ANZAC Day Golf Tournament

By Chris Valli

The annual Red Cross ANZAC Day Golf Tournament is on par once again this year.

The tournament has been a collaborative event held at the Marlborough Golf Club, Fairhall for over 50 years.

It was started by the Avon Waihopai Red Cross Branch and the Marlborough Golf Club as a social event for those returned service women/men who wished to continue the friendship and camaraderie experienced as they gathered to remember on ANZAC day morning. An afternoon of golf allowed further contact.

Red Cross member Dinny Shanks and Jackie McGarry from the Marlborough Golf Club. The annual Red Cross ANZAC Day Golf Tournament has been a collaborative event held at the Marlborough Golf Club, Fairhall for over 50 years.

Over the years it has become a regular on the golfing calendar and has provided the

Red Cross with an essential fundraising opportunity.

Spokesperson and work group convenor Lynette Jones says a work group made up of Golf Club and Red Cross members began early in the year seeking sponsors for the prize table and items suitable for the raffles.

The Marlborough Red Cross has a long association in the wider community, providing community based services that over the years has changed with demands.

Emergency preparedness, meals on wheels, supporting new migrants through the United Nations Refugee resettlement program, responding to single issue welfare needs and social events for those who have worked tirelessly for the organisation in past years.

U16 Super Challenge Hockey Experience

By Chris Valli

Four Marlborough Hockey players were selected from 23 associations around the country to compete in the inaugural U16 Super Challenge Hockey Experience at St Peter’s College in Cambridge over Easter weekend.

Millie Large, Harry Wilkin, Louis Girling and Maddie Large played in the only South Island team at the tournament, The Storm, with both the boys and girls teams making the final. The other three teams were from the North Island. The ‘Heat’ from Auckland / North Harbour, the ‘Force’ from Waikato/ Rotorua/Tauranga regions, ‘Thunder’ from

Hawkes Bay/Taranaki/Wellington regions, and the ‘Storm’ from all regions in the South Island.

The tournament was an initiative created by The Hockey Experience, and Brent Edwards from Go Hockey after Hockey New Zealand stopped all competitive tournaments from U18 down.

With an enormous response from teenagers around the country, the Hockey Experience team spent 10 weeks traveling around New Zealand, trailing and selecting players from over 600 players to make up the four teams.

The teams all meet up on Good Friday at St Peter’s College in Cambridge for a live-in