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Wednesday 20 September 2023
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Brothers advocate for cancer foundation
Baillie Kerby (right), with his brother Willy, also pictured below during his cancer battle, are both promoting the Child Cancer Foundation. Photo: Rachael Brown.
GORDON PREECE Baillie Kerby’s brother Willy has beaten child cancer and both young men have turned to promoting the cause. The 10-year-old Enner Glynn School student has lived through his brother’s treatment for neuroblastoma after he was diagnosed with the disease, which affects the sympathetic nervous system, in February last year. Willy, who is now five, has recently been declared cancer-free after many cycles of chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery to remove his cancer tumour. Their mother, Sarah Kerby, says Willy featured as a Child Cancer
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The weirdest op shop donations
KATE RUSSELL
Love letters, prosthetic limbs, a 221-year-old book and 1985 Goonies cards - these are just some of the most unusual and rare donations Nelson op shops say they have received.
Area president of St Vincent de Paul Nelson Tasman, Elizabeth Owens, says between their three shops in Nelson, Stoke and Richmond they see their fair share of “weird” donations. “A decorated ostrich egg on a stand, love letters with a wedding
dress from the 1970s, a half-eaten jar of marmalade, a beekeeper’s suit, a prosthetic limb, and 1946 English Women’s Weekly and Stitchcraft magazines have been among them.” A school medal was also donated but they returned it to the North
Island high school where it came from. “We also found $350 cash in a jacket pocket - we gave it to the police, but it was unclaimed, so we got it back,” says Elizabeth. Anton Drazevic, chief executive of the Nelson Environment Cen-
tre, says they see plenty of bizarre donations at their ReUse Shop on Vivian Place. A 19th-century harrow, Goonies cards from 1985, ‘creepy’ clowns, old cameras and coins, and even
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