STACY SQUIRES
Commonwealth Games gold medalist Brian Fowler, who also competed in cycling at four Olympics, suffered a series of heart attacks outside West Rolleston Primary School, where parents and teachers rushed to help him.
When gold medal-winning cyclist Brian Fowler had a heart attack while driving, pulling his car over outside a Canterbury school during the busy afternoon pick-up likely saved his life. The retired Olympic and Commonwealth Games athlete lost consciousness at the wheel outside West Rolleston Primary School, leaving him fighting for his life. Fowler, 58, said it had been “touch and go for a minute”, but parents and school staff – noticing he had parked across the driveway – came to his rescue.
Friday, 12 March 2021, 9:49 am
Visitors revel in Grow exhibitions, workshops, activities
and demonstrations
Gates opened on the first-ever Grow
Ōtautahi this morning and the Christchurch Botanic Gardens
is already buzzing with people enjoying what the Garden
City’s own garden festival has to offer.
Grow
Ōtautahi is free for everyone over three days – Friday,
Saturday and Sunday 12-14 March – in the Christchurch
Botanic Gardens. The festival is in the area surrounding the
Ilex Café – with signs from gardens
entrances.
Festival Director Sandi MacRae says it’s
exciting welcome people to Christchurch’s very own garden
festival
“Grow is all about the community and