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Speaker 1: Living in a world of extremes, aren't we. The Aussie

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Speaker 1: forty five degree heat that's expected, which could well set

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Speaker 1: across the States you might have heard over two hundred

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Speaker 1: travel disruptions. Meteorologists there a warning of an unusual risk

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Speaker 1: called exploding trees. This is in parts of the country

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Speaker 1: where it's dipping to minus thirty and it's where the

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Speaker 1: sap inside the tree freezes and expands, a bit like

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Speaker 1: what happens to our pipes sometimes here. Or if you've

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Speaker 1: got a holiday home and the lights of twice or

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Speaker 1: and you forget to drain them before you leave your

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Speaker 1: holiday and boom explodes, causing cracks. Incredible stuff at Carolyn Clough, Oh.

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Speaker 2: That would be incredible, absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 1: To see morning to you. This is all quite a

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Speaker 1: fitting segway because you ticked off a real bucket list

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Speaker 1: item over the Christmas New Year period. You spent a

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Speaker 1: white Christmas New Year in New York.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was so special.

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Speaker 1: You've been planning that for.

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Speaker 2: Between two years and eighteen months it was. It just

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Speaker 2: sort of started when our daughter Lucy and her husband

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Speaker 2: came home one weekend. They were off to a wedding

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Speaker 2: and we were babysitting the dog and she said, oh,

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Speaker 2: we're thinking we might go to New York maybe, you know,

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Speaker 2: maybe next Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Oh, so you took the whole family.

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Speaker 2: We did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd been so special.

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Speaker 2: It was fun traveling with your adult kids. Luke, you've

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Speaker 1: We while off here feels like it's a long way off.

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Speaker 1: Now is some quick highlight?

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Speaker 2: Oh? There were so many. I was lucky enough to

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Speaker 2: see five Broadway shows which were all equally epic, and

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Speaker 2: loved them all for all different reasons. An absolute highlight

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Speaker 2: would be The Rockets Christmas Spectacular. Oh yeah, that was

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Speaker 2: of course outstanding, just outstanding and funny enough. My son

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Speaker 2: in law said he has a friend who's keen to

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Speaker 2: I don't really know if i'd be keen on that,

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Speaker 2: And Nick said, I'm going back to tell him it's

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Speaker 2: a mussy. It was so good. We went to the

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Speaker 2: Knicks basketball game in Madison Square Garden on Christmas Day. Oh, no, way, stunning, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and a great game. The Knicks were behind the whole way.

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Speaker 2: They won it in the last two minutes really, and

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Speaker 2: the last two minutes went for ten. Yeah. It was great,

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Speaker 2: just great. We saw ice hockey, We walked in Central Park,

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Speaker 2: we went up the Empire State Building during the day

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Speaker 2: and at night a yeah, Rockefeller it was great.

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Speaker 1: Did it feel like a scene from a home alone?

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Speaker 1: Was it cold when you were freezing?

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Speaker 2: There were four and a half inches of snow in

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Speaker 2: Central Park wo Boxing Day, overnight Boxing Day, and yeah

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Speaker 2: it was. It was beautiful to walk through the park.

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Speaker 2: It's funny though, you know, you walk through our gorgeous

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Speaker 2: you know, But there it's brown. It's really barren because

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Speaker 2: the park. But yeah, great to see statues and the

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Speaker 2: buildings and the ice skating in the middle. It's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Did you go us skating? Quirky stories as a result,

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Speaker 2: Oh goodness, me I can't think of any quirky stories offhand,

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Speaker 2: but we did. We did go to We did ice

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Speaker 2: skate on Christmas Eve. We went to the Rockefeller Center.

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Speaker 1: And under the tree.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and our daughter and son in LAWA, and our

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Speaker 2: son Met and his partner Connie. They all ice skated,

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Speaker 2: Oh, it was bitterly, bitterly cold when we were there,

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Speaker 1: So you're back, and we're back with this wonderful celebration

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Speaker 1: tonight it's scholarship evening.

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Speaker 2: It is scholarship evening, one of my favorite times.

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Speaker 1: Of the bet. I do jest every now and then

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Speaker 1: that you saw the Oprah of mid Canbary to shout money.

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Speaker 1: Is this a record ninety six thousand, four hundred dollars.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not a record for us, but we'll be

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Speaker 2: though lot of money, it really is. We'll be looking

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Speaker 2: to break a record again in the future. But we

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Speaker 2: do have a record that we are going to break,

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Speaker 2: and I'm going to keep that a secret until tonight

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Speaker 2: so that we can announce it in front of our

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Speaker 2: wonderful donors who make this all possible. So watch the space.

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Speaker 2: We've got a really special thing to announce tonight.

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Speaker 1: Is that in terms of like maybe how much in

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Speaker 1: total you've given out over the years or something like that, Okay,

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Speaker 1: or I can't wait to report on that. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: tonight that over ninety six grand is across twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: YESH receipts, right, all made possible by wonderful local people

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Speaker 2: or organizations.

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Speaker 1: You did receive a record breaking one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: nine applications that.

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Speaker 2: Way we did.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of processing. It was a hard calls man, Oh.

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Speaker 2: It was, it was, And you know I pay tribute

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Speaker 2: to the volunteers of course. You know that's the reason

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Speaker 2: that we are able to give away large amounts of

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Speaker 2: on volunteers. So our trustees, our grants committee members and

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Speaker 2: some wonderful co opted people from our community sorted through

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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty nine applications. They shortlisted it down

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Speaker 2: to forty nine for interviews, and then twenty eight people

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Speaker 2: are going to receive scholarships.

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Speaker 1: What's that enable? What are some of these scholarships and

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Speaker 1: the cool things that people are doing.

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Speaker 2: These scholarships are for further education, tertiary study, industry training

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Speaker 2: and trades and professional personal development, so all of those

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Speaker 2: things that enable. So lots of our people are doing

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Speaker 2: apprenticeships or industry training as they're working here in Eshburton

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Speaker 2: and others are all over the place studying a huge

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Speaker 2: range of different things.

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Speaker 1: Pretty inspiring stuff. You've been doing it long enough now

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Speaker 1: that you would have heard some cool stories of locals

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Speaker 1: out there dominating the world stage on top of mind

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Speaker 2: Look, it's so hard to choose. We've got young people

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Speaker 2: all over the world now and lots coming back to Eshburton,

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Speaker 2: which is gorgeous. So yeah, We've got a few of

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Speaker 2: back in Ashburton, which is great. We've got a wonderful

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Speaker 2: doctor who is currently working at Timoru Hospital but hopes

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Speaker 2: to come back to Eshburton in the near future when

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Speaker 2: she's finished that placement. So yeah, amazing.

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Speaker 1: Sweet. So this is tonight gets underway?

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Speaker 2: It does?

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Speaker 1: Is this open to everybody? Like anyone can come along?

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Speaker 2: No, we don't open this one up to everybody.

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Speaker 1: I'm on an exclusive list, don't you are?

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Speaker 2: You are? Yeah, No, we don't open it to everyone.

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Speaker 2: What we like to do is enable our scholarship recipients

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Speaker 2: to bring along some guests to celebrate with them. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: so we encourage them and then yes, we invite some

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Speaker 2: wonderful people like you, Luke to come and share in

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Speaker 2: the celebration.

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Speaker 1: Shop it stop it so I'll slink into the back

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Speaker 1: of the room. I'll take a few notes and look

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Speaker 1: forward to sharing some of the stories from tonight. It's

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Speaker 1: awads a lot of fun. You go and put the

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Speaker 1: finishing touches on Things, cheers, We come, buy, Carolyn Clough