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Jags on show

Story and photo by Celeste Alexander Pat Pascoe has raised more than $25,000 for Hospice Marlborough by organising the annual Hospice Vehicle Display, and this weekend’s show will add to that.

The display will be held at the Waterlea Racecourse on McLauchlan Street in Blenheim on Sunday from 11am to 3pm.

This is the fifth year that the display has been held and the theme is ‘Jaguar’.

Continued on page 3 Pat Pascoe with three of the Jaguars featuring at the Hospice Vehicle Display this Sunday.

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It has been eight years since Blenheim man Jaden Knight was wrongly jailed for the 2003 arson of a Foxton Hotel, but for his parents Neroli and Peter Edwards, their fight against injustice will be ongoing.

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Rubin “Hurricane” Carter will be speaking.

New boss needed for ratepayer group David Bain will be speaking.

By Cathie Bell Deedee Bancroft is the foundation chairwoman of the Blenheim Residents’ and Ratepayers’ Association, but after four years, she is looking to hand over the reins to a new chair.

The group was started at the beginning of 2013, she says, and aims to be a voice for the people living in Blenheim.

“The town needs a voice.”

It’s had ‘little wins and accomplishments’ during its time, Deedee says.

“We got the Christmas tree.”

The association campaigned to get the Marlborough District Council to install a Christmas tree in Market Place, after Marlborough Lines would not restore the one it had supplied for the centre of town up until 2009, and the council did so two years ago.

Deedee says the association has been involved in Street

Intensive clean-ups, and had a soapbox at the Artisan Market.

The group needs a new leader, she says, someone who is willing to ‘put their face out there’ and who has a passion for Blenheim.

“You need to be a problemsolver too. What I get a lot of is people emailing and ringing that they have issues, but are not willing to come to a meeting and talk about it. They want me to battle for them.

“I think that’s the wrong way of doing things. People want to say things, they need to get up there and say it, don’t hide behind computers and other people.”

She would like to step down now, and focus more on her family.

“I’m just so busy, I need to focus more on my family this year.”

The association’s annual meeting is next month.

Lindy Chamberlain will be speaking.

Jaden Knight’s parents Peter and Neroli Edwards.

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Fire fighters race to the top

Rarangi firefighters Scott Henry, Andy Luffman, and Lisa Stewart are climbing the Monkey Bay steps in training for the Sky Tower challenge in Auckland.

By Cathie Bell They may be a small team, but the Rarangi firefighters are mighty.

A team of three rural firefighters from Rarangi are taking on the Skytower Challenge on May 12, and they are training hard.

The challenge sees firefighters from around the country climb the 1103 steps of the Skytower in Auckland, while wearing full urban firefighting kit and 25 kilograms of weight.

The Rarangi team of Scott Henry, Andy Luffman, and Lisa Stewart are using their natural advantages and climb the 63 steps to Monkey Bay at the end of Rarangi Beach 17 and a half times in each practice session while wearing their firefighting equipment as training.

This hasn’t been the easiest thing to do in summer heat. Scott says it should be cooler inside the Skytower and in May. “It’s been crazy temperatures here.”

This is the first time Rarangi have entered a team and Scott says it was Lisa joining the team that encouraged them.

Lisa says it’s a special thing to do, as you have to be a firefighter to do it, and the cause is special too, as the challenge raises money for the Leukemia and Blood Cancer Foundation.

Last year, 850 firefighters competed, raising $1.1 million, and this year, 900 have registered.

Lisa says the Rarangi team are currently the second highest fundraiser in the country, which was pretty good as they have three in their team and the top team has 14 members and the team after them has 26.

“I was the top fundraiser nationally for a week but I’ve been bumped off now.” The team had a goal of raising $7000, but has already raised more than $13,000.

Proceeds going to Hospice Continued from page 1 One vehicle that will be particularly interesting Pat says, is a 1936 SS Jaguar that will be part of the display.

“This car is quite special. It’s owned by a local but not often seen. We will also have a new XE Jag that is the latest model to come out that was built with an aluminum body,” he says.

Last year’s show saw around 350 vehicles displayed, an impressive amount according

to Pat, and he is hoping for another good attendance.

“We have a group from the Jaguar Club from Nelson coming as well as our local club and all the other classic vehicles that will be there on the day.

“There will also be classic boats, John Derry’s world championship jetboat, trucks, a new model grape harvester and Omaka Classic cars. There will be plenty to see,” he says.

People wanting to display their vehicles are warmly welcomed and are asked to start arriving from 9.30am. The display fee is $5 per vehicle.

Throughout the day there will be food stalls, a barbecue and a pipe band performing to keep the whole family entertained.

Entry into the display is a gold coin donation with proceeds going to Hospice Marlborough. In the event of wet weather the display will be cancelled.

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Campground meeting The meeting between Koromiko School owners Philip and Megan Walker and roading officials earlier this week was ‘positive’, Megan says. The couple want to operate a campervan park from the old school site, but have been blocked by the NZ Transport Agency.

Roading officials were able to show the couple what needed to be done and they need to do more work on the proposal, Megan says. Marlborough Roads head Frank Porter was contacted for comment.

Cancer donation The Sun has donated $500 to the Cancer Society Marlborough. The money was raised during a recent feature in the Sun aimed at raising awareness for World Cancer Day. Local businesses were invited to show their support for this very worthy cause by placing an ad in the feature. The Sun pledged to donate $20 for every advert placed, raising a total of $500.

Traffic webcams Traffic webcams have been installed in Blenheim and along the alternate state highway route between Picton and Christchurch so that people can get traffic updates, as part of upgrades along the route to keep it open during winters. Transport Minister Simon Bridges says $60 million is being spent on widening sections of the road, resealing, new bailey bridges to make traffic two-way, and slow vehicle bays have also been installed in several locations.

Environment speaker Whanganui farmer Dan Steele is to be the keynote speaker at the Cawthron Environment Awards on March 31. A sheep and beef farmer, Dan is also a conservationist and Nuffield Scholar, who has put his ideas into practice at his farm and tourism operation near Ruapehu.

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New cellar door to open Awatere Valley-based wine company Clark Estate is to open a cellar door in a container at the Dodson’s Street beer garden and restaurant, next to Lansdowne Park. Owner Simon Clark says the company hopes to open the cellar door as soon as its liquor license is approved. It will ‘bring the Awatere into town’, he says. “Although it’s a lovely drive, it is a long way to go.”

Earthquake powers extend The Government has extended the national transition period in the Wairau-Awatere ward of Marlborough District, Kaikoura and Hurunui Districts and the Wairau-Awatere ward of Marlborough District, to 1pm on 7 June 2017, to support recovery efforts following the Kaikoura earthquake. The extension enables authorities to restrict access to dangerous buildings and areas at risk from natural hazards, close roads and public places, and issue directions.

Wine value up The value of New Zealand wine imported into the United States has grown significantly in the past year, with the total value of New Zealand wine imported reachting US$400 million, now only surpassed by Italy (US$1,960 million) and France (US$1,589 million). New Zealand Winegrowers chief executive Philip Gregan says to be third ranking in terms of value in the world’s largest wine market is outstanding, especially given New Zealand produces less than one per cent of the world’s wine.

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Bridget Gane and Fleur Hebberd recently opened their new fitness studio, Burn & Blast Fitness. Here they are pictured with their Monday morning Konga class.

Burn & Blast fitness studio opens

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by Celeste Alexander Two women passionate about health and fitness have joined forces to open a new studio, Burn & Blast Fitness located on Selmes Road near Blenheim.

Bridget Gane and Fleur Hebberd launched their classes in January and already have close to 60 clients.

The classes on offer are rip, konga and cardio burn as well as

a FDF (Fleur’s Dance Fitness).

It’s been an exciting venture for the duo and the feedback has been ‘really great’, they say.

Previous to Burn & Blast Fitness both Bridget and Fleur were working in the fitness industry for a number of years.

Bridget was working as an instructor at a local gym but when her fitness classes finished she says her clients encouraged her to open her own studio.

App spreads

By Cathie Bell Firstcheck, the cellphone app that helps people check their skin for cancer supported by Marlborough investor David Taylor, is moving into Australia.

Firstcheck co-founder, Hayden Laird says the free to download iOS and Android app was launched in New Zealand in November last year and has been publicly released in Australia last week.

“It’s a skin specialist in your pocket and at your fingertips - to encourage the timely review of suspicious moles and other skin conditions,” he says.

The app is the first of its kind, a new telemedicine initiative, which is enabling virtual consultations with skin specialists via smartphones or tablets. Firstcheck pairs its app with a low-cost 20x magnifying lens called the SkinScope, which attaches over smartphone cameras to enable good quality magnified images to be taken from home.

Public users pay $19.95 per consultation, or there are package deals for people needing multiple moles or skin conditions checked.

Hayden says in New Zealand they are already seeing this simple-to-use technology improving access to the expertise of skin specialists and helping with the early detection of skin cancer, saving everyone time, cost and pain.

“So we’re delighted to be now offering the same proven solution to Australians.”

New Zealand and Australia have the highest skin cancer rates in the world.

She found a shed and converted it into a fitness studio around Christmas time.

“Then I met with Fleur who was wanting to run konga classes which she had done in Perth,” she says.

Fleur has returned home after eight years living in Perth with her husband and two young sons. She is also a hip hop dance teacher for the Marlborough Academy of Dance.

She describes konga as a fun and easy-to-follow fusion of boxing, cardio, dance and sculpting.

“Don’t be put off if you are not a dancer or feel you aren’t co-ordinated, konga is designed to be fun and can be done by anyone,” she says.

Bridget and Fleur are planning to add more classes including a kids programme for the holidays.

Top floor leased

The top floor of the building on the corner of Arthur and Queen Streets has been leased.

By Cathie Bell TvA accountancy firm is moving into the top floor of the renovated building on the corner of Arthur and Queen Streets.

The company declined to comment yesterday, but The Sun understands TvA will move from Scott Street to the new site in mid-April. They have 16 staff, and the move will add to the vibrancy of the central business district, on a street that has been hit hard by last November’s earthquake.

The building next door was redstickered and demolished, making

Anita’s Organic Store homeless and affecting neighbouring businesses.

Across the road, renovations are continuing on the building that used to house the theatre, and which has been leased to the Nelson Marlborough District Health Board for stage two of the health hub.

The Arthur Street-Queen Street corner building has been renovated and earthquake-strengthened, and tenants are now being sought by Mark Stevenson First National commercial real estate agent Geoff Dentice.

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COUNCIL NEWS Look out for invasive vines Invasive vines, introduced as ornamental garden plants, are a threat to our natural environment.

At this time of the year, when they’re flowering or fruiting they’re easy to spot. Now is a good time to control these pests.

Old Man’s Beard, Banana Passionfruit and Climbing Asparagus are highly successful invaders, producing thousands of seeds.

They grow in the shade of trees, which they climb up. Once in the tree canopy they spread widely – producing curtains of vines and smothering or strangling the trees. Weedbusters website - www. weedbusters.org.nz - is a great source of information to identify weeds and explain how to deal with them.

There are other invasive vine species that are not yet well established in Marlborough. It is important we try to keep it that way.

They include Moth Plant, Cathedral Bells, Climbing Spindleberry and Maderia (or Migonette) Vine.

Pictured top: Cathedral Bells and bottom: Moth Plant Information and images of them can be found on the Weedbusters and Council websites.

Council’s Biosecurity team welcomes any sightings of any of these less established pests, so if you think you’ve spotted any of them please contact the team: Phone 520 7400 or email biosecurity@marlborough. govt.nz

From left, Marlborough Mayor John Leggett, Jamboree director Guy Beatson and Renwick councillor Cynthia Brooks.

Scouts say thanks to Marlborough The Scouts Jamboree management team returned to Marlborough last weekend to voice their thanks for the welcome the district gave to them over summer.

The 21st New Zealand Jamboree brought 3000

Scouts and 1300 leaders to the region for a 10-day event based at Renwick’s Giesen Sports and Events Centre.

The Jamboree also brought many Scout families into the region during January.

Community News - Plunket Marlborough The children of Spring Creek School illustrate what they like about living in Spring Creek and what they think could improve the township.

Spring Creek - Drop-in Town Design Day Sunday 12 March Anytime between 10.30am and 12.30pm Spring Creek Hall, 24 Ferry Road Share your thoughts about what makes Spring Creek a special place to live and what could be done to make it better. Help us make good decisions on use of council resources

and do more through working together.

A free BBQ and great coffee top off a fun morning!

To find out more, please contact Adi James, Community Advisor on 520 7578, or go to www.marlborough. govt.nz/Our-Community/SmallTownships-Programme

Shops can open on Easter Sunday Council has changed its policy to allow shop owners to open their doors for trading on Easter Sunday.

Trading restrictions remain in place for Good Friday.

Mayor John Leggett says the decision is common sense for a tourist region like Marlborough, where thousands of visitors arrive for the Easter break.

“We’ll have huge crowds here for

the Omaka Air Show and our visitors need to be fed and entertained.

Our businesses need the chance to capitalise on all these customers from out of town.”

Shops are not compelled to open and labour laws still apply, protecting the right of employees to refuse to work on Easter Sunday.

Notification of Meeting The following meetings are open to the public and interested persons are welcome to attend.

Planning, Finance & Community Thursday, 23 March 2017 at 9.00 am Copies of the agenda will be available

online and at Council’s Office, 15 Seymour Street.

The time and date may be subject to change, please contact Nicole Chauval, Committee Secretary, Ph: 03 520 7400 for confirmation.

The Royal NZ Plunket Society Marlborough provides child health services for pre-school children and parent education.

Located at 16 Henry Street, they are open daily.

For more information Ph: 03 578 5633.

Temporary Road Closure - 25 April High Street from Inkerman Street to Alma Street, Renwick, is proposed to be closed on Tuesday 25 April 2017 from 8.40am to 9.40am for the purpose of the Anzac Day Commemoration Service.

An alternative signposted detour route will be available via Inkerman, Havelock and Alma Streets during the closure.

Strictly No Parking in High Street from Inkerman to Alma Streets from 5.00am to 9.40am.

During the proposed period of closure, ordinary vehicular traffic may use the road being closed between events under the supervision and

authority of an officer of the New Zealand Police (Traffic Safety Branch).

It will be an offence under the above regulations for any person other than under the authority of an authorised permit to use the road for ordinary vehicular traffic during the period of closure.

Persons wishing to object to the proposal are to lodge their objection and grounds thereof in writing before 7 April 2017, at the office of Marlborough Roads, The Forum, Market Street, Blenheim, PO Box 1031, Blenheim 7240.

Any enquiries should be addressed to Sandra Boyd, Marlborough Roads, Ph: 03 520 8330.

Positive Ageing - help with travel Free public transport is available to Super Gold Card holders on the Blenheim Bus. However there is also some assistance available to people who require door-to-door transport.

The Total Mobility Scheme provides subsidised taxi transport for people who can’t manage public transport due to permanent disability or impairment. The Scheme is jointly funded by the District Council and the NZ Transport Agency.

An eligibility assessment by a participating Agency is required before joining the Total Mobility Scheme (a $20 assessment fee is payable to the Agency).

People who qualify for this assistance are issued with a photo ID card and vouchers that entitle the user to half-price travel up to the value of $15 for a one-way trip within Marlborough.

There’s no restriction on the purpose of the trip; it can be to the doctor or the shop or for

Marlborough District Council PO Box 443 Blenheim 7240 New Zealand

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personal or social reasons.

These businesses accept Total Mobility vouchers.

Where a wheelchair hoist service is available, prebooking is recommended.

Marlborough Taxis (hoist service)03 577 5511 Flo2Go (hoist service) 0800 356 246 Blenheim Shuttles 03 577 5277 Your Local Chauffeur 022 018 2470 Driving Miss Daisy Marlborough (hoist service) 03 579 3162 or 0800 948 432 Jade Pick Me Ups 03 577 8347 or 027 951 1952 Wairau Charters (hoist service) 021 050 4446 A1 Shuttles (Picton only) 022 0188 472 or 0800 A1PICTON Inquiries about the Total Mobility Scheme can be made to the Marlborough District Council Ph: 520 7400 or email total.mobility@ marlborough.govt.nz

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The Sun Thank you A very big thank you to Larry at St John, police and the public for attending the mobility scooter accident Wednesday, two weeks ago

by Bings Motel.

It’s very reassuring as a mother to know that help is there and to let you know all is well.

Thank you again from a grateful mother.

Dog chained up Spring Creek How do you know this dog isn’t unchained all night?

Whatever!

It’s none of your business.

Why can’t people be happy with their own lives?

And not worry what others are doing!

Chained dog. Hopefully Chained dog awareness will be able to help the poor dog if you will contact them? Maybe if the owner is willing they may let you take him/her for a walk.

Thanks Rarangi Surf Club

European Club

Ward School senior class want to thank Neil Watts and his awesome team at the RSLC for looking after us so well recently.

The class loved the beach safety lessons, IRB rides, your yummy BBQ and friendly encouragement.

This will be a special memory for us all for a long time. Dave Paterson (teacher).

We have European, Asian, North and South American football leagues.

Here we have racist named clubs and teams by the hundreds, so we are now not sponsoring anything for our kids instead spending all this cash on ourselves and be proud to be loyal to family.

Others can now pay if they dare to be outed, talk about PC gone mad what a weird (and read that however you like) generation are we making?

Dogs again I’ve just had a visit from Animal Control about my dog.

Still trying to understand why my dog has been singled out when my neighbours’ dogs bark too.

Coming and talking to me would have been so much nicer than Animal Control on my doorstep.

Cadbury boycott I started boycotting Cadbury the day after they announced they were closing Dunedin’s factory.

50 plus years ago my mum worked night shift there.

They make huge profits every year!

My grandchildren’s Easter eggs were not Cadbury & neither were my baking chocolates.

Many of my friends are doing the same.

Shame on you Cadbury!!

Solution

It’s not my child I’m talking about, why should children be kept locked up in the garden???

There is no reason for idiot drivers to be speeding on any road.

Go speed up and down your own roads.

Water guns for cats! Geez get ‘real’.

We only complaining about cleaning up cat s....t .

Now you want us to, once we in bed, be armed with our water pistols.

As soon as security lights go on let’s jump up and go outside to squirt the ‘naughty cats’ that are pooing in my section.

Get a darn life.

Train your cat to poo in your yard.

Best neighbours Shame on you Warwick Street.

These workers come here and do work you and I wouldn’t do.

After reading the text talk about man booting the horse.

Scum.

Come on Waterlea sort it out disgusting.

No place for this in 2017.

Last time I will go to the races.

Market Day You miserable retailers I would have thought that’s where you would have made a huge chunk of change on Wine weekend.

The public has spoken and next year we want the market back.

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Rarangi

To the Rarangi Resident with a bee in their bonnets about kids biking in quiet streets... are you kidding me???

I would have thought the sight of children playing on bikes was a wonderful thing to see, and they should be able to ride their bikes in quiet streets!

I’m only 40 and have no children so I’m not the parent responsible but I think it’s very sad that I live in a community where some of my neighbours may have a very dull attitude to children playing outside on their bikes .. after all a quiet street should be the perfect place to ride your bike!

Man booting horse

To the person complaining about receiving one of the property fliers in the local news paper, if you don’t want it, why not just put it in your recycle bin.

People like myself enjoy browsing through the Property papers that come each week.

txt talk of the week Scottish Band Music To the resident of Seymour street, I suggest you turn your television volume up for 1/2 hour.

I enjoy listening to it as do many others out walking.

We welcome your texts on 027 242 5266.

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Many thanks To the young man from Boys College who got off his bike at Countdown and lifted a carpet cleaning machine into our car.

Truckies This is to some of the truckies passing through Blenheim and some even going down SH63.

Some of you are going way too fast.

I saw one truck driver approach the roundabout (on SH1 intersecting with Alfred Road) at high speeds.

They didn’t appear to want to slow down and went straight through.

Thankfully no one else was entering the roundabout.

Also coming into Renwick there’s no way these trucks are going 50-60km.

This is a place where there are a lot of people that ride their bikes in these areas and these trucks need to be aware that they are not the only ones on the road.

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Freedom camping Campers should be charged a fee for staying overnight, use of toilets and rubbish bins. $5 a night at least.

As a cleaner myself I know someones got to clean the facilities.

Go ahead Koromiko School, at least they would keep the grounds neat and clean.

Go the Walkers.

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MC Tessa Nicholson talks with Dame Fiona Kidman at the first Marlborough Readers and Writers Festival.

Short-listed authors to visit

By Cathie Bell Three of the authors on the shortlist for the country’s top book awards will speak at the Marlborough Book Festival in July.

Catherine Chidgey’s novel The Wish Child, Emma Neale’s novel Billy Bird, and CK Stead’s collection of stories The Name on the Door Is Not Mine are shortlisted for the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize category of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, announced this week.

Festival committee member Sonia O’Regan says the three authors will be guests at the Marlborough festival from Friday 28 July to Sunday 30 July.

The short list presents a great opportunity to let people know that some of the authors are coming to Marlborough, but the festival’s full list of authors and programme will

be announced in April when tickets go on sale, Sonia says.

“We are thrilled that Catherine Chidgey, Emma Neale, and C K Stead have made the shortlist, and for Marlborough audiences who will get a chance to meet them,” she says.

Catherine Chidgey received critical acclaim for her first three novels.

Her very first In a Fishbone Church won the Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards. She has received numerous awards and fellowships. She will be interviewed by Tessa Nicholson at the festival.

Emma Neale is a novelist and poet, with five novels published.

CK Stead is an award-winning novelist, as well as a poet, literary critic, essayist and emeritus professor of English of the University of Auckland. He is the current New Zealand Poetry Laureate and is also

a Member of the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand’s highest honour.

Stead will speak at two sessions at the Marlborough Book Festival, one on fiction in conversation with Tessa Nicholson and one on poetry in conversation with Jane Forrest-Waghorn.

Two other authors who are coming to the festival this year were included in the Ockham Awards’ long list: Tracy Slaughter for her book Deleted Scenes for Lovers and Sarah Laing for the Illustrated Non-Fiction Award for her book Mansfield and Me, A Graphic Memoir.

Previous Marlborough Book Festivals have received warm praise from guest authors and audiences alike, Sonia says.

“This event is a celebration of readers and writers, and also a celebration of our region.”

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Participants from a previous Relay for Life Marlborough event.

Organisers are hoping the rain holds off to allow this year’s event to go ahead smoothly.

Rain won’t dampen enthusiasm

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By Celeste Alexander Saturday’s Relay for Life and Candle of Hope Ceremony will still go ahead despite the light rain forecast today and tomorrow, unless torrential rain hits, Cancer Society Marlborough health promoter Anna Small says.

“I’m pretty sure the weather won’t be worse than anticipated so there’s no real hazard for the grounds, unless in the next 24 hours the weather becomes torrential.

“But we are being positive, a little light rain won’t dampen people’s enthusiasm,” she says.

If the weather does worsen and people want to find out if the event is affected, Anna says they can head to the Relay for Life Marlborough Facebook page for an update.

“We will contact all the team captains personally and maybe put an announcement on the radio if necessary. Otherwise, we look forward to seeing you all tomorrow,” she says.

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5 MINUTES WITH: Ross Cooke President, Marlborough RSA and Marlborough Vintage Farm Machinery Association

Q A Q A Q A

W h a t ’s y o u r m o s t annoying habit?

I’ve got quite a few of them really. I’m unable to go past any old machinery on the road without having a look.

One of my best holidays was...

A tractor machinery tour around South Africa.

What ’s your fondest childhood memory?

Having the freedom to roam the Flaxbourne River on the farm at Ward.

Q A Q A Q A

What’s your favourite meal?

It’s got to be a dozen oysters washed down with a bottle of Steinlager Pure.

My guilty TV pleasure is .....

The Last of the Summer Wine.

What’s your greatest fear?

Electric fences.

Q A Q A Q A

How do you want to be remembered?

As somebody that has helped the community out to make it a better place than when I first came into this world.

Who would you love to share a meal with and why?

Jerry Mataeparae, I believe he’s an inspiration to all young people of what can be achieved.

What is the one thing people don’t know about you?

I might be a big gruff person at times, but I have a very soft heart when it comes to children.

GARDENING

THIS WEEK WITH WALLY RICHARDS

Your garden and your health

Last year’s Bride of the Year winner Kimberly McCabe with (Mrs Personality) Stacey Scollard and second runner up Emma O’Sullivan. File photo

Save the date The Beavertown Blenheim Lions are excited to announce the date they have set down for this year’s Bride of the Year Show, September 30.

This year’s show is a little later in the year so it can coincide with the ‘Spring’ theme and the committee is busy working behind the scenes to pull together another successful event.

Show convenor Noeline Stewart says the

Bride of the Year show will be held again at the Clubs of Marlborough hall and she is inviting brides to ‘save the date’.

“All brides married or residing in Marlborough between July 23, 2016 and September 4, 2017 are encouraged to enter the show, so save the date now and more information will become available soon,” she says.

Any enquiries can be made by emailing the committee at bblbrideoftheyear@gmail.com.

To advertise your business, call Bonnie, Simon or Gemma today.

Phone now 03 5777 868 Total market coverage in Marlborough

Recently a reader asked me about my views on our food chain and people’s health in New Zealand.

I thought that some other readers maybe interested in my observations and what I have learnt over many years.

This is not a scientific, peer reviewed study instead it is from experience and common sense.

It is to do with our food chain from the time I was a young boy and what changes I have seen in commercial growing.

Market gardens back when I was young were mostly owned by Chinese and the main nutrients used were blood and bone and garden lime.

The blood and bone back then was a different product than what we call blood and bone these days. It was rich in goodness and highly sought after by commercial Chinese growers.

Most of these Chinese were immigrants to New Zealand and with them they brought the knowledge of growing vegetables that are high in healthy values as the Chinese had been doing for hundreds of years.

These vegetables tasted great, provided essential minerals and elements, and the population overall was far more healthy than we see today.

Remember; Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

That is something that many have forgotten.

I believe that it all changed when fertiliser companies started making superphosphate - reactive rock phosphate broken down with acid - along with ex-war materials such as ammonium sulphate, potassium nitrate etc.

Finding a new use for the two later products; agriculture was the obvious choice. They make plants and grass grow faster and bigger even though the health benefits are reduced.

The superphoshate having acid in it kills the beneficial microbes in the soil, the beneficial fungi and the earth worms along with the soil food web.

This effectively removed the natural soil environment and replaced it with an artificial one which after a few years left the soil inert, or as we say dead.

Plants or grasses grown in this environment are not healthy.

Recently I wrote an article in regards to the Supermarket promotion of ‘Little Gardens’ and one of my readers emailed me the following: “Excellent article Wally.

“My wife and I also involve our kids in the gardening and they have their own patches to garden.

“They will eat any vegetable put on their plates and like them raw even better than cooked in most cases!

“We started them off helping in the garden as soon as they could walk and they were eating radishes covered in dirt as soon as they had a couple of teeth.

“They have excellent health and don’t get sick any where near as often as most other children their age.

“On the rare occasion that they do get sick, they are over it in a few days while others are sick for weeks (Not boasting, just pointing out the miraculous power of healthy home grown organic veges).

“Our three children are also growing the NW supermarket little gardens at home and just love anything to do with growing plants (and eating them of course).

“Thanks for the great article once again. Tony Olsen.”

As my mum used to say ‘The proof is in the pudding.’

Naturally grown vegetables are full of goodness, taste great, are very filling when eaten and they build strong immune systems.

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WHAT’S ON

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- WEEKEND EVENT GUIDE -

Field of Horrors Omaka Maize Maze, 8.30-11pm. R15.

The Omaka Maze will once again be hosting a horror-themed evening with screams, fun and laughter guaranteed.

Tickets must be bought before the event from Boo-Tea cart in the forum.

Hot Art in Havelock The Gallery Havelock, open 10am-4pm, seven days a week. Enjoy browsing some of the excellent art on show from talented local artists. Come and have a look in the friendly little gallery at 60 Main Road, Havelock.

The Nukes Picton Little Theatre 7.30pm. Talented trio of West Auckland musicians deliver humour and originality in equal measure.

Book tickets at Take Note, Picton and Alyssums and Balloons, Blenheim.

The Diversion Gallery Open 12-5pm, Wednesday–Saturdays, 10 London Quay, Picton. Ph 573 7376 or 027 440 8121 or www.thediversion.co.nz.

Lions District Convention Marlborough Convention Centre, 9am.

The Blenheim Lions Club are proudly hosting the Top of the South District Convention. For further details please contact Jim Thomas Ph: 03 5788896 / 0273409520.

The Edwin Fox Ship Visitor Centre open every day from 9am, a great all weather and family friendly activity. Come and explore the decks and the depths of the ship. Dunbar wharf, on Picton foreshore. For more information call Karen 573 6868.

Heritage and Whaling Museum Picton has a collection of 2000 items of Maori, whaling, maritime, heritage and textile displays. 10am-4pm daily, 9 London Quay. Ph 573 8283.

Marlborough Golf Club Half price green-fees after 4pm every day! 74 Paynters Rd. www.marlborough@ golf.co.nz.

Marlborough Art Society Gallery open daily from 10.30am-4.30pm.

Art Classes and Workshops available.

204 High Street. Ph 577 6784 or www. marlboroughartsociety.com.

2017 NZRCA RC Innovations Nitro Nationals Come down to the Blenheim radio Control Car Club track and watch the best 1/8th radio control car drivers of truggies and buggies from NZ and Aussie, 9am.

Roadhouse Drive, SH1, Riverlands.

If you have an event email Olivia at The Sun office@blenheimsun.co.nz

Through the Lens At Detour Gallery, 67 Market St. Showcasing the diversity of art produced by four different Photographers based in Marlborough. 5.30-7.30pm.

Marlborough Museum Brayshaw Heritage Park, 26 Arthur Baker Place. Open 10am–4pm daily. Fran Maguire Pottery – Exhibition extended due to popular demand. New Exhibition - Fads and Frills, Junior fashion 1900-1960.

Detour Gallery Open from Wednesday to Monday 11am5pm weekdays and 11am-3pm Weekends. 67 Market Street. Ph 021 120 1717 or info@detourgallery.co.nz.

Knox & Tannock - Digital Undergrowth Exhibition Millennium Public Art Gallery, cnr Alfred and Seymour St. The collaborative exhibition - juxtaposing stark slice of life images with graphite drawings. On daily until 19 March.

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Round’A’Mini Golf Picton Picton Foreshore, 10am Saturday and Sunday, 10am.

5km Taylor River Fun Run Free timed 5km run along the Taylor River, meet at the ampitheatre, corner of High and Symonds Streets, 8am every Saturday. To register go to www.parkrun. co.nz/blenheim.

Blenheim Rotary Car Boot Sale Every Saturday 8am–12.30pm at the Railway Station car park, Grove Rd. Club Meets Mondays at Clubs of Marlborough.

Ph Andy 578 2272 or 021 842 928.

Vintage Farm Machinery 10am-3pm, open every day. Brayshaw Park guided tours available, SundayThomas Tank Engine rides.

Painting With Words An exhibition of new works in watercolour and mixed media by Nelson Lakes painter Jan Thomson. Yealands Estate Marlborough Gallery, 10am-4pm.

Omaka Maize Maze Dog Point Rd, 10am-8pm. Admission costs are $9 for adults, children 4 years and over $6, family (2 adults, 2 kids) $28.

Cool treasures in Riversdale Handcraft fair on from 11am-3pm at 131 Budge Street. Lots of cool crafts, cool music, play area for the kids, and yummy icecreams and coffees.

St Mary’s School Gala 10am-2pm, come and have a fun day playing and meeting up with friends from the church, preschool, youth group & the Marlborough community.

Blenheim Menz Shed 4 Dillons Point Road. Open 9am-12pm Sat and 1-4pm on Mon and Thurs. Building relationships and sharing skills. We welcome new members of all ages.

Relay for Life Marlborough 2017 12pm-12am, Lansdowne Park. A chance to celebrate cancer survivors and carers and fight back by raising awareness and funds to support the work of Cancer Society.

Picton Men’s Shed “Where men can do what men do best” 9am-12pm and Wednesday 9am-4pm.

Phone Rex Green 021 469 191 or Kerry Eagar 021 888 423 for more information.

Brooklyn Croquet Club Whitehead Park off Brooklyn Drive. Play days Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday at 1pm. Come and have a go. Ph Dale 5784427.

2017 NZRCA RC Innovations Nitro Nationals Come down to the Blenheim Radio Control Car Club Track and watch the best 1/8th radio control car drivers of truggies and buggies from NZ and Aussie, 9am.

Roadhouse Drive, SH1, Riverlands.

Redwood Market 8am-12pm, Redwood Tavern car park.

Plants, produce, cards, jewellery, flowers and hand crafts. Supporting Hospice.

Contact Alison 5785109.

Quiz Night Fundraiser Redwoodtown School Hall, 6.30pm. Team of up to 6 people. Bookings and Team names to cats5@vodafone.co.nz 0275778488.

Sunday March 12 Marlborough Farmers’ Market A&P Showgrounds, Cnr Maxwell and Alabama Rd, 9am-12noon. Come and experience fresh delicious delicacies. See you Sunday.

Picton Rail and Sail The Foreshore Picton, 20c per ride, 10am4pm, weather permitting.

Blenheim Bonsai Group Selmes Nursery, 141 Battys Rd, 1pm-3pm.

Bonsai displays and workshop. For more info phone Rod 021755100.

Outdoor Yoga 10-11am at Vines Village, Rapaura Road.

All levels are welcome. Bring some cash, your own mat or a towel and see you there.

Blenheim Roller Skating Club College Park, Stephenson Street. Every Sunday 1-3pm. $5 for hire of skates or $2 if you have your own. Come have a go, all ages and skill levels welcome.

Marlborough Hospice Vehicle Display Waterlea Raceway 11am-3pm. This event has been held annually for the past 4 years and has raised over $21,000 for the Marlborough Hospice. Gold coin entry.

Marl Golf Club – Community Golf Sunday afternoon play 18 holes $15 or 9 holes $10. Must be a Marlborough resident. 74 Paynters Rd. Tramping Club We go on tramps Wednesday and Sunday, please confirm for travel. Ph Mary 572 8762.

Model Aero Club ARA Wairau Valley 9am, Tony 577 9776.

Petanque 10am Sunday and 1pm Wednesday, 65A Weld Street–John Ph 5779789.

National Scout Water Slide Day Monro St, Taylor River Reserve 10am4pm.

A great event organised by Nativity Scouts for Marlborough Youth and Families - all welcome! Gold coin donation.

Associated Modellers Society Model boat and yacht sailing at Brayshaw Park every Sunday afternoon, 1-4pm. Miniature steam engine rides at Brayshaw Park, 1st and 3rd Sunday each month, 1pm-4pm $2.

Marlborough Guild of Woodworkers Brayshaw Park, open workshop 1-4pm, every 1st Sunday of the month. Wooden toys for sale.

Marlborough Rock and Mineral Club Brayshaw Park, come and see our large rock, mineral, crystal and fossil collection, work room and books. Free admission.

2017 NZRCA RC Innovations Nitro Nationals Come down to the Blenheim Radio Control Car Club Track and watch the best 1/8th radio control car drivers of truggies and buggies from NZ and Aussie, 9am.

Roadhouse Drive, SH1, Riverlands.

Ulysses Club Ride 10.30am Longer ride to Kohatu Junction. Home via Nelson Tom Brown.

Kapahaka Every Sunday at Tuamarina Hall. 1-3pm.

All welcome.

Omaka Maize Maze Dog Point Rd, 10am-5pm. Admission costs are $9 for adults, children 4 years and over $6, family (2 adults, 2 kids) $28.

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NZ King Salmon’s Grand Vision for Marlborough

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Moa match for seafood festival

Moa brewery founder Josh Scott, right, and Andre Smith from the Havelock Bowling Club who’ll be pouring the beer and eating a few mussels at Mussel and Seafood Festival on Saturday next week.

Marlborough wine and seafood has long been a match made in heaven; now it’s Marlborough beer and seafood.

Moa Brewery has come on board for the Mussel and Seafood Festival next Saturday March 18 at Havelock Domain.

Founder Josh Scott says while Moa beer is sold internationally, nothing beats contributing to what has become another iconic Marlborough event.

“Beer goes beautifully with seafood and Moa is going to have a couple of brews and a cider available for the punters next Saturday.”

Until now, the beers at the festival have all been imports. Pouring them for many of the 13 years of the festival is former NZ rep bowler Andre Smith and some of his fellow members from the Havelock Bowling Club.

“Festival punters appreciate having a beer or two as they watch the music or munch their seafood.

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Andre says as well as being an event that everyone from kids to oldies enjoy, the Mussel and Seafood Festival delivers huge benefits to the Havelock and Sounds community.

“Our bowling club and many other Havelock and Sounds organisations from the school to the fire service get a big boost into our coffers every year. It’s a fantastic day all round.”

Celebrity chefs Kasey and Karena Bird are the star attractions for the foodies this year while local bands are lining up on the main stage.

As well as Moa beer, Wairau River and Kono wines are available.

Festival deputy chair Simon Gibb says the festival provides something for everyone.

“This is a unique event. We celebrate the fact that Marlborough produces the majority of the

nation’s farmed seafood and we see celebrity chefs match it with local wines and now beers.”

For families with children, there’s face painting, competitions, free fruit and popcorn and story-telling as well as various rides. The annual Guiness Book of records attempt at mussel opening is back again and more than a dozen industry tents provide opportunities to discuss salmon farm relocation issues with the Ministry for Primary Industries, learn how edible seaweed and paua pearls are produced, or hear about the health benefits of greenshell mussels.

Early bird tickets ($25 Adult, Children under 12 free) can be booked at www.iticket.co.nz or bought at the i-sites around the Marlborough region and Nelson i-site. Gate sales ($30) will be available on the day. There are buses from Blenheim and Picton – see www.havelockmusselfestival. co.nz

Celebrity chefs on show One tantalising reason to attend the Havelock Mussel Festival is the food.

The New Zealand King Salmon cooking marquee is one place you don’t want to miss, featuring a mouthwatering range of Marlborough produce and seafood showcased by celebrity chefs Kasey and Karena Bird, best known for winning the 2014 MasterChef.

Asked what they were looking forward to the most, they replied ‘Marlborough is one of our favourite regions’.

“We have never been to the mussel festival before but we have heard great things and Marlborough is one of our favourite regions so whenever we get the opportunity to visit we always take it up.

“At the festival we will be showcasing some beautiful local produce including oysters and mussels of course, so looking forward to seeing you all there,” they say.

Their culinary talents are guaranteed to both entertain and tempt your tastebuds.

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Music, mussels and Moa beer Kai, kids, Kasey and Karena Wine & windows into farmed seafood

Havelock’s Mussel and Seafood Festival is promising to be the best-ever this year for all categories of visitors from foodies to families.

Celebrity chefs Kasey and Karena Bird will headline the cooking demos while local bands pump out the sound on the main stage throughout the day at Havelock’s Domain from 10am-6pm on Saturday March 18.

Keeping things lubricated, a local brewery has come on board with Moa beer flowing from the taps alongside Wairau River and

Kono wines.

Festival deputy chair Simon Gibb says the festival has matured over the 13 years it has been going and has now settled on a format that provides something for everyone.

“This is a unique event. We celebrate the fact that Marlborough produces the majority of the nation’s farmed seafood and we see celebrity chefs match it with local wines and beers.

Simon says anyone with an interest in how

marine farmers sustainably produce worldclass seafood has the opportunity to wander around more than a dozen industry displays.

“You can talk about the salmon farm relocation proposal with MPI, learn how edible seaweed and paua pearls are produced, or hear about the health benefits of greenshell mussels. For families, there’s heaps for kids to do and getting things for free doesn’t stop at ‘no charge for kids ‘entry. There’s face painting, competitions, free fruit and popcorn

and story-telling. The annual Guiness Book of records attempt at mussel opening is back again, while Marlborough oysterman Aaron Pannell will be more focused on showing you how to open his favourite bi-valve rather than how many you can shuck in a minute.

You can also learn how to fillet a fish or pinbone a salmon cut. And if you don’t get your quota of kai moana on board during the day, Guyton’s is selling fresh fish and mussels to take home.

They come from far and wide

Last year, the New York Times told its readers that they needed to go to New Zealand to sample its seafood festivals, starting with the Havelock Mussel and Seafood Festival.

Although the article appeared only a couple of months before last year’s festival, there were New Yorkers there on the strength of that recommendation.

That rather dismisses a perception that only Marlborough locals attend the Havelock event. Last year, a survey of 100 attendees was conducted. The results showed that 40% were from outside the Marlborough region, with 20% from Nelson and the rest from around New Zealand and overseas.

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by 89% of those attending.

So if you’re from New York – or even just Blenheim or Picton and looking for a new experience, look no further than Havelock on Saturday week.

Early bird tickets ($25 Adult, Children under 12 free) can be booked at www. iticket.co.nz or bought at the i-sites around the

Marlborough region and Nelson i-site. Gate sales ($30) will be available on the day. There are buses from Blenheim and Picton – see www.havelockmusselfestival.co.nz The Havelock Mussel & Seafood Festival is a wonderful way to spend a late summer’s day, with as much or as little activity as you choose.

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Business events sector on the up Destination Marlborough’s increased business events focus is paying dividends already, general manager Tracy Johnston says.

“In the past six months alone, we brought 25 business event planners here to see first-hand how our region can successfully deliver business events.”

She says the response has been overwhelmingly positive, with many of these professional conference planners becoming advocates for Marlborough to their corporate clients.

“As a result of these visits the New Zealand Bar Association has announced they’re bringing 150 delegates here in September, and another association will announce Marlborough as their 2018 conference venue later this year.”

Successful conference delivery takes a team approach. Local venues, services, accommodation, transport and activity providers are stepping up to work seamlessly together to support the regional effort.

The new Marlborough Brilliant Business Events Planner, launched last week, has grown in pages by 25 per cent through increased buy-in from local providers.

Mayor John Leggett says having a dedicated business development manager pushing Marlborough’s conference and incentives sector is already delivering results.

“Marlborough has to compete against other regions, so every bid that Destination Marlborough puts together has to be Marlborough’s very best conference solution, based on the particular needs of that event organiser.”

A delegate attending a business event is worth twice that of a leisure traveller to the region. With an average delegate per night value of $439, the return on investment for each business event is high.

A three-night 150-delegate conference is worth almost $400,000 to the Marlborough economy, and that money gets spread around the district through transport, food, retail, accommodation and tourism 99 facilities.

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The ‘Hunger for Colour’ promotion was run during February and saw 650 cans donated by the local community that in turn, will be donated directly to the Salvation Army Marlborough organisation.

Staff member Christine Gull says nationwide over 63,100 cans were donated.

“We have run this promotion for the past three years and are absolutely thrilled with the response.

“We have had children through to the elderly coming in to swap a can for a test pot, and we will be doing the hand over very soon,” she says.

Resene Blenheim staff member Christine Gull standing beside 650 cans of food that have been donated as part of an instore promotion last month.

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The Ministry for Primary Industries’ consultation meeting in Waitaria Bay last week. Photo by Joop Jansen.

Final consultation sceptical

By Cathie Bell The Ministry for Primary Industries’ final consultation meeting in Marlborough about a proposal to move up to six salmon farms met a sceptical response, one of the people at the meeting says.

Hanneke Kroon, who lives in Crail Bay in Pelorus Sound and is on the Kenepuru and Central Sounds Residents’ Association,

says about 31 people attended the meeting at the Waitaria Bay school hall.

“It was a succesful meeting, where the audience asked many pertinent questions, about navigation, algal blooms, watercolumn effects, the need for environmental protection such as marine parks, doubts about the economic figures and jobs, why the govern-

ment supports a foreign owned company?,” she says.

“The ministry tried to make it all sound as no problem or we will take care that it is no problem, or adaptive management takes care that there is no problem.

“You could see people think: Yeah Right.”

Hanneke opposed New Zealand King Salmon’s application

for more salmon farms in the Marlborough Sounds through the Environmental Protection Agency in 2012, and she says the ministry’s proposal ‘feels like a repeat of the 2012 nightmare’.

She says the association will be making a submission as part of the public consultation and encourages others to make submissions as well.

• People have until 5pm on Monday March 27 to make their views known to the Government. Written comments can be emailed to aquaculture.submissions@ mpi.govt.nz or posted to Salmon Farm Relocation, Ministry for Primary Industries, Private Bag 14, Port Nelson 7042.

More information is available at www. mpi.govt.nz/news-and-resources/consultations.

Airforce buddies reunite in Picton after 39 years

Reunited friends David Gatlin and Richard Crawshaw first met in 1960 when serving in the US Airforce, and after many years they have caught up again in Picton.

By Celeste Alexander Two lifelong friends who trained together and served in the US Airforce over 50 years ago have reunited again this week in Marlborough.

Picton man Richard Crawshaw and airforce buddy David Gatlin who lives in Crawfordsville in the US state of Indiana first met in 1960 when going through technical training. After four months they both graduated and Richard went to Greenland and David to Germany.

They were busy working for the next 15 years but one day Richard walked into David’s office at the Rhein-Main Airbase near

Frankfurt.

The two then went their separate ways with work, David going back and forth between the US and Germany, while Richard worked in Spain.

In 1980 they both retired and it was then that David decided to search for his ‘airforce buddies’.

“I found many others but couldn’t find Richard. I found a military website and looked up the ‘buddy search’ and there he was.

“I sent a request to get in touch and two weeks later the phone went. We have been corresponding for the past 14 years,” David says.

Richard by then had moved to Marlborough and often extended an invite to David to visit, and now after 39 years of not seeing one another, David has come to stay for three weeks.

Richard is planning to take David on a tour of Marlborough before heading to the West Coast to show him ‘more of beautiful New Zealand’, but so far David says he is impressed.

“I love Marlborough, it’s such a beautiful region with really nice people. It’s much quieter than back home, the silence is deafening,” he jokes.

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Hayden Paddon and John Kennard, competing in last year's Rally of Mexico.

Paddon and Kennard head to Mexico Members of the Thistle Inn Fishing Club, with Ron and Darryl Hart in the middle, wearing grey club jackets.

Mates get together for 40th annual fishing trip

By Cathie Bell The Thistle Inn Fishing Club started 40 years ago with a trip to the Marlborough Sounds, and they are still going strong, albeit a bit older.

Seventeen men are on this year’s trip out to Colin and Una Smith’s Endeavour Inlet fishing resort, some of the original members bringing their sons and grandsons along.

The club was started by Otaki man Darryl Hart, and his brother Ron says the men, mainly railway workers, have a great time each year.

Indeed, their shopping in Picton beforehand can strip local liquor

stores of complete pallets of beer.

“Most of the fishing we older ones do now is fishing the beer out of the fridge, we can’t see to put the nylon on the hooks,” Ron laughs.

However, he says they are careful not to mix alcohol and boating.

Darryl says the trips have moved around the Sounds, starting at Blackwood Bay, then Anakoua Bay, and at the NZ Workers’ Union camp, before settling with the Smiths at Endeavour Inlet.

The club’s members come from Christchurch and Wellington, meeting up in Picton to head out to their accommodation in the Sounds.

Most of the club’s 40 trips have been to the Marlborough Sounds, although they have made a few to the Chatham Islands, where the blue cod fishing was great.

Ron says the Sounds are special and the changes in fishing regulations haven’t affected the club’s trips.

“It’s just the tranquillity of it, the enjoyment and the tranquillity of the Sounds that gets us coming back.”

Their trips are good for Picton, he says, as they stocked up in the seaside town before heading out on Wednesday to Endeavour Inlet for their long weekend.

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Hayden Paddon and John Kennard head to Mexico’s third round of the FIA World Rally Championship this weekend, having completed plenty of solid preparation.

Paddon and Kennard says they don’t underestimate the challenges of the Rally Guanajuato México, based in the city of Leon 400km north-west of Mexico City, where temperatures and altitude can impact the rally cars’ performance.

Two weeks at home in New Zealand – busy with publicity commitments, launching the Hyundai New Zealand Rally Team line-up for the domestic rally season and lots of training in Kiwi summer temperatures – puts Paddon in a good place physically and mentally to get back into competition.

Kennard agrees that it’s been good to have time back in New Zealand.

“For the past couple of years, I’ve stayed in Scandinavia before heading to Mexico, but this way, I can be out in the Marlborough sunshine, training on my mountain bike in a similar climate. You’re generally a bit closer to the same time zone, albeit almost a

day behind, so with that extra day here to acclimatise to summer temps, hopefully we’re all set to go in Mexico.”

Of Rally Mexico, one of two WRC events in the Americas, Paddon says it is a challenging rally.

“The roads are quite slippery on first pass, but it has quite a nice nature with some slow technical parts and some faster parts. With 12 WRC cars in the event, the roads don’t cut up so much. However, there is no room for error with many obstacles lining the edge of the roads.

“It’s warm, but not too warm. Our two-week visit to New Zealand en route to Mexico was actually quite similar temperatures, so it’s been a good way to acclimatise. The altitude has a greater effect on the cars than us, losing up to 20 per cent power.”

This is the third time Paddon and Kennard have competed in Mexico.

“I prefer to go back to events with some prior experience – even if it’s only once or twice we have previously done it, as it will be in Mexico. We have some good info from last year that has helped me to prepare.”

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A position has become available to drive our Blenheim based Freightliner Argosy. Duties would include, but are not limited to, towing our container skeletal trailers, refrigerated curtainsider and hardsider trailers and flatdeck. This position predominately involves travelling in the Marlboough/Tasman area, however longer trips are a possibility.

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Dark Claudio after Leicester sacking The sacking of Claudio Ranieri from Leicester City is proof that professional sport is all about what you’ve done today.

In May of last year, Ranieri was being serenaded by tenor Andrea Bocelli after leading Leicester from relegation favourites to English Premier League winners in one of the most stunning sporting triumphs ever.

Now, with the gloss clearly gone and Leicester back in a relegation dog fight where many think they belong, Ranieri has been shown the door.

Staying in the top flight of English football is

worth millions to every club each year and for those in charge of the champions, it was too much of a risk to let sentiment get in the way of top tier survival.

It’s a head versus heart decision.

The head says change is needed, the heart says he deserves more loyalty based on past success.

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho suffered the same fate in being sacked a season after he won the crown with Chelsea.

Mourinho says his three EPL were not worth as much as Ranieri’s one, such was the

magnitude of his triumph last year.

The enigmatic football manager even wore ‘CR’ on his clothes as a sign of support.

Granted since Ranieri’s departure Leicester have won two games which suggests to me the players may have played a role in his departure.

There’s no doubt Ranieri will be a man in demand not only in England but for clubs worldwide keen to tap into his skills.

However, loyalty has taken another hit in this brutal example of win or go home in modern day sports.

XRACE a family affair

By Poppy Wortman It was a Blenheim motherdaughter duo who took out the line honours at Wednesday’s NZHL XRACE, held under temperamental cloudy skies at Taylor River Amphitheatre.

At a speedy time of 45.02 minutes, Teresa and sevenyear-old Mikayla Ikenasio tackled ten challenges including hacky sacking into a hoop, a three-legged race, painting a paper house and a dance step challenge.

The two competed against a field that included Mikayla’s father Rodney and sister Kaitlyn, who came in just five minutes behind them. While the memory crossword challenge proved quite a test, Teresa says it was not the biggest trial.

“The biggest challenge by far was keeping up with Mikayla’s long legs,” she says.

The Blenheim stopover was the seventh event in the

national series of XRACE events. An XRACE is a mystery adventure race made up of a parent and child, racing together against other family teams to complete ten mystery challenges.

XRACE Series creator Shane Hooks says the challenges are a mixture of fun like the dance challenge, but carry life skills as well.

This year teams were told in advance that one challenge would be toe nail painting with pink polish, which proved tricky for many dads.

“One of the greatest challenges to watch was the blindfold, where the blindfolded parents can only navigate the course through the voice of their child,” he says.

“It’s like The Amazing Race but at a start line with hundreds of families at once.

It’s a real bonding experi- The Ikenasio family, with mum Theresa and Mikayla beating father Rodney and sister Kaitlyn to second place. ence.”

School sailors training hard Marlborough’s college team sailors are intensifying their training in preparation for two big contests.

Queen Charlotte Yacht Club spokeswoman Christel Hopkins says the teenagers spent the bigger part of last Sunday on the water in the inner harbour.

“Emphasis was laid on the boat handling and strategies.

“After practising skills, a tight course was laid to race around, and the teams are trying out a few more crew combinations to find the best one for each situation.”

The Marlborough colleges sailing teams are from three colleges: Marlborough Girls’, Marlborough Boys’, and Queen Charlotte College, Christel says.

In team sailing, three boats of each team race against three boats of another team.

The sailing is done in 420 yachts crewed by a skipper and one crew.

The race is on an ‘S’ shaped course, with two upwind legs, two reaches and a downwind.

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The Masport Cup will be up for grabs at the Rotoiti Power Boat annual Regatta at lake Rotoiti on April 1 and 2, as the regatta has been awarded the race after a North Island meeting was cancelled for cost reasons. Organising committee spokesman Joe Blakiston says the event is a significant one, and the Rotoiti event is a favourite with drivers. “The National Park environment, great spectator viewing and with the added excitement of SH1 going through the town, it will be a real spectacle.”

Basketball blitz Three National Basketball League teams are playing in Blenheim this weekend, with the Wellington Saints, Nelson Giants, and Christchurch Rams competing against each other over today and tomorrow at the Marlborough Lines Stadium 2000.

Cricket This Saturday sees both teams playing at Horton Park with the Falcons taking on ACOC on Horton, while the Dolphins take on Nelson College on Horton 3, both games starting at 11am.

Records broken Lucy Sheat has broken two school records at last month’s Marlborough Girls’ College athletics day, with a new under-19 mark of 12.13 seconds in the 100m, breaking the previous record of 12.9 set in 1984. She then broke the under-19 200m record, which was 27.2 seconds set in 1976, cutting it to 24.69.

School rugby rebrands Marlborough Boys’ College rugby is teaming up with the Marlborough Falcon Trust, and are re-branding its teams as the ‘Falcons’.

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Two of the QCC boats and crews practising tacking duels last Sunday, from left, Agost Radzik, Harry Edwards (helming), Jasper Hopkins (helm) and Ryley Thom.

Christel says the races are quick and interesting to watch, involving a lot of close-proximity sailing, tactics, and perfect boat handling.

The two big contests coming up are the Top of the South regionals, to be held in Picton at the end of March and the Nationals at the end of April,

in Auckland.

Christel says both the Marlborough Boys’ and QCC teams are again aiming for the top.

“The team from Marlborough Girls’ is quite fresh and are looking at building up skills and experience to have a stronger and better team next year.”

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