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Wednesday 27 November 2019
Emily’s close shave
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Tasman a head above
Facing the greens for 50 years
Jonty Dine
Don Carter may well be the longest serving greenkeeper in the country. The Richmond resident has been preparing the greens at Stoke Bowling Club for more than half a century, longer than anyone he knows in his vast network of greenkeepers. “I don’t know of anyone who has done 50 years,” he says. Don was recently honoured at the Nelson Sports Awards with a Rata Foundation Life Service Award. The 82-year-old says it was a rare moment of adulation in an often-thankless job. “You don’t get many bouquets.” A reluctant Don required some convincing to attend the awards. “It was quite an honour, it’s not my cup of tea, that sort of thing,” he says. “I’d just be quite happy to do my work and leave it at that, but I got pressured into it and said ‘yes’ in the end.”
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Don Carter has been the greenkeeper at Stoke Bowling Club for more than fifty years. Photo: Jonty Dine.
Vern believed all he was saying ‘yes’ to was a glass of Fanta.
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Marina saga boils over Charles Anderson Frustration over the future of the Nelson Marina has boiled over as work on its multimillion-dollar redevelopment has stalled and a committee of boaties tasked with helping the process appears to have been sidelined. It is understood that work on the marina redevelopment, which Nelson City Council has earmarked about $5 million over the next decade, stopped in April after a change in council personnel and strategy. Work had been done with stakeholders to ensure an upgrading of pontoons, trailer park and hardstand, among other large-scale plans that are part of the three-stage project. However, only pontoons worth $375,000 went in last April. Work on the trailer park stopped around that same time, as well as work on the hardstand, which is only half complete. The Nelson Weekly understands that the work shutdown is due to a change in council strategy which threw out much of the designs that had been agreed upon with a group of local boaties, who came on board more than two years ago. Instead council has enlisted consultants to redo much of that work. Since last
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