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Wednesday 8 January 2014
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Saxton shines
Henry and Simon Anderson with Matthew Leonard at the Black Caps versus West Indies ODI at Saxton Oval on Saturday. Photo: Phillip Rollo.
Nelson Cricket’s biggest day has been deemed a massive success, with a sell out crowd of 5300 witnessing a first class Black Caps victory over the West Indies. Everything from the venue, the crowd, the facilities and the result were given a big tick – with just the weather being the only groan as late afternoon rain resulted in a premature end with New Zealand given a 58 run win via the Duckworth Lewis Method. “There was a huge turnout, the wicket was good, everything proved to be as good or if not better than we had hoped,” says Nelson Cricket Association chairman David Leonard. “It was really, really important on a whole lot of levels that the game went ahead SEE PAGE 2
Dumped dogs get second chance With the help from local volunteers, homeless hounds are getting a second chance at life. Second Chance is a newly founded organisation that takes dumped, neglected and otherwise discarded dogs from the Richmond Pound and places them with loving owners, giving them a new lease on life. While the majority of wandering, relin-
Sinead Ogilvie Reporter
reporter@nelsonweekly.co.nz quished or homeless dogs who visit the pound are usually claimed or re-homed, not all are so fortunate and that is where Second Chance comes in.
Dogs from the Motueka and Richmond area who are not reclaimed from the pound are put through the programme to find them new homes. The aim is to get them desexed, vaccinated and microchipped before they are adopted out into a new family. A relationship formed between John Bergman, manager of the Richmond Pound,
and Second Chance has seen the group already re-home five local dogs since forming in July. Now they want to spread the word about the dogs down at Richmond Pound who all need a new family, asap. “We are really just trying to let people know that there are good dogs up for SEE PAGE 4
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