Sandra McGill discussed the importance of trees in everyday life at the monthly Garden Club meeting held recently. In giving her program members learned several important things about trees.
The Seminole Garden Club was presented the program “Bloomin’ in the Shade” given by club member Sandra McGill. Information on a variety of plants that grow in the shade was the topic.
Porirua man Ezra Jennings-Tedro was one of the scores of volunteers who kept Toa company . Members of the Hongoeka whānau of local iwi Ngāti Toa Rangatira were there too, including Justin Stretch, Sandra McGill and Rongoa Richmond. After receiving an urgent call from Visser explaining Toa’s condition was in rapid decline, the trio slapped on their wetsuits and rushed to Toa’s sea pen at Plimmerton Boating Club, a pen he had only returned to two days earlier. “It was starting to look like things were going downhill,” Stretch said. With many of the regular volunteers already in the water, they waded in beside the orca, with Stretch and Richmond immediately moving to cradle Toa’s head.
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“Definitely a bitter-sweet feeling because I know that I gave this school my all,” McGill said.
A four-year starter, McGill is a standout star on the girl’s basketball team. However, she started playing well before going to Providence. Her parents could see her talent early on.
“We finally got her in basketball in first grade and she took to it like a duck to water and became one of the best players in that first year,” Nyla’s father, Raymond McGill said.
She’s still one of the best players all these years later. She’s been an all-conference player every season and last year she was the player of the year in her conference.