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Wednesday 15 January 2014
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Wine and food fest is back The Brightwater Wine and Food Festival is returning after an “overwhelming” response from the public encouraged the Rotary Club of Richmond to revive their iconic fundraising event. Rotary had organised the festival nine times raising around $230,000 for charities, schools and volunteer organisations
Richmond Rotary’s Kevin Gear, right, and Peter Glue, second right, with Middle-Earth Vineyard’s Ryan and Kylie O’Connell at Middle-Earth Vineyard on Bryant Road Winery where the Brightwater Wine and Food Festival will be held on February 16. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
around the district. The club canned the festival last year so it could reassess its future after a making a loss in 2012 but now it’s back with the 10th edition to be held at the same venue at Middle-Earth Vineyard on Bryant Rd in Brightwater SEE PAGE 2
More big events to be local More of the region’s big events are eyeing up Saxton Stadium after the closure of two earthquake prone venues in Nelson city has left event organisers scrambling to secure alternative locations. The city’s main events venue, the Trafalgar Centre, was closed by Nelson City Council in early December due to a high chance of loss of life should a moderate earthquake occur while it was in use. The Nelson School of Music has since suffered a similar fate, closing to public use until
earthquake-strengthening work has been completed. With both venues out of action, full calendars of pre booked events are now out in the cold and that’s putting pressure on other locations. Stu Dalton, Theatre Royal marketing and box office manager, says they’ve already come to the rescue of two events but that he doubted many more would be so lucky. “Because we have such a high community usage, we are quite full and we only have a few dates available. Luckily for the pro-
Sinead Ogilvie Reporter
reporter@nelsonweekly.co.nz moters who were booked at those two venues we had it available, but only by chance and luck.” Sports Tasman facility manager Brent Maru says they are working “flat out” with the council to see how they can accommodate events that were booked at the
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Trafalgar Centre. “We’re all of a sudden faced with a whole lot of bookings that are foreign to us. We’re working really hard on how this can work.” Two of those events currently in talks with the council over moving their events to the stadium are the Canterbury Tactix netball team and the Fight 4 Victory charity boxing event. The Tactix were booked in for an ANZ Championship SEE PAGE 2
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