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Core Learning Cluster Opotiki Opotiki’s Shona Hammond-Boyes honoured for celebrating children
Core Learning Cluster Opotiki Opotiki’s Shona Hammond-Boyes honoured for celebrating children
Opotiki’s Shona Hammond-Boyes honoured for celebrating children |
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July 2011 A visit to Washington DC has seen the realisation of a long held dream for an Opotiki woman. Shona Hammond-Boyes has recently returned from the US capital, having received a President's Volunteer Services Award (Shona is pictured with this and her Queens Service medals below in Opotiki News item). It recognises her many years of support for the World Festival of Children. Ms Hammond-Boyes says it's wonderful to see her vision become a reality. She says when she was in America on a study scholarship in 1963, she stood and looked down the mall, and dreamed it would be filled with happy, dancing, singing children.She laughs it's taken 47 years, so it's been a long time, but now she's sure the World Children's Festival will go on from strength to strength.
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