Nor'West News: June 30, 2022
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Thursday <strong>June</strong> <strong>30</strong> <strong>2022</strong> 3<br />
Call to reinstate sandcastle competition<br />
• By Emily Moorhouse<br />
A PLEA HAS gone out to restart<br />
the hugely popular sandcastle<br />
competition at New Brighton<br />
Beach – but it needs people to<br />
organise it.<br />
The competition, organised<br />
by the Pegasus Bay Charitable<br />
Trust, was last held in 2015 and<br />
attracted thousands of spectators.<br />
Key members<br />
Tim Sintes,<br />
Philip Dural and<br />
Brian Keeley,<br />
have decided to<br />
step down from<br />
Tim Sintes<br />
the trust, but<br />
they are urging<br />
others to come on<br />
board and get the New Zealand<br />
Sandcastle Competition going<br />
again.<br />
Sintes said the earthquake<br />
repairs to the pier during 2017-<br />
2018 played a role in putting the<br />
competition on hold, as the construction<br />
equipment and vehicles<br />
took up space in the car parks and<br />
on the beach.<br />
Sintes said it was now hoped<br />
others would step up.<br />
“We’ve been involved for quite<br />
a while and we’ve had a lull of<br />
getting over the earthquakes . .<br />
. then we’ve had Covid,” Sintes<br />
said.<br />
“We’ve put too much work in<br />
to let it go, we’d like to pass it onto<br />
someone else.”<br />
The trust was formed in 2010<br />
as a way to bring people back to<br />
BUILD: Previous New Zealand Sandcastle Competition<br />
entries at New Brighton Beach.<br />
New Brighton with the competition<br />
running every Waitangi<br />
weekend.<br />
Sintes said it attracted professional<br />
sandcastle builders from<br />
overseas, as well as TV coverage,<br />
and saw roughly 20,000 people<br />
flocking to the beach to watch<br />
and to participate.<br />
“We started off from scratch<br />
and a hell of a lot of work was<br />
done,” he said.<br />
“We put a lot of effort into it to<br />
make it successful.”<br />
Waitai Coastal-Burwood<br />
Community Board member Jo<br />
Zervos expressed her interest in<br />
getting involved with the trust<br />
and is encouraging others to<br />
contact her if they want to help<br />
with bringing the competition<br />
back.<br />
She said she’s already had a<br />
few people reach out to let her<br />
know they are keen to get behind<br />
bringing the event back.<br />
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