Photos from the Working Bee (Photos ex Martin Balch)

Bedding Sand going in.

Martin Reid

Secretary Ian Milne under the hat!

The team extracting the old cable at the splice.

Volunteer Jack Paterson in the ditch

Volunteer Rowan Leck down the ditch

Landowner Perry Read and Chairman Michael Harkness

From the Working Bee

As most of you are aware, Nature’s Wonders’ tourist route with their Argo all terrain vehicles goes right past our installation.

On one of the trips yesterday, a tourist asked the driver what all the work was, and had it explained we were installing a new power cable.

What is in the hut – host/driver  explained about radios and related things.

Tourist must have been from one of those overseas countries well behind the times because the next question was – are those workers criminals on a chain gang!!!!   It was carefully explained that despite our somewhat dubious appearance, remembering most of us were over 60 and some over 70, the work was hard and we were looking pretty haggard and exhausted, but no, we were volunteers for the radio association on a working bee!

So there – all those that attended yesterday are now labeled as “criminals”.

BB – you better check carefully the backgrounds of some-of those listed above – they might not be fit and proper people for SAR!

Lox, you appear to have some dubious characters working in your patch!

John Armstrong – you may be able to put some of these photos on the website – they give an idea of the scale of the job but with the assistance of Martin and Perry read, the back of the job is well broken. (Will do Ed.)

Cheers all

Martin Balch

Heather Grace Simon

We regret to advise that Heather passed away on 9 December 2011.

Heather married to Keith for 47 years will be sadly missed by her family by the Taieri Mouth community as well as the boating fraternity.

She was involved with our association regularly helping out when other reporters were unavailable. 

We have just lost a wonderful person.   

Our sincere condolences go to Keith and all the family.

 

The funeral will be at Hopes and Sons Chapel Andersons Bay Road at 10.00hrs on Tuesday 13 December.

 

Long Time Reporter from Moeraki

John McLellan

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