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Wednesday 2 December 2015
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Waimea Motors Joins NPD
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Locals win
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Neighbours 'saved my life' Simon Bloomberg
Bill Morris reckons his neighbours saved his life and his house, after they got him to safety and then helped fight a fire that destroyed the garage on his Main Road
Hope property on Monday. The 87-year-old was asleep in his house when a fire started in his nearby garage at around 3pm. The flames were so intense they started blistering the paint on the back wall of his house 10 metres away and
Bill says "another five minutes and I would have been a goner". "I was lying there asleep and Dick (Barker) from next door came in and said 'your shed's on fire, we'd better get out'. I looked out and all I could see in the shed was a
sheet of flames, so we got out quick. "We had to go out the front door - it was too hot at the back. The paint on the house was starting to blister and it would have
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SANTA PARADE: Pyper, left, and Emma Baigent wave from a 1955 Morris Minor during the Richmond Santa Parade on Sunday. Top right: Santa makes his way down Queen St. Bottom right: Brent Palmer of Ray White Richmond dressed as a gingerbread man. Photos: Jessie Johnston.
Santa Parade draws thousands to CBD
Jessie Johnston
Santa Claus is comin’ to town, in fact he’s been and gone and left a number of happy boys and girls in his wake.
The Richmond Pak ‘n Save Santa Parade took over Queen St on Sunday, featuring thirty-two floats, including the jolly old man himself. As usual, hundreds lined the main street
to catch a view of Santa, as well as enjoy a variety of other eye-catching, tinselcoated floats, including a steam machine, fire truck and American muscle car, plus, the Richmond, Wakefield and Brightwa-
ter Scouts, marching groups and plenty of elves and angels. Organiser Kim Quint says this year’s parade was amongst some
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