This Week
WEDNESDAY 11 September 2013
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Richmond Kindy turns 50
Nadia Lourens, Belle Pearce, Chloe Lourens, Seth Jellyman and Jadya Evans at Richmond Kindergarten.
Children used to walk themselves to Richmond Kindergarten when it first opened. There was no fence and they would splash about in a water trough outside. Oh, how things have changed. This Friday the kindergarten will celebrate its 50th birthday, an occasion its head teacher says is special for the community. “It was the first kindergarten building in Richmond,” says Robyn Amos, who has been there for more than 20 years. When asked what had changed the most since the kindergarten’s early
days, Robyn quickly answers “safety”. “Children would walk home by themselves and the fence didn’t have to be a certain height. The ratio of teachers to children has definitely increased,” she explains. The primary focus of a kindergarten, which operates all day now, has changed over the years too, and the teachers say it is more about transitioning children onto primary school. “Now there’s a curriculum that we work towards. We want these children to be successful at school so this is all about
making sure they have all the skills needed so they can succeed when they move on.” Olympian Anita Punt was a former student, and probably the most famous to attend the kindergarten. The schedule for the 50th birthday celebration includes an open day for past students from 8:30am until 12:45pm, a shared lunch with the current families and a dinner with previous staff members. Tracking down former teachers has been “a bit of a mission” but there will be some coming from out of town.
Club members told to pay up Suburban Club members have been told the club is in financial trouble and they each need to pay a $100 donation to help keep it afloat. In a letter dated September 4, the chairman and president of the club wrote to each of its 4800 members advising them that the club is in “substantial arrears” to the Inland Revenue Department and other creditors. Club chairman Ross Strawbridge told Waimea Weekly the situation was “gutting” and that the general manager of the club was no longer in the job. Included in the letter was an invoice for $100 and the plea for cash has also been promoted over the sound system in the club over the past week. But the board says it’s confident of paying off the $300,000 it owes by the end of September and has received a donation of more than $128,000 by one club member. “In light of this, the board has given an undertaking to our bank and major creditors that all of our remaining creditors will be cleared by September 30,” said the letter, signed by Ross Strawbridge and president Jim Reeves. It also said that the board became aware of the arrears in August as the debt had not been disclosed in monthly management reports. They say the club is trading profitably after some cost cutting measures.
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