Post Tuesday, September 10, 2013 • Vol 25, No. 35
Above: Coach Tana Umaga speaks to the crowd in Pukekohe yesterday afternoon. Far left, Waiuku’s Ronald Raaymakers holds the coveted Ranfurly Shield
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WELL DONE BOYS! It’s been 58 years in the making, but the celebrations around the Counties-Manukau area this week after the Steelers won a thriller against Hawkes Bay on Saturday have been worth waiting for. The epic, down to the wire, victory for the coveted Ranfurly Shield has suddenly made this Sunday’s 2.35pm match against Taranaki a
must-see event for any local rugby fan. It will be the first time ever that Counties have played a shield defence, and expectations are of one of the biggest crowds ever seen at what is now EcoLight Stadium in Pukekohe. Meanwhile, the Ranfurly Shield will be taken on a triumphant tour of the district, with parades in Ma-
nukau, Papakura and Pukekohe yesterday, while this afternoon (Tuesday) it will be toured around Manurewa Schools. On Wednesday between 9am and 11am Papakura Schools will get the chance to see the ‘Log of Wood’, while it will be at Massey park, Papakura through lunchtime before heading for more local schools. In
the evening it will be displayed at the Ardmore-Marist Rugby Club. Thursday between 9am and 3pm sees the Shield visiting schools in the wider Franklin area, before appearing in the Waiuku Town Square between 3.30pm and 5pm and then heading to the Waiuku Rugby Club between 6pm and 7.30pm.
On Friday it will be displayed at Eco Light Stadium between 1pm and 5pm, and, hopefully, that’s where it will remain after the final whistle against Taranaki on Sunday! Inside this week: 202-match veteran of Counties Rugby, Alan Dawson gives his view, page 5. Match report v Hawkes Bay, page 23.
Award for First Steps centre Artist says she doesn’t condone tagging First Steps Waiuku were the only childcare centre in the South Region to receive a Trustmark Award across all three available categories at the Kidicorp Annual Conference in Auckland recently. The three categories were Leadership and Management, Working
with Others and Quality Teaching. The recognition saw them the only centre of 31 in the region to collect the award across all three sectors. The team received $3000 to spend on resources for the centre and say they have already purchased two
small whares for the children to enjoy in both the Infants and Preschool. “It was great to be recognised nationally for all the hard work and dedication that the staff at First Steps put into the daily learning and care of the children,” a spokesperson said.
Carmel Stewart, who featured in a Post article last week regarding her development of a Soul of Art project in Tuakau, says that she does not condone tagging at all, however recognises the talent of young people and graffiti as an artform when practised in a controlled area with an aim in mind. With this in mind Soul Of Art Community wishes to encourage the talent of the young people of Tuakau by providing paints, boards and a demonstration by a well known graffiti artist at the Tuakau Community Day on October 19.
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The works produced on the day along with a series of portraits will become the focus of an exhibition following the Community day’. “I believe that by giving the young people a voice through a medium which they enjoy there will be no reason to use tagging around the town at all as a form of expression,” she says. Soul of Art has sponsorships available for the weekly art/craft group enabling all children who wish to come along to be able to do so. For more information email info@SoulOfArtCommunity.com
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