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4<br />
Review of<br />
Kite Day<br />
event plan<br />
urged<br />
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Leonie Bowkett agreed, adding:<br />
“I know I saw some shocking<br />
dangerous parking. Needs<br />
enforcement.”<br />
Donovan urged a review of<br />
the event management plan with<br />
the aim of avoiding a repeat in<br />
2025.<br />
“I’d like to know what was in<br />
place so we don’t have these issues<br />
in the future, we don’t want<br />
anything to detract from what is<br />
a showcase event for the area,” she<br />
said.<br />
“We want to make sure the<br />
focus is on the positive side of it,<br />
those things are quite avoidable.<br />
You need to take into account<br />
you’ve thousands and thousands<br />
or more people coming through.<br />
“During the summer we have<br />
these big spikes (in visitors to New<br />
Brighton) for events and I’m not<br />
sure we’re responding to some of<br />
the issues as quickly as we could<br />
be. Having said that,<br />
95 per cent of the event was really<br />
smooth.”<br />
Meanwhile, Kite Day was a<br />
resounding success for the Youth<br />
Alive Trust, which sold out their<br />
500 kites for the first time ever as<br />
a fundraising venture.<br />
Scrabble master sharp at 99<br />
WINNING WORD: Grace Hartley plays Scrabble every night against enrolled nurse Natasha Patterson at Arvida St Albans.<br />
AT 99, Grace Hartley still<br />
plays her favourite board<br />
game, Scrabble, every night<br />
– and she hardly ever loses a<br />
game.<br />
Like clockwork in the early<br />
evening and after reading her<br />
newspaper, the Arvida St Albans<br />
wordsmith sets up the board<br />
to play against nurse Natasha<br />
Patterson.<br />
Grace said they help each<br />
other when they get stuck<br />
finding a word but are still<br />
competitive.<br />
“I’m not afraid to use a few<br />
risqué words to try and win<br />
a game and make Tash laugh<br />
at the same time. I do the big<br />
words and Tash does the small<br />
words.”<br />
Grace took up playing<br />
Scrabble about 10 years ago<br />
when she moved into the<br />
retirement village.<br />
Patterson became her playing<br />
partner when Grace’s daughter<br />
Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>18</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
could no longer take part due to<br />
the Covid restrictions.<br />
She played so much the letters<br />
wore off her original Scrabble set<br />
due to overuse.<br />
But Grace has now received<br />
a new set to make sure she is<br />
always game-ready and thinking<br />
of the next big word for the win.<br />
Walk, Run, Fun!<br />
6km and 12km options<br />
17 th March <strong>2024</strong><br />
Supporting<br />
charity<br />
www.city2surf.co.nz
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