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18042021 News Photo: Helen Nickisson/Stuff earth day essay winners Earth Day essay competition winners, from left: years 5-6, Luke Tucker (1st), years 9-10, Sophie Kole (1st), years 7-8, Sayu Weerasinghe (joint 1st), and years 5-6, Elke Stafford (2nd). Missing from the photo is Isabella Frew (years 7-8 joint 1st).
As part of Earth Day celebrations in Marlborough, school children were asked to write an essay, ‘It is important to have Earth Day because .” Marlborough Girls’ College Year 9 student Sophie Kole won her year group and picked up her prize at the Earth Day picnic in Blenheim’s Pollard Park on Sunday. Here is Sophie’s essay.
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Envirohub co-ordinator Tash Luxton said the Earth Day picnic aimed to be accessible for the community and family focused. “We want it to be free, while that gets people interested in the beginning, then we can add in the education side of it,” Luxton said. “It’s very much an environmentally focused, but it has a huge fun factor to it as well. Because obviously we want Marlborough to become a bit more aware and progress along that gradient to being a bit more environmentally friendly.”
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Diana Dobson from Marlborough Falcon Trust with Fern the Falcon at the 2019 picnic.
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Just because you own that new Tesla, it doesn’t mean you are a card-carrying tree hugger. But it does mean you are open to new ideas. (File photo)
OPINION: Tom’s brother Gavin is visiting on his way back to the North Island. “So, Tom, now that you have an electric car, you are a certified, card-carrying tree-hugger!” Gavin says with a laugh. “Who’d of thought that the kid doing burnouts in front of the church at two in the morning would become a greenie?” “Shush, Gavin! Jimmy just got his licence and doesn’t know about that. And, I’d appreciate it if he didn’t find out. Bad example, you know.”
In their own words, Marlburians look back on 2020, the year the world changed.
Marlborough student Isabella Lee Finally, 2020 is over. This year has gone both incredibly fast but also felt incredibly long. I would be lying if I said that 2020 was a breeze, that it was easy or even that it went as I thought it would go. I completed my final year of high school in the midst of a global pandemic, something that I never thought I would face. 2020 brought a unique set of challenges with it. From the distance placed between my family members and me, to online learning, 2020 was filled with constant change. Though, in all the challenging and stressful times that 2020 presented me with, I discovered new things about myself, found new ways to connect with others and found many opportunities from the comfort of my home. I never realised how much you can bond with new and old friends, through Zoom movie nights and Monopoly online, I learnt that we can always find a way to connect with oth