The Sun
Friday November 11, 2016
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Gals urged to enter competition Trip to Fiji for winning woman
Marnie Campbell, Ezmic Partington and Susan Hocquard-Lindstrom received top awards from the Marlborough Community Potters Awards Exhibition that opened last Friday.
Marlborough Community Potters exhibition committee members Glen Waters, Rome Lopez Diaz and Sara Scott pictured by Katie O’ Sullivan’s pottery work.
Going potty for pottery Story and photos by Celeste Alexander A huge amount of work and preparation has gone into a pottery exhibition that finishes this weekend, and organisers are encouraging the public to go along and view the work done by local potters. Titled the Marlborough Community Potters Awards Exhibition 2016, the event opened last Friday night with the announcement of the awards winners. Around 150 people turned out for the opening and saw up close the work exhibited by 16 members as well as Jane McCullen who exhibited, attended and judged the awards. Winning top awards were Ezmic Partington who received the Har-
courts Premier Award, Marnie Campbell who received the South Street Gallery Merit Award and Susan Hocquard-Lindstrom who received the NZ Potters Award. For Ezmic taking out the premier award came as a "huge shock". "I had in my head who would win so when I heard my name called out I found it quite overwhelming. It was a really humbling experience," she says. Ezmic won for her entry 'PetriDishes' which combined her love for the landscape and environment on the West Coast with her "morbid fascination" with flesh eating diseases. Each piece used different environmental elements such as fungi to depict bacteria growing in a
petri-dish, using a range of glazing techniques. Marnie's piece was also inspired by the environment, particularly natural clay that she used with a mix of materials, such as coffee granules, recycled television screen glass and glass found on the beach. Susan's winning entry was a stoneware and gold lustre piece of pottery that was decorated using liquid gold to create feather designs. The exhibition will run all weekend at 25 Redwood Street, between Resene and Bays Joinery from 10am - 4pm. Books are also available for purchase containing photographs by Peter Burge Photography of the pottery exhibited.
Story and photo by Celeste Alexander The date is drawing closer for the ‘Almost Perfect Gal’ competition which kicks off November 19. Redwood Tavern bar manager Chrissy van der Laan, who came up with the idea for the competition, says there are still spaces available for women to enter. Entries will be capped at 40 and will be taken right up until the morning of the event, however to avoid missing out it’s recommended women enter before hand. The Almost Perfect Gal competition will be run over two days, November 19 and 26 and involves a lot of fun, lighthearted challenges and incredible prizes. Money raised from the event will be donated to Cure Kids New Zealand. The tasks will be a mix of home skills, thinking and some light physical tasks but nothing too difficult, Chrissy says.
Redwood Tavern bar manager Chrissy van der Laan is appealing for any last minute entries for the ‘Almost Perfect Gal’ competition which begins November 19.
The only restriction is that contestants need to be over the age of 18 to enter. The final 10 women will receive goodie bags and the first three placings will be awarded some amazing prizes, including the first place prize of a trip for two to Fiji.
gardening
this week with Wally Richards
The beautifully prepared Montessori learning environment is designed to draw in your child. Our purpose-built equipment allows children to explore and understand abstract concepts through hands-on use, guided by our skilled teachers.
Children growing plants Getting out and about and enjoying the most of what Mother Nature has to offer is good for all of us, but also for children and our young people. I believe that young children have a natural affinity with plants and insects when they are allowed to explore our gardens. Children learn many things by mimicking their parents and are often keen at a young age to assist in various gardening activities. Plants that move have a fascination for children and a great one for this is Mimosa pudica, the Sensitive Plant, which folds up its leaves when touched. They are easy to germinate from seed, grown as a pot plant for a windowsill. Nice pink flowers also. As the plant matures, it has thorns on the branches which incidentally are another attraction for children. The seeds for this plant are available on mail order from Kings Seeds. Two awesome plants for children to grow are giant sunflowers and pumpkins. Giant Sunflowers are extra tall sunflowers that will grow up to five metres. They should be grown in full sun, in soil that has excellent drainage and lots of manure. As for giant pumpkins, these can be monsters which in some cases will weigh over 1000 pounds at maturity. That is half a tonne, about half the size of the average family car. Overseas the biggest record vegetables have been achieved with products very similar or the same as Magic Botanic Liquid (MBL), mixed at a level of 20 ml of MBL to 1 litre of water. Spraying the foliage of your giants every two weeks with MBL (10ml to a litre) will also assist in a bigger healthier plant.
Another interesting thing to do is, once the sunflower gets up about a metre tall, plant three or four climbing bean seeds at the base of the plant. These will grow up the sunflower and also provide extra nitrogen for the sunflower. It is a lot of fun, plus a great way to get the children away from the TV and video games, showing them there is more to life than a screen. Problems ring me at 0800 466464 (Palmerston North 3570606) Email wallyjr@gardenews.co.nz Web site www.gardenews.co.nz
Corrin, age 4, works with the Moveable Alphabet, writing sentences.
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