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Tuesday 28 October 2014
Patience the key to 60 year marriage
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Arrow International front manager Shane Etridge on the first floor of the new Quest apartment building which is going up on Collingwood St. Photo: Andrew Board.
Five storey building up by Christmas Nelson’s newest “high rise” will be up by Christmas, say contractors. The five storey Quest building on Collingwood St started in July and contractors Arrow International say they’re making good progress. Nelson manager for Arrow, Steve Kelso, says they hope to have the building up by Christmas, with work then
starting on fitting out the building before it officially opens in May. The building will house serviced apartments operated by Quest, a national chain. Steve says there’s been plenty of interest in the building from passersby and that all of the sub-contractors used have been local firms
Trouble for football board The board behind the region’s national youth league football team appears to be in disarray, with just three board members left and the chairman saying he’ll resign at the end of the current season. Nelson Weekly understands that three board members of the Nelson Marlborough Falcons football team have resigned in the past month, leaving just chairman Aldo Miccio, his brother Francis and Blen-
heim-based Nigel Thompson. But Aldo doesn’t appear to be aware of the shrinking board, telling the Weekly last week that there are still five board members but two would step down once three representatives from Nelson Bays Football and Marlborough Football are appointed. But two of the people he named as currently on the board have confirmed they resigned weeks ago. Even worse, Nelson
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andrew@nelsonweekly.co.nz Bays Football chairman John Armstrong has rejected any proposal that would see him supplying board members to the Falcons, calling the board “in turmoil”. “Aldo sent an email last week asking for
two board members from Nelson Bays Football ‘as soon as possible’. But he hasn’t disclosed any financial information or what their financial commitments are. We won’t commit to a board where we don’t have that information. Why would we want to go onto a board that in this situation? It would be crazy, I’m not interested
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