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Wednesday 2 November 2016
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Community starts battle against tagging Simon Bloomberg A spate of tagging around Richmond has prompted a strong reaction from the community with Richmond Unlimited, Tasman District Council, Waimea Menz Shed, Resene and police joining forces to combat the unsightly graffiti. Police senior constable Glyn Cunningham says the tagging started about three months ago and has continued to become the town’s worst graffiti epidemic. The offenders have been targeting walls in alleyways around the town’s central business area and on Tuesday council, police and community and business groups started fighting back, launching an anti-tagging campaign. Council’s community partnership officer Lani Evans says they were made aware of the problem by police. Council then contacted Richmond Unlimited which recruited the Menz Shed and Resene to start painting over the graffiti which Glyn says is the best way to discourage the taggers. “We’ve had graffiti before but not to this extent. It’s the worst graffiti we’ve had so we needed to do something about it. “We don’t want this in this town so the best way to discourage it is paint over it immediately. If anyone sees new graffiti they need to report it so it can be painted over the next day which means the taggers can’t gloat about their work.”
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Tornado hits Appleby nursery Simon Bloomberg The wild spring weather left a trail of destruction across the Tasman district last week with a tornado ripping through an Appleby nursery, lightning killing 16 sheep near St Arnaud. The tornado which hit at about 2am on Wednesday sent a trampoline flying 250m through the air, smashed two large trees and flattened thousands of young trees at James and Susie Dean Lansdowne Rd nursery. Three days later, a violent thunder storm hit Tapawera and St Arnaud at around 4pm when a “massive lightning bolt” destroyed a large tree on the Korere-Top House Rd, killing five ewes and their lambs sheltering underneath. “I was driving back from Tapawera when I saw this big flash, almost like a ball of fire, and the lightening hit this big macrocarpa and split it,” witness Pip Wells says. “There were branches everywhere and I could see the ewes and lambs dead on the ground - it was a real mess. “It was an awful storm - it was so loud. I couldn’t do
anything to help the sheep so I just rushed home to check my own animals.” The tornado that hit Deans Nursery may have caused “absolute devastation” but James and Susie were left counting their lucky stars that it somehow missed all their buildings. A 150-year-old willow and a big London Plane tree were falttened and all of young trees in pots were on their side. “I have never known anything like it. It looks like a tornado has come through - you can see the path where it went through our property and no one else around here has been affected. “My granddaughter’s trampoline got lifted up and thrown over the hedge and landed about 250m away - it’s in pieces. Luckily the buildings are okay - we’ll be okay.” MetService meteorologist Stephen Glassie says a tornado was also reported in Taranaki on the same day. He says the damage at Appleby is very typical of tornadoes which “are very localised” and often occur without being seen and reported.
James and Susie Dean in front of the plane tree that was flattened by the tornado at their Lansdowne Rd nursery last Wednesday. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
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