22 WEDNESDAY 29 July 2015
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Broadgreen House to reopen
Broadgreen House will reopen this weekend after undergoing major maintenance work. The house has been closed since the beginning of April in order to put in place a permanent solution to the flood-damaged cellar. In the 2011 flooding, the cellar was badly damaged as the water washed
away the clay walls. Remedial strengthening was started immediately after to keep the house open but of course the work wasn’t up to earthquake standards. Broadgreen House will reopen this Saturday, August 1, visitors are welcome to view the house from 11am until 3pm.
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Local charities get cash from promotion The staff at Z Energy’s Richmond station did some Good in the Hood again this year when they handed out $4000 in donations to four of the district’s most deserving community groups. Every Z Energy station in the country ran the annual Good in the Hood programme in May when their customers voted for one of four community groups to receive a share of $4000. Barnardos, Nelson Ark, Pinnacle House and Camp Quality were the community groups chosen by Z Energy in Richmond and those groups went to the Gladstone Rd station to receive their donations. Pinnacle House, which is based on Lower Queen St and looks after young adults with special needs, received 1820 votes which equated to $775 and director Linda Gill says the donation was very timely. “We are trying to raise funds for heat pumps for the rooms so this will go towards that,” Linda says. “This is the second year we’ve been part of Good in the Hood so we are really grateful to Z Energy.” Linda says the staff at Z Energy in Richmond also goes down to Pinnacle House and helps out with some of their fundraising activities.
Z Energy Richmond’s Jigisha Ghandi, right, with Pinnacle House’s manager Carol Burson, left, and director Linda Gill, second right, and students Lisa Driver and Amir Zadeh at the Good in the Hood presentation. Photo: Simon Bloomberg. Barnardos Nelson’s Jolene Salmond says they will use the $1353 they received for getting 3176 votes to extend their Active Dads programme to include older children. Camp Quality’s Jon Hunter says they will use their $899 donation to help pay for a young person from the Nelson-Tasman region to get to their annual camp in Christchurch. “That will be enough to fund about three-quarters of the cost of getting one camper to the camp.” Jon says. “We usually take six to nine kids from our region to the camp so we are very happy to receive this donation.”
The Nelson Ark will be using their donation of $973 for running their programme that rescues unwanted and abused dogs and partners them with young people in-need for training. Z Energy Stoke donated $2519 to the Nelson Marlborough Helicopter, $683 to Child Flight, $486 to the Life Education and $312 to Beating Time. The Halifax St station gave $1806 to the Child Cancer Foundation, $881 to St John Nelson, $789 to Victim Support and $524 to the Blind Foundation. Good in the Hood has donated more than $1million nationally.
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