Champion trotter Tornado Valley on target to break $1m barrier
Champion trotter Tornado Valley on target to break $1m barrier by Adam Hamilton Kate Gath and Tornado Valley Image: Ashlea Brennan
Champion trotter Tornado Valley s first trip down the highway to Geelong could be a historic one.
The 10-time Group 1 winner and former Inter Dominion champion is poised to smash through the $1 million stakemoney barrier if he wins the Group 3 Sundons Gift Trotters’ free-for-all at Geelong’s Beckley Park on Saturday night.
It would make Tornado Valley just the third Aussie-trained trotter to top $1 million in earnings. Sundons Gift ($1,275,264) and Keystone Del ($1,063,560) are the other two. Australasia’s highest earner is the great Lyell Creek, but much of his thumping $2,256,724 was earned during a stint in North America.
Veterans hope community rallies around new memorial park in Vergas
Preliminary plans call for the veterans memorial park to have granite benches, granite memorial pillars, and federal, state and military flags on display.
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This sign marks the spot where the new veterans park will be built, near the ballpark complex in Vergas. (Submitted photo, March 2021)
Members of the Vergas Lions club are spearheading an effort to raise $85,000 to $100,000 to build a veterans memorial park near the Vergas baseball complex.
“The city gave us a really nice site, right on the main drag going through Vergas,” said Doug Safar, a member of the organizing committee. “It will fit in nicely with other community events, and will memorialize and honor our military. It’s a place for families and kids to go to learn about our military.”
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Source: Environment Canterbury Regional Council
Industry professionals, local organisations, and community members have come together to celebrate the high points of the KaikÅura Plains Recovery Project (KPRP).
Project manager Jodie Hoggard looks back on the 2016 earthquake as quite a shake-up for the local rural community.
âFollowing the earthquakes, KaikÅura farmers found themselves in unfamiliar territory. Weâve achieved a lot the last four years, but Iâm particularly proud of how weâve bought people together to share knowledge and help local solutions to be developed,â she said.
Jodie Hoggard, project manager speaking to those at the event