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“We are so lucky to have this man here!’

Susan Zou, a member of the Yafeng Group which is promoting Chinese culture in the Wellington region, says this of Chinese artist and art teacher Qianxiang Liu of Johnsonville.

He is one of three artists who will be present when their works are displayed at the Yafeng group stall during Wellington’s Chinese New Year Festival. The display is being held in the TSB Bank Arena on February 10 from 11am to 4pm.

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Qianxiang Liu of Johnsonville brings the ancient traditions of Chinese art to the capital. PHOTO: Glenise Dreaver

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Respect for the past handed on to local children through art Continued from page 1.

A retired physics lecturer from China, Qianxiang and his wife Zheng Wang came to Wellington in 2012 to join their daughter Lisa, a computer programmer with the BNZ. He always loved painting, and started formal lessons at 13. However, the Cultural Revolution which began in 1966 put paid to any dream of a career as an artist, though Qianxiang seems philosophical about his choice of physics, which he says he also enjoyed.

His whimsical and joyous pig paintings are just part of his wider repertoire, which includes landscape paintings of great delicacy they will be among works at the Yafeng group stall at Wellington’s Chinese Festival.

The stall will be set up in the TSB Bank Arena on February 10, from 11am to 4pm.

Qianxiang has also taken four one and a half hour sessions with children at the Johnsonville Library, introducing them to the cultural and artistic traditions of Chinese art, and teaching respect for the materials and craftsmanship of thousands of years.

The children’s work is on display in the library, along with a glass case showing the materials used in Chinese art.

(By the way, if you wonder what Yafeng means, it reflects the same gentle Chinese humour as the pig paintings.

Think of a zephyr, that word found in Victorian romantic poetry and meaning a gentle breeze. “Almost an elegant one,” says Susan.)

ABOVE: Qianxiaing Liu, in the Johnsonville Library, shows how he teaches children Chinese brush techniques. PHOTO: Glenise Dreaver RIGHT: “The lucky pig brings good fortune.” Qianxiang Liu’s painting welcomes the Chinese Year of the Pig. Graphic supplied

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inbrief news Stopworks to affect some buses Stopwork meetings by Tramways Union members will affect off peak services operated by NZ Bus tomorrow Thursday February 7 and Friday February 8.

A Greater Wellington Regional Council’s spokesperson says the ratification meetings can provide more certainty for bus customers, adding they are “a positive step” towards concluding negotiations.

The stopwork meetings are scheduled to start at 10.30am on both days, affecting services between 9.30am and 4pm but are not planned to affect school or peak services.

Customers are urged to check the Metlink website and app for available services and make alternative travel arrangements.

Welly bombing comp On Saturday February 23, Wellington’s annual Welly Bomb competition will be held between noon and 3pm off the Taranaki Wharf jump platform. Prizes for the best bombs are up for grabs.

Essentially, the basic bomb is about entering the water feet first, ensuring you make the biggest possible splash as you do so. The experienced have some variations on how that is done.

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Prepare your child for school life says teacher

By Glenise Dreaver

With the start of the school year upon us, parents are seeing their children off to school, some for the first time. There is almost inevitably some anxiety about that.

Anne Minto is the new entrants’ teacher at St Benedict’s School in Khandallah and also leads the Year 1 and 2 syndicate.

This experienced teacher says the best thing parents can do to prepare their children for school

is to talk to them. “Make time for those rich conversations. It’s really important.”

She knows parents are very busy and some children do have to be in childcare, but she is emphatic that one-on-one time is crucial.

“Early in the morning and in the evening are good times.

Talking matters. Oral language is so important in the development of reading for example.”

“Read to your children. Pick a loved picture book, talk about the illustrations, what will

happen next and enjoy being together.”

And learning opportunities are all around you, she says.

“Count fruit into bags at the supermarket. Talk about the shapes of things, talk about time and reading the road signs while on car journeys.”

“Children are more capable of sorting themselves out than some parents realise.

“After a few days of adjustment and settling in, the children are quick to adapt and always end up thriving in school.”

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“St Benedict’s has a buddy system. It means all children in the class are friends with everyone else across the school.”

Anne advises that it will give the child confidence if they have practised things like dressing themselves, putting their own shoes on and doing tasks like getting their own sunhat and putting it in their bag.

Best of all, she finds the older children at the school are very sweet and caring, making for a great schooling experience she says.

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A spokesperson says this means the network can struggle with refilling reservoirs overnight.

If key reservoirs could not be refilled to normal levels, there could be reduced pressure and water quality issues as sediment was stirred up.

Residents are asked not to wash the windows or water the lawn for a few days .

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inbrief news Karori tunnel repairs Tenders open this week for waterproofing work inside the heritagel i s te d 76 m - l o n g K a r o r i Tu n n e l .

All being well, work is scheduled to begin in late March.

The $600,000 project aims to repair damaged plaster and re-point the existing brick ceiling of the 118-year-old tunnel to help reduce the water leaks that make conditions unpleasant, especially for pedestrians and cyclists.

The footpath through the tunnel will also be upgraded. It will be levelled and the drain covered to improve safety.

The work is expected to take several months to complete and the aim is to do the work at night to minimise disruption.

World first at airport Wellington Airport now has a fully automated aerobridge docking system on one of its domestic gates, the first airport in the world to use this technology.

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By Glenise Dreaver

“It’s a friendly little corner,” says graphic designer Chia Rubio when talking about St Brigid School’s sandpit area, now with its Birds on the Fence mural, finished over the school holidays.

She and fellow designer – and relative - Mike Javier, last year requested that the school let them use the fence for the piece, intended as an entry for a competition they hoped to enter.

“We had searched around John-

sonville, but couldn’t find a suitable place,” said Chia.

The school was happy to let them use the fence as a canvas, but did want them to ensure they did not damage the new deck, or impinge on the neighbour’s side of the fence with spatters.

There was also a bit of negotiation to find a sponsor before they got started and after a few false starts it was the school’s own painters, Men in White Ltd, who came to the party and organised the paints they

needed.

“We’ve just stayed with primary colours,” says Chia, who has a son at the school, and who works for Wellington Suburban Newspapers. “Then we mix them ourselves. It’s easiest that way.”

The native birds theme was requested by the principal.

“There are lots of native birds there where a lot of kids hang out under the trees,” Chia says.

So the mural has a fantail, a tui, a morepork a kea and a pukeko.

They’ve each put about 30-35

hours into the project, working around the school’s playground needs, their work, their own family commitments and the weather.

Because of additional delays with finding the place and a sponsor for the paints – as well as the weather – they missed the 2018 competition deadline, but Chia says they may enter in 2019.

You can check out more of their works on Instagram, Chia (@artbychia) and Mike (@makwel_art).

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The Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand (SGCNZ) is leaping into 2019 with a new programme, Dance Nimble Soles.

“We’re finally responding to many requests over the years for a dance element in the range of activities we provide,” says CEO Dawn Sanders.

“This year we are giving choreographers and dancers a chance to be creative with

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In association with Dance Ao t e a r o a N ew Z e a l a n d (DANZ) and NZ Dance Week, SGCNZ is offering aspiring choreographers the chance to choreograph a dance item inspired by a Shakespeare play or characters.

The piece may be up to three minutes long, for between two and 25 dancers of any age. The works will all be performed in

an evening show at the Hannah Playhouse in Wellington on International Dance Day Monday April 29.

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Khandallah Park: The place to be on February 23 Since 1896 Khandallah Park has been a special place for local residents, and for those from other areas of Wellington as well.

Originally a domain, by 1919 it had grown to its current size and become the responsibility of the Wellington City Council.

So in February, Khandallah Park celebrates its centenary and a group of locals is organising a picnic party.

The Khandallah Arts Theatre club (KAT) is also celebrating its sixtieth birthday and Mary Collie-Holmes, the theatre group’s president, says it is therefore very fitting to combine their annual Play-in-the-Park production with the bring-your-own picnic.

The picnic will start at noon and be followed by a free showing of the locally-written play The Ugly Duckling at 2.30pm.

The day includes many free activities, including novelty games and races, face-painting, a tug-of-war, a children’s fancy dress parade and a chance to see the inhabitants of the stream close up.

Adults are also invited to wear fashions from any decade over the last 100 years.

There will be free entry to Khandallah Pool, musical entertainment, tours of the local emergency water supply, a display of old photos of the Park and information about the current Park and Pool Revitalisation Project.

People can also contribute to a forthcoming history project by recording their memories of the park, facilitated by a couple of oral historians.

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She remembers the Park as “the” meeting place for the local children. She also remembers the temperature of the water in the swimming pool, which came straight from the creek that meanders down the hill. “Very cold!”

Loretta also remembers the stunted vegetation before the Council’s possum trapping programme started.

Today’s tall, healthy trees and the increasing bird life in the Park are certainly worth celebrating, she says.

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If wet, it will be postponed to March 9, but The Ugly Duckling will be presented in Cochran Hall in Cashmere Avenue.

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A decade of adventure and friendship

By Glenise Dreaver

“I wanted to do something about social isolation here,” says Northern Suburbs Travel Club founder Jim Collins.

“Because most people are interested in travel, it’s a catalyst to bring them together.”

Ten years ago, his focus was people living on their own.

So in July 2009, with a grant from the Wellington City Council and a story in the Independent Herald he called the first meeting. Just back from Vietnam, he chose that as his topic.

The cost was $4 to cover the cost of the room and supper and his fear that no one would come proved ill-founded. There was an audience of thirty-plus members, but Jim says: “What a disaster.”

“The laptop broke down. The

slide show was stop and start and I tried to fill in the gaps as we went along.

“People got agitated.”

He finally asked two guests to help with supper. Ten years on, the Durnfords are still helping with club organisation.

Jim admits, however, that the evening did instil interest as, to his surprise, people came back.

A decade later, there are usually thirty or so members at the monthly meetings.

Sometimes members give talks on their travels, in New Zealand or abroad and sometimes guest speakers, like photographer Peter Bush, describe their journeys. His memorable African tour included an adventure with a jack-knifed jeep and trailer accident in an attempt to escape one very angry bull elephant.

The club is, says membership secretary Jan Sammons, still very effective in combatting social isolation, but now is more about friendship.

Couples and friends are very welcome as well as singles.

Group tours to South East Asia are organised for club members and, says Jim, club organisation is a lot of work. “But we never run out of speakers.”

They meet in Room 4 in the Johnsonville Community Centre on the third Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm. The year’s fi rst meeting will be on Wednesday February 20, with a talk on Alaska and Canada.

The cost is still $4 for a casual meeting, $ 20 for an annual subscription.

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Question: What’s the worst waste of money you’ve ever seen or done?

Abby McAllum, Karori “A $5000 car I bought in Melbourne. The brakes stopped working. A dicey mechanic was provided so I finally bought a brand-new car.”

Karen O’Keefe, Johnsonville “I can’t honestly think of any personal experience.

I’m pretty careful”

Tom Cranney, Woodridge “That rainbow crossing is the worst waste of money I’ve ever seen. $40,000 all up!”

Tracey Turner, Lower Hutt “The so-called bike lane solution in Island Bay.I saw a car and a bus sideswipe this morning.”

Brent Stubbins, Johnsonville “Cycleways are a great idea but the implementation in the suburbs is ridiculous.

They’re a political toy. The roads are so narrow.”

Maree Stevens, Ngaio “The clothes I’ve bought over the years... they’ve all shrunk in the wardrobe....”

EYE ON CRIME In Johnsonville a burglary took place at a property under construction in Glenside Road which has three houses on one section. The gas hot water tanks were stolen from the two end houses and an unsuccessful attempt was made to take the tank from the middle house.

And a ground floor apartment in Middleton Road was entered through sliding door which was unlocked by reaching through a

small window. A laptop computer was stolen.

In Newlands a container at a construction site was entered, probably by someone who had a key, and three Topcon lasers were stolen. There was no indication of force having been used.

A silver Mazda Axela hatchback parked overnight on the street in Ruskin Road had its rear passenger window smashed to gain entry.

The vehicle was searched. It is not

yet known if anything was taken.

An attempt was made to steal a blue Toyota Vitz hatchback parked overnight in Sunhaven Drive. The left rear quarterlight window was smashed to gain entry. The ignition was damaged but the attempt to steal the vehicle was abandoned.

A silver Toyota Hiace light van parked on the road overnight in Lyndfield Lane had the roof racks stolen from it.

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rage, located at street level, of a house in Nicholson Road was broken into by interfering with the locks. The garage was searched and a Champion generator and cans of fuel were stolen.

An attempt to gain entry into a house in Mandalay Terrace was prevented by a plank of wood placed against the inside of the front door. The intruder managed to pick the lock but could not get any further. Offenders tried to gain

entry into the basement of a house in Rangoon Street by using bolt cutters on the padlocks.

They were unsuccessful and searched for another way in, leaving their bolt cutters behind.

They found an unlocked laundry door and gained entry into the basement by breaking through a thin wall.

A chainsaw, a weedeater and a hedge trimmer were taken. A drop saw had been moved but not taken.

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Plea on children’s safety As schools and kindergartens return from the summer break, Brake, the road safety charity, is reminding drivers to slow down and look out for kids.

The charity says 30km/h limits are needed around schools to protect children and help create safer streets.

Brake’s NZ director Caroline Perry says the death of a child on the road is devastating.

Research shows they can’t accurately assess a vehicle’s speed, so drivers need to give the road their full attention.

Children, she says, can make mistakes, but they don’t deserve to pay for it with their life.

“Slower speeds outside schools are essential to protect our children and young people on their way to and from school.”

A 30km/h limit would, she says, have safety, environmental and health benefits.

“With our current terrible statistics for road deaths and injuries, emissions, and obesity, introducing more 30km/h limits is a win all round.

“We know many parents fear taking their children to school on foot or bike because of fast traffic; lower limits help to both improve safety and encourage active travel.

Many schools have lower speed limits around them but Carolyn is urging drivers to commit to slowing down even further, to 30km/h, so they are much more likely to stop in time if a child runs out.

“And if they do hit, the child is far more likely to survive.”

There is also a reminder for drivers that the speed limit when passing a stopped school bus in either direction is 20km/h.

Parents can also help protect their children by teaching key road safety messages such as: holding hands with young

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They are easy-to-grow low-spreading plants, with flowers that push above the foliage – like little posies. They also have the advantage of growing easily from cuttings.

Once you have picked your colours, you plant your seedlings in a welldrained, moderately sunny spot. Geraniums like four to six hours’ sun a day.

Fork some compost or general fertiliser through the garden first, to give them the best possible start.

Dig small holes 8cm deep, roughly 25 cm apart. Livingstone daisies, lobelia and alyssum make great companion plantings as they all like the same conditions and look lovely together.

Give your geraniums a good initial watering, and keep this up for the first few weeks to get them established. Then you can relax a bit more on how much you water.

In around four to six weeks you’ll start to see some colour coming through on top of

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OUT&about A man who dreamed a dream…

By Glenise Dreaver

Deputy principal of Raroa Normal Intermediate School Stephen Eames had a dream.

A keen mountain biking enthusiast, his dream was of a track at the school for the children and community to use.

A few months later, that track is built and the school also has 50 bikes for the children to use.

Principal Christine Brown told the school community and invited guests at the opening ceremony about the importance of having a dream.

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Rapid Earthworks spent the school holidays working on it and by the time the children started their laps on Monday it had been well and truly tested by any number of local children – and their parents – in the preceding weeks.

The 680 children, 350 of them “newbies” along with their teachers, Wellington councillors and the local MP Greg O’Connor, watched Mayor Justin Lester ceremonially cut the ribbon as they celebrated an impossible dream.

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school including active learning, building reliance, well being, sustainable transport options, increased physical activity for pre-adolescent learners.

They are also focussing on the need for increased activity.

The cycle track, pump track ticks all these boxes.

There was support from the Wellington City Council and the Bikes in Schools programme, along with KiwiVelo, owned by Shane Collett, a former parent of the school.

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A triumphant first (official) round of the track

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“He had a dream,” Raroa Intermediate School principal Christine Brown told the children, and guests, at the mountain bike tracak opening about how their wonderful new facility came about. PHOTO: Glenise Dreaver

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Railway parking spaces will return To Lease

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Motorists who used the Johnsonville railway station‘s all-day parking area on Moorfield Road will, over the next few months, have to walk a lot further after parking their cars.

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Wednesday February 6, 2019

CLASSIFIEDS Trades & Services

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No AGMS, sporting notices or special meetings. Community Notices must be pre-paid.

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Widowed, Separated and Divorced Support Group WSD’s next 10 week course starts Wednesday 13th February 2019 in Petone. Phone 04 499-5520, enquiries@wsd.org.nz or www.wsd.org.nz

Trades & Services

BUILDING/PAINTING prompt service,

reasonable rates. Free quotes. Phone 04 9777850 or 027-451-5005.

HOUSE washing, 16 yrs exp. Hotwater,

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Find Your Voice!

Visit Churton Park Toastmasters OPEN DOOR meeting this Thursday, 7 February, 7.30pm. Toby Petterson 028 404 3169. tobypetterson@yahoo.com

Retired and looking for social activity?

Johnsonville Friendship Club offers monthly speakers and outings, including films and lunches. Phone Kathy on 938 4523 for information.

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”Early years” alumni gathering.

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Enrolment at our school is governed by an enrolment scheme, details of which are available from the school office and our website. The board has determined that 29 places are likely to be available for out-ofzone students in 2019. The exact number of places will depend on the number of applications received from students who live within the school’s home zone. In 2019 there will be 4 enrolment periods.

The second enrolment period runs for term 2 from Saturday 13 April 2019 to Friday 05 July 2019.

For students seeking enrolment within the second enrolment period, the deadline for receipt of applications for out of zone places is Wednesday 06 March 2019.

Please contact the school office for an enrolment form to submit.

If the number of out of zone applications exceeds the number of places available, students will be selected by ballot. If a ballot for out of zone places is required, it will be held on Thursday 07 March 2019. Parents will be informed of the outcome of the ballot within three school days of the ballot being held.

Parents of students who live within the home zone and intend to enrol their child at any time during this year should also notify the school as soon as possible to assist the school to plan appropriately for the year ahead.

Details relating to the third enrolment period for term 3, 2019 are as follows:

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$300,000 community funding up for grabs Applications are now open for community group funding from the Hutt Mana Charitable Trust.

If your charitable, philanthropic, amateur sport, cultural or community organisation needs a funding boost check out the application form and apply.

Visit www.hmct.org.nz or phone 04 569 6113 for more information.

Applications close on Friday 22 February.

Hutt Mana Charitable Trust: building strong and sustainable communities in the Hutt Valley, Porirua City and Wellington North.

Length of enrolment period: Saturday 06 July 2019 to Friday 27 September 2019.

Deadline for third enrolment period applications: Wednesday 5 june 2019.

Date of ballot if required: Thursday 6 June 2019

AFTER SCHOOL MUSIC CENTRE Enrolment day is 12 February 2019 from 3-5pm at the school office.

Instruments available are Violin, Guitar, Flute and Piano.

Please ring Kaye at school office 4788195 for further information.

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Wednesday February 6, 2019

SPORT Sports talk

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with Jacob Page

Black Clash backlash I had a ticket to the Black Clash event at Hagley Park a fortnight ago, but giving it up for health reasons was the best thing I could have done.

Long story short, my recovery from surgery was slower than I’d hoped and I’d decided I couldn’t hack sitting on grass for five hours.

Initially, I was disappointed to part with my $60 ticket but as the cricket-versus-rugby cricket

match hit game day, I realised I’d lucked out.

First of all, the game was a cash grab for Duco Events.

You can play for the Lomu/ Crowe Trophy — a shameless attempt to add credibility to the game — but it merely came across as lipstick on a pig.

The game was broadcast live on TVNZ 1.

There goes the motivation to go

to the game (which to be fair was almost a sell-out anyway).

The irony of the free-to-air coverage is that most of the players — All Blacks and Black Caps of the past 20 years — could only be seen in the prime of their careers behind Sky’s paywall.

The game itself was of pretty average quality.

I love watching Chris Harris bat and bowl - watching him is one

of the reasons I fell in love with sport as a child 25 years ago, but I can watch him for free rolling his arm over at Sydenham Park every Saturday if I wanted.

People love nostalgia and if that’s why you purchased a ticket then more power to you but it felt as if the Black Clash refused to stay in its lane.

Ironic it was that the TVNZ 1 news bulletin was curtailed by

30 minutes for such a game and yet sport fans have been starved of sport on free TV for more than 20 years.

One final thing, the camera angles and ball tracking off the bat was well below accepted standards.

Hopefully that is not an omen for when the network broadcasts the Rugby World Cup in nine months time.

Special prize for special local family

Prizewinners of the Round the Bays holiday package: Johnsonville family Hayley and Jaron Marsh with Jordan, 2 and Addy, 4. PHOTO supplied.

Wellington Bridge Club players dominate Three top players from Wellington Bridge Club, Mindy Wu from Mt Cook, and Kate Davies and John Patters, both of Lyall Bay, combined with Pamela Dravitzki from the Richmond Club to win the Marlborough 10A Teams played in

Marlborough over the weekend.

There was a strong field of over 88 players from throughout New Zealand.

The Dravitzki team had a poor first round but by round four they had reached the top and stayed there for the rest of tournament.

Wellington players also featured in the second-placed team when Dale Lacey and Robyn Freeman-Greene, both from Thorndon, combined with two Nelson players Steve Gray and Lindsey Guy to finish less than three points behind the winners.

With the 2019 Brendan Foot Supersite Round the Bays fun run/walk to be held on Sunday February 17, Sport Wellington held a competition where entrants were asked to convey why they love to #getinvolved with the event.

Of hundreds of entries Johnsonville local Jaron Marsh and his family won the Rotorua Weekend Escape package.

It’s not just that Round the Bays is, he says, a “family tradition” involving himself, his wife Haley and two children, Abby and Jordyn. His entry describes why: “Our oldest daughter has cerebral palsy and relies on a wheelchair to get around. So since our first family tradition Round The Bays, we feel it›s even more important to keep our family tradition alive to show to our daughters, and others in the Wellington community, that having a disability doesn›t stop us taking part in physically active things and being involved in the community.

“She’s a people person and loves being around people,

watching people and laughing at them, so RTB is one of the best places for that!

“Even though she can’t speak, she communicates in other ways just how much she enjoys things like RTB. “Thanks for making it an accessible event for families like us, we’ll return for as many years as we can!”

The Marsh family win included a Lakefront Spa access pass at Polynesian Spa Rotorua, an Original Canopy Tour with Rotorua Canopy Tours, and two nights stay at Rydges Rotorua.

The thousands of Round the Bays participants will start at Frank Kitts Park and will end at Kilbirnie Park.

There is the 6.5km run/walk, the Active Families section also 6.5km, where children can ride their scooter, the Buggy 6.5km Walk, the 10km and the half marathon events, with the half marathon runners making their way out to a turn-around point at Scorching Bay. Head to www.wellingtonroundthebays.co.nz to register.

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