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Big events ‘might’ get priority Any event that requires space for spectators “might take priority” over the participation users of Saxton Stadium, according to Nelson City Council, who are currently trying to juggle a 50 page list of bookings. With the future of the closed Trafalgar Centre still up in the air, many event organisers have scrambled to find a suitable alternate venue – a lot of those hoping to get into Saxton Stadium which is the region’s premier participation sports venue. But it’s beginning to have an effect on the current users of the venue, who remain in the dark about how much court space they will be allowed in a busier than usual year. “I was involved in the stadium from well before it even got its piles in the ground. I’m a very committed grassroots/ participation person and at the moment it’s now become an events centre,” says Nelson
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Bays Volleyball’s operations manager Pamela Brodie. The most high profile bookings at Saxton Stadium, which would have been at the Trafalgar Centre, include nine Nelson Giants’ home games between April 4 and June 27, an ANZ Championship netball match on May 11, the national cat show on June 29 and the South Island 4 and Rotary Car Show on November 7-9. The sports events, in particular, need temporary seating to accommodate the 2200 people expected to attend them, and that will result in less court space for everyone else – a year after Saxton Stadium closed due to flood repairs. Nelson City Council confirmed that just four of the five basketball courts would
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Isabel Lyttle, 9, Brodie Seelen, 10 and Zeeta Anderson, 9, were part of Tahunanui School’s Enviro Schools group, which came up with the idea of removing their rubbish bins. Photo: Phillip Rollo.
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It seems an ironic way of reducing litter, but Tahunanui School plans to remove all of their rubbish bins in the coming weeks – a move it hopes will not only clean up the school, but encourage parents to think twice about what they put in their child’s lunchboxes. Tahunanui School isn’t the first
to try this method – Waimea Intermediate School has already been doing it for about four years – but its Enviro Schools leader, Heidi Newland, says the amount of uneaten school lunches that have been thrown out is a “concern”, and they hope this idea will help prevent that. “It’s like sandwiches
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in glad wrap, uneaten yoghurt, and uneaten muesli bars, it’s ridiculous,” she explains. “Now the children can’t throw away their food. If they don’t eat it they have to take it home and their parents will be aware of what’s being eaten,
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