Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 1:35 pm
Eleven groups and individuals have been honoured for
their contribution to the community at the 2021 Civic
Honours Awards.
With friends and family they gathered
at Functions on Hasting at Toitoi – Hawke’s Bay Arts and
Events Centre last night [July 27] to receive their awards
recognising the time and energy they have put into their
voluntary efforts.
Hastings mayor Sandra Hazlehurst
said that for 33 years now, the annual awards had been a way
to acknowledge and thank those who went above and beyond in
giving back to the community.
“I’m incredibly
proud to present these awards to these deserving people who
Press Release – Hastings District Council Eleven groups and individuals have been honoured for their contribution to the community at the 2021 Civic Honours Awards. With friends and family they gathered at Functions on Hasting at Toitoi Hawkes Bay Arts and Events Centre last night [July 27] …
Eleven groups and individuals have been honoured for their contribution to the community at the 2021 Civic Honours Awards.
With friends and family they gathered at Functions on Hasting at Toitoi – Hawke’s Bay Arts and Events Centre last night [July 27] to receive their awards recognising the time and energy they have put into their voluntary efforts.
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Judith Burkin has researched and compiled the stories of 108 of the 117 people from Maraekakaho, near Hastings, who went to WW1. Gazing at the 117 names of those who d been to the Great War, Burkin wondered who they all were and whether they might be remembered as individuals rather than simply “them”. That was back in 2017. Burkin and husband Jonathan Stockley had migrated to Hawke’s Bay from England seven years earlier and knew next to nothing about the Anzacs and Anzac Day. “We’d just been saying ‘We will remember them’, and I thought well, how can you remember? You can remember the generality of soldiers going to war, and we all know what happened and how awful it all was, but we don’t remember them as people,” she said.