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Wednesday 8 July 2015
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Facebook helps find lost dog
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Jacob Chandler It’s not the first time Andy McKenna has rescued a stray dog, but it is the first time someone on the other side of the world helped find its owner. Andy, a Wakefield delivery driver, was doing his job on Sunday morning when he came across a stray dog on Bisley Ave in Nelson. He picked it up and, because the SPCA was closed on a Sunday, took to Facebook to find its owner. He posted a photo of the schnauzer, named Katie, and soon enough, a tourist in the UK had seen the photo and contacted the owner in Nelson to help reunite the two. Andy says when he first saw the dog, it was just sitting on the side of the road. “I was going up Bisley Ave and there was a dog standing on the side of the road.
Louise Hogg reunited with her schnauzer Katie. I called it over because I didn’t want it to get run over. It obviously didn’t have any road-sense and I couldn’t see any tags or collars on it.” Andy put the dog in his car and she lay on the back seat while Andy finished his paper run. About 15 minutes after the photo of the dog was posted, its owner Louise Hogg received a phone call from Sophie Gray, a friend who is travelling in the UK.
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Wakefield couple Wendy and Peter Herrick have a lot in common, including both being bank managers, presidents of Rotary groups and keen gardeners. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
Husband and wife are peas in a pod You won’t win any prizes for guessing the main topics of conversation at the Herrick household. That’s because Wakefield couple Peter and Wendy Herrick now have more in common than ever after they were elected as Mr and Mrs President of their respective rotary clubs late last month. Peter started his second term as president of the Rotary Club of Motueka on June 22 while at the same “changeover” ceremony Wendy was inducted as just the second women president of Richmond Rotary. “It’s the same for both of us,” Peter says. “We joined Rotary because it’s a
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simon@waimeaweekly.co.nz community service organisation and it’s a really good way of helping the community, both locally and internationally.” Peter, who joined Rotary when they were living in Motueka seven years ago, was previously president from 2011 to 2012. Wendy joined Richmond Rotary in 2011 after they had moved to Wakefield and is serving her first term as president. And when Peter and Wendy aren’t discussing Rotary business, chances
are they will be talking about banking or gardening. Peter is manager of the Richmond branch of ANZ and Wendy is the manager of Westpac in Richmond while they also share the same favourite past-time, “relaxing” in their big formal garden at home. “We have a one acre, formal garden which is a good way to unwind especially if you have a power tool in your hand,” Peter says. Peter says that although Rotary is a big commitment and “can take a bit of time” it is worthwhile because Rotary makes such a big contribution
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