34 WEDNESDAY 25 September 2013
Sport
New grades highlight touch rugby season
Touch referee Wayne Bateman is gearing up for the summer touch rugby season which begins on October 23. Photo: Phillip Rollo.
The Richmond touch module will include two new grades this year with a Men’s Over 35 and Business House Social Mixed added to the competition. Touch begins on Wednesday October 23 with four senior grades, Men’s Open, Men’s Over 35, Social Mixed Open and Business House Social Mixed, and a popular junior grade for school kids. Registration for the senior teams is still accepted and entries can be taken to the Waimea Old Boys clubrooms on Tuesday October 1 from 6-7pm. Teams must have at least six players but no more than 14.
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The entry fee is $350 per team. Module coordinator Aleisha Hart says the reason behind the new competition was to add some variety to the senior grades, and she was hoping businesses would jump in behind the new mixed grade. “A lot of the older guys thought some of the college kids were running loops around them,” she says. “But it also separates the grades we’ve got and makes it more social for some. Hopefully we can get some more people who would be keen to have a work team entered.”
2013 ELECTIONS 20 September to 12 October I live in Wakefield but have lived in both rural and urban settings throughout my life. The Top of the South has been home for me for over 14 years and I love this region. I owned and managed Wakefield Pharmacy for 13 years and have a special fondness for the Wakefield and Brightwater communities along with all the rural communities to Murchison and beyond. I now have the time to give back to the community by standing for the DHB. I am passionate about healthcare and have broad experience as a health professional and in health governance. This includes the boards of Nelson Bays Primary Health and the Pharmacy Council of NZ, membership on the NMDHB Hospital Advisory Committee for nearly ten years and senior management positions at Middlemore Hospital where I also sat on the clinical board. We deserve to have our health care provided efficiently and effectively getting the best value from every health dollar. I want to help ensure community healthcare isn’t stifled by the DHB deficit so we can invest in local health initiatives to prevent illness and stay well. I have the time and passion to help get better value from our DHB. I bring a vast amount of experience from senior international roles in BP, TelstraClear and my own consultancy. I have managed budgets in excess of 250 million dollars and have formal internationally recognised qualifications in Management, Project Management and Governance. My family and I have lived in this region for 9 years. I’m a keen cyclist and past president of Tasman Wheelers cycling club. I believe that we need to encourage a fully integrated approach with all stakeholders to promote healthy lifestyle choices that will benefit us all long term. I stand for: • Promoting schemes that enable people to improve their own health and wellbeing • Making good quality, well considered decisions based on accurate information and unbiased advice • Ensuring the ‘health dollar’ is spent wisely and benefits all groups in the community • Ensuring Quality and Safety in the Health Care System • The workforce needs the best possible support to enable it to meet the demands of addressing the ever higher health standard expectations of our community Vote for me and I will bring a strong blend of community involvement, commercial and governance experience to contribute to the success of the NMDHB.
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Brigid Forrest - Marlborough • 25 years of medical service to the “top of the South” - General Practice (GP) - Community Geriatrician working with the elderly • Experience in governance on school, community and advisory Boards • Running a successful local family business • Strong Community focus
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Brigid Forrest wants the best healthcare possible for you and your family. A vote for her will mean continued medical perspective on the NMDH and progress towards equitable health services for everyone in the top of the south. As a qualified medical practitioner who has spent 24 years working in Marlborough – initially as a GP where she specialised in obstetrics delivering several hundred local babies, in the last 12 years Brigid has worked as a GP locum and community geriatrician for the NMDHB. Brigid believes that Marlborough people have lost a lot of services over the last 10 years and access to services ‘over the hill’ for many of the population is difficult and expensive – as it is for similar populations in Golden Bay and Murchison. She believes there needs to be an equal distribution of health services and a more open discussion about where the health budget is best spent. With governance experience on school and community boards, being passionately involved in community projects such as Bike Walk Marlborough – integrating safe walking and cycling in both urban and rural areas within Marlborough - Brigid is well placed to advocate on the community’s behalf.