Sanson Community Market Temporary Closure due to Covid-19
Due to the Governments decision to close all major events and general ongregations of more than 500 people, across the board, the Sanson Community Market Management team and the Community Committee have, with the deepest of regret. decided on temporarily closing its Iconic Sunday Sanson Community Market until the end of April. At this time, they will review the temporary closure against Government edict.
Please note that we do this for the sake of our Stallholders, who, on the whole, are over the threshold and, as such, mostly elderly. To this, we are not willing to place them, or others at risk and as such this decision was voted on and is now being implemented.
I will keep you appraised on further developments as we get closer to the end of April period. I will not be accepting any further casual bookings until this threat is well and truly in hand.
With kindest regards,
on behalf of the Management Team
Denise Tanner
dated this 18th day of March, 2020
Note: Any stalls open onsite and trading, will be answerable to the Market, or the Sanson Community Committee, the leaseholders, for the Junction Motel carpark and/or the Hotel tarmac area. Fines for the amount of the leasse will be attriuted to those in violation of this.
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DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
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