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MANGAWHAI'S NO.1 NEWSPAPER
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Finalists Announced for the Silver Fern Farms Kaipara Sports AwardsThe nominations received from individuals and sports clubs in the Kaipara District have resulted in 52 finalists being announced by Sport Northland for the annual Silver Fern Farms Kaipara Sports Awards. From these finalists the major award winners will be chosen, including the Kaipara Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year followed by the naming of the Silver Fern Farms Sportsperson of the Year. The awards evening is set down for Saturday 9 November at the Maungaturoto Country Club.
Three new categories have been added this year to the already extensive awards line up. For the first time Special Olympics and Parafed will be recognised as mainstream sporting codes while the Club of the Year Award will also be presented to a nominated club that has made the greatest achievement over the last year. Sport Northland’s Community Sport Advisor, Janine Gilmore is looking forward to hosting the Kaipara Sports Awards in the Otamatea District this year. “We alternate the staging of the Kaipara Awards between Dargaville and Maungaturoto so hope that sportspeople from all over the Kaipara District will continue to support the event, as they have in the past”, she says. Guest Speaker for the dinner function is Olympic kayaker Mike Walker, while Jenni Carr will be ‘Master of Ceremonies’ for the evening. Tickets can be purchased from Sport Northland Offices in Dargaville, Maungaturoto and Mangawhai, or for more information contact Janine Gilmore janineg@sportnorth.co.nz or 0272 609 008.
About Sport Northland Sport Northland is Northland’s Regional Sports Trust – a charitable trust with a core purpose of ‘creating a more active Northland’ and a vision that ‘All Northlanders are healthier through regular, lifelong participation in sport and physical recreation’. The trust focuses on physical recreation and support for grass roots sports organisations through a new approach working with targeted sports in targeted communities throughout Northland. Sport Northland also has a number of flagship programmes, events, facilities and activities under its umbrella - these include the multiple national award winning 10,000 Steps Northland programme, the national award winning region-wide Run/Walk Series, the national award winning Top Energy WaterSafe programme and other successes such as Green Prescription, Active Workplaces, He Oranga Poutama, Taitamariki Tuu Ora, early childhood and school based programmes and work across the region’s three districts through six Sport Advisors. Sport Northland also owns and operates both the ASB Leisure Centre and the ASB Northland Sports House, and owns (but contracts out the management of) the Whangarei Aquatic Centre. For further information please contact: Name: Colleen Atchison Position: Business Development Manager Phone number: 0274 775660 Email address: colleena@sportnorth.co.nz |