Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper
Tuesday 9 April 2013
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Race for city’s top job is on Nelson mayor Aldo Miccio has joined the race for the city’s top job. Aldo announced his decision to re-stand on Friday citing unfinished business. He will battle for the position with current councillor and former deputy mayor Rachel Reese and former police chief Brian McGurk, both of whom have already announced their intention to stand. Whispers around city hall indicate few other campaigns will take on the current contenders but councillor Ian Barker earlier this year told the Nelson Weekly he was leaving the possibility of the running open. Last week Brian stated that he would keep rates at less than 1 per cent in his first year as mayor and has previously said rates affordability was a key goal he wanted to
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Page 25 Nathan Nukunuku is growing his afro to raise money for CanTeen. Photo: Lauren WaferKiddle.
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achieve. As the only non-serving member of the three candidates he has the most ground to make up but he has a high profile as the former area commander for Nelson Bays Police and is already staking his claim as the “rates affordability” candidate. Rachel says Nelson people are looking for a “positive change maker” and that people are over the “spin and hype”. “[People] want a council and mayor who understand how to govern the city effectively on a “no surprises” basis. Nelson people are looking for a mayor and council that works with
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Hair’s to Nathan Lauren Wafer-Kiddle Having lost some of his hair due to cancer treatments, Stoke man Nathan Nukunuku decided he’d rather grow his hair than shave it. Nathan has decided to grow an
afro to raise money for CanTeen and its ‘Shave for a Cure’ fundraiser. Nathan, and friend Toby Munro, say they are looking forward to gettting growing. “I had a few mates asking me
to grow my afro. I just thought I would and then Toby said he wanted to grow his as well. After that we decided we should grow it for charity,” he said.
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