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NEW LIFE: Artist Ash Sisson has given a derelict Berhampore bus stop a new lease on life. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Du�

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A dark and drab Berhampore bus stop was given a speedy spruce-up recently thanks to a Massey University design student and graffi ti artist.

Ash Sisson, 18, says it took him just a day to turn a Luxford Street eye-sore into a mural featuring a large tui, pink foliage and plenty of colour.

The Eastbourne resident, who uses the alias Chimp, says he fi rst ap-proached the Wellington City Council last year about being an artist interested in taking part in such projects.

Six months later the council’s art team gave him a call and in mid-February this year Ash and his girlfriend spent a day at the Luxford Street stop turning his idea into reality.

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Continued from page 1“They [WCC] were quite keen

on a native bird scene and that’s a lot of what I do with my personal art anyway,” he says.

The former Hutt Valley High School student has previously been commissioned to create several murals, including for Punch coffee bar on Manners Street and the Vibe Youth Centre in Lower Hutt.

Ash, a keen skateboarder, says

he has been painting for a long time but fi rst picked up an aerosol can of paint about three years ago.

“I never really got into brush painting and I didn’t have the pa-tience for it,” Ash says. “There’s a big difference when you pick up a can.

“It feels quite powerful the utensil itself. You feel like you can create or destroy something in a matter of seconds.”

After finishing the Luxford

Street mural, Ash says he was quite proud of himself and he has had good feedback, mainly about the large native tui.

Ash is Wellington Zoo’s artist in residence for 2015.

Ash headed to the Getup Festi-val in New Plymouth during the weekend where he had a wall mural space to complete.

A bus stop in Khandallah, at the corner of Mandalay and Cashmere Streets, was recently

also given a dash of colour, by experienced artist Ellen Coup.

Council arts programme advi-sor Katie Taylor-Duke says bus shelters are prone to graffi ti and painting them is a sure way to stop them being tagged. Wellington City Council is looking for other artists inter-ested in bringing new life to a drab bus stop. Email [email protected] for more information.

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MAKEOVER:A Berhampore bus stop spruce-up was commissioned by the Wellington City Council arts team. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff

An average rates rise of 3.9 per cent a year for the next ten years looks likely to be the cost of an ambitious investment plan by Wellington City Council.

Councillors signed off on a draft of the Long Term Plan 2015-2025 recently and last week Audit New Zealand gave its stamp of approval.

The Long Term Plan includes funding for an international fi lm museum, war and peace museum, an indoor music arena, airport runway extension, con-

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A feature of the plan is a prop-osition to strengthen the Town Hall, revitalise Civic Square and develop a National Music Centre in partnership with the New Zealand Symphony Or-chestra, Orchestra Wellington and Victoria University’s School of Music.

Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says the plan is an unprecedent-ed investment in Wellington.

“With this plan, the Council is demonstrating our commit-ment to take on the challenge of competing globally with the likes of Sydney, Singapore and San Francisco,” she says.

If council had chosen not to invest in its ambitious set of new projects and just maintained current services then the average rates increase would be about 3.1 per cent a year for ten years.

“In December 2014, Council agreed the limits of borrowing and rates increases, and we’ve

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As the bell rang for the fi rst time this year at South Wel-lington Intermediate School, Traci Liddall was taking a seat in the principal’s chair.

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Several years ago all the buildings at the school were earthquake strengthened ex-cept for the old hall which could not be brought up to code, so it was demolished.

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A pop up forest with over 2000 native plants kick started Parks Week on Wednesday, transforming Bond St into a bush land.

As part of the Council’s two million trees project staff were giving away trees at the pop-up forest in the late afternoon.

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A New Zealand Film School graduate is taking the world by storm, having recently received a scholarship to in-tern for six months at Film Wellington.

Ex-St Pat’s College student Alex McKenna is the second person to be awarded the new internship scheme, and says he was “absolutely stoked” when he found out.

“I was working really hard for it. For three months I was at school every single day, pushing really hard. I wanted the scholarship, and I wanted a foothold into the industry.”

Alex is almost two months through his full-time intern-ship, where he sources permits and locations for upcoming productions and shoots.

A self-confessed storyteller, Alex says as a child he used to come up with scenes with his stuffed-toys, and has always

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brother when I was 12. I learnt through him and the stuff he wasn’t doing right,” he laughs.

Alex used to take part in the 40 Hour Film Festivals when he was a student at St Pat’s, and says he was always look-ing to portray visually.

Although his brother moved onto other things, Alex says fi lm was constantly in the back of his mind, and after com-pleting a year at university, he could not resist the urge to take his talents further.

“I always wanted to create. I really wanted to do film school.”

Alex says that in the long-run, he wants to write and direct his own features.

“I want there to be an impact to it. I don’t want to make fi lms that are just entertaining – I want to hit home, and make people question their own values and morals,” Alex says.

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CREATOR: Wellington Film intern Alex McKenna has received a scholarship to make his dreams a reality and kick-start his career. PHOTO CREDIT: Emily Elliott

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An historic Berhampore church, deemed to be earth-quake prone, will be used for the fi nal time this week as it is de-consecrated.

St Cuthber t’s Anglican Church on Luxford Street was controversially put on the market last year and was successfully sold in February.

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ish has changed over the last several years, and it has therefore been decided to concentrate resources at the second Church in the Parish, St Thomas, Newtown which is close by and where the St Cuthbert’s family moved some twelve months ago.”

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It has been a long journey for Strathmore resident Abdurahman Barkhad, who lived in a Somali refugee camp from the age of four until he was nineteen.

“The war started when I was really young,” says Abdurahman, who grew up in the Dhagaago Refugee Camp in Somalia – a country which is still in civil war.

He says while growing up in a refugee camp was not easy, it was the only life that he had known.

“We didn’t complain,” Abdurah-man says. “It was just normal for us. We tried to turn the negatives into positives”

Much of the families’ food was supplied by the United Nations and Abdurahman did not have the opportunity of an education.

In 2004, at the age of 19, Ab-durahman’s aunty sponsored the family to move to New Zealand as refugees.

He says that at last his immediate family were reunited with many of their estranged relatives in their new country.

Asked what his first thoughts were of New Zealand, Abdurah-man says he remembers the green-ery most clearly.

“I love soccer so when I saw the beautiful green land I thought ‘this is where soccer players play’.

“It was green and beautiful.”Soon after moving to his new

suburb of Strathmore, where he has lived ever since, Abdurahman says he signed up for an adult education class to learn English.

“Within six months I got a job at Pak ‘n Save in Kilbirnie. My goal at that time was just to learn English.”

After a stint working for Coca Cola as a merchandiser he signed up for what he calls the fi rst proper education of his life.

NEW KID IN TOWN: Abdurahman Barkhad spent years in a Somali refugee camp before coming to New Zealand where he has since started his own recruitment company. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff

“It was amazing,” says Abdurah-man, who completed a certifi cate and then a diploma in computer servicing before deciding to study business and management at Massey University.

“Life is always about continuing to learn,” he says. “If you don’t continue to learn then you limit yourself.

“The goal was for me to be someone. I wanted to be counted in New Zealand.”

Finishing his degree, Abdurah-man says, was an amazing feel-ing. However, he struggled to get work in his chosen fi eld so volunteered for several organisa-tions.

He has now established his own company, Delve Recruitment, to help people in similar situations fi nd work.

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A love of the circus and of per-forming came about after learning how to juggle at the age of eight, according to performer Thomas Monckton.

Thomas is back in town for his show The Pianist, a solo comic contemporary circus piece.

Premiering in Finland in 2013 the show has already had one run in Wellington last year and has since been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the London Mime Festival.

Born in Patea, on the west coast of the North Island, Thomas says he loves the physical aspect to

performing.“I enjoy training to be good at

something by doing it over and over again,” says Thomas, who went to theatre school in Paris.

The Pianist is about a concert pianist who is trying to be part of a high-art world in which he does not really belong.

Thomas, who calls Island Bay home while working in Wellington, says inspiration for The Pianist partly came from his own child-hood.

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The Pianist is on at Circa Theatre until March 21.

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CircaNATURAL PERFORMER: Thom-as Monckton says he enjoys staying in Island Bay when he is performing in Wellington. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff

The situation for starving and abandoned dogs in Chile is far worse than Mount Victoria resident Nicole Doriguzzi says she could have imagined.

Nicole travelled to Chile in January, where she is spending time volunteering to feed, water, clean, and nurse abandoned canines.

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Bill Lake, Melrose

“No, there’re probably more useful other things that we could be doing.”

Catherine Reed, Wanganui

“Yes, they’re only sending them in for training.”

David Reed, Wanganui

“Yes, for humanity, but the repercussions could be bad.”

Leon Rossbotham, Newtown

“Yes, of course, we have an obligation to the international community that we’re part of.”

Vikram Sharma, Newtown

“No, but I don’t like ISIS, it’s totally criminal times.”

Jarrod Dick, Newtown

“I’m not very up to date on the matter. I don’t see why not. ISIS is not a very benefi cial organisation.”

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Dear Ed, the people have spoken: one Kilbirnie Festival was the event we know and en-joy; the other, a pale imitation.

I had a partnership with the Kilbirnie Lyall Bay Commu-nity Centre.

Partnerships do not entitle one party to attempt to take

everything for themselves. Mr Welsh is attempting to

consume the un-earned fruits of another’s labour.

At first, I offered to work with Mr Welsh for one last season and hand the whole event over. That offer was declined.

There have been many acts of poor faith: not consulting with me, launching the coup, refusing to work together, crit-icising my “travelling stalls” and then recruiting the same himself, phoning stallholders attempting to convert them, a big sign on the day outside

my venue. This behaviour is unhealthy

for all of us. This is communi-ty, and goodwill is important.

I thank the Bay Road shops for their support and coop-eration over the years; and my stallholders for keeping faith with me.

Please, K LBCC and Mr Welsh, don’t let this absurd situation re-occur next season. Let us all get back to our one enjoyable Kilbirnie Festival.

Martin Wilson, Manager, Kilbirnie Festival (the real one)

Two Kilbirnie Festivals

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This subdivision is a little different from the norm.

Most of the open space on each sec-tion is devoted to self-sufficient native planting rather than grass or concrete.

The planting has been specified by an ecologist to recreate what was once on the site. This means that the develop-ment won’t just look green, it’s an eco-logical improvement.

The houses are architecturally de-signed to be cut back into the hill so that they sit down amongst the native planting.

The growth of the vegetation has been computer modelled (not just ar-tistically drawn) so that people can see what the houses will look like when the planting has grown in.

The houses themselves are registered with the Green Building Council’s ‘Homestar’ programme. This means that people can choose to have a house that is more sustainable than other new houses.

Each section will be sold with concept plans for the house that is to go on that site. This means the owner can confirm details to their taste, while everyone can remain confident of what will be built nearby.

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The houses cover less than 1/3 of their section which means they are low den-sity, brand new homes only 15 minutes from the city.

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Dear Ed, I read the interesting article (CSN, February 16) regarding the reader’s concerns about the increased number of fl ights seemingly more regularly overhead in the Brooklyn suburb.

I have lived in Kingston for many years and have always noticed aircrafts do come more directly over the Southern suburbs on the days Wellington experiences southerly winds.

We have had winds predominantly from the south during the past weeks of summer and I wonder if perhaps that is the reason, as to why your reader, may be noticing their increase?

Otherwise I am not personally aware of an increase of aircraft numbers or a change to their direct path at any other time.

Philippa Boardman, Kingston

Wind maybe behind increase in aircraft noise

Dear Ed, in response to Christine Swift’s letter (CSN, February 16), the housing development at the lower end of Houghton Bay is not “small” and that is why there is so much opposition to it.

This development would be appro-priate in a ‘growth zone’ where the infrastructure is adequate to provide for the needs of its 69 or more resi-dents; maybe Kilbirnie, Berhampore or Newtown.

Houghton Valley sections that were developed mindful of the neighbour-ing scenic and marine reserves have been available for sale over the last three to four years; and development

is sure to happen on the proposed site but needs to be in keeping with its surroundings.

Ten years ago, it was suggested to the folk at Haewai Meadery that they would increase profits by support-ing the proposed aquarium on Te Raekaihau Point.

We didn't support that either. We prefer developments that are

sensitive to the character of the wild south coast and surrounding open bush spaces, which is now protected scenic reserve.

Visitors to the meadery love the unique local character.

Coral Hyam, Houghton Valley

PROPOSED: The Friends of Houghton Valley Incorporated Society was recently formed to discuss the building of 13 new homes on Houghton Bay Road.

Development not small

Dear Ed, calling Smith Guersen’s crowded 13 house development at the bottom of Houghton Bay Rd a ‘sustain-able development’ (CSN, February 23) is incorrect.

I think Oliver Townsend should understand that this development is totally unsustainable being completely dependent on all town supply services.

The development will also hinder those who use this route as a short cut to Lyall and Island Bays.

If it was a sustainable development

it would treat its own grey water, have composting toilets for sewage, have solar or wind energy, work with the land and you wouldn't have to hop into your car every time you want to go shopping.

Possibly 69 people could live here in 13 three and four bedroom houses, with their cars etc. Friends of Houghton Bay seek only to reduce the number of houses so that it fi ts into the landscape character of the area which borders onto a scenic reserve.

Jacob De Ruiter, Houghton Valley

Houghton Valley development unsustainable

Dear Ed, Smith Guersen (CSN, March 2) only engaged with us after he realised the widespread concern arising from the lack of communication on both their part and the Wellington City Council. There was also understandable anger at their perceived greed and deceit.

So organisers of the public meeting carefully designed it so that all state-ments were reframed as questions, all present could ask a question (most did) and then the questions were prioritized by a voting system.

Smith was the only one allowed to make statements, he was per-mitted to answer every question uninterrupted and nearly all the time of the meeting was given to ensuring he enjoyed a civic platform.

The argument for eternal expansion of humans espoused by WCC and some of your correspondents is fatally fl awed- it is a reason why much of the planet is now becoming a toxic dump like Houghton Valley.

As soon as the HV dump closed in 1970 WC Councillors began agitating to turn the valley into a Light Indus-trial Zone like Maupuia.

This expensive folly was prevented by local residents insisting the WCC honour its 1940s deal to transform the valley into a recreational zone for the city after the dump closure.

It is our turn now to sustain civic processes.

Dave McArthur, Houghton Valley (abridged)

It is our turn now to sustain civic processes

Dear Ed, thanks to everyone who turned out for the Kilbirnie Commu-nity Festival on Bay Road on Sunday, both stall holders and spectators.

You all helped make this a great event with a wonderful atmosphere.

I would welcome any comments on

your experience of the festival or on how we could make it better next year.

Well done Kilbirnie.Bruce Welsh, Kilbirnie Community Festival [email protected]

Great event with a wonderful atmosphere


The Cook Strait News was on double festival duty last weekend when we attended the Kilbirnie Community Festival on Bay Road before taking a short walk down to the Kilbirnie Festival at St Pat’s.

Festival double-up in Kilbirnie

PHOTOS: Sam Duff

CELEBRATION SEASON: Suzie Muirhead with her daugh-ters Bella, Samantha and Millie.

FAIR FUN: Allen and Rory Liu with Stella Zhang enjoy the festival on Bay Road.

JOY OH JOY: Leon Khader with mum Noura at St Pat’s. KILBIRNIE KICKS: Van Hillock eyes-up a few fun activities.

FESTIVAL FEVER: Motu Bradshaw with Wade Foster, Felix Bradshaw and Ashleigh Foster.

VOLUNTEERS: Sisters Susan and Esther Welsh volunteer on the First Aid desk.

BIG GRINS: Santana and Amiria Ngaheu stop for a photo.

JOYFUL SHENANIGANS: Desiree and Je� Parker stop for a co� ee.

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Eleven New Zealand and interna-tional productions, one mini Film Festival, fi ve world premieres, 169 performances, over 18,000 students anticipated to attend the Festival through their schools, and 4,000 young people and family members expected to attend public perfor-mances; now in its seventh outing, the Capital E National Arts Festival makes a much-anticipated return to the Wellington cultural calendar.

Showcasing productions from all over the globe, the Festival

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Following a hugely successful season at the 2014 New Zealand Festival, Australia’s seminal circus ensemble, Circa, presents the New Zealand premiere of Carnival of the Animals, the fi rst of three Australian companies taking part in this year’s Festival.

Including six New Zealand com-panies, this coming Festival is

certainly a celebration of home-grown talent.

Following an award-winning season of Duck, Death & the Tulip at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Little Dog Barking Theatre returns in 2015 with a new adaptation of the children’s book, Guji Guji. Other Festival favourites like Java Dance, explore the magic beneath our feet in Dirt & Other Delicious Ingredients.

Especially for education audi-ences, Java Dance presents its second world premiere of the Festival with the exhilarating and interactive Streets of Gold, while the mini Film Festival, Young & Cinematic, is brought to you by Capital E Digital and Square Eyes - New Zealand Children’s Film Foundation. Also from Capital E, the National Theatre for Children brings the much-celebrated An Awfully Big Adventure back to the Wellington stage, transporting audiences to WWI, where we learn of two young men and how their very different stories collide on Flanders Fields. PBA


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What are you looking forward to right now?

Who inspired you growing up?

What would your dream getaway be?

What would your last meal on earth be?

My mother inspired me. She’s a fantastic woman.

Pizza, with a side of pizza.

My good friend Erika’s wedding, I have the honour of being a bridesmaid.

GOT (Game of Thrones). Khaleesi and I have very similar lives. I too have three dragons.

The Greek Islands! Sun, sailing and sexy men.

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MINUTES WITH: Fashion parade for musicSonia’s Musikgarten is holding a fashion

parade to fundraise for the free music lessons it gives at low decile local schools.

Sonia Markholm started lessons at Kahurangi School in Strathmore at the end of 2013 and last year registered as a charity.

The Autumn Fashion Parade will be held on Tuesday March 24 from 7pm at Ballentynes in Kilbirnie. Tickets are $15.

Seeking adventurers The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is

on the hunt for adventurous New Zealanders looking to take go on a 40,000 mile ocean odyssey.

Unlike the Volvo Ocean Race, which is only for professional sailors, the Clipper Race is open to anyone regardless of experience.

A crew recruitment talk will be held at the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club in Oriental Bay on March 10 from 6.30pm.

Transport talksAn informal fun panel discussion will be

held in Mount Victoria on Thursday to discuss the future of roading around the Basin Reserve and local transport options.

Several speakers will take part in the discus-sion, moderated by former city councillor Mary Varnham.

There is a door charge for the event, which will include pizza, and be held at New Cross-ways in Mount Victoria from 6pm.

By Sam Duff

A new group of young leaders has emerged at St Catherine’s College in Kilbirnie after the school unveiled their year 13 leadership team for 2015.

Principal Mary Curran says the girls who have been selected to hold leadership positions set the tone at the school and are role models to younger students.

Leadership positions also ben-efit those who hold them, she says.

“It helps them grow and by the time they leave us they’re ready for the big wide world,” Mary says.

Heading-up the leadership team is head girl Anna Cacace who says fi nding out about her new

role was quite overwhelming.“I was in a room with the princi-

pal and she told me,” Anna says. “The fi rst thing that really got me thinking was ‘wow, I’m the face of this school and it’s my job now to be a role model for these girls’.”

Being a leader is in the family for Anna as her brother was the head boy at St Patrick’s College last year.

“It’s a privilege and it’s an honour.”

Anna, who wants to study drama in Melbourne next year, says all the girls who were se-lected for the top jobs went for lunch at Subway to celebrate their new positions.

Community captain Rachel Allen says she was really happy and proud of her achievement

when she was selected.In December Rachel was one

of the winners of the Absolutely Positively Wellingtonian student awards for her work in the special needs community.

Eva Malthus had an interesting reaction when she was told she would be one of the deputy head girls.

“I was so scared and when it happened I just jumped up and ran around,” she says. “It was the best feeling of my life.

“I thought I had had a heart at-tack when it actually happened.”

Mary says the NCEA results at St Catherine’s, which has about 260 students, were above average last year in their decile ranking and for the number of excellences obtained.

Young leaders take chargeREADY AND WAITING: Clare Sullivan, Rachel Allen, Clare Lewis, Madeleine Reese, Eva Malthus, Lauren Duggan, Terena Federico, Demesha Whyte and Anna Cacace. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff


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47 Sully (8) 51 Drug addicts (5) 55 Intentionally overhear (9) 56 Showing possibilities (9) 58 Appear (4) 59 Bind (3) 60 Gramophone record (4) 61 Pain in the chest (6) 62 Unreturnable serve (3) 63 Theory (10) 66 Self-effacing (6) 67 Slough (anag)(6) 69 Building designer (9) 72 Dozing (6) 73 Animal collection (9) 75 Bibliotheca (7) 77 Small amount (3) 80 Changes direction (5) 81 Badly considered decision (5,2,9) 82 Bring up (5) 83 Fractures (6) 84 Bothersome (8) 85 Confronted (5)

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the window and sleeping.Munter is a little bird with a big

personality! He has a particular affection for spoons, lifting them up and down like he's a weightlifter.

He also talks really well, and will tell me to 'stop it' when she gets too cheeky.

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The Wellington Newcomers Net-work, a social group for migrants, is holding a picnic and barbeque potluck meal to celebrate Neighbours Day.

Newcomers along with their friends,

neighbours and colleagues are invited to the picnic potluck at the Island Bay Community Centre on Sunday March 22 from 11.30am till 3pm.

Those who attend are asked to bring food to share.

Newcomers celebrate neighbours

By Sam Duff

Several local early child care cen-tres threw their support in behind Plunket last week for the charities annual appeal week.

Montessori @ Rongotai, owned by Kidicorp, opened their doors to local centres Montessori @ Kilbirnie and Early Years Rongotai to celebrate the work of Plunket.

The kids at Montessori @ Rongo-

tai got their hands dirty by baking cookies to sell and raise money for Plunket.

Meanwhile Big Blue, the Plunket bear, paid the youngsters a visit and dished out plenty of very welcome hugs.

Teacher Manisha Bhovan said they also wanted to teach the children about the importance of Plunket as many have younger siblings.

Celebrating Plunket

YOUNG ONES: Nate Young, 4, poses for a photo with a smaller version of Big Blue.

BEAR HUGS: Youngsters Leonie Zhettl, 4, Sam Diston, 3, Imogen McLean, 4, and Shaina Prasad, 4, snuggle-up to Big Blue, the Plunket bear. PHOTOS: Sam Duff

15Monday March 9, 2015SPORT

By Sam Du�

The Maranui Surf Lifesaving Club juniors had a successful weekend in the water at the National under 14 Surf Life Saving Championships in Mount Maunganui recently.

The championships, also known as Oceans’15, were held from February 26 till March 1 at Main Beach in Mount Maunganui.

Maranui Surf Life Saving Club head coach Chris Mark says the club’s juniors placed 9th out of a total of 42 clubs.

“It’s a pretty great effort really,” Chris says.

A number of the club’s juniors had stand-out weekends, with the club mak-ing a total of 41 national fi nals.

Sophie Irving, 12, came fi rst in her surf race competition and second in the run swim run.

Meanwhile in the team competitions, Maranui came second in the U12 mixed

grand cameron relay, third in the U12 girl’s board relay and third in the U12 men’s tube rescue.

The juniors have been training since September for the national champs, Chris says

“The kids have put a huge amount of work into it and obviously their hard work has paid off,” he says

“We’re lucky to have a group of such hard working kids.”

Chris says 2015 is also the third year in a row in which Maranui has won the regional surf life saving competition in the junior grade with a total of 1,618 points.

Lyall Bay Surf Life Saving Club came in second with 960 points and Worser Bay third with 497 points.

While the surf life saving season has now ended the juniors will start training again in September.

Chris says next year they will do even bigger and better things.

Miramar local Sam Brown, 11, is weighed down by the number of medals he won at the National under 14 Surf Life Saving Cham-pionships.

The Evans Bay Intermediate School student picked up fi ve med-als in the competition, including fi rsts in the surf race, run swim run and diamond.

Sam, who has previously won the Capital Coast Junior Champion-ships several times, says he did not expect to do so well and was a little overwhelmed by his success.

He says he just loves getting into the water and taking part in surf life saving and one day would love to do an iron man competition.

Head coach Chris Mark says Sam is an outstanding young athlete.

“People were quite blown away

WINNERS: Maranui Surf Life Saving Club champions, Bailey Reddish, 11, Hugo Blackwood, 11, Logan Philp, 11, Sam Brown, 11, Tamrah Titcombe, 10, and Sophie Irving, 12. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Duff

SUCCESS: Sam Brown, 11, won five medals for the Maranui Surf Life Saving Club recently. PHOTO CREDIT: Sam Du�

Top weekend for Maranui juniors

Sam brings home the medals

by how much he actually won,” Chris says. “In his age group there were over 100 kids he had to compete against.”

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Age, ale, are, ear, earl, egg, eggar, era, erg, gag, gage, gal, gale, gar, GARGLE, gear, gel, glare, lag, lager, LAGGER, large, lea, leg, rag, rage, rale, real, reg, regal. Keen tennis youngsters headed to

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The tournament, for juniors aged from fi ve to 12, was part of New Zealand Post’s ActivePost Tennis Hot Shots programme.

More than 30 juniors competed against each other on smaller courts with lighter racquets and low compression balls.

Tennis central regional development manager Reilly Logue says Sunday’s tournament was the fi rst opportunity for children and coaches from Wellington, the Hutt Valley and the Kapiti Coast to

come together in a formal tournament.“For many children this was their fi rst

time competing and the fi rst chance for coaches at this level to get together as well,” she says.

“The ActivePost Tennis Hot Shots Tournament is an opportunity for new players to pick a club, and to fi nd a coach and continue playing.”

Tennis tournament rallies junior talent


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