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Appleby kicks off fair season in style Jessie Johnston Toffee apples, hay bales and a whole heap of country fair fun made last weekend one to remember. The Appleby School Country Fair has been a popular community event since the ‘90s and every year its success has grown. As the first gala on the spring calendar, the 2014 fair delivered an array of great food, competitions, entertainment and children’s activities. Board of Trustees member Rachel Knowles was delighted with the fantastic turnout the fair received and put the enjoyment of the day down, in part, to improvements that had been made to the layout and cashier system, reducing queue sizes and creating more space to move around in. The school also maintained its standing as one of the biggest fairs with an total of
Cassandra Busby reaches out for an apple on the vertical bungy at the Appleby School Fair on Saturday. Photo: Jessie Johnston.
$43,500 in takings, beating last year’s record of $42,000. The success of the school is simple; they do what they do well. “The Appleby School Fair has an ongoing reputation, not only do we have amazing support from our community and our neighbours, the generosity extends out into the wider community. People know what to expect when they get here. We have quality entertainment, food, fairground activities and the silent auction, and we don’t disappoint them,” says Rachel. The money that was raised this year will be going towards one of the school’s projects, the upgrading of its swimming pool. The pool is used by both the school and the community, and improving the facility will ensure it is there for everyone’s future use. The fair organisers wish to thank everyone who supported them on fair day.
Fizzy drinks rotting kids’ teeth
Simon Bloomberg
Some children in Nelson and Marlborough are drinking so much soft drink their teeth are almost completed rotted by the time they start school. The latest figures show that sugar consumption in New Zealand has reached a
new record high, with an average adult eating or drinking 54 kilograms a year. That’s the third highest rate in the western world behind the US and Mexico, and Nelson Marlborough District Health Board principal dental officer Dr Rob Beaglehole says it’s time to cut back. “I saw a six-year-old last week and he
needed eight teeth extracted and at least two fillings,” Rob says. “He was drinking one large bottle of Coke a day and so were his three siblings - the boy’s teeth were so bad he needed a general anaesthetic for the extraction.” Rob says he also extracted six baby teeth from an 18-month-old child last month
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while a two-year-old, who had been drinking Coke from a baby bottle, needed surgery because their teeth were dissolved down to the gums. He says about 240 children in Nelson and Marlborough needed general anaesthetic
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