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Six-year-old Oscar Church, of Snells Beach, gives the Gala Berry strawberries the taste test.
Warkworth Wellsford Hospice is celebrating a great return on two major fundraisers last month.At the annual mARTakana exhibition, held at Matakana Primary School, nearly 69 of the 295 artworks on offer were sold.
Just under $25,000 was raised – about the same as last year – which will go towards the building project Tui House, in Glenmore Drive.
A new category this year was the Tui Challenge. A total of 16 entries were received from artists who had work in the exhibition, and visitors were asked to vote for their favourite. The painting that received the most votes was by Pauline Gough, of Dargaville.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people took advantage of the opportunity to pick their own strawberries at Omaha, on January 21 and 22, raising about $8000. This equates to about 1.1 tonne of strawberries.
