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The Sun
Wednesday March 21, 2012
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Rush at auction By Annabelle Latz Eric Rush provided a great yarn about his childhood and rugby playing days at Harlequin Rugby Club’s auction night fundraiser dinner earlier this month. “It was outstanding, he spoke brilliantly, he’s a real professional who enjoyed the night as much as us,” said club chairman Mark Elkington. There were 175 people at the Clubs of Marlborough on Saturday March 10 to enjoy a
great dinner accompanied by entertaining hosts. “He talked about growing up in the far north, with lots of funny stories about his Irish father and Maori mother. “He also told a few stories about his All Black days, and the likes of Jamie Joseph, and the things they got up to.” Harry Lampe hosted a fantastic auction, creating much enthusiasm amongst bidders. “He had us in fits of laughter all night,” said Mark.
Amongst the highlight auction items was the 1973 rugby ball, signed by the winning Marlborough Red Devils team of the 1993 Ranfurly Shield, selling for $750.00. The All Black-signed Rugby World Cup jersey went for $2000. “We were over the moon.” On behalf of Harlequins Rugby Club, Mark wanted to thank all the supporters and donators.
Andrew Miller, Eric Rush, Mark Elkington and Greg Marfell, the organising committee for Harlequins.
Cycle around island began as friendly joke Story and photo by Celeste Lodewyk Renwick man Dave McDonald jokingly suggested to some of his London friends that they should join him on a cycle around the South Island. Three years later Dave caught up with the same friends at a family wedding and as much as he hoped they had forgotten, they had not. So plans were put in action and on Sunday the “keenest” of his friends, Imelda Foley and Evi
Frank arrived from London to prepare for the two and a half week journey. “We originally had six people but we dwindled to three,” Dave laughs. The journey began at 8am this morning as the trio set off driving toward Collingwood where they plan to begin. From there they plan to wind their way down to Bluff, alternating between driving and cycling. “It’s not a race and we don’t have a strict time frame, we just
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Pigeon racing results
want to enjoy the beauty of the South Island and have a bit of fun along the way,” Dave says. As part of the journey Dave also plans to promote his wife Rozanna’s charitable trust, Post Natal Depression (PND) Marlborough. “We plan to create an awareness of PND by regularly blogging and talking to people along the way. “If we do manage to raise any money then it will be an added bonus,” he says.
Dave McDonald, with his London friends Imelda Foley and Evi Frank, are leaving tomorrow for their South Island cycle trek.
The Blenheim Pigeon club raced it’s first youngbird race of the season on Saturday from the Kaikoura Mt Lyford turnoff (140km). The perfect weather conditions contributed to a flying time of 2 hours for the winning bird. New flyer A Cooper from Renwick won, Don Morrison (Morrins Hollow) at Spring Creek was second. Other placings;3rd C Kirkwood, 4th James, 5th J Webb, 6th S Kirkwood, 7th S Morrison, 8th Tumble Down.
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