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Ashburton Guardian
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Monday, March 24, 2014
■ TRUSTPOWER AWARDS
■ UKRAINE
Bite sparks a lot of interest
Sanctions announced
By Myles HuMe
Myles.h@theguardian.co.nz
Ashburton’s Multi-cultural Bite may not have left with the top prize, but they left a telling mark on other community groups from across the country at the TrustPower National Community Awards. Key drivers behind the annual Ashburton festival, Sue van den Heuvel and Torika Patterson, headed to Invercargill with deputy mayor Darryl Nelson and his wife where they joined other TrustPower Community Awards regional winners from throughout New Zealand on Saturday night. It was Marlborough’s Mistletoe Bay Trust - a conservation voluntary group – which claimed first prize, followed by the Neurological Foundation Southern Chair of Neurosurgery from Dunedin. Each group was judged on an eight-minute presentation on the work they did, along with a
written summary of their work. Mrs van den Heuvel said the awards played host to a strong calibre of community groups, and although they did not win, the Multi-cultural Bite did spark a lot of interest. “A lot of other regions at the awards were interested and talking about our event, and they were inspired with what was happening in Ashburton,” she said. The Multi-cultural Bite recently held its fifth annual event on Waitangi Day, with 10 committee members and 100 volunteers now involved in the growing festival. The event aims to give the district an opportunity to experience and share the range of cultures in Mid Canterbury through foreign cuisine and cultural performances. The awards are the country’s largest recognition programme for voluntary groups and organisations.
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Do you “like” this drawing? If so, put your mouse click where your mouth is, and click ‘Like’ on Facebook. The pencil portrait is one of 12 that the Ashburton Art Gallery has uploaded to its Facebook page for a public popularity competition. The portraits were sketched by visitors to the gallery during the recent Who Am I? exhibition. There were over 100 portraits completed by visitors, and gallery staff had the difficult task of narrowing it down to 12 for the final competition. The portrait which receives the most Facebook Likes by April 2 at 5pm will win a prize.
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Foreign Minister Murray McCully has announced what he called “modest and careful” sanctions against specific individuals deemed responsible for the seizure of Crimea from Ukraine and its annexation by Russia. The sanctions will be limited to a travel ban, a largely symbolic protest given the sparse high-level traffic between Russia and New Zealand. Mr McCully has not yet specified how many or to whom it would apply. But the European Union has imposed a travel ban against 33 individuals as well as freezing assets of the target in EU countries. The US has similarly imposed sanctions against 31 individuals and targeted close aides of Russia president Vladimir Putin. Mr McCully said New Zealand did not recognise the outcome of the referendum in Crimea supporting a split away from Ukraine to Russia - Russia has now formally annexed Crimea. - APNZ
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