Southern View: November 20, 2018

8 Tuesday November 20 2018
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Flower festival cancer fundraiser
• By Anan Zaki
FIVE SCHOOLS will go
head-to-head on Saturday
to compete in the inaugural
Festival of Flowers.
The event – held at Riccarton
High School – is organised by
the Wigram Lions Club. It is
aimed to raise funds for children
with cancer and promote
gardening for children.
The schools taking part in
the festival are Gilberthorpes,
Hornby, Russley, Westburn
and Wigram.
Wigram Lions Club first vice
president Rae Treloar said the
children can enter in 12 categories,
split into age groups.
The categories include sand
saucer arrangements, making
Lego flowers and vegetables,
drawing and photography.
There is also a category
where children have to make a
vegetable animal.
“[They could be] a fish done
with a carrot [and] a poodle
with a cauliflower,” Mr Treloar
said.
Each category will have
prizes on offer, he said.
Mr Treloar, a keen gardener
himself, is looking forward to
seeing the displays.
“In this day in age, having
fresh vegetables is therapeutic.
Spending time in the garden,
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FESTIVITIES: Wigram Lions first vice president Rae Treloar hopes the festival of flowers
will encourage children to take up gardening.
picking your own vegetables [it
is therapeutic],” he said.
“It’s the same with flowers,
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can have a nice garden and
Christchurch is the garden city,
so it’s helping with our legacy
really,” Mr Treloar.
People attending the festival
have to pay a gold coin donation.
Proceeds will to cancer charity
Camp Quality.
“It’s an organisation set up
to put on a respite camp for
children with cancer,” he said.
“Every January, at Living
Springs in Governors Bay,
there’s a camp for about 50
children,” Mr Treloar said.
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He hoped to raise $1500 to
$2000 for the camp.
The festival will also feature
plant stalls and a sausage sizzle.
•Festival of Flowers will
be held at Riccarton High
School on Saturday from
10am to 3pm. Entry is via
gold coin donation.
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