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Wednesday 4 September 2024
Horti boys raise $25k
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Cup Day success
Gourd almighty ELISE VOLLWEILER An idea that sprouted over a beer between three old friends will hopefully, by autumn, mature into an abundance of girthy gourds. John de Jong, Peter Hobson and Neil Jackson were gathered at Hotel Motueka recently when they found themselves reminiscing about the Māpua mega pumpkin competition, which ceased about a decade ago. “We’ve got really great memories of that time, and we thought it would be cool to bring it back into the community again,” John says. The idea took root and the trio decided that, in the spirit of creating a great family event, they would revive the competition, with the weigh-in to take place at Hotel Motueka on Sunday, 6 April 2025. Your garden-variety blue crown won’t be pushing the scales into triple digits, so a special giant pumpkin seed is generally used for such competitions. The resulting gourds are no good for soup or pies, but they make glorious stock fodder. While the name of the game is to grow the heftiest pumpkin – the Māpua record was more than 600kg - John hopes that people don’t get too hung
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Imperfect Circles, a band made up of four Motueka High School friends, is gaining momentum and tightening their tracks. Pictured are Morgan Grove-Roberts, 15, Theo Hansen, 16, Tonin van Boekhout-McKenzie, 16, and Alex Lightfoot, 15. Photo: Elise Vollweiler.
Youth band making sound waves ELISE VOLLWEILER With a bunch of singles out on Spotify, a growing cohort of followers playing their songs on repeat, and a collection
of paid gigs under their belts, Imperfect Circles is hitting a lot of right notes. The band is made up of vocalist and rhythm guitarist Morgan Grove-Roberts, drummer Tobin van Boek-
hout-McKenzie, Theo Hansen on lead guitar and Alex Lightfoot who gives the music fullness and backbone on bass.
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