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Speaker 1: Return of the Dear Iffy Charity Ball at the Ashburton

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Speaker 1: Aviation Museum. Helping pull this together a Simone Hurly Hello, Hello,

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Speaker 1: how are you good? Is it a sellout?

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Speaker 2: It sure is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're up ninety people, so we're got three hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty guests joining us tomorrow night.

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Speaker 1: Wow, this is going to be a great crew. That's

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Speaker 1: up on the first time we went in a few

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Speaker 1: years back.

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Speaker 3: Yes, correct, So yeah, we had our first one in

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Speaker 3: twenty fourteen and second one this year.

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Speaker 1: So I'm glad I didn't miss around then booking our

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Speaker 1: table and I've got some of the buddies together. It's

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Speaker 1: going to be great night out. First night that Amber

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Speaker 1: and I have had kid liss in a very long time.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you get a bit of that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's great.

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Speaker 3: It's so funny because my boys are so they are

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Speaker 3: like can.

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Speaker 2: We please, just can't please please please? Can we come?

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 3: It's the night for the adults to get out there

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Speaker 3: and enjoy themselves and break Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, babysitter is some very hot demand across it tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: so anyway, we're taking along a couple of our neighbors

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Speaker 1: who didn't go to the first one. Actually this is

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Speaker 1: the first for us as well, And he was asking

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Speaker 1: me a few day, how fancy is it? Like how

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Speaker 1: black tie? Are we talking like?

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Speaker 2: Pretty fancy this week?

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Speaker 1: Opportunity to doll up one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's something that you don't get to

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Speaker 3: do very often at all. So I've had a lot

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Speaker 3: of people that do kind of take it as far

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Speaker 3: as they can and get super glam, get their hair

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Speaker 3: and their makeup done and beautiful gowns. My husband, Sean,

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Speaker 3: he's wearing a nice tux and things like that. I'm

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Speaker 3: sure we'll have a few celts. So we had a

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Speaker 3: few last time, and that was really awesome to see.

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Speaker 1: How Yeah, it's almost like a throwback to college ball days,

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Speaker 1: you know, and all excitement photographers.

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Speaker 3: I've got a photo both. You've got something really really

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Speaker 3: cool stuff happening. So it'll be a really really great

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Speaker 3: night right from the minute I'll everyone walking out.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure the lights of Richard and Joeline at Sparrows

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Speaker 1: have been busy enough this week.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: It blokes up myself rolling and going, hey, this doesn't

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Speaker 1: fit any more like it used to. I can't see

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Speaker 1: the Farmers suit anywhere. Can you help me out?

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Speaker 3: Probably be a busy afternoon today for everyone think, Oh

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Speaker 3: I need to try that.

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Speaker 1: On those lucky enough to be going, what can we expect,

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Speaker 1: You can.

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Speaker 3: Expect a lot of let's glam. We've got some beautiful

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Speaker 3: catering being done by the team. It's actually a huge collaborative.

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Speaker 2: Of a lot of.

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Speaker 1: On the menu we've got.

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Speaker 3: Alliance have sponsored some meat for us, so there's a

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Speaker 3: few different mates. It's all going to get served to

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Speaker 3: your table. Got some beautiful potatoes and amazing salads, We've

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Speaker 3: got cannopeys, and then we've got a special late night

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Speaker 3: snack that's a bit of a surprise which will be

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Speaker 3: really really cool. This is something that we're so so

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Speaker 3: lucky that we have such incredible support with our community,

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Speaker 3: like we could not do that without that, and especially

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Speaker 3: our top sponsor, Macintosh Group, have been amazing and coming

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Speaker 3: on board for the second time as well, so without

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Speaker 3: them there's so much we wouldn't be able to do.

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Speaker 3: We've gotten a couple of other gold sponsors and silver

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Speaker 3: sponsors that have all done our tables and everythink which

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Speaker 3: has been really really awesome.

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Speaker 1: So that's your job today dressing it up. I mean, such,

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Speaker 1: it's a big venue. It's an incredible venue, you know,

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Speaker 1: just with the natural sort of backdrop of the planes

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Speaker 1: and everything on and the crew. They're so accommodating to

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Speaker 1: make it happen, aren't they. But if you've got a

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Speaker 1: theme for the ball, like.

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Speaker 3: Not a theme as such, we just kind of work around.

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Speaker 3: What was his favorite colors? So she loved purple, she

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Speaker 3: loved her pants, she loved anything yeah, bright and wonderful.

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Speaker 3: So we kind of just work on that and our

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Speaker 3: kind of colors for I guess our thing colors for

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Speaker 3: the charity is like purple and stuff.

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Speaker 2: So that's the main like lilacy kind of.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, gotcha, gotcha, some drapey things. It's always fancy, and

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Speaker 1: that drinking stuff. Sharing Casey Well on broadcaster as the MC,

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Speaker 1: So she's going to be a bit of fun. There's

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Speaker 1: a live band to kind of given up blues vibes here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so they've got a bit of a sex

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Speaker 3: and stuff that I think they will bring an awesome,

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Speaker 3: awesome element us. We had an incredible band at our

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Speaker 3: last one and everyone raved about them, so I am.

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Speaker 2: Puts pretty sure.

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Speaker 3: I think it does put pressure on, but I think

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Speaker 3: we've nailed at and I think it's gonna be everyone's

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Speaker 3: up dancing for the.

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Speaker 1: Rest of the night and come prepared to dig deep.

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Speaker 1: So you mentioned a few of those sponsors. I mean

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Speaker 1: that's the real aim of this, isn't it support for

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Speaker 1: the Iffy charity, which we have spoken about before. This

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Speaker 1: is support that's made available for local kids going through

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Speaker 1: sometimes unimaginable grief.

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Speaker 3: Yes, correct, Yeah, it's we kind of came around after

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Speaker 3: we lost eight if e three years ago and at

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Speaker 3: the time there was not any support for our children

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Speaker 3: and things like that, and we really didn't want other

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Speaker 3: children and other families have to go through what we

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Speaker 3: went through ourselves, so we created Dear Ifi to help

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Speaker 3: fund therapy sessions for children in the Canterbury region. So

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Speaker 3: we're super, super proud of where we've come. The last

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Speaker 3: kind of six months have been huge. Gett a bit

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Speaker 3: of recognition, like taking out the Community Impact Award at

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Speaker 3: the Business Awards last month, which is really really good month,

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Speaker 3: so that was amazing, and then last year getting receiving

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Speaker 3: the Local Heroes Middle for New Zealand of it was

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Speaker 3: really really special as well.

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Speaker 1: So you're doing something right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really bittersweet, and I'll never not say that

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Speaker 3: because we miss our Efis so so much every single

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Speaker 3: minute of every single day. But being able to create

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Speaker 3: something so incredible in honor of her and her just

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Speaker 3: being there and we know, like the sunset this morning,

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Speaker 3: she's here for us this weekend and she's going to

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Speaker 3: make an extra.

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Speaker 2: Extra special for us.

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Speaker 3: So no, it's going to come together so well and

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Speaker 3: be an incredible time for everyone.

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Speaker 1: You know, that might be enough for even a tight

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Speaker 1: word DJ like me to put my hand up for

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Speaker 1: some of those.

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Speaker 2: Auctions you run and hey, yeah, well we're back.

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Speaker 1: Can you not get behind?

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Speaker 2: We've got some high expectations.

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Speaker 3: We managed to raise just over ninety four thousand dollars

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Speaker 3: at our ass ball, so you know.

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Speaker 2: We're wanting to beat that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we really want to beat that, and it's something

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Speaker 3: that's needed to be So.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this community proves time and time again just how generous.

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Speaker 2: They are, so so generous, and we're so thankful.

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Speaker 1: Let's have some fun without the kids. Yeah, tomorrow night,

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Speaker 1: the dear Iffy Charity Baller look forward to seeing you

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Speaker 1: this mone I'll see you the