The Star: November 17, 2016

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Elderly woman ignored
Six60 concert gets bigger
to aid Kaikoura residents
ONE OF the city’s largest
outdoor concerts of the year is
set to get even bigger, thanks to
a fundraising initiative to aid
Kaikoura.
Six60 Live in the Park
organiser Team Event worked
with Six60, the city council,
and other suppliers to raise
money by expanding the
capacity of the Hagley Park show
to 10,000.
Final tickets for Saturday’s
event will also be sold on a buy
one, get one free basis to help
spread the good word.
Profits made from the event
will be donated to the Kaikoura
earthquake-relief effort.
Concert-goers who have
already purchased a ticket
won’t be disadvantaged, as
they are eligible to receive a
complimentary ticket.
Existing ticket holders can login
to their Dash Tickets account
to redeem their free ticket to give
to a friend, neighbour or perhaps
someone who has family
affected by the latest devastating
quake.
New ticket purchasers will
automatically receive one
complimentary ticket for every
ticket bought.
“Christchurch has a strong
legacy of using music as a way
to join together in the wake of
disasters,” said director of Team
Event Callam Mitchell.
•Six60 Live in The Park
will take place on Saturday,
November 19, 2.30pm-
10pm, in Hagley Park.
The line-up will include
Six60, The Black Seeds,
Kings, L.A.B, and Downtown
Brown.
Tickets are available at
www.dashtickets.co.nz
• By Ophelia Buckleton
SEVERAL CARS drove past an
unwell and elderly quake victim
dressed in her pyjamas as she
struggled to higher ground with
her walking stick in the dark.
When no one came to her
aid after the quake, Kaikoura
resident Pat Vincent, 79, had to
head uphill on foot at about 5am
on Sunday.
Mrs Vincent climbed over
a wire fence and continuously
crossed the road to avoid cracked
footpaths, as several cars drove
past on South Bay Parade.
“Once I realised there might be
a tsunami, I thought I’ve got to
walk,” she said.
Mrs Vincent who was recently
in hospital for three weeks said
the walk took her about an hour.
“I just had to walk. I thought
I’m going to get up there and find
help.”
Vincent was relieved to see a
friend and his wife at the top of
the hill, who took her to where
they were staying on Churchill St
in South Bay.
She was in bed at her home on
Moa Rd, South Bay, when the 7.5
magnitude earthquake struck,
sending everything crashing
around her.
LONG WALK: Pat Vincent was left to walk uphill alone in the
dark as cars drove past her in the early hours of Sunday morning
after the earthquake.
“I felt for my torch by the bed,
but the bedside cabinet had
fallen,” said Mrs Vincent.
She slowly made her way from
her bedroom to the lounge in the
dark, where she found a small
torch on the floor.
Mrs Vincent is now safe with
her family in Christchurch.
“I am very relieved . . . and very
tired,” she said.
Daughter Robin Phillips said
she tried contacting her mother
after the earthquake. However,
she did not hear her mother was
safe until 6am from the couple
who had taken her in.
“It’s horrible to think of her out
there by herself.”
Mrs Phillips said her mother
arrived in Christchurch in her
pyjamas, with a coat someone
had given her and a small bag
of belongings she packed in the
dark.
–NZ Herald
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