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Wednesday 18 March 2015
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An exhausted Antonia Lerbs is dragged by friend Stella Stevens through the mud at this year’s Sport Tasman Muddy Buddy. Photo: Jessie Johnston.
Sun, fun and plenty of mud What started out as a fun run ended up more like a mud bath as participants waded, crawled and stumbled through Sunday’s Sport Tasman Muddy Buddy. The sixth annual event was first thought up by Jodie and Nathan Fa’avae and is now the main wheelchairs mobility scooters walkers/canes electric bed/hoists lift assist chairs bathroom solutions incontinence products daily living aids/products
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fundraising activity for Tasman School. Despite changes to this year’s course, things went fantastically says school principal, Pip Wells. “We had nothing but praise, so everybody who entered had an absolute ball. They thought that the course was the
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best ever and it had a few challenges, so that was really cool.” In order to comply with resource consent conditions, the school was required to meet a number of regulations, the first of which
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Air New Zealand passengers flying from Auckland to Nelson on Sunday were left “fuming” after being told the flight was cancelled because of bad weather, only to see other planes fly out without a problem. Several passengers on flight 5253 contacted Waimea Weekly about the experience that left them feeling “ignored” and “frustrated”. Many of the passengers had flown to Auckland for The Eagles concert, while others were travelling back to Nelson after a holiday abroad. Passengers say they were originally told the flight was delayed due to an “engineering fault” but the reason was later changed to poor weather in Auckland. That was despite all but one other flight departing Auckland without a problem. The stranded passengers were later flown to Wellington, not Nelson, because there was no accom-
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Nelson-bound Norwegian passenger Lise Skogrand stranded at Auckland Airport on Sunday. modation available in Auckland. International traveller, Lise Skogrand of Norway, was heading to Nelson to visit her daughter and grandchildren but was left wandering Auckland airport aimlessly after being offered “no help” from staff. She was finally befriended by some other Nelson passengers who helped her get a flight to Wellington and then to Nelson on Monday.
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