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Whanganui s Plumber Dan hosts Pork Pie movie screening to raise money for KidsCan
12 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Dan Goldsworthy s V6 Stretch Mini will take part in the 2021 Pork Pie Charity Run later this month. Photo / File
Dan Goldsworthy s V6 Stretch Mini will take part in the 2021 Pork Pie Charity Run later this month. Photo / File
A New Zealand cultural staple is set to be shown at Embassy 3 cinema in Whanganui next week, all in aid of a charity convoy raising money for children in poverty.
The 1981 movie Goodbye Pork Pie will be shown at the cinema at 7pm on Wednesday, March 17, to raise money for the biennial Pork Pie Charity Run in which a group of 50 Minis travel from the top of the North Island to the bottom of the South to raise money for charity KidsCan.
Plumber Dan Soap Box derby wows crowd on return to Whanganui streets
25 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Thousands of keen locals gathered on the banks and streets around Pukenamu Queen s Park for the return of the Soap Box Derby. The street race returned to the centre of Whanganui for the first time since 2018, with Dan Goldsworthy (Plumber Dan) taking over the reins for this year s event.
About 80 entered the derby which was part of Bayleys Whanganui Vintage Weekend.
Starting at the top of Pukenamu, a wide variety of homemade carts and drift trikes raced down the winding road before getting onto Drews Ave and finishing on Rutland St.
Vintage Weekend: Whanganui gearing up for long weekend as vintage fans flock in
15 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Contestants front up in their best vintage costumes at the 2020 Caboodle in Whanganui.
Photo / Lewis Gardner
Contestants front up in their best vintage costumes at the 2020 Caboodle in Whanganui.
Photo / Lewis Gardner
Liz Wylie is a reporter for the Whanganui Chronicleliz.wylie@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
Whanganui s biggest party is now less than a week away and organisers say that Bayleys Whanganui Vintage Weekend will be bigger and brighter than ever this year, writes Liz Wylie. The streets, river and skies will be alive with the sights and sounds of decades past as Whanganui welcomes a stunning array of machines, performers and costumes that celebrate the city s exciting past for the three-day weekend.