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Thursday, 15 July 2010 |
Budding young snowboarders get off to a well coached start at Mt Hutt Ski Area today (Wednesday 14 July) in the second of the mountain’s BWMsnow Shredders Camp. The new half day intensive programme introduces 4-9 yr olds to snowboarding with individual attention and basic technical skills and drills on the slopes.
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 |
By John Keast - The Courier is putting its hand in its pocket to help save Ashburton's historic railway station. It has pledged $5000 to bolster a campaign by the Ashburton Heritage Trust to save the station, built during World War One.
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Sea of orange flows in and trickles out |
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 |
By Mick Jensen - A sea of orange groaned in despair as the Spanish midfielder swept the ball into the net. Eight minutes later the game was over and Ashburton's strong Dutch contingent were resigned to their country's third defeat in three World Cup Finals.
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 |
By John Keast - Two rural candidates, Bev Tasker and Angus McKay, are lining up to challenge urban candidate Bede O'Malley for the Ashburton mayoralty. If successful, Mrs Tasker, the chair of the council's operations committee, would be Ashburton's first woman mayor. Mrs Tasker has served as a councillor for 18 years and lives at Ruapuna.
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Special people leading normal lives |
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 |
By Mick Jensen - Around 70 people in our district are entitled to call themselves ostomates. Ostomates live with a special bag that collects body waste and there's more than 6500 nationwide. Local woman Jill Newton has been an ostomate for 38 years and leads a normal, busy and purposeful life.
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 |
Jac Sparks has taken to her bike as part of a 60th birthday get-fit promise. Here, she recounts her cycling experience in the first of three articles:
Having a large zero-ending birthday is like preparing for a decade worth of solemn New Year’s resolutions. An increasing amount of self-knowledge means that you try to do something achievable – so I reluctantly put the Himalayan trek brochures away in the drawer for the next zero birthday.
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