality because we know them and we have a good relationship with them, one of our longest standing builders helped Andrew build the show home.”Lisa says she and Andrew are starting to see clients come back for a second home. “We get lots of repeat business and referrals.” Fowler Homes is a national brand and is respected throughout the country.“People in Nelson ask ‘who are they and what are they?’ We’re not a franchise; we’re a joint venture so we run this. We pass on our buying power through

the national brand to our cli-ents,” says Lisa.Both Lisa and Andrew love what they do.“We’re seriously passionate about it, it’s our life really,” says Andrew.“Our girls often say ‘don’t you talk about anything else?’ We have our own purpose and our own jobs so often we do get home and have to collate what we’ve both done during the day with regards to certain

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clients. We will sit and discuss it at night,” says Lisa.“It has it’s uniqueness, living 24/7 with each oth-er,” adds Andrew.So there is no need for organised staff meetings in the Stevenson household, as this can easily be done over the breakfast table.“We tried it [organised meetings] but it was

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“We’re not saying that so we can over spend it, if we know their budget we can tell them what they can have. We find this the most important starting point when designing a home. If we know what they want to spend, the clients needs, proposed size, we can design a home within that figure. Talking square metre rate is a thing of the past, we talk about how we can give our clients what they want within their budget, we can help them make the correct choices so there will be no blow outs.” Going over budget is the thing that is most con-cerning for those building a house.“With us you don’t do it unless you want to do it,” says Andrew.Transparency is important to how Lisa and An-drew run their business.Fowler Homes can provide plans, but Andrew says the company basically designs and builds for every client, giving that personal touch to some-

one’s dream home. Looking at proposed section choices with clients helps us all choose the per-fect house design for their section, views, sun and lifestyle.The official opening of the Fowler Homes show home is this Sunday, April 17, from 1pm to 4pm on Daelyn Ave, Richmond. After this, the open-ing hours of the show home are Sunday to Friday 1pm to 4pm.

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Ladybug1. Body:Make a medium sized ball and flatten the bottom.2. Head:Make a small ball and press it onto one end of the body. Use a drop of water to help it stick if needed.3.Wings:Make a small ball and flatten it to make a flat circle. Cut the circle in half. Press half of the circle onto one side of the ladybug’s body and the other half onto the other half of the body. Spread them open a bit over the body so the body is showing between the two half circles. For the spots on the wings, make 6 tiny balls, flatten them to make tiny circles and press them onto the wings.4.Legs:Roll out 6 thin, short snakes and press them under the body.5.Mouth:Take a plastic knife and indent into the center of the head for an open mouth.6.Eyes:Make 2 tiny balls, flatten them to make tiny circles and press them onto the head. Make 2 more tiny balls for pupils and lightly press them on top of the flattened circles.

Playdough RecipeThis is the plunket recipe for playdough. It lasts a long time if stored in an airtight container. Make sure you watch very young ones playing with this, as you don’t want them to eat it due to the high salt content. Prep time: 10 minutesIngredients:2 1/2 cups white flour1/2 cup salt2 tablespoons cream tartar2 cups boiling water2 tablespoons oilCouple drops of food colouringDirections:Mix flour, with salt and cream tartar in a bowl. Add boiling water and oil plus a couple drops of food colouring. Mix quickly then knead on a floured board until firm. Add extra flour if sticky. Store in an airtight container.

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First Man: What’s the difference between a lemon, a dinosaur and a tube of glue?Second Man: I give up.First Man: You can squeeze a lemon, but you can’t squeeze a dinosaur.Second Man: What about the glue ?First Man: That’s where you get stuck.

What did the man say when he saw the dinosaurs coming down the path wearing sunglasses?Nothing! He didn’t recognise them.

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MURAL PAINTER: Waimea College head of art Shaun Oughton spent a few weeks last year painting a mural for First Years Richmond. He had help from several Year 10 students who working on the project as part of the school’s Education for Enterprise. Centre staff say they appreciate everything Shaun has done for them. Photo: Teresa Hattan.

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School Holiday Fun!Fun activities for these school holidays

Q. Why is a banana skin on the pavement like a piano? A. Because if you don’t C-sharp you will B-flat. Q. Why did the jellybean go to school? A. Because it wanted to be a smartie. Q. Why did the blonde lady stare at the juice for ages? A. Cause it said “concentrate” Q. What can you serve but can’t eat? A. A tennis ball Q. Why did the turtle cross the road? A. Because he had to get to the shell station Q. Where do bees go to the toilet A. To the BP station


SECOND PLACE: Waimea College students, from left, Marcelle Hecker, Monique Shulz, Ben Murton and Harrison Carver were part of the school’s sailing team to compete in the South Island Secondary Schools Team Sailing Championships in Picton late last month. The team, which also included Harry Just, Daniel Shulz and Kieran Andrews, placed second in the silver fleet. Photo: Colin Just.

MOTORSPORT: Wakefield’s Ben Hunt competed in his first round of the Brian Green Property Group Ral-ly New Zealand Rally Championship over the week-end, taking part in the Drive South Rally of Otago. Ben placed 15th overall and came away with maximum points towards the championship.

SPORTS EXCHANGE: Today Garin College are holding their annual sports exchange with Golden Bay High School. Senior boys and senior girls football and senior A netball will be played at the school this af-ternoon. A rugby game is also being played in Buller. Teachers expect the games to be a good pre season hit-out for both schools. FOOTBALL: Waimea Intermediate student Callan Elliot, 11, is one of four Nelson intermediate-aged children selected for a national training centre later this month. Callan is part of a 20-strong South Island selection that have been earmarked for the 2015 FIFA under-17 World Cup in Chile. Standouts from the training centre will join up with the cream of the crop from Auckland and Wellington training squads.

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Seventh heaven for Richmond AthleticAnother rout, another win. A second half floury saw Richmond Athletic smash Nelson Suburbs first XI 7-0 at Saxton Field on Saturday.Richmond were expecting a bigger challenge against Suburbs' development side, after opening the season with a 11-0 drubbing of FC Nelson Metro. And they got exactly that in the opening 25 minutes, with Suburbs getting the better of the opportunities. Some goal mouth scramble saving two shots off the line early on, but two goals before the break broke the deadlock and from then on it was smooth sailing for Richmond.Sam Mason-Smith, Wesley Olea and Ben Wright made their chances count while Jordan Yong was at his weaving best and was the architect in the majority of their attacking plays. Richmond was given plenty of time on the ball and ran riot through the midfield, while a steady back four held the side together.

Captain Joe Green says the unheralded duo of former Nelson Suburbs center-back Matt Shaw and Daryl Fenemor have impressed in the early rounds while their fellow strikers shine in the limelight. “I think Matt should just get better and better. They've done brilliantly,” says Joe.Waimea College student Fox Slotemaker was the standout for the home side, but they lacked the creative edge and mongrel in the middle of the park that they showed in the pre-season tournament.Richmond will host last year's runners up Marlborough Mariners this weekend at Jubilee Park. Lively winger Davi Goncalves Maciel is expected to be fit to face his former club after missing Saturday's clash with an ankle injury. The game kicks off at 3pm.Richmond have drawn Marlborough away in the opening round of the Chatham Cup which will be played on May 14 and 15.

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TOO BIG TOO STRONG: Richmond Athletic captain Joe Green faces Nelson Suburbs 1st XI playmaker Ross McPhie, 14, in their Nelson Pine Industries first division win on the weekend. Photo: Phillip Rollo.

TEEBALL: Waimea Intermediate’s Holly Donaldson, 11, takes part in t-ball as part of the summer sports tournament organised by the local intermediate schools. Photo: Teresa Hattan.

Summer tournamentIntroducing new sports to the area’s young people was the task at hand, and participants seemed to lap up the day out of the classroom. Last week’s intermediate school’s summer tournament went well for Waimea Intermediate, with the Diamonds gaining first place equal with the Waimea Intermediate Cobras in t-ball. A wide range of sports were played by children from six different schools from around the area, including golf, softball, t-ball, ripper rugby, touch, lawn bowls, mountain biking, orienteering, volleyball, tennis, indoor cricket and croquet.

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Netball 2011Netball – Give it a go Teams have been selected and players are preparing to hit the courts for the 2011 netball season. Over 200 teams compete at the Nelson Netball Centre both on the outdoor courts at Saxton Fields Sports Complex and also indoors in the Saxton Stadium. The 2011 winter season is set to leap into action this weekend with the annual Geraldine Hodgson pre-season club tournament, providing teams with the opportunity to get back on the courts for competitive play prior to the beginning of the 2011 competition. Opening night for the Premier grade will be Thursday 5 May from 6pm. Games between the top teams in our region will be played in the Saxton Stadium every Thursday providing you with the perfect opportunity to watch Nelson’s top netballers battle it out. Saturday netball kicks off on May 7 for all senior,

collegiate and junior teams and continues through to the second weekend of September.Future Ferns Netball is aimed at players aged 8 to 10 years and encourages participation with emphasis on fun safety and development appropriate to the age and ability of the players. Year 6 Future Fern teams will start playing on Saturday May 14. Year 4 and 5 Future Fern teams start after school on Wednesday May 18.Encouraging our youngsters to experience netball is something that Nelson Netball does well with the Future Fern and Fun Fern programmes. Fun Ferns is an open programme offering boys and girls aged 4 to 8 years the opportunity to be involved in netball based skills sessions and fun games that are appropriate to their age levels. Fun Ferns will start on Tuesday May 31 and costs just $3 per session.

Trish Lowe has held the position of Development Manager for Nelson Netball Centre for the past nine years and over that time she has assisted, mentored and inspired countless of our youngsters and their coaches. One group of youngsters who have in turn inspired Trish are her ‘babies’, the Future Fern referees. Trish encourages some of our younger netball players to take up umpiring positions and provides them with support and training with a few of them still being active in umpiring games at a higher

level. “Having been in the position for a number of years, I get to see most of those little players who started in Future Ferns progress through the grades and some of them are now competing at Premier level which is awesome,” says Trish. Trish is available to help with training sessions at all levels, providing assistance with skills training and support for coaches. If you are currently coaching a team and would like a bit of assistance, don’t hesitate to call her at the Nelson Netball Centre.

Netball players from Senior grades right down to Future and Fun Ferns enjoy netball every week at the Saxton Fields Sports Complex.


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For those with a slightly less competitive nature who just love to play netball, many mixed social teams also participate in the Thursday night league and Wednesday morning netball.Like all organisations, Nelson Netball has a huge number of people and groups who volunteer behind the scenes to make every season a great one. The groups include the Nelson Netball Coaches Club, which aims to provide all coaches at the centre with development opportunities and running workshops for coaches. If you are interested in becoming involved in coaching, contact Trish.The Bench Officials group provides pathways for those who show interest in becoming a Bench Official. This involves score keeping, time keeping and statistics at local Premier level up to National and International level.The Nelson Netball Umpires Committee actively promotes and develops umpires and anyone interested in umpiring can contact them through Nelson Netball. Players and spectators will be sure to notice the big upgrades that have taken place at the Netball Centre ready for the 2011 season. A massive upgrade of the courts

has taken place and it’s looking pretty awesome with new drainage, resurfaced courts all painted up and ready to go, surrounded by smart new fencing.Last year was the first opportunity for Nelson Netball to utilise the magnificent facilities of the Saxton Stadium, allowing for regular games to be played indoors regardless of the weather outside. Having Saxton Stadium available has proved beneficial to netball fans in our region, allowing us to recently host the Lois Muir Challenge. This tournament, originally planned to be held in Christchurch, brought top quality netballers from across the country to Nelson and the Stadium proved to be a perfect venue.For any information about local netball, visit www.nelsonnetball.co.nz or contact the Nelson Netball Centre on 547 4450 or email Leanne Russ, Administration Manager at [email protected]

A Nelson Netball Intermediate Camp will be held on 26 to 28 April for all Yr 7 and 8 netballers. Come and Learn netball skills from top coaches. Phone Trish on 547 4450

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The Waimea Old Boys senior A and B squads have gotten off to a stellar start, se-curing another two wins over the weekend despite travelling over the Moutere’s to get them.The Super Liquor Waimea Old Boys Bs had an ugly win over Huia at Sports Park Motueka over the weekend, but the score line wouldn’t tell you that, with WOB coming away with a 29-7 win.Bs coach Nick Marquet says his boys blew quite a few extra tries throughout the game and this probably came down to handling errors.“Huia are a reasonable team so we were happy enough to get the win.”There will be a couple of things the red and white will be working on this week, espe-cially the basic stuff.“We don’t want to be getting ahead of ourselves because we have the pressure to score early but we’ll make the most of every opportunity,” says Nick.A converted try on full time sealed the deal for the travelling team, who now have a home game at Jubilee Park against Marist this weekend from 1.15pm.The Bs met Marist in the final last year

so this hit up could be quite the grudge match.“We got beat last year so a few of the guys will be using that as motivation but we won’t be looking too much into it.”The boys are looking to win the first round cup and the game this Saturday could be a bit of a decider, so get your red and white on and head to Jubilee Park to support your local rugby side in their attempts to win their first title of the season.The Stables Tavern Waimea Old Boys As came closer to being on the other side of the table this week, just holding off Huia 22-17.Coach Mark Milne says the weekend’s game was a big improvement on the previ-ous week. “We stuck to our plan but some of it we didn’t quite execute, the error rate was a bit high.”Despite this, Mark says he and the other coaches were generally happy with the team’s performance and they were very happy to get the points.“It was great to score four tries but Huia kept coming at us,” says Mark.The team have plenty lots of things to work on this week at training according to Mark.“We missed too many tackles so we’ll be

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TWO ON ONE: Super Liquor Waimea Old Boys Bs player Michael Bates with the ball and Ben Jefferies in support against Huia on Saturday. Photos: Teresa Hattan.

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working on defence. We’ll also be making a bit of emphasis on the break down and trying to eliminate the handling errors.”Mark says it was great to see a few of the guys playing their first game for Waimea Old Boys senior A and a couple were even trying out new positions.“We’re still in the mode of experimenting.”Reasonable performances came from Trael Joass at second five where he had his first start and Todd Bavin at number seven also played well according to Mark.Acquiring two Japanese players has also paid off for Waimea Old Boys this year, with number eight Masa Toyota and Taiki Koyanagi on the wing giving the squad

plenty of pace.The As also have Marist this weekend at Jubilee Park and Mark says the assignment will be very tough.“They’re playing quite well from what I hear and their forwards are very strong but it’ll be nice to be back home.”The As have used the first round of com-petition as an experimental phase and will be hoping this pays off in rounds one and two.The squad have a few general injuries and will hopefully have one or two guys re-turning this week.The Stables Tavern Waimea Old Boys sen-ior A kick off against Marist at Jubilee Park

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READY TO GO: New Tapawera Area School teacher Janeen Sims and her children Evie, 10, and Guy, 15, get ready to compete in the inaugural Tapawera Area School’s Bike Challenge held ear-lier this month. Photo: Susan Fenemor.

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League team needs to bolster numbersEver thought about playing league? Well here’s your chance.The new Syn Media Wanderers Wolves rugby league team are on the look-out for players to add depth to their squad. They are also on the look out for supporters.Manager and trainer Stu Anderson says it’s great that rugby league in Nelson and Tasman has grown over the past couple of years. There are now seven teams in this year’s pre-mier competition, more than last year and more than premier rugby. Stu says this season there will be plenty of opportunity for league

players to go on to higher honours. Wolves players would also have the opportunity to trial for the Tasman Titans. The Wolves train twice a week, on Monday’s and Wednesday’s from 6.30pm to 8.30pm.Stu and the rest of the Wolves believe rugby league is an awesome game to play. “There’s plenty of room in league for the big guy and the little guy, there is a position in it for eve-ryone,” says Stu.If interested in playing league this year get in touch with Stu on 542-2137 or email [email protected].

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Way2Go WakefieldWakefield Over 50s Flexicise classes. Every Tuesday @ 11am $5 with a cuppa to follow. Contact Sue 539 4888 or [email protected] Wakefield Pilates classes Way2Go programme. Wednesdays @ 6pm $5. Contact Sue 539 4888 or [email protected] Richmond Recreation Centre Easy Beat Exercise Mondays & Fridays 9am to 10am $4. SHAPEUP Group fitness circuit Mondays & Fridays 10.30am to 11.30am $3. Walking Group meet 9.30 every Monday (Free). NEW Walking Circuit starting soon $3. CLUB50 social recreation group for older adults $2. 9 Cambridge Street, Richmond. Zumba Brightwater Hall Mon 6-7pm. Karate Brightwater Hall Mon 7.30-9pm. Over Fifties Flexicise Wakefield Village Hall Tues 11-12pm. Badminton Brightwater HallTues 6-8pm. Sewing Group Wakefield Village Hall Wed 9-12pm. Pilates Wakefield Village Hall Wed 6-7pm. Badminton Brightwater Hall Wed 6-8pm. Karate Wakefield School Hall Wed 7-9pm Zumba Wakefield Village Hall Thurs 6-7pm. Men’s Circuit Wakefield Village Hall Thurs 7.30-8.30pm. Phone 5443955Community Sing a LongWed 20 April 1.30 pm. Wesley Centre, 4 Wensley Rd Richmond. Gold coin donation for Hospital Chaplaincy. Afternoon tea. All Welcome.Nelson Social Dancing Club at Club Waimea, 8pm Sat 9 April. Ballroom, Latin, Rock ’n Roll and sequence dancing. Music provided by Perl. Members $8; non-members $12. Enquiries ph547 9085Community LunchYou are invited to lunch at 12pm on 21 April at St Johns, Edward Street, Wakefield. No charge although a gold coin donation is appreciated. RSVP to Brenda 541 9413Waimea Tramping ClubDay trips Sunday 10 April, Wainui Hut circuit from Canaan, medium, ph Robert 544 0142 or Donald 545 1339. Sunday 17 April, Champion Mine and Mt Malita circuit, medium/fit, ph Bob 548 2548 or Jocelyn 541 8213. Easter weekend 22-25 April, Karamea day trips, ph Maria 541 8598Firewood FundraiserRabbit Island Forest The Forest is open for public firewood collection as follows: Sat 16 Sun 17 April , Sat 23r April (No collection Sunday 24th – Easter) Sat 30 April, Sun 1 MayCharge $10/standard trailer (6’ x 4’). Please follow sign posts and observe all safety requirements. Proceeds to Richmond Kindergarten.Tasman Talks Titles Book GroupDo you enjoy reading and talking about books? Then our Tasman Talks Titles book group might be what you’re looking for. Join us on Wed 20 April, 3.00pm – 4.00pm at

Richmond Library.Great Anzac ConcertNelson Brass and Nelson Male Choir at the School of Music 2pm Anzac Day. Tickets ($20 & $10) at School of Music, Summit Real Estate, Stoke, and Richmond Mall Information CentreRichmond Evening BadmintonBadminton on Mondays, starts 2 May at Badminton Hall, Gladstone Rd (next to Waimea Rugby Club). Primary & Intermediate: 5:30 - 6:30pm; College students: 6:30 - 7:30pm; Seniors (adults) from 7:30pm on. New players welcome. Some racquets are available. Give it a go - just bring indoor court shoes, your racquet and a friend! Contact Joe Hall, 546 4446 day or 544 0128 evenings for details.Enjoy the thrill of a glider flightMotueka Airport 30th April &1st May $80 for a trial flight- Zero to 1000ft in a minute. Look for the glider display in Sundial Square-Richmond. Nelson Lakes Gliding ClubGenealogy LibraryThe NZ Society Genralogists Nelson Branch has moved to new premises, now at 67 Trafalgar Street, opposite trailways Motor Inn. Open Mondays 1-4, Thursdays 10-4 & Sundays 2-4. Visitors welcome, we may help you with Nelson family history research. We have many indexes from churches, schools and newspapers.Historical dance workshopDances from the era of Queen Elizabeth I and English Country dances weekend workshop 7 & 8 May, Richmond Recreation Centre. $40 per person. Registration essential. Enrolments by 28 Apr. Phone Kate 03 542 3996 evg.Hope Junior Badminton ClubMonday nights from 7-8-30pm at the Hope Hall, Main Rd Hope. Junior Club is for people from 10-18 years and no previous experience is necessary. Please bring your own racquet. The first night is 2nd May and the season finishes the end of term three. Call Matt Feely on 542 4445.Nelson Bays Harmony invite you to our dress rehearsal concert prior to the NZ Women’s Barbershop competition. Tues 26 April, Club Waimea Hall. Gold coin. See www.nelsonharmony.org.nzApple Macintosh User Group (NMUG meeting Thurs. 14 th of April. 7pm. Richmond Public library. Visitors welcome. Learn and solve. 547 3408.Waimarama Community GardensBrook Valley. All volunteers, learners & old hands, welcome for “Help & Learn” sessions, Sundays 2 to 4 pm to help. maintain and develop Gardens: April 17, then alternate weeks May 1, 15 and 29. Tools & cuppa provided, just turn up! Enquiries by Thursday noon 548 4575 or [email protected] Notice

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Email [email protected] Website www.tasman.govt.nz 24 hour assistance

Tasman District Council Feel free to contact us:

Richmond189 Queen StreetPrivate Bag 4 Richmond 7050New ZealandPhone 03 543 8400Fax 03 543 9524

Murchison92 Fairfax StreetMurchison 7007New ZealandPhone 03 523 1013Fax 03 523 1012

Motueka 7 Hickmott PlacePO Box 123 Motueka 7143New ZealandPhone 03 528 2022Fax 03 528 9751

Takaka78 Commercial StreetPO Box 74 Takaka 7142New ZealandPhone 03 525 0020Fax 03 525 9972

Hall and Reserve Management Committees – triennial electionsManagement Committees are groups of volunteers who look after some of our Districts halls and reserves on behalf of Tasman District Council, taking care of bookings/usage and maintenance. The committees are elected thee yearly and the next round of elections is under way.

Tapawera Recreation Reserve and Hall Committee triennial election meeting to be held on Tuesday 19 April 2011 at 8.00 pm at the Hall.

For further information please contact Francie Wafer, Community Services Administrator, Tasman District Council, Ph. 03 543 8468 or email [email protected]

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Community Development FundWe recognise the importance and individuality of the smaller communities and towns within our District. To enhance the vitality and sustainability of the District’s towns, we’ve introduced a Community Development Fund to enable the District’s smaller communities to develop community plans, provide activities, run events and provide services.

Projects’ aims must enhance their town’s identity, thereby providing community benefit and attracting visitors. Grants are up to a maximum of $5,000 and there are two funding rounds annually.

The next closing date is 30 April 2011.

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The Council has received applications for resource consents, which have been publicly notified in The Nelson Mail. The applications and supporting information may be examined in any Council office. The full public notice may be found online at Council’s website (www.tasman.govt.nz). Any person may make a submission on the applications in accordance with Section 96 of the Resource Management Act 1991. Submission forms are available from Council offices and on Council’s website. Please note that the following is an abridged advisory notice only.

resource consents

Applicant: Tasman District Council.

Location: Mapua Wharf at the end of Aranui Road, Mapua, Waimea Inlet.

Consent Type, Application Number and Proposal:Coastal Permit (Application RM110062):To occupy the coastal marine area with extensions to the existing Mapua Wharf and associated pontoon structure.Coastal Permit (Application RM110063): To disturb the foreshore and seabed associated with installing a longer pontoon and extending the existing wharf, and for the ongoing maintenance of all structures including the existing wharf.A duration of 20 years is sought for the occupation of the coastal marine area by the pontoon and wharf extensions, and for the maintenance of all structures.

Submissions due: 4.30 pm on Friday 29 April 2011.

Tasman District Council’s Draft Annual Plan 2010/2011 and Draft Amendment to the Ten Year Plan 2009-2019 ReleasedTasman District Council’s Draft Annual Plan 2011/2012 is now available for public consultation. The Draft Annual Plan covers the year from 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012.

The purpose of the Draft Annual Plan is to get feedback on whether you think Council is planning to provide the right services and activities within the Tasman District. Your views will help guide Council’s decision-making, prior to the final Annual Plan being adopted in June 2011.

Council is also proposing an amendment to the Treasury Management Policy in the Ten Year Plan 2009-2019, which is contained in the Draft Annual Plan document. The Amendment will enable Council to participate as a “Principal Shareholding Local Authority” in the New Zealand Local Government Funding Agency Limited. Being party to this new agency should help reduce Council’s cost of borrowing on loans.

Council approved the Draft Annual Plan and Amendment for public consultation at its meeting on 10 March 2011. The proposals are contained in two documents:

• ASummary,whichwassenttoallhouseholdsintheTasmanDistrictthroughaspecialedition of Newsline on 18 March 2011.

• TheDraftAnnualPlan2011/2012andAmendmenttotheTenYearPlan2009-2019containing the key changes Council is planning from the proposals in the Ten Year Plan for the 2011/2012 year, the services Council is planning to provide, the costs of the services, how the services will be funded and further information on the Amendment.

Council has also produced the “17 Settlements” document as supplementary information to the Draft Annual Plan and Amendment. The 17 Settlements document outlines what new projects and activities are being provided by ward and settlement within the District.

The above documents are available for viewing on Council’s website at www.tasman.govt.nz and during normal office hours at the following Tasman District Council offices:

• RichmondOffice,189QueenStreet,Richmond

• MotuekaOffice,7HickmottPlace,Motueka

• TakakaOffice,78CommercialStreet,Takaka

• MurchisonOffice,92FairfaxStreet,Murchison

And libraries:

• DistrictLibrary,QueenStreet,Richmond

• MotuekaLibrary,PahStreet,Motueka

• TakakaMemorialLibrary,JunctionStreet,Takaka

The Draft Annual Plan and Amendment is a large document and Council encourages people to view it electronically to minimise production costs. All three documents are available on compact disk from Council offices or libraries and can be downloaded from the website.

Submissions are invited on the Draft Annual Plan and the Amendment, and must be received by 4.30 pm on Thursday 21 April 2011. Please post to:

Submissions on 2011/2012 Draft Annual Plan and Amendment to the Ten Year Plan 2009-2019Tasman District CouncilPrivate Bag 4Richmond 7050

Or deliver to your local Tasman District Council office; or email to [email protected].

Submission forms are available on Council’s website and in the Newsline Summary, Draft Annual Plan and 17 Settlements document.

council meetingsAgendas and Minutes for Council Meetings can be viewed on Council’s website at www.tasman.govt.nz

Corporate Services CommitteeTasman Council Chambers, 189 Queen Street, Richmond, Thursday 14 April 2011, 9.30 am. Public forum

Environment and Planning CommitteeTasman Council Chambers, 189 Queen Street, Richmond, Thursday 21 April 2011, 9.30 am. Public forum

Engineering Services CommitteeSt John’s Hall, Courtney Street, Motueka, Thursday 28 April 2011, 9.30 am. Public forum

Joint Shareholders Committee (followed by CD Emergency Management)Tasman Council Chambers, 189 Queen Street, Richmond, Friday 29 April 2011, 1.30 pm. No public forum

Community Services CommitteeTasman Council Chambers, 189 Queen Street, Richmond, Thursday 5 May 2011, 9.30 am. Public forum

Anzac Day ConcertNelson Brass and Nelson Male Choir at the School of Music.

2.00 pm Anzac Day, Monday 25 April 2011. Tickets ($20 & $10) at School of Music, Summit Real Estate, Stoke, and Richmond Mall Information Centre.

Rockville Museum Easter Steam-up DaySunday 24 April 2011, 10.00 am – 3.00 pm, Rockville, near Collingwood.Steam section in action all day. Vintage Tractors, farm machinery, stationary engines, dairy, blacksmith, hospital, and more. Discover our ‘inner room’ of early settler’s treasures.

Pioneer kitchen – scones, sausages and drinks.

Donations on entry appreciated. Enquiries Ph. 03 524 8131 or 03 525 9409.

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- Learn to ride- Basic Handling Skills- Restricted and Full Licence Assessments- Advanced Refresher Courses

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Situations VacantBy placing your advertisement to be run you agree with the terms and conditions of the Waimea Weekly. Namely, payment by the 20th of the following month, or in the event of non payment, the recovery of any debt and its costs will be on charged to the customer. This includes all costs and commissions paid to a debt recovery service. Should you require any further information please phone the newspaper on 544 9037.

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Email: [email protected] Coach Pl, Brightwater

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From Estates & Collections to single items

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027 671 8417Call Adam

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Treatments for corns, callus thickened/ingrown nails, cracked heels, verrucae,

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NOTICE OF SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING

Proposed Rule Changes for Club WaimeaThere is a need to review and define Club Waimea’s Constitution and Rules.

There is a need to arrange the Club’s affairs in a more practical order.

There is a need to have a Board that can be focused on controlling the Club finances, overseeing general management and leading any future direction.

To achieve this is proposed that the members elect an Executive Committee who will assist the Board, who will control membership, member welfare, Sports and other Sections, supervise operation of the Courtesy Coach, oversee all of the Club’s assets and convene General Meetings.

The new document which covers all of the proposed changes can be picked up from the Club office upon presentation of your membership card. These changes are designed to take your Club into the future and your input is welcome. Please obtain a copy, study it and have your say.

A Special General Meeting for members to debate and hopefully adopt

these measures will be held at Club Waimea on Tuesday, 19 April at 7.00pm.

If passed, nominations will be called for the first Executive Committee, to be elected at the Clubs AGM on 29 May.

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