April 18 2017
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Big River FM’s Anaru Tana has become the overall mentor …
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The Dargaville Returned Services Association, women’s section volunteers spent the morning of April 10 placing crosses in front of 600 graves of war veterans, servicemen and women at the Mount Wesley RSA Cemetery. Assisting the older generation were members of the local Dargaville Keas, Cubs and Scouts. The women’s section also held and catered an Easter Saturday luncheon for 50 WWII veterans and their wives as well as war veterans from Vietnam, Japan, Korea and Malaysia.
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Swimming official on world stage by Anna Harding
Dargaville’s Carlrine Gillespie has been selected to work poolside at the Fina World Swimming Championships in Hungary in July and at the World Para Swimming Championships in Mexico at the end of September.
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Passchendaele is a name which still recalls the full horror …
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Fina — the Fédération Internationale de Natation — is the governing body recognised by the International Olympic Committee for administering international competition in water sports. Carlrine is chair of Swimming Northland and her road to being an
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official started 14 years ago, when her daughter Taryn started competing and she became a timekeeper at local meets. But she “never thought it would lead to the international arena.” The selection process is rigorous and Carlrine says she was expecting
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a long wait before being picked for anything, let alone be selected for the two international competitions. Officials are picked from the Fina list, and Swimming New Zealand only put forward Gillespie’s name in January.
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