Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper
Tuesday 8 May 2012
Cook book kids
Mother’s Day Sunday 13 May Page 14-15
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New buses pick up passengers
It appears more Nelson and more frequent runs, commuters are taking the running four times an bus to work thanks to a hour during peak times, new service. up from one. The new conNbus officially launched tract has improved linktwo months ago and is ages and integration with already having a positive smaller buses operating impact for travellers, with The Brook, ToiToi Valley growth exceeding expectations and the head of Suburban Bus Lines says there is more to come. Patronage figures collected One of the new Nbuses operating in by Nelson City Nelson. Council show there were 20,000 “rides” and Atawhai. on the Nbus during March The buses are owned by when it launched. SBL which won the conThe service is growing in tract from Nelson City popularity and manag- Council. ing director of SBL, Tony The council pays for the Cummings, says it’s the service with its car parkbusiest they’ve been – for ing revenue, rates and a this time of year – for a subsidy from NZTA, all up number of years. more than a million dolThe new service includes SEE PAGE 2 a whole new fleet of buses
Stoke club day Page 22
International judge Michael Daly congratulates the winner of the 2012 Up and Coming Chef competition, Nik Dellabosca. Insert: Nik’s salmon dish before it was judged. Photos: Andrew Board.
Creativity wins chef award Andrew Board When Nik Dellabosca first entered the Up and Coming Chef competition two years ago he finished “dead last” and left feeling pretty disappointed.
Fast forward to Sunday morning and Nik was struggling to keep the smile from his face as the young chef beat out five other Nelson chefs to win the New Zealand King Salmon Up and Coming Chef Award for 2012. The award is part of the Nelson
Hospitality Awards and was held in Nelson. The competition saw the six chefs from some of Nelson’s top restaurants arrive to a “mystery box” of ingredients.
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