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Wednesday 22 May 2024
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Paying it forward to heat homes ANNE HARDIE More people are turning off the heating in their homes as the cost-of-living bites deeper and the Fifeshire Foundation is looking for more superannuants who do not need their winter energy payment to pay it forward and help keep families warm. Last year, the foundation ran a winter grants programme based on superannuants donating their government winter energy payment and it became part of a fund of nearly $10,000. That helped 161 families warm their homes by either covering some of their power costs or receiving one of the 73 loads of firewood delivered around Nelson and Tasman. Nigel Brabyn from OneFortyOne (left), Fifeshire Foundation’s Shanine Hermsen and Laurie Gabites from the Nelson Anglican Diocese are working on heating more homes this winter. Photo: Anne Hardie.
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Georgie’s lasting legacy for hospice SARA HOLLYMAN Georgia Ferris lived her life “full send”, with no time for doing things half-assed, according to her twin sister Liv. She made the
most of the life she’d been given, although it was fleeting. Georgia, Georgie, Gee, is described as F***n insane, stubborn, headstrong and charitable, by Liv and their mum Robyn. But
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above all, she was determined. Georgie passed away in November at age 27 after a long and public battle with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and, even though she is no longer here, she continues
to make a huge impact. While Nelson Tasman Hospice was involved with assisting Georgie for the better part of three years, her final months were spent at Stoke’s hospice facility, a
place that Robyn says gave herself and Liv a second family. “We embraced hospice because the minute you walk through the
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