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WEDNESDAY 9 March 2016
Nelson rower selected for Rio Olympics
Getting ready to tee-off are, from left, Pauline Edwards, Gaye Mackenzie, Josie Rosser and Shirley Otton at the Totaradale Golf Club's Fifty Shades of Pink tournament on Thursday. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
Pink golf day raises money for Cancer Society Totaradale golf course looked a lot more colourful than usual last Thursday when 62 ladies from clubs all over Nelson and Tasman dressed-up for the Fifty Shades of Pink tournament to raise funds for the Nelson Cancer Society. The Totaradale ladies decided to organise a pink-themed fundraiser after one of their popular members, Anne Dobbie, passed away in January after suffering from cancer. Fifty Shades of Pink raised $1640 for the Nelson Cancer Society with some of that coming from a raffle for Anne's
electric golf trundler which she asked husband Bruce to donate to the club before she died. "We normally have a picnic day tournament, but this year we decided to make it a fund-raiser for the Cancer Society after one of the girls passed away earlier this year," one of the organisers, Fran Sutherland, says. "All the prizes have been donated by local businesses and all the proceeds will go to the Nelson Cancer Society." Fran says ladies club president Sue Rawson was the driving force behind Fifty Shades of Pink, which also fea-
tured pink balloons attached to all the tee markers and pink table cloths at the luncheon. The prize for the Best Dressed team was won by the Sugar Plum Fairies, Cay Cockerell, Marg Hall, Clare Heslop and Marcelle Porritt, who played with pink fairy wings, while the more serious prize of the winning team went to Marg Orman, Linda Ujihara, Andrianne Wislang and Cherie Hancock. Cherie also won the division one individual stableford, Ros McKeown won division two and Linda won the division three competition.
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Nelson rower Brook in which she won gold Robertson is off to Rio at the world champs is after being named in the not on the Olympic calNew Zealand Olympic endar. The two selected rowing team following a ahead of her are the week of trials. world champion lightBrook is set to repre- weight double pairing. sent his country with “But Zoe is a reserve and if one of those 30 other rowgirls in the douers including Marlborough’s ble gets injured, Robbie Manson, Zoe won’t make Tom Murray and the boat go any Sophie MacKenslower, that’s for sure,” says Tim. zie. Brook Rio will be The team is Brook’s first Robertson. Rowing New Zealand’s bigOlympic Games, where he will row in the gest Olympic Games mens eight. team with 31 athletes set The news wasn’t so to row across nine boat great for another Nel- classes in Rio later this son rower though, with year. Tim says Brook’s lightweight single scull selection is great news world champion Zoe for the local club. “It’s McBride missing out on very cool, he came up selection. through school winning Nelson Rowing Club titles and the boat he’s president Tim Bab- on is getting faster. Their bage says it is unlucky chances of medalling, I’d for Zoe, but the event say, is pretty good.”
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