18 March 2020

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Warriors hang on Wairua Warrior Andrew King negotiates the inverse monkey bars. Photo: Chris Symes/Shuttersport.

Jonty Dine The Wairua Warrior saw more athletes than ever taking on the notorious obstacle course in Happy Valley on Saturday. Event director Greg Witika says Saturday’s race was the best in Wairua Warrior history with more than 700 braving the gruelling challenge. “It was an awesome event, participants were up and it all ran to plan.” He says he was rapt with the turn out, particularly considering the ever-popular Muddy Buddy was on the following day and the Weet-Bix TRYathlon the previous weekend.

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Greg says the 12km course was much harder this year with more elevation added to further challenge athletes. Taking out the 12km course was Carl Smith in 1:27.36 while Samantha Beale was the first female to cross the finish. In the shorter 6km course, Danny Guix claimed first place for the men with Samantha Gaddes winning the women’s division. The day also saw more than 200 kids running in the inaugural ‘Mini Warrior’ for ages 5-13.

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Nelson prepares for Covid-19 Charles Anderson and Kate Russell

Nelson and the country are in “uncharted territory” says the mayor as swaths of events are cancelled and local businesses start to feel the brunt of a global downturn due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The response to the Covid-19 crisis has kicked up another notch this week with the Government calling a halt to gatherings of more than 500 people, and warning of a recession greater than that of the Global Financial Crisis. A stimulus package centred around jobs and cushioning those suffering the most immediate effects and strengthening border controls has also been announced. That has led various Nelson events to be cancelled or postponed, such as Race Unity Day and the Walk for Life, as well as Saturday’s Nelson Market and Monty’s Sunday Market. However, Mayor Rachel Reese says one of the strengths of the region is that we are practised at emergencies and planning has been going on for some time. “We have done preparation trials for pandemics before … but this is uncharted territory given the scale of this across the globe.” She says local businesses will also feel the impact and implored owners to take up the Government’s

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fiscal package. “The message to business owners is that this isn’t the year to try and get by and not take up assistance. Some have never had to ask for support. Well, the Government wants people to come forward.” Rachel says that people need to listen to the advice of experts when it comes to social gatherings. “We know this virus is more serious for older people. This is going to be one time where decisions made by younger people may save some lives.” She also says that anyone not feeling well should stay home and, like Nelson City Council, make sure that businesses continuity had plans in case people needed to selfisolate. Nelson shoppers have also emptied shelves in some stores, going for staples such as bread, rice and pasta and buying toilet paper, water, medicines and cleaning products in bulk. However, supermarket giants insist there is plenty of food to go around and have urged people to shop normally. Rachel urged calm. “I’ve got no information that grocery supply chains will be interrupted. Please do sensible shopping. For emergency management, make sure you have a couple of weeks stored - enough

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