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The Icehouse has announced the appointment of David Downs as new chair.
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 David Downs.
Downs has had a successful career in the private and public sector, with senior roles at Microsoft and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. He is a published author on New Zealand innovation, and a TV and radio actor. He is currently the CEO of the New Zealand Story, a government organisation aiming to build New Zealand’s global reputation.
He co-founded
sosbusiness.nz, a not-for-profit initiative to help cafés and other small businesses during Covid-19’ is has, to date, sold more than $2 million in vouchers for more than 2500 small businesses.
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New exhibition at Mangawhai
The Snapshots of the Olympics – a New Zealand Story exhibition opened at the Mangawhai Museum last week.
It tells the story of each of New Zealand’s gold medal-winning Olympians since the first Kiwis attended in 1912 as part of an Australasian team. It starts with swimmer Malcolm Champion and ends with sailors Peter Burling and Blair Tuke.
Curators Bev Ross and Christine Bygrave visited gold-winning windsurfer Barbara Kendall as part of their research.
She has loaned two Olympic torches and uniform jackets for the exhibition. Ms Kendall formerly had a holiday home in Mangawhai and practiced in the estuary.
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