North Canterbury News: December 07, 2023
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NEWS<br />
4 <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>December</strong> 7, <strong>2023</strong><br />
Fashion show in plaza delivers<br />
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The Fabulous Rangiora Op Shop Fashion<br />
Show has lived up to its promotion hype<br />
delivering afunfilled event showcasing<br />
the town’s opportunity shops.<br />
The event, which was held in<br />
Rangiora’s Good Street Plaza last<br />
Saturday afternoon, was organised by<br />
Rangiora’s Sam Fisher to help the shops,<br />
which he said needed community support<br />
having experienced atough time during<br />
and since the Covid19 pandemic.<br />
‘‘Rangiora has eight opportunity shops<br />
which is possibly the highest New<br />
Zealand ratio of goodwill shops to<br />
population,’’ he said.<br />
‘‘This show is being held to let these<br />
fantastic shops shine and show the<br />
community what they have for sale.’’<br />
The show, which was opened by<br />
RangioraAshley Community Board<br />
chairman Jim Gerard, was also held to<br />
encourage everyone to think about how to<br />
avoid waste by repairing, upcycling and<br />
shopping second hand.<br />
Rangiora funeral director, Geoffrey<br />
Hall, sporting an opshop outfit, was MC<br />
for the fashionshow.<br />
All profits from the event, which<br />
included an auction of individually<br />
curated items from the opportunity shops,<br />
will go back to the shops that took part in<br />
the event.<br />
The auction was conducted by Rangiora<br />
real estate agent and RangioraAshley<br />
Community Board deputy chairperson<br />
Kirstyn Barnett, and included awhite<br />
Crown Lynn swan from the Rangiora<br />
SalvationArmy store which sold for $160.<br />
Fashion fun ... Foster HoltonJeffreys, from Rangiora, modelling an outfit from the Nurse<br />
Maude Hospice shop in Rangiora, at the Fabulous Rangiora Op Shop Fashion Show.<br />
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Stylish group ... Cedar Higham<br />
Price, aged 9, with Julie Tinomana<br />
and David Blackledge,representing<br />
the St John Opportunity Shop during<br />
the Fabulous Rangiora Op Shop<br />
Fashion Show.<br />
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