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North Harbour News : May 18th 2012
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www.aucklandnow.co.nz Friday, May 18, 2012 THINKING OF UNIVERSITY STUDY? REGISTER TO ATTEND OUR COURSE INFORMATION EVENINGS FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS • Applied mental health • Health promotion • Midwifery • Nursing • Occupational therapy • Oral health • Paramedicine • Physiotherapy • Podiatry • Psychology • Early childhood • Primary • Secondary • Mainstream • Montessori • Pasifika • Steiner For more information and to register, visit WWW.AUT.AC.NZ/INFOEVENINGS AUT-293 HEALTH SCIENCES Thursday 24 May 2012 AF114, AUT North Shore Campus Gate 1, 90 Akoranga Drive, Northcote 5.30pm - 8.30pm TEACHER EDUCATION Thursday 24 May 2012 AJ100, AUT North Shore Campus Gate 2, 90 Akoranga Drive, Northcote 6.00pm - 8.30pm Thieves raid food bank By JESS ETHERIDGE GLOVED thieves used bolt cutters to break into a Waiake church food bank in Torbay. It s among a number of recent break-ins and thefts from Hibiscus Coast and North Shore charities. St Francis De Sales Church was robbed on Saturday night of three large containers of tea, coffee, pasta and rice. The bolt cutters were used to open the steel container where the food is kept. St Vincent De Paul Society president Vivien Woodward doesn t know exactly how much food has been taken. I feel sad they had to go to these lengths to get food. We re pretty fair when we give out food, everyone gets something. The food bank was set up four years ago. Food parcels are given to families in the East Coast Bays area. People from across Auckland also visit the church for supplies. Some of the food is donated by church-goers but Mrs Woodward says they will have to use the church s money to replace the items. The church also receives food from the Auckland City Mission. Police were unable to find any fingerprints, meaning the thieves wore gloves. Meanwhile, the church s security is being beefed up. The robbery is the latest in a spate of charity stores being targeted on the North Shore and Hibiscus Coast. On April 18 the Red Cross Glenfield store was broken into and goods from a cloth- ing bin were stolen. It is the fourth time the store has been burgled in a year. Another Red Cross store in Browns Bay was also targeted in late April. The front window was smashed but nothing was taken. Orewa s Red Cross Shop was the target of thieves. The shop featured in sister paper the Rodney Times' May 10 issue pleading for the donation of a security camera after it had a Matrix- styled leather jacket stolen. The jacket would have sold for at least $200, and any- thing extra from other items would have been a bonus, Red Cross Shop manager Elyned Rutter-Hookey says. Offers have since come in from readers to install a security camera, and others have called to sympathise. Hibiscus Hospice has seen three break-ins within the past month -- two at its Silverdale shop and one at Orewa. We re aware of the cur- rent spate of burglaries so we ve certainly beefed up our security, Hibiscus Hospice communications manager Dyan Cann says. It couldn t come at a worse time as our cash flow is already affected by the loss of our big Whang- aparaoa shop to fire. The Whangaparaoa hos- pice shop now operates out of a temporary shop under the Crows Nest Bar and Brass- erie and on May 21 will move to 675 Whangaparaoa Rd. Jar of black gold auctioned for Allergy NZ By STEPHANIE FAWCETT Best mates: Sir Peter Leitch and his grandson Reuben Judson-Leitch, 8, are ready to raise money for Allergy Awareness Week. Photo: SHANE WENZLICK Spreading the word: Sir Peter and Sir Graham Henry with the jar of Marmite that will be auctioned on Trade Me. Go online to Trade Me and search for Great Marmite Famine to place your bid. They re calling it black gold and Sir Peter Leitch is hoping a jar of it will make a difference for allergy sufferers and their families. Sir Peter, aka The Mad Butcher, is auctioning a jar of Marmite signed by former All Blacks coach Sir Graham Henry, who fronts an adver- tising campaign for the prod- uct. The successful bidder will also get a certificate of auth- entication signed by both knights. Marmite has been in short supply here and in Australia since an earthquake damaged the Christchurch- based Sanitarium manufac- turing facility in February 2011. Production is expected to restart mid-year. Sir Peter hopes the Trade Me auction will help raise money and awareness for Allergy New Zealand during Allergy Awareness Week, May 20-26. We bought the Marmite for $2300 at a fundraiser for diabetes and on the way home thought why don t we auction it off for Allergy New Zealand? he says. Sir Peter is patron of Allergy New Zealand and became involved because of grandson Reuben Judson- Leitch s severe food allergies. It s about raising aware- ness and letting people know that if they or their children have allergies they should be contacting the organisation or getting along to see Dr Vincent Crump at the Auck- land Allergy Clinic, he says. People need to remember that they can die from allergies. For example, if someone has a bad reaction that EpiPen can be really vital. We want to lift aware- ness and get people to take it seriously. Eight-year-old Reuben has to carry a kit at all times which includes his EpiPen, antihistamines and steroid creams in case of a reaction. Visit allergy.org.nz for information.
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