Selwyn Times: September 26, 2018

10 Wednesday September 26 2018
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Koru Games getting stronger
OPTION: Prebbleton’s Ruby Jones looks for support.
• By Jacob Page
FIVE YEARS on from the first
Koru Games, Selwyn Sports
Trust chief executive Mike
Wilson says the event keeps
getting better.
The trust hosted the games
which saw more than 2500
year 7 and 8 pupils from across
the South Island take part
in 13 sports over three days
throughout the Selwyn district.
The games finished on
Thursday. Wilson said taking
part was as important as
winning.
“For me, I still get a kick out of
hearing from kids who have put
their school’s sports uniform on
for the first time. That’s what it’s
all about,” he said.
Wilson said with all sports
played in a condensed time
format, he hoped the pupils
could find a sport they enjoyed
and compete in a friendly
environment.
“The Koru Games allows
for kids to get a taste of sports
and the hope is that they pick
up enough of the basics that
they could play that sport on a
Saturday or a Wednesday night,”
he said.
“We give out awards to the
winners and place-getters, but
TIGHT TUSSLE: Shontelle Templeton keeps her eyes on the
ball.
seeing kids learning new skills
and interacting with kids they
otherwise wouldn’t normally
meet is what we aim for.”
Results:
Badminton
Boys: Lincoln 1 beat
Lincoln 3 2-1.
Girls: Rolleston beat
Middleton Grange 2-1.
Basketball
Boys; Halswell beat St
Martins 15-12.
Kirsty Nixon
Friends in high places
Celebrating our Tui
“The Tui’s sing-songy warble is in the
distance as I write. Often when
I’m outside I answer back with a
somewhat substandard whistle
to try and make them answer.
At the edge of the path leading
down to the bridge is a large
tree. Most of the year it sits in
a rather unspectacular manner
waiting for it’s time in the sun.
Then, as if from nowhere, it
bursts into flower. Great clusters
of colour embellish it’s branches.
And then they come. The Tui. I once
counted twenty eight Tui from near and
far feasting on the nectar with frenzied passion.
The beauty of the tree and the Tui’s song was
enchanting.
Ever watchful on flax fronds or drunk on fresh Kowhai
nectar, our Tui with their sheeney feathers and white
bib are captivating; that haunting call to another bird
travelling through the bush. As a New Zealander, it
is the sound I most associate with
home.” Kirsty Nixon
Kirsty spent her early working
career in the advertising
industry pushing her brain to
explore words and imagery.
However the artistic pull was
strong and she chose to become
a fulltime artist in 1997.
Although she has explored other
subjects, she is constantly
drawn to the New Zealand
landscape in its various guises.
Her imagery often brings the native
bush to the foreground to give the feeling of stepping
into the scene, the coastline just within reach in the
background.
Kirsty lives in Auckland with her husband and two
children.
Kirsty exhibition runs from September 29 to 24
October at Little River Gallery.
Kirsty Nixon
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