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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2021
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Golden family The Morland family have seen a lot of shocks in their lives, but they weren’t ready for the big surprise that left them with a golden heart … and feeling a little humbled. JOHN LAZO-RON writes. If you’re from Greytown and watched Seven Sharp on TVNZ last Wednesday night, you might have caught some familiar faces. After being nominated by two locals with no connections, the Morland family – Bevan, Jacqui, Thomas and James – who run the Offering cafe on Greytown’s Main St, won this month’s ASB’s Good as Gold award, which is a segment of Seven Sharp. The Good as Gold award is granted to good sorts who regularly give back to their community. The Morlands are hugely involved in helping bring their community together to support everything from food bank drives to hosting fundraising quiz nights at no cost at their cafe. They were given the shock of their life when the television show showed up at the cafe’s front door last week to deliver the award. “It was definitely a shock,
definitely not expected,” Bevan said. “It’s very humbling, and it still blows me out of the water thinking about it. “ASB told me they get thousands of entries, and sometimes there are ones that just jump off the page and to be nominated by two people stood out for them.” Jacqui said the family were still coming to grips with whether they deserved to have such an award given to them. “It’s incredibly humbling and we are struggling with the fact whether we actually deserve it because there are so many people who do great things in the community,” she said. “But it’s pretty awesome and we feel very blessed.” Their backstory to why they are super involved in helping Continued on page 6
The Morlands have been through tough times but have stuck strong as a family and helped others in need too. PHOTO/JOHN LAZO-RON
Thomas at Wellington Hospital after one of his episodes. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
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