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tuesday 19 december 2017
lanterns shine a light
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NMIT commerce student JodieAnne Colvin celebrates after graduating on Friday. Photo: Brittany Spencer.
Six years, four kids, one degree Brittany Spencer
Among the 640 students who marched up Trafalgar Street on Friday to cele‑ brate graduating from the Nelson Mar‑ lborough Institute of Technology was one “elated” supermum.
For six years, Stoke’s Jodie‑Anne Colvin juggled giving birth to twins, late nights studying, raising her family, the stress of exams, part‑time work and volun‑ teering in the community. But on Fri‑ day, after finally receiving her Bachelor of Commerce, she couldn’t have been
happeir. Jodie‑Anne says last week was a massive milestone and stepping onto the Trafalgar Centre stage to get her de‑ gree was indescribable. “It’s amazing, I didn’t think this day was going to come, it’s been a very long pro‑ cess but I’ve made it, it’s quite surreal.”
Jodie‑Anne says she hasn’t done it alone. She’s had the support of her fam‑ ily, in particular, her father Neal Rider who is barely able to read and write. “I’m very proud of her,” says Neal. “I left school at 12 so it’s amazing to see her get a degree, I have three children and now all of them have qualifications, it’s
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Dog car death ‘devastating’ Judene Edgar Reporter
judene@waimeaweekly.co.nz
A dog left in a hot car ouside a Nelson property last week has died ‑ a death that the Nelson SPCA describes as “a devastating
and horrible way to go”. “Unless you’re actually taking the dog somewhere for the day, like the river or the beach, don’t take them,” SPCA manager Donna Walzl she says. Donna says that on a hot day the temperature inside your car
can reach 39 degrees Celsius within 10 minutes. A dog left in a parked car can be dead within minutes as they don’t have the ability to cool themselves down. Dogs need cool air flow because their primary method of cooling down is by panting, she says.
With the weather heating up, the SPCA is already getting an increasing number of calls every day, and Donna says “it’s only go‑ ing to get busier”. Wakefield resident and dog own‑ er Cushla Moir was disturbed last week to see an “extremely hot and
distressed” dog in a car in the Richmond Mall car park. Cushla rang the SPCA, but as staff there were unable to respond quickly enough, they suggested she went to the Richmond Police
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