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Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 12:00 pm
An innovative pilot project to support the
mental health and resilience of the Queenstown
Lakes community now has the chance to become a national
model thanks to a new strategic partnership.
The
Queenstown-based Southern Wellbeing Trust has joined forces
with the Good Programmes Trust, national provider of the
award-winning, evidence-based mental health education
programme “GoodYarn”. Through the strategic partnership,
the two Trusts are now working to maximise the potential of
a pilot project being run in the Queenstown Lakes community,
with a view to creating a model that more communities across
New Zealand can access over time.
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Gavin Marriott stands atop a rock, gifted by Mt Dobson Skifield owner Peter Foote, for a Sir Bill Hamilton memorial outside the Fairlie Heritage Museum. He said he had assumed the application had been unsuccessful after reading about the latest round of successful applicants on July 5. Marriott has applied for $2,800 to put a plaque on a donated rock, located in the car park of the Fairlie Heritage Museum, in memory of Hamilton’s achievements. He had originally hoped to create a statue but had downgraded his plans after failing to gain enough financial support.
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Gavin Marriott is behind the proposal for a memorial of the water jet inventor, the late Sir Bill Hamilton, being installed in his hometown of Fairlie.
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“It didn’t matter that the trees or lamp posts aren’t frangible . I have spent two years full time on this.” An application through Community Trust of Mid and South Canterbury for $2,800 was unsuccessful which was the final straw for Marriott. “It cost about $3000 to put the application in. It feels so stupid to have paid more than what we were asking for.” Marriot is now trying to raise enough money to add a plaque to a rock donated for the purpose, which is sitting in the car park of the Fairlie Heritage Museum. The plaque would cost$2,800 and would sit on the six tonne rock gifted by Dobson Ski Area owner Peter Foote. There will be a picture of Hamilton on the 500cm by 400cm plaque, along with some words from John Walsh, the author of his biography