Civic Honours Award Recipients 2010
Some of Horowhenua's most selfless citizens and groups have been acknowledged with Civic Honours for their community service. The awards were presented at a ceremony at the Horowhenua District Council Chambers on 30 November 2010.
Civic Honour Recipients were:
Rosemary McKay has been president of the Levin Athletics Club for 24 years and Manawatu-Wanganui delegate for 18 years. She is a regional selector and has headed the Manawatu-Wanganui Childrens Committee for two decades.
She has led the 2nd Company Girls Brigade in Levin since 1983, has been a Meals on Wheels helper for a decade, Methodist Monthly Market co-ordinator, and helps to tutor pupils at Levin East School.
Horowhenua District Community Health Transportation Trust runs shuttle vehicles carrying 150 passengers a week on average, to and from Palmerston North Public Hospital for clinics or appointments – five trips per day, five days a week, year-round.
Bob and Ngaire Thomas are both involved in the Horowhenua Family Violence Intervention Programme. As men’s liaison officer and women’s support worker, they receive phone calls at all hours of the day and night.
Bob and Ngaire help to run essential support programmes to rehabilitate offenders. They are highly regarded by social workers, police, church ministers and programme administrators.
Tom Hayes has been involved with the Levin College Old Boys Rugby Football Club since 1970, serving as secretary and treasurer. He helped to form a genealogy club in 1979. Tom and others founded the Horowhenua branch of the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand in 1975, becoming secretary/treasurer, then the branch’s first life member.
He was chairperson of the Horowhenua District War Memorials Project Committee, or ‘Adopt An Anzac’. Memorials have been updated and cleaned. The upgraded Cenotaph, with additional panels and a poppy-box plaza, was spearheaded by Tom and his team.