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Wednesday 26 August 2015
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Richmond schools hit hard by flu
Richmond schools are being hit by influenza, with Garin College reporting that up to one third of its students were away last week and Waimea Intermediate this week struggling to find enough relievers to replace sick teachers. Garin College had 160 absences from its roll of 480 last week as a “spike in Type A influenza” hit Nelson and Marlborough. Richmond Health Centre’s Doctor Richard Martin says the spike had earlier hit Canterbury and was now sweeping through Nelson with rates of infection two times higher than usual. Garin’s acting principal Sheila Granger says they have been affected by “a gastric bug as well as a bit of a cold going around” although “it seems to be coming right now”. Waimea Intermediate has also been affected badly with office manager Andy Colley saying they have had
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The kids have been feeling dizzy and suffering headaches and they get a nasty cough that hangs around. - Andy Colley.
“a significant number of pupils away” over the last few weeks. Staff at Waimea Intermediate have also been affected and the school has “struggled to get relievers because all the schools are after them”. “It’s a nasty virus,” Andy says. “The kids have been feeling dizzy and suffering headaches and they get a nasty cough that hangs around.” Henley School office manager Tracey Aindow says they had 18 to 19 per cent of their pupils away sick on Monday this week which is much higher than usual for winter.
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Pip Little has been busy this week picking daffodils on their Waimea Plains property for the Cancer Society's Daffodil Day this Friday. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
Grower doing her bit for Daffodil Day Simon Bloomberg
Gordon Levy used to spend hours every August helping to organise the Cancer Society's Daffodil Day Appeal. Gordon has sadly passed away, but over 20 years later his daughter Pip Little is continuing the family's involvement in Daffodil Day by growing and picking daffodils she planted on their Hope property specifically for the Cancer Society's biggest fundraiser of the year. Pip planted 5000 daffodil bulbs last
year and this week has been busy picking the flowers to help the society's Nelson centre fill the order for 234 bunches to be distributed to businesses around Nelson and Tasman. "Dad was one of the first volunteers who organised Daffodil Day in Richmond, so I decided I'd like help out as well," Pip says. "I went to the Cancer Society last year and said we had some land to grow daffodils for Daffodil Day, and then we planted all these bulbs that were mostly donated."
Cancer Society Nelson centre manager Linda Lucre says Pip has joined an army of around 500 volunteers who help make Daffodil Day a success. The volunteers will be picking and bunching daffodils early this week in preparation for Friday, when they will set up collection sites at 30 locations in Nelson, Stoke, Richmond, Brightwater, Wakefield, Motueka, Murchison and Golden Bay. Last year, Daffodil Day raised $85,000 for the Nelson centre of the Cancer Society.
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