Waimea Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
Wednesday 9 March 2022
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Hunt for Marg’s saviour Sara HOllymaN It was a normal morning when Marg Farrelly set off from her Waimea Rd home on a bike ride with her husband and friend last month. But what eventuated turned into a nightmare for the Nelson woman. The group rode to Brightwater and around Mt Heslington, then on for their usual coffee stop at Headquarters in Brightwater at about 11am before setting off for home. Riding along Hill St, Marg’s friend stopped ahead of her at the intersection of Queen St. Marg thought her friend was starting to cross the intersection, but she applied her brakes and prepared to stop, seeing a car coming towards the intersection in the distance. What happened next, nobody quite understands.
Her friend didn’t cross the intersection, and Marg came up a little too close, gently brushing shoulders with him as she came to a stop. Marg felt a slight sting in her leg and assumed she had scratched it on her pedal as she had placed her foot to the ground. “I didn’t think anything of it,” Marg says. Her friend continued, Marg followed, with her husband much further ahead. “On the other side of the intersection I thought ‘oh, that’s still stinging’, I looked down and saw a few trails of blood on the front of my leg and thought ‘oh dear’.” Marg is on blood thinners for a heart condition, so knew she had to pull over and stop the bleeding. She had a small first aid kit
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andrea Borrie with her giant pumpkin weighing 57kg. Photo: Jo Kent.
Wakefield’s giant pumpkin party success JO KENT A pumpkin weighing a whopping 110kg has taken out first prize in a group of Wakefield gardening enthusiasts’ inaugural competition. Pete Low came away with the win for his mammoth effort. “The main prize is 12 months-worth of bragging rights,” Pete says. “I’m going to put the trophy on display behind the bar at the Wakefield Hotel as that’s where our group always meets up.”
Andrea Borrie, who came seventh with her pumpkin weighing 57kg, says Pete came up with the idea of the competition as he’d previously been involved in similar events in Greymouth. “He was telling us all about it one day and just said we should start a Wakefield one up,” she says. ‘Wakefield Smashing Pumpkins’ was born. He had some seeds left over from previous years and gave us some to plant and it took off from there.”
The group has a president and a treasurer and there are strict rules which must be followed. “We are only allowed to enter one pumpkin each and we have monthly meetings where we show photos of our pumpkin’s progress and also get updates on how each other is getting on.” She says that if a pumpkin dies, the member has to write an essay on its
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