Whanganui news in brief: Music festival raises big dollars for charity
15 Mar, 2021 05:44 PM
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Whanganui Chronicle
Festival raises $11k
The annual Pauls Road Live music festival raised more than $11,000 for Gabby s Starlit Hope Charity. The charity was set up by Gabby Devine in early 2014, after she was diagnosed with Ewing s sarcoma the previous year. Devine died in 2015 aged 13, but the charity has continued in her honour. Three Whanganui and New Plymouth families with children who have cancer have been gifted $3770 each. The charity thanked festival organisers Fred Loveridge and Kerry O Sullivan, the Butlers for hosting, all the local bands that performed and everyone who attended and supported the event.
Race Unity Week celebrations in Whanganui include range of activities
7 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Celebrating Race Unity Day in Whanganui last year are (from left) Pushpa Prasad, Meng Foon and Hellen Puhipuhi. Photo / Lewis Gardner
Celebrating Race Unity Day in Whanganui last year are (from left) Pushpa Prasad, Meng Foon and Hellen Puhipuhi. Photo / Lewis Gardner
Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
Race Unity Week will again give people a chance to communicate their culture to the mainstream, Multicultural Council of Rangitīkei/Whanganui president Pushpa Prasad says.
She s planning four days of cultural displays and activities in the UCOL atrium from March 15 to 18, and a day when dignitaries listen to the speeches of youth on March 20.