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Jonty Dine When Reuben and Brooke Bensemann first saw their Nelson home, they loved it so much they didn’t even check the backyard. “We were just so stoked on the place, we just threw an offer in.” When that offer was successful, the young couple decided to explore their new property and were greeted with a steep, sloping section, enveloped by gorse as tall as Rueben. After having to crawl through the thickest of it, they eventually made it to the top and, looking down on the dense shrubbery, pondered what to do with the area. Obviously, a tennis court was not an option, so Reuben jokingly said, “what if I put a tiny bike track in?” The clay soil offered few alternatives, and Brooke agreed to one small track which soon became two, and now two years later,
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Reuben and Brooke Bensemann have created peppa pigs playground, in the backyard of their Nelson home. Photo: Jonty Dine. Insert: Liam Barclay testing out the track last weekend. Photo: Evan Barnes/Shuttersport
Vandals target Stoke cafe Jonty Dine
If it wasn’t hard enough for the owners of hospitality venues, the owner of Greenmeadows Café has also had to deal with vandals and even arson.
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For three consecutive nights, a group has wreaked havoc out the front of the Stoke eatery, smashing tables, planter boxes, and attempting to set a fire. Owner Lynley Gilchrist-Lunn says the young offenders are
causing further stress in what are already uncertain times. “You don’t know one day to the next if you’re going to make a buck or not, and then on top of that you have this to deal with. It is not helpful and doesn’t
put anyone in a better frame of mind.” The redwood tables, which sit permanently out the front of the café, cost between two and six thousand dollars and had been recently sanded and revarnished.
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“There is a risk at leaving them there, but most people have been really respectful of them.” This was until 19 January when the group of six to 12 youths
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