Nelson Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
tuesday 25 July 2017
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Dairy owner: I don’t feel safe Kate Russell Reporter
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A Nelson dairy owner says she feels “terrified” following an attempted robbery at her store, and is resorting to installing a panic
alarm to protect herself and her staff. Three fifteen-year-old boys, armed with knives, tried to rob the Roto Street Store in Tahunanui earlier this month, but they were arrested and charged thanks to the help of two members of the
public who stepped in. Owner Chanty Pich says it was a “lucky escape” but is now doing everything she can to prevent her store from being targeted again. She says she does not feel safe in her store, especially at night. “It is much worse at night as we
are always working by ourselves, so that is why I am looking into an alarm. “But the police come and check on us a bit and we are so thankful for that. They asked me what time I close my shop and say they will drive past before that.”
The Roto Street Store is one of five Nelson dairies to be targeted in a spate of robberies in the last four months, with the Night Owl Store, the Tahuna Store, the Hira Store and the Victory Discounter
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NMIT’s hair-raising competition Brittany Spencer Hair spray was thick in the air and bobby pins were everywhere at the annual NMIT Hairdressing Competition yesterday. Split into three sections, the competition was comprised of a Year One section, Year Two Cut and Colour, and the ever popular Year Three Avant-garde Hair Up. Hair dressing tutor Zaley Gill says this year’s theme was “Then and Now” with students looking at fashion and hair from the past and giving their hairdos of today a novel twist. “All our hairdressers went really well,
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there’s so much pressure on them but they all stepped up, taking inspiration from everywhere and then really evolving their ideas into all these amazing hairstyles.” The 34 students took inspiration from Vikings, Egyptians, Victorians, the 1960s and Mad Max, however it was Leni Kinloch’s rockabilly cupcake creation that took out the first year section. Patrick Conlon utilised vivid purples, blues, greens, and black to win the Cut and Colour, while the judges awarded Parku Kan-Mawi first place in the Avant-Garde Hair Up, for her Japanese horn-style.
Model Dayna-Maree Hollyman gets transformed with a modern viking hairstyle by NMIT student Kayla Jolly in the Avant-garde Hair Up section of the annual Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology Hairdressing Competition. Photo: Brittany Spencer.
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