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Egg-cellent celebration Brightwater cars targeted by brazen thieves There’s no better way to celebrate World Egg Day than a free breakfast of scrambled, poached and boiled eggs – just ask Ewing Poultry. The Main Rd Hope-based company will be putting on a free breakfast this Friday morning for fellow egg lovers. The breakfast runs from 7am9am and will feature plenty more than just the little white egg says owner Gwen Ewing. World Egg Day was first started by the International Egg Commission. In Austria, a giant balloon took to the skies to celebrate World Egg Day. But Gwen wanted to celebrate the day a little closer to home. “Although it is celebrated in New Zealand, it’s not celebrated here, so we didn’t want Nelson to miss out,” she says. As you can imagine, catering won’t be easy, but Gwen says they’re sure they will cope regardless of how many come. “There’s going to be egg omelettes, bacon and sausages with egg, we’re doing eggs benedict and there’s colouring in competition.” So when the children are finished their breakfast they can colour in Humpty Dumpty sitting on the wall. “We’re also doing a poached egg competition where the public can have a go and there’s also egg and spoon races.” The day will go ahead regardless of the weather.
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Jill Ewing of Ewing Poultry will be serving up a free breakfast for egg lovers this Friday morning. October 14 is World Egg Day and Ewing Poultry are jumping into the celebrations with colouring competitions and egg and spoon races too. Photo: Phillip Rollo.
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A spree of thefts from cars in Brightwater has police urging residents not to leave valuables in their car and keep it locked – even if it’s up your driveway. In the past six weeks there have been 12 to 15 motor vehicles reported broken into and ransacked, a figure usually seen over an entire year, says senior constable Peter Cobeldick, of Wakefield. He states the number is probably higher, with some break-ins going unreported. The thief targets unlocked cars, taking mobile phones, iPods, cash, passports and wallets; someone even reported that a box of Kit-Kats was taken. A pattern is beginning to emerge, says Peter. Locked cars in the same vicinity were left untouched and no property has been damaged, so those who secure their vehicle are less at risk, but it’s also important not to leave valuables in the car he says. Coming into school holidays, Peter urges parents to keep an eye on their chil-
dren. Though it is not necessarily teenagers responsible, parents should contact the police if they notice their child with anything suspicious, like new electronics or cash. “We need to know so we can hopefully nip it in the bud and catch the culprit, or culprits. We can’t work blind,” he says. A victim of the crime spree says that he was absolutely amazed at the police response. “I can’t get over how efficiently and quickly they responded. I have every confidence that they’re doing everything they can.” His car was parked on his property and the theft happened overnight. As he was leaving for work in the morning he says that he noticed immediately that the car had been interfered with; the doors were open and the contents of the glove compartment were strewn on the seat. Having lived in Brightwater for several years with no problems, he was alarmed that this could happen at his own house; “It was a little bit of a wakeup call.”
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