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The Sun
Wednesday June 26, 2019
Sun readers have their say... with the WORD on the Street.
Q: Who is someone that inspires you?
Holly Gleeson Blenheim My old boss, Glenn Dick. He is super driven, motivated, and always achieving.
Jeanette Warner Rachel Boun Blenheim Blenheim David Jeremiah - he’s a My mum, just because she’s preacher on Shine TV. amazing.
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Alex Henderson Blenheim My older brother. He started with nothing and has created a business in Australia and is doing what he loves.
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Rose Church Blenheim My mum, because she works hard as well as taking care of us and doesn’t come from a wealthy background, but is a successful real estate agent. I’m very proud of her.
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Maybe an extra bus Dear Ed, Cutting out some stages on the Blenheim bus route will be hard for some people who don’t have any other transport, but understandably the drivers should not be stretched to keeping a strict time table.
Maybe a solution would be to put on an extra bus, two smaller shuttle types instead of one big one. As has been pointed out, buses are running near empty. If buses ran regularly, more people would be likely to use
Renwick post office Dear Ed, In reply to the text on Friday regarding the Renwick post office. My parents own Newman Graphics, which have the postal agency in Renwick. It is not permanently closed. Unfortunately we have had to shut it for short periods on occasion, and we have hated having to do so each time. I thought this being a small town that most people were aware of what our family has been going through, and we do appreciate the support we have received from many of you. In January 2018 my beautiful Mum passed away after an 18 month battle with breast cancer.
Sophie Green Blenheim My grandmother, she does what she loves to do, without caring what people think.
Since Mum passed our small business of 10 staff lost half, including Mum, reasons being retirement (life’s too short), having babies, and illness. Most who knew how to run the shop, having started in there and then moved to the other side of the business. A lot of post office knowledge went with those staff. We have now replaced the staff and have a wonderful team, but the post agency isn’t frequented enough for us to pay another wage, so our sign writer helps out when he can. Just recently our part time admin girl was offered the job of her dreams, but helps
when she can, and I am the only other person who can cover the shop when the lovely Ella can’t be there. I have two small children and can only work 20 hours a week. Unfortunately it’s not safe or practical for me to have the children in the shop with me while serving customers. We are doing our best to provide this service to the community and appreciate your ongoing patience with us as we work out how best to manage these hurdles. I hope this answers your question as to “what is going on - are there staff issues?” Anna (nee Newman) Renwick
them. Blenheim is growing and infrastructure needs to grow. We don’t want to end up like Auckland. Just Saying Blenheim
Concert a delight Dear Ed, What a wonderful line-up of local talent at the Carnival Concert in the ASB Theatre on Saturday evening. All those fine, talented people, many of them youngsters, gives you great hope for the future. The Civic Orchestra and their guests turned in a wonderful performance and young Kodi Rasmussen’s classical composition showed a talent and maturity we could only admire. We sat next to a gentleman who admitted it was the first time he had been in our wonderful new theatre. He was suitably impressed. Blenheim is so fortunate to have such a world-class venue in which the stars of the future can perform. Congratulations to all of you! Music Lover Blenheim
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