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World Cup fever hits our region We did it three and a half years ago for our favourite winter sport – now Nelson is preparing to embrace another world cup, this time for our top summer code. This Saturday, the Cricket World Cup will officially start in Christchurch and Nelson is getting right behind the action with the Nelson 111 Cricket Street Party taking over upper Trafalgar St. In 2011, the same space was the venue for hundreds of Nelsonians as they watched the All Blacks win the Rugby World Cup and many will be hoping to watch the Blackcaps get off to the best possible start to the Cricket World Cup in the same place. The street party will include food and drink stalls, activities for kids and a giant bigscreen for people to watch the game, and will run from 10am until 6pm. Just down the road the annual Market Day will mean most

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of Trafalgar St will be in party mode for most of Saturday. On Sunday, the city will attempt to set a new world record for the most number of people “doing the Nelson,” at Trafalgar Park from 11.30am. The “Nelson” is a cricketing superstition, referring to team or individual scores of 111, thought to refer to Lord Nelson’s lost eye, arm and unknown third appendage at the battle of Trafalgar. Tradition states that 111 is an unlucky score, so to mitigate that standing on one leg or, if you are sitting taking both feet off the ground, is supposed to prevent disaster until the score moves on. The current record is held in England, where 2276 people stood on one leg simultaneously.

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Survivor Scooter attracts new faces Simon Bloomberg This year’s Survivor Scooter charity ride may be a lot shorter in terms of distance than the original edition from Bluff to Nelson but organiser Jason Monopoli is promising that it will be a lot more challenging. Survivor Scooter 5 will start at Hanmer Springs on February 18 when 25 riders on their 50cc scooters set out on a four-day 350 kilometre journey. Although Jason will not disclose the route before the ride starts, he says it will “end somewhere on the north-west of the West Coast” and have an extremely interesting finish. “It’s going to start off relatively easy and then get more challenging towards the end. It’s going to be fewer kilometres than the earlier rides but a lot more fun.” Jason says riders will cover some of the toughest offroad tracks in the top of the South Island. If that wasn’t enough, they also have to compete in challenges each day against the other riders with the winner raising Richmond’s Rod Sharp, Christine Clark, Janine Pomeroy and Andrew cash for charity. Clark with one of the scooters they’ll ride in the Survivor Scooter ChalSEE PAGE 2 lenge this month. Photo: Jessie Johnston.

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World Cup arrives FROM PAGE 1

On Monday, the action switches to Saxton Oval where the West Indies will play Ireland from 10am. It will be the first of three Cricket World Cup games to be played in Nelson and it is already sold out. Nelson deputy mayor Paul Matheson says the games will provide great exposure for the region. However, it seems that the Tasman district has failed to get enthused about the Cricket World Cup with

the council and Richmond Unlimited deciding not to put on any events. “It’s probably a missed opportunity for Richmond,” says Richmond Unlimited’s Kim Quit. “It’s a big event for the region but funding these events is the bottom line.” TDC’s community and recreation advisor, Mike Tasman-Jones, says they haven’t organised anything apart from helping to erect temporary bike stands at Saxton Oval to encourage people to bike to games.

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Two of those repeat offenders are Nelson couple Christine and Andrew Clark who have also talked their friends, Rod Sharp and Janine Pomeroy, into joining them. “It will be the third time we’ve done it and we’re really looking forward to it,” Christine says. “You get to see some incredible countryside and have so much fun. “It’s like four-wheel-driving except you aren’t sitting in a cab. You get right into the countryside - sometimes with your face in the mud. “You also get to go places you would never have access to and you are raising money for the Ark. The people who do it

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Muddy Buddy conditions a ‘huge over-reaction’ Simon Bloomberg

Tasman School has been made to comply with “heavy-handed” conditions to gain a resource consent so it can hold its popular fundraising Muddy Buddy Adventure Fun Run next month. Last year 1400 people slithered their way around the Moutere Inlet in the fun run which raised $13,000 for the school. Muddy Buddy will be held again on March 15 this year but only after the Tasman District Council approved a resource consent for the event that councillor Judene Edgar says includes conditions that “are way over the top”. “They have made the school change the course so the Muddy Buddies have to cross the road to get to the estuary instead of going through a concrete culvert under the road. That one really threw me - how can a concrete culvert be a sensitive environment?” Judene says the school will now have to implement a traffic management plan to divert traffic so that Muddy Buddy contestants can safely cross Aporo Rd. She estimated that alone could cost the school around $1500. The resource consent also limits Muddy Buddy to 1400 peo-

Francesca Todd Rose, 16, was all smiles at the completion of the Muddy Buddy Fun Run at the Moutere Inlet last year. ple to minimise its impact on the environment. The school will have to mitigate the impact of the event by implementing a planting programme and changing the course each year. However, Judene, who has entered Muddy Buddy every year since it started in 2010, says all these conditions are unnecessary anyway because the original report by environmental consultants Wriggle showed that the event had a negligible impact on the environment. The report states that Muddy Buddy’s impact on estuarine animals and plants appears minimal because “most of the course is located on perched, muddy mid-tidal flats” where

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Nelson beekeepers are enjoying one of the best seasons in 40 years with warm temperatures, timely rainfalls and prolific flowering resulting in bumper yields of high quality honey. “It’s a really excellent season with yields well above average,” Moutere Beekeeping’s Hector Urquhart says. “We are getting around 50 to 70 kilograms of honey from each hive, which is very good. “I’ve been beekeeping here for 12 years and this year’s right up there with the very good season we had in 2009-2010. But I think the quality is better this year - we have had pollen counts done on the manuka honey and it’s very good quality.” Hector, who has hives in Golden Bay and around the Nelson-Tasman region, says the heat, timely rainfalls and good flowering by key plants have combined to produce the perfect season. “We have the nice hot days and it hasn’t been windy. The manuka and kanuka and kamahi have also been flowering really well and then we’ve had just enough rain to release the nectar,” he says. Managing director of Nelson Honey Philip Cropp, who is a third-generation beekeeper and started commercial beekeeping in 1972, says “it’s one of the best season’s we have ever seen”. Although Philip says it is “too early” to put a figure on yields, it will “be well above average.” “The manuka has been flowing very well and it’s our premium-priced product compared to other honey. There’s lots of different grades of manuka

Nelson beekeeper Hector Urquhart at one of his sites in the York Valley, near Bishopdale. Photo: Andrew Board. honey but we’d usually get around $20 a kilogram.” President of the Nelson branch of the National Beekeepers Association and Mountain Valley Honey co-owner, Murray Elwood agrees the “perfect weather” has resulted in “a very good season”. “We started harvesting just after Christmas and the quantity is good and the quality is good. It’s been a little difficult getting a pure line of manuka honey because the kamahi has been flowering so well but we are very happy with it.” Murray says the bumper season is good news for beekeepers after many reported poor yields last summer. “Last season wasn’t very good for us. It was a cold summer and we had a poor nectar flow.

“But this season is pretty darn good. and I’ve been beekeeping for 25 years and this season would be in the top four or five.” Hector says beekeepers are also benefitting from strong domestic and export markets. Demand and price have been high especially for manuka honey which is the most expensive in the world. “The strong demand for manuka honey seems to be lifting the price of other honey. It’s a good time to be a beekeeper,” he says. New Zealand’s 4279 registered beekeepers, 27,106 apiaries and 452,018 beehives produce around 9000 to 12,000 tonnes of honey annually, with one third to half exported. Exports of honey are valued at around $81 million.

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Motorsport park gaining traction

The newly-named Kohatu Park is gaining plenty of support from motorsport enthusiasts and businesses as fund-raising and planning for the motorsport and adventure park near Tapawera south of Nelson changes up a gear. Plans for a motorsport venue on a 203 hectare property owned by Nelson businessman and motorsport enthusiast, Garry Adcock, have been in the pipeline for a number of years. But the project gained traction last year after a resource consent was granted for initial earthworks and infrastructure at the site and a board of directors was elected to steer the project.

And now the board has launched a new website to publicise the project and started a membership drive to show that it has enough support from the community. Board member Dave McLeod says they already have about 300 members and are aiming to get 1000 by March. Dave says the support is critical to show the Nelson and Tasman councils that the Kohatu Motorsport Park should be included their 2015-2025 Long Term Plans to be finalised in June this year. “Now is the time, if they want a park, to get behind it and make it happen. The more support we can show, the sooner the park

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An artist’s impression of the Kohatu Park pit building, foreground, and track crossing with the second pit building, museum and clubrooms in background. will be up and running,” Dave says. Associate membership costs $20, with new members eligible for $55 of discounts

through a voucher system backed by Nelson businesses. “That funding isn’t going to build the park but it is important because it will show the level of support,” Dave says. He says the serious funding for the project would need to come from major sponsors. Dave says the board has also received the first concept plans for some of the facilities at the park and he expects work to start soon on some of the “non-seal” tracks for motocross, supercross, rallying and offroad racing. Kohatu Park will be having on open day on-site on February 22. For information, see kohatupark.co.nz

MOUNTAINBIKER REACHES GOAL: Nelson mountainbiker Tom Filmer completed 21 ascents of the Barnicoat Hill well within 21 hours on Saturday to complete his charity ride to celebrate his 21st birthday. Tom rode the 451 vertical metre climb 21 times in 17 hours 15 minutes to raise funds for the Nelson Tasman Hospice, as reported by Waimea Weekly last week. People can still donate money to the fundraiser online at HospiceCharityRide account number 12-3040-0572664-51 Reference ‘TOM’. SPEECH COMP: The winner of this Sunday’s Nelson-Marlborough regional final of the ANZ and RSA Cyril Bassett VC speech competition will go to Gallipoli as a Youth Ambassador to be part of the special Anzac centenary commemorations. Year 12 and 13 students have to speak about New Zealanders in World War I at the competition to be held at the Nelson RSA at the Suburban Club on Tahunanui Drive. The winner will also receive a smartphone, $1000 in an ANZ bank account and a further $1000 cheque for their school, along with a place in the national finals on March 12 in Wellington. MARCHING: The Top of the South day will be held this Saturday at the Hope Domain as part of the New Zealand-wide Leisure Marching Field Days. The day will include 150 marchers from teams from Hokitika, Greymouth, Westport, Motueka, Blenheim and Nelson, with Nelson team, Grosvenor Golden Girls, hosting the event. Spectators are welcome to attend the teams marching routines which will take place from 12:30pm.

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Busiest month ever for rescue helicopter Monique Bergman

January was the busiest month on record for the Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter with the crew attending 64 call outs. Last year was also a record year with 460 total missions throughout the region, a 28 per cent increase from the previous year at 357 emergencies. General manager Paula Muddle says the good summer weather along Sophia Takimoana, Sheryl Taaiari and Gaylene Te Hore cooking fried bread at the Kai Festival at Founders Heritage Park on Waitangi Day. Photo: Jacob Chandler.

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The smell of hangi wafted through the air as visitors were treated to an array of international foods at the Whakatu Marae for the 2015 International Kai Festival on Friday. The Waitangi Day event drew large crowds which crammed in around both the marae and Founders Heritage Park. Visitors had the chance to taste a variety of Maori and New Zealand kai including hangi, boil-up pies, whitebait patties, fried bread and raw fish. A number of international stalls were also serving up traditional food such as oliebol, churros, curries and breads.

with foreign tourists visiting earlier this year and Cantabrians returning in larger numbers to our region could have contributed towards the increase in January missions. Call outs included general medical emergencies such as motor vehicle and mountain biking accidents, search and rescue operations and fires. Most of the emergencies were in the three National Parks within the Nelson, Tasman, Marlborough and Buller areas.

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After 40 years of trying, Pat finally wins his mum’s trophy Monique Bergman For more than 40 years Pat Bailey has had just one bowls trophy on his mind, the one that was dedicated to his mother – and on Sunday, close to tears, he finally won it. The Bailey Trophy was donated to the Stoke Bowling Club by his late father, Denny Bailey, 41 years ago, in memory of Pat’s mother, Lila. Pat has played for the trophy almost every year since, only missing when it was either cancelled due to poor weather, or a lack of teams forced it to be cancelled. But on Sunday, he finally won it. “I have been trying to win the trophy since 1974 and I have been in some really good teams, including one with my late sister, Kathleen Tomlinson, who won a New Zealand Championship, but I was a bridesmaid many times, so I am thrilled to bits that we won,” says Pat. Pat has been playing bowls for 52 years and during that time he has won many championships, but he

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simon@waimeaweekly.co.nz Cleaning up Bridge Street and gaining the confidence and trust of the Nelson public stand out as highlights for Nelson Bays Police Area Commander Inspector Steve Greally who is heading to Wellington next month to take up a job as national manager of road policing. When Steve arrived in Nelson three years ago, he promised to target the drunken disorder that reigned on Nelson’s Bridge St on Saturday nights and he delivered on that promise. And while he takes a lot of satisfaction out of that “result” he says one of the biggest accolades for his 137 staff at Nelson Bays police is that “our public trust and confidence is among the highest in New Zealand”. “Bridge Street has been a major focus and I think we have really changed the culture there on Saturday night and Sunday morning There are far fewer serious assaults, whether they be physical or sexual, which is great. “But the police have served Nelson Bays very well in all areas and that’s reflected in the public trust in us. I am immensely proud of my staff. “I know they work extremely hard and I’ve seen them put in a lot of sleepless nights. They have just got on and done the job they believe in so they can make it a placer safe for everyone.” Steve also identifies the downward trend in crime statistics, “a couple” of successful homicide investigations and “good results” with the Red Devils” as

Steve Greally is heading to Wellington after three years as Nelson Bays Police Area Commander. Photo: Simon Bloomberg. other highlights. “The downward trend in the crime stats is pleasing and we have had really good traction over the last three years. But that will hit a lower limit and so we need to keep looking at ways to continually keep improving the way we do things and make gains - that will be one of the biggest challenges for the new area commander.” Steve says one of the keys to the police’s success over the last three years has been engaging the community and that’s something he learned quickly as an area commander. “It’s been a steep learning curve and I have learned so much about people. It’s not just about managing staff, it’s also about interacting with the people outside the police and in the community

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TICKETS $15 GATE SALES $20

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Tickets available at: Colourplus, Haven Realty, Village Cycles, Avanti Plus, Everyman Records, Brightwater Sprig & Fern and Brightwater Motors.

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Nelson Forests Ltd are proud to support the Brightwater Wine and Food Festival

It’s a celebration of everything local and this Sunday is your chance to enjoy the splendours of the Brightwater Wine and Food Festival. Their success last year can be attributed to a fantastic turn out of stallholders and patrons, and the hard work of organisers, the Rotary Club of Richmond. The event is also hugely important to the community because of the funds it provides for local charitable organisations. Last year the festival managed to raise over $28,000 for these groups and this year will be no different. Proceeds will be going towards the Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter, Wanderers Sports Club, Brightwater Rural Fire Force, Richmond Volunteer Fire Brigade, St John, Brightwater School, Hype, Great Taste Cycle Trail Trust and the Nelson Volunteer Coast Guard.

With a ‘back to basics’ motto that successfully showcases the important elements of the Brightwater Wine and Food Festival, you do not want to miss out on enjoying a day of delicious food, fantastic local wine and beer and a display of boats from the NZ Antique and Classic Boat Show, set up to welcome the public into the event. Located amongst the vines of the beautiful Middle-Earth Winery, the atmosphere of the festival just can’t be beaten and is the perfect venue for enjoying some of the area’s most talented musicians. If you have the moves, then don’t be afraid to show them off as you listen to acts such as Paul Madsen, Kramit, Urban, Antoni Neale, along with the Neale brothers and a set from the winner of this year’s More FM competition, Sound Stage.

Every year the proceeds from the Brightwater Wine and Food Festival are distributed to local charities – including the Brightwater Volunteer Rural Firefighters.

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Proud to support the Brightwater Wine and Food Festival

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