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Tuesday 23 November 2010
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Ten tonnes of rubbish collected
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Tasman Bay beaches now spotless
Tasman Bay beaches are ager Rudy Tetteroo. now rubbish free thanks to Tasman Bay Big Beach an 800-strong group of vol- Clean-up saw volunteers unteers that gathered over take on 291 kilometres of 10 tonnes of litter in the Big coast between Abel Tasman Beach Clean-up over the National Park and Cable weekend. Bay and from the banks of While Tahunanui beach five waterways. was used mainly as a drop The majority of the more off point for the clean up, obscure items were found it only took a in less popudozen of the lated areas. 800 volunA tent, gas teers to clean cooker, rusty It’s been fantastic to the more saws and a public areas see such enthusiasm broken musof the beach from so many in the sel float were itself. “Gener- community for look- all found ally people are ing after our beaches. around the pretty good, Nelson Air– Rudy Tetteroo. but along port. highways and Rudy hopes streams a lot of rubbish to make the beach cleangets washed in to the estu- up an annual event before ary and blown around by visitors arrive in the sumthe tide in to some unusual mer. “If you look around places. So it’s good to have the streets and around the the whole beaches cov- estuaries and our rivers ered,” says Department of you’ll see a lot of litter that Conservation community gets dropped. So we can relations programme man- Continued on page 2.
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Theo Thomsen, 6, in action for Hampden St School’s Te Kakano group at the schools gala on Friday night. Photo: John-Paul Pochin.
Take that! Hampden St gala an excitment machine The Hampden St School was packed to the rafters last Friday night as it raised more than $20,000 during its school gala. Coordinator Louise Devine says it was a huge event with more than
3000 people attending and all of the food stalls selling out. “It was pretty exciting, a real festival for the school.” The gala was organised by a committee of 12 parents.
Outside of the food stalls parents entertained with musical acts on stage, the schools Te Kakano group performed, as did the Ukes and friends group and the school band. Money raised will go towards resources.