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100 days to go, lets celebrate! Best dressed shop in Nelson CBD to win $2000 prize
Tomorrow marks 100 hundred days until the start of the 2011 Rugby World Cup and Nelson’s CBD is rolling out the welcome mats. Well, welcome windows. A ‘100 Days to Go’ competition is being run by Nelson City Council and will see the city split into quadrants with each area adopting a “second team”, one of the four sides that will play in Nelson during the tournament. The four teams playing in Nelson are Russia, Australia, Italy and the United States. Nelson Weekly can also reveal for the first time just what is at stake for retailers. The owner of the best dressed window will win a $2000 advertising prize in the region’s only locally owned newspaper, Nelson Weekly. Judges are looking for effort in the competition and the theme is not necessary rugby-based, says mayor Aldo Miccio. “If a country has Australia it could dress up cultural items or things iconic to that country – it’s a free-for-all basically. We want everyone to decorate their shop windows, restaurants, the entire store interior.” The competition lasts for the entire month of June with judging taking place in the final week of the month so retailers have time to work on their window. Aldo says the dress up competition will be a great
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A WARM WELCOME: Nelson mayor Aldo Miccio with councillors Kate Fulton and Pete Rainey are right in behind a competition to encourage Nelsonians to adopt a second team, it also coincides with 100 days to go until the start of the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Photo: Andrew Board.
Nelsonians join cancer fight in aid of local racing superstar at the top level of his sport for more than a decade. He won three NZ Touring Car Championships and has finished runner up at Bathurst three times, lifting him to superstar status in the V8 Supercar world.
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