Spice of Life

My choice from a week's work at Hawke's Bay Today J

(including at times, photos for the Napier Courier, the Hastings Leader

the Havelock North Village Press and/or The Link)

Getting the lay of the land

Stuart Duff, Hastings Golf Club, competing in the Greenwood Cup at Napier Golf Club, Waiohiki, Napier.

Tough kid

Cedar Wairau, 13, Napier, has been hailed a heroine after a family fishing boat capsized off the Mahia Peninsula earlier this month. She swam 10m, walked along a reef and then ran along rocks for 2km to the nearest house to raise the alarm.

Age no barrier
Mobility scooter trip from Awatoto to Ahuriri, Napier, and back for Heretaunga Seniors, Hastings, and The Chatham Club, Hastings.

So sad, R.I.P
Police led away a dog tied onto a length of emergency tape, after Police, Napier Fire Service and St John Ambulance staff removed a woman's body from the breakwater by the boardwalk along the entrance to the Inner Harbour, along Nelson Quay, near Perfume Point, Napier.

Fun Fun Fun
L-R: Leslee Peterson, Hastings, Julie Smith-Clark, Napier, trying out the  Superfly, a new waterslide at Splash Planet, Hastings. Sarah van Der Kley and Martin Good, co-hosts on the radio breakfast show on The Hits rode the slide with 10 of their listeners the day before it opened to the public.

Faces of change
L-R: Lee Grace, treasurer, Taine Randell, trustee, U-Turn Charitable Trust, speaking to Bill English, the finance minister, National government, at Te Aranga Marae, Flaxmere, Hastings, at a meeting to discuss a community housing proposal.

Purse strings
Bill English, the finance minister, National government, at Te Aranga Marae, Flaxmere, Hastings, speaking at a meeting to discuss a community housing proposal.

Community's champion
L-R: Henare O'Keefe, chairman, Te Aranga Marae; Bill English, finance minister, National government, at Te Aranga Marae, Flaxmere, Hastings, meeting to discuss a community housing proposal.

Ploughed for play
L-R: Tyson Nicoll, Pearl Nicoll, Hastings, playing in the dirt after the official opening and blessing of PNS Pasifika garden, a new section of the community gardens at Te Aranga Marae, Flaxmere, Hastings.

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