Nor'West News: July 03, 2018
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NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>July</strong> 3 <strong>2018</strong> 11<br />
Christ’s band<br />
wins regional<br />
contest in<br />
quest for<br />
rock stardom<br />
A CHRIST’S College band<br />
has won the Canterbury<br />
regional finals of the<br />
SmokefreeRockquest.<br />
The Subs took out the band<br />
section on Friday night at The<br />
Foundry. Middleton Grange<br />
School band Merlinco was<br />
second.<br />
The ZM people’s choice award<br />
went to Better than Bacon, which<br />
was formed by students from<br />
Hagley Community College,<br />
Burnside High School and<br />
Shirley Boys’ High.<br />
The Subs, Merlinco and Better<br />
than Bacon will now move onto<br />
the next stage which involves<br />
creating a 12min performance<br />
video. This will be judged by a<br />
panel of industry professionals<br />
and after that some acts will<br />
progress to the national final.<br />
Household A, a combination<br />
of students from St Margaret’s<br />
College, Christchurch Girls’<br />
High, Christ’s and Shirley Boys’<br />
High, was third in the regional<br />
contest.<br />
Run 77 won best song and<br />
Black Wired from St Andrew’s<br />
College won the Fatboy Style<br />
award.<br />
Rangi dancer takes<br />
out NZ highland title<br />
SCHOOLS<br />
VICTORY DANCE: Brooke Kingsbury won the<br />
Highland Fling under-16 title at the New Zealand<br />
championships in Invercargill.<br />
WHILE HER many of her<br />
friends were getting ready<br />
for the school semi-formal,<br />
one Rangi Ruru Girls’ School<br />
student was putting on a<br />
formal dress of a different<br />
kind.<br />
Year 11 student Brooke<br />
Kingsbury won the Highland<br />
Fling under-16 title at the New<br />
Zealand championships held<br />
in Invercargill.<br />
Brooke is thrilled with the<br />
win, in spite of missing her<br />
school semi-formal for it.<br />
“This honour has made it<br />
worth it,” she said.<br />
Beginning when she was<br />
only three-years-old, highland<br />
dance has been a big part of<br />
Brooke’s life and requires<br />
strength, agility, balance and<br />
precision, she said.<br />
She sits two major dance<br />
exams every year in May and<br />
September, which may result<br />
in a diploma in a few years.<br />
Brooke will next compete<br />
in the under-18 New Zealand<br />
championships in Ashburton<br />
this month. She can often be<br />
seen busking down at Bishopdale<br />
Mall to raise money for<br />
her dancing trips. Earlier this<br />
year, she travelled to Virginia<br />
in the United States with the<br />
New Zealand Highland Dance<br />
Company.<br />
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