“Jeanette wouldn’t let me not come,” her mate Mike Teka joked. Lex had fond memories of the venue, where he used to visit to play dominoes in his younger days. “We used to have so much fun, we didn’t want to go back to Invercargill,” he recalled.
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Jeanette Bradshaw, third from left, got a group from Invercargill together to celebrate Christmas at the community lunch in Winton. With her, from left, are Michael Johns, Kay Johns, Lex Bradshaw, Mike Heka, and Richie Percival. Sitting one table over, Tere Webb was celebrating Christmas with her son, daughter-in-law and three grandchildren; after attending a service at the church in the morning.