Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper
Tuesday 24 April 2012
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Nelson bids for top football Andrew Board
A consortium of local businesspeople has put forward a bid to bring National League football back to the city and give Nelson its third professional sports team. The consortium officially entered the bid
to New Zealand Football two months ago and representatives from the governing body were in Nelson on Monday to meet with the bid’s backers. If successful, it will mean that a new Nelson-based team will enter the National League competition, dubbed the ASB Premiership. It will play
its games at Trafalgar Park over the summer months and it has the backing of local clubs, according to the proposal’s backer, Aldo Miccio. Nelson Bays Football, the body which governs the sport in Nelson, has entered a separate bid to host an under 20 side in
the league but says if the bid, called Top of the South Football, is successful it would be supportive. All National League teams must also have an under 20 development side.
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Vets ready for Anzac Day Neville Manins knows what sacrifice means, but says it gets repaid time and time again thanks to Anzac Day. Neville now lives in Stoke, but in the late 60s he was one of thousands of New Zealand soldiers fighting an unpopular war in Vietnam. Many of the men he stood beside were injured or mentally scarred by the experience. In fact Neville was discharged from the Army because a blast to the side of his head affected his hearing while he was in Vietnam. But Neville says the respect the New Zealand public shows each April 25 makes up for the trauma. “The average Kiwi has been extremely generous to us, the government not so much but I feel that we are respected by the general public for what we did,” he says. Tomorrow is Anzac Day and the dawn parade will begin at 6am from Millers Acre. It will make its way down
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POPPY TO ANZAC: Nelsonians donated thousands of dollars to Poppy Day last Friday. Pictured left is Tahunanui collecter and veteran Frank Robb, with Alison Harley who says he is a “real character”. Photo: Jonathan McKeown. Above, Vietnam veteran Neville Manins polishes his medals ahead of tomorrow morning’s dawn parade at Anzac Gardens in central Nelson. Photo: Andrew Board.
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