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Kurt Smith, Richmond.
Jackie Ewers, Richmond.
Grant Watkins, Richmond.
Mandy Kirkham, Wakefield.
“We play video games together actually, its just a couple’s bonding exercise that we do. It lets out a lot of our anger and just brings us closer together.”
“The activity we enjoy doing together is going along and watching the kids playing sports”
“Cycling, we’ve been doing it about three or four years. We’ve done all the cycle trails round here. In total, I think, between us we’ve done about 14,000km”
“We used to do tennis when we were younger but we don’t play so much now, it tends to be more doing things with the children.”
Top rose award SEE PAGE 2
for their two acre home in Mahana and its extensive rose garden. Letty was the first to get into the hobby, attending a rose society meeting with Norm’s aunt in early 1962. The second meeting she attended, Letty was voted on to the committee and has been there ever since. Norm soon became an expert grower and was known for tending to the rose gardens outside the Mapua Public Hall and RSA hall in Mapua. Letty says one of the more humorous moments for her was when a friend invited her to a rose society show in Nelson at late notice. “It was quite late in the afternoon
when he asked me so I just picked one single rose out of our garden. He picked me up and the boot and back seat of his car were chocka with roses that he’d spent all day preparing. “My rose won the convention cup and all of his roses didn’t get anywhere. I couldn’t believe it and that really got me going on more competitions.” Letty and Norm have moved off their two acre section to a much smaller home in Summerset Village in Stoke. They say they’re still keen to make their mark with roses. “At our old home in Mahana we had 300 roses, the whole range of them. We haven’t got many here yet but I intend to do something about that,” smiled Letty.
Tapawera on cusp of motorsport park SEE PAGE 2 quarters. Many of the groups are struggling to find suitable venues to hold their events and the Tapawera park will be an ideal solution. "Quite of few of the motorsport guys, like the drags, have nowhere to go and they are super-keen to see this go ahead," Dave says. "But it also needs to be a hub for recreational activities - we need things that will attract people to the park during the week and at this stage we have an open mind about what we will put there." Dave says the project had initially been estimated to cost around $26 million, although the final figure
is likely to be considerably less because they could make significant savings on constructing the sealed racing circuit. One of the first tasks of the working group will be to determine what stages of the development need funding and how to raise the funds. "We thought it would cost around $12 to $14 million to build the track and then we found out the Cromwell track only cost $4 million. They saved a lot of money by doing the preliminary earthworks themselves so we can probably do the same thing." The meeting will be held at the Honest Lawyer on June 26 starting at 7pm. Anyone interested in the project is welcome to attend.