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Teresa Hattan As long as there are buffalo wings at the Richmond Festival the local Americans will be happy. Richmond members of the USA Club say they hope to be involved in the events happening here in September, which will tie in with the Rugby World Cup games being played in Nelson. Richmond has unofficially taken the USA team on board and will be hosting three events that relate to the country. Members Tom Kroos, Chris Cornelisen and Adrienne Ford think it’s great that Richmond will host events that originate from the USA. The three events are due to be held in Richmond on September 25-27 and will include a sevens tournament, a block party and a tailgate party over three consecutive days. The festival falls at a great time for Americans, who would already be in competitive sport mode. “Richmond is going to be party central for the USA team, not that any of us really follow United States rugby,” says Adrienne. Locals will be able to enjoy and celebrate all things America. “There are a number of Americans here other than us, there is quite a strong American contingent here,” says Chris. Adrienne believes the way Americans do things can easily be translated to the Kiwi way of life. “We just open our car boot and
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POPPY DAY: Richmond Waimea RSA president Terry Richardson with just some of the poppies to be sold tomorrow for the RSA’s annual appeal which coincides with Anzac Day next Monday. Photo: Teresa Hattan.
RSA stocking up for Poppy Day tomorrow
Tasman residents need to dig into their pockets once more for those that have served our country. Tomorrow is Poppy Day, a day where local RSA’s canvas their district for funds. This year will see the Richmond Waimea RSA organise a bucket run around the commercial areas and along the back streets. There will also be tables in the Richmond Mall and along Queen St. All the money collected goes to the wel-
fare of the returned service people, and Richmond Waimea RSA president Terry Richardson says it can only be used for this purpose. Poppy Day is known to be popular in the area, with just over $13,000 raised last year. “We then spent it all this year on welfare so it’s quite important to raise some more,” says Terry. The local RSA hope Tasman residents will once again get behind those who have
fought for their country. “We’ve been very fortunate the public have been responding so well [in the past],” says Terry. The Ladies RSA also help on the tables, which is a great as Terry says the members aren’t getting any younger. “It’s getting harder for us to do all this now that our members are getting older, we haven’t got a young RSA.” Saturday will see poppies being sold in the Mall only.
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