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Wednesday 24 March 2021
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Abbey’s narrowest win
Snowden’s smashes their target Jo Kent Reporter
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In an unprecedented move, the Snowden’s Bush Trust have reached their final fundraising target of $350k, less than 24 hours after the Waimea Weekly ran their latest story on the campaign last week. “It’s no coincidence that every time the Waimea Weekly run a story about us, we get donations,” says Jeremy Cameron, Trust Chair. “But we never thought we’d get such a big amount to push us over the finish line this soon.” Just five weeks ago, the Trust still had to raise $47k, but after the Waimea Weekly ramped up the campaign boosting their public profile, the Trust are now celebrating the end of almost three years of fundraising. The project began in October 2018 when the Anglican Church proposed selling the land in front of Snowden’s Bush Reserve for housing development. Local resident Janice Gibbs set the ball rolling with the idea of fundraising enough money to buy the land and gift it back to the Department of Conservation, permanently protecting ancient Totara and Matai trees and expanding the Reserve to include the frontage along Waimea West Road. “We are more than thrilled that this piece of land will now stay in the public domain forever,” says Janice. “There
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Little hands made light work of 2,500 bottle tops for Wakefield’s Little People Preschool school mural. Avery and Kyra Johnston (pictured) were some of the students who got involved in the art project. “One of our strong focuses in the school is caring for the environment, sea life and recycling,” says Maretta Burbidge, a preschool teacher. The mural is a culmination of that focus with the whole school community getting involved and collecting bottle tops. They started in March last year as part of sea week. The students helped plan, sort the tops and position them, and they used battery drills to screw the tops to the board. Producing the ‘Keep our sea plastic-free’ mural has been a great learning project, incorporating the importance of recycling and looking after the sea creatures by ensuring plastic is kept out of the ocean. Photo: Supplied.
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