The Star: March 21, 2019
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Breakfast from a champion<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
TOM WALSH may not have<br />
been the champion shot putter<br />
he is today if he hadn’t eaten<br />
breakfast.<br />
Shirley Primary School pupils<br />
were delighted when Walsh<br />
served them up Weet-Bix as<br />
part of the Kick<strong>Star</strong>t Breakfast<br />
programme, which has served 30<br />
million breakfasts over the last 10<br />
years to Kiwi kids.<br />
Jorja Shearman, 10, was the<br />
lucky pupil to receive the 30<br />
millionth.<br />
<strong>The</strong> school has been part of the<br />
programme since 2015 and was<br />
the only school to have Walsh<br />
make a special visit.<br />
Deputy principal Jo Meyrick<br />
said the pupils didn’t know how<br />
to react when Walsh greeted<br />
them at the breakfast counter.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y were super excited. I<br />
think they didn’t really know<br />
what to expect.”<br />
Mrs Meyrick said Walsh joined<br />
pupils at the breakfast table and<br />
talked about what he ate for<br />
breakfast.<br />
She said the pupils were left<br />
with full tummies and a spark of<br />
inspiration.<br />
“I actually think the kids<br />
have really taken on board<br />
that breakfast is really, really<br />
important and, if you’re a<br />
sporting type, it’s a cool thing to<br />
do,” Mrs Meyrick said.<br />
SERVED: Jorja Shearman, 10, was served the 30 millionth Kick<strong>Star</strong>t Breakfast by champion shot<br />
putter Tom Walsh.<br />
“It makes us feel better as<br />
people and achieve what we can<br />
achieve each day.”<br />
Said Walsh: “It’s awesome<br />
to see the positive effect that<br />
a healthy, nutritious meal can<br />
have on the kids performance<br />
both in the classroom and<br />
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also in their daily lives. It’s so<br />
important to start the day with a<br />
healthy breakfast in order to fuel<br />
the body and mind for the day<br />
ahead.”<br />
Kick<strong>Star</strong>t Breakfast is a joint<br />
initiative between Fonterra,<br />
Sanitarium and the Ministry of<br />
Social Development which aims<br />
to ensure pupils get a healthy<br />
start to the day.<br />
Volunteers help run 1000<br />
breakfast clubs in schools<br />
across New Zealand, serving<br />
more than 30,000 children each<br />
week.<br />
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Pier cash<br />
should<br />
go back<br />
east<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
CALLS HAVE been made to<br />
make the $2 million saved on<br />
the New Brighton Pier repairs<br />
available for other projects in the<br />
east.<br />
Coastal-Burwood Community<br />
Board chairwoman Kim Money<br />
has asked the city council to<br />
consider it.<br />
Ms Money was told by the city<br />
council the $2 million had gone<br />
back into its capital delivery<br />
programme for the 2018/19<br />
financial year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> repairs to all 17 of the pier’s<br />
support columns were completed<br />
for $7.84 million, rather than<br />
the $9.88 million originally<br />
budgeted, a new report shows.<br />
Coastal Ward city<br />
councillor David East said<br />
the savings within the capital<br />
programme could not go towards<br />
other projects.<br />
However, Ms Money said<br />
the city council should<br />
reconsider its stance, starting<br />
with the $2 million saved from<br />
the pier repairs.<br />
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