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NEWS<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>October</strong> <strong>26</strong>, <strong>2023</strong><br />
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By ROBYN BRISTOW<br />
The Hurunui Garden Festival is full<br />
steam ahead despite Mother Nature’s<br />
attemptstocreate chaos with ahowling<br />
nor’wester.<br />
Chair Meg Macfarlane says all 18<br />
gardens will be ready to open to the<br />
public from today, Thursday, <strong>October</strong> <strong>26</strong><br />
to Sunday, <strong>October</strong> 29.<br />
‘‘Everyone just beaveredaway<br />
clearing any storm damage, and<br />
preparing for agreat four days,’’ she<br />
says.<br />
It is the sixth annual tour showcasing<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> gardens—fromthe<br />
intimate and whimsical, to the grand and<br />
formal.<br />
The gardensrange from Amberley in<br />
the south, through the Waipara Gorge<br />
with its limestone formations, to rolling<br />
hills and productive farmland of<br />
Hawarden, Waikari, Culverden<br />
Rotherhamand through to Cheviot and<br />
HanmerSprings.<br />
Meg says there are not as many tours<br />
as in previous years as the festival does<br />
not provide aprelude to the<br />
Marlborough Garden Festival which<br />
usually would follow on from it, but is<br />
now later in the year.<br />
‘‘We know there is adown turn in the<br />
economy, and Ihave prepared everyone<br />
for that, and we will just take it as it<br />
comes.’’<br />
However, ticket sales were strong, and<br />
it is hoped people will turn out on one or<br />
more of the days as it is only $10 aticket<br />
at the gate of each garden.<br />
Details of all the gardensare on line,<br />
plus the many events,workshops, and<br />
food outlets.<br />
Blue Housegarden ... This Amberley<br />
garden is one of the 18 offerings in the<br />
Hurunui Garden Festival.<br />
PHOTO: SUPPLIED<br />
Go to hurunuigardenfestival.com.<br />
Ascholarship is on offer to help one or<br />
more Hurunui students with the cost of<br />
their tertiary studies.<br />
The Hurunui Garden Festival Inc<br />
(HGF) is continuing its commitment of<br />
investing back into its community by<br />
awarding the scholarship of up to $2000.<br />
Students applying have to reside in the<br />
Hurunui district, be in their final year of<br />
schooling albeit local or outside the<br />
district, or from homeschooling.<br />
The funds are to help with fees<br />
associated with their course such as<br />
tuition fees, textbooks, or any course<br />
related costs or living costs.<br />
Applications are available on line.<br />
SPCA Op shop shines<br />
By SHELLEY TOPP<br />
Charitiessupporting each other results<br />
in two awards for op shop.<br />
Two charitiessupporting each other<br />
duringthe Cancer Society's Daffodil Day<br />
promotion last August has resulted in<br />
Kaiapoi’s SPCA Op Shop winning two<br />
awards.<br />
The Paint The Town Yellow Kaiapoi<br />
<strong>2023</strong> Award, and the Paint The Town<br />
Yellow Kaiapoi <strong>2023</strong> People’s Choice<br />
Award, were presentedtothe Kaiapoi<br />
SPCA Op Shop manager Carolyn Sewell,<br />
and some of her 43 volunteershop<br />
assistants at the shop last Thursday.<br />
The presentation was made by Cancer<br />
Society <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong>’s community<br />
engagement manager Gabrielle<br />
O’Connell who said Kaiapoi’s SPCA Op<br />
Shop's window display brought some<br />
colour and excitement to the town.<br />
One of the shop’svolunteers, Lisa<br />
Thrower, created the winning Daffodil<br />
Day promotion window display.<br />
Carolyn said it was great to win the<br />
awards.<br />
The shop had only been open since<br />
March last year but it had already<br />
become apopular community space<br />
where people visited just for achat with<br />
the friendly staff, or to find abargain<br />
from the large range of highquality<br />
goods stocked.<br />
‘‘People can get some really good<br />
quality items here at great prices,’’she<br />
said.<br />
All the goods for sale in the shop,<br />
including clothes, books, shoes,<br />
jewellery, kitchenware, glassware, toys,<br />
furniture and even arack of wedding<br />
dresses, are donated.<br />
‘‘We would like to thank everyone who<br />
donates goods for us to sell,’’ Carolyn<br />
said.<br />
‘‘We just couldn’tfunction without<br />
them.’’<br />
The shop is open seven days aweek<br />
from 9am to 5pm, but is closed on public<br />
holidays.<br />
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