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Vaccine fears unfounded Paula Hulburt Editor
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Health bosses are reassuring front line workers over fears they have been missed from a
region-wide COVID-19 vaccination drive. Last week specially trained vaccinators from Te Piki Oranga, Marlborough Primary Health and Nelson Marlborough Health continued the roll out
programme. But worried shift workers at Wairau Hospital say they have been left in the dark over when and if they will get their vaccinations. “Someone came around the
hospital departments a few minutes before the vaccinations to say people could get them but, like a lot of others, I wasn’t there,” one says.
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Marlborough mayoress Anne Best and pastor Tom Hatch from Elim Church cut the ribbon at Richmond View School to mark the opening of their new science centre.
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Adrift at sea Two men onboard a 50-foot yacht adrift in huge swells were rescued thanks to the Interislander ferry. Police were alerted just after 8pm on Wednesday night by one of the men onboard the ex-fishing trawler, which had lost power in huge seas. Their life vests had been washed overboard and time was running out when police and Maritime NZ launched a search and rescue operation. Blenheim Police search and rescue co-ordinator Senior Sergeant Peter Payne says the potential was there for the situation to end very badly. “I started to have some concerns early on in the piece. Given the weather conditions, we couldn’t fly, and you’re really limited in the number of vessels that can head out to assist,” he says. Police and the Rescue Co-ordination Centre had a general idea of where the boat was thanks to their cellphone but rescuers did not officially have a location for the trawler. “We didn’t know how quickly they were drifting, but we knew there was a reasonable wind,” Senior Sergeant Payne says. An Interislander and a Bluebridge ferry both responded to the distress call, as did two commercial fishing boats. Around 9:50pm the Interislander ferry located the vessel, approximately four nautical miles out to sea, and one of the fishing boats towed the stricken boat to safety. By midnight, it was anchored safely at Port Underwood. Both men were shaken but unharmed in the ordeal.
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