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PA WARS 2010
WOW!!! What another great day.
Special Thanks to Ricky and Michelle for your sponsorship this year. Also… A huge thank you to Veronica Hunapo who travelled back from Tauranga for our special day. As usual she placed herself in the midst of things and did her thing. Joanne Dickson joined Veronica on Monday morning at the 4EB radio station to give an awesome follow up of the day. The day began early as…again… for the members of Te Tirohanga-a-iwi and all the early bird stall holders. Everything seemed to be a lot more organised than last year, and we had so little trouble getting all the vehicles off the park and although the games started later in the morning, we still got through all the games pretty early.
We
had a visit from the mayor of the Logan Shire this year. Pam Parker blew us
away with her presence at our day. She went around with our Chairman and Wendy
Melgert to meet all the stall holders and all the members of our roopu. Big
thanks for her turning up at our event when she was already into her
holidays, which
began that very day. Again
we had great support from our community. Donny
and Julie Rewita came to our aid yet again with an awesome team of marshals. Many
thanks to all of the marshals who just showed up ready to get out on that
field and
lead the teams into what ever they had to do to start accumulating points. Where
would we be without such great support! Two more important people to be given special thanks to were our First Aid tent attendants. Lana and Rosie did a fabulous job. We were let down by St Johns quite late into our planning and if not for these two coming along we might not have had our day. Thank you so much. We
had 16 teams competing this year. They all did an awesome job of playing through
all the games set out. The ingenious methods that team members came up
with without breaking the rules was tremendously funny. One such idea was to
have diving flippers on your feet but that you had to run in a forward
motion… the
next thing you see is the flippers being put on backwards with the strap
firmly secured
around the ankle and the member running unobstructed !! The
sack races were another incident where the smaller kids were heaved into the sacks
and jumped along by an older member on either side of the sack…technically that’s
not right…but where were the rules! So
much laughter on just one day. Our winners of the major trophies were exceptionally
happy after their day. The trophies will all come back again next
year for the next teams to compete for them… it is all just for fun after
all. Below are the teams who all took
home the bacon.
Funnily
enough, our winning team for the year happened to show up extremely
late…but they did turn up and after it’s all said and done they walked
away with 1st place. Ngati
Hine Kakariki 2nd place Outstanding
award Ngati
Hine Kakariki came in at 2nd and were also awarded with the most outstanding
team award which is the trophy donated by the Nannies. It was
pretty great to see some of the younger eager team members of Korohe
sprinting about the park stretching and getting themselves geared up for the
games ahead. As
I potted about at our roopu stall I saw a group of Korohesian youngsters coming
my way and so because my own Mother is from Korohe Marae, I
called out, ‘Hey you guys, guess what? , they all looked kind of blankly, so
I told them that they were going to win. Well the looks were saying,
who on earth is that and what is she on! I had a bit of a giggle…and
then at the end of the day when I saw both teams going
up for a trophy…wow!! Korohesians
II 4th place The
Maozzis – Most Humurous Award These guys
make everyones day. They were the most humourous team out on
the field on the day and so were awarded with the Ngati Porou
donated toilet seat, which I must add is a very nice trophy. Tick
Tock Team Tick
Tock received the Hunapo donated
trophy for being the most fair
team playing. Great code of ethics guys. We
also had a Kuia Whaea prize for a team member over 35 on the field. Pauline
was a member of Hoturoa Hori’s from Aotearoa Marae. Received
the over 35 Kaumatua Koroua prize for his participation in the games
as well. He was a member from the winning Team Tainui from Te
Marae o Awamarahi. Who
would ever have thought that this grumpy looking lady could make everyone
laugh continuously through out the day. We
had quite a few stalls this year. Some beautiful kai on the menu and
some awesome clothing and wares of all kinds, beautiful arts and crafts. It
makes our day that extra bit more special when we have so many stalls with
that New Zealand flavour, not to mention the amount of people who will
come along for the day just to get a feed! Absolutely terrific.
Thanks
to everyone who participated in one way or another. Thank
you to those who just came for a look, because you all
contributed in one way or another too. So
as we said last year…bring on 2011!!
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